Speaker 1: Get ready.
Speaker 2: So after a quick tribute to Michael Parenti and JFK
Speaker 2: in the Nature of the Gangster State. I always forget
Speaker 2: the exact title of that speech, but I'll tell you something.
Speaker 2: It was great when I found a good audio copy
Speaker 2: of it that wasn't just a regurgitation from Guns and
Speaker 2: Butter in nineteen ninety three. I was happy to play that,
Speaker 2: and it will replay as a podcast. I will drop
Speaker 2: that one as a podcast. A couple of things have
Speaker 2: been added to the radio stream this week which are
Speaker 2: not podcasts, but maybe we'll stick them all all in
Speaker 2: the member section at ocelly dot com, even though nobody
Speaker 2: pays for the member section anymore. But maybe that'll inspire
Speaker 2: somebody who still accesses it, because there are a handful
Speaker 2: of you to do that. Perhaps you would like to
Speaker 2: make a contribution because you're no longer in case you
Speaker 2: haven't checked your debit cards lately, you're no longer paying
Speaker 2: for that. I sent over b Pete's link fri Jitsu
Speaker 2: over on the stupid ass platform that we keep using
Speaker 2: to communicate. But here we go. You know what is it? Anyways,
Speaker 2: we are live, it is Friday, and we're going to
Speaker 2: continue to do this if you're hearing me live. By
Speaker 2: the way, it's seventeen minutes after eight pm Eastern here
Speaker 2: in what we used to call America. While people are
Speaker 2: you know, being dealt with in different ways. Don Lemon
Speaker 2: got arrested I think just after midnight or some craziness.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Time zones are screwing me all up.
Speaker 2: But in the last twenty four hours, Don Lemon has
Speaker 2: been arrested and released. I find that interesting, especially the
Speaker 2: people that you know, claim to believe in freedom and
Speaker 2: think that he should have his mouth closed by the government,
Speaker 2: saying people who think that somebody who's carrying a gun
Speaker 2: to a protest is wrong if they're protesting on the
Speaker 2: wrong side. But they were also the same people who
Speaker 2: said that jackass up in the Bird sanctuary years ago
Speaker 2: was still being a journalist when the Feds let him
Speaker 2: off because he's nothing but a fed himself. That's okay.
Speaker 2: That journalist was okay to cut loose, and those guys
Speaker 2: having guns while protesting was okay, which, by the way,
Speaker 2: I'm consistent about this. We have a right to carry
Speaker 2: these weapons. He didn't draw down on federal agents. They
Speaker 2: murdered him. They didn't kill in self defense, and it's
Speaker 2: garbage plus six guys to you know, hold this guy down.
Speaker 2: So not good enough killing the lesbian lover's wifey over
Speaker 2: there that he got pissed at because you know, the
Speaker 2: federal agent got told, hey, big boy, why don't you
Speaker 2: go get some lunch? And then on the other side,
Speaker 2: I'm not even mad at you, honey, pop up, pop
Speaker 2: shoot her in the face three times. It's got nothing
Speaker 2: to do with the fact that his wife left him
Speaker 2: for a woman or anything. Maybe that's the PTSD that
Speaker 2: he was still recovering from that he didn't tell his
Speaker 2: bosses about because allegedly he had had a problem where
Speaker 2: somebody tried to hit him with a car recently and
Speaker 2: he couldn't tell the difference when somebody was turning away
Speaker 2: from him and he shot that. You know, whatever name
Speaker 2: was good Renee good, I think it is anyway, it
Speaker 2: is what it is. It was what it was. I'm
Speaker 2: so irritated. I don't want to cover the news. But
Speaker 2: maybe we'll find some better things to talk about him,
Speaker 2: hoping b Petele joined me shortly some reason or other.
Speaker 2: I'm not seeing him show up here on jitsy, so
Speaker 2: I don't know. I communicated it to him as best
Speaker 2: they could. Perhaps there's a problem with you know, and
Speaker 2: here I go. Now I got to open up teams again.
Speaker 2: Screw with my computer's computing power, which is getting weirder
Speaker 2: and weirder by the day, because I think they want
Speaker 2: me to buy Windows eleven or some such nonsense. Who knows.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm in the wrong Bpete chat because he turns
Speaker 2: around and he cancels his chats and yeah, and then
Speaker 2: I'm stuck with not knowing exactly how to send them
Speaker 2: a message anymore. I think we're going to resolve this
Speaker 2: issue in a couple of weeks because we're going to
Speaker 2: try and use Twitter spaces. Now, I just send them
Speaker 2: a double onto a different Bpete chat on teams, so
Speaker 2: hopefully he'll be able to join me soon. Because you know,
Speaker 2: you guys don't want to call in except maybe three
Speaker 2: of you, and we need new callers. So I'm thinking
Speaker 2: we go on you know, X and ask people on
Speaker 2: X if they want to call in. They might be
Speaker 2: a little more hyper sensitive and wanting to use their phones.
Speaker 2: Be Pete, can you hear me? All right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I hear you.
Speaker 2: Excellent. Let me guess you didn't see your message until
Speaker 2: like three seconds ago. Yeah, okay, you know why I
Speaker 2: sent it to the wrong bepete again, this is what
Speaker 2: the problem is. Okay, So I'm screwing that up somehow.
Speaker 2: But we're going to change this. The next time you
Speaker 2: and I get together. I want to try and experiment,
Speaker 2: and I think what we're going to try and use
Speaker 2: is Twitter or x spaces, okay, in which case I'll
Speaker 2: just make you a co host on there. People can
Speaker 2: join through their devices, just you know, by being on
Speaker 2: X if they want, and we'll retain the phone calls.
Speaker 2: We'll bring all that over there and broadcast it. Let's
Speaker 2: try that, because I'm getting sick and tired of this
Speaker 2: Jitsy being a little shaky. I'm getting sick and tired
Speaker 2: of every other thing being shaky. Really sucks. They got
Speaker 2: rid of Skype because as much as people bitched about it,
Speaker 2: it worked. It was consistent, you know what I mean. Well, yeah,
Speaker 2: but they want money if you're going to record more
Speaker 2: than like a half hour. Wow, yeah, I mean, And sadly, Jitsy,
Speaker 2: we can record for free video. So you know, I'm
Speaker 2: just saying, look, I'm looking to keep the costs down,
Speaker 2: because I'll tell you contributions are down, so you know,
Speaker 2: I mean, if somebody wants to buy me a year's
Speaker 2: worth of riverside or or stream yard, you know, by
Speaker 2: the way, I'll take that, no problem. You can pay
Speaker 2: for it and just give me the keys to the account.
Speaker 2: You know, if somebody wants to do that, or somehow
Speaker 2: they have a way of getting that cheaper, maybe they
Speaker 2: got a discount code or something, please by all means,
Speaker 2: or if somebody another broadcaster wants to share it, but
Speaker 2: I can't afford to pay like forty dollars a month,
Speaker 2: you know, to have that.
Speaker 3: That's crazy, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, and that's what it comes down to, especially if
Speaker 2: they want me to pay for it all in one shot,
Speaker 2: because you know, like for a year. You know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying, Oh, we'll give you a discount for a year. Well,
Speaker 2: you know, discount for a year at forty bucks a month,
Speaker 2: let's just say they make it thirty. Okay, you're still
Speaker 2: looking at three hundred and sixty dollars and coming up,
Speaker 2: you know, coming up in April, I'm gonna have to
Speaker 2: pay a couple hundred to keep the website up. And
Speaker 2: I'm gonna pay Spreaker because they at least still distribute
Speaker 2: the audio. But we're gonna have to step up to
Speaker 2: video somehow and try to you know, maybe maybe you
Speaker 2: could use your YouTube channel to broadcast us. Would you
Speaker 2: be willing to do that?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 2: Okay? See now, if it's your YouTube channel, okay, if
Speaker 2: you basically here's the deal. If you give me the
Speaker 2: password to a Gmail account that is tied to you, okay,
Speaker 2: or you create a separate channel where you just call
Speaker 2: it I don't know, radio, okay, but you let me
Speaker 2: have the password to that Gmail, then I can function
Speaker 2: as a video person under your name, you know, unless
Speaker 2: you want to do the work. I mean, that's fine
Speaker 2: if you want to do the work, but I would
Speaker 2: love to also have access to do it when you're
Speaker 2: not with me, you know. But either way, at least
Speaker 2: we could get the Friday shows up on YouTube right
Speaker 2: away and streamed. What do you think?
Speaker 1: Yeah, we could.
Speaker 3: When you're doing spaces, can you simultaneously put it on YouTube?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, but I can't do. What we can't do
Speaker 2: is get video recording out of Spaces. And I'm not
Speaker 2: sure if they want a premium amount because I talked
Speaker 2: to somebody who I just happened to pop onto somebody's
Speaker 2: show the other day. And I do that, you know,
Speaker 2: from time to time you get the radio request the
Speaker 2: in the side thing like you know, hey, these shows
Speaker 2: you'd probably be interested in. And the algorithm's not bad
Speaker 2: because it does pick stuff that I would go listen to,
Speaker 2: although no matter what's happening, it wants to shove the
Speaker 2: two Alex Jones channels down in my throat. But other
Speaker 2: than that, they're pretty good at picking stuff for me
Speaker 2: because I don't listen to Alex Jones. But other than that,
Speaker 2: pretty good. So they suggested some JFK thing and I
Speaker 2: recognize the host name, you know, some guy he's got,
Speaker 2: you know, a podcast with a few episodes under his belt.
Speaker 2: He's not you know, well well known or anything. But
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, sure, stop in on there. And
Speaker 2: he had like nine people on or whatever, and once
Speaker 2: I popped up, he's like, oh, oh, I want to
Speaker 2: get you on the show. And he's like Chuck O
Speaker 2: Kelly's with us, and I was like, dude, don't be excited.
Speaker 2: Everybody hates me, but.
Speaker 3: I've been I've been to a couple of spaces or
Speaker 3: listened to a couple spaces while they were broadcasting, and
Speaker 3: it would go It might go a minute and a
Speaker 3: half and then it would cut off and you'd have
Speaker 3: to reload it, and then it would go live for
Speaker 3: another minute and a half, two minutes, and then it
Speaker 3: would cut off. And it was just to listen to
Speaker 3: one of these thirty minute deals. You're spending an hour
Speaker 3: just cutting it off and get it back on.
Speaker 2: It's crazy, but you know what I think it is,
Speaker 2: and this is just, you know, a diagnosis. And I
Speaker 2: haven't seen you know, I haven't run any tests on
Speaker 2: your lines or anything, but I think what you have
Speaker 2: is what we call like choppy internet, because yeah, it's
Speaker 2: just the choppy quality of it. It's like, oh, they'll
Speaker 2: tell you, yeah, it's at this speed and whatever else.
Speaker 2: But there's also a consistency in communication which relies on
Speaker 2: both your upload and your download speed. This is what
Speaker 2: I tried to to people when they said why were
Speaker 2: you paying three hundred and fifty dollars a month? Because
Speaker 2: I had smooth communication. That was the key. So I
Speaker 2: could broadcast video audio. I could literally plug myself into
Speaker 2: an FM station in Albuquerque right now, and.
Speaker 3: I can see that's something I've been dealing with here
Speaker 3: with Optimum, they bought out well I forget who it
Speaker 3: was when I first moved here, but they got bought
Speaker 3: out immediately by Optimum, and since it has been crap.
Speaker 3: But Bright Speed has just wired the whole damn town
Speaker 3: with fiber. Right, and they say that they can bring
Speaker 3: fiber to your house, not just on the pole, and
Speaker 3: then they drop a coax. Right, they say they can
Speaker 3: drop fiber to your router. So I'm thinking about going
Speaker 3: with them because I can get the one gig. I'm
Speaker 3: paying eighty bucks a month for fifty bucks, right, and
Speaker 3: I'm gonna make the switch, but it'll probably be a
Speaker 3: month be for I do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Now, if I had access to direct fiber optics here,
Speaker 2: I would go with it, you know. But what I
Speaker 2: have instead is my own satellite dish. And I had
Speaker 2: to go for that because, you know, the cable company,
Speaker 2: which was the best option and still is honestly, the
Speaker 2: cable company you know, turned around and said, well, not
Speaker 2: only do you owe us a bill because they did
Speaker 2: that whole thing where they kept sliding the bill over
Speaker 2: you know a couple of days, and a lot of
Speaker 2: companies do this now, where you got a monthly and
Speaker 2: you say, okay, so if I pay it on the first,
Speaker 2: I'm fine, or I paid on the second, I'm fine.
Speaker 2: Whatever you make it for around the beginning of a month.
Speaker 2: So you do, you know, say you're rent and everything
Speaker 2: else with it. Well, the problem is it starts to
Speaker 2: slide when you don't have thirty days in a month, right,
Speaker 2: or you don't have thirty one days in a month,
Speaker 2: and next thing you know is you lose a whole
Speaker 2: month to them, you'll pay a thirteenth bill on a
Speaker 2: given year. Yeah, so they did that to me. They
Speaker 2: all do that, but they did that to me and said,
Speaker 2: you know, we're not going to make a payment arrangement
Speaker 2: with you or even change your service. Because I was like, listen,
Speaker 2: I could drop a couple of other features off of this,
Speaker 2: and I have the highest allowable thing before you declare
Speaker 2: me a business and give me a whole set of
Speaker 2: other circumstances. And you know when when Kim signed up
Speaker 2: for it, there was a package you gave us HBO
Speaker 2: and stuff like this, Well they went to full price
Speaker 2: on it and they said, unless you give us a deposit,
Speaker 2: we're not going to allow you to make changes in
Speaker 2: your account. And I'm like, but you pushed me to
Speaker 2: a thirteenth bill. You're charging me three hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: dollars plus tax. You know, can you not give me
Speaker 2: a little bit of slack here and let me cut
Speaker 2: it down to two hundred and fifty, which I think
Speaker 2: I can do according to your packages here that you
Speaker 2: show on your portal. No, and if you don't pay it,
Speaker 2: we're not going to restore you either. So they wanted
Speaker 2: essentially two bills paid, which is seven hundred dollars to
Speaker 2: restore it, okay. And then in addition, if I wanted
Speaker 2: to make changes after that, they wanted to deposit a
Speaker 2: couple hundred dollars. So I'm like, a grand I got
Speaker 2: to hand you to get my service back that you
Speaker 2: really shouldn't have cut off anyway. I got them to
Speaker 2: admit they'd cut me off like three days early. That's
Speaker 2: what happened, by the way. Uh, you know, before I
Speaker 2: went to Dallas a couple a little bit before that,
Speaker 2: and then I got went signed with a different company,
Speaker 2: got a satellite dish and it costs me less, but
Speaker 2: it is not quite as smooth as the other.
Speaker 3: You've got, so you've got satellite Internet.
Speaker 2: I've got an l SAT right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Okay, I had that, They've they've upgraded. I tried to
Speaker 3: explain to my brother. This was out in the middle
Speaker 3: of nowhere where my parents lived. I told him. I said,
Speaker 3: you know their internet satellite is they've put caps on it.
Speaker 3: They restrict you after a certain amount. I said, not
Speaker 3: only that, I said, if you notice with the satellite
Speaker 3: TV when a storm comes in, it's very rare that
Speaker 3: you lose the signal. He said yeah. I said, well
Speaker 3: that's because they've got two satellites shooting at your disc, right,
Speaker 3: so you're going to pick up signal for me the one,
Speaker 3: I said, But on satellite internet they only got one,
Speaker 3: so if it cuts out, I could always tell when
Speaker 3: it was going to ring ten minutes before it got there. Yep,
Speaker 3: because the internet would cut out. It was the worst
Speaker 3: thing in the world.
Speaker 2: See that's but the funny thing is I went and
Speaker 2: got Remember when you could buy your own at radio
Speaker 2: shack and you could put it up and then you
Speaker 2: had to contact directly. Direct TV wasn't something that was
Speaker 2: a big company that came out and distributed stuff. You
Speaker 2: had to call them up and they would mail you
Speaker 2: a card you'd stick into your own stupid machine, because
Speaker 2: I bought my own thing. And USSB is the other company,
Speaker 2: because DirecTV had like if you wanted to be able
Speaker 2: to access pay per view or HBO or you know,
Speaker 2: Playboy channel premium stuff, right, you had to contract with them,
Speaker 2: and otherwise you had USSB and USSB would give you like,
Speaker 2: you know, your junk cable channels, your local TV. They said,
Speaker 2: they give you a local TV. But it was funny
Speaker 2: what they did. They give you like ABC from California,
Speaker 2: they give you NBC from Ohio, they give you, you know,
Speaker 2: CBS from Florida. You know, I'm like, I'm in New Jersey.
Speaker 2: Come on, guys, you know what I mean. And I
Speaker 2: got lucky at one point they gave us a New
Speaker 2: York channel for like a month. But they give you
Speaker 2: like two of each of the network channels, and then
Speaker 2: sometimes you'd get a Fox in that package, and that
Speaker 2: was extra. So I paid for carte blanche on this
Speaker 2: thing and wound up, you know, with a satellite dish
Speaker 2: I had to install. You should have seen that. That
Speaker 2: was probably comedy. We could have made ald YouTube channel
Speaker 2: out of that. Me installing a satellite dish on an
Speaker 2: apartment building roof anyways, funny stuff, but the way the
Speaker 2: technology has changed. Anytime it started the rain or to
Speaker 2: win Blue too hard, you lost that satellite signal and
Speaker 2: there was no refunding you for what you lost either.
Speaker 2: You know, you couldn't watch it for three days because
Speaker 2: there was a blizzard. Guess what f you you know
Speaker 2: what I mean?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I've had to get the ladder out, climb
Speaker 3: up to the top. We had an eye storm one time,
Speaker 3: and where the dome is in the center, that curved
Speaker 3: surface on it, I was getting no signaling at all,
Speaker 3: and I got the flash light, got the ladder out
Speaker 3: is blowing sideways. I get up there and there's a
Speaker 3: perfect cone of ice covering that damn center spot. And
Speaker 3: so as I've slid that off, had all the signal
Speaker 3: in the world right and he always I can need
Speaker 3: a windshield wiper up there to keep it cleaned.
Speaker 2: And the only reason why I've been able to maintain
Speaker 2: certain things, you know, with the radio station and everything,
Speaker 2: is because I have a mixture of analog and digital technology.
Speaker 2: So today's problem was I go to plug in the phone,
Speaker 2: like you know twenty five minutes before we're supposed to
Speaker 2: broadcast and the phone didn't work. Now, it's not a
Speaker 2: cell phone, it's it's a regular phone that you could
Speaker 2: plug into a landline. Okay, And what it is your routers,
Speaker 2: most of your routers, excuse me, on the back of
Speaker 2: them have a you know something that does look like
Speaker 2: it would fit an old phone cord. Right, well, it does.
Speaker 2: And if you have an access point, you can get
Speaker 2: a satellite delivered landline, like a pseudo landline. Anyway, this
Speaker 2: is how we hold the conference call open for callers
Speaker 2: to call in, which I've done, you know, at the
Speaker 2: cheapest possible way. Other people are paying forty fifty dollars
Speaker 2: to have their call systems, right I'm paying, you know.
Speaker 2: I told you guys like it's ten bucks, you know,
Speaker 2: to keep my phone lines up when I've desperately said
Speaker 2: I can't pay the bill and we won't have callers
Speaker 2: unless somebody sends me ten bucks. This is why, you know,
Speaker 2: and literally that's happened to me. But I've had a
Speaker 2: phone for about I don't know, eight nine years because
Speaker 2: we tried, you know, doing some of that work from
Speaker 2: home stuff where you got to be like, you know,
Speaker 2: a telemarket operator kind of guy, and you answer calls. Well,
Speaker 2: you have to have like a phone with a headset
Speaker 2: and either a land line or a pseudo land line
Speaker 2: to do it, even though you're connected on the computer
Speaker 2: for the rest of your job. But anyway, I've blended
Speaker 2: this all together and built my own analog access into
Speaker 2: the digital world, which is why I have a physical
Speaker 2: mixer in front of me still, and I have a regular,
Speaker 2: you know, microphone. This isn't you know, a digital nonsense
Speaker 2: piece that's out there that you only can plug in
Speaker 2: with USB. This is something I could put this, you know,
Speaker 2: I could. I could mic anything with this thing. There's
Speaker 2: a you know, like a and it was a gift
Speaker 2: from somebody. It's like a five hundred dollars mic. But anyway,
Speaker 2: you know, I could take this to a concert hall
Speaker 2: and get all of the intonations I want out of
Speaker 2: the vocals. I could easily mic half a choir with
Speaker 2: this thing. It's a nice mic, but it's analog. Then
Speaker 2: it plugs in and we turn it into a digital signal,
Speaker 2: which is blended from three four sources. And I do
Speaker 2: that myself, whether I'm producing somebody else's show or mind now,
Speaker 2: that's not very impressive because nowadays most people just you know,
Speaker 2: get an all in one digital package. They plug in
Speaker 2: if they have internet, they can do their podcast done.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: But we're gonna add the video element to this and
Speaker 2: try not to, you know, have it take over my
Speaker 2: life as another bill, cause you know, like I said,
Speaker 2: fifty dollars a month, let's just say, or forty you know,
Speaker 2: forty plus tax or whatever to pay for it monthly,
Speaker 2: or thirty dollars if I pay for it. You know,
Speaker 2: one or two years at a time is too much
Speaker 2: for me. You know, first of all, I'm barely surviving
Speaker 2: due to the fact that you know, people have cut
Speaker 2: down on support and et cetera, et cetera. But also,
Speaker 2: you know, missus always had to stay home mostly to
Speaker 2: help take care of me. You know, I feel like
Speaker 2: a freakin' invalid trying to get in and out of
Speaker 2: the stupid machine today. You know, so they could finally
Speaker 2: get an MRI with me, you know, and in case,
Speaker 2: I'm not going to go into all the details, but
Speaker 2: I got I got two fractures in my back making
Speaker 2: it making the lab, you know, making the the uh
Speaker 2: you know, MRI tech like shake their head, like, how
Speaker 2: is it You're still walking around? You know? Uh, and
Speaker 2: it's uh, what do you call it?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: My goodness?
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: T seven and eight are both fractured, so you know,
Speaker 2: go look it up if you want. But basically I
Speaker 2: got a broken back. Thanks. That's That's what I've been
Speaker 2: whining about a little bit in case people don't know.
Speaker 2: But it's making me a little crazy. Between that and
Speaker 2: the damage to my ear drum that has me with like,
Speaker 2: you know, tonightis like psychotic tonitis, I would call it,
Speaker 2: but you know that's happening. Plus, I don't understand things
Speaker 2: they're said on the left side of me anymore, and
Speaker 2: that doesn't help me with quite frankly, one of my
Speaker 2: adaptations visually, I don't know how far away things are,
Speaker 2: but I have echo location skills and a lot of
Speaker 2: people don't understand that, or they mistake it as oh, well,
Speaker 2: when you're blind you can hear better. No, you adapt.
Speaker 2: So I'm using my ears to do something that you
Speaker 2: don't use your ears for normally if you're fully cited,
Speaker 2: but you can do the same thing. It's just you're
Speaker 2: not paying attention to it. Where if you listen to
Speaker 2: the way sound bounces off of things when you speak,
Speaker 2: or you know the precise measurement away from where one
Speaker 2: sound is made, and you can calculate in your mind
Speaker 2: exactly how far away something else is by the way
Speaker 2: the sound bounces off of it. If you pay that
Speaker 2: kind of attention, it will help you to not walk
Speaker 2: in the walls when you've got less than ten percent vision.
Speaker 2: Just say it. So that is now half gone, something
Speaker 2: that I did have my whole life, and now I
Speaker 2: don't have because of this constant fricking ringing in my ear,
Speaker 2: which has put me in a very bad and strange mood. Anyway,
Speaker 2: before we got started tonight, I also did the Michael
Speaker 2: Parenti thing. We do have phone line stabilized and you
Speaker 2: can call in, so if you want to join in,
Speaker 2: change the conversation, reset it, give us something else to
Speaker 2: talk about. I don't want to talk about Vanilla isis
Speaker 2: out there? I really don't, because you know, I'm angry
Speaker 2: beyond belief. And it's not because I'm a liberal. You know,
Speaker 2: I was just as angry when they shot other people too.
Speaker 2: But people that were reaching for guns got shot, and
Speaker 2: certain people who are now in certain movements in our
Speaker 2: country were screaming up and down that they were murdered
Speaker 2: by the FBI. But when ice agents kill somebody, no question,
Speaker 2: the cops are in the right. It's amazing how people's
Speaker 2: sides change based on their yeah, truly, their prejudice. I'm
Speaker 2: not somebody who's friendly to the cops point of view.
Speaker 2: I've never been. And you know, what, can I say?
Speaker 2: I do have a bit of a slant on that.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's because of the way I was treated by police,
Speaker 2: and I've seen other people treated by and I recognize
Speaker 2: certain policing patterns. But these fuckers aren't even police, excuse
Speaker 2: my language. They're poorly trained. And anybody who can look
Speaker 2: at you with a straight face and tell you I'm
Speaker 2: wrong about that is delusional. Six guys to take down
Speaker 2: the guy who's got a gun in his back, That's
Speaker 2: not necessary. I've worked with bouncers who were drug addicts,
Speaker 2: who were illiterate, who just happened to be big enough
Speaker 2: guys to get the job done, who knew how to
Speaker 2: take down a guy with less than six friggin' helpers.
Speaker 2: You mean to tell me this is good training? Nope?
Speaker 2: But anyway, I don't want to do that. I want
Speaker 2: to talk about anything else. In fact, tell me how
Speaker 2: bad Starfleet Academy was, you know, for the past four episodes,
Speaker 2: and it is terrible. And you know why it's terrible
Speaker 2: because it's woke and retarded. It's really just beyond stupid.
Speaker 2: You guys thought that Star Trek was woke and silly before. Nope,
Speaker 2: these guys said, hold my beer, we got completely stupid
Speaker 2: for you in a sci fi show. I used to
Speaker 2: think smart people watch sci fi shows, but apparently somebody
Speaker 2: decided to make sci fi shows for stupid people that
Speaker 2: are also in the liberal delusion. So you know, what
Speaker 2: can I say? But everybody is having their own individual delusions,
Speaker 2: and I see Jimmy James on the line. But I
Speaker 2: do want to give Bpe a chance to change the
Speaker 2: tone because my tone will go the wrong way today.
Speaker 2: I want somebody else to lead and guide this because
Speaker 2: I'm not in the mood to be nice to anybody.
Speaker 2: I don't care who they are anymore if they're gonna
Speaker 2: say stupid things to me. And b Pete at the
Speaker 2: very least is sensible. Even when he does take a
Speaker 2: stupid point of view, he makes sense of it, which
Speaker 2: is funny to me, and is confrontational and gives us
Speaker 2: a bit of a and he thinks I'm a frickin
Speaker 2: nut sometimes because I'm off in some place that does
Speaker 2: not fit with the reality he perceives. But we can
Speaker 2: do that and not wind up with hateful stupidity. So
Speaker 2: that's why he's here, and that's why he continues to
Speaker 2: be here, and I'm happy he is, and I think
Speaker 2: we need to step it up. Yeah, And I do
Speaker 2: want to use x spaces very soon, and I am
Speaker 2: looking for a way to integrate video into this somehow,
Speaker 2: because apparently that's part of the reason why my podcast
Speaker 2: is dying as well, because now a podcast which used
Speaker 2: to be audio based and still does have you know,
Speaker 2: plenty of audio feeds out there, now none of them
Speaker 2: are surviving unless you give them something to look at.
Speaker 2: And they even have specialized filters now, which I'm really
Speaker 2: pissed off about because this was my idea years ago,
Speaker 2: is that we should figure out a way to get
Speaker 2: a real time cartoon to be able to be the
Speaker 2: face of our voices because I know nobody. You know,
Speaker 2: I'm not pretty. Some people are, but I'm not, so
Speaker 2: I would rather be able to mold and shape a
Speaker 2: wacky cartoon, even if it's an exaggerated goofy version of me,
Speaker 2: or if it were like, you know, something that changes
Speaker 2: up weird. I even had an idea that we could
Speaker 2: all be fish and we'd be in a fish tank,
Speaker 2: except my you know, my fish tank. You know, Avatar
Speaker 2: has a microphone, right, and then we get Bepete to
Speaker 2: have a fish tank microphone, you know, with a microphone,
Speaker 2: and his fish guy would be consistently. We'd probably always
Speaker 2: put a hat on him, because I don't think I've
Speaker 2: ever seen be Pete without a hat for more than
Speaker 2: five seconds, So we'd probably put a baseball hat on him.
Speaker 2: And and he would obviously be a little older than me,
Speaker 2: and you know, we try to make the facial expressions
Speaker 2: match and wackiness, and obviously you got to stick you know,
Speaker 2: glasses on mine, stuff like that. And then even the callers,
Speaker 2: what we would do is have a fish go up
Speaker 2: to a payphone. I know, what's a payphone, old man,
Speaker 2: but still you have a fish go up to a payphone,
Speaker 2: and then we could give them any characterization we want
Speaker 2: in real time, and then as they talk, they would
Speaker 2: be fish. And everybody thought I was stupid and I said,
Speaker 2: I'm telling you people are going to do this. And
Speaker 2: now I see there's a whole bunch of podcasts out
Speaker 2: there that are either using you know, real looking faces
Speaker 2: but AI voices in real time, where you know clearly
Speaker 2: the AI is reading it and doesn't understand what it's
Speaker 2: reading or there, or it's the other way around, where
Speaker 2: it's a guy and he's talking and it's his voice
Speaker 2: and it's all cool. But like, there's this one guy
Speaker 2: out there who is a floating potato. That's what he is.
Speaker 2: You're floating potato with headphones on and like a mic
Speaker 2: that comes across to you know, look like he's got
Speaker 2: a headset on and as he talks, he's a floating potato.
Speaker 2: I know that sounds stupid, but I've also seen cartoons
Speaker 2: of guys that don't even you know, ROMM look like
Speaker 2: the guy. It's an exaggerated crazy thing like you know,
Speaker 2: Schwarzenegger build, and kind of like, you know, obviously he's
Speaker 2: supposed to be a cartoonish image of a good looking guy,
Speaker 2: and meanwhile, you know he's a nerdy goofball. You know, God,
Speaker 2: I don't even know what the proper insults are anymore.
Speaker 2: For like a nerd. But anyway, the guy's a real nerd.
Speaker 2: But he's got like, you know, a movie star looking
Speaker 2: cartoon image of himself up on the screen, and that's
Speaker 2: what passes some of these videos. Some people just show slides.
Speaker 2: Some people. I mean, I thought it was funny when
Speaker 2: I put the puppies on a couple of my interviews
Speaker 2: where my camera was just on the puppies while I'm
Speaker 2: on the microphone, and you know, the mama dog is
Speaker 2: sitting there just letting them breastfeeding stuff, and I just
Speaker 2: thought it was funny. Just yeah, every time I talk,
Speaker 2: that's what you're looking at, my puppies. Screw it. You know,
Speaker 2: you gotta give him visual. You got to give him
Speaker 2: something shiny to look at. Otherwise you're not a podcast anymore.
Speaker 2: So now I finally have to go to video. So
Speaker 2: the blind Guy's got to make video. And I don't
Speaker 2: want to pay a fortune for it. So anybody who's
Speaker 2: got ideas, and don't tell me zoom, because zoom by
Speaker 2: the time you pay for it. So we can do
Speaker 2: this for more than thirty minutes on any given moment
Speaker 2: will not work. So unless somebody wants to give me
Speaker 2: a free pass to a Zoom account that happens to
Speaker 2: have the extended video time, or somebody wants to share
Speaker 2: one of these other accounts with me. You know, we're
Speaker 2: obviously we'll pay our way somehow. Like I'm sure that
Speaker 2: if I had to give somebody, say twenty dollars a month,
Speaker 2: I could handle twenty dollars a month, just barely to
Speaker 2: have access to say Riverside or stream Yard, or there's
Speaker 2: another new one out there that looks really good. Actually
Speaker 2: that's you know, trying to bait and switch, and they
Speaker 2: tell you can buy different options, but in order to
Speaker 2: do everything, you're gonna you know, we could split this
Speaker 2: bill and it could be fifteen or twenty dollars a month,
Speaker 2: and I'll pay you monthly, regardless of whether you bought
Speaker 2: it for three years and got a discount or whatever.
Speaker 2: I'll pay you monthly for my knowing that I have
Speaker 2: a clear password and use of it. And in fact,
Speaker 2: I'll change the time of day I broadcast if that'll help.
Speaker 2: If you broadcast in the night slots and you don't
Speaker 2: want to overrun with me, you know what, I'll start
Speaker 2: doing the afternoon or the morning. I don't know if
Speaker 2: Ppeter'll go along with the morning, but I will and
Speaker 2: I could probably get Larry Hancock to join us. Morning
Speaker 2: is well, there you go, right, But if it was,
Speaker 2: say ten am, would you go for that? I could
Speaker 2: do tennish, tennish, okay tennis or later yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2: Well let's just say this guy wants all of my times,
Speaker 2: which usually I start at seven pm and around midnight
Speaker 2: I'm about done. So the thing is this, if I say, okay, fine,
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. I'll take twelve pm to six pm,
Speaker 2: and you never try to use it during that time
Speaker 2: without making special arrangements with me, and you can make it,
Speaker 2: you know, from six pm to midnight, no problem, no
Speaker 2: need for special arrangements. That's the time you own. And
Speaker 2: in fact, we could probably get a third person in
Speaker 2: if everybody's reasonable, behaves themselves, and they could have midnight
Speaker 2: to six am. Now I know not everybody would want
Speaker 2: that slot, but if you were in Australia or if
Speaker 2: you were in the UK, you know what, they will
Speaker 2: take euros and turn it into dollars. We could split
Speaker 2: the damn thing three ways and pay no more than
Speaker 2: fifteen dollars a month to have top tier service on
Speaker 2: a shared account. I have no problem with that if
Speaker 2: people want to be reasonable, you know, and some other
Speaker 2: people have done this and they're doing just fine with it.
Speaker 2: I don't want to name names. I'm a little pissed
Speaker 2: off they didn't invite me to participate, and I asked
Speaker 2: for a slot if it ever opens up. But apparently
Speaker 2: some people, even though they only do one show a week,
Speaker 2: really really need their spot with this little group. But anyhow,
Speaker 2: it is what it is. It was what it was anyway.
Speaker 2: Now that I've run in my mouth about all this
Speaker 2: for way too damn long, what time is it already?
Speaker 2: We've already been a half hour deep into the show.
Speaker 2: So I want to give BPTE a chance to say something,
Speaker 2: and then I want to give all of you who
Speaker 2: are listening for some strange, crazy reason at forty eight
Speaker 2: minutes after eight pm Eastern Okay, on the thirtieth day
Speaker 2: of January twenty twenty six. Why do I say it?
Speaker 2: Because this will be replayed. I did some short attention
Speaker 2: span DJ theaters this week. I did another rant which
Speaker 2: only took me about fifteen minutes to complete, So I
Speaker 2: undershot a show. I might take that and stick it
Speaker 2: in the members section, or put it out in conjunction
Speaker 2: with another show. I don't know yet. I'm gonna do
Speaker 2: something with it. Maybe I'll add it to the Michael
Speaker 2: Parenti tribute that I did earlier. But either way, I'm
Speaker 2: still producing, no matter how bad I'm injured, and no
Speaker 2: matter how badly, I'm just trying to keep you know,
Speaker 2: three people from freezing to that here in Georgia, cause
Speaker 2: that's been a tough fight this week. You know, again,
Speaker 2: I get it. I used to laugh at people that
Speaker 2: complained about, oh my god, it snowed for the first
Speaker 2: time in three years. Yeah, I get it, and that
Speaker 2: is funny. But you know, when it's been consistently cold
Speaker 2: for almost a month now and you got twenty degree
Speaker 2: temperatures in a subtropical region of the country that's not
Speaker 2: supposed to ever get this cold and usually only has
Speaker 2: about two weeks of cold weather a year, your blood's
Speaker 2: a little thin, your house aint built right, and your
Speaker 2: heating solutions are wrapped up in guess what a gigantic
Speaker 2: electric bill? You know, I don't want to pay twenty
Speaker 2: two dollars a day to keep more, but I have to,
Speaker 2: and I've had to ask friends, listen, I don't know
Speaker 2: how manny keep the lights on next couple of days,
Speaker 2: because I'm paying for it by the day, by the way,
Speaker 2: because i lost my ability to have a regular bill,
Speaker 2: so now I'm on I pay as you go, and yeah,
Speaker 2: when that gets down to zero and I've got two
Speaker 2: dollars left, yeah, I'm going to some of my friends saying, listen,
Speaker 2: I need a couple bucks keep the lights on. And
Speaker 2: sometimes they got it, and sometimes they don't, you know.
Speaker 2: So I'm just saying, just saying, but I don't want
Speaker 2: to make this into a megathon or anything else. I
Speaker 2: want to make this into something interesting in theater of
Speaker 2: the mind should play a role in this at all times.
Speaker 2: But in the next couple of weeks, if I continue
Speaker 2: to be able to broadcast, I want to switch us
Speaker 2: over try out that the X spaces thing with Bpete,
Speaker 2: and if that works, I think I'm going to start
Speaker 2: encouraging other guests and everybody else to use that as
Speaker 2: our point of communication and a simulcast. So I think
Speaker 2: we'll just start broadcasting on X and you know, God
Speaker 2: help us. The algorithms will probably never find me unless
Speaker 2: you're somebody who knows how to write good keywords on
Speaker 2: X you know that happen to get weird attention outside
Speaker 2: of the five people that you know. If you know
Speaker 2: how to do that, please contact me via X I'm
Speaker 2: at Shelly Effect and tell me that you want to
Speaker 2: write the crib notes for me here. You want to
Speaker 2: write the triggered praises because I'd love to pop up
Speaker 2: on people's top five or top ten. Hey, go listen
Speaker 2: to a Twitter or excuse me, an X space broadcast.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to adjust my headphone off of my left
Speaker 2: ear so that it doesn't blend with that high pitch squeal,
Speaker 2: which is why I'm having a prolonged monologue here, and
Speaker 2: I'm testing a few things. But I think I'm done.
Speaker 2: And my apologies to Jimmy James, who was still on
Speaker 2: the phone, but also to Bepte because I wanted to
Speaker 2: let him cut loose a lot sooner. In the meantime,
Speaker 2: I want to let you guys cut loose. I don't
Speaker 2: want to keep talking tonight, so please shut me up
Speaker 2: by calling in and talking about anything else in the world.
Speaker 2: Engage with bepete, engage with each other, talk to the wall,
Speaker 2: make it entertaining say something new please three one nine
Speaker 2: five two seven five zero one six. I think I
Speaker 2: paid this bill this month, but they'll send me a
Speaker 2: notice soon if I didn't. It's the cheapest way I
Speaker 2: can maintain the phone bank. Three one nine five two
Speaker 2: seven five zero one six. That's three one nine, five
Speaker 2: two seven five zero one six. That is the number
Speaker 2: to call. We are still live here on a Friday
Speaker 2: night at fifty two minutes past eight pm Eastern on
Speaker 2: o'chelly dot com radio and the twenty four to seven
Speaker 2: radio station runs at the cheapest possible cost. And you
Speaker 2: know what, suggestions for things that I could grab up
Speaker 2: that you know might be out there and I can't
Speaker 2: put into a podcast because of copyright issues, I can
Speaker 2: run on there. Somebody mentioned uncle Floyd in the chat room,
Speaker 2: and oh my goodness, so you're gonna do a tribute
Speaker 2: to uncle Floyd. Now that's a tri state area thing.
Speaker 2: You might have heard about him across the country. Uh,
Speaker 2: they mentioned him in a few movies, et cetera. And
Speaker 2: he's that goofy guy who looks like he's wearing what
Speaker 2: do you call those hats that have like a square
Speaker 2: top on them and they're sort of bent up. It's
Speaker 2: like a bowler, but it's got a square top at
Speaker 2: the top. Beatp, what's that at called.
Speaker 3: A square top?
Speaker 2: A flat top? Not square? But you know, like, okay,
Speaker 2: so you know what a bowler looks like, right, like
Speaker 2: like the car like straw hats, No, not necessarily straw.
Speaker 2: These were a funky, weird thing I used to see
Speaker 2: on like drunk pollocks at freaking barbecues. Thank god we're
Speaker 2: not putting this up on YouTube because I would have
Speaker 2: to say that, you know, they were the unlive people
Speaker 2: of Polish descent. Who I am making no illusions against
Speaker 2: freaking YouTube anyways, Noah, but I used to see literally,
Speaker 2: I used to see these on pollox all the time,
Speaker 2: and they used to have loud, clashing colors, and it
Speaker 2: was like you took a bowler hat right, and you
Speaker 2: put the flat part of a fedora on top of that,
Speaker 2: and so the bowler brim going all the way around
Speaker 2: and a flat top and then ridiculous patterns and a
Speaker 2: around it. Do you ever see that hat?
Speaker 3: Don't recall seeing one of those, at least not the
Speaker 3: way you've described it.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, Uncle Floyd is one of these guys like
Speaker 2: older men in the seventies who were at the bar
Speaker 2: at nine am, and like I say, mostly like Pollock's Germans. Okay,
Speaker 2: you know, people like this, the whier and weirder parts
Speaker 2: of Europe. In my opinion, those guys who were clearly
Speaker 2: that and might even still have a light accent, would
Speaker 2: show up at the bar early because they left work
Speaker 2: early or they don't work. Those kind of guys somehow
Speaker 2: get through life in the nineteen seventies. But they would
Speaker 2: show up like that, and they would a lot of
Speaker 2: them would have these hats on them describing Uncle Floyd
Speaker 2: wore one of those, and then he would wear like
Speaker 2: a plaid suit jacket and like a Hawaiian shirt okay,
Speaker 2: and big loud striped pants, you know. And then on
Speaker 2: a good day when he's trying to dress up. You
Speaker 2: ever see the movie Easy Money with Rodney Dangerfield, Yeah,
Speaker 2: so you remember when Rodney's like wearing the common man look,
Speaker 2: and it's all his like funky old man stuff, you know,
Speaker 2: like he's not even that old of a guy, but
Speaker 2: he's wearing like stuff that. You know, people on a
Speaker 2: golf course wouldn't get caught dead wearing the bowling shirts,
Speaker 2: the weird clashing patterns, like might be stripes and polka
Speaker 2: dots on next piece of clothing, that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: Remember when they did that. So guys who dressed like that,
Speaker 2: you don't see those anymore, but that was a thing
Speaker 2: in the seventies, remember the seventies eighties. You'd see guy
Speaker 2: like that. You're like, yeah, that's probably a Polish guy,
Speaker 2: a German guy, right, something like that, or maybe a
Speaker 2: Russian guy who got out of the Soviet Union would
Speaker 2: be dressed like that, like I love America, this is great.
Speaker 2: And always they were drunk, you know, and they could
Speaker 2: hold their liquor. But if they stood at that bar
Speaker 2: for like three four hours, that's when I would challenge
Speaker 2: him to a game of pool when I was six
Speaker 2: years old, because I could beat him for a dollar
Speaker 2: and it was fun. You know. These were the guys
Speaker 2: who figured out how to cut off two fingers making
Speaker 2: a sub sandwich at the local shop, you know that
Speaker 2: kind of guy.
Speaker 3: I'm looking at vintage men's hats to see if I
Speaker 3: can see anything remotely resembling what you described.
Speaker 2: All right, don't you don't even need to do that,
Speaker 2: you know what, Go ahead and put into whatever search
Speaker 2: engine you want, Uncle Floyd TV Show, New Jersey, New York,
Speaker 2: like njn why Uncle Floyd TV Show NJ and Why,
Speaker 2: And I guarantee you an image of them will come up.
Speaker 2: There might be a puppet named Oogie, but the guy
Speaker 2: who looks like a Goofball. It's sort of like that
Speaker 2: guy who became world famous. You know, they say they
Speaker 2: got fifteen minutes of fame. This guy got about fifteen
Speaker 2: seconds of fame. And he was another Tri State area guy.
Speaker 2: They called him doctor Dirty. And he's the guy who
Speaker 2: used to have those the songs, like song parodies, but
Speaker 2: nothing you know developed. It was like the the sawdust
Speaker 2: barroom version of weird Al Yankovic. And he was most
Speaker 2: famous for being in a couple of movies Going and
Speaker 2: I took her to that gang bang where she was
Speaker 2: banging a like vaudeville sounded dude on a piano. He
Speaker 2: was another guy who was famous for being horrible and
Speaker 2: yet memorable in New Jersey and New York in seventies eighties.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Okay, I see what kind of hatch you're talking about. Yeah,
Speaker 3: what do you call homicide? Life on the streets? I
Speaker 3: don't know what it's called, but Meldrick used to wear one.
Speaker 3: It's a type of a fedora. Let me go back
Speaker 3: to where I was, Meldrick.
Speaker 2: You don't mean what he called ELS's character, right?
Speaker 3: No, no, okay, he was partners with him off and on.
Speaker 3: It's let's let me go to this page.
Speaker 2: It's one of those things though they have a.
Speaker 3: Description like it's a short brim Yeah, it's a short
Speaker 3: brimmed hat, right, And.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you know, you could see the same kind of
Speaker 2: you know, pattern or the same kind of print could
Speaker 2: be put on one of those you know, fisherman hats,
Speaker 2: the fishing cap, you know, like the guy and the
Speaker 2: guy in mash wore one all the time, and he
Speaker 2: wore one that was either khaki or was O D. Green, right,
Speaker 2: and he would have a whole bunch of fishing hooks
Speaker 2: hanging out of it. Well, you know the guys that
Speaker 2: had like loud, crazy stuff on those, you know, like
Speaker 2: eyeballs with feet for no reason, you know, stuff like that,
Speaker 2: but printed in all different directions on that. Well, Uncle Floyd,
Speaker 2: if you look at his hat, I'm telling you he's
Speaker 2: one of these guys. One of the youngest people ever
Speaker 2: saw wearing one of those hats, because you don't wear
Speaker 2: these things, you know, being under the age of thirty five.
Speaker 2: There's no there's no way because somebody will beat your ass.
Speaker 3: You know, down here, you don't wear them over the
Speaker 3: age of thirty five either.
Speaker 2: Well no, but it's just like you know, when you
Speaker 2: see a guy and he's a little older and he's
Speaker 2: got that thing that I was calling a snapcap, which
Speaker 2: is apparently a.
Speaker 3: Flatcase, says it's a trillby a.
Speaker 2: Trill bey, Okay, that might be right. But anyway, Uncle
Speaker 2: Floyd was like cheesy. Uncle Floyd was cheesy, goofy. He
Speaker 2: clearly had you know, like the low budget show on TV,
Speaker 2: and it lasted for decades. It was crazy. I went
Speaker 2: to film an episode of Video Spotlight in Nutleigh, New Jersey,
Speaker 2: and like it was the weirdest thing. It's like this
Speaker 2: apartment building in the middle of nowhere, Nutley, New Jersey.
Speaker 2: Look up Nutley. I'm sure it looks the same as
Speaker 2: it did in the nineties. I go there and I
Speaker 2: see behind the Video Spotlight guy that there's parts of
Speaker 2: Uncle Floyd's like you know set or just like lining
Speaker 2: up against the wall and I'm like, wait a minute,
Speaker 2: Uncle Floyd films here. Yeah, I wound up hanging out
Speaker 2: there for a little bit and grabbed a bass and
Speaker 2: wound up playing bass for like five seconds on the
Speaker 2: Uncle Floyd Show. But I can't find that Video Spotlight episode.
Speaker 2: It was one of the longest times I ever got
Speaker 2: on a TV show when I was a musician. You know,
Speaker 2: like I've been on very few shows as a JFK
Speaker 2: Assassination researcher, but that's because I'm always behind the scenes
Speaker 2: on things. But when I was in front of the scenes,
Speaker 2: it was hard for me to get on TV, you know,
Speaker 2: as a local performer. You know, only performances on TV
Speaker 2: I can or the only times I popped up on
Speaker 2: TV is on Live Aid on the original broadcast. There
Speaker 2: is apparently a picture of me. Somebody sent me like
Speaker 2: a screenshot, and now I can't find it. But apparently
Speaker 2: you can find a picture of me wearing one of
Speaker 2: those Painters caps. On that day at Live Aid, I
Speaker 2: did Video Spotlight, which I was on for like forty
Speaker 2: five minutes out of an hour long TV show on
Speaker 2: New Jersey the Network. And other than that, you know,
Speaker 2: my my attempts to get into movies. I was edited
Speaker 2: out or I was waiting in the background, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. I TV was not something I easily
Speaker 2: got to. Are the dogs barking real loud? VP?
Speaker 3: I can hear them in the background, all right. It
Speaker 3: doesn't override you, but yeah, I can hear them.
Speaker 2: All right. Then it's a perfect time for me to
Speaker 2: turn it over to you, because we're about an hour
Speaker 2: deep already. We are gonna have Aaron Franz at ten
Speaker 2: pm Eastern, we are gonna have Uncle at eleven pm Eastern,
Speaker 2: And I'm hoping that some of you call in outside
Speaker 2: of Jimmy James. Jimmy James is on hold now three
Speaker 2: one nine five two seven five zero one six. I
Speaker 2: have now spilled my guts and rambled now for all
Speaker 2: this time, and tried to deal with a couple issues,
Speaker 2: uh and tested everything. So, my friend, what is on
Speaker 2: your mind? Forget about all the crap I just spewed.
Speaker 2: What's on your.
Speaker 3: Mind this week?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: I'm getting ready for a snowstorm. We're getting ready to
Speaker 3: get a anywhere between a foot foot and a half snow.
Speaker 3: It starts tomorrow morning, So it's gonna be fun around here.
Speaker 3: We don't normally. This is how we historically get snow
Speaker 3: is a low pressure develops around Florida and it comes
Speaker 3: right up the coast when we've got these twenty degree temperatures,
Speaker 3: so where most most times we might get six inches,
Speaker 3: they're calling for a foot to a foot and a half. Wow,
Speaker 3: So it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 2: That's a lot from North Carolina. What are we talking
Speaker 2: about this weekend?
Speaker 3: Or yeah, starting tomorrow morning and going through part of
Speaker 3: the day Sunday, and we've been put under a curfew.
Speaker 3: This is funny. On a Facebook page for the community,
Speaker 3: I went to it and they've posted that we are
Speaker 3: under it. We are going to be under a curfew
Speaker 3: starting tomorrow night at six o'clock I think until Monday morning.
Speaker 3: And so it doesn't tell you what the restrictions are,
Speaker 3: just says we're under a curfew. So I posted, can
Speaker 3: somebody tell me what that means? How can you know
Speaker 3: if you're violating a curfew if you don't know what
Speaker 3: it entails. And I haven't checked the answers yet, but
Speaker 3: you know me, I go for a walk every day
Speaker 3: if I can. If I'm out there walking in the snow,
Speaker 3: am I subject to arrest.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, you're talking about the kind of curfew
Speaker 2: where they might literally ticket you or arrest you if
Speaker 2: you're on the streets past a certain time.
Speaker 3: Well, usually when you have a curfew, you have certain restrictions.
Speaker 3: Now there's a difference between telling people, Look, it's going
Speaker 3: to be bad out there. We don't have any city
Speaker 3: equipment to push roads. If it's not a state maintained highway,
Speaker 3: it's not going to get pushed. And if it gets pushed,
Speaker 3: it's going to be at least a day after the
Speaker 3: stuff falls. So just stay off the roads, how about it. No,
Speaker 3: we are under and a first an official declared emergency
Speaker 3: curfew starting tomorrow, but they won't say what the curfew entails,
Speaker 3: what you can and can't do.
Speaker 2: Wow, okay, well that's weird. This is how you know
Speaker 2: you're in a state, by the way, that doesn't often
Speaker 2: get snow. Because what they would do in Jersey or
Speaker 2: New York, or Connecticut or Pennsylvania, any of these places
Speaker 2: where else I've lived in the northeast, right is they
Speaker 2: would put you under a state of emergency and tell
Speaker 2: you that no essential travels should take place on the roads.
Speaker 2: That's what they would do. They wouldn't tell you you
Speaker 2: had to stay in your house. You want to go
Speaker 2: outside and play in the snow, knock yourself out, but
Speaker 2: you ain't going far. And I mean I walked through
Speaker 2: some of those state of emergencies and people thought I
Speaker 2: was insane. Cops would stop and be like, like almost,
Speaker 2: They're trying to check me mentally to make sure I'm not,
Speaker 2: you know, crazy and gonna freeze myself to death. But
Speaker 2: you know, I'd be like, Noah, look, I can't drive
Speaker 2: and the roads are empty. I got to get somewhere. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's only five minutes away.
Speaker 3: You remember, do you remember when you were living near me,
Speaker 3: if you went up to the main d and you
Speaker 3: took a right the big park that was there, Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: huh at the baseball fee. All right, Well, the street
Speaker 3: that runs in front of that building was one of
Speaker 3: the good ones. But there's three streets in a row
Speaker 3: that have this shumongous hill, and the city used to
Speaker 3: come and block off the road for everybody to sledd Yeah,
Speaker 3: and we would take sleds inter teer to everything else. Hell,
Speaker 3: we would walk halfway across town in the snow foot
Speaker 3: and half deep, just to go sledding. It was nothing
Speaker 3: to be out, you know, on the roads and if
Speaker 3: you could get the hood off an old Volkswagen. And
Speaker 3: a friend of yours had a tractor. We used to
Speaker 3: go to this huge k or Wolco Kmar parking lot
Speaker 3: and hooked that thing up to a rope. And you've
Speaker 3: not lived until you've been dragged at thirty miles an
Speaker 3: hour behind a tracker on the hood of a Volkswagon.
Speaker 3: It's fun.
Speaker 2: You know what else was great then is we had
Speaker 2: a slightly different version of it in but uh, you
Speaker 2: get the broken tables from the furniture warehouse. You know
Speaker 2: it's missing a leg, but it's a good sled still,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. They used to toss those.
Speaker 3: Out West. We used inner tubes more than we used sleds. Okay,
Speaker 3: that makes sense just because of the safety factor.
Speaker 2: Right, So missus Ojus joined me. She didn't get the
Speaker 2: privilege of my freak out over the phone. I couldn't
Speaker 2: get working. But anyways, here we are and we are
Speaker 2: taking calls three one nine, five, two seven, five year
Speaker 2: one six so outside of the weather, and I don't
Speaker 2: let me forget. I got a joke. I wanted to
Speaker 2: tell to the uh to the technicians today, but didn't.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: I think you might appreciate it more as I'm trying
Speaker 2: not to throw up and talk to you at the
Speaker 2: same time.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: But anyways, thought, Yeah it is, isn't it? But anything
Speaker 2: else you got on your mind before we start piling
Speaker 2: into the phone callers? And I think we still only
Speaker 2: got Jimmy James over there. Yep, No, I.
Speaker 3: Am just an update. Michigan is beating Michigan State forty
Speaker 3: to twenty four in the basketball game. Oh playoffs. Yes,
Speaker 3: it's going to be New England and Seattle for the
Speaker 3: Super Bowl. It's gonna be interesting. Go Seattle.
Speaker 2: Well you know what I got this, You know, still
Speaker 2: screw the Patriots thing in my head, So I think
Speaker 2: I got to go with the Seahawks too. But I'm
Speaker 2: sure Uncle will be talking about that tonight, at least
Speaker 2: I hope. So when did they play in the Supersol
Speaker 2: for the Rams? Yeah? He was hoping for that, but
Speaker 2: that's done.
Speaker 3: H It didn't happen.
Speaker 2: It didn't happen. Listen, they got the World Series this year.
Speaker 2: That's enough for California. But Seattle's always weird to me.
Speaker 2: I had to root for them when they were you know,
Speaker 2: against Colorado years ago, and that was what we called
Speaker 2: offline the Weed Bowl because at that time that was
Speaker 2: the only two states that had legalized cannabis for like everything,
Speaker 2: and it was like, look, the two states where you
Speaker 2: know weed is perfectly legal's that's your Super Bowl teams
Speaker 2: this year? Anyway?
Speaker 3: Kicks me off is the quarterback for Seattle. We had
Speaker 3: in Charlotte at the Panthers and they cut him and
Speaker 3: I never could understand why they put the money out
Speaker 3: to draft him and then get rid of him. And
Speaker 3: our guy does all he can do to win eight games,
Speaker 3: and Darnold's in the Super Bowl. We shoot ourselves in
Speaker 3: the foot every time.
Speaker 2: Well, look, it could be worse. You could be a
Speaker 2: metsman anyways. You want to get to Jimmy James.
Speaker 3: Or what, Yeah, we can get to Jimmy. But I
Speaker 3: have to remind you, for the past six seven years
Speaker 3: at Carolina, it's almost been like being Cleveland fans. So
Speaker 3: I know where you're coming from.
Speaker 5: You mean the Browns, right, Yeah, weren't they like the
Speaker 5: worst team in football until like three years ago, like
Speaker 5: consistently on the screw.
Speaker 3: But see, you got to give them credit, though, when
Speaker 3: their team left, they kept the name, which is what
Speaker 3: they should have done in Baltimore. The Colts always should
Speaker 3: be in Baltimore, you know, the Cardinals should always be
Speaker 3: in Saint Louis. Dead was just gonna sell them to Arizona.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's ridiculous. I look at the Rams. How
Speaker 3: many times they bounced around?
Speaker 2: Were the Raiders? For Christ's sake? Are they not the
Speaker 2: Las Vegas Raiders now or whatever?
Speaker 3: Yeah, they finally went to Vegas and they've done well
Speaker 3: since moving there. I'm good. I'm glad to see that.
Speaker 2: Well, there you go. So let's put Jimmy on and
Speaker 2: see what he's got to say. Maybe he wants to
Speaker 2: talk football, maybe he's got something else on his mind. Jimmy,
Speaker 2: Hopefully everything's working. How you doing?
Speaker 1: Do good?
Speaker 2: All right? You know it was the problem with my back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm glad to see you. By the big snow situation.
Speaker 2: Well, B tells me there's more cower go out. Well,
Speaker 2: I hear somebody typing, but nobody's talking.
Speaker 3: That's me. I'm typing in a room. Care Jimmy was talking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jimmy, go ahead.
Speaker 1: Oh, I said, did you guys get a did you
Speaker 1: power go out either? Running it last week a few times?
Speaker 3: Oh no, we got we we only it didn't even flicker.
Speaker 3: I got like a sixteenth of inch of ice on
Speaker 3: my neighbors Azelia Bush, and they were giving us, you know,
Speaker 3: fear mongering for a week. It's gonna be terrible. Now
Speaker 3: this one, this one I'll pay attention to. But this
Speaker 3: one all be snow, so I'm not worried about power
Speaker 3: and crap like that. Although the wind is going to
Speaker 3: get up about forty fifty miles an hour for a while,
Speaker 3: but I think with the snow will be okay.
Speaker 2: There you go. So how's it in uh Michigan.
Speaker 1: Well, it's garbage, but it always is in winter. Yesterday
Speaker 1: is negative twenty ooh last night, Wow, it's chilly.
Speaker 3: That's just too cold. That's just too cold. But I
Speaker 3: mean anything below we're supposed to let's see tomorrow night
Speaker 3: is supposed to get down in like fifteen. The wind
Speaker 3: chill is going to put it down below zero for
Speaker 3: the first time in a long time.
Speaker 1: It's very rough here. One place they sat somewhere in
Speaker 1: the upper province. Well, the word shugar factor was negative
Speaker 1: fifty five. It's so bad. It's some kind of record.
Speaker 3: Jesus Christ, what do you do when is that cold?
Speaker 2: Well, when you're kind of used to the twenty degree weather,
Speaker 2: it sucks, but it's not as brutal as you think
Speaker 2: when you're very used to it. You know, I used
Speaker 2: to go out in ten fifteen degree weather. I was
Speaker 2: one of those lunatics with the white beater on shoveling snow.
Speaker 2: You know, because you were so like hardened to it,
Speaker 2: it wasn't so bad. But that kind of temperature he's
Speaker 2: talking about, that's where you start to get to go.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, you know, you go outside to pee
Speaker 2: and ice cubes land on the ground before you know,
Speaker 2: before like ice cubes land instead of being.
Speaker 3: I'm at a friend of mine he moved to Ohio
Speaker 3: and they used to get a lot of the wind
Speaker 3: coming off the lake and he said it was so
Speaker 3: bad he had to take the battery out of his
Speaker 3: car and take it in the house every night so
Speaker 3: the cold wouldn't kill it. And I thought, you know,
Speaker 3: it's just when you're when it's that cold, that's like
Speaker 3: being in the Arctic Circle. I mean, it's just how
Speaker 3: the hell do you function? Everything's got to be Diesel.
Speaker 3: I would think.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when you're cheap oil starts to actually become slushy,
Speaker 2: you know you're in trouble, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: It's just rough, I mean, damn yeah, you know what, Uncle.
Speaker 1: They always call the guy in Canada.
Speaker 4: The north Man, But you do realize some farther north
Speaker 4: than most Canadians. They all live by the border. If
Speaker 4: you look at Michigan, I'm way farther north.
Speaker 2: Yeah. North Man hasn't called in lately because he's been
Speaker 2: recovering from surgery. But I'd love to hear what he's
Speaker 2: got to say about this weather lately. Uh, because I
Speaker 2: don't know. I haven't I haven't seen a Canadian weather report,
Speaker 2: you be beete.
Speaker 3: No, I figure it's too damn cold for me. So
Speaker 3: I'm looking at ut and the Islands.
Speaker 1: You realize that I'm actually farther nor than the Canadians. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Canadians all live right.
Speaker 3: By the border.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're in one of those sports right, Well, you're
Speaker 2: in one of those spots. Everybody forgets about that curve
Speaker 2: at the top of the US. You know, whenever they
Speaker 2: draw out the US border, they usually make it a
Speaker 2: straight line. That's incorrect. It's like a it's a weird
Speaker 2: scoop down. I've always wondered about that actually, like how
Speaker 2: they came up with that exactly, you know, like the
Speaker 2: weird you know nothing, it's it's a.
Speaker 1: Very everything is so off scale. Yeah, it's confusing when
Speaker 1: you look.
Speaker 2: It's like the great border bulge, you know, at the
Speaker 2: top of the continental US. And I don't understand it.
Speaker 2: It's like, why did they start? Because there's spots in
Speaker 2: Washington or whatever that are way higher than major Canadian cities,
Speaker 2: you know, and like, you know, north, going north, they're
Speaker 2: further north than a lot of Canadian cities are as
Speaker 2: you go across that bulge, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm sure. It's like here the Upper Peninsula.
Speaker 1: I mean that's why I said, I mean to live there.
Speaker 1: It's just like Alaska minus smaller mountains. That's it, smaller mountains.
Speaker 1: That's the kind of people that live in.
Speaker 2: The up Yeah, smaller mountains. Smaller mountains and yeah, smaller
Speaker 2: mountains and uh and no check for the oil that
Speaker 2: they give every resident in Alaska. Right, you don't get
Speaker 2: an oil check and you still freeze your nuts off.
Speaker 1: I mean, no good right, Yeah, that sums it up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, that's the only way I can look
Speaker 2: at it, which reminds me of that joke I was
Speaker 2: going to tell these guys because it was a guy
Speaker 2: and a girl and the girl I think was really
Speaker 2: the technician, and the guy was like the nurse helper.
Speaker 2: But he was like, you know, a regular guy. It
Speaker 2: wasn't like he was, you know, coming in and screaming
Speaker 2: about drag race or anything, you know like that. And
Speaker 2: the girl seemed like a regular girl. But the guy
Speaker 2: says to me, is I'm trying to you know, I'm
Speaker 2: sticking in earplugs because I'm going into a machine.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Again, these machines are so old, because I know that
Speaker 2: this technology was around and they made it better since
Speaker 2: the nineties. But they put you in a tunnel and
Speaker 2: then there's a lot of noise inside of the MRI
Speaker 2: okay that you are inside of now. And they were
Speaker 2: very concerned about whether I did or did not have
Speaker 2: bullet fragments in me and all that. But anyways, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: no problems with the metal. I got it covered already,
Speaker 2: don't worry about it. Anyways, I go in there, but
Speaker 2: on my way in the guy goes, are you from
Speaker 2: New York? And I said, why would you ask me that?
Speaker 2: And he says, well, look your accent, you know. I said, okay, okay,
Speaker 2: I said, now, what you're hearing is a Jersey accent
Speaker 2: where we do go into New York, but the real
Speaker 2: root of it is most of the people there for
Speaker 2: a couple of generations, like the majority of the population
Speaker 2: was Italian and Irish and kind of living in an
Speaker 2: area where we developed our version of the New York sound,
Speaker 2: which you guys heard on the Jersey Shore but still
Speaker 2: call it New York. But anyway, he was like, oh, okay,
Speaker 2: and I was thinking about making a joke to the guy. Listen,
Speaker 2: it's real easy. I can give you the whole you know,
Speaker 2: Jersey to English or Jersey to Redneck, you know translation key,
Speaker 2: if you want, I'll give you, you know, the Great
Speaker 2: Stone if you'd like, right, the Rosetta Stone, if you will,
Speaker 2: to translate New York, New Jersey to Redneck and back
Speaker 2: and forth. And it's real simple. That old phrase blessed
Speaker 2: their heart, right, Okay. What they're telling you in plain
Speaker 2: English is that they're dealing with somebody stupid, and that's
Speaker 2: all there is to it. They're clearly stupid, but there's
Speaker 2: another level to it that maybe I don't necessarily understand.
Speaker 2: But BPTE, am I right or wrong?
Speaker 1: Wait that bpt I. I'm just curious about this too.
Speaker 1: Is it always an insult? Because like when LBJ was
Speaker 1: on the phone with that Senator Russell, someone died and
Speaker 1: they said, well, both so and so died and he
Speaker 1: is a friend of mine. He's a friend of yours too, even.
Speaker 4: Though he didn't believe in the thing you believed in, Lynn, and.
Speaker 1: He even gave you a donation. And then John says, yeah,
Speaker 1: bless his hard. I didn't get the impression that he
Speaker 1: was insulting him.
Speaker 3: So is it always an insult?
Speaker 1: I don't get that.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, he's an idiot. It's not he's a
Speaker 2: useful idiot.
Speaker 3: He's an insult. But okay, nine times out of ten, yeah,
Speaker 3: bless his heart.
Speaker 2: Nine times out of ten. I'm sorry. You know, See
Speaker 2: that's his fake politeness that comes out of the Southern ideal.
Speaker 2: It's not nine. It's way more than nine times out
Speaker 2: of ten. Maybe on occasion rarely they actually mean give
Speaker 2: them a blessing to their good heart, but really, what
Speaker 2: it means is that's the only thing that's good on
Speaker 2: them because their brain is dead. Okay, And there you go.
Speaker 2: There is the result of how you got to translate
Speaker 2: from Jersey to southern redneck. And it works like this.
Speaker 2: And I don't mean ignorant redneck. I mean just common
Speaker 2: Jersey the way we actually talk to each other, and
Speaker 2: common you know, Southerner the way they talk to each other.
Speaker 2: Really okay, but notice Johnson is saying this because the
Speaker 2: other guy say, listen, he gave you a donation. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: so he was a useful idiot. Bless his heart is
Speaker 2: really what you should be hearing there. But the way
Speaker 2: the comments are loaded, it works both ways. See with
Speaker 2: a guy from Jersey especially, but a guy from Jersey
Speaker 2: New York, you know, the tri state area, let's call it.
Speaker 2: Instead of saying bless their heart, you look at somebody
Speaker 2: who says and clearly has now you know, qualified themselves
Speaker 2: as a retard. And you look at somebody else who
Speaker 2: happens to be there, and you're hoping that they're witnessing this.
Speaker 2: So you add it. You add it, and you hyperboleze
Speaker 2: the insult and you make it even bigger. This way
Speaker 2: it can be laughed off or fluffed off as something
Speaker 2: where it's like, oh, that's just a joke. The other
Speaker 2: thing sounds polite and nice. But really, what you just
Speaker 2: got called was an idiot. And I do mean an
Speaker 2: idiot as in village idiot, or as in you know,
Speaker 2: the town slow minded guy whatever apparently you are, because
Speaker 2: bless your heart. But see in Jersey, it would be like,
Speaker 2: you know, let's just say it's a girl who just
Speaker 2: said or did something stupid, and I'm looking at a guy.
Speaker 2: So now I'm going to make a hyperbole here and
Speaker 2: confuse the issue and make it sound like a joke.
Speaker 2: So you see this, I mean, are you actually seeing
Speaker 2: this stupid who over here? She retired or what? Now
Speaker 2: I've loaded three things into there, but all it really
Speaker 2: means is I'm not. And by the way, if I
Speaker 2: said who, it's different than the whore, See a whore
Speaker 2: gets paid to who were is just somebody who's you know, easy,
Speaker 2: and so on and so forth. So you got the
Speaker 2: double entendre with a single word. But the complexity there
Speaker 2: is that I'm asking this guy a question. I didn't
Speaker 2: even insult her directly. See what I mean? Now, if
Speaker 2: I switch it over and it's I'm talking to a
Speaker 2: girl and there's a guy there. And this is not
Speaker 2: always gender specific, but this is a good way to
Speaker 2: divide it. I might look at this guy and say, oh, sweetie.
Speaker 2: First of all, I just demean her with that a
Speaker 2: little bit, which is something else Southerners doing. I don't
Speaker 2: know how that works exactly, but this whole like you know,
Speaker 2: where they're starting to calling you sweet nice names. They
Speaker 2: don't mean that, they don't mean it at all, they
Speaker 2: mean something else. But anyway, this is the deflection. I'm
Speaker 2: calling her sweet. He sounds like I'm being nice, but
Speaker 2: really I'm just undercutting her because she's not much more
Speaker 2: but a witness here. You see this, You know, in
Speaker 2: the old days, we would just say, you know, fag
Speaker 2: or fig or something like that, to undermine his masculinity first,
Speaker 2: and say undermine, not underline, undermine his masculinity first, but
Speaker 2: then ask her, do you see how this fag is
Speaker 2: also a retard? Now? Still, I didn't address the guy
Speaker 2: because he's not worth talking to. I talk to her,
Speaker 2: demean her, flipped it back to her. Turned into a
Speaker 2: joke because the guy doesn't even have to have a
Speaker 2: limp wrist. I could just throw it in there to
Speaker 2: undercut his masculinity and his mental abilities all in one shot.
Speaker 2: Plus he's not worth talking to. It's the same sentiment. Okay,
Speaker 2: So he's saying.
Speaker 3: Northern people are just rude bastards. How about that.
Speaker 2: No, we're just rude in a different way. We're making
Speaker 2: a hyperbolic joke, whereas you guys are being sarcastic without
Speaker 2: a sarcastic tone. You know, you're just looking at an
Speaker 2: idiot going, hey, that's a rocket scientist there. That's all
Speaker 2: you're doing, and you know it's actually more efficient the
Speaker 2: way that they do it. But in Jersey you got
Speaker 2: a muddy the waters more because we don't know what
Speaker 2: clear water looks like.
Speaker 3: He just do stealth sarcasm. It's in stealth mode, that's all. Okay,
Speaker 3: you guys are just flat rude.
Speaker 2: But that's not rude at all, because five people could
Speaker 2: be laughing about that. The idiot doesn't even know he
Speaker 2: was insulted because he thinks you're making a joke and
Speaker 2: you're scoring points with the person you did decide to
Speaker 2: ask questions with. So there is a triangular diplomacy to that. Okay,
Speaker 2: and you got your stealth, you know, trying to be sneaky. Yeah,
Speaker 2: good deal. But that's about it. So but either way,
Speaker 2: these things are loaded, and there's a bunch of sentimentality
Speaker 2: that is actually unspoken regardless, and it's still and it's
Speaker 2: about the same thing, it really is. And the fun
Speaker 2: part is that Southerners when they hear this, they think
Speaker 2: it's hilarious. They're like, oh my god, I can't believe
Speaker 2: how rude that person. And they're laughing. And guess what,
Speaker 2: you do that same thing with like people up north,
Speaker 2: they will take it the same way. They'll be laughing
Speaker 2: their asses off.
Speaker 1: So I think you just describe the secret to Tracy
Speaker 1: Morgan's success.
Speaker 2: Oh no, that guy's crazy.
Speaker 1: He's a little crazy. He's a he's a New York character.
Speaker 1: He's almost from Jersey. But he's that's that's the secret
Speaker 1: of success. If you ever watch that guy in an
Speaker 1: interview or anything, he never he looks at the guy
Speaker 1: interviewing him. He's a staring off. I love that guy. Nuts.
Speaker 2: Listen, I'm in my own world. You people are just
Speaker 2: here to film it, so deal with it. Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: the attitude he's got, and that is a outer boroughs
Speaker 2: kind of attitude in New York. That is a New
Speaker 2: York specific thing. But he's also a little nuts, which
Speaker 2: helps because he'll just say outlandish stuff. You know. I
Speaker 2: was actually listening to Tracy Morgan this week a little bit,
Speaker 2: trying to, like, you know, find something better on YouTube.
Speaker 6: Sorry, listen, did you did you listen to the one
Speaker 6: where he was staring at was it the one where
Speaker 6: he was with.
Speaker 1: Conan O'Brien and he was sticking at Conan o pride
Speaker 1: space and he's a pride what's your problems? Nothing?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 1: I just make I feel like I might know that guy.
Speaker 1: That's all. I can't take my eyes off that guy.
Speaker 1: It's all.
Speaker 2: Funny, no see, that's that to me is lightweight. And
Speaker 2: I'll tell you why. You go and take a look
Speaker 2: at like clips from the old Howard Stern shows when
Speaker 2: Tracy Morgan first got on there, and Howard Stern wasn't
Speaker 2: this weird signal virtualing signal virtue virtue signaling liberal abortion
Speaker 2: that he is today, He's a ridiculous uh uh freak
Speaker 2: and that's why nobody's listening to him anymore. Howard Stern
Speaker 2: is over but during a time when he was still
Speaker 2: an edgy DJ and he first had Tracy Morgan on,
Speaker 2: and he also had the TV show. You ought to
Speaker 2: listen to those because those are funny because Tracy Morgan's
Speaker 2: a fan of his and actually pays attention to him
Speaker 2: and doesn't do the diversionary crap, so it's actually kind
Speaker 2: of fun to hear Howard Stern go, okay, so tell
Speaker 2: me about all the women you banged while you were
Speaker 2: on Saturday Night Live. And Tracy Morgan starts to tell
Speaker 2: the story. But you know what it sounds like when
Speaker 2: Tracy tells the story, so it's all this crazy crap,
Speaker 2: and he goes off in all these different directions, talking
Speaker 2: about basically, you know, I don't care who I knock up,
Speaker 2: if it's a stewardess or whoever. So what more babies
Speaker 2: in the world, things like this. He goes through this
Speaker 2: whole thing, Howard's riding along with it, and then he
Speaker 2: goes and says, well, how often do you cheat on
Speaker 2: your wife? And he goes, I've never cheated on my wife.
Speaker 2: I can take a lot of textra test to that.
Speaker 2: What's wrong with you? And just watch how he controls
Speaker 2: the whole rooms like, you know, because Howard had like
Speaker 2: extra writers back then, he had like six people in
Speaker 2: that studio, plus Robin Off in her own little booth,
Speaker 2: and Robin couldn't even handle it. She wouldn't even talk
Speaker 2: during it until Trey she would turn over there and
Speaker 2: they'd be like, oh, we thought you only liked white women,
Speaker 2: and he'd go, oh, no, I do every color. What's
Speaker 2: wrong with you? All I know about his women and
Speaker 2: what they got and where they're gonna let me put it.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, it was amazing to listen to. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love when his stirt's going on. I would have
Speaker 1: get you pregnant. I'm gonna put more babies in you
Speaker 1: than an orphanage.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well yeah, that's one of his lines too.
Speaker 2: But that's the thing is he flips that stuff around
Speaker 2: so fast. I mean, I know it's all sealacious, it's
Speaker 2: all dirty and everything, but it is so intelligent the
Speaker 2: way he constructs this stuff, and he pulls people into
Speaker 2: a story. And next thing you know is he's yanking
Speaker 2: out the rug out from Howard Stern during an interview.
Speaker 2: And usually back then when Howard Stern still had interview
Speaker 2: skills right, and he wasn't looking to just kiss the
Speaker 2: ass of Hollywood A listeners and you know, and scream
Speaker 2: at people about how dare you not get a vaccine?
Speaker 2: You know? And when he was before that, you know,
Speaker 2: he had some skills as an interviewer that would knock
Speaker 2: people off, that would get them admitting things on his
Speaker 2: show they wouldn't admit anywhere else everything, And he would
Speaker 2: cause discomfort with these people, these stars, and he didn't care,
Speaker 2: and it was brilliant to watch. But watch what Tracy
Speaker 2: Morgan does with him over and over again. I listened
Speaker 2: to like six seven appearances of Tracy Morgan on Howard
Speaker 2: Sterns show because that's what the algorithm fed me after
Speaker 2: I found it, and it was like just amazing the
Speaker 2: twists and turns he went through and all the shit
Speaker 2: he was talking on that show. It was insane. Seriously,
Speaker 2: it's almost as crazy as I don't know. Did you
Speaker 2: guys have Crazy Eddy around the country? Did you ever
Speaker 2: see Crazy Eddy or hear Crazy Eddy? I'll start with you,
Speaker 2: Jimmy James. Did you ever see Crazy Eddy?
Speaker 1: Thank God that sounds familiar. Crazy Dog.
Speaker 2: No. No, Crazy Eddy had electronics store and he used
Speaker 2: to do these commercials where his key thing was our
Speaker 2: prices are insane, right, and he show you cam quarders
Speaker 2: and this and that whatever electronics were current. You know
Speaker 2: we've got Beta and vhs, you know whatever, old stuff.
Speaker 2: Nineteen eighties. Okay, uh, Crazy Eddy, But yeah.
Speaker 1: Was it affiliated with the ABC warehouse because they've had
Speaker 1: a few. They started out with this vinny guy that
Speaker 1: sounds just like well, not just like that guy, but
Speaker 1: his thing was about the boom by the being.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then.
Speaker 1: He disappeared, and then later came some other guy that's
Speaker 1: crazy kind of like what you're saying. But I don't
Speaker 1: think he was Eddie.
Speaker 2: Okay, people, but might have been this group. Yeah. People
Speaker 2: across the country tried to duplicate what Crazy Eddy did,
Speaker 2: and in other states. I saw different versions of Crazy
Speaker 2: Eddy in real time toward when I, you know, when
Speaker 2: I start first started to around the country a little bit,
Speaker 2: I would see him, you know, Ohio's version of Crazy Eddy,
Speaker 2: or Indiana's version of Crazy Dy or you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying, And they all copied off of this one guy.
Speaker 2: And but he was the original. You see him in
Speaker 2: movies sometimes where you see stuff happening in New York
Speaker 2: like in the seventies or eighties, like his commercials will
Speaker 2: be on the TV.
Speaker 1: Does he even did he used to wear a straight jacket.
Speaker 2: Uh, maybe he did in one commercial, but usually he
Speaker 2: was in a blazer and he had like you know,
Speaker 2: typically eighties like Max Headroom looking haircut, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. And he was clearly.
Speaker 1: Almost like Zuki. Remember the Uki gug Well.
Speaker 2: Jo Suzuki was just a bad character. They've lifted off
Speaker 2: a Saturday Night Live. That's right. Uh, I'm married the
Speaker 2: Morgan Fairchild and uh right, and then they turned around
Speaker 2: and I'm Jo Suzuki, that guy, right, No, crazy Eddy
Speaker 2: was a character onto himself where he's nuts and he's like,
Speaker 2: we're just cutting prices. And he literally was the guy
Speaker 2: who would run around with a pair of scissors cutting
Speaker 2: the price signs and all that kind of stuff, right,
Speaker 2: and he would just babble at you and yellow you
Speaker 2: come to our five locations. We've got everything, We've got
Speaker 2: all this stuff. And he'd throw the freaking videotapes around
Speaker 2: and he toss you know, back then, he'd throw remote
Speaker 2: controls around and he knock over TVs and the whole
Speaker 2: thing would always end up with Crazy Eddy, Our prices
Speaker 2: are insane. That was his big thing. Anyway, it was
Speaker 2: a whole scam. And the guy turned around and like
Speaker 2: ordered stuff and sold it for super dirt cheap, kept
Speaker 2: the cash and didn't pay the people that he was
Speaker 2: buying the products from, is what he did. And eventually
Speaker 2: he takes the public. Really, he takes the company public
Speaker 2: rips off Wall Street. It's no joke. If you go
Speaker 2: dig into the story of Crazy Eddi, it's hilarious. Him
Speaker 2: and his family started with like one store and ended
Speaker 2: up with like thirty, and all of them were part
Speaker 2: of this massive pyramid scheme where they were basically taking
Speaker 2: in stuff and selling it at a discount, like kind
Speaker 2: of like what the mob does, except without hijacking the trucks,
Speaker 2: you know. And he was famous for these commercials. It
Speaker 2: got so big so fast that he couldn't keep the
Speaker 2: pyramid scheme going. So he's got thirty locations and he's
Speaker 2: literally trucking all of the Like they tried to do
Speaker 2: an audit of his, you know, his inventory and all that.
Speaker 2: He turns around and takes the audit inventory, loads it
Speaker 2: onto one truck, and then he's got a guy on
Speaker 2: the inside, he's bribing with the federal agency that's trying
Speaker 2: to check up on him, and he's literally shipping the
Speaker 2: boxes of TVs or whatever to each store at a
Speaker 2: time to get hold of them doing an audit on them.
Speaker 2: So they show up and go, well, it says here
Speaker 2: he got five hundred TVs. Looks like he got five
Speaker 2: hundred TVs. And it's the same five hundred TVs they
Speaker 2: looked at yesterday in a different store. So he was
Speaker 2: doing that to account for the fact that he didn't
Speaker 2: take in enough money. Like in other words, he's got
Speaker 2: a set of books showing you he took in a
Speaker 2: million dollars. He really took in half a million dollars
Speaker 2: and never paid for any of the merchandise and split
Speaker 2: it up amongst his family and just kept it rolling.
Speaker 2: And who didn't want to do business with crazy Etti.
Speaker 2: So every new electronics company, whether it was a computer place,
Speaker 2: a TV place, and if you remember in the eighties,
Speaker 2: there were many foreign companies that were trying to get
Speaker 2: their products into the US because we were the best consumers.
Speaker 2: This guy was selling, you know, TVs that you'd have
Speaker 2: to pay five hundred dollars for for two hundred bucks
Speaker 2: and they couldn't figure out how the hell he was
Speaker 2: doing it. And it was real simple because he just
Speaker 2: stiffed all the vendors, you know, systematically, not you know,
Speaker 2: not everyone every time, but he came up with a
Speaker 2: system to basically stiff the vendors, keep the cash, say
Speaker 2: screw it, and keep opening locations. And I wasn't sure
Speaker 2: how big it got because it started in one New
Speaker 2: York store and the next thing I know is he's
Speaker 2: got him in Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, He's got him all
Speaker 2: across New York and all sorts of places except upstate
Speaker 2: New York because I think somebody would have shot him
Speaker 2: with a moose gun if they pulled that crap on
Speaker 2: him in upstate New York. But outside of that, this
Speaker 2: guy had a whole scam and it was like a
Speaker 2: decade long thing where it was this huge deal and
Speaker 2: then they tried to put him in prison. I don't
Speaker 2: even remember how the story ended, but check it out.
Speaker 2: It's it's really really funny. And you know, there's one
Speaker 2: of those links that nobody wants to look at, connected
Speaker 2: to Donald Trump on Crazy Eddy by the way, But anyway,
Speaker 2: you know, pay no attention to that. I could tell
Speaker 2: him on a lot of slazy guys he worked with.
Speaker 1: This sounds like a good Cavenly movie extra.
Speaker 2: See that's what I think. I would love to see
Speaker 2: this in a movie like Somebody make you know the
Speaker 2: real crazy Eddie. His prices were more insane than you thought.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean. There's your tagline and everything.
Speaker 3: He actually fled to Israel to avoid prosecution for a while. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I wasn't finally convicted him. Yeah, I wasn't finally convicted
Speaker 3: him in ninety three of fraud charges and it was
Speaker 3: overturned on appeal, and then he pled guilty in ninety
Speaker 3: six again and he got eight years in prison. It
Speaker 3: doesn't say what is fine was assessed. But he finally
Speaker 3: got out in nineteen ninety nine, and he died in
Speaker 3: twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2: Eddie and Tar, Yeah, there you go. That's who it was.
Speaker 2: But his whole family was involved in that. And the
Speaker 2: funny thing was it wasn't just he was stiff in
Speaker 2: the vendors. I've given you a very cursory overview, but
Speaker 2: he was turning around and like reselling stuff that was
Speaker 2: either broken or refurbished. He was selling it as brand new.
Speaker 2: He had eighty different scams going.
Speaker 3: Not only that, though, but he went His problem was
Speaker 3: he went public.
Speaker 2: Well that's what I was telling stock.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then but he was still doing all the
Speaker 3: shady crap back behind. So the SEC got involved in
Speaker 3: it finally shut him down.
Speaker 2: Right. But that's the thing. It got so massive. He
Speaker 2: made a good public offering because if you looked at
Speaker 2: his books, you'd think you were buying into a you know,
Speaker 2: a serious company. And meanwhile, I was all sheltery.
Speaker 3: At his peak, he was he was reporting more than
Speaker 3: three hundred million dollars in sales.
Speaker 2: Right in the nineteen eighties. In the nineteen eighties TV.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of TVs.
Speaker 3: Right, three hundred million. Hell yeah, yeah, had forty three
Speaker 3: stores in four states.
Speaker 2: Well there you go, see I do. I told you
Speaker 2: thirty across the four states I mentioned, I bet you yeah,
Speaker 2: Like I said, this is from my memory. But what's
Speaker 2: wild to me is that they did eventually bust him.
Speaker 2: And the only people I've ever seen like do like
Speaker 2: a breakdown on this are usually the people that are
Speaker 2: angry at the Jews, and they're like, look, he was
Speaker 2: Jewish and he went to it. I don't care. If
Speaker 2: he was, you know, a freaking a mooney, it wouldn't
Speaker 2: have mattered. This story is insane, it's really and I
Speaker 2: think it would be make a great comedy and about
Speaker 2: how they you know, you want to see capitalism on
Speaker 2: crack here you go. That's what it's like. It's like
Speaker 2: crackhead capitalism. Seriously. Uh but but he made it work
Speaker 2: a little while what what celebrity would you say?
Speaker 1: He looked like, I'm just curious. I mean, if someone
Speaker 1: was gonna play this guy.
Speaker 2: I don't know, b Pete, I would Yeah, you know
Speaker 2: what that guy who is uh oh man is he's
Speaker 2: a stand up comedian and I'm trying to think maybe
Speaker 2: now not Shane Gillis, one of the guys who tours
Speaker 2: with Shane Gillis, would would be perfect because you need
Speaker 2: a guy who's got kind of like a stereotypical semi
Speaker 2: Jewish look, but with different hair.
Speaker 3: Oh crap, I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2: He like Ganni most from the Happy Days almost, but
Speaker 2: don't make it orange necessarily and make that hairline come
Speaker 2: down a little more, and you got it. But I
Speaker 2: don't know who's like a living celebrity that could play
Speaker 2: this guy.
Speaker 3: He looks like a thin Rush Limbaugh, a thin.
Speaker 2: Rush Limbaugh, but yeah, kind of if you put curly hairs,
Speaker 2: if you put curly hair on top of Rush Limbaugh,
Speaker 2: but also dead, so he couldn't play him, but it
Speaker 2: would almost be like a Rush Limbaugh kind of guy.
Speaker 2: Because he had some vocal skills too. He was like
Speaker 2: a Carnival Barker, you know what I mean. Like, just
Speaker 2: go look on YouTube a crazy Etti commercials. You'll see
Speaker 2: what I mean.
Speaker 1: Oh well, I love watching all Yeah, I'm so aware
Speaker 1: of that.
Speaker 4: Commercials a better than the shoes. Oh today, I like
Speaker 4: watching the old commercials. Correcting me up, you guys watching
Speaker 4: old commercials.
Speaker 2: I bought. You know what's funny. I bought a double
Speaker 2: tape deck. You know, when I had a component stereo.
Speaker 2: I was one of those guys and I went to
Speaker 2: Crazy Eddy to go buy my double tape deck that
Speaker 2: I was building in the eighties. You know, I'd earned
Speaker 2: my money. I'd save it up a couple hundred dollars
Speaker 2: new component, right, three four hundred dollars I would spend
Speaker 2: on the tape deck, or the equalizer or the turntable.
Speaker 2: So I didn't have you know, world class stereo, but
Speaker 2: I had a pretty damn good stereo set, right, and
Speaker 2: h I go there to buy my double tape deck.
Speaker 2: Now I walked in there with three four hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: I'm waiting to spend, you know, buy something top of
Speaker 2: the line, and they had nothing that I wanted in
Speaker 2: stock everything. You know. Well, you know, we got floor
Speaker 2: models and that's it. We can order you one, this
Speaker 2: and that. Now I come in to buy something, I
Speaker 2: want to buy it. I want to go home. You know,
Speaker 2: I'm a teenager, so I got to get rides. Okay,
Speaker 2: it was my excuse. I mean, I'm a grown man.
Speaker 2: Now I still need to get rides. But the point
Speaker 2: is that I go in there to buy a double
Speaker 2: tape deck. They sold me on two double tape decks,
Speaker 2: and I paid the four hundred dollars for two of them.
Speaker 2: But it was a nightmare and a half. I go
Speaker 2: back to the store trying to return one because it
Speaker 2: doesn't work right. And like I said, when I discovered
Speaker 2: later that they were taking refurbished and even flea market
Speaker 2: stuff and cleaning it up and putting it in boxes,
Speaker 2: it was nuts because they had already undercut and sold
Speaker 2: the you know, the thing out of the box for
Speaker 2: cheap earlier, and then they would get something from the
Speaker 2: flea market and throw it in the brand new box
Speaker 2: and packing and sell it to you that way. And
Speaker 2: I wound up getting two double tape decks, and the
Speaker 2: one I didn't really like was the one that actually worked,
Speaker 2: and I wound up giving up on trying to return
Speaker 2: or exchange the other one. I just let it sit
Speaker 2: on my shelf and do nothing because only the player
Speaker 2: side worked. The record side didn't work. The record deck
Speaker 2: so it was a waste in my frigging oh man, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that sucked.
Speaker 4: Oh of course I did the same thing, well, just
Speaker 4: same thing, I mean, as far as filling the stereos.
Speaker 1: I still remember a Pioneer.
Speaker 3: Eight disk CD changeer, Chuck eight.
Speaker 1: You imagine, damn I was living.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well at that time that that was living way
Speaker 2: larger than large. You know what I ended up settling on,
Speaker 2: which was the best weird component ever in my uh,
Speaker 2: in my component stereo system. This is a strange one too.
Speaker 2: You'll never ever guess what my CD player was, because
Speaker 2: finally I just settled down. I won a single CD player,
Speaker 2: and uh, at first I actually resisted CDs. I wanted
Speaker 2: to go all with Finyl. You know, it was one
Speaker 2: of those guys. But then when I finally broke down
Speaker 2: and said CDs, I got you know, a good uh
Speaker 2: Phillip CD player. For a little bit was all right,
Speaker 2: And then you know, I wore the freaking thing out
Speaker 2: or you know, laser became missile lined or some nonsense.
Speaker 2: So I sticked that thing aside. You know what I
Speaker 2: ended up with, which was meant to be a replacement.
Speaker 2: And also I had one of the Sony discmands that
Speaker 2: weighed like five pounds. There was a Sony discman at
Speaker 2: one point that had a metal casing and it was heavy.
Speaker 2: I had one of those plugged into my stereo for
Speaker 2: a little bit, but then I got something else and
Speaker 2: plugged it in as my CD component. And I was
Speaker 2: never happier in my life with any any component in
Speaker 2: that stereo system than this one CD player. And I
Speaker 2: guarantee you you'd never guess what it is.
Speaker 1: Realistic. I'm just trying to think of the cheap brand spectacle.
Speaker 2: No, it's you know what. I'll give you a hint.
Speaker 2: I didn't even buy it.
Speaker 1: I give up, who is it?
Speaker 2: And towards and at the very end, before I lost
Speaker 2: you know, everything I owned, I actually had a CD recorder,
Speaker 2: like you know, it was an entire component and a
Speaker 2: shelf unit that was made just to record one CD
Speaker 2: at a time that I could record from any source.
Speaker 2: I was that crazy with the audio, right. But one
Speaker 2: year Marlborough offered a CD player and they sent that
Speaker 2: to me with a Y cable so I could plug
Speaker 2: one pin into it and then I could run the
Speaker 2: two RCAs, the red and the white into the stereo.
Speaker 2: And I was like, well, this will temporarily work until
Speaker 2: I buy a new CD player, right. And it was
Speaker 2: the best friggin thing. It weighed like nothing, it was
Speaker 2: made of plastic and I don't even remember who made it,
Speaker 2: but it was my Marlborough Miles acquired freaking CD player
Speaker 2: that got me the best sound on my stereo ever
Speaker 2: out of my CDs. And I have no idea why.
Speaker 2: I think it might have been made by Phillips too
Speaker 2: eventually or something like that, but it was because it
Speaker 2: was not. I think it was the Adventure Team. If
Speaker 2: anybody wants to look up you know Marlborough Miles prizes
Speaker 2: they used to give out, you know, people would smoking
Speaker 2: up to get a canoe. I don't know if you
Speaker 2: remember that stuff.
Speaker 1: I still got a deck of those Basic cards. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I had a tape. It was called Your Basic
Speaker 1: Country and I swear that was the best country music
Speaker 1: tape I ever had. And I've gone out of my
Speaker 1: way to find like that that recording online, you know,
Speaker 1: because I wanted it to make to get a copy
Speaker 1: of and I just can't find it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have. I have the decks of the Marlborough
Speaker 2: the Marlborough cards that have the cowboy on the back,
Speaker 2: the Cowboys silhouette.
Speaker 1: I had them. They were good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, those I still have both of those because they
Speaker 2: were a dual pack when they sent them out. When
Speaker 2: I got them, you could either get just the cards
Speaker 2: or you could get the whole poker set. But you know,
Speaker 2: I was too busy trying to get the big prize
Speaker 2: that year, and then they started making weird rules, you know,
Speaker 2: and it was like a screw it. I'll just get
Speaker 2: me myself a q T shirts and a couple of lighters,
Speaker 2: you know. But uh, but Marlborough Marlborough miles was a thing.
Speaker 2: I had friends that were collecting them together. I had
Speaker 2: a band that was collecting all our Marlborough was together
Speaker 2: at one point. But I got my CD player on
Speaker 2: my own, dammit. Well that and whatever packs I found
Speaker 2: on the ground, I would pull the miles off. You know.
Speaker 1: I love it when stuff like that works out. Man,
Speaker 1: It's like those Speedway for a while. I used to
Speaker 1: love that place. I was using those Speedway points ever time,
Speaker 1: and boy that worked out. That's like dang food pop
Speaker 1: just about every day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I used to like I you know what,
Speaker 2: even living down south, The most recent thing is we
Speaker 2: used to have these uh oh man, what were they
Speaker 2: called something foods? Flash flash foods. They were the best
Speaker 2: down here. They would give you points and you could
Speaker 2: buy anything with your points in the store. It was beautiful.
Speaker 2: I think the only thing you couldn't buy was gas maybe,
Speaker 2: but anything in the store.
Speaker 3: I have fifty three hundred Speedway points right now.
Speaker 2: Speedway. See I don't know about Speedway. I think you
Speaker 2: told me about Speedway. But isn't that one of your
Speaker 2: favorite Like, you know, gather your loyalty rewards from places,
Speaker 2: isn't that one of your places? Yeah?
Speaker 3: That circle K? But they closed the circle K store here.
Speaker 3: Now we just have a speedway.
Speaker 2: But we can't see there anything here.
Speaker 3: We mostly speedways and circle k's. When we went to
Speaker 3: Texas from your place, every where we stopped was either
Speaker 3: a circle k or a speedway, right right.
Speaker 2: But flash Foods was great here in Georgia. I mean
Speaker 2: I at least a couple times a month would just
Speaker 2: go in there, broke and find out Speedway. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Speedway was actually bought out by seven eleven, So
Speaker 3: that's eventually who you're paying, and you're gonna if you
Speaker 3: have any Speedway stores, you'll notice that a lot of
Speaker 3: their products are already prepackaged under the seven eleven label.
Speaker 3: I don't know if they're going to change to seven eleven,
Speaker 3: but they got bought out about three years ago.
Speaker 2: Isn't seven eleven about to get bought out by some eleven?
Speaker 3: Is huge?
Speaker 2: Aren't they about to get bought out by somebody too? Though?
Speaker 3: Home they're in talks. Well, they're thinking of selling the
Speaker 3: North American franchises, but they're so big in Asia that
Speaker 3: that's a whole separate division. And what I've read is
Speaker 3: they're going to sell off part of it but still
Speaker 3: keep the Asian stuff together because they do so well.
Speaker 3: They're real big in Korea and China, and you know
Speaker 3: Indonesia seven eleven is huge in the Asian market, Japan.
Speaker 2: Mmm, cracking me up in the I'm sorry, I was
Speaker 2: just laughing at the chat room. A sphincter says what
Speaker 2: in the chat room and stuff like this, And they
Speaker 2: were talking about Morant CD player somebody uses. I guess
Speaker 2: I think it's better than yeah Morants.
Speaker 3: Now, that was that was the expensive. Rance was expensive
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah see now. And I remember for a brief time
Speaker 2: there was a company called gold Star I think it was.
Speaker 2: It was a Korean, purely Korean manufacturer, and I don't
Speaker 2: know why they didn't succeed. Their products were durable. They
Speaker 2: usually had features on them that of the Chinese or
Speaker 2: Japanese or even the North American manufactured stuff add on them,
Speaker 2: you know, like you could record on hell.
Speaker 1: I remember start and they had was.
Speaker 2: Hmm.
Speaker 3: But my system was just a hodgepodge. I had UH
Speaker 3: always went with bows and altech, uh speakers, lancing and
Speaker 3: techniques and Panasonic, and I had a couple of realistic
Speaker 3: real reels. So mine was just a whatever I thought.
Speaker 3: You know, your tunor was different than your cassette deck,
Speaker 3: which was different than your turntable.
Speaker 2: No same here.
Speaker 1: Was I had Alpine and ken Wood and mhmm. I
Speaker 1: don't think they were high.
Speaker 3: Qualities and good stuff. So those companies are gone now.
Speaker 3: You know, it's it's amazing how much you know, music
Speaker 3: and digital is in everything now. I mean, look at
Speaker 3: your smartphones in that we're all walking around with a
Speaker 3: computer in our hand. But you look at the amount
Speaker 3: of realistic used to make tax used to make good stuff.
Speaker 3: And none of those companies are around anymore. They're just disappeared.
Speaker 3: And it's a shame. I have to order needles for
Speaker 3: my turntable offline now because the radio shacks to go
Speaker 3: to and purchase them. It's just it's become a pain
Speaker 3: in the putt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, now you're not gonna be able to buy. I mean,
Speaker 2: there are new manufacturers and stuff like that now because
Speaker 2: of the retro stuff and the way they've gone to
Speaker 2: you know, refitting retro stuff. But I mean, like to
Speaker 2: go back. One thing they haven't revived is the eight
Speaker 2: track player and my original, my very first like sort
Speaker 2: of you know, complete in my mind, which didn't integrate
Speaker 2: the reel to reel yet because my reel to reel
Speaker 2: system was separate, and I had what a wile and
Speaker 2: sack reel to reel. Well, so I couldn't integrate it
Speaker 2: into the component system. But I mean I even had
Speaker 2: an eight track on that thing. And then those things
Speaker 2: are not coming back.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, they released some thing about eight track
Speaker 3: was after they switched to cassettes, they still used eight
Speaker 3: track in all of the radio stations to do their
Speaker 3: PSAs and their commercials on because they were so easy
Speaker 3: to edit and put the cartridge back together. And then
Speaker 3: you had a large cart player and you'd slap those
Speaker 3: suckers in unison and it would just go down the
Speaker 3: tower and play them whenever you hit commercial or break.
Speaker 3: They were so convenient. Everybody thought the eight track went away,
Speaker 3: Well it did, but it didn't. And the only thing
Speaker 3: that replaced it was digital.
Speaker 2: Yeah, digitally, that's what That's what replaced the cart machine
Speaker 2: is the digital and the computer.
Speaker 3: You know, man, it was so easy to cut a spot,
Speaker 3: tear your cartridge apart, record it over onto that splice it,
Speaker 3: put it back together. You had your thirty second, your
Speaker 3: forty five second, your one minute, your minute and a
Speaker 3: half commercials all lined up ready to go it was.
Speaker 3: It was nice.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, I I used to do that too.
Speaker 2: I told you I worked in the kind of places
Speaker 2: where we had, you know, like a special kind of
Speaker 2: scotch tape, you know, and you literally pulled it across
Speaker 2: the head to hear where to stop it and you
Speaker 2: could cut it, you know. So Yeah, No, I love
Speaker 2: the cart machines. Those were great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when I when I was in college. I'll never forget.
Speaker 3: You know, you're sitting there, you're putting something together during
Speaker 3: one PSA so that you can play the next PSA
Speaker 3: on this new one that you just cut while you're
Speaker 3: killing time, right right.
Speaker 2: No, I used to love that stuff too. Hey, listen,
Speaker 2: we're getting towards the end here, and we only talked
Speaker 2: to Jimmy James, and thank god, we talked about other
Speaker 2: things other than what's on my mind this week, and
Speaker 2: we didn't talk politics at all. So I consider this
Speaker 2: a victory. And so, Jimmy, what are your flying thoughts?
Speaker 2: You got a little breathing room this week to talk.
Speaker 2: What are your final thoughts for the week.
Speaker 1: Do you believe that God it is rest of peace?
Speaker 1: Catherine O'Hara Caserne O'Hara played the Mama on Home Alone.
Speaker 1: Was on Ship's Creek right at seventy one?
Speaker 2: Yeah, how old was she?
Speaker 1: Seventy one?
Speaker 3: Okay, for some reason I was thinking she was older
Speaker 3: than that.
Speaker 2: What would seem that way, right, because you forever it's
Speaker 2: her name, well, her name sounds like someone else.
Speaker 1: I mean when you think of that name, you think
Speaker 1: of Katherine Hepburg. That's what I kept doing snuck Captain O'Hara's.
Speaker 2: Because it's like it's like a subliminal hint to Scarlett
Speaker 2: O'Hara from Gone with the Wind. That's why.
Speaker 7: Yes, yep, ye, anyway, she's a funny lady. Rescue peace
Speaker 7: there everyone, and it's good. I guess we get through this.
Speaker 4: Week and the worst winter will be over, so everyone
Speaker 4: have good piece.
Speaker 2: Yep. I'm hoping that we all survive this current weekend.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you it's getting rough out there anyway, be Pete,
Speaker 2: what are your closing thoughts for the week or anything
Speaker 2: you want to add? We got a couple of minutes.
Speaker 3: Oh no, I'm not gonna add anything. I'm just gonna
Speaker 3: sit here and ride out the storm. See how bad
Speaker 3: it gets. But if you don't have to be on
Speaker 3: the roads, don't because you might be in violation of
Speaker 3: perfume somewhere. So just keep that in mind.
Speaker 2: Yikes, curfew. I haven't heard that word in a while.
Speaker 2: For God's sake, curfew.
Speaker 3: I feel like I feel like the town has grounded me.
Speaker 3: You're under curfew. Oh crap?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but who asked them to be daddy? You know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Well, that's all I'm saying. You know, I go for
Speaker 3: a walk every day. If I'm out there walking, I
Speaker 3: put on my muck boots. I don't care how deep
Speaker 3: the snow is. That's just extra exercise. But if I
Speaker 3: want to go out there and throw a snowball at something,
Speaker 3: I don't want to have to, you know, have to
Speaker 3: have bail money.
Speaker 2: It's amazing what you need bail money for nowadays, isn't it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm telling you this totalitarian state that we live under.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's one interpretation, right.
Speaker 3: Anyway, No, it was the last time you were under
Speaker 3: a curfew.
Speaker 2: You know what. I don't leave my house anyway anymore.
Speaker 2: I don't, and it's because I ain't going nowhere at
Speaker 2: the moment. We don't have a vehicle, you.
Speaker 3: Know, we we have two cops in this town. I mean,
Speaker 3: what are they gonna do if ten seniors decide to
Speaker 3: get out there and have a snowball fight, I gotta
Speaker 3: do a damn thing.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you something. In Making, they say, we
Speaker 2: have all this police force, and we also have the
Speaker 2: sheriffs and you know, and all this stuff, and the
Speaker 2: only people I've ever seen is animal control. Really outside
Speaker 2: of when you know, like a place gets all shot up,
Speaker 2: then a bunch of sheriffs show up and investigate the scene.
Speaker 3: We we have we are under such a threat of
Speaker 3: a crime wave here that if you walk downtown and
Speaker 3: you walk to the police department, there's a piece of
Speaker 3: paper taped to the door that says, no one is here.
Speaker 3: If you have an issue, called nine to one one
Speaker 3: or this number, and if you call that phone number,
Speaker 3: it automatically takes you to nine one one. Like I said,
Speaker 3: we got two cops. What are they gonna do.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you that's a weird town. Because I'm not
Speaker 2: telling you that I don't see cops in Making, because
Speaker 2: we don't have crime. I've shown you some of the
Speaker 2: crazy stuff over here. I mean, people are getting robbed
Speaker 2: all the time, people are getting shot all the time.
Speaker 2: You know, we got plenty of murders going on. I mean,
Speaker 2: I think we're up to about thirty of them already.
Speaker 2: You know, for the year, it's either thirty or fifteen.
Speaker 2: Is it won every two days? I think it's won
Speaker 2: every two days. We guarantee god bodies dropping. They just
Speaker 2: busted a serious drug ring allegedly, and we also have
Speaker 2: ice around. But I got to tell you, in my
Speaker 2: particular neighborhood on the south side of making the cops
Speaker 2: don't even come here.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm just saying, I don't know. Our last crime
Speaker 3: wave was probably I had to be at least twenty
Speaker 3: years ago, and a guy that I knew walked into
Speaker 3: the convenience store and robbed him, even though everybody in
Speaker 3: town knew who he was. And twenty minutes after he
Speaker 3: robbed the store, the cops would have to his house
Speaker 3: and arrested it they knew exactly who he was. You know,
Speaker 3: that was news boil Way.
Speaker 2: That sounds like the stories I hear. But I showed
Speaker 2: you how a comedian store rocked. Didn't I send you
Speaker 2: that video of a guy who jumped over the counter.
Speaker 2: He's not wearing shoes he's not wearing a shirt, but
Speaker 2: you know what, he's got on a mask back, you know,
Speaker 2: like he's got the COVID mask on, but no shoes,
Speaker 2: no shirt, you know, and the COVID mask is not
Speaker 2: even put on, right, He's not even wearing a hat,
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, and he's just jumping up and
Speaker 2: down telling them to give him the money. They give
Speaker 2: him the money, and then he stands there for a
Speaker 2: while looking around the store, and then he ran away.
Speaker 3: He was looking to see he had deceived. There's anything
Speaker 3: he needed for his trip out of there with chips.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's that. And simultaneous to that. By the way,
Speaker 2: I don't know if you caught this part of it,
Speaker 2: because I'm pretty sure I mailed you the the camera
Speaker 2: angle of this guy jumping behind the counter and the
Speaker 2: girls like staring at him like what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2: And he's you know, he's got a weapon, but he's
Speaker 2: not really even pointing at anybody. He just took the
Speaker 2: money and left. At the same time, like a coordinated
Speaker 2: thing happened, three hookers in the hotel across the street
Speaker 2: all got held a gunpoint and got their money took.
Speaker 2: So the cops are over there trying to sort out
Speaker 2: the hooker's money.
Speaker 3: Yeah, working man's money. That's that's bad.
Speaker 2: And meanwhile, the guy who robbed the comedian store got
Speaker 2: way less than the guys got out of the hookers
Speaker 2: because he only got eighty bucks out of the comedience
Speaker 2: store both registers. The guy who robbed the hookers got
Speaker 2: like five hundred bucks three hookers. Five hundred bucks three hookers.
Speaker 2: It was you know, that's it was late.
Speaker 3: That ain't right. Well, I could just stay right man,
Speaker 3: if you're so low that you're going to rip off hookers. Now,
Speaker 3: they had to work for their money.
Speaker 2: Well that's what I'm saying. I mean, imagine what they
Speaker 2: had to do and who's paying them over at this
Speaker 2: hotel in this city. You know this is not you know,
Speaker 2: good call girl money promise you. They also stole whatever
Speaker 2: drugs they had bought, because you know, the girl's going
Speaker 2: to settle in around midnight, and this happened, so around midnight,
Speaker 2: you know, they go into be done for the day,
Speaker 2: and you know, so they're gonna probably pick up there
Speaker 2: whatever it is they like, whether it's meth or whatever. Hey,
Speaker 2: you know, and I know they took the drugs, but
Speaker 2: you can't tell the cops. Look, they also stole my
Speaker 2: meth and my crack and you know, and the heroin
Speaker 2: I got for my girlfriend over here. They they can't
Speaker 2: report that because I did the math on that. If
Speaker 2: you've got three hookers that only got five hundred dollars
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, they spent some of
Speaker 2: their money, you know, maybe it's just me. Well, anyway,
Speaker 2: you could ask these questions Aaron Franz. You could ask
Speaker 2: these questions of Aaron Franz if you like, in the
Speaker 2: next hour, because the Age of Transitions is gonna be
Speaker 2: live here on o'chelly dot com cause we're all done
Speaker 2: with the Friday night call in show. B Pete. You
Speaker 2: think it was a good one at least?
Speaker 3: Oh, they're always good. We'll just look forward to next
Speaker 3: week do it again.
Speaker 2: Right, Let's try to keep things random, because pissed off
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