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live on YouTube right now. Lots of things happening, Danny, a lot
of stuff, Billy, a lot of things for business your ever so far
it's only February so far of the March yet. Yes, we're doing okay,
yeah, yeah, it's We got new lights in the studio. If
you can see what a mess this studio actually is, and I'm embarrassed by
it. I told Billy you should get a green screen. I do photos
for like school fixtures. I ret the place out. I have so many
lights. And part of this is the part is for another project that's coming
up that I've been talking about doing for years, literally years. I have
talked about this and somebody came to me and said, I think you need
to do it like this, and I went, that's a great idea.
And so now I've got lights and different microphones and a new camera that'll be
coming. Oh really, yeah, we're going to HD. Well you know
what. The cameras we have are HD. Yeah, and they're and they're
great and they're great for the podcast. But this is more like still camera.
This will be footage for other things. There's a whole you know.
It's one of these things where you can sit around and talk about. Boy,
you know, if I get but it. Yeah, you got to
do it. You got to do it, and you've got to get up
and you've got to do it every day, even when you may not feel
like it exactly. Today it was, you know, kind of a LOGI
day, rainy day, but you got to get up and go. And
I'll tell you what, you get some satisfaction out of that. I don't
need to get all preachy on it. But that's uh, that's why I
tell myself every morning, Tomorrow I lose the weight, you know, until
he's coming. But never hear Danny tomorrow tomorrow. Yeah, well look I
understand, but you're you'll lose it. Yeah, you stay you stay focused,
buddy, Just stay fun. Take down today you're excited. Yeah,
that's not me. I had a burger and ran into some fans at the
pub that I stopped for a burger, could you sign my Guinness class and
I And then when you were coming in here, I was complaining, I'm
like, the Chinese food's taken forever. So I was. I went off
the rails a little bit today in my dietary stuff. I went off the
rails yesterday. Progress is not linear, Billy, No, it is not.
My goal is to get light enough to eat whatever I want, which
will get me right back to where Yeah, right, I know. Well
that's the thing is like, you know, when we we look at all
all these people that are great, we look at all these people, go
god, damn man, look at that guy. Tom Brady played for twenty
seasons in the NFL. You know, Kobe Bryant was amazing. I mean,
you know, he just all this stuff, and I go, yeah.
But they they did something you were you were not doing. They they
were sweating it. They were putting it in when no one was looking.
They were up at four o'clock in the morning doing the workouts in the gym.
Oh, the stories of Kobe and George legendary. It's sick now,
like where like the first guy arrives at Lakers practice after Kobe. Yes,
Kobe's leaving at like six am. I already got my workout in Bryan Fellers,
but they thought that they were getting in early. The weird part is
like with Kobe, I don't remember hearing those things about Mike. Never heard
about Mike working like that. He must have and he must have had unbelievable
discipline, but we didn't hear it. Kobe Kobe. It's I mean,
there's all these you know, he sat down and did tons of interviews talking
about Mamba mentality and his book and you know, all this stuff, and
Michael didn't. I think that's partially why Kobe's not here with us anymore.
I think he told the helicopter driver, damn it, we're going we got
practice very well. Could be I'm si very well. I mean, okay,
I think there were people who have said that because they grounded all the
planes and all the helicopters in LA that day, including the cops. But
with Kobe and Jordan, Kobe went to Jordan and asked him to a point
where like he'd be texting Jordan at two am, Jordan's like trying to sleep,
asking about what do you do in this situation, what do you do
here? What do you do here? And the Jordan stories are famous.
When he didn't get down to his varsity team, which by the way,
he was a sophomore in high school. Now he wasn't a junior, so
like usually sophomores don't play varsity. But yet the coach told him, you
want to come and work out with me every morning, I'll get you ready
for this varsity team. And he went in every morning at like six am
and worked with the guy. Yeah, he was motivated. That that's the
thing. And Jordan even made up stories about people to get motive. But
it's so easy. Yeah, that's sick. It's sick. Like there was
this one story about this young kid with the calves or something and all he
said it was a good game, Mike, because he outscored him and they
had they had a home at home, and I just I took that personally.
Well, the story that I love is they're playing on the Dream Team
and maybe they were playing Puerto Rico, but I don't I don't remember the
team they were playing. Michael Jesse was it was because it was the America's
Tournament to get into the Olympics, so as Chuck Daly was the coach,
Michael and maybe Charles had gone out and played eighteen holes of golf and then
they finish up and Mike goes, I'm gonna do another eighteen and Chuck's like,
hey, you got a game time, man. He got to rest
up. He goes, I'll be fine. Game time comes, we're all
there, Chuck's giving out you know, hey, you're on this guy.
You're on this, Michael, you got this. He goes, no,
I don't. I got him and he go, no, you got He
goes, no, I got him. He said something about me in the
press and he's and he goes. Chuck goes, it was insane. It
was insane. He goes to the guy. You know what I mean?
The guy is and you've gotta be just like somebody said to me the other
day, like, I don't know anybody that's doing a podcast. That's all
that's all they do, that's all I do. This is it right?
What it is? But it is an all day process. I'm not gonna
sugarcoat it and say that. They're like, no, it's it's a very
different thing. But I'm just fucked up enough to make it to make it
work. Michael Jordan's just fucked up enough. Yes, you know what I'm
saying, Like he went after like Chuck's like he went after this kid.
He's like no one even knew who he was. He said something in depressed
about Michael. Michael kept going, don't keep my name out of your mouth.
Don't ever let my name leave your mouth. And He's going like,
holy shit, but you never heard about the work outs and stuff with Michael
as you did with Kobe, and I just I don't I wonder if that's
just the time that Jordans played for the private guy. He didn't want anybody
to to know what he was doing because then, well you're Michael Jordan and
this is what you do, they might copy you, yes, you know,
and then eventually beat you. It's your own gate like he like because
he was asked once in a one on one situation, who could beat you,
he goes, well, Kobe, because Kobe knows all my moves.
Kobe stole all my moves, so Kobe could beat me. But I could
take out Magic, I could take out Bird, and I could take out
Lebron, you know, but Kobe would beat me. So it was kind
of like I think he gave Kobe a nod because Kobe kept pestering him,
asking him. Now, Jordan was already retired at that point, but he
could give it all, you know, he turned it over to him.
You know. But like there's a guy who does a CIA who who's a
CIA guy who does a podcast and he talks about one of the first things
they teach you in the CIA. When you find a highly, highly,
highly successful, motivated person, they believe that something happened in their life early
where they have to prove some trauma where they have to prove something. You
Yeah, I know, yeah, right there you go. I mean,
yeah, well, I don't know that I'm the highly motive like that.
I mean, you motivated enough, Billy, You're here enough enough, Danny,
this weekend for you, big anniversary, right yeah, two years with
my boo, congratulations, thank you today the forty fourth anniversary of this can
get the shilf. Now pet drop controls back to Parlomar skating in the left
side into the American end fifty five seconds, but the Kiloff has a puck.
Hey, Kilov streeping is out in front. Backhander goes Why then they
Craik when I got a piece of piece of it, Niklogue, that got
the billy. You left it off. Forty three seconds remaining, Morrow check
into the board that comes back to center ice thirty eight thirty seven seconds left
in the game. Petrob with it, the Americans on top. Forty three
long shot, pray A gave it the get a piece of at the sweeping
away twenty eight seconds, the crowd going insane, Carlo Man shooting it into
the American end again. Morrow is back there now A thousand nineteen. Don't
hit over to Ramsey. They you're lucking off. Get ticked by Ramsey.
Plan of is they had the pumpy still loose eleven seconds. You got ten
seconds a punt down going on right now, brow up the hup. You
be't even believe it. I mean, the thing that's so outrageous is that
wasn't the gold medal game. No, no, it's not the gold medal
game. But that was the game they needed to advance, and I think
it was Sweden was next. Yeah, I may I think or maybe remember
nineteen eighty I would have been nine years old. I remember this being talked
about a lot. I thought the game was like at four point thirty in
the afternoon, if I'm remembering it was, and it was on a tape
to leg Yes, it was on a tape. So they heard this ovation
coming in Lake Placid, people walking down the street from the arena and they
couldn't get into the arena because they didn't have a ticket, so they had
to go find out what happened, right, Yeah. The story was like
they went in and watched the game on the television and saw the result.
So that's what that's what happened, I know. But it was funny because
you had sent me the reminder of that today was was that? So I
looked up the the audio and you hear al Michaels, right, yeah,
making the call. They asked him a miracle the movie Miracle, which was
a Disney movie, and at the time al Michaels had worked for ABC,
which was owned by Disney, and they asked him, could you redo the
call? And he said no, not because he wanted to. He was
like, no, I just can't get back. He goes, you can't
recapture that magic. It was spontaneous, you know, I just said it.
Yeah, you know, I'm saying, well, you can hear it.
Yeah, you knew that that was not a pre planted thing. Yes,
he didn't. It was in that moment he goes, do you believe
in miracle? And you could almost I get chills when I hear it now,
which is so weird because I don't really get chills for things. But
I was you. You had written a couple of things to me today about
this. And one of the things that I reading your stuff and thinking about
this, and it'll tie back to something that happened with the comcast today,
was I go, man, this country needs a unifying, positive moment.
I tweeted that today. You did. I didn't see that. I tweeted
I could we use a moment like this, like, oh, I don't
know right now? Yes, that's interesting, okay, because I all my
I shouldn't give away my secrets, but a lot of my Twitter stuff is
I aggregate. I just loaded up at night and it spits it out throughout
the day, so I don't go on x an awful lot. So I
did not see that, but I'm thinking we need a unifying but positive moment.
You can go back and go well. Nine to eleven was very unifying,
yes, and it was also extremely tragic, yes, so that that's
not what we want. We need something that's going to be unifying behind that.
And the great thing about sports is it's not politics, and you can
all get behind it. But we used to have like when I was a
kid, Reagan didn't like Russia. No, no, I liked Russia.
This happened, and we were all happy because you beat Russia, right like
those comedy bastards, those pink hoast We needed the great Satan. This was
the thing. And I feel like now, I don't know, there's certain
people making you know, I think if you go to the New York Post
today, you see Putin dumped his girlfriend. But in Russia they're making well,
yeah, there's many pillow so you can sleep with his girlfriend. Yeah,
and they're all with her face on it. She's fully clothed and all
this, and it's just a pillow. Yeah. But I go, but
they but that makes a guy almost likable in a way. And I know
that there's other politicians or in the political spheres that don't think he's as evil
or whatever. And I go, we don't have that unifying enemy. We're
not even really necessarily uh unified on who the enemy of the United States is
or isn't right, and there's all kinds and I go, boy, you
need that. And I feel like sometimes if you get that national pride back,
I think it helps. I think it helps. And I think sports
are very important for those things, especially as I get older, because they're
usually usually usually politically neutral, not always, but usually for the most part.
And it's a meritocracy too. Yes, you have to be good,
like right right now good. Here's a great example. Lebron James's kid.
There's talk that he may not even play in the NBA, or at least
he's not good enough. And if he does, that means Lebron got somebody
to play along, you know what I'm saying, Because he's not qualified as
of right now. That that could change. The kid won't have a great
career after daddy retired. But the point, the point is is that in
sports you cannot cheat your way to greatness. No, you can't point you
can't be like there's no NEPO babies in sports. Here's a great example,
Jack collins Worth. This Chris Collinsworths kid. Now a lot of people rip
by Chris Collinsworth. You don't get to be Chris Collinsworth the broadcast without knowing
a thing or two, right, Okay, and he still is at the
top of his game. People hate him, but he's still at the top
of his game. But his kid was awful, and his kid got replaced
today on Notre Dame Football by the guy who he replaced in Dan Hicks,
and the reason kid goes He'll still be doing that stuff on the But here's
on a set with a bunch of people, right. But the point is
is that, like, you can't fool people for very long into sports,
So you're right, you can't. You can't do it. Right now,
we're starting to when it comes to women's sports. Now they're starting to bend
the rules a little bit. I don't want to go into detail on that.
We all know what I'm talking about, you know, trans Yeah,
yeah, the situation you know in our one of our schools here. But
the point is that in sports, it's the ultimate meritocracy and everybody. The
big joke is that it's not a joke, I should say, but sports
are supposed to bring everybody together. Even though the Yankees and Red Sox fans
hate each other, Yes they break balls, yes, you know, like
only a few people are getting to a fight over a baseball It's it's stupid
game, but you come together. But Team USA, yes, you would
get behind well absolutely, and even if it had your favorite players. Yeah,
And that's sort of what I'm saying. And I feel like sometimes too,
because of all this division, we forget where we are. Yeah,
right, this is all you know, becomes your normal. And when it
becomes your normal, it's it's it's it's something that I think we take for
granted. And the next episode of Copcasts, which will come out in a
couple of days, is about the border. And they had a border patrol
agent who used to work down in Arizona. Oh that border, yeah and
all that. So they talked a lot about the border, and they kept
it fairly neutral. I mean, just you know, the number of people
that are coming through and this sort of thing and that. And as I'm
I'm listening to this and I did not chime in, I'm in the room.
I'm making sure everything's were producing the podcast for them, but it has
nothing to do with us. It's yeah, you know, the Fairport Police
and brought to you by. But it was an interesting conversation and this person
who was in here who was a border patrol agent, talked about how the
canyons along the border and when you're down in Mexico and how you can hide
and how how lonely and scary and you be there in the dark. And
he's like, you know, sometimes you'd see a group and you'd lose them
in the canyons. You'd see a group coming through, and he lose them
in the canyons, and you think, I'll let the next guys get it.
And then they go, yeah, but what if they're terrorists, what
if they're something coming through? But they're not always terrorists, they're not a
lot of people are really just trying to make a life for themselves. And
he was the last place, and that's what I'm saying, And that was
the thing is I go, how sad is this that you're willing to go
through all this shit, all that shit to get here? Now there,
it is a process. We need to do something. And I don't know
who the who politically is standing up to say we need to change our immigration
policies and make them a little more unified or easier or I don't know what,
but there's got to be some legal way to get in I think it's
like a two or three year process. Now that's longer than that. Even
yes, I just remember, yeah, I remember what it was in with
people in my family at the time, and I know it takes a while.
But that aside. Then there's this guy's talking about, yeah they picked
up a Syrian on the border down there and somebody else, and I think
that that a lot of times, I don't know that we'll ever fix it,
because I think there's like this under belly that's helping people get into this
country and then having them work in private prisons and having them, you know
what I'm saying, lake work, and and so you're getting into the country
and once you're here, you're here. I don't know. The only thing
is that what I did take away and what I think of often is how
good we have it in this country. And sometimes it's moments like the Miracle
on Ice that remind us and make us feel prideful because it could all be
propaganda, but life in Russia was always depicted extremely different and much less free,
and I believe it still is. Than a review that we use steroids
that we have here in the United Robby's cheat in the United States. But
I go, boy, we lose that a little bit, and we don't
realize how much people are willing to sacrifice to get here, just to get
here, just to try to live that American dream. And oftentimes I've always
noticed that, you know, the people that had parents that came over,
maybe your first generation in the United States, you know, worked and had
people in their ear going you have an opportunity, you've got a thing,
and you hear that, you hear that, hear that. Now sometimes it's
tremendous pressure. I have people in my family who will tell me that,
you know, use people who immigrate to the United States, the families can
go one of two ways. Overachievers, drug addicts. You can fall into
that, right And I think I mentioned that last night, But I go,
boy, you know, you're watching these people trying to get into a
country that some of us seem to just want to go ah you know what
I mean when yeah, fuck it, oh these asshole But you have the
right to say that, which is another wonderful thing in this country. I
don't have to agree with anything you say or anything you can, but you
can express it. You could do that here, yes, but you can
do I'm not a fan of this open border policy. I'll tell you right
off them. But I understand why people want to come here. I totally
get it that them I don't have We don't really have an open boarder.
The problem is, like these guys were saying, I mean, even Biden's
gonna it's just it is such a tough it's so big, it's so big
and so vast that it's hard to patrol. And sometimes he goes, you
know, back when he was doing it twenty years ages, he said sometimes
the radios wouldn't work just because of the terrain, so we'd be calling each
other and maybe you'd have five guys on for an overnight shift in that area,
he goes. But it's a huge area that five guys are going to
be able to watch this for people who really desperately want to come in.
And I'm not even saying people that are gonna harm us potentially, just desperately
want to come in. But you know, there's all kinds of things now
in the in the world. We we had a pandemic just for health purposes
and all that stuff. You want to be able to have something that's a
little more unified and you know, and done the right way and done the
right way. And I think there's a lot of people, these guys were
saying that that have dual citizenship for Mexico and the United States. So they
come over and they work in the United States and they live just on the
other side of the border in Mexico, and they get very upset with the
people who come in illegally because there are times the borders close down and they
can't get home, or they can't get to work, or they can't get
whatever. And they went through all the product, they went through the two
three four year pride. Yeah, And I don't know, and I don't
mean to get all political, but the one thing I would say is a
unifying moment like that, it kind of gives you the pride for your country
and reminds you what this is. And it was, you know, the
same thing with Rocky, right, it was Russia. Russia was the MVY.
We had a unified enemy who wasn't living the way we're living, not
doing the way. It didn't have the same freedoms as us, didn't have
the freedom of the press that we have and all these things. And sometimes
they think, boy, we just kind of stick. Our we nose up
at it and we don't even pay attention. We've gotten spoiled. Yeah,
and like our generation really didn't have to fight for anything. Your generation,
no, even the Boomers didn't really have to fight. I mean they went
to Vietnam and everything else. But I mean, are you saying, damn,
we need another good war? No? No, no, no,
I think one might be coming. And that's I'm scared of that. But
you know, like the World War II generation, our friend Tom Mule likes
to call the greatest generation. Tom Brokaw wrote the book, and they were
because think about every aspect of their life. They you know, they had
the Great Influenza, they had World War One, they had the Great Depression,
right then they had World War Two, then they had Korea, then
they had they lived through all of it. And yet because of that they
were able to build this country up to a level now where all of a
sudden, okay, it's tied to take advantage. And America Americana itself was
this Norman Rockwell painting, and we weren't given the full history of you know,
how the sausage was made. And now lately we're hearing that and Suddenly
people want to say that, you know, we should be ashamed of ourselves.
I'm like, no, tell the truth, but be proud that this
is the one place, if there's a place where you can fix those things.
This is the only place in the world you can do that. You
can try, Yes, you can. It's God's making any more land to
go discover. There's no more Columbus going fight. You know what, I
don't know that. I think that trash island in the Pacific but navigable.
You know this, this is it. This is it. And when the
world like grabs America tries to kill us, we're screwed. The whole planet's
screwed. I think the uh, I hear what you're saying with this stuff.
I it wasn't always pretty. I get that, but let's not make
two wrongs to make a right. It's not gonna it's not gonna work out.
And I also think that there's a number of people, like I said
the other night, you know, we we hear an awful lot of the
bad always with everything, and we don't focus enough on the good. And
there are an awful lot of positive things happening, and people who are working
to make this country better and trying to do that. But we get focused
and you know, caught up in these other things because as Americas, we
live at the top of Maslov's hierarchy of needs. So we have the luxury
of bitching and complaining about how things aren't good enough when the fact is just
go to Canada. Well, yeah, go to Canada. Yeah it sucks.
I have a guy I work with, his American and he knocked up
a woman in Canada twenty years ago. So they had a kid, right,
yeah, he did. He's a big hockey fan too. He's got
off the phone with him two hours ago and he's waiting for the day where
he could come back to the United States and live his life. He goes
because man, during the pandemic, it was like lockdown cent. You couldn't
even go outside and smoke a cigarette without like, you know, getting the
permission from the Prime minister. You know. But I'll say this and my
wife during the pandemic. Maybe it's twenty twenty, twenty twenty one. I
live in Henrietta and every year Henrietta has a huge fireworks display. And we
walked around the park and Henriette is probably the most diverse suburb of Rochester.
There's so many Yeah, there's so many different walks of life in there,
and it would and I started tearing up. Well, you know, church
and the Mother of Pearl. Let's say, uh but in all seriousness,
my wife, did you say you started to tear up? Yeah? She
goes, what's the matter? I go look around, she goes, why,
what's the matter? Go? This is America. This is what America
is supposed to look like. Look at all these people celebrating America. I
don't see anybody bitching and complaining. Everyone's having a good time. Look around,
man, you know. And she's like, she's like, you get
really worked up over this. I go, this is my favorite ality.
I love this country. People are like, yeah, brother, yeah that's
right. I love this country too. Fireworks started nine. Yeah I know,
but but yeah I got it. And then in the in the America
on ice would have gotten to me if I were alive. Yes, I
was almost alive. It was nine and and I do when I hear it
now. But all I can think of is you need that positive unifying thing.
I think you could all use that in this country. What that is
I don't know. Josh Billy maybe Josh Allen. Maybe Bill's were Red,
White and Blue Sports illustrated. We need to slay the Chiefs and what super
Bowl and that will unite America? All right, we will take a moment.
I don't know that it all started in America, but I often say
the world is designed by genius is something my uncle had said by idiots?
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I love the song a Bias that's a jerk on Now this is the entire
band write the songs. Just Mick a Keith, So I don't know because
I'm I've been a fan of a guy named Steve Jordan for a long time.
Steve plays bass in drums, and he was as a fan of the
Rolling Stones and I only came to know him or know of him through uh
the Expensive Winos, which was Keith Richards Sidemand and Steve Jordan had played in
the Saturday Night Live band when they used to have more of a band there.
He was in Letterman's band as well, and he did all kinds of
different stuff. And so he was on a serious channel today talking I think
you heard it too when he was talking about, you know, when the
Blues Brothers first started out, it was the Bbe Brothers and then they became
the Blues Brothers, and you know, he was part of the backup band
that was really on stage for their performance and all that stuff. And he
talked about Charlie Watts, who was the drummer for the Rolling Stones when The
Expensive Whyo's album came out. I'm forgetting the name of it, but he
said Charlie said, he goes, this is Charlie and he said, it's
a real compliment. Charlie Watts said that's a hell of a Stones record.
It's a great Stones record, and meaning that Keith was really the guy.
I mean, he wrote a lot of this stuff that we hear. I
don't know about lyrically necessarily, but certainly all the riffs and the music and
stuff. And there are quite a few songs that he did write the lyrics
to that if you go back and he listened to even Howard Stern's interview with
with Keith Richards, he tells you what a lot of those were. I
think that was one of the first interviews. Howard usually likes to do it
in the morning, and Keith wouldn't come in for Howard actually went to the
studio and three o'clock in the afternoon. For those of you who don't know,
Howard hasn't been in the serious studio for like three or four years.
Yeah, they do the entire show from his house now, like they have
this huge, awesome studio that nobody uses anymore for all but his guests come
in and use it. But Howard actually came into the studio to interview Keys.
That's such another with Billy Joel too. Then recently because I saw some
video on that perhaps Yeah, well, I have gone down. I always
get sucked into these rabbit holes on social media and stuff, and I have
shared some videos that you can go and see on our YouTube channel at Billified.
Just look up Billified and you scroll down under shared videos and you'll see
some of these videos there. I am a big fan. I don't know
why I'm really big fan, but I always like, I'm curious as to
how this really goes over what There's a couple that prank each other in their
house all the time with confetti cannons. But then there's another where they it's
balloons that drop, Like a guy shoots a dart up at the balloon as
his wife is walking into the room and the balloon empties out and I can't
tell if it's if it's milk or flour and water, I don't know what
it is, some kind of white stuff. And she gets covered and she
does it to him, and he does it to her. They're popping out
of cabinets. They're doing all this stuff, and I would be annoyed because
you had to clean all that shit up. Yeah, you know, but
I mean it's kind of funny. And then they showed in replay like he'll
just whip out like a kid's dark gun from underneath it. She's leaving a
room and he shoots the balloon and it goes all over or vice versa.
And then there's it's gotta be exhausting. There's one that I put up on
our yes, exactly, first the planning, right, and then the doing
and then have they to endure it? But this is this is the prank
I have come to love, okay, And anytime I see a compilation of
these, I have to stop and watch them. And if you go to
the YouTube channel and scroll down, you can see it. Have you ever
seen the invisible danger prank? No? Okay, it's usually women doing it
to a guy. You and Boo sitting calmly watching TV, your kickback.
She's got on one of her CSI shows and all of this. She goes,
oh my god, oh my god, and she jumps up and runs
and so like you'll see the guy go what what what? So he's got
to spring into action? Yeah, but no, there's nothing to spring into
action, got it? Okay? Yeah, he starts freaking out. He
starts freaking out, and he's like, and there's somewhere there's this couple eating
like Chinese food and the husband's like, hey, what'd you get? And
she goes, oh my god. She jumps up and he and you just
see him go. It's like, it's everything you don't ever want to be
as a guy. And I keep going to myself if this has ever played
on me, I think what I would do is I would just I hope,
I hope that I would be like, whoa, what's going on?
Because you'll see somewhere, like there's a couple walking out their front walk.
She's in front of him, and all of a sudden, she starts tucking
in sweet and she's like, oh my god. She hits the granny.
He goes, what what what? Running back? He's running back in the
house and I do I do, Danny. I find it so goddamn funny.
It's like here she walks in her room, drops a bag, and
so now he's kicking the bag like he thinks there's something in it. That's
A guy jumps up off the couch and starts yelling. She's freaking out.
She jumps off like this woman gets up she's flying one what what? There's
one where a guy gets locked in the garage by his wife. This one.
This poor dude gets out he's sitting in it. He falls in the
pool. He falls in the fucking pool. That's the Chinese guy. You
can see all these under YouTube. So I go, okay, the pranks
are funny when it's to me, because it's couples, it's not a stranger.
It's not as though I'm walking up to some stranger on the street potentially
giving him a heart attack or something. But the Internet is the world wide
Web, Daniel, the world wide and there are pranks all over it.
The unsuspected, unsuspecting pranks to people that are that you don't know, I
think can be very damaging and awful. Three young women rent a boat for
a friend's birthday called the go Boat. Basically, it looks like just a
little boat on a river in Australia, summer down there in winter that is
there, summer or whatever, can't figure it out. It's warm. They
have a nice spread on a picnic table in the boat. They're sitting there.
They've got a Bluetooth speaker and they're just said, Alan going under these
bridges and a kid takes milk, an entire bottle of milk and just dumps
it down on them, and you can see somebody comments on this from Australia,
and you can see that video at Billified too when you scroll down to
the shared section. But it sounds like this, this is the milk coming
down, and then some of the girls imediately whip out their camera in the
aftermath and you see it and you'll hear what they said, that's all the
milk glands on them. Were actually gonna stink. We're actually gonna stink because
it's milk. Yes, it's disgusting. The young man who dumped it over
the bridge goes to a private school, they say, a grammar school.
I don't know what grammar school would. Maybe it goes to eighth grade.
Maybe it's more in Australia, I don't know. Uh. From all things
that I can find in US dollars, it costs twenty one thousand dollars a
year to go to this this private school. That's more than my first year
of college. Okay, maybe second. So, like these girls wrote,
you book a go boat for your friend's birthday, and some kid on a
bridge above us pours a whole bottle of milk on us. Uh for crying
out loud or something? For crying emojis, and then and then they write
with love to find the kid that ruined our day. Well, somebody found
them. And then they started writing his school, and the kid went on
TikTok. It's now been deleted, going please stop contacting my school. My
school has caught me and I'm facing expulsion. Can't believe you would do this
to a minor, the boy wrote, according to the Herald, son and
why'd you do this to me? You ruin my life over a ruined day.
You up the ante. I'm just a kid. You ruined my life
too far, is what he wrote. He got kicked out of school.
He got kicked out of the school, and I'm going, I don't know
the police have gotten involved. Clearly, it's not that big of a crime.
I think he got a warning for assault. It would be that.
I think nobody got hurt. Kind of funny, but it's annoying. And
the somebody blew the whistle on the kid and I go, fuck it.
Yeah, God, you're in trouble. Yeah, but you know, if
the school's a private school and goes this is in behavior we had. I
don't know what the kid's history is. I say patterns some people get upset
when I go the patterns. You got to look for the patterns for patterns.
Well, somebody said tells, always looking for I know, I says,
I see tells, but these are so I don't know what the kids
pattern is. Wis just how that tells are my first marriage? But I
but I mean, you know, the Internet has given us license to be
a douchebag, and it in it's countries that are like us Australia. Well,
fire the Hole. Yes, yes, for those of you who don't
know, it would be like taking it. It would be like going through
a Wendy's getting your meal and your drink and then taking a drink and throwing
it back at the person and the inside like fire the Hole. And there
were like there's been montages of videos on YouTube, but didn't we play them
one morning on the radio. Yeah, I couldn't breathe. I was laughing.
Fire this already made a montest to that song sugar Fire the Hole.
Come on, honey, you wouldn't tell me were like roaring. I know,
but I and now I gotta tell you how you kids that are older
than the kids in the video, I would have been so pissed if the
boys did something like that, you know, but I would happened to boys
being boys. I gotta happen to boys being boys. My sarents would have
gotten pissed too, I hope, yeah, yeah, Okay, it's okay
for your parents to get upset, but it's also something that should be okay.
We'll laugh about this one day. Yes, can you believe what kind
of rascals we were. Well, it's clean, but the kid was doing
it to get I mean he videoed this, He had a friend's videoed it,
so the whole thing was done. Every generator escalates the prank, four
clicks for everything, and I go, you know what, fuck it.
If the school says they're private, we don't need your twenty one thousand dollars
a year, you're out. That's that's a huge one. I mean,
it's not like he can't go to school elsewhere. I mean, no public
school. I'm sure there's a public school there. I'm sure there is.
You got a public school of the reprobates, now the other ex CODs kids,
because remember like Australia was where they set off the convicts, right,
yep. I can't believe they found it to begin with. First off,
it is no old do with this place. It's in his DNA. But
the thing is, though, is that this is just a kid doing a
prank. Yeah, he taped it. You're on the side of it's okay.
I'm not saying it's okay. Out of school is not okay. Let
me refrat that you don't think he should be over correction, and to me,
overcorrection is miscorrection. Yeah, because over correction is what gotten us,
what's gotten America to the point we're at right now where we gotta keep going
to one. So we gotta fix that side is like, well, be
way beyond us. When it comes to that correct pendulum's got to swing back.
I always say, yeah, the pendulum's got to swing back a little
bit. But I don't necessarily have a problem because I go, you douchebag,
you thought you were so great. Here you are on the bridge.
Timed it perfectly. I mean, he just wanted to drop that milk.
So you know, it's like throwing a pass in the NFL. If he
gets if he's running this fast and he's cutting left, it's doing a slant,
I'm gonna hit him right there. Speaking of milk's milk. Okay.
I seen to know of a story of a guy who told me that he
went to school with a girl named Loriel Fonso. Oh god, who they
used to call laur cow or you call Lori cow Elfonso and you put you
did something with her face? Yeah, it was what did you do with
her face? I didn't do it? Okay, you didn't do it?
What Sala did? Oh Salad. Sal was a buddy of yours. Sal
was a year ahead of me. My connection to Lori Califonso was that because
you keep calling her Lori cal I can't because that that was her name.
I didn't know. I thought it was Loria Alfonso. It was but I
with the cow part, But then everybody called her that, and so that
became her name. Why and because she was big and she was pretty though,
she had a pretty face, and she hung out with some popular girls.
And I got offered seventy five dollars to be her date to the prom
and I said no. And I was in tenth grade, she was a
junior. I did end up going to that problem with somebody else because then
I got a call, Hey, and the girl lists all these girls,
Why do you gotta do this to me because I'm gonna look like a catch
bag, right, you taking me back to being a kid. But I
will say this is where my father was somewhat heroic, and I think I
learned great lessons my son Dawkins. No, that was a different prom Okay,
that was a different prompt. This was I'm in tenth grade. It
was the junior prompt. Loria cow Fonso's group had asked me so because of
that, Sal had super imposed her face in a photography class over a cow.
I got a hold of the picture and hung it in the front office
window, so everybody walked by expulsion. No, I did it. That's
true. That is true, Bill, I think I should. Well,
it's a public school, so I probably would have gotten like in school suspension
building, which was just deserving, absolutely deserving, because if you think about
it now and as a I but it's not a private school. This is
a private school. You could get kicked out of a public you can't get
I had a friend who got kicked out of a public school. I got
a friend who I'll tell you that. People who tried, I'll tell you
that story. I'll tell you that story in a second. It's the greatest
story only because the ending is so fantastic. For you know, the Christmas
story is number one, this is number two. This. Uh, but
yes, I probably should have gotten that. I don't think they would have
kicked you out back then. But now looking at it as a man of
a of a certain age, yes you see the damage that has done and
how hard it is. I don't I never knew. I still don't fully
understand how hard it is to be a young woman. But boy, when
I hear my sister talk about things, or I hear women that I may
know today or even an actually just it's hard and to have that and to
always boy, she never cracked, and we set it to her face and
she you know, and she was very like we always just thought she was
a snob and stuck up. Well, of course she needed to defend herself.
Those are there is always a big girl who's a snob. Yeah,
but she was. I mean, she wasn't even in a fat dude.
She just wasn't just tall. She was tall. Amazon she's just tall,
right, but and but big and so yeah, she got the Lory name.
But then I get a call, will you go out with girl?
A b or cs to the prom and you know that it's going to be
the least desirable on the least And I'm like, my father can overhear because
it was the phone in the kitchen, where the fuck were you going?
Had the longest cord, but you really couldn't go anywhere. You can hear
it, And all of a sudden I hear, William, you will do
you know? And that was the thing he said to me. Do you
know how hard it is for a young woman to ask someone to go to
the problem. You will go. You will walk into this prom like she's
the only woman, a girl in the room. Is what he said to
me, something along those effects. So I did, I went, and
I did that, and I will tell you to this day. I've always,
I'm told from time to time, I don't know if it's true or
not, that I have great manners, and I'm I'm very I'm very much
an old school gentleman. That was your first radio name before you became around.
But I think, like like in one on one situation, yes you
I was. It was drilled into you, man. This is how you
behave, This is the respect you have. You know. My father to
this day when a woman enters the room. But some people may call this
misogynistic stand up. Yes, yeah, he does that to this day.
I do that with everybody to this day. When a woman comes in the
room, he stands up, especially if they're coming in like and he's going
to meet them, he stands. I know. That was the thing.
I think I just was just taught to like acknowledge people. I mean,
that was the it is the right thing to do and always, you know,
but just it was you were raised that way. I don't know.
I don't know, but yes, I so to your point. I don't
know if that goes to the level of expulsion, but it would at a
private school. If you did that at Aquinas, I think you would get
your ass kicked out, and you deserved it. I do if you did
a Lori Califonso move in a co ed private school, yeah, which is
a lot different than just pouring milk on three chicks. I got it right,
You're right, right, I don't know. These girls just had their
day. Oh my gosh, Yeah, that's wy I'm gonna kill his little
I'm really going to piss him off. That was the croc hunt. Now
let me do we trust anybody anymore. Uh No, No, you don't
try. I've learned that. What here's my problem. I trust everybody and
that's got me in troublesome. Okay, but like, because I'm just I
genuinely look for the best in people, and it really naive. You know
what did I always say? I really am naive. I've been miss I've
made mistakes and I'm like, oh my gosh, I had no idea and
my life goes You didn't like, No, She's like, really, I
saw something on Reddit today and why I asked to trust thing, especially after
we talk about pranks? Do you trust? This is on Rochester Reddit?
Hi all, I'm an Ri, I T and mom and plan to be
heading back to Rochester to see the eclipse in April. April eighth is the
eclipse April eighth. I'm looking for an inexpensive place to overnight. Camp sites
are all booked up. Now I could snow. Yeah, I'm saying it
will, but it could. Yeah, April eighth, it's Rochester. Camp
sites are all booked up. I believe that, Okay, Uh, I
expected. I expect the Walmart parking lot will be a shit show. People
just go to the Walmart parking lot with campers and stuff, and I think
is that I think that's allowed around the country. Maybe. I think if
you're traveling and you don't want to stop off, and you're just going to
sleep for a few hours, you can put your RV into the Walmart parking
Can you pull into a truck stop and do that? Probably? Okay?
Can anyone recommend a place to crash for the eclipse? I just need a
spot to pitch a small tent or even sleep in my car. Any local
astronomy club's doing any hosting. Perhaps if anyone is willing to let a random
guy put a tent up on your land for the night, that would be
cool too. No one responded to this post, but I'm going to do
would you trust anybody? Would you reach out to this gay buddy? I
got some land? Where was this? Craigst Rochester reddit or Rochester reddit r
to reddit just kind of like a craigslift. Yes, yeah, that's why
I read it, because I go I can't imagine saying anybody, Yeah,
come on, there's got to be I don't know, maybe our I t
O opened up some camping space or something. I don't want to be camping
on April eighth. I've gotten soft. Couldn't you just pull into any random
hotel and just you know, I think they're all booked. No, I
mean just pulling the part. I don't know. I don't know the answer,
because who's gonna stop you, like the Radison and Henrietta, who's staying
there? Just pull into that parking lot. Is the microesel sold out?
They still the micro towel? They still the microtel? Yeah, like do
the throu way, Yeah, the Microtel. By the way, there's a
campground like after that, after you get off Rochester, I think between Rochester
and Brockports exit or maybe it's the exit after there's a camping ground. If
you're heading toward Buffalo, it's on the right hand side, and there's still
like I mean even in December and January there were like campers in that camping
ground. Some people. I wonder if they just leave it up, go
south and they come back up north, they could. It'd be interesting to
live in a camper. Didn't you live in a camper for a while or
try to? No, okay, no, my in law has lived in
their camper for a while. I remember, like when you said you were
going through like in radio, you could have lived in your camp. You
could have. I had a pop up and I was going I could just
live in that I was. I considered it. I never did it.
It would be cool if you did, well, a lot of he'd have
a lot of stories, a lot more stories. Thought. My blue period
was living in a pop up camper. That blue period. God, all
right, I got a couple of Uh. No, I don't trust this
guy coming it art. I don't either. That was a weird thing.
Yeah, I don't try. If you're going on Reddit looking for something,
Yeah, that's red flag number one. I don't know somebody who knows somebody.
You're no lum. Yeah you're supposed to be smart r I T Yeah,
well talking about Rochester Institute of Technology and figure it out. Yeah,
not everybodys elevator goes to the top. We will uh will take a moment.
Uh advice need it? Okay, advice needed one. Kevin need help
with something. That's why he's not here tonight. Oh okay, you couldn't
get his pants up. Needed help. We will get to that den.
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Yeah, oh yeah. I think he was a great pop artist,
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lot of people, well you like lovers if you like that stuff, And
it was always one of those guilty pleasures. And I hear more and more
now today from other artists whoill go. Guy was great. Guy was really
good, but they were catchy pop songs. Right, chicksdug it and I
dug chicks. When he died on Christmas, I think of twenty sixteen,
oh yeah, seventeen. Yeah, so many great stories came out about him
and how he would volunteer his time and money. And he used to tell
wonder one caveat, you're not allowed to talk about it. Right when I
die, you could say whatever you want. And those are my favorite.
Yes, yeah, he was he genuine, He was genuine. He lived
it. The other thing too, and substance abuse and shy guy and Greek
parents and you know, you know, we think immigrating here is hard,
but immigrate to England again and where they made even make those little list.
He was so private though, that people suspected him being gay, but he
was so good looking that women didn't want to believe it, so the rumor
didn't go anywhere. And then if he had not gotten caught in the bathroom
with that undercover cop. We may have never found that out. Why he
had Would you do that? You're George Michael. He had a full time
relationship with a guy who died of an anturysm and nobody knew about it.
He took pictures with the guy, you know. But the one thing that
really struck me was the first hit on Wham wickby up before You Go Go.
He wrote that song by himself, but he gave his partner yep who
I don't even know his name, co writing credits so he wouldn't have to
worry about money the rest of his life. He did that a lot,
with a couple of different songs. I don't know that they knew any of
them would be hits, right that we're going to make them a lot of
money, But you're right he did. And if you watch the Wham documentary
which I have. Oh, they have a documentary that on Netflix. Yeah,
I don't know if it's a docu series. That guy's really cool and
but talks about yeah, how he went on to be a star and he
kind of faded out. But no animosity, no anything, you know.
So after Bill Klein, Wham passed away as the entertainment reporter twenty years ago.
Last week, actually I ended up filling his spot for a while.
So so George Michael had George Michael had announced, why is that so funny
me doing entertainment reports because you don't know anything about any of this shit.
Klein went to all the musicals, he read, to all the movie he
did. He did all that. You didn't do shit. No, I
just read wire copy. I know, I know, I don't say it.
I know I mispronounced words of tons. But here's the thing, though,
I go in, I go come up. At seven forty, someone
from WHAM is retiring. You're realizing that WHAM was with George Michael's group.
Yeah, so Beth Adams, who was the co host with chet Walker,
go, Beth, someone from WAM is retiring. And she just starts rattling
off all these employees names, and I go, no, I go,
this is at our table report, Beth, I go check. I want
to tell her George Michael just oh, okay. But then she realizes she's
rattle off a bunch of old dudes at WATM. We'll come into the office
like, well, so I'll retireing Beth, is that it? Why would
you think I'm believing it was cute? It was, it was funny.
It's funny. We get you can text us call us any time at five
eight five to zero six eighty eight sixty six, and I'll put this George
Michael one on our YouTube page as well. That way you can go check
that out at billifid on YouTube. But people write in some things, and
I got this text today. Sometimes people call the wrong number. I've debated
to play some of those messages or not. Somebody's like, give me back
my phone. I know you got my phone. I've got I've gotten calls.
This one guy goes, ma'am, I got your letter. I'm been
trying to get a hold. I don't know where to send the money.
And I call the guy back. I go, hey, listen, man,
you got the wrong number. I go, But if you want to
send me the money, I'll gladly. You know our friend Alex Yes,
the former intern turned producer. Yes, my wife was watching one of her
produced programs today. She was binge watching Project Runway. It's a very easy
show to get sucked into, is it's I never got into that. I
don't know what it is, but there's like I don't know if it's the
drama or the I don't know how to talent there though. Yeah, yeah,
but you get sucked into it by watching because you want to see,
like who they cast off and why. So Alex sent me a she's been
getting wrong number calls from an older woman who thinks she's calling her kids,
and she said they're so sweet that she wants to turn it into a podcast,
a series of podcast series about the messages this woman leaves. But she
sent me one of the messages, and I have not listened to it.
We'll listen to it together right now. Hi, this is the birthday bag.
I just I know I have to call you back, thank you for
your wishes, But your message is there. I don't understand it's not you.
It must be your phone, because other messages come through on my Phone's
fine, it's I mean, I can understand some of yours, but it's
it's it's not me. It's not my ears. I think it's your phone
because it's not mine, and everybody else seems to I can understand anybody else,
and doctors and you know the people that call me and want to sell
me Jewish people. I don't know. Okay, then I will let you
go. I will go get my shit done, and you have a lovely
day. Goodbye. I love you. Now. Maybe I should have appreciated
that I had never listened to it. But it's a woman who's called.
It's somebody's mom. Yeah. I think she's calling back, and she's basically
going, I can't hear everything you're saying because your phone's cut now and it's
not on my end. I think it's on your end because every other message
I get, I get, and the Jewish people and they all could call
me right. But she gets that, and she said, I'm afraid.
She said, I find them so endearing and I love them so much,
and uh that I I don't. I don't want her to stop. I
like, I like, she goes, I have a whole series of them
that she that this woman is left. Oh wow, yeah, she goes,
I just enjoy them. And she once said, uh called over and
goes, don't forget to pick up the whatever, and she goes. And
I wanted to call them, and I'm like, but then she'll stop calling,
you know. I think this is something that two things. I think
I think if I'm not mistaking. I think Alex lost her mom. That's
exactly what I was thinking too. And I thought that in the moment,
and I did not say it to her. I did not say it to
her because I like, well, yeah, because your mom's dead. Man,
you never can get those calls from your mom. I don't wonder,
you know, But it's kind of selfish for you to not tell them.
I mean, what am I supposed to podcast? Let me do it.
She said to me. Well, that's true, she said to me.
Uh, they're so sweet. And then all of a sudden, she because
she and I talk on a semi regular basis about different projects that we're working
on. And I don't know what's going on with the podcast she was doing
here with the gay guys. Yeah, but one of them they have a
falling out. Wow, yeah, what is the prize? She don't know.
Why do you say that? Oh no, there's human beings, human
beings fallings out. Oh man. They love drama though. Man, it's
like, they're what are you saying? They I'm saying I can't say that.
That's wrong with you. I say not to America. I thought we
were talking about the math of two seconds no, like I can see when
they were here and I did the podcast, there was some tension. There
was there was I'm sorry, yeah, but I'm not sorry, but I'm
sorry, all right, so here, yes, well Alex, Alex said
that, and and you're right. I think what she should do she should
contact this woman so she this woman could get in touch with her kids.
Although her kids are like it sounds like she's dialaura. I think, what's
happening. One Every once in a while, she must miss dial. She
may not have them in their her phone. Oh so she just dials the
number US. So sometimes she's calling two six six five one seven four and
sometimes she's calling two sixty six five one seven five. Oh yeah, well,
no, that happens to me too. Like if I'm dialing in Boston,
I think Boston's like the area coach seven, yeah or no seven.
Now, I'll fat finger like the wrong number below it, and I'll dial
like some number in Montana, right, And I'm like, oh, I
gotta do this again, you know, for my job. So I could
see that that's a possibility because I set these other people that they don't save
numbers. There was one time where my mother I thought she was mad at
me. I called her for three months. I had to call schol My
brother go, hey, could you get a message over to mom. I
have been calling her for weeks and she does a return of my freaking calls.
So okay, I'll tell her. He never tells her. So I
pulled a towel for a funeral. Here's why. Here's what I think,
here's what I think. It's funny. I just thought of this too now
with Alex. Most people don't have themselves as their outgoing message. I would
say majority of people. When I call, they get a number. No.
Eight says uh, you get the automated Yeah, she's a message for
five eight five. Yeah, yeah, that's what I mean. Right,
the tiger was trains to one number. I get my wife might be calling
you. That's why. All right? But so wait, so your mom
was that? What was happening? You were calling? Where you're leaving the
messages for your mom? But he's so, I have to go to town
for a funeral. So I pull it. I've driven by my parents all
department. How are you burying your career? Yeah? Yeah, it was
after yea. So I go, oh, there's mom's car. So I
pull it. I'm not gonna remember I ever talked to you. It's so
long. Where are you betting? A mom? Cant I look at your
phone? Just yeah, I go. You have me blocked? My mother
accidentally hit the block button on me. No she didn't, No, she
did, Billy leave me. My mother's favorite. Let me tell you.
Let me tell you something, my father's favorite, my grandmother's favorite, my
mother's favorite. Something. I talk to people in your family? Really,
Yes, And I think I think that it would not be an uncommon thing
that if you talk to just some people, Sissy, I just what some
people sis saying about. I would think that some people would probably be like,
I could use a break from daddy for a little while. What best
deal with that? I'm teasing you. Wow, I didn't know that.
I'm kidding. My mother wouldn't block me. She was surprised when I showed
her kidding speaking speak. My sister thinks some of the spectrum, but the
internet service spectrum, that's the autistic spect Oh, well, we all are
to some degree. I guess you were just a little further than probably who
cares for Alex, you know, for Alex and this woman? Yes,
I think Alex needs to call her. She should do it on this show.
Yeah, bring Alex in and we can make a whole thing about I
think Alex is going to do something honestly artistic with this in a way through
a podcast format. And I don't know she'll connect with her or not at
some point, but I do know that she wants to do that right now.
Ow, we did get a text message, and this will be an
interesting one. I have a beautiful twenty eight year old daughter. She's been
dating a very successful local businessman. Okay, there's like seven of those.
But he always seems to be running from one quote important meeting to another and
often leaves her stranded, even when they already made plans. Okay, this
past weekend was a good example. Oh, you can't cancel a weekend after
week after making weekend plans with her, he canceled last minute and tried to
make up for it by sending her off for a spa day. Okay,
that's a favorite fallback for him. Or I'll send her her and a friend
on a little weekend getaway. She was crushed. But when I try to
tell her he's never going to change, she spot a's and little trips are
fine, but what she really wants is to actually be with him. Yeah,
she wants his time, which doesn't happen often with his schedule. She
seems to love him, yet she's not happy. He's simply a great guy
who seems to put business before everything else in his life. Should I get
more involved? Do people like him ever change? I'm just looking for any
advice from people who have had similar situations. And I don't know if you
guys have I has anybody's parent ever gotten involved in your relationship? Like you
have a relationship with somebody and so the parent gets involved. Ever, No,
I wouldn't allow it. No, uh, because I go the only
involvement would be talking to the daughter. Yeah is what I respect. The
only involvement I would talk. Yeah. Uh. And I can understand if
you want your kid to be happy and you're seeing something and you're more experienced
in life, and you know what do they say? A tiger doesn't change
its stripes. And the guy's very driven, which is a wonderful quality to
have, accept when you want to be home? Right, So maybe that's
just not the right guy. Yeah, if he's if he's not available,
the best ability this goes for everything. The best ability is availability. But
I'll tell you what. I just thought of this. Now, I never
had anybody even when I was married. My in laws didn't get involved in
our stuff. They were around a lot. They were there for supporting things,
which I would sometimes get annoyed with because it's me and that's not fair.
But I did. But I remember before I was married. I just
thought of this. Now. I'll probably get some shit for telling this story.
It was Christmas time and I think my brother in law who had been
serving overseas, he was a captain in the army or some high ranking official
at that time, West Point guy, and he was overseeing the Pacific Rim
and he was home for Christmas. So I was everybody supposed to go down
there. They lived in the Syracuse area, to go to her parents house,
and uh, I think she went down a day early and I stayed
here and I went to Thirsties. There's a bar. Yeah, yeah,
no, I know, some people know, okay, and I and I
and I had a great time getting drunk and all this and places packed and
I'm seeing all these people. I was having a great time. All the
Christmas classics it was, you know, it's homecoming. It was everybody was
around. It was awesome, and I'm hanging out with the Merkleys and the
this and the that, and then I stumble home and the next day.
I don't know if I was supposed to go down that night like the night
before, and then I think I might have called stepped outside and called and
said, oh, I'll be down because this is but I had a cell
phone, so in ninety nine I had all so this is all. Yeah,
this is ninety nine, So I I had a cell phone, though
it's twenty five years ago. And I so I somehow called and said I'll
come down tomorrow or something. So I get a call around one o'clock from
my at the time future father in law and he goes, where are you?
And I said still in Rochester. He goes, oh boy, that's
all. That was it. That was it. That was it. He
was just trying to do me a solid, he really was. He was
trying to me because apparently things were bad. I got there, and I
would my mother in law could have been nicer, and he was great.
No one else would talked to me. Oh wow, I was just like
I U style for a minute, and eventually everything came around, thought out,
Yeah, you know, I was drawn. I think I was probably
still hung home when I should like, you know, which is just I'll
never forget the call. Where are you still in Rochester? Oh boy?
That's all I can. All I can hear was like you could hear the
sun, oh boy, And he was just I don't so the brother in
law was mad at you too, I don't. I don't know that he
was. I think he was just trying to stick up first. I don't.
I don't know. I have no idea. I don't remember. It
was a very long time ago. I just know that in that moment,
that would be the level of involvement, which was really in my mind when
I look back on it now, I think was to go, you know,
put your phone on the gas and get her a little quicker because I
can't handle the shit anymore. Yeah. I don't want to see it.
I don't want to see you die, you know, not die, but
I don't want to see you whatever whatever was happening then. Uh wow.
No, my father told me a story about his ex wife, his first
wife. Yeah, we met my mother, huh or I met your mother,
and he said that there was something happened where they had a disagreement,
right, So she starts balling. So then she calls her father up to
try to solve the problem. So he comes in to try to be the
big hero, and my father had us have none of it. He picks
him up and throws him out of the house, and then he looks at
by his ex wife goes, you got a problem with me, you call
my father. You don't call your father. If it's really that bad,
you call my father. They never had a problem after that. Here's another
interesting one. My husband cheated. We went to therapy for years and we've
gotten over the past. We're in a loving relationship. We have three kids.
But something completely blindsided us. His old mistress messaged him on social media
and told him she's in hospice care. She wants to see him one last
time before you know, and I don't want him to. Then you do
what your wife tells you to do. Yeah, that's over to me.
It's like to be like, even if my wife didn't know about it,
be like no, no, sorry, if my ex wife calls, I
need to see you before I die. No, yeah that ship has sailed.
No, No, I'll go to your funeral. Yeah, well,
I'll make sure you're dead. She dies without seeing him that that that's how
this works when you're a mistress. You know what you think? Yes,
I mean unless he had left for you. But that didn't happen, and
he went back and he they worked through something that is very difficult to work
through. Uh, I go. You were just there as a substitute for
a short period of time, lady, you know, and a piece of
the real love of his life clearly was this woman, and they worked it
out. So I don't even know that you respond to it, but you
know, he can go visit your grave, right. There was a story
once when you and I were working together. Tommy was off that day.
You had been on vacation the week, so we put out an APB call
this number if you've something about if you need advice from the break room.
The break you know, psychology rates are going through the room, and several
people call, and one guy called and said, listen, I sort of
remember this. I had an affair with a woman and she ended up getting
pregnant and I found out that she had my kid. She didn't tell her
husband, so the husband believes that this is her. This this is his
son, okay, and he's out of the picture. And so he's like,
do I reach out to my son when he becomes of age? And
you said no, because those are the rules of engagement. You had an
affair, yeah, and that was it, and it because you got her
pregnant. She doesn't want you to involve in the kid's life. No,
she did if she hasn't even asked you for money. No, no,
she was like, no, that's all you're gonna do at that point.
Yes, ruined people's lives. Yeah, tough crap. Yeah, I mean
he's like playing with a loaded gun man. Yeah. I it was literally,
yeah, I mean literally, But I would stick by that today because
unless there was something like she's going listen you gotta pay or whatever or somehow.
But that wasn't the case. That that's the heart song. Do you
remember the heart song? Yeah? Well this out of You? Oh,
it was make Love to You. We planted a tree, yeah, like
they had in the in the video. They had the Then she takes off
and he wakes up. He's like, good more, where'd you go?
Baby? I'll hope to make me some eggs. She's driving down the road.
She's crying and she's knocked up. I have to play that song because
the whole point was you can give me what he can't. In fact,
I think we played that song and then, probably because it fits that scenario.
I don't remember. I don't remember break room stuff that much. I
have a very ugly side of myself. You like to get rid of things.
I am. I just yeah, like when it's over for me,
it's it's over. It's over, and it's terrible because I really shut it
down. I don't know, it's a very it's bad. I would say
now, it's not a good way to be. But I part of mental
life because I have a thumb drive now of a lot of the old shows.
I can just go and it's gone. I think that's a good thing.
Sometimes, Wow, it is and it isn't. I think that in
certain relationships, you know, it can really hurt people, but it's obviously
a self preservation mode. It would be something fully but I think that no
matter, I could do it with almost an almost anybody. There may be
one or two. Well, this might be a bad example to use now,
but I'm just gonna use it because it happened. So Andre the Giant
they had the HBO documentary about Andre the Giant. I know it's for us,
like okay, they had the HBO documentary about Andre the Giant. They're
gonna make it a thirty for thirty. Then Bill Simmons left the ESPN,
so they brought it to HBO, and the WWE was incredibly behind it.
They loved Andre the Giants. So Vince McMahon is talking about his last meeting
with Andrea the Giant. They go, do you remember the last meeting he
had with himuse not specifically what happened? We had a falling out. They
go, he goes, do you remember what happened? And he goes,
no, he goes, these are his words. I've never heard the word
facility used like this, Because I have a fac ability to get rid of
negatives quickly. So something bothers me, I get rid of it. So
I have no idea what I did to hurt him. My guess was business
was good, we were doing well. He got us to that point by
rustling hull coke and letting hul coke and beat him, and then all of
a sudden he had no value anymore because he was hurt and he couldn't rustle
and they slows things down. But eventually, like he's on crutches and now
he's doing appearances with other wrustling companies and he's like, well, what are
you doing Andre? And then that was the last time they talked, and
he regretted that. But he can't remember what the falling out was because he
blocked it out. And sometimes I think that's not the worst thing in the
world. I wish I had the capability to do that. It's self preservation,
but it's not because the world doesn't act that way. And most I
mean, there are people that'll tell you that everything you're living is an illusion
because you live life from the inside out from the outside in, so everything
you're perceiving is thought based, and you're there and your perception and all that
stuff either way, so you know the pain and the feeling and all and
you sometimes have to have empathy for other people and try to see it differently
and not live so much from the outside in and try to be a little
more then you. I think so to some to some degree, it's just
it's just a kindness. I would say, uh, not a necessity necessarily,
but it would certainly make your life a little bit better, and you're
not a psychopath, then you'd understand what I'm saying. I think, well,
I think that like now that we know what we know about Mitch McMahon
allegedly, yes, now we know that he was a sociopath. So that's
why he could let stuff like that go. And and I would like to
not think I'm not, but I I have a way. I don't do
it all the time, but I can. It's only you know. Some
way I survived was you're sexually molested as a kid. You don't want anybody
to know, so you got to shut it down. Well I did until
I was twelve, and then I realized I never thought of it. When
it really hit me again was when I was twelve, when your kids were
talking about what was forgive me gay and not gay. And I have said
this to gay men. I have said, the worst thing you could have
been in the locker room in junior high and high school was gay. So
once you knew what you had done, or by the way, done to
you was gay, Holy shit. I thought everybody could tell I was afraid
to kiss girls because they would know this all this shit in your head that
isn't real isn't there. So now it's the biggest secret in the world.
And all you want to do is divorce yourself from the pain, and you
want to divorce yourself from anybody ever knowing, and so everything becomes like I
mean, you box it up. Radio was attractive to me because I could
hide. I didn't have to be me. Whatever you want on the radio,
I could be somebody completely way cooler than me, right in theory and
in mystery. Now it took many years you realized a bunch of the stupid
shit. I am an asshole, Always be an asshole. It's okay,
but I wouldn't. I was offered TV's news things to pursue, and I
was afraid. I didn't want people to see me, know, and here
we are for the cameras. Now it's just different, it's different. But
at the time that that was the thing that was. Yeah, we'll take
a moment. Let me ask you. Have you seen the What's Your Roman
Empire? Memes? No? Do you know about this about the Patriots documentary?
No? No, no, no, Well we can get into that
for a moment, but I will just say, uh, what what's your
Roman Empire? And I'll explain what this is. We'll get a little I'm
gonna tell you it so I might be related to it, could be,
or maybe not. Maybe your family was brought in the slaves for the Roman
Empire and big strong, strapping people. Not me. Get to that.
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What year was this album? Is it like early nineties? Right? I
think it was. I think it might have been late eighties. Do I
remember this song coming? I think we around eighty seven, eighty eight,
I'm going nineties. Maybe you might be right, though you were, you
were in radio at that point. The thing is what inspired the Wilson girls
to write this song? I don't know that they did, so you can
find out all that. Really, I don't know who wrote it, Okay.
Did they have other people write some of their songs? They could have
nineteen ninety yeah, okay, okay. I just remember the video and I
remember it made me hornings. If they and that fucking guy so Lucky,
So Lucky got laid, it's awesome and the lady left him alone. She
pined for him that nice to sing, bang the hell out of here,
that was heart. They called him the female Zeppelin, right, yeah,
Bob, Yes, they were referred to they had. They had that same
kind of stomping. I think some of their big songs were of that.
The Wilson's Sisters Rakudah was one that was and she wrote that being angry because
uh, a record company had put out started a rumor to try to get
interest in the girls, that they were more than just sisters. Yeah.
Oh, the record company put that started that rumor, and somebody came up
to her after a show I think it was Nancy, and she was so
pissed. She went back and rope Aracuda and it was that very Zeppelin asking
you know, that's the allegedly the story behind it. I don't know if
that's I did talk to it. I did do an interview with Anne Wilson.
Is she the blonde? No? Uh, the bigger one, okay
okay, And it was interesting because at the time they were talking about how,
yeah she was the Lori Calfonts of that relationship. It's terrible they were
talking about they weren't talking at that time. They had where they so I
sort of got it out of her. Oh really, yeah, okay,
of course I did you know how? I did you know how I would
do it. So she was a little cold at first, and we got
got her warmed up and talked a lot, talked about the early days and
opening up for Rod Stewart was one of their first shows and all this stuff.
And I said, you know, it's so interesting to me because so
with the band member and she said, well, I had to go get
my own band because they all went with with her with Nancy. And she
goes, you know, this is Ann Wilson's Heart. Okay, right,
I think that's what it was called. So she was touring doing that.
I think this is the fiftieth anniversary of Heart coming up this year, and
I believe they're gonna there was a tour. Maybe it was supposed to be
last year. I don't remember, but uh, anyway, she said,
uh, her husband said something to Nancy's kids. Yeah, and something to
do with a dog that pissed them off and yeah, and they had to
talk up it by a dog to her bus or something was it was,
yeah, yeah, like the but that was she said it. She she
had the trouble Anne's and her husband are the troublemakers in the group, okay,
because nobody's ever got a bad thing to say about Nancy. Well,
I don't know, you know what, we don't know, We don't know.
But if your dire bait kind of goes with the other one, well
that's true too, because Anne's always but you never hear from Nancy. You
only hear from Ann. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. Yeah,
so I don't know. I mean, I've heard this story. Twenty nineteen.
They toured. I think they came around here somewhere, and a lot
of times bands like Don Henley kind of did this too when he came to
Cemac. They want you to hear their new stuff. Yeah, yeah,
they don't want to play their classics. Well they got to play some of
the hits, right, but they feel like, I don't want to play
my hits I have. I'm just as good now as I was. So
they would do a medley of the heart hits and then just filled the rest
of the time with new stuff that nobody didn't want to hear. And then
the two sisters didn't even look at each other the entire show. You know,
I have another friend whose wife took a picture with the two of them,
you know, like, so there's Anne and Nancy and they okay,
stand here and stand between the two of them, smile, and they said
it was like really cold, but the two of them wouldn't talk. Really,
I would think a big girl is good body heating. Yeah, you
think, right, that's going on. Yeah, they said it was,
it was, it was. It was awkward. Yeah, I'm sure it
was. That's they don't know. I've heard that several times. Really,
yeah, they have a chilly relationship. The h so my Roman Empire.
I wasn't familiar with this. It's a phrase that describes something you think about
a lot. Allegedly, a lot of men think about the Roman Empire an
awful lot. Here's a guy explaining this trend on TikTok's Okay, here it
is Roman Empire trend explained. Here are the answers first and foremost. I
thought it was absolutely hilarious that all these women out there have discovered why men
think about the Roman Empire so much, and it's just absurd to them that
they think about it in the first place. But when you understand men and
the fundamentals of men, you'll know why. So here's the answer. Men
inherently have the need to conquer. We always have and we always will.
We want to conquer, We want to conquer everything. We're adventurous. We
need and seek that, and if we don't have it, then we imagine
it. And so there's a quote, the masses of men lead lives of
quiet desperation. If your man is thinking about the Roman Empire and then conquering,
it's because he's not conquering enough in his life himself. Ah so I
don't. I don't know. So the thing is, what is your Roman
Empire? What do you think about the most? But this is stupid.
I don't think I've ever thought about the Roman Empire ever in my life,
and I don't know that I have. I the only time I think about
the Roman Empire, I mean is if like times when I'm reading the Bible
or when it comes up or when it talks about like how the empire fell,
because I look at America like, Okay, every empire has fallen,
there's always somebody that comes back in its place, right, Yeah, And
so okay, how the Roman Empire fell? It fell because they got too
fat and lazy, and then what happened in the next empire? So I
got too big? Yeah, right right, because it's you know, you
know the words. So like that's when I think about the Roman Empire falling,
I think because their history was all borrowed from somebody else. Do you
think that you've conquered stuff? Now? Do you have things that you con
I feel like I think there's things that I've conquered, and there's things that
I have to conquer. But I don't think it's this thing where I need
to let go out and like be a swashbuckler. No, no, no,
no, no, no, that's not it at all. I don't
think that either. I think that it means like purpose, you know,
the challenge, the thing, and I go, I wonder if I've never
thought of the Roman Empire because in a way I was always trying to prove
myself to myself. Would really be the answer, But I would say to
everybody else, But like when we were together doing the break room, it
was all because you know, people had left and what was I going to
do? Right? So you were conquering? Yes, right now, we
all nobody. You should have goals in your life, Yes, or,
as Tony Robbins calls the outcomes. A goal is like a to do list.
An outcome means I have a purpose. Yeah, here's my purpose of
doing things? You know? And the key to life is progress? Yeah?
And growth? Yes, I always called expansion right. And I think
guys like you know, like, even if you're on your couch playing video
games, what are you doing? You're you're trying to win? Right?
Who would be conquerors today? Who would be modern day conquerors in your mind?
I think I think in a way, Trump, I mean a conqueror.
Think about it, he was not a successful million We just knew who
he was. But what did trumperally do? Well? He established a lot
of like in real estate, but he also lost a lot. But he's
somehow like commandeered his way to the White House. Is a conqueror, Yeah,
Jeff Bezos is a conqueror. I hate saying his Elon is a conqueror.
I hate saying his name, but Putin is kind of a conqueror,
you know, Uh, Zuckerberg's a Conqueror's interesting because it used to be like
property in land and like being a king. Now it's not about that.
It's now about control from within in other words, like the technocracy has now
made it so that like borders don't mean as as much as they used to.
So what like I think even with this podcast, to me, it
would be you know, I'm not I don't know that I'm trying to conquer,
but I'm trying to build something. Yeah, I'm trying to build my
Roman empire. I'm trying to build my thing, right nobody. And the
difference here is there's not you know, with radio and stuff and most jobs,
right, most people Kobe had Michael, not that he made it easier
for him, but there was a blueprint of how you can do this.
Yes, right, there was a blueprint how you could do it. Radio,
there was a blueprint of how you could do it. There were guys
that were out to do it. This is not really a blueprint, this
level of guys doing it. Most people who are really successful in podcasts have
come from great fame or television, you know what I mean? That story
right, Well, there was like you know, like Codin O'Brien, even
Rogan was a stand up yet it was on the sitcom he was the host
of a game shown people but all that so yes, so you've got,
and so all that was sort of there. This is I think what made
Rogan so big was the fact that he was one of the first to do
it and do it consistently. Nobody was doing what he was doing back in
eighth nine. Podcasts weren't a thing. I mean they were, but they
weren't, you know. I mean, yeah, so I I see what
you're saying, you know, and so for me, this is this.
Honestly, if you were to say, what's your Roman empire, it's this.
I think about this all the time. I probably I get up between
six fifteen and six thirty every day and I'm usually thinking about it, you
know, And I'm working till about midnight every night. That's just the way
it is. I don't know what my Roman empire would be. I think
in a lot of ways, there's like little my thoughts, belly, it's
my thoughts. I got lots of thoughts. I do have lots of thoughts.
Yeah, I think that deep down though, I do believe I have
some things that I still need to prove, Like what is there anything you're
willing to say? Don't feel like they that's putting me on the spot.
Are private? No what No, Yeah, but you know what thoughts out
there? You don't do a podcast to keep thoughts to yourself. Well okay,
but hang on, you need to like expound. You said, right,
all right, you give one. I'll give one. Okay, all
right, you give one first. I really think that I love what.
I really think. I mean this sincerely. I know because I really that
I had the best sports radio show in Rochester. I'm serious. I think
Scott Potniac and I did a heck of a job with what we had to
work with. Unfortunately the company didn't see it that way. And the reason
I was given was because and I'm not lying, Oh boy, you don't
talk enough hockey. You're laughter right there proves everything that I need to know.
What the thing? Yes, okay, yeah, well we work with
those idiots. You come into a town, you didn't have a job for
three years, then you become the operations manager. Now these are facts.
There's a fact. There's a fact. Somebody. Wow, you're not stung
by I feel like I have something to prove that I really had not.
Because we had national guests, we had segments. It was really like a
well by the second strip, you to come in here and do your own
thing. At this yeah, at this point, like I'm in a different
place in my life. I see, so could I. But but this
is your Roman empire. You know, in a way, this is your
Roman empire because now I have I have a microphone where I could talk about
certain things, but like on this show, nobody wants to hear about just
sports or you know, a fact saying. What I'm saying is you could
have a sports podcast. I know, I could. I know I could.
I did one before. The idea was yeah we would, but this
one we could make work. I don't know because you were recording it in
your fucking car. That's why I know. Yeah it was different thing video,
but there's no music. It was just me. It was just me
and a mic. That's all I'm The point was that I was told by
the guy who end up replacing a guy used to work with how good the
show was. Who Carl Falk told me. He goes, hey, you
really do it? The hell of a show. He goes, Unfortunately,
you know, things happen, and I go, yeah, I know,
but what are you gonna do? You know what I'm saying, what can
you do? We had no backing nobody knew we were on the air.
And I know that because this is the thing about Rochester Sports Radio is that
if you listen to the Old Matthew Show, you listen to the Old Matthew
Show. This is my favorite. There were like to be like thirty callers
on every show. I used to call him, did you from seeing math?
Okay? I would call him up when I was doing an afternoon.
Yeah. I used to call up when he was doing afternoons because I would
get calls would come in the answer is joking, Barrow joking, Barrow number
eight, Jim Kelly. So I'd be like, what, you got the
wrong number? So then I would call Bob. I go, Bob,
could you do me? And you would just get on the air like a
tons times. He dance sometimes didn't even screen yeah, so I would go,
Hey Bob. Allan Harris was his producer. I don't think he screened,
Hey Bob, isil Moran even from and uh, could you really give
out your phone number correctly? Because we're getting some would I believe or wrong
answers to a question I didn't even hear. And then he'd hang up on
you, and I used to run into another room and turn tune in the
radio here because it was delay, and I would hear things like I don't
know how that jokesure got through the jokester, all these jokes that people playing
it, and I'm like, so then I started going and I'll fuck it.
Anytime I got bored, I would call it Matthews, just fuck with
him. And by the way, Matthews was actually a pretty cool guy.
He really was when you got to know him, he really was. He
was very misunderstood dude I had. He was a very misunderstood guy. I
think he actually did a pretty good show. I had a very awkward moment
with him once, like uncomfortable. Okay, So the boys were with me,
Jackson and all three boys, and my oldest son has just some on
the spectrum to so degree, maybe you know. So, So I said,
uh, we're in the studio, the Wham studio, and we look
into the newsroom and Bob had walked in. It was like a weekend or
something, and they said who's that and I go, ah, just this
grumpy Bob. As I said, it's grumpy Bob, okay, And then
we're walking by and Bob goes hey, and Jackson goes, hey, grumpy
Bob, and he fucking flipped flipped flipped his ship. Flipped his ship.
Oh, flipped it. He's going, what did you call me? These
are your kids? Nice kids, you, Bob? I go, I
go. So he kept it up, really sorry, he kept it up.
He just couldn't leave it alone. He couldn't leave it alone. And
I go, let me tell you something, Bob, you never had kids.
You come in here, you're shooting, you're yelling and making all this
noise and stuff. And I told them that you're grumpy. I call you
grumpy. So yes, he did reflect what I said. But you don't
have kids, and you don't act you act like a big grumpy asshole when
you're around here. He walked off. No kidding, Yeah, now that
that was that what you were when you were a dieheart? Yeah, no
kidding. Yeah, just a couple of years ago he was in I think
he might have been. I don't think he was retired yet. But well,
you know what, the show ended because he ran out of stuff to
talk. Yeah, no, it doesn't matter, that's on my point.
But I like the fact that you so your Roman empire to you, Yeah,
is your own sports show? In some capacity. It's some capacity.
Do you feel like you didn't get your chance? You want to be on
a Oh I got my chance, but you want to get my chance.
It didn't work out, but you didn't get your fair chance. I don't
think so, Okay, I don't. I really don't think you want to
be over the air terrestrial radio guy. Yeah. But at the same time,
like time has changed since them, and I really don't care that much
anymore. But I just want to the idea that I could do it.
Yeah, you know what I'm saying, That idea Like when we talk about
the bills and stuff, I listen to people. All these people have these
podcasts just about the bills, and some of them are very good and some
of them are whatever. Okay, But I think the discussion we have with
Greg Connors are just as good as anybody, whether broadcasts or not. These
are people, there are people who cover the team that can't like articulate what's
going on with that franchise when the answers are right in front of you.
Now, it's funny to me because I have been on a microphone on radio
since I was nineteen years old. I'm now fifty two. I have never.
I have. I don't miss, I don't have any desire. I
don't care if I was. I don't care to ever be back. I
have. No, It's not a thought in my head. It is not
a thought in my head to ever go back to radio. I'm not saying
that. You never say never. But I've had somebody come talk to me
and I said no, I've had that conversation has happened, and I said
no, And I but I have there is nothing in me. There is
nothing I think about this and how I grow it, how I expand it.
I don't care. I love the freedom of not having someone breathe down
my back. And I've learned how much I have to discipline myself and do
all these things. That's fine. I have no problem. But it's funny
to me as I'm hearing you say that, I go, boy, I
have none of that. I feel like I don't feel like I have any
unfinished business over there, which is a real thing. And I did.
I did feel like I had unfinished business at one point, right, yeah,
when I got I get that fired from uh. That's how I feel.
There's mornings on the zone and I came back, but I There isn't
one piece of me that I go, yeah, I got some unfinished business
there. I did every I will say, and people can fact check me,
you can call me anything you want. I hope radio guys listen to
this. I hope it bothers you a little bit. But there wasn't one
show that I was a part of, a major part of that didn't make
it into the top five in this demographic, and most of them were number
one, number one. I have no one finished business. I proved to
myself and everybody else. Now I want to prove I can do it over
here without you is my thing, and it's not even without you. It
has nothing to do without you. That's not how I think. I want
to prove that I can do it on my own. I can do it.
And and by the way, I don't give a shit what anybody else
thinks. I truly don't. And I think you know that the only person
that at this point, and it's because I'm older, it's because i'm older,
that the only person that I am, truly and I'm not going to
say that I probably could be pushed to being angry about certain situations and things,
but the only person I feel like I compete with is me and that's
it. And the only thing I want to do is take this and blow
it up. And I want you to There's a lot of things coming in
the month of March of awesome. Yeah, well so that's that's that's where
we're now getting to that through this was I have zero desire to go back
to ever do radio. Yeah, but you got unfinished business, the unfinished
business I'm settling right here, you think so, yes, okay, yes,
believe it, because now I didn't want to be that guy who's just
a sports only and known as for just being a sports only if you weren't.
But on a sports show, I was, you know what I'm saying,
on a sports station. I was so this I could talk about everything.
Yeah, I only knew you with the Breakroom. I didn't listen to
that piece of shit show. You thought it was good? No, I
I well, I was to have Peter on, Peter broke down, Peter's
great, fantastic. I think Peter's great, I told you. I.
But Peter like text me all the time about the show. I don't about
that show, this show, this show, this show. I don't I
don't. Yeah, I don't have unfinished business. That's my only thing.
And in a way I feel like I have it, but I could do
it here and you can take care of that here. No, I I
get it. And even if you said to me, I do, yeah,
I get that. I understand then, So yes, you do have
your Roman empire. Yeah, yeah, I do. And then and to
me, this is all I think about. So it's whatever I guess,
you know, we think about. In a way, my marriage now is
kind of a Roman empire. Not to conquer my wife. Oh she's the
boss. Oh no, it's the conquer yesterday yesterday's episode, she's definitely the
boss. But no, it's like to prove to my not to prove anything.
You move out with life. But it's like, yeah, you know
what, like that previous marriage was an anomaly. Yeah, should who's a
girlfriend? Yeah, like Tommy says, a date that get out of hand,
you know, I don't remember. Oh yeah, marriage is just a
day that got out of hand. Right now, he said this before he
met his wife. Right now, he says, before he met Debbie.
Yeah, marriage, they get out of hand. But yeah, yeah,
we all have our Roman empires. Well, I think you kind of have
to have one. Well, it's a purpose in last I give you that.
It's it's your purpose, it's the thing that keeps you you going.
I think that you know your family the betterment of that. I'm so competitive
that, but I want to I want to do I can't say that there's
not there are other people who are doing what what I've done, But I
think they had bigger audiences coming in. They were nationally syndicated personalities on radio
and television and other things. Yeah, yeah, I wasn't that. So
I want to prove that I can. You can do that. I want
to prove that I can go into and I want to And I have other
projects pilots that we're working on, and uh, I can't wait. Let
that, Let the pilot hit, Let this ship. Let everything that I
want to happen happen. I don't know that I'll have a friend. What
can I be in one of the pilots? Oh? Yeah, can I
play myself? You again? I mean even exaggerated, but there's that.
There's I mean, part of the reason the lights and the cameras and all
these other things are happening is because there's other productions coming in and to me,
I I that's all I wanted, That's all I ever really want wanted
to do. But you needed to go through here to get I don't know,
I want to be the guy in the pilot, Billy. But when
he walks in the room, the audience stopped. Hey, Hey, what's
that you know? But yeah, but it's we're in the infant stages of
writing. It's very very the very beginning. But yeah, my band was
kind of a romanom. It kind of is Roman Romans burning. I heard
that. Yeah, I don't know, Hero might be playing the fiddle.
I have a wonderful anniversary weekend. I will Do you want to do podcast
Stitutional Amendments or do you want to I forgot. I'm so sorry. That's
not we got no, no, no, no, no. Part of
this is uh did write podcast Constitutional Amendments. I did read the podcast Stitutional
Amendments, but because it was new and I looked over at the time and
I thought, well, we should probably move along. And but no,
that's fine. I would like to hear the podcast. These are Danny's thoughts.
Yeah, these are the rules, new rules, new rules. He's
Podcastitutional. Okay, here we go, number one, number one. If
you invite somebody out to lunch, you better be paying if you invite them.
Yes, yeah, I always thought that was the case. Yeah you
think so did that. I'm gonna find out tomorrow. You got invited to
lunch? Yeah, I get invited to lunch with a friend of mine.
Great guy. But then when the bill comes up and yeah, separate checks.
Wait, wait a minute, wait a minute, separate check. Yeah,
like, no, hey, you invited me, dude, I would
have stayed at work or dactor Lawrence over there saying said he's a great dude.
But for when it comes to lunch or something, you know, it's
like, look, that's it's just another thing number two. Okay, we
need to keep these crappy, not competitive All Star games. Yes, like
the Hill they broke over two hundred. I watched, I watched you would
break. Yeah, I've had it on. Of course I did. Because
President's Day was torn, because American Idol the opening was on. Then was
it? If you're still watching that, yeah, Well there's a former NFL
receiver who got badly hurt. His dad played for twelve seasons. He played
for the Vikings for about three got badly hurt, and he was he made
it well, did he? Yeah, it was a great story. It's
a podcast. Titutional Amendment number two. We need to keep these crappy,
not competitive all Star games because come President's Day, when everyone takes off,
there will be nothing else to complain about. I think it's a very valid
one, number number three, and this is your final one, final one.
We need to I needed to get that. I forgot about the music,
the one I originally wrote a number one. I've been a skip.
I'm safe for another day. But Joe Rogan and Aaron Rodgers, I don't
if you heard this, they did. They did the Joe Rogan Show last
week. The podcast. They each were talking about how they want Jesus to
come back. They're hoping Jesus comes back, which I do too, especially,
but beware of people. It's only good news if you give your life
to Christ. If you don't, you do not want Jesus coming back anytime
soon. And I'm here. If you want to learn about Jesus Christ,
reach out to me. I'll be glad to tell you all about all right,
And I will tell you I don't think that he's that vengeful. He's
not venchful. I know what I'm saying he's not what you're saying. You
don't want him. Look, if you don't believe he's not coming, everyone
gets judged back. You can you can there. I think that, I
think all these rules are You could be at two eight if you have Team
Jesus or Team Devil. All right, Jesus, enjoy your anniversary weekend.
I will, I will. I like the Podcastitutional Amendments. I'm Bill Moran.
We'll see you Monday. Don't ut a letter to you in state