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hello and welcome. Thanks for getting your pot on, thanks for telling a
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We got a little bit of love, Danny. I don't know if you
saw this. No, you got a little bit of love. We did
huh yeah, not just Mark Hillman. No, no, Mark. I
don't know that Mark got any love. Oh okay, when I got the
door shut shut in his face. I'm not really sure. It is Valentine's
week. It is Valentine's week. We got we got a little bit of
love because Channel thirteen came over and they did a whole piece huh on Copcast.
Well, sometimes it feels like everyone has a podcast? How dare they
know? How dare they anybody as well? Just said Joe, dare they?
As thirteen Stephen Papas explains, one local police department is getting in the
game in a new way to inform the public. Stephen, Yeah, well,
Karen, you think of the podcast? You think of the Kelsey Brothers,
do you know? I don't what you think of You think of a
Kelsey bro You think Billified? Yes, they're just every celebrity under the sun,
every celebrity under the sun. What about a police department? That's what
Fairport PD has started with their show cop Cast. So they've done one episode
copcas. I don't know how this came about. So yesterday this young reporter
I get a call from Chief Matt Barnes, who had come to me a
while ago and said, I want to do a podcast, and he goes,
but I'm like six months out. And then it was this, this,
you know, And then finally we set up a date and we did
one episode, and then all of a sudden he calls me and goes,
hey, thirteen WAM wants to do a story on this. I go,
wait, there's been one episode. I don't so we're tired of covered shootings.
This young reporter comes in yesterday and he is from Jersey. He went
to Quinnipiac. He's like four years out of college, about twenty five years
old. He was last in Missouri and now he's here. He wanted to
be a little bit closer to home, and so he said, I had
never heard of a He goes, I was basically he was like drumming up
news and he's like, I never heard of a police force, you know,
station having a So he came over here and he's filming and stuff,
and I said, listen, I'll get out of the shot. And I
said, normally when we do their podcast, the billified logo is not in
any of the video, and well, you know, and he goes,
nah, it was all over Wow, I'm sitting here looking off fat and
you got a Chief barn sitting over there. And then the guy shot at
the big billified logo. Did they give you a special like badge to wear
for the podcast? And their vehicle was missing so didn't know where it was,
right? Yeah, A podcast isn't new to Fairport Police Chief Matthew Barnes.
At first, the idea was to get local celebrities to talk about their
experiences in and around the community, but after violent riots in Rochester in May
of twenty twenty, Barnes says he saw how people viewed the police and wanted
away for everyday officers to have their voices heard. I don't think the street
cop, or the beat cop or the regular cop had a voice. Shall
we see us? Right? The police chiefs or the captains or commanders,
whoever it may be, at a crime scene talking to the cameras. So
the podcasts, we're thinking, gives the ordinary cop a voice. Barnes says
anything other than open investigations is on the table for discussion. He's interested in
hearing the opinions from others in law enforcement and within the community, but also
letting people see who served them in a different light, all right, So
I mean that's really the impetus behind it. And I will just say this
because I did get a thing from somebody yesterday, text me go, hey,
saw the piece. It's great, you're profiting. I'm not charging them.
I'm not even saying. I would never have said anything except that I
got a few of those after this piece ran. I got one last night
and then several more today, and I just said, I don't charge them.
I go, it's my way of giving back. But I would never
normally not say that. But since most people have it in their mind that
I'm then producing and making money off the police, I am not give the
cop a voice. And but people to get to know us too. We're
not the We're not just the people to wear the blue uniform. Some people
in the village of fair Now they went out, yes, just just you
know, thought, Yeah, if I get a billified sticker and put it
right over in my dashboard over like the restatracts, I think you could probably
get out of a ticket, at least in Fairport. At least in Fairport,
right, I think you could probably get away with running over somebody's pet.
I don't know about they're a small child, but a pet like if
they're if you know whatever. Yeah, but this is still a big step.
I know, it's a big, big deal. It's a big step.
Get a Bill fighted. He's not not looking for trouble, but trouble
sometimes fights me like a pet running across the street or a rolling stop site.
Yeah yeah, yeah, you're part of the roll through crew or sometimes
the color blind the light. I don't know what color it is. Right,
Yeah, there you go. Porter open to the idea of the police
department having a platform and say trans I think any communication can improve relations because
if you don't know the person, you don't see them, then you can
believe all the bad things that's said. I will be interesting. Yeah,
that's very he's a very errodite the police. Now wait, need to have
the perspective shed with the world. Now, listen to this next. It's
not just about arresting people. Listen to this guy triested in looking at it.
I think it could be fine because we could learn more about what the
heck they do, what the heck they do? The heck are they doing
all day over? Just come on the dust office all out. He sounds
like Bill Murray. Kenny, Hey, you killed those? Barnes tells me
their upcoming episode will drop in a few weeks and we'll focus on the border.
A retired US Border Patrol agent will also be joining that show that The
podcast can be found on thirteen WAM dot com. Karen, there you go
a little love. Though. I hear they can use patrol. I heard
that they could use that border patrol agents help in Texas somewhere. Well,
yeah, that's pretty cool, Bill, isn't that cool? Do they want
to talk to They have to talk to me? Now? I didn't even
talk to me. They just they filmed that. I haven't from here,
this cop bit. They go, who what now? Forty nine ers?
No, No, he's got he's gotta be hurt. Oh oh yeah.
I got all kinds of stuff. But I mean a little bit of love.
Valentine's Day, Yeah, a little bit of love. I went to
uh, Wegmans and as soon as you walk in, you're smacked, Yeah,
with balloons and roses and all this stuff. That's my next stop after
this, is it? Yeah? My thing? My thing is every Valentine's
dy eve, I go to Wegmans as late as possible and do they discount
stuff. No, no, no, but I get the flowers and everything
for my wife. And when she wakes up at the morning, the first
thing she sees is the flowers. Yes, and she goes, I told
you I hate this holiday, but I love flowers. Yeah, yeah,
right, because I know, come on, we know the score here.
We do know the score. You don't even though you hate it, you
really want us to do something. I had to peek down the cardisle just
to see now. I was there at about four forty five. I ran
over to Wagman's real quick, and they that cardisle was jammed, man like
three deep. There are guys like coming in low and up like there's They're
right, they're doing a little place to try to grab a romantic card for
a wife or girlfriend. Old man sitting there reading every one of them.
A woman in the back. I thought that was not what does I don't
know, but it's fun. Because I talking to my mom and she brought
up the Grammys and I said how great I thought the performances were, and
of course she really liked the Joni Mitchell one. And then I said that
I thought Miley side. She goes, oh my god, I absolutely love
that song. So I think, let me see if I have the right
song here. Yeah, that's right here. Do you know the song flowers?
Yes? So I dream want to be talking to my mom for a
while, but she went on about it and I said, wow, you
like the song flowers. And my mom is a seventy six year old woman,
and I thought it's kind of cool that you know what is somewhat hip
today. I mean, I would think that this is probably played maybe on
adult contemporarizations, which would stew a little older in their demo, but they
ain't going seventy six. Well, you'd be surprised that older people the song's
gonna ask you about? So okay, Like my father once goes, hey,
if you heard a guy named John Sicata, I like that song?
Did you find that for me? Or my great aunt once when she was
like sixty seven, goes that song shine by Collective Soul? Do you know
about them? I'm like, do you know about them? Like? Yeah,
you like that song? Oh? I love it? I'm like,
wow, okay. So I my mom is talking and then she's telling me
about how she ran into an old friend and she really kind of worked up
the courage to go over and confront that I don't know whatever. The next
day, I'm sitting and I don't know why I was writing, and all
of a sudden, I just erupted into laughter. And I don't know that
this is This is to where my family gets upset with me for talking on
the podcast about things. But I think my mom had a relationship that ended
yes, and it wasn't her choice standing and she was very, very hurt,
deeply hurt by this. Was this the situation you may have been involved
in or not to know. Okay, somebody, this new one, I
got a bad luck about four or five years that they had dated in Oh
wow, yeah, and that's a big deal to the new and and she
is really genuinely hurt, Like that's longer than most of my marriages. Started
her own, uh, started her own coffee group because she wouldn't go to
this coffee group. Yeah, because that guy was there, and I kind
of tee. She broke off and colinized her own coffee clatch. So I
went, oh, my god, this song is inspiring my mother. My
mother, who's seventy six, I believe has the spirit of a fourteen year
old girl. I can buy myself flowers. That's what I believe is the
thing good for March. I couldn't believe it. Well, she's a reikie,
right, she's a raki. I don't know if I believe in that
stuff. But if you could heal a broken heart, hey, go for
it, man, that's pretty good. That's important to be that, you
know, you buy yourself flowers? Yeah? That is cool, Mar Yeah,
so in love Valentine's It was so much fun. Yewwadays, there's no
thrill watching Netflix without a chill of chocolates or some sappy cards or party plants
for me to grow any on. I don't need any powers. You should
try to stay. You could tell um my guest, I'll buy me two,
doesn't it technique? That's real love. That's real love. Yeah,
my pals and my taste because I think Tale March sounds a lot like Tina
Turner, Billy. I know, Very's a lot multi talented yeah multi wow?
Good god bless you have a very talented family. What was your father's
rebuttal did he have a tune? Yeah? Go buy your show? Flow
is leave me alone. We got a text from uh. I want to
say this will come out bad, but like a rabid listener, someone who's
just really invested. And I love this this couple. It's a plumb crazy
Brenda and her husband Dave, and they've got really cool cars. And they
came out when we were at Victor Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram one time and I
met her there and they've gone to uh they took their I think just before
they put one of their sports cars away for the winner. They took ride
out to Cobblestone on Maine and they had She sent me pictures of the dinner
and all this stuff. So Brenda was sending a yeah, sending a bunch
of text and I this struck me as odd and I want to call a
little bullshit. But she and her husband very much in love. And then
the theme right now is very much in love month of Red. So she
sends me pictures. Her husband was in Vegas and she's telling me all the
things and he listened to the podcast on his way out, and I guess
he had business or something out there. And she's sending like it looked like
maps. Well, she said, before you poo poo on the air tag.
She puts air tags like in his bag or something. Okay, I
guess, she said. I'm not keeping track of him. I just like
to see the surroundings as I'm sorry. So Apple has air tags that you
can buy and you can put them on You can put them on things so
you don't lose them, and if you lose them, you can send out
a signal and to let you know where your keys are, or you can
just fucking hang up your keys. Sorry, I've trained myself, well,
I'm sorry, my wife has trained me. But I always hang up the
keys only because it was one of the most obnoxious things that I was going
through when the guys were little and there was the smaller the child, the
more shit you got to bring, right, you got diaper bags and clothes
and toys and the kit and that, and then all of a sudden you
can't find the keys. So I was like, I gotta hang up the
keys because I'm not gonna spend so you spend the next forty five minutes looking
for your fucking keys. And I once lost my mind, going, I
got this much time on the planet and I'm gonna spend it all if I
got that keys, which was insanity, but the thought was right. So
I always hang up my keys. But that's why they have the air tag.
So I think that thinking. So I can't think of how I should
go back to the text exactly because I only grab part of the text for
my notes. But she I don't know if her husband then carries the air
tags at her request, and then what she can do is it locates the
air tag wherever it is, and then she can pull up on maps and
see like the sphere if he's in Vegas or the whole land, and she
it makes sure if there's a hooker in the room. Well, I don't
know about that, but she said, like when he was at the San
Diego Zoo a couple of days ago, amazing, I'm there but watching from
home. So I don't think it gives you live pictures, but it makes
her feel like she's with him, and then she can say, hey,
did you see this when you were there? I guess I'm just thinking.
Look, people are always talking about how do you keep how do you keep
it going? Yeah? How do you keep it? A? Snoop Dogg
posted something today. I totally forgot it was. It was a video,
but it was like it seemed like a Christian conference, like they were at
a church, okay, and it said it said like he no, he
posted this, he just reposted this video. The video that he reposted,
and it was I think it said that he has risen and something else.
And so there was an older black couple sitting on one side of the stage
and then younger people and I guess the older black couple were married for about
sixty five years. And uh, yeah, I should find this audio,
and I will during one of our when we take a little pause here and
she they say to him, sixty five years? How did you make it
work? What is the secret? What is the secret to sixty five years
of marriage? And it's a woman asking and this the older black lady gets
up, and she walks over and whispers, except that there's a microphone right
there, whispers in this woman's here and goes, suck is dick. Sorry,
it was just I couldn't. I couldn't. Uh. I thought that
was very very that was very fuck If that's a secret sixty five years,
I will I will find that audio. Just you know, I'm not making
it up, and I will. I will play that at one point during
this pod, this episode of this podcast tonight. But some people also you
know, seem of love John Stewart back behind the desk of the Daily Show.
Yes, and uh, I from what I saw pretty down the middle,
I mean ripping on. I mean making fun of the fact that everybody's
saying that. Biden's like, you know, saying he doesn't recall his remember
and then he plays all the times when Trump sat in front of like the
same Judiciary Committee's going, I don't recall it, and remember even about his
wife, I don't remember. So he's like, it seems like everybody gets
amnesia when they're up there. But then he shows up Sammy Sosa forgot what
language? I mean, you know, so right right, boids no no
obloid glaze. So they so then they show like there's a little piece where
Biden is like he's firing back at the pressures, saying, hey, a
lot of people are don't don't trust you or cognitive ability anymore and all this,
and he's going, that's your present, that's what you say about And
then he starts to walk away, and then he's like and Stewart goes and
that's it. He really handed to me. Wait, wait, he's walking
back. He's walking back. No, Joe don't, and he goes you
want to be like inside the mind of one of Biden's advisors, Like he's
like, you know. So I felt like it was clearly he'll probably have
lean one way a little more than another, But I felt like it was
pretty fair. Here's a little bit of Stewart. The super Bowl was yesterday,
gentleman in the crowd, who's delighted the Kansas City won. It was
really sadly a lose lose for real America Kansas City Chiefs or World Champions,
which means the decades long plot in which Travis and Taylor brainwashed America into getting
into getting routine vaccinations is complete. But it was really kind of a no
win for conservatives. I mean, if the Chiefs lost, who wins the
People's Communist Republic of Gay Pelosi, Stan. I'm sorry that made me laugh.
It's almost like the rights ridiculous obsession with politicizing every aspect of American life
ruins everything. It was just funny. It just maybe laugh. Well,
that's somebody. Somebody posted that, Uh, how many I don't know how
many people watched the super Bowl? Three million? Yeah, and they said
yes, so much for Republicans boycotting the Super Bowl because of Taylor Swift.
No, I didn't, like, I didn't. I think that what happens
is somebody sometimes I think that public perception is just one big game of telephone.
Somebody says something, that somebody says something else before you know it,
it gets it's way blown out of proportion. Yeah. So, I mean,
I don't think anybody was boycotting that game except for maybe Bills fans,
but that was about it. I don't Yeah, I didn't know. Here.
I think this is Travis and uh Taylor after the game. Think you
for coming back? Now just listen, I want you to play. This
is real. This is from TMZ obviously hot mics. Uh they must be
extreme, two extremely disciplined people. Because and I'll say why after coming back,
thank you for the support, thank you for coming, you for making
it across that way across the world. It wasn't an electric It was unbelievable.
Okay, so she gave me a kid, But I'm I'm thinking that
you got to really be into somebody if you're flying halfway across the world to
get back for the Super Bowl, right, I mean, there were so
many private planes she had to fly to LA and drive to Vegas. So
it wasn't like it was an easy thing either, right right because there was
no more room for private planes at the airport. Yeah, no, you
can't. Greg callers had to get in there. So so I mean,
he doesn't have a private plane. But I would think that it that's love
or maybe it's publicity, but that you're putting your yourself through a lot to
travel and then drive. It's a lot. And then on anybody, I
don't care how old young they are, it's still a lot. So I
would almost go, I love like I love you. I'm surprised that wasn't
said. And then I go, they got to be really disciplined. I
mean, because there are mics everywhere. Oh yeah, And I wonder if
they have conversations, and I wonder if she does say to them, listen,
you gotta we can do this. And I'm in when we're together,
we stick to stick to the script. Holy crap, stick to the script.
Have you heard the latest on this? Because who would Taylor Swift not
have love for that? Over her career? Another Kanye Kanye, have you
heard this story? Which one Okay, so Kanye apparently intended to upstage Taylor
Swift at the super Bowl, Okay, at the he allegedly bought tickets right
in front of the suite that she was going to be in. Oh now,
I can't. I don't believe this shit for one second. And I
will tell you the source of this. Brandon Marshall. Okay, Brandon Marshall,
who was a great I was a great receiver, spent a lot of
money on his body. Y had a lot of mentally, he had borderline
personality disorder, but then he got that fixed. And he sounds like if
you listened to Brandon Marshall, he sounds like he's put together. Yes,
he's not a dumb guy. He's a very sharp dude. He was on
the podcast Paper Route, okay, and he explained that he had heard that
Kanye purposely purchased seats right in front of Taylor's suite for the Big Game,
and according to this, the idea was an attempt to photobomb all her inevitable
TV appearances, which, by the way, I think she was on for
one percent of the game, maybe less. I mean, they showed her
a few times, but it's quick, the game hours, it's still a
lot of time. Yeah, well, I maybe even less than that.
I I don't know. I saw and was shown that much. Well,
there was at one point where her boyfriend shot shoved him. Yes, that
was at least four sons a bad look. That was a bad look.
Uh, it's so I don't know. Now, he goes on to say
that the alleged scheme never came because Taylor made a call or two to have
Kanye kicked out of Allegiance Stadium. Now, I cannot imagine that if somebody
bought tickets legally, that you have any way of kicking them out. I
just this sounds like such a well depends. Well, I'm with you.
I mean, she's with the non athlete face of the Super Bowl, right,
she just is and it and not only because she happens to enjoy spending
time with one of the players. Okay, but I don't know. Everybody,
says Brandon Marshall, sounds one hundred percent confidence that he's breaking news with
the world. Here, he's giving you some real spilling the tea. I
don't know, it just seems all. I mean, she has a lot
of power and he's losing his. He like, well, he has the
number one album on Apple right now, right, that's got the number one
and he owns it all. Yeah, he does, But that doesn't mean
that the powers that be will count out at him over her. I'm not
saying that I believe this story, but I could see how it could be
possible. But here's the other one too. The thing is, if he
bought the tickets, she would have to know ahead of time that he bought
those tickets, right, which if you were going to sneak up on Tailor
and attack Taylor in that way, right, you're keeping your mouth By the
way, how do you know what sweet she's going to be in? Yeah,
I think they're telling people what sweet she's going to be in. I
think that there would be the biggest secret to try to Taylor sweat sweet.
That's why I'm saying, to me, this sounds like complete bullshit. But
oh, here's the color. Is a fair sweet? I guess we I
guess it is fair. We're going to be fair and objective. It's fair
to say. It's not out of the realm of possibility that the league may
have nudged Kanye to somewhere a little more low key because I think he was
at the game. Perhaps we'd like to sit at one of our crafts.
I mean it is in Vegas. No, I don't know. All right,
we'll I'll tell you what. There was way too much celebrity there though
I'm not picking I'm not picking up and it's Vegas. I know. I'm
not picking on Tailor, I'm not picking on anybody. It's just, are
you guys really there to watch the game? Because we have gotten to the
point now where he got so distracting. And I talked to him yesterday,
Oh did you gues how's he doing? He said, he got so distracted.
Uh, not so district, but there was so many distractions around,
Like one section over from him, all these people are taking pictures of somebody.
He goes. I don't even know who it was. It was a
social media star with a couple million followers on TikTok. He goes. I
have no idea, he goes, But there was all that stuff happening that
you could miss things in the game right right, because there were so many
people. And he goes, And then you had like this this guy who's
decked out in all Gucci stuff, who's clearly like a guest of somebody who
got really drunk and he's like, falling, it was embarrassing. He's like,
but that it wasn't you know. It wasn't like a typical super Bowl.
They were less of the real fan than Right. Well, what's the
biggest sport in Canada. It's hockey, right, and Toronto is I don't
know, I cricket. It was box lacrosse at one point. Actually that
is their national sport. But Toronto. The AHL granted Toronto about twenty years
ago a franchise called the Toronto Marleys, and the reason was because nobody could
afford common hockey fans couldn't afford to go to Maple Leafs games anymore. They
were so freaking expensive, and they play forty of them at home a year,
and they were pricing everybody out. It was just corporate people. Same
thing with the Raptors. So they decided, okay, we'll give you a
minor league team. So all these hockey fans went to watch the Marleas.
Now imagine that that's that's forty times a year. Yeah, where you can't
even watch your own team because I'm priced out and they sell out. Oh
it's gonna happen with the Bills. It's gonna happen with the happening, it's
ridiculous. But at least in Buffalo, like you could buy you could buy
a ticket and split it with some people. There is something that's happening that
we may get to later in the podcast that I think is indicative of all
this. And when does the bubble burst? Is my question? Oh there's
a lot of bubbles right well when not? When when does the not not
the bottom fallout? But when do you hit your ceiling where people are just
it's not so much ah like the bubble burst where people just go, I'm
not doing this. I'm not I'm not paying it, I'm not going I'm
not screw it right, you know, And I don't know where that is.
I've actually drawn that line with a lot of stuff in my life and
I actually have the means to do it now. YEA, like no good
right and that feels goods Ago, Like I would kill go to that show
now it's like sorry, right, uh, we will take a moment,
you know, with Valentine's Day. But I just want to say this about
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We've vilified a voicemail anytime I'm a Victor Chrysler Dodge jeep ramline at five eighty
five two O six eighty eight sixty six. Hey, I got you there,
Billy, as far as hey, by the way, I got you
there. As far as you know, we're not hunting or gathering. Uh
you know, and I know what you were going to. But my whole
thing is, I was gonna say this, Yes we are hunting and gathering,
but most people are not hunters and gatherers anymore. They just you know,
fuck, some people just pull up the walmart and they load their car.
But yeah, but there's still plenty of farmers and everybody out there feeding
us. So yeah, we still have hunting, hunters and gatherers. Boy,
I surely took a long way to get there, didn't I. But
anyways, they get your point. Shalama Lama like him for Shalama Lama.
D mind if we dance for the old day and be sure to like and
subscribe to Billified wherever you get your podcast. I love all the listeners,
Danny, I love them all. I love them all. Great stuff.
Excuse is that five and five two of six eighty six? Yeah, the
gatherery part, we got that message anytime? Tell you what, all right?
I found that I found the piece from Snoop Dogg. Okay, the
Snoop dog piece, and let me see now they're at it. I'm assuming
it's a church because it says praise him anyway, is what it's called.
Praise him anyway. So let's see if we can get this audio here to
play keep a man happy for forty five years? Alright, to keep a
man happy? Talent, talent, tell him. She gets up, she
has the mic in her hand. I don't know if you heard it,
all right, I stepped on it, hang on, and then the place
goes crazy. Let me try to see how you keep a man happy for
forty five years. Listen closely sucked the dicky. See, I didn't want
you. I went out throughout the diff she went to whisper it. She
whispered it, but she had a mic in her hand. I forget the
woman. The woman got up with a mic in her hand that she didn't
realize, and the whole place you hear, the places go suck the dick.
Wow, Oh that's funny. So I something kind of scary was all
over the news, and I wanted to go look a little further into this.
And what was scary was this plane that had to make an emergency landing
at the Buffalo Niagara Airport. Okay, that's that's a decent sized airport.
Yes, it's bigger than it's bigger than the one here in Rochester. Yes,
now I want you to listen. This is the actual cockpit audio tower
to cockpit other emergency who we're heading back. He also rogerting bounds runway Uh
three two if you like, or two through your choice one able to get
say the nature of it? We lost our That's the moment the pilot of
a small airplane flying over cheek Towaga knew there was trouble and declared in emergency
landing we lost our rear door. Okay, hey on, let me play
this again. Hey god, other emergency. We're heading back. Now.
Listen to how his voice goes up a little higher the second way Uh three
two if you like, or two through your choice one able to get say
the nature of it? We lost our That's the moment the pilot has passed
and the poor young reporter behind it like it's like the Master of the Understate,
but it's got this awkward voice. Yes, yeah, he's delivery.
That's the moment. That's the moment right now. I would you go up
in if I got my pilot's license, and I said, hey, Dan,
I'm gonna I can fly you back to Silver Creek save you. What
is it a three hour trip? About two hours? Two hours? We
could get there in a half hour, Dan, twenty minutes. Twenty minutes,
well probably more, maybe more like the trade half hour forty five minutes,
because I think a plane like this is really going to go. I
think I think they're six to eight thousand feet up in the air and they
travel at sixty to seventy miles an hour. Okay, so I get you
there? Would you would you ride? No? You wouldn't. Why I
don't want you to go all Barnes Firm on what it's Barnes Firm? They
had all? Did they ever get to the bottle of what happened there?
I don't know. I don't I don't know what happened there. Uh yeah,
I don't know if I'd be ready to do that yet. It's not
like I mean, now, okay, I understand that the odds of me
driving here to do this podcast, of me getting an accident and getting killed,
are better than the odds of you getting into a plane and flying somewhere
and getting on an accident because exactly like, what was the last time you
really heard about a plane crash? It was actually other than the Himalayan Airlines
that went away or yes, it was that crash in Buffalo that happened like
twenty ten, twenty eleven. And because of that, because the pilots weren't
just coming up on the fifteenth anniversary, that's yeah, the pilots weren't experienced.
And after that accident, that crash, they went through all these protocols
to make sure that everybody got their flight hours in. Now they're going in
the opposite direction, but you know, so to make sure and there really
haven't been in the accidents mid flight accidents since then. But I would still
be like, okay, well how many hours have you logged? I mean,
it's not like you know, going to for a spin around the block
when you get your license at sixteen, even though that's even more dangerous.
Yeah, we look at it differently because everybody drives cars, well, not
everybody flies planes. I wanted to know a little bit more about this,
so I thought, who do I know that flyes small planes? People?
And I actually I know Anthony Danielle. Oh he does, Yes, Anthony
Danielle from the Danielle Family Companies. They used to have Mario's via Bruzzi.
Yeah, they got married the one. Right. He's a plot pilot who's
smile, flies these small planes. And here's what he said. I did
see that that happened, and I so he and I had a little chat
earlier today. I called him up and uh, here's what he said,
and it's very insightful. We have not done any research to find out what
kind of plane or the age of the plane. However, from personal experience
and not throwing anybody under the bus, Okay, pay attention, because when
somebody says from personal experience and not to throw anybody under the bus waiting there's
something coming, then you are learning to fly, and you're doing so on
a budget. You often take lessons in planes that are vintage nineteen sixty to
nineteen seventy, and they are a bit rickety. Okay, yeah, and
I would believe that to be true. Right, you get these planes and
listen to what he says. Now they fly, you know, the wings
are on and the engine works, and there's you know, it's like owning
a Volvo, you know, if you do all the maintenance on it.
It lasts for one hundred years. So you know, planes are kind of
the same way, but doors and seats and all that stuff get rickety.
So I had a situation where I was flying a small plane during my training
and the passenger door wouldn't close. Now why is it mean, like not
closed all the way or just not closed? Uhh. So you kind of
like tied a rope to it and tied it to the seat. Now,
I had a friend who had the car. Like I kept watching Peter and
Quagmire and family guy who tried to fly a plane. Well this is I
had a friend who had that car that the passenger door would rope shut.
It would rope shut, and he'd have to slam it. And yeah,
we go around one of those things. We went around truck, We went
around, We went around corners fast just to see it open. And it's
like riding the bull. Yes, And while you were flying, every once
in a while, you know, this whole system would give way and the
door would like open and be flapping, so you'd have to like reaped over.
And so this is happening at like six thousand and eight thousand feet and
and you know I've been blessed that I can afford to buy my own plane
after I learned how to fly, and I did so because in my mind,
I was like, it's tough enough to get my wife to do things
like that with me. Do you think she's going up in a plane if
I go, Danny, listen, Uh, look, I really want you
to come up. But the door doesn't shut exactly right way. Yeah,
just don't lean on it. It's like Pilgram said, if there's a one
percent chance the plane is going to crash or you're gonna get on it,
let alone, sweetie. Can you hang on to the door because it's going
to fall off if you don't, right Like that is not a good selling
point to somebody who's already wavering on this is crazy. Yeah, and so
it does not surprise me that something like that happens. Now, you know,
on those little planes, a door flying off, it's not like a
seven point thirty seven at twenty thousand feet that you're dealing with oxygen and win.
I mean, these planes are going sixty seventy miles an hour, so
it'd be like your window being open in your car. It's about it.
A doc doesn't that way, Yeah, I didn't know. It was like
like you know, Hotel California driving these planes not big deal. Okay,
you know, it's not life or death. It's just it's a bad thing.
If hearts are falling off of your plane, you know, it is
caused for concern. I don't want to minimize that. While it's not life
threatening, it is distracting, you know, and bad things can happen.
To your point, I mean, you should be probably focusing on the plane
and not fiddling with the door, you know, because bad things can happen
pretty quickly, you know. So that's and that's why they landed, because
it's it's just not safe, stay and be What else is going to fall
off? Right? What else is going to fall off? Now? The
thing is they can't find where the door went. I'm thinking the door is
probably in a tree. Oh yeah, you know, I mean it's probably
on the top of somebody's barn. It could I mean, I would think
even when that force, you would you would come all the way through,
tear through a roof, because well a tree, it may break a couple
of branches, but it stops what I'm saying, like plinko, Okay,
you know what I'm saying you can five thousand dollars plinko. But they so,
I know, the police up in the Chicawaga area scoured a park and
they look there. They can't find the door. They can't find the door.
But I do think that this is just probably an older plane. No
one's hurt. You're not getting sucked out. It's not Yeah, he's not
like the kid. It's not like the kid on the Alaskan Airline flight that
his shirt sucked off, right because he was sitting at the door. For
that's a little different. Folks. That's a little different. Are you the
stripper? But it's still scary, right, yeah, yeah, now a
little bit. If you were up in a plant, they like that if
someone had convinced you, would you go up again? If something like that
happened, it would take a long time. Well, actually, you know
what I think I might here's why the odd's gonna happen. T Well,
I like the way you're thinking I am. I like, I'm a big
numbers guy, Billy. No. We had the guy who was part of
the flight that landed in the Hudson. He went to Hilton High School.
He was in here where you hear that. I was okay, And remember
he said one guy just went that next to Glen Eastwood during lunch. Yeah,
yeah, we taped selly. But when he said on the actual flight,
one guy just went back you booked, he goes, I gotta get
home. Yeah, and he's like, well, I'm not gonna be going
to make the seven. Yeah you think I could make the nine. Everybody
else was like wait, and they wanted to catch their breath, go to
the hote tell. This guy's like a fucking man, let me just go.
Yeah, because the odds are ridiculous that this is gonna happen twice,
you know. Now, however, we do know three different if you could
call the third guy a celebrity, three well known people who have died in
the last five years in aviation accidents. I mentioned one of them. Yeah,
okay that that former attorney knows the other guy. There's a conspiracy theory
behind that. Yeah, okay, it's a joke. Kobe Bryant and a
helicopter, Yeah, okay, on a day when they told everybody don't fly
your helicopters in l as if they have to make an announcement for something like
that, Yes, and then you had the dude doctor Wharton and the abortion
doctor. But that was a homemade plane. It doesn't matter though, that
was a homemade ulter light. Yeah, I'm not trusting you to build me
a fucking chair. Well maybe I wouldn't trust me either to build a chair.
But like I guess, like my point is is that maybe we should
just leave flying to the professionals. You got to learn to be a professional.
Yeah, yeah, maybe you should take some delta like lessons. I
don't know, I don't know. I mean, it's a little scary.
I love Anthony Daniellie was in here. He was we did a podcast and
you can go back and the bilified archives there and find it. And he
was flying that that day to go have lunch with his son up in Boston.
Son lives in Boston. He was flying up to Boston. You gonna
have lunch and the fly back. Wasn't there somebody like locally who like flew
to canaandegu went back from Boston or something like that, just like to have
lunch. I thought somebody. Ultimately, I know that once the Wegmans flew
out to a restaurant in Utah. That's what it was. Yeah, okay
they did. I heard that from the guy who was their head chef and
it was the restaurant my cousin got married. Oh okay, so uh what
was like this? This would be a fear? When was the last think
about this? Though? And as we get older, we don't do this
as much, But when was the last time you faced a fear, a
real fear. I'm not sure. I always certainty because I've been in the
emergency room twice in the last years. Once I thought I had a stroke
and the second time I thought I had a heart attack. In both times
it was just it was silly, stupid. I didn't want to go to
the e R. My my brother in law, who's a doctor, convinced
me to go to the R. Yes, crying, you're presenting symptoms.
Yeah, I thought I was having a stroke, though it was a complex
migraine, you know, like those you thought you were gonna die? Do
you think you were gonna die? I fell asleep standing up. Yeah,
I had a feel and something's gonna Then I get to the diverse, then
I get to the then I get to the e R and all of a
sudden, I feel fine. Now yeah, then you got that pokem project
give all kinds of tests. I don't know that in terms of like facing
fears and stuff, I don't I'm not sure. I guess driving, I
don't know. I almost told my boss to f off the other day.
That was kind of facing a fear. I mean, I went toe to
toe with it, but I said, not not in a fighting sense,
but a way like, come on, man, really, you're gonna break
my balls over this when you got seven other people who don't do crap.
I've I've had moments in water where I've gotten caught in like swirls, whitewater
rafting, tubing. I could see it's actually tubing and the ahsopis in woodstock,
and I wound up straining on a rock and I wasn't sure I was
gonna get off. I've been in the ocean where I just got completely disoriented,
dumped on my head, coming back up thinking I'm up, but I'm
not. Another wave, and I could see that I had moments getting disoriented
is a very scary feeling. I had a moment in a lazy in a
lazy river, this is true, one of those lazy rivers that you would
float around and well and I'm swimming, and so every once in a while
it would come up to it would divide the river. It was almost like
a man made little divider in there, and on one side it moved fast,
it picked up little speed. On the other side it stayed the lazy
river. And then they joined on the other side. So I start swimming.
I'm going to try to catch up to the kids. I don't know
they were ahead of me or they had got in earlier, so I was
gonna try to spy them. So I I'm I try to get on that
side of the fast thing. And I figured I'll swim and I'll get caught
up in this little current and it'll push me even faster. I started swimming,
well, I don't get the current exactly right. My eyes are closed,
and I swim boom head on into the whatever the divider was. I
come up. I've got blood coming out of my thing. I'm dizzy.
I slipped. I concussion. I slipped. I wasn't I don't think I
was concussed, but I I slipped them because I didn't get my footing in
the water. And I thought, holy shit, if I drowned in a
fucking lazy river, how funny. How funny is that gonna be? That's
the local wiseacre. Bill Moran found dead and lazy River. I couldn't believe
his last His last words were, hey, watch this so it's so so
stupid. My mother got struck by lightning one what, yes, come on
a couple days before the Fourth of July. Wow. Uh, yeah,
she's electric, she's fine, she gets. Oh yeah, I get.
And I guess like, if you get it struck by lightning once, you're
more prone to be struck by lightning. Oh. I don't get who that
is. So we got to watch her. I thought lightning didn't strike twice.
I don't know people have been hit by more than once. When you
say struck, did it hit the ground and come back out right and hit
a tree basically like you know, came in through the ground. Yeah,
and then she was in that path. Yeah, and she got She flew
back about five six feet. What was she doing outside? She was just
gardening. Oh, and this was just a freak. They were getting ready
for a Fourth of July party that they usually have. Yeah, and she
was setting stuff up around the garden and all of a sudden, boom like
they hit like now, my, my mother and my stepdad live on this
cool like bungalow overlooking the lake. Right, so it's like a cliff.
This was what year was this? This is twenty like seventeen, Oh my
gosh, this is recently. Yeah, so this cliff overlooks like the beach.
So she it's like literally a cliff and then you can walk down to
the beach underneath. Yeah, it's really cool. And there's these trees that
kind of overhang and stuff. But these trees are tall, like they're pretty.
They're right off the lake and then just like there's a storm coming in
and booms apter wow. Yeah, still here to tell it. Well,
that's that's that's a good thing. Struck by lighting. Won't get vaccinated.
We'll take them. I killed everything. Yeah, no germs. Well we'll
we'll take a moment. We'll talk some super Bowl stuff. But I don't
know, you know, football essentially ended, right, so we look forward
to baseball and you just skip a basketball together. I don't know if anybody
saw Dan Mason as Mick Jagger in the Fifty Degree Guarantee. Oh diddy,
Yes, we will let you hear some of the piece. It's a two
minute piece. And we'll let you hear some of it, and then we
will call Mace find out a little bit more about to do a British accent
for us. Well, you decide whether or not he got bust miss it,
and we're gonna have a fifty degree guarantee we will get to I willut
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was going to meet the connection her feet. Where's a foot loose man?
And I said that you can't always get what you won't, honey, you
can't always get what you won't. You can't always get what you won't.
But if you try sometime, well you're not just fan and you get what
you mean. Yeah, Yeah, sou loved band. I love that band.
Uh So the fifty degree Guarantee is back with Dan Mason, and I
believe this is it nice? Right, it's the real deal. Oh no,
it's not. He was in sy I missed it a little bit.
This is my favorite. This is my favorite six It's the real deal.
A un electric, it's the real deal. Everybody starts mimicking him to him
and the guy, they go, there's not real. I just love how
affordable. The Red Wings are delicious, food, exciting play in the field,
and the fireworks shows amazing and Spikes Mitty They are just the best.
But we didn't realize the live music was gonna be so live? Can I
get two tickets in section two O six row J please? Oh? I'm
so sorry. Sections two O six row J is all sold out, but
I can get you section two O seven If that works. You can't always
get what you want. So here comes Mace behind this couple with a brown
wig on. You watch me now, he's right, we'll take those.
Here we go, first pitch of the game. Stop me up. That's
behind them and their saints. He's in like a long robe, Dan Mason,
I was now Mace is a big Stones guy. Is Didney trade yes
shirts with Yes? He did, He traded his shirts with Fallon. They're
walking out of Fenway Park. Yep, yep. How come you test so
good? Yeah? Yeah, brown sugar, yes, like his fried doll
or something. Did they have to pay the Stones for the rights to well,
I don't know, you're gonna have to. We'll ask. We're calling
and find out if that's the case. But uh, Mace Jagger, what's
happening? How are you Mace Jagger? What's going on? We were just
playing you here listen. I just love how affordable the Red Wings are delicious,
food, exciting, play in the field, and the fireworks shows amazing
and Spike Smitty they are just the best. And then they try to get
the tickets and they can't get the tickets where they want and I want and
my favorite character pops up. Oh, I'm so sorry. Sections two O
six row j is all sold album. But I can get you Section two
old seven area works. You can't always get what you all? Well,
whose idea was this? Everything we do is a collaborative effort at the at
the Wings, so we have we get together and kind of brainstorm. You
know, we knew we had to get put something together for a fifty degree
guarantee, and this is what we came up with. Clearly, clearly my
staff enjoy is making an ass out of me. Yeah, but you are
so willing to do it, and that's the best part. And you know
what I love is you really, I mean, you really get into character.
That's the that's the greatest because when you're behind them singing start me up,
when you do the whole brown sugar thing. At the end, he
when I see a red car and he's popping out of the sunroof of their
car. You guys like, get out of my cars. So it's so
well done, Mace. I'm very impressed Rochester Red Wings. So when is
opening day again? April April second, forty nine short days from today April
Day four h five yep April second, and tickets are on sale now at
Red Wings baseball dot com. And you know, we guarantee it's going to
be at least fifty degrees. If it's not, and you get a ticket
and you come to the game, your ticket will be good for any game
in April or May. But don't worry. I guarantee it's going to reach
fifty degrees. Awesome, they know that, Okay, So at the end
of this, this is a great piece that they did. The end,
the announcer says, we can't guarantee that you'll be serenaded by Mick Jagger,
but we will guarantee that'll be fifty degrees, Brilli exactly. Well, I
think it's great because you know, here are the Stones again going out on
tour. And as our Dan just brought up that you Dan Mason a Stones
fan, I think also a Dead fan. But you swapped your Stone shirt
with Jimmy Fallon. Yes, I did, yes, long long time ago.
Went to see the Stones at Fenway and a friend of mine happened to
work for the Red Sox and he very graciously was able to hook me up
with tickets in a in the Red Sox suite for the show, and lo
and behold, Jimmy Fallon was there. So I was walking. I was
walking out of the suite and I had this really cool Stone shirt on and
he said, you know, my buddy, He's like, hey, Mace,
we got to go. So I said, all right, I'm walking
past. And I didn't say anything to him the whole day and I just
didn't want to bother him or anything. And he said, hey, Mace,
I like your T shirt. And I said, hey, thanks a
lot, Jimmy Fallon, and then I kept walking and he said, uh
no, I really like your T shirt. I'm like, yeah, I
love it, you know, And he said, how about we trade.
So I'm like, well, let's see, that would make for a pretty
good story. So yeah, we went to the restroom of the suite and
exchange shirts. Not weird at all. And then you know, so he's
got my shirt, Well he probably, he probably doesn't have his shirt.
He doesn't have my shirt probably anymore. But I still have his shirt somewhere.
The Have you met him when he been in town? No, I
haven't, I had, We haven't. We need to make that happen because
that would be that would be super fun. It would be a cool thing
to remind him of it, and he would be very receptive to that trade.
Again, I bet I remember right, Like, not me, but
he would remember that that it happened because of where we were, and it
was at the Stone Show, and it was you know, he was spending
a lot of time at Famway because he had the the movie Fever Pitch.
He had just wrapped that up, and so I think he would remember the
incident. He just wouldn't remember the door who he did it with. No,
I think he'd remember the incident too, ten of years ago. Holy
cow. Yeah, yeah, but I think he would totally remember it,
and I think he'd be really receptive to the to the idea of you know,
meeting I think that's that's awesome. It's so funny to watch people though,
when when he is around. Yeah, that's why I didn't. I
didn't want to with you, with you people didn't want to bother him.
He just wanted to watch the show and the sweet and I get it.
And so I would have never said anything to him. He started it,
That's all I'll say. Yeah, I get that because I would I totally.
I just watched people get weird. It's like when you're around Mace,
I get all giggly and weird, and I got to show off I calling
old baseball players to feeless sorta. Well, this is exciting that season's kicking
off early this year for home April second. Yes, yeah, yeah.
Last year, so our schedule last year was the earliest we ever played.
We actually started the season in March, and this year we're starting about three
or four days later. So it's still early. But you just never know
what it's going to be like around here in April, specifically April second.
So and that's why I want to guarantee all the fans out there don't worry,
No matter what, I guarantee it'll be fifty degrees. That's it.
It's perfect, well, very good. It's always nice to hear from you.
And I have to say that whole team have over there. They do
a really great job. And you you are an awesome sport. Awesome sport.
I find out all the stuff from the office, stuff you did,
the parodies to, I mean just everything. I'll never forget when my kids
were little seen on sinking the Mile and a sombrero and I and I was
like, it's this guy. He you. You are the ideal boss.
You're the boss everybody wishes they had in that well, hang on in that.
You're not going to ask somebody to do a job you wouldn't do.
That is true. I'm not saying that you you you are going to do
it. You may you don't have time, but I'm not going to ask
you to do something I wouldn't do. And I don't know that there's a
lot of bosses that people go, yeah, right, but this is done
at all. This is true. This is true. You are witnessed that
on when when two worlds collide and I'm talking Sink of Demayo and super Friends
night, that I did wear a Superman costume while on a bureau. Oh
you are you are witness. That's right, a witness today I forgot.
Oh that's awesome, that is awesome. We're looking forward to another great season
of Red Wings baseball. Always a lot of fun out at the stadium.
The food is fantastic. If exists that, Oh it really is. Wait
till wait till, wait till you come out this year? Is there new
study? Because well, we have an expanded kitchen. Construction is wrapping up
here this week, actually tomorrow, it's supposed to be the last day of
the construction of our kitchen, and so that is going to allow us to
come up with even more concoctions. Uh, and some of the best food
in all of professional baseball for the best fans of professional baseball. That's true.
Now, while I have you, I I right after right and around
the time, and I don't even know if there's a game this day.
The eclipse. You can buy tis to watch the eclipse at the ballpark.
Correct Solar Palooza, which will be opening in April eighth. April eighth,
April eighth, the day of the Great North American Eclipse. We'll be doing
our solo Palooza event from noon till five. We'll have excuse me, live
music from the Skycoasters. We'll have an arts and craft station, We'll have
glasses Eclipse glasses for the first three thousand fans, all kinds of cool stuff
going on. Will have players there signing autographs. It's going to be a
great party. And from what I've told the Eclipse event is something that you
want to experience as a community with the other people around. It's not a
me event, it's a wee event, and so we want to make this,
you know, a great event for our community. And obviously a lot
of people be coming in from out of town. I'm going to put you
on the spot, okay, am I all right to do that? Yeah,
you've never done You've never done that for me before. I want to
do the podcast that day from there, All right, let's do it.
I think it would be fun to do the podcast from there. And I
mean my mom, I mentioned it to her, so she's coming up and
we should probably be around. But I think it would be fun to see
it. Is there a game that day or no game that day? Just
on its own that that that sounds like a blast it sounds like an absolute
blast. It will be. And you know, we've got parking, we've
got running water and bathrooms, and of course all the best food plus our
food. I forgot to tell you, so all of our food that day
is going to be we'll be renamed, so like, for instance, we'll
have the space Station Sunday, We'll have Nebula nachos, We'll have Pluto's popcorn,
the Planetary Plate, just to name a few. Of course, we'll
have Tequila Sunrise as a beverage and awesome totality beer. We'll have a bunch
of different you know beers available within a clip steam. So it's going to
be really cool and something that I think, you know, this only happens
like once every hundred years, right, so we got to take advantage it
all right as a community. And we're going to have close to three hundred
thousand or three hundred fifty thousand people coming in from all over the world are
coming to Rochester to see this thing. So it'll be it'll be quite a
party. Solar Palooza April eighth. Tickets are on sale now at Red Wings
baseball dot com. Great well, all right, Mace, and then I
am going to reach out and bother you. If you don't mind, I'd
love to do the podcast to do it. Okay, let's do it.
We will be in touch for that, Mace Jagger, great stuff. I'm
going to put that up on my on my socials as well because I thought
you did such a great job and I really enjoyed it. Well, thanks,
Billy, I appreciate you. Got it all right, We'll talk to
you Dan Wings. You got go wings, baby go Wings. There you
go. It's pretty funny, but I think that'll be fun. Oh yeah,
the solar Palooza. I like that. I like a great idea.
I think they would shoot off fireworks during the it would take away from the
eclipse. But if it's dark, yes, that's the perfect time fireworks.
It'd be great. I don't want to put more pressure on the guy,
and maybe they're gonna say he's under enough pressure. It's a lot like the
fact that he can rattle that off the top of his head that they changed
the menu. That yay, right. You know what is it? February?
We're recording this on February thirteen. That's not happening till April eighth.
That's incredible. So Monday, I think I did we do get text at
five eight five two o six eighty eight sixty six and the text came in
that says, uh, do you think it's okay to take your own leftovers
home from a gathering? Yeah? My grandmother was the queen of doing that.
Really weddings. Oh yeah, we were take the cakes, take take
the points? Set is they want you to take them. We were invited
to a Super Bowl party over the weekend. Our job was to bring dessert
whenever we wanted to drink, so we brought a big thing of fresh cookies
from Costco, bottle of wine for me and six pack of beer for my
husband. When we went to leave, there was still half a bottle of
wine, three beers, and about a dozen cookies. My husband packed all
that up with us. I explained that it was rude because they hosted and
you're supposed to leave that stuff behind. He says that it's ours and we
should get to take it home. What would you do? And I think
it's tacky. However, However, if I'm hosting, I don't give a
shit. I really don't, because I'm gonna have so much leftover stuff.
You're taking you're begging people to say it. When people say you know they're
they're probably right, like, please get this out of my house. It
was great for the party, you didn't finish it. Take it the fuck
home. But I understand that you watched the big Game. What were your
thoughts? I know, I know Dan Burrillo has thoughts on the Super Bowl.
I was pretty board for the first three quarters. Well, I would
say that that's not a bad thing. I mean, I thought the halftime
show. Halftime show is fine. It didn't like do anything for me,
But at the same time, I thought it was I was impressed by Usher's
ability to skate not in line, that was pretty good, but the way
he was able to control he was better than the Sabers man. By the
way, I haven't paid attention to say, I guess they're awful this year.
No surprise there. But as far as the game goes, like I
I really felt that, you know, San Francisco, every time San Francisco
made a mistake as a Bills fan, knowing what the Chiefs are capable of,
you knew there was another bullet to the feet. And it's like,
I mean, the fumble from McCaffrey who never funded from the start to the
to the not a muff that the it was they could recover from right.
One thing I will say this, My biggest takeaway from this game is this.
If you're blaming Kyle Shanahan for losing this game, then f off because
you have no idea what you're talking about. Let me let me throw this
out to you. And I don't know. I'm sure you saw this.
Is it his fault that the players? Now, from what I understand,
that would have made a difference. I know what you're going to go with
the rules in overtime that they said they didn't know. I think that it
would have made a difference. I think it reflects on poor coaching. Well,
it would have made It's not that they didn't know the rules. They
didn't know that at the end of the quarter if time had expired, that
the time it's like going into the second quarter from the first quarter. That's
the rule. They've known by now that the next touchdown wins, they know
that they know a field goal ties in the next score wins. Thought it
was like had had they scored a touchdown, Kansas City still gets a chance,
they still get yes. Right, So you want to have the ball
the second half. What I thought, and I may be wrong on this,
is Shanahan stood up there and said, analytics say, and we went
on analytics with that, to take the ball, uh, to know to
give the ball? And yeah, to take the ball in the beginning.
Yeah, when they went for the coin flip. Yes, San Francisco was
the visiting team. They called tails. It was tails. They got the
ball, right, they took the ball. It was their options. But
where you would want to kind of when it's overtime, you want to see
what you got to do right, right, they get the ball first.
If they did nothing, great, we got a better chance. If they
did something, here's what we need to do. So I don't know how
analytics could tell anybody anything when it's never happened before. Well, but I
thought that's what I heard him say, and I may be misquoting that.
So I don't know about that's kind of stuck with me and I haven't gone
to look. Take the ball, you take the ball, you take the
ball. Let me give you a scenario. Let's say the Red Wings,
right they're playing April second against the Tledo. If you take the ball and
overtime. First take the ball. Why here's here's why, Because all of
a sudden let's say it's the tenth inning and the Wings are tied with the
mud Hens and the Wings of the home team. So the Mudhead score a
run just to start the inning and they up four to three. So the
Wings go and tie the game four four in the automn of the tenth.
So now we go to the eleventh. Oh, next score wins. So
the money Heads get up and they score. Oh games over, but the
Wings don't get their last ups. No, that's it now that makes no
sense right. Well, in football, you know, after you both teams
score, if it's a tie game, it goes to sudden death. Next
score wins. You want the ball. So, in essence, if San
Francisco had held Kansas City to a field goal and it would tied, next
score wins, you want the ball. You don't want to get the other
team the ball. You want the ball. Now, I know there's theories
where if San franc if I see what you're saying, yeah, Kansas City
scars, then you have to either tie them or beat them, Right,
I'd rather I was thinking I'd still would rather kick off let Kansas City get
the ball first in overtime, because I'm gonna that way. I'll know what
I have to do if we hold them, great now we're gonna go down
momentums on our side. If they had a field goal, we go for
a touchdown, or at least we can tie it. I know where we
are. Yeah, I would rather have the ball the option to having the
ball twice. The worst case scenario, if my defense doesn't stop you after
my offense just scored, then I don't deserve to win the damn game.
Well it's uh. It would have been the first double overtime in Super Bowl.
What really bothers me is that we have now gotten to a point in
watching sports where instead of blaming the actual players for not coming through, we
blame the coaches for their for their for the pseudo science. Well, sometimes
it's like a bad timeout calls and different. That's important. But at the
end of the game, to McCaffrey's offensive Player of the Year, he had
thirty touches given forty. I mean, you had a dude, you had
to tackle miss a block. Feliceianno used to play for the Bills. If
you saw this, he he woke up hungover yesterday morning and then ripped his
like his UH fellow offensive lineman for missing Chris Jones who hit McCaffrey, or
sorry, he hit uh block brock Party just like he had hit Josh Allen
two weeks prior, and forced the ball that wasn't a touchdown could have been
a touchdown. Uh to Khalil Khalil secure. I mean, there were so
many little things. It was like death by a thousand paper cups San Francisco
Dominy that freaking game. Yeah they Hey, but this whole thing about Patrick
Mahomes being the greatest ever. Take Patrick Mahomes and now put him on any
other team in the NFL. I think they'd be a playoff team. I
don't think they're winning three super Bowls in five years. I don't know.
I mean, now, if you put Josh Allen on some of those teams,
I don't know if they're winning three Super Bowls in five years either,
but I think they are in Kansas City. Now, he'd have to start
a year or two later. He's a little younger, but I think that
the Kansasy Chiefs are just as successful with Josh Allen as their quarterback. Given
the same amount of time that that Mahomes was able to play as Mahomes would
be. Yeah, I'm not. I don't know, only because they don't
really have. They lost to Reek Kill, right, you had Tree Kill.
That was a game changer. That guy's a game changer. And then
Kelsey is somebody who certainly has been a game changer too. It was their
defense that won their defense. But if it's squad, multiple opportunities they did
to win. I mean, for crying out out, they had one turnover
late in the second half that calm poised, not getting too rap because they've
been there so many times with the same one but him, right, yeah,
you know, and you look, no team in the NFL over a
six year span at any point has won ninety games. They have. They
have, and in that same six year span, the next closest team with
the most wins is the Bills, and they're thirty one behind at sixty nine.
Yeah, so, I mean, it's it's just it's an impressive thing
and a lot of that, you know, you want you want you want
to blame the coach, then also give the coach credit because that's a lot
of coaching. I you tell me give me another NFL head coach. Maybe
it's Andy Reid, who could take mister irrelevant the last pick in the NFL
draft and go and go to an NFC championship game in one year and then
go to the Super Bowl, follow it up with an even better performance and
win the go to the super Bowl the following year. Okay, Kyle Shanahan
was able to do that. A lot of people gave him crack because he
didn't run the ball enough in the third quarter. I was one of those
people until I heard him afterwards and said, well, the defense was stopping
them, so they kind of had to like mix it round also like they
were they were. But I can't kill Kyle Shanahan for losing that game.
You know, you had an extra point get blocked. You had an opportunity
to Kansas City turned the ball over early in the third quarter. You didn't
capitalize off that. I'm like, if they get five of these dings,
they're gonna lose this game. And there were like five dings. You had
the punt situation, Hey, let's give let's just give Kansas City a touchdown
here. Yeah, you know, and then you had that last play they
could have they could have gotten in the end zone. They couldn't do it.
That's that's that's the breaks. And I'll say this, and I'm writing
this in my column for the Times when it's a little proo. You heard
of that whole like gain of function research that may have led us to the
pandemic. Yes, okay, I call this gain of football or gain of
function football. There's one man responsible, solely responsible for the Kansas City Chief
dynasty. You want to know who it is. And this isn't a shot
at him. This is a decision he made as a head coach before even
coach the Gabe, Sean McDermott. Sean McDermott decided, Yeah, we're gonna
wait till next year to get a quarterback. I'll trade you the tenth overall
pick. We'll get two firsts. Kansas City steps in Drespatrick Mahomes. Now,
I'm not killing McDermott for that. I'm not saying the Bills would be
better for that. But the NFL is a series of butterfly effects. Oh
yeah, you, in essence gave them the keys to a dynasty in your
first major move. Is an NFL decision maker. But you were just talking
about he's not the greatest. I know, we don't know if he's the
greatest right now at Brady's in the driver's seat in that one, Yes he
is okay, But a lot of people will argue with that too, which
I think are full of hot. This guy has done an impressive job in
lorcial, crucial moments. Absolutely doesn't have to play great all the way through.
He got absolutely, But Boy and Kelsey, as much as people want
to, I don't know the debate about their bumping Andy Reid. I think
in a crucial game, it's a bad look, bad luck. You shouldn't
have done that, But I get to put me in, put me in.
I want that kind of player on my team. And you had one
one catch enough to do that. Well then, because you read the knock
on Andy Reid has always been that he's a pushover. Yeah, hell of
a coach. Yeah, well maybe, but he's a pushover. His answers
afterwards were all like, he keeps me young. He's like he didn't even
give a shit. Oh yeah, they yeah, because they won. He
said they lost. He said he came over and hugged me right after and
apologized, and he goes, you know, you don't see that. Look
right after that that guy had ninety two yards, but he on the first
half he had basically nothing. So yeah, I mean it was a it
was a decent ending. It wasn't one of my favorite. Wasn't the top
ten super Bowls. It was pretty boring. But somebody's got to stop this.
Somebody's got to stop this. And if they don't stop it at the
end of it, but if we're talking about the same team winning the Super
Bowl next year, yeah, somebody needs to go. Okay, and that's
you put that in the put that in the bank, take it to the
bank. Put it. Is that in the article? Is that that's the
coming up? Oh yeah, Sean McDermott will have to go. If the
Kansas City wins again, you're gonna have two sharp offensive minds becoming available.
And you know what you need an offensive head coach. Defensive head coaches don't
win Super Bowls. I mean, will Yeah, I'm trying to think,
Yeah, yeah, Andy Reid, Andy Reid, Bill Belichick was the last
one. Who do you have Tom Brady? Yeah, all right, we'll
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but it's not four twenty. And the name of the album is Dark
Matter correct. So this is the title track, which is some pearl Jim
never used to do. This song reminds me of a cross between I Love
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what I've been told, what I've read, and they've done this before,
what have you been told? I BOO told you about that? Yes?
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But I have such a love hate relationship with this band. But this album
is supposed to be their most rock and album since ten o and they're letting
Mike mc crady do a lot more guitar solo guitar solo, and this song
is amazing. At the end so, but the problem is the tour is
residencies in major cities, so if you want to go to a show,
you got to buy a plane ticket. So well, if you live in
Rochester, New York, Boston at Fenway Park, uh, Philadelphia, I
get how many shows? Two shows in each city? Really okay, with
the exception of Indianapolis, which, by the way, of all the cities
in Indianapolis really Seattle Vegas. Indianapolis is a great LA city too, and
I think they host a ton of stuff. I mean, don't forget they've
done Ncuba and the've done the Super Bowl. I think they've done The NFL
doesn't like going there for Super Bowls anymore? Why because there's nothing to do
well. The big joke is like you want to go to Applebee's again?
Yeah, I get that, but I kind of I don't know. I
thought Indianapolis to go see them wouldn't be a bad, be a fun trip,
and it's it's a I think it's Is it the city of a thousand
lakes? Or am I saying that wrong? I thought there's many lakes around
in the Indiana's mini Minneapolis Minneapolis. It's a thousand Like I thought there were
a lot of lakes around there, only because the wife's got relatives indian I
remember I did a phone interview with the radio station in Indianapolis. Okay,
so I I you're talking a thousand landed, a thousand lakes was his Minneapolis
for sure. Well, Danny, this is gonna be something that I think
will hit right to Well, I think you'll have thoughts, lots of thoughts.
I have a lot of thoughts. I don't stop. No, I
know you need to. I know. Well you said to me, off,
we gotta okay, all right, go ahead, that's fine. He
came up. He goes, hey, have I told you I invented a
no way to play basketball? What? Yeah? And I just start laughing.
Still just starts cracking it, and he goes, this is why I
didn't tell you. This is why, this is why I don't tell you.
So I don't tell people. Think, well, yes, that's I
do. Say. Look, I got a lot of things right now.
I ain't saying shit about anybody, not even me. No, I'm just
keeping it quiet. And there's no reason for it. No, because nothing's
happened yet exactly exactly exactly. But you said, what is your way?
On basketball. I am interested. Actually, that's right, all right,
So we got to timestamp this because if anybody steals this idea, you know,
all right, so it's a big Dambillo came up with this basketball the
game of basketball. Yeah, on December, excuse me, fit December.
I came up with this in January. February thirteenth is one it's discussed.
I've just never before Valentine's Date twenty twenty five. I've just never had the
opportunity to share this with anybody who want to use it. I'm gonna make
an article about the time Times Away County. Perhaps a high school could adopt
this for gym class. The one thing that drives me nuts about basketball,
there's two things. One, it becomes a free throw shooting contest at the
end with the with the followers to stop the clocket. It just it just
slows, like the second half is like three times as long as the first
half. The other thing, too, is that the term ballhog is because
it's only in basketball. It's no other sport. There's no other ballhog in
any other sport but basketball. Oh, soccer, you could have a ball
hog. You could play as a ball hog. I watched a commercial with
the mine. But if it takes you, like, like, you know,
forty five minutes to score, what's the point. You're just boring people?
But you know, in in basketball, I figured out a way where
everybody could play. Everyone's gonna learn how to shoot threes, everyone's got to
learn how to like play zone. Man, how did you a guy who
never played organized basketball? Well? I did. I played seventh and eighth
grade basketball, all right, okay, we went undefeated supercer huh? And
where were you? What position were you playing? I was, I was
on the team. I was a guard. I was okay, I played
about five minutes, played five minutes a game. Okay, But so how
do you come up with the way? Because I'm then to improve basketball and
nobody else has ever come up with this. Because no one's ever come up
with this, I call it boxketball. Stay with me, Billy, what
boxketball? I hate free throws? So you got five on five, right,
forty minute game, two twenty minute halfs right? Okay, get five
out there, you go out and if somebody commits a foul, they go
to the penalty box. So now it's five on four. So now the
four guys on defense have guy to learn how to play zone. They can't
just play man de man because they only have four guys out there. Gotcha?
That guy goes to the end of the bench. Who just got out
right? If you score a basket, you immediately come out of the game.
Go to the end of the bench. Next guy up, and he
goes take your spot against us. Everybody gets a chance to play. You
could have as many guys on the team as you want, but everybody's got
to play. You put them in the order for the way you want them
to come into the game. I think you should be a gym teacher.
If you get down to a five on three or a five on two,
you can't do five on two because that's ridiculous. So what do you do?
Well? The guy who commits the foul goes to the end of the
bench, A guy comes in and replaces him, and the guy who was
fouled gets to commit what's called a three throw, meaning you get to take
a free three point shot from anywhere on the floor, and continues, Hang
on a second, it's brilliant. Why are you thinking of this? I
get boredville bored with what I don't know? I have a lot of thoughts.
I have a lot of thoughts, Billy. I also have an idea
for an app that I got to talk to Foody about. But man,
you just get the website going, yeah, oh, hang on. So
a lot of stuff going on in this life right here. I think everything's
okay, Oh good? The uh? But or is it you sat down
sat you actually thought? Did you write this out? No, it's all
my head. Okay, you should. I'm gonna write it out for the
time. So I'm gonna say, hey, look, I'm looking for two
or three schools that want to implement this because it gets everybody to play.
Everybody's involved, and you can't just rely on one guy to score points for
you, like you can't just bring in a lebron and go hey when it's
the game. It's a total team game. I'd like to read the total
team effort is a total team effort, and you learn how to shoot,
you learn how to play defense. Bravo. Your wife must be so proud
you ignored her for she was like, this is what you think of?
I go, you're knitting the whole time. I have thoughts. What we
have different hobbies? Thoughts? All right, let's see if you can come
up with a solutioner. That app's gonna be a game changer too. Uh
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squatters have taken over an entire apartment complex, and I mean there's all kinds
of really bad stuff. California has ridiculous laws, and right now a very
sophisticated criminal ring of squatters is making a ton of money from the Beverly Hills
mansion they occupied. A Beverly Hills mansion seized by the court from a fugitive
surgeon behind California's biggest insurance fraud scheme is now a wild party house taken over
by squatters. Yeah, who are getting who are profiting off of regular ragers
that are driving neighbors nuts. It's the Mediterranean state, they give you.
The address listed for four and a half million has been occupied by a very
sophisticated criminal wing of squatters. The homes listing agent tells the LA magazine.
The squatters, he believes are earning upwards of thirty grand a month renting rooms
and hosting huge house parties with one hundred dollars entry fees. This sort of
thing is happening all over now. All that is sounds disgusting and wrong,
And you don't want your neighborhoods fallen into disrepair like that. You don't want
buildings taken over this one woman saying that she can't even let her daughter outside.
But the article goes further and they touch on this single mom, Caitlin
Colbert, watched his rent of her two bedroom apartment then tripled, then quadrupled
over a decade in Denver, from seven hundred and fifty dollars to last year,
she was paying three three hundred and seventy four dollars. Yeah, that's
pretty steep a month. Every month, like millions of Americans. Colbert,
Colbert, excuse me. I would assume juggled your cost pay rent or swim
team fees from one of her three kids, rent or school supplies, rent
or groceries. She's a social worker who helps people stay financially Afloat would often
arrive home to notice is giving her thirty days to pay rent and a late
fee or face deviction every month. You just got a budget and then you
still fall short, she said, adding that what became a monthly refrain,
Well, this month, at least we have thirteen dollars left. Uh.
Yeah, So the worst of that housing affordability becomes, the more people are
going to be tempted to engage in squatting. And that's and that's what I'm
wondering when I said earlier the bubbles. I oh, the bubbles, we
talk about it, bubbles bursting. But it is also gets to a point
where I can't afford this. So where am I going to go? You've
got problems like this already in San Francisco. You wonder why there's a homeless
right. You can't afford to live and if you have a job there,
you're trying to hang on you're hanging on by your cuticles to just make sure
that you got something. Yes, but I go, I'm not sure where
it goes because the price of everything is becoming so cost prohibitive that I believe
in a capitalistic society. I think you got to get out and you got
to work. You got an opportunity in this country. I don't give a
shit how bad you think it is. You still got an opportunity in this
country that you're not getting another countries. It's the closest thing to heaven you're
gonna find on this. I really think that that there's many good things,
but this is something that is somewhat disturbing for people who are trying to make
it. And I I don't have a problem if somebody's working. That's why
I was always a fan as a charity of just to give you an example
of habitat for humanity. And the reason is you had sweat equity in these
people and they did studies. Man, those kids who grew up in those
homes did so much better in school, sure, because you had better self
esteem and you had a place and your parents felt proud. And whoever you
know did this if it was a single mom and she was out painting the
walls as they're also building. And you put it that halfway will meet you
halfway and pull you through. And I think it sometimes that's the job of
society. I don't know that it's the job of government. That's the part
that always worries me, because once we start going down that, it seems
to become a mess. But I do think that there are many people that
would absolutely help, and charitable organizations, and there's a lot of stuff,
and especially if you saw someone who was busting their ass to make it happen.
But this stuff gets crazy, and you know, you talk about the
Super Bowl being cost prohibitive, We're gonna have a stadium in Buffalo that's going
to be cost prohibitive for people who just absolutely love the game. And I
just I go, I don't know. The only way to stop anything is
if everybody stops doing it. Yes, but we're not gonna know and it's
it's not gonna stop, it's when he's gonna get you know, you can't
put it back in the bottle. But that's that's the way. I mean,
once we stand up like anything you don't like in society, if we
could get everybody to agree, then stop doing it, right, we don't
like the cancel called, then don't listen to them, don't pay ten but
we we don't. They always appeal to your ego in some fashion or your
WoT a temptation. No like society. Yeah, you find a way to
appeal to some aspect of your life where you're gonna go against it. Like
there's this old phrase in pro wrestling. Right, for years, the wrestlers
talked about in unionizing, but Vince McMahon always knew if he could just convince
one rustler that it was not in his best interest to do it, it
wouldn't happen. And that wrestler was hul Cogan because when Hull Hogan made the
money, okay, everybody else made money too. So when hul Kogan he
they wouldn't make as much, but they would make more because of him.
So he's like, well, I could just pay Hogan, I can.
You know, I'll get them their money when they can. Then when they're
done, I don't have to worry about them. But if if they unionize,
I have to pay health insurance. Yes, they're not gonna be able
to wrestle every night. Because these guys can be on the road three hundred
and ten days a year. Sure, and so and Hogan would get win
that they were unionizing, and he'd go to Vince and say, hey,
listen, Jesse Ventura, this is a true story. He is trying to
start a union and they find a way to break it up. All you
had to do was get one guy to go against it and show how much
money he was making. And that guy would go back to say, hey,
listen, brother, we can make more money doing it this way.
You know, you don't want to unionize, because then you're gonna be taking
off the road. You know what, Hulk, You're right, And if
they think so short, short term instead of thinking longer terms. And what
happens is when you convince one person that you know they're making fun of you,
you know, or there or hey, look, you're never gonna be
able to go to a Bills game like that, you know, unless you
want to be You don't want to miss out right, the Bills are going
to go to the super Bowl this year. You want to get in on
this. Now. It may cost you five hundred bucks a ticket, but
you know what, it's so worth it when you could say, hey,
I was there, right, Well, it's a nice new stadium. Hey,
look, I would say this. If if I had the means,
I would just I would just spend it. I would I would get it.
I wouldn't care. Yeah, if I had the means, If I
had the means, But the problem is I don't, and I'm that's not
for me, And that's just the way it is, and you gotta have
be stronger. That's where I say, you've got to have a strong self
center on everything, because as you're saying, the appeal, yes, it's
the the job to attract you in that, that's everything. That's where I
say, the world's never gonna stop coming at you. You gotta go what's
what feels right for you. Is going to that game would be exciting,
but the anxiety that comes afterwards as to how you're gonna pay, I don't
know, a school tuition, whatever it is, right, you need to
live that not right. Like, we're just playing a song from one of
my favorite bands, Pearl Jam, and as I mentioned, I have a
love hate relationship with the band. The hate part comes in to the point
where, like this band has always talked about being the band of the people
for the Little Guy, Right, Yeah, tickets are gonna be ridiculous for
this freaking show. But do they have it? And oh, by the
way, you gotta, like I said, odds are you're gonna have to
probably fly to one of these cities to go see them. And it's like,
I don't love you that much, Pearl Jam, do they? Stephanie
id e been like she even said, like last time they had tour last
year in Austin, she goes, I wanted to go to this show and
now it's like they've rearranged the seats and like they screwed up the tickets.
Yeah, and it's just like it's not worth the hassle anymore. Well,
I know, I don't know. I know they were a band of the
people. I don't know who's dictating ticket prices. I have no idea,
right, I mean, but like they're all astronomical, and even the ones
that aren't, they're still ninety sixty five. Oh yeah, Well, well
the Eagles were the ones who really broke the calf in the nineties when they
got back together. Yeah, and then everybody else kind of followed suit.
Like in ninety six, I saw Pearl Jam for twenty seven dollars and fifty
cents. Sounds ridiculous, Yeah, but they were against ticket Master and figured
out, hey, we're gonna keep our ticket prices low. Seven years later
at a show at the same arena in Buffalo wasn't even sold out. It
was two thousand and three, same ticket price, same seat, seventy dollars.
Wow it went up that much. Why well, you know, we
uh, we kind of like not working for a living but playing music,
so we're gonna have to like get it there fees coming on, I think
there were. I mean, if they wanted to do a tour, they
had to go through Ticketmaster, there was no question about it. And then
after then streaming came along. And when streaming came along, people weren't going
to the record stores to buy the actual singles and albums, right, So
now they're making less. So Don Henley made a comment in twenty sixteen when
he was at CMAC. He goes, we have to tour more just to
make as much money as we used to make just making music. Yeah,
he goes, you know, it's not as licrative, but we have a
lot of fun. And that was the year that everybody like Tom Petty and
all these stars started dying off because they didn't expect to have to go tour.
They didn't take care of themselves being rock stars. All of a sudden,
it's like, oh, I'm seventy years old, part of the rock
and roll lifestyle. I got to go back out in the tour. Yeah,
but these guys weren't expecting to be touring in their seventies and eighties.
Well, the Stones did, but they always took care of themselves. It's
not ridiculous the key but mix pretty mixing shape. I mean they have the
freaking gym like attached to the you know, the bus. I don't see
Tom Petty like, may he rest in peace going to the gym if he
did, I don't know, traveling Wilmberry's and Iron I'm gonna get rent the
gym. I look, you know, I just I when you look at
people starting to lose homes and the squatting thing is is a yes, is
a problem. I'll tell you this though. If I had a house next
to me and I knew there were squatters but they were good neighbors, I
wouldn't give a shit. I wouldn't care. I wouldn't care and I can
see where people go, Well, that's not fair. I gotta pay with
the taxis I gotta pay all this shit they get in there. Let's saying,
hey, look there they own. Uh yes, well I'm not trying
to go on political stance, but like, there are people who've been legally
trying to get into this country who want to be Americans because it is such
a great place. But you got this thing called the Southern Border that's allowed
twenty two million military age men, no, no wives or children into the
country. That's not fair. We've become the land of We've gone from the
land of opportunity to land of that. That's not fair because we have panned
or just so many idiots who do nothing for this country, nothing good we
need. And that's why you have the square situation. The squatter situation is
something that's been been going on. But squatters shouldn't have rights. Twelve hundred
homes in Atlanta, Yeah, they shouldn't have rights. Well, it's one
of these things where you're trying to keep the people off this if they're homeless
and keeping them off you give them an inch, man, they will take
your house. Everybody will take a mile day and that's what that's Oh gosh,
I mean I would ask one question, though, Yeah, here we
go. How much of this, uh this raised rent issue, like the
woman in Denver you said, Colorado, how much of that was a response
to the fact that during COVID people weren't paying rent because they didn't have to.
I don't know the answer to that. I don't because to me,
like, if you're paying rent, I know that, you're like, oh,
I love, they could be rent. Life's coming back. There were
people who were like making a ton of money on unemployment turn that time and
moved to Nashville. I'm like, oh, that makes sense, that's fair.
Well, so trust me. There were means, Yeah, you just
didn't want to pay your rent. You're spending on other stupid stuff, and
now here you are. Well, if you look at anybody, if you
can have any bills suspended, right, you would do it. They were
supposed to have it suspended and then pay it back, or there was maybe
a forgiveness thing. I don't remember. I thought it was suspended and then
you had to pay back in a couple of months, but they couldn't evict
you. Well no, and so I put five dollars on it this month.
I know people who have families, like moms who own property and have
had real problems with that sort of thing. Oh my gosh, it's brutal
for the landlords. And we don't feel bad for landlords. You should because
they earned that house. Yeah, they bought it. That's their money.
You go earn your own. I don't own a house. I'm getting there,
but I'm not going to bitch that I don't own one because I haven't
earned it. Yeah, you don't want to own one anyway, worry about
it. Just got to the retirement home. Just let it go. Let
it go, all right, we'll close it out for squatters. For random
Super Bowl insanity for Dan Mason as Mick Jagger. For Anthony Daniellie talking about
the plane and why the door may have fallen off. It's a great theory,
that's right. He's Dan Brillo. I'm Bill Moran. I'll see it
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