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Speaker 2: You know, I made a bold prediction yesterday, and it
Speaker 2: turns out I might be wrong, And I hate to
Speaker 2: admit fault. I hate to say that I'm wrong, but
Speaker 2: I'm willing to man up and say, yep, I may
Speaker 2: have misread the situation. Yesterday. I said, when it came
Speaker 2: to the breach, I'm gonna call it a breach chat gate.
Speaker 2: I don't know what do you have to throw a
Speaker 2: gate on something, signal gate, whatever it is. When we
Speaker 2: had a reporter that was added to a signal messaging
Speaker 2: app chat that was discussing the attacks on the HOUTHI
Speaker 2: rebels in Yemen, I said, somebody's gonna lose their job
Speaker 2: for this. I thought it might be Mike Waltz, who
Speaker 2: it sounds like he's the guy that brought the journalist in,
Speaker 2: Jeffrey Goldberg from the Atlantic. They brought him in, he
Speaker 2: added him to the chat, and I said, you know,
Speaker 2: that is a that is such a colossal screw up
Speaker 2: that somebody's gonna have to pay the price for this. Yesterday,
Speaker 2: it sounds like the President has said, no, everything's great,
Speaker 2: even saying it was a learning moment, he learned his lesson.
Speaker 2: He's a really good guy. Kelly Mayor is the News
Speaker 2: Nation White House correspondent. You see her making waves whenever
Speaker 2: she's talking with the Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt and Kelly,
Speaker 2: it's great to have you on the program. This has
Speaker 2: to be a thank you. Oddly surreal moment when you're
Speaker 2: talking with the Press secretary about this, because yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it sounds like what she's saying is there's no classified information.
Speaker 2: There were no war plans. But I mean I saw
Speaker 2: the texts. I'm looking at them as we speak. That
Speaker 2: sure looks war planny and confidentialistic to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it seems like the debate today in Washington is
Speaker 3: over classified or not classified. And I was just talking
Speaker 3: with some of my sources in the Defense Department and
Speaker 3: they said, this is classified. It's not even debatable. And
Speaker 3: then we are also listening into a hearing happening in
Speaker 3: the House House, which is on global threats. Is what
Speaker 3: the hearing's about. But there are Democrats mostly questioning the
Speaker 3: top intelligence officials on the panel. The Director of National
Speaker 3: Intelligence SULCI Gabbert, the CIA director John Radcliffe, and the
Speaker 3: FBI director Cash Piteuse. And we just heard Rep. Castro
Speaker 3: saying this is a lie to the American people to
Speaker 3: say this is not classified. He says, this is classified information.
Speaker 3: The White House is pushing back on this article again
Speaker 3: this morning, because we just saw that The Atlantic published
Speaker 3: more messages just because of the pushback that they were
Speaker 3: getting from the White House that this wasn't authentic. And
Speaker 3: the White House is saying that this wasn't war plans,
Speaker 3: there was no timing, no locations, it wasn't classified. The
Speaker 3: wording that Gabbard used in the hearing just now is
Speaker 3: it was candid and sensitive, but it wasn't classified.
Speaker 2: I guess I would have to disput some of what
Speaker 2: they're arguing here. I mean, it says the attacks will
Speaker 2: happen over the next seventy two hours, so it says
Speaker 2: we are a go for launch, giving the exact time
Speaker 2: in the text messages, and for the for a president
Speaker 2: who's already had some issues with classified versus non classified documents.
Speaker 2: That and Kelly, I'm sure you're like the rest of us.
Speaker 2: You probably have a box or two of classified documents
Speaker 2: in your bathroom. As well. I know I'd like to
Speaker 2: sit on the commode and review some of those things,
Speaker 2: including the Kennedy and Epstein files for the president in
Speaker 2: the past who said he can just simply say not
Speaker 2: classified and it's no longer classified, which we all learned
Speaker 2: is not the case. Have they put painted themselves into
Speaker 2: an awkward position now where by saying that the communication
Speaker 2: was not classified, now Goldberg can go ahead and publish
Speaker 2: this information without fear of retribution.
Speaker 3: And he is. We just saw him release more of
Speaker 3: these methods this morning, saying, okay, if you're saying this
Speaker 3: isn't classified and going to release it. But you've even
Speaker 3: heard Caroline Lovett, she was quoted in his article Justice
Speaker 3: Morning saying it's not classified, but this is sensitive and
Speaker 3: argue the release against the release in a statement. And
Speaker 3: that was interesting to see, and I think you're seeing
Speaker 3: in the hearing as well, some of the pushback on
Speaker 3: haig Seth really that his messages were the most stamming
Speaker 3: of anyone. Waltz might have been the one that added
Speaker 3: Goldberg to the chat, but haig Seth was really the
Speaker 3: one that discussed the war plans, the attack plans, the
Speaker 3: timing when this was happening and broke it down. So
Speaker 3: there it seemed as though even Gabbered in her testimony
Speaker 3: today said she didn't think it was classified under the
Speaker 3: ODNI guidance, but or she said it was maybe classified
Speaker 3: under ODE and I guidance. But in terms of what
Speaker 3: they were going off of, she says, we're going off
Speaker 3: of Department of Defense guidance, and she was kind of
Speaker 3: pushing that responsibility on to them. So whether or not
Speaker 3: he becomes the fall guy in all of this, but
Speaker 3: right now, as you mentioned, the President is standing by
Speaker 3: his national security team and standing by Waltz in this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so far, it doesn't look like there's going to
Speaker 2: be any sort of a fall guy here. Kelly Mayer
Speaker 2: is the News Nation White House correspondents. We talk about
Speaker 2: the shell game of who did what, what's classified, and
Speaker 2: what's not when it comes to this journalist was added
Speaker 2: to the Signal app chat messaging about the bombing in Yemen.
Speaker 2: I continue to flip through this. You talked about some
Speaker 2: of the damning things that were said, whether it was
Speaker 2: Pete heggs At or others. Jade Vance wasn't very flattering
Speaker 2: towards some of the European nations either. Hegsith said he
Speaker 2: also has loathing for European free loading. Is this likely
Speaker 2: to have consequences when it comes to foreign relations with
Speaker 2: some of those European nations?
Speaker 3: It really could. I mean, this is all European allies,
Speaker 3: our European allies are talking about. There was one of
Speaker 3: my White House colleagues was covering it for Europe and
Speaker 3: asked a question of the president. And that's all Europe
Speaker 3: wanted to hear about. Is on the papers over there
Speaker 3: in Britain. They feel as though Vance does not support
Speaker 3: the UK, doesn't support European allies, and he is next
Speaker 3: in line for the presidency. What does that mean for
Speaker 3: the rest of Europe. That's a big question. And that
Speaker 3: was really what was revealed in that chat. Not only
Speaker 3: that apologize I'm on my way to the White House
Speaker 3: and there's just loud noises, But not only that, but
Speaker 3: Vance in these messages as well also kind of showed
Speaker 3: his divide with President himself, showing that they're not always
Speaker 3: in agreement. So there's that part of it as well.
Speaker 2: Kelly Mahor, the News Nation White House correspondent, One final
Speaker 2: question here, Kelly, and then I'll let you go into
Speaker 2: the White House. That's a flex I never thought i'd
Speaker 2: here is. Are we seeing any sort of division among
Speaker 2: the ranks of the GOP. Obviously the Democrats are going
Speaker 2: to rally around and say this is a really bad
Speaker 2: thing by the administration. Are there any members of the
Speaker 2: GOP that are breaking ranks and going, yeah, this was
Speaker 2: a total blunder and an unforced error.
Speaker 3: Well, I think when it first broke you were seeing
Speaker 3: some of them say, yeah, this was a mistake, like
Speaker 3: they could have handled this better. Let's have an investigation.
Speaker 3: And now it seems as though they're really focused on
Speaker 3: having a bipartisan investigation. The Senate Armed Service to the
Speaker 3: German telling us yesterday that they are going to have
Speaker 3: this investigation. They want to ask for all the messages
Speaker 3: and then they'll look into this to see if there's
Speaker 3: any consequences or where the fault lies. So right now,
Speaker 3: it does seem like Republicans, at least on the surface
Speaker 3: publicly or saying that there needs to be a bipartisan
Speaker 3: investigation and are keeping it pretty much, you know, status quo.
Speaker 3: But it might be more behind the scenes happening as well.
Speaker 2: All right, Kelly, great talking with you. Head on into
Speaker 2: the White House. I know it can be a bit
Speaker 2: perguise to get in there, so good luck, Jilli Mayor
Speaker 2: the News Nation White House correspondent joining us here. Well,
Speaker 2: curious how this is going to play out. I don't know, Gang,
Speaker 2: you know, I said, I thought somebody. I thought somebody
Speaker 2: was going to lose their job over this, and then
Speaker 2: it looked like nobody was going to lose their job
Speaker 2: over this. Anybody feeling any different? I mean, anybody gonna
Speaker 2: lose their job over this? The President says no. But
Speaker 2: at some point, if you start getting some pressure from
Speaker 2: the White House, excuse me, from Congress, then the White
Speaker 2: House might have to throw up a sacrificial lamb. I
Speaker 2: don't know, you know, yesterday I was I said, mark
Speaker 2: it down, bank it that somebody's gonna lose her job. Today,
Speaker 2: I'm feeling about fifty to fifty, which is a little
Speaker 2: more than I was feeling when the show started. I
Speaker 2: was thinking, I was there was still about a ten
Speaker 2: percent chance. But I don't know. Man Trump has this
Speaker 2: way of just making trouble slide right off of him.
Speaker 2: But this one isn't on him. This one is on
Speaker 2: the others that were in that chat, and he may
Speaker 2: be more willing to allow a sacrificial lamb as long
Speaker 2: as it keeps some of the pressure off of him.
Speaker 2: We will watch how this plays out. How confident are
Speaker 2: you when you go to the store. Well, as you know,
Speaker 2: we have a consumer confidence index that comes out once
Speaker 2: a month, and even when things go well, if the
Speaker 2: perception is that things are not going well, consumer confidence
Speaker 2: kind of comes down a little bit. In fact, that
Speaker 2: was the case if you took a look at some
Speaker 2: of the numbers during portions of the Biden administration, we
Speaker 2: saw high inflation, consumer confidence dropped, wages were up. We
Speaker 2: saw some other economic indicators that were positive, including the
Speaker 2: stock market that was doing very well. But generally speaking,
Speaker 2: we go to the grocery store, we see the price
Speaker 2: of eggs cresting seven eight dollars a dozen, and our
Speaker 2: confidence right on down the toilet. Well, as you might imagine,
Speaker 2: when we have the tariff hokey pokey, then people feel
Speaker 2: like there's a lot of volatility, and volatility scares people.
Speaker 2: Eggs are still very high. We still have a high
Speaker 2: cost of other protein products. We'll get to those here
Speaker 2: in a minute. And if you haven't noticed, it's not
Speaker 2: like your energy bills are coming down, So we are
Speaker 2: getting hit boom boom boom, another bill, another bill, another bill,
Speaker 2: and the prices keep going up, and it's gonna be
Speaker 2: a hot summer and you're gonna be running that air
Speaker 2: conditioner and your power prices are higher than they were before,
Speaker 2: and how are you gonna run that air condition All
Speaker 2: that stuff, right, and so consumer confidence is starting to dissipate.
Speaker 2: Even it doesn't necessarily mean that it's a sign that
Speaker 2: the economy is sinking. It means that people are worried
Speaker 2: that the economy is sinking. In fact, I think it
Speaker 2: was Yeah, Bloomberg was discussing.
Speaker 4: This, These are bad numbers. It was expected that we
Speaker 4: would see it drop to ninety four, but seeing it
Speaker 4: drop to ninety two point nine, that is the lowest
Speaker 4: since the middle of the pandemic back in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 4: twenty so that is extremely bad news. Now, the other
Speaker 4: thing that we're seeing is that the prior month, the
Speaker 4: February number was revised up from ninety eight point three
Speaker 4: to one hundred point one, So this makes it even
Speaker 4: bigger drop.
Speaker 2: But also remember they revised these numbers based on these surveys,
Speaker 2: which means that this big drop this time around could
Speaker 2: be revised up. Next month could also be revised down.
Speaker 2: But I'm just saying that it may not be quite
Speaker 2: as bad as they're making it out to be, but
Speaker 2: it may be worse.
Speaker 4: The present Situation index actually drops to one thirty six
Speaker 4: five from one thirty eight to one, and expectations dropped
Speaker 4: to sixty five to two.
Speaker 2: All right, these are all numbers that mean nothing to you,
Speaker 2: and I I mean unless you are some sort of
Speaker 2: an investor that pays very close attention to the intricacies
Speaker 2: of the consumer price index, the consumer confidence, the other
Speaker 2: price in whatever else that it may matter to you.
Speaker 2: But for most of us, we go I don't know
Speaker 2: what is sixty two. I don't know he got a
Speaker 2: ninety two and a sixty five and a one thirty seven,
Speaker 2: and nobody really knows what it means, right, I get it.
Speaker 2: Here's what we are seeing though, that is freaking some
Speaker 2: people out. The consumer optimism is gone. Walmart has lowered
Speaker 2: their their profit forecasts. Right Target, We already know Target
Speaker 2: has been hurting. You can argue about whether it has
Speaker 2: to do with being woke, or DEI initiatives or anything else.
Speaker 2: Like that, but target sales are dropping, Macy's, Best Buy, Abercrombie, Fitch,
Speaker 2: Dollar General also getting cautious about their expectations. Home and
Speaker 2: car sales are dropping, although it doesn't seem to be
Speaker 2: loosening up the housing market at all, and certainly your
Speaker 2: housing continues to be very expensive. So all of these
Speaker 2: things mark uh, these are bad markers. And those bad
Speaker 2: markers lead another survey to say that the probability of
Speaker 2: a recession is approaching fifty percent. Now where this gets
Speaker 2: very interesting is there could be if we have tariffs
Speaker 2: going to effect, and we have taxes go up, and
Speaker 2: we have inflation and this sort of thing, that would
Speaker 2: be that would be a direct cause for a recession.
Speaker 2: But we can also worry ourselves into a recession. For instance,
Speaker 2: consumer confidence drops. You're not you're you don't know where
Speaker 2: the next paycheck is going to come from, or you
Speaker 2: don't know how much of that next paycheck is going
Speaker 2: to have to go to necessities like your your power bill,
Speaker 2: your mortgage, Well you know what your mortgage is gonna be,
Speaker 2: but uh you you know, uh, some of these other
Speaker 2: food costs, whatever else it might be. So you go,
Speaker 2: I'm I'm not going to spend my disposable income on
Speaker 2: a new TV this time around. I've got the money.
Speaker 2: I want a new TV, but I don't know what's
Speaker 2: going on with the cost of power this year. Is
Speaker 2: that gonna go up? And if that goes up and
Speaker 2: it's a hot summer, I want to make sure that
Speaker 2: I'm taking care of I don't know what's gonna go
Speaker 2: on with the clothing I need to put on my
Speaker 2: kids for next school year, because if Tariff's go into
Speaker 2: effect and all of a sudden, clothing starts going up
Speaker 2: in price because it's imported and I have to buy
Speaker 2: American made clothing and that might be more expensive anyway,
Speaker 2: then you go, my back to school bill is gonna
Speaker 2: be something I've never seen before. So you are starting
Speaker 2: to squirrel away your acorns. You're starting to put them away.
Speaker 2: And when you start to put those acorns away, that
Speaker 2: means you're not spending the money, which means that these
Speaker 2: different companies start to see a downturn. They start to
Speaker 2: see their expectations come down, their realizations come down, and
Speaker 2: that means, oh, we're gonna have to shutter this store,
Speaker 2: We're gonna have to lay off this many employees. We
Speaker 2: have to cut these hours, whatever it might be, which
Speaker 2: means there's less money filtering through the system, and all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, we do start to see a downturn.
Speaker 2: We do start to see a recession. We see a
Speaker 2: contraction simply out of concerns about the volatility that we
Speaker 2: have surrounding these real issues. Whether those real issues materialize
Speaker 2: or not, our concerns over those issues manifest into effectively
Speaker 2: a recession. Now. One area where you are continuing to
Speaker 2: see the hurt is when you go to the grocery
Speaker 2: store and you try to buy that burger. I don't
Speaker 2: know if you've seen the price of beef lately. It's
Speaker 2: getting a bit wild. Fox News was talking about that
Speaker 2: and they mentioned that some places are starting to freak out.
Speaker 2: A butcher shop hasn't seen their customers balk at higher
Speaker 2: prices because they see the prices, they see the inflation,
Speaker 2: they see that everything is going up, and so the
Speaker 2: butcher shop says, well, that's good. People understand, and yet
Speaker 2: I'm not happy about it. I don't know about you.
Speaker 2: I like to buy my I like to buy things
Speaker 2: in bulk and throw it in the freezer. But I
Speaker 2: got a room in the freezer. I'll buy a larger
Speaker 2: quantity and then I will freeze it, right, get a
Speaker 2: little bit cheaper. I don't like it when I see
Speaker 2: the price of beef five six dollars a pound. That's crazy.
Speaker 2: That's exactly what we're starting to see. Cattle herd is
Speaker 2: experiencing a down cycle. Cattle inventories are at historically low levels,
Speaker 2: according to Bovine Experts. A Department of Agriculture reporting in
Speaker 2: late January, the US farms had let me see a
Speaker 2: decline of one percent of their beef inventory. So they
Speaker 2: say they're killing smaller cattle. They're trying to kill them
Speaker 2: faster to create the supply that demand is needing, and
Speaker 2: they keep the larger cattle around I guess, and just
Speaker 2: kill the small ones faster. It is interesting too, that
Speaker 2: demand remains high, which is why they have to continue
Speaker 2: to slaughter the cattle. If your supply is low, it's
Speaker 2: because you slaughter too many cattle and you didn't breed enough.
Speaker 2: But it's only because demand is high enough that you
Speaker 2: end up slaughtering more cattle. Right, I mean, really, when
Speaker 2: we talk about supply and demand issues, we are talking
Speaker 2: in in agriculture. It is very quick. It is is
Speaker 2: on the nose. All right, Enough rambling about that stuff.
Speaker 2: How about something fun. Get this. Think about the last
Speaker 2: time that you lost something. Right, could be your keys,
Speaker 2: could be your wallet, purse, cell phone. And think about
Speaker 2: something and how frustrating that is when you lose it,
Speaker 2: and how relieved you are when you find it. Now,
Speaker 2: think about the time that you found something. Maybe you
Speaker 2: found twenty dollars. I once bought a desk at a
Speaker 2: garage sale and my wife used that desk for four
Speaker 2: or five years, and she asked me to move it
Speaker 2: one day and my buddy comes over and he says,
Speaker 2: I'll help you move the desk and we pulled the
Speaker 2: drawers out. Six thousand dollars was behind the drawer in
Speaker 2: the bottom of that desk. We'd owned this desk for
Speaker 2: years with six thousand dollars sitting in there, just cash.
Speaker 2: Evidently it had been used at somebody's business and they're
Speaker 2: paid casht or fell back there. But the business was
Speaker 2: gone and the people that sold that were selling it
Speaker 2: on a state sale. I couldn't track them down, and
Speaker 2: so we bought a TV. So think about the time
Speaker 2: that you found something big, or think about the time
Speaker 2: that you lost something big. You ever misplaced something, something,
Speaker 2: something major, or something of tremendous value. You always hear
Speaker 2: these stories about the kids in Poland that are out
Speaker 2: playing in the woods and then they run across the
Speaker 2: World War two a bomb or something that's undetonated. In fact,
Speaker 2: I think, didn't we have that. Yeah? I think I
Speaker 2: was in San Diego and they had the kids about
Speaker 2: ten years ago. I think kids were they discovered some
Speaker 2: unexploded ordinance and they had according everything off. That's scary. Now,
Speaker 2: imagine you're an astronomer and you find something really impressive.
Speaker 2: That's exactly what has happened now as astronomers have officially
Speaker 2: declared we found moons, and you say, wow, where are
Speaker 2: these moons that you just recently found? They must be
Speaker 2: light years away for you to find over one hundred
Speaker 2: new moons and have never discovered them in the past,
Speaker 2: these must be these must be a long long ways away,
Speaker 2: and you can Nope. A new study found that Saturn
Speaker 2: has one hundred and twenty eight new moons in orbit
Speaker 2: and they've been there the whole time that we've been
Speaker 2: staring at the skies. Yeah, Saturn now officially as two
Speaker 2: hundred and seventy four moons. It's got more moons than
Speaker 2: any other planet in our Solar system. The second is Jupiter.
Speaker 2: Jupiter is ninety five. So these moons they say were
Speaker 2: probably formed by cosmic smashups. They sent debris into Saturn's
Speaker 2: orbit about one hundred million years ago. Galactically speaking, that's
Speaker 2: pretty young. But that's been a while. So this team
Speaker 2: of astronomers finds these new moons and then I have
Speaker 2: to do a bunch of tests to make sure that
Speaker 2: sure enough they are new moons, and then they're able
Speaker 2: to announce it to the world. So one hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty eight new moons that they didn't observe in the past.
Speaker 2: I should, however, clarify before we bag too much on
Speaker 2: the astronomers that misplaced moons. Some of these moons are small,
Speaker 2: only a couple of miles wide, and when you compare
Speaker 2: that to our moon, which is a couple thousand miles wide,
Speaker 2: it makes it a little harder to detect. It's not
Speaker 2: as though they could simply point their telescope at Saturn
Speaker 2: and go, there's one, there's one, there's one. Indeed, they
Speaker 2: had to use some more sciencing in order to discover
Speaker 2: that these were there. It wasn't observed with the eye.
Speaker 2: It was observed with the math, which always blows my
Speaker 2: mind that astronomers can pick things out using the math.
Speaker 2: What you could see with your eye, if you were
Speaker 2: in a certain a certain location around the world, is
Speaker 2: you could see this weird blue spiral in the sky
Speaker 2: that looked ominously like a portal to another dimension. What
Speaker 2: was it?
Speaker 1: This amazing blue spiral was seen floating over Europe yesterday.
Speaker 1: Time lapse video was recorded in Croatia. People from the
Speaker 1: United Kingdom to Poland reported seeing it. UK's National Mediaorological
Speaker 1: and Climate Agency says it was likely caused by a
Speaker 1: SpaceX rocket launch earlier that day, or it's a wormhole.
Speaker 1: They say the spiral was the result of the rockets
Speaker 1: frozen exhaust plumes spinning in the atmosphere and reflecting sunlight.
Speaker 2: That's from Katla. I mean, that's a cool explanation way
Speaker 2: to explain it away, But I'm telling you I've watched
Speaker 2: enough sci fi to know it's exactly what a time
Speaker 2: portal looks like. So I mean, use your brains, people,
Speaker 2: do your research. If it looks like a time portal
Speaker 2: and it smells like a time portal. It's probably not
Speaker 2: SpaceX exhaust reflecting off the sunlight. I don't buy it.
Speaker 2: You know, who could have told us exactly what it was.
Speaker 2: The people in the space station. The problem is they're
Speaker 2: all in the sick bay. Astronauts on the ISS are
Speaker 2: being plagued by persistent rashes, unusual allergies, and a variety
Speaker 2: of infections. No, it's turning into a giant swingers party
Speaker 2: up there. Come to find out, it's because the lab
Speaker 2: is too clean. If if anybody happens to talk to
Speaker 2: my wife, do not tell her that this is a possibility.
Speaker 2: It is enough trouble for me to try to get
Speaker 2: her to clean up after dinner. Lord knows, if she
Speaker 2: thinks there's such a thing as too clean, she'll tell
Speaker 2: me she's doing it for my health. They need bacteria,
Speaker 2: they say, our bodies need that bacteria. You've probably heard
Speaker 2: the You've heard the advice about don't use too much
Speaker 2: antibacterial soap because your body needs that bacteria. We need
Speaker 2: the germs in order to fight off infections, things like that.
Speaker 2: So there's a microbial imbalance on a space station because
Speaker 2: it's too clean, and scientists are hypothesizing that cultivating a
Speaker 2: diverse set of microbes on the International Space Station could
Speaker 2: improve astronaut health. They say there's a big difference between
Speaker 2: exposure of healthy soil from gardening versus just stewing in
Speaker 2: our own filth, which is kind of what happens if
Speaker 2: we're in a strictly enclosed environment with no ongoing input
Speaker 2: from those healthy sources of microbes from outside. So what
Speaker 2: we're saying is if if the environment is too clean,
Speaker 2: it can't set off, it can't offset how disgusting you are.
Speaker 2: Kind Of like my mom used to say growing up,
Speaker 2: God made dirt, so dirt don't hurt. Get outside play.
Speaker 2: Come to find out, there's another health benefit other than
Speaker 2: just our mental health of being outside. It's the dirt
Speaker 2: actually helps us stay cleaner from the bad bacteria. Who knew?
Speaker 2: Always excited when we get to welcome in, Gary and Shannon,
Speaker 2: did you guys have to catch a strel that beard
Speaker 2: transplants are taking off? Because I'm fascinated by.
Speaker 5: This this, uh says a man with a beard.
Speaker 2: Well, so I think there's an opportunity here for you. Okay,
Speaker 2: all right, so babyface, Gary, are you.
Speaker 5: Going to donate yours.
Speaker 2: But I was gonna make you a deal, Okay, I
Speaker 2: was gonna be a friends and family discount on that
Speaker 2: kind of find out there there are a number of
Speaker 2: these hair restoration places that that already do uh, hair restoration.
Speaker 2: And what they're saying is they can do like they
Speaker 2: do with with these Look at look at those plugs.
Speaker 2: Huh look at look at that hair restoring. Look how
Speaker 2: well that's gone over right? That was just ten years
Speaker 2: ago that I got that done. I need a little
Speaker 2: touching up.
Speaker 5: Don't you have like a brown sharpie or something you
Speaker 5: can could that's not bad?
Speaker 2: Maybe uh, maybe some of that spray exactly. That's what
Speaker 2: I was thinking about. Maybe I can work on a
Speaker 2: deal here, because you have got the loveliest locks. I
Speaker 2: mean you you you look, you look brilliant. I've got
Speaker 2: the bed. Obviously you can't grow that or you would.
Speaker 2: Maybe there's a chance here that I could swap you
Speaker 2: a few follicles. What's happening is they're they're taking follicles
Speaker 2: from the back of the head, just like they do
Speaker 2: with with the hair transplants, and they're taking follicles from
Speaker 2: the back and the sides, and then rather than putting
Speaker 2: it on the top where you've got your Meryl pattern boldness.
Speaker 2: They're dropping it into your face. The composition of facial
Speaker 2: hair is different than the composition of hair on your melon.
Speaker 2: So I don't know if it I don't know if
Speaker 2: it's really working out so well for the people. But
Speaker 2: I've seen photos before and after photos, and some of
Speaker 2: them have that that scruffy Orlando Bloom Pirates of the
Speaker 2: Caribbean look, and then when they're done, they've got that
Speaker 2: whole idris elbow look, which, let's face it, cono and
Speaker 2: I can do that others.
Speaker 5: Why are you looking directly at me? I don't understand.
Speaker 6: Gary, listen if I if I listen, you can hear
Speaker 6: it from rubbing my beard against the microphone.
Speaker 5: You can hear that, right, No, no, no, I was disgusting.
Speaker 2: Sorry, it was. It was vile. When when you when
Speaker 2: you tuck your kids in at night, did they go daddy?
Speaker 2: Your face scratches?
Speaker 6: Sometimes? Maybe once every three weeks? Yeah, Is that how
Speaker 6: long it takes you to get scruff It's three weeks, No,
Speaker 6: but it'll take it. I go a couple of days
Speaker 6: between shaves, is that right?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I didn't know that that's a new fun.
Speaker 6: She sits right across from me, She's four feet away
Speaker 6: from my face, and she can't even see it when
Speaker 6: I shave.
Speaker 5: No, I don't don't, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I see, and I get that five o'clock shadow
Speaker 2: that my that my father used to have. I've known
Speaker 2: guys that can grow like a full beard in a week,
Speaker 2: kind of thing. I can't do that.
Speaker 5: I have a brother in law who shaves twice a day.
Speaker 2: Is that right?
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's very hairy.
Speaker 2: They could sell some beard full Is he a woodsman?
Speaker 5: Does he have an a woodsman?
Speaker 2: Don't stereotypes punch.
Speaker 5: I totally view you, by the way, as a woodsman.
Speaker 2: Hey, fun fact. So I planned this little vacation to
Speaker 2: my home town before before Oscar reached out and said
Speaker 2: can you cover for Bill? And I said, well I can.
Speaker 2: I can do it, but I have to do it
Speaker 2: from northern Michigan. So I was telling kno that as
Speaker 2: soon as we got off the air today, no joke,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go tap some trees to pull some maple syrvice.
Speaker 5: This is exactly what I envisioned.
Speaker 2: Stereotype.
Speaker 5: I love it. You're gonna tap those trees with your
Speaker 5: bare hand like I can picture what. I can picture
Speaker 5: what you're wearing. I can picture all of it. Is
Speaker 5: that weird Yes, flannel flannel, a.
Speaker 6: Lot of and like like rough, like scratchy, itchy flannel,
Speaker 6: like real flannel, not like that soft cotton bs but
Speaker 6: like a real man's flannel flannel.
Speaker 2: That's right, Yeah, far.
Speaker 5: Booth flannel boots.
Speaker 2: I have boots on.
Speaker 5: You're damn right, you do, I do. You're damn right.
Speaker 2: Look at that.
Speaker 5: That's what I'm wearing, legit boots right there too. Yeah,
Speaker 5: that man right there.
Speaker 2: That's right, that's a man.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 6: You don't wear snake guards, do you? Though, No, we
Speaker 6: don't really have snake I guess you guys.
Speaker 5: How long is this a deliverance trip in Michigan?
Speaker 2: It's uh. I think I got ten days left. It'll
Speaker 2: be all next week too, which means I gotta I
Speaker 2: gotta tap that tree, I gotta pull some sap and
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to boil it down in a hurry,
Speaker 2: and then then I can sell you some of my syrup.
Speaker 5: Oh, we would totally trade.
Speaker 2: I could trade Gary for some hair follicles.
Speaker 5: I just I didn't realize I just got my hair
Speaker 5: cut yesterday. I would have saved some for you.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. Yeah, do that. At the very least
Speaker 2: I could glue yours on.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that'd be I'm sure that would look great.
Speaker 2: It looks special, all right. Well, good luck with the
Speaker 2: with a great program. I'm looking forward to it, guys.
Speaker 2: Let's talk to you tomorrow. Thanks, thank you Chris Maryland
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