Speaker 1: Wow, folks, we're back with Everything is a bitch. Sorry
Speaker 1: for the long hiatus between the holidays and a thousand
Speaker 1: other things. AJ and I haven't been able to get
Speaker 1: together for a u and everything is a bitch, but
Speaker 1: we are here today. January fifteen, twenty twenty five. Lots
Speaker 1: of fives, AJ is a good number, bad number? What's
Speaker 1: a bad number?
Speaker 2: People? A lot of people like fives. Lenny Kravitz, Well,
Speaker 2: I used to hang out with loves fives. That's his thing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: of course, but no, I don't like I like even numbers.
Speaker 2: Not right, I like even numbers. I don't like the five.
Speaker 1: My defensive and new sucks that we drafted way too
Speaker 1: high bed number five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, not good. I like even numbers. But uh,
Speaker 2: here we are, bro. It's horrible. I mean, if you
Speaker 2: were here back, if you were here in La Still,
Speaker 2: you know, you wouldn't be worried where you used to
Speaker 2: live with the fires, but uh well.
Speaker 1: It might be worried because I would have got in
Speaker 1: my car, I would have driven to Pacific Palisades. I
Speaker 1: would have broken through whatever fucking security ABC World News
Speaker 1: Tonight has and I'd have tackled that little fucking pussy
Speaker 1: David murror Or rode his face in the ashes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: though at sixty two, this is kind of like you
Speaker 1: fighting the security.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, let's not act like we're weak. I
Speaker 2: could still throw, but when you throw bear spray in
Speaker 2: my eyeballs, I can't fight. But I'll go back on
Speaker 2: that motherfucker on a fair day and we'll we'll hash
Speaker 2: it out. No, we're not going to do that.
Speaker 1: You're thinking I could take Mirror doesn't. He doesn't. He
Speaker 1: posts stuff with him doing uh yeah, all kinds of
Speaker 1: jiu jitsu and shit like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he likes his guns and all that shit.
Speaker 2: But he's a pussy. He's not a tough guy. Everybody
Speaker 2: is full of shit, Mike. Social media has made everybody
Speaker 2: pose and act like they're great and their lives are great,
Speaker 2: and it's it's all horseshit.
Speaker 1: You know, he's like a hard news Seacrest.
Speaker 2: Well, I didn't want to say that because you always talk,
Speaker 2: you always talk nice about Ryan Seacrest, and I know
Speaker 2: you knew him, and I know Ryan and I you know,
Speaker 2: earlier today we did Our Relationships as a Bitch podcast
Speaker 2: and we were talking about David Muir with the clothes
Speaker 2: pins on his yellow slicker for the fires ridiculous. But uh,
Speaker 2: you know, I know Ryan Seacrest is the kind of
Speaker 2: host that lets the underlings tie his shoes while he's
Speaker 2: standing there reading his copy. I was never that kind. Yeah. Yeah, people, you.
Speaker 1: Know Ryan, I knew. I have a hard time.
Speaker 2: No, oh no, it's not I'm not I know. I
Speaker 2: mean the girls I work with work for Ryan, and
Speaker 2: they weren't denouncing him, but they, you know, they just said,
Speaker 2: you know, Ryan just sits there and you tie his shoes,
Speaker 2: you fix his hair, and look, it comes down to
Speaker 2: this very basic decency. When I go to the strip club,
Speaker 2: I don't dump the twenty on the floor. I hand
Speaker 2: it to the stripper because I'm classy. You don't put
Speaker 2: money on the floor. You don't have people tie your shoe.
Speaker 2: It just makes you feel like an asshole. I can't
Speaker 2: do that to people.
Speaker 1: Yeah no that. Let me tell you something. Back in
Speaker 1: the day, the guy I knew, and I knew him,
Speaker 1: you know him really well, and I knew he was
Speaker 1: a kid. And one thing that truly separated him from
Speaker 1: you know, he he made the big jump from Atlanta
Speaker 1: Radio to LA Radio. He's do an afternoon drive on
Speaker 1: Star ninety eight seven there in LA. That was a
Speaker 1: hot station at the time, and well I went to
Speaker 1: that was later when he moved to Kiss, he went
Speaker 1: on in the mornings with Ellen. But but when he
Speaker 1: was a twenty six, twenty seven year old afternoon drive
Speaker 1: jock in LA, you know, for that age, you know,
Speaker 1: probably making a half a million dollars a year, which
Speaker 1: time at that age is a lot of money. He
Speaker 1: hustled his ass off anything. If I needed him to
Speaker 1: do something with an advertiser, most talent one, anything the
Speaker 1: freaking do with that unless there's you know, a bunch
Speaker 1: of money that's guaranteed to them going in there. I
Speaker 1: mean he did stuff on spec I mean, he he
Speaker 1: worked it, and he had a he had a commitment
Speaker 1: to work that. I mean, you knew at that point
Speaker 1: he was going to have a really good career. And
Speaker 1: you know, he earned that shot replacing Rick D's in
Speaker 1: the morning on Kiss and then the syndication and everything
Speaker 1: before it all took off with American Idol for him
Speaker 1: on the TV side, So he earned it. I hope
Speaker 1: it didn't all go to his head to the point where.
Speaker 2: But you know, you know, and Mike, and I give
Speaker 2: him a lot of credit. I would see Ryan out
Speaker 2: at night after the tapings of the American Idol. Always
Speaker 2: a decent guy. But you know, when when Hollywood dictates
Speaker 2: that you're the king and you're the new person, you're
Speaker 2: the guy, it can certainly go to your head and
Speaker 2: make you think you're better than you are. It's uh.
Speaker 2: And I don't even fault to people that fall down
Speaker 2: that that rabbit hole because they there's so many people
Speaker 2: who make you think no, no, no, don't move, we
Speaker 2: got this, I'll tie you issue Ryan. Stop that happens
Speaker 2: in La. There are a lot of people who want
Speaker 2: to cater to the big star and it can get
Speaker 2: to your It can get to your head. It got
Speaker 2: to my head. I'm any occasions about wow, okay, you
Speaker 2: want to do that, you want to I'm getting that
Speaker 2: kind of money? Oh wow, it can get to your head.
Speaker 2: And on his level, it's astronomical. My level was, you know, minimal.
Speaker 1: But I understand yeah no, and you would understand better
Speaker 1: than me. But that's it's I'm sorry to hear that.
Speaker 1: If that's if that's where it's gone. Because time, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of humanity there at a young age. So well,
Speaker 1: what's left to say about what's going on out there? Crazy?
Speaker 1: So much has been said by everybody from all angles
Speaker 1: of this thing. Got any got anything fresh? Different?
Speaker 2: Well? You know what I I'm you know, we have
Speaker 2: our bags packed, like there's something very strange. I know
Speaker 2: what's happening fifteen miles away? What have you? Or? At
Speaker 2: times much it's just a disaster. But when you wake
Speaker 2: up every morning in this town like I did today
Speaker 2: with the bluest sky ever seen, sunshine, no wind, you
Speaker 2: can't fathom what's happening ten, twelve, fifteen miles away. So
Speaker 2: you have this complacency about you, like, well, it's not
Speaker 2: gonna happen to us. I don't think it will. I
Speaker 2: don't think it'll get to us. But I'm not sleeping. Well,
Speaker 2: I'm doing two and a half hours a night. I'm
Speaker 2: going to bed at ten thirty, waking up at one fifteen.
Speaker 2: It's it does a number on your on your brain,
Speaker 2: on your anxiety. You got children, you know my wife,
Speaker 2: You know I gotta I gotta take care of people.
Speaker 2: You know you're you're the man. You gotta figure shit out.
Speaker 2: Where do we go? South? Do we go? To Nevada.
Speaker 2: Where do we go? It's uh. And by the way,
Speaker 2: I have a lot of several people who our patrons
Speaker 2: on Famous a bit, who have offered me their home.
Speaker 2: You know, you could stay with us. It's just there
Speaker 2: are some people who during these kind of tragedies who
Speaker 2: just make wonderful They're just wonderful people. No.
Speaker 1: I look, the Fame family, the folks that they're a
Speaker 1: part of everything since the very beginning, are just they're
Speaker 1: tremendous folks. Who I mean, it's it's it's family. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's inte.
Speaker 2: Catherine Stewart gave so much money to the people down
Speaker 2: in North Carolina after Helene and the other I mean
Speaker 2: Kathy Troupe rescuing horses everywhere, and you saw videos of
Speaker 2: horses being walked down the street. It looked like Armageddon.
Speaker 2: It was one o'clock in the afternoon. The sky was black.
Speaker 2: The embers are flying around the horses heads. There are
Speaker 2: people rescuing pigs, snakes, there are down there are donkeys
Speaker 2: and you know the area at Pete Go and robertson Mike.
Speaker 2: Just imagine how far these donkeys had to travel to
Speaker 2: go down that that far south it's it's like nothing
Speaker 2: I've ever seen. All the people in my apartment building
Speaker 2: were all talking and we text each other at night.
Speaker 2: What do you think? What do you think? You know,
Speaker 2: we're staying put, But it sits with the winds today
Speaker 2: and maybe tomorrow it could get hairy, but I just
Speaker 2: don't think it will.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I've been I've been watching the the k
Speaker 1: t l A feed there for days, uh and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I was watching local New Orleans TV coverage
Speaker 1: of uh everything posts, the terrorist act on New Year's Eve,
Speaker 1: and even in just the last couple of years, the
Speaker 1: the quality of local news reporting has just I mean it.
Speaker 1: I mean it's a it's a steady, a couple of
Speaker 1: decade long decline, as as revenues have declined and the
Speaker 1: operators have sought to operate, uh, you know, more and
Speaker 1: more and more efficiently, and the threat from uh from
Speaker 1: digital sources of news and entertainment of have fractured that business.
Speaker 1: But it's uh, you know, it's it's it's hanging by
Speaker 1: a thread. I mean some of these reports, I didn't
Speaker 1: recognize half of the reporters in just three years of
Speaker 1: of being gone. I mean, obviously they had a tragedy
Speaker 1: at that station, and yeah, but you know it's not
Speaker 1: it's not even what it was three years ago. And
Speaker 1: the know New Orleans local station trying to cover a
Speaker 1: tragedy of that magnitude the morning after. I mean, it
Speaker 1: was it was beyond. It was amateur our Times ten.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's it's frightening.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: We talk about and everybody's talked about the competence of
Speaker 1: government officials there in California because of everything surrounding this catastrophe.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's competence in general around a lot
Speaker 1: of industries, a lot of institutions. It's just there's a
Speaker 1: if it's possible. You know, competence has lost its place
Speaker 1: in the equation. You know, our teachers, our the fire
Speaker 1: department in LA, the quality of our local news, the.
Speaker 2: Oops, New York, everywhere, everywhere, what the f well, I know,
Speaker 2: it's listen, I'm happy that in one week we got
Speaker 2: Donald Trump coming back. And you can feel everybody, not
Speaker 2: just conservatives but also people on the fence, liberals, they
Speaker 2: they they're all kind of feeling like, all right, I
Speaker 2: know he said some bad shit about him, but you know,
Speaker 2: maybe he can change things. There's a new feeling emerging.
Speaker 2: He's not being put down like he used to be.
Speaker 2: They're recognizing as his second turn. And by the way,
Speaker 2: he's not the same man as he was back in
Speaker 2: the first term. He's different. He's calmer, he's softer. He's
Speaker 2: still very diligent about what he wants to do. But
Speaker 2: I think that's one of the things that America needs.
Speaker 2: Ronald Reagan was very good at throwing a blanket on
Speaker 2: problems and making everybody feel like we're going to it
Speaker 2: through this. And Trump, as much as people think he's
Speaker 2: the opposite of that and he's a rapist and this
Speaker 2: and convicted felon, he's gonna throw a blanket on things
Speaker 2: and fix things and in the coming weeks we're gonna
Speaker 2: feel better.
Speaker 1: Well. Look, I I give some credit to to him,
Speaker 1: but I give even more credit to his co president
Speaker 1: because ah, because I mean, Elon is everywhere. Yeah, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, were it not for Elon, I doubt very
Speaker 1: much Trump would be the president elect. And and the
Speaker 1: guy just I don't know how he does it, how
Speaker 1: he finds the time in the day with all the
Speaker 1: responsibilities he's got to do the things he's got but
Speaker 1: you know, uh, there's there's Internet thanks to thanks to
Speaker 1: there's a guy who makes a decision on the on
Speaker 1: the fly that a bunch of people are gonna have
Speaker 1: to wait a little while on the delivery of their
Speaker 1: cyber truck because he's going to deploy a bunch of
Speaker 1: them to the area and deliver deliver Wi Fi service too.
Speaker 1: But that's the the kind of okay, that's the epitome
Speaker 1: of the word competence, exactly, a common sense competence. And
Speaker 1: you know, no one back in twenty sixteen would have
Speaker 1: I would not have said common sense is a strength
Speaker 1: of Trumps, you know, I would maybe it's street sense
Speaker 1: right right, the streets smarts whatever. Yeah, but but I
Speaker 1: think with with a better cast around him. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: this party or with this party is evolving too, which
Speaker 1: I've always been an outside, always an independent, not part
Speaker 1: of the of the party. If they truly bring it
Speaker 1: to the common sense party, I'm on board for that.
Speaker 1: And a lot of people who who are lukewarm on
Speaker 1: Trump stylistically, I didn't get very excited about the thought
Speaker 1: of bringing common sense back to our policies. And but look,
Speaker 1: one big tell will be you know, we're recording three
Speaker 1: o'clock Eastern time on Tuesday. I don't know what's happened.
Speaker 1: I know that that Pete Hegseth was going in front
Speaker 1: of the Gauntlet this morning at nine p thirty. I've
Speaker 1: seen a couple of clips on on X so I
Speaker 1: saw him, you know, getting a hard time from the
Speaker 1: Jillibrands and the Reids and a couple of other people.
Speaker 1: It looked like he was handling himself very well. But
Speaker 1: that'll be That's an important tell. These these appointments are
Speaker 1: really important tells for Trump because they're all dependent on
Speaker 1: the Republicans sticking together. Yeah, you know, one hundred and
Speaker 1: that's been a that's been an elusive thing. So we'll
Speaker 1: see what happens here.
Speaker 2: Well, I think this the second term of Trump's, has
Speaker 2: happened at a very opportune time for all of us
Speaker 2: in America. We see how I mean, I don't care
Speaker 2: what faction you're with, you can just see that states
Speaker 2: are just falling apart. The rules, the laws are bullshit.
Speaker 2: There's money being sent over to Ukraine to the tune
Speaker 2: of hundreds of billions of dollars, and we still have
Speaker 2: people in North Carolina since the hurricanes that don't have help,
Speaker 2: and now God knows what's going to happen out here
Speaker 2: in California of people who need help. I think Americans
Speaker 2: in general are just they've had it, and I'm seeing
Speaker 2: it in the podcast I listen to, whether it's you
Speaker 2: know and most of the comics and actors who do
Speaker 2: podcasts or liberals, But when you got guys like Dak
Speaker 2: Shepherd and I'll even say Bill Maher, the SmartLess Crew,
Speaker 2: Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and Will Arnett, they're all kind
Speaker 2: of saying, well, let's see what he's gonna do. Let's
Speaker 2: see what he can do, when a few weeks months
Speaker 2: ago it was he's the worst he's hitler. Now even
Speaker 2: Rob Emanuel has talked about well, Jeff Bezos, I'm excited
Speaker 2: to see what Trump's gonna do. You know, the nation
Speaker 2: has turned their eyes to see can you help us?
Speaker 2: Because we all know we're not the America was supposed
Speaker 2: to be. We're an embarrassment right now.
Speaker 1: Well, I agree with you. I think I think people
Speaker 1: are silently, for the most part, hopeful. I think it's
Speaker 1: universally recognized, even by those who strongly deny it. The
Speaker 1: sixteen percent or so who declared his presidency a success.
Speaker 1: I think it's universal what a complete disaster Biden has
Speaker 1: been in the last four years have been. And really
Speaker 1: it's not Biden, because they all knew that the guy
Speaker 1: was not capable of doing the job when they put
Speaker 1: him up to run for the freaking thing in the
Speaker 1: first place. And it's whatever the cabal that surrounded him
Speaker 1: to create this slated decisions and policies and everything that's
Speaker 1: happened the last four years, many of which I think
Speaker 1: are fresh out of universities' that's been a disaster. And people,
Speaker 1: you know, anybody but the very far left, or everybody
Speaker 1: but the very far left recognizes it's it's been a disaster.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, I think I think this administration will
Speaker 1: be given a shot by a lot more people than
Speaker 1: they might have thought would give him a would give
Speaker 1: him a fair shot, And I think surrounded by better,
Speaker 1: more competent, common sense people having the ability to communicate
Speaker 1: to the to the country honestly and not be censored
Speaker 1: at every turn. And you know that's why I say,
Speaker 1: I mean the US MVP for twenty twenty four and
Speaker 1: probably a couple of years before that, is Elon Musk
Speaker 1: because he made the forty four billion dollar decision to
Speaker 1: protect what had been our way of life here in
Speaker 1: America for two hundred and forty eight years. And uh,
Speaker 1: and everybody owes that guy, even those that refused to
Speaker 1: realize what they owe that guy. It's huge. And now
Speaker 1: you've got you know, so you know, you got self
Speaker 1: interest aligning now, and you've got Bezos, and you got
Speaker 1: and Zuckerberg, you know, kissing the ring and and and
Speaker 1: you know, promising to open up certain things and and look,
Speaker 1: that's great. And if Facebook operates on a similar set
Speaker 1: of Facebook and Instagram operate on a similar set of
Speaker 1: rules as as X does. And something comes out of
Speaker 1: this stuff with TikTok, whether it's a sale to a
Speaker 1: US entity, if TikTok operates.
Speaker 2: They missed the one full miss It could be could
Speaker 2: be a lot of people. Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: But if if that happens, I mean that's because look,
Speaker 1: let's face it, that's that the election proved it. That's
Speaker 1: the news media exactly.
Speaker 2: And uh and no one, no one tunes into six
Speaker 2: pm network news. No one gives a ship about that anymore.
Speaker 1: That's been exposed. It's all been exposed exactly. And that's
Speaker 1: not and look that's the that's the I'd say, all
Speaker 1: but one of the Sunday morning shows exposed sixty minutes.
Speaker 2: Late night TV, late walk shows. It's all. They've all
Speaker 2: been exposed, man.
Speaker 1: All been exposed. Uh and and so we're what did
Speaker 1: what do people expect? What happened?
Speaker 2: I mean, you know what, you know what it's like.
Speaker 2: You know what it's like. It's like when you're a
Speaker 2: tough guy. And I always bring it down the street
Speaker 2: terms because that, to me is life when you're a
Speaker 2: tough guy, and maybe some people will talking shit about you.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if you remember he wasn't in
Speaker 2: your neighborhood, but in my neighborhood, Joela Terra was okay.
Speaker 2: Joe was an animal, and you know you maybe in
Speaker 2: private said shit about him like he's an assol. He
Speaker 2: stole so so okay. But then what happens is eventually
Speaker 2: when they come to power, you've got to go, oh,
Speaker 2: you've got to do what all the people now are doing.
Speaker 2: You got to act like, hey, no, I always thought
Speaker 2: that you were given the chance, you'd be great. Trump
Speaker 2: knows this. Trump understands that these people are quivering and
Speaker 2: they need his help and they don't want to be
Speaker 2: put on the enemy's list. But here's what's missing, and
Speaker 2: you can't do it because it's just not the way
Speaker 2: society works. When people like Zuckerberg and all these other
Speaker 2: people who I mean Zuckerberg spent four hundred million dollars
Speaker 2: for Biden and god knows what else they did with
Speaker 2: their platform. In street terms, you meet that guy and go, hey, motherfucker,
Speaker 2: I guess you're probably pissed off or very upset that
Speaker 2: you did that now that I won, So it's gonna
Speaker 2: be a different town. Now, Okay, if I were you,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't act the way you used to act because
Speaker 2: it's going to be very detrimental to your fucking health
Speaker 2: and I know where you live. That's essentially with people
Speaker 2: like Zuckerberg and all these guys need to hear but
Speaker 2: they've already heard it without Trump saying it. They know
Speaker 2: they've got to simmer down and just be like, you
Speaker 2: know what, you know, Joe Biden is going down. Public
Speaker 2: polls show as one of the worst presidents of all time,
Speaker 2: regardless of what he says in his demented mind. And
Speaker 2: now these people these very wealthy people are understand you know,
Speaker 2: it might not be the worst thing to give Trump
Speaker 2: a chance, which is what we said all the time.
Speaker 2: So I'm happy about that.
Speaker 1: And well, I think, you know, look, I think Zuckerberg's
Speaker 1: natural inclination is the direction he's now going in because
Speaker 1: it's the most profitable direction for his company. And I
Speaker 1: think it was actually.
Speaker 2: Business decision.
Speaker 1: It was actually him being muscled into the decisions that
Speaker 1: have been made over the last few years, and now
Speaker 1: it's to where he actually can do what he wants
Speaker 1: to do. He's going to look like a puss no
Speaker 1: matter what publicly, but you know, and I was watching
Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson interviewed Billy Bush last week and it and
Speaker 1: I know Billy a little bit, and it was fascinating
Speaker 1: to me because it I think if NBC, well, I
Speaker 1: know what NBC, We all know what NBC wanted to do,
Speaker 1: but they fucked it up, and thank goodness, they fucked
Speaker 1: it up. But if their strategy had been just a
Speaker 1: little bit different, I mean, think about this. As part
Speaker 1: of what they were talking about is the Access Hollywood
Speaker 1: tape was recorded in two thousand and five. That's when
Speaker 1: Trump said those things to Billy Bush in a green
Speaker 1: room practice Holloway right, two thousand and five.
Speaker 2: And a bus not a green room bus.
Speaker 1: NBC owned that content. They had it, They knew they
Speaker 1: had it. They had it and sat on it for
Speaker 1: eleven years instead of Number one coming out with it them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they get it in the ends of the Washington Post
Speaker 1: and they have the Washington Post do their dirty work.
Speaker 1: But they waited too long. If they would have done
Speaker 1: that during the Republican primaries in twenty sixteen, before Trump
Speaker 1: had any separation from the field, yeah, it probably it
Speaker 1: probably clips Trump.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but Mike NBC, what show was their number one show?
Speaker 1: No, I know that, I know that, but not but
Speaker 1: it was off the air? By that, I mean what
Speaker 1: you were did? Did the Apprentice go off the air?
Speaker 2: I don't I don't remember the year. I don't even know.
Speaker 2: I can't even think about that.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's a good it's a good point, though.
Speaker 1: We should look that up and see. Okay, but I
Speaker 1: mean that that wasn't like a spontaneous I mean that
Speaker 1: was a that was a planned maneuver. I don't know
Speaker 1: how much in advance, but you know it was a
Speaker 1: planned maneuver.
Speaker 2: Uh, it was on the air from twenty two thousand
Speaker 2: and four to twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1: It's a long cost, so one year, one year into
Speaker 1: his so it must have been filmed, Yeah, before the
Speaker 1: last season, film before he entered the.
Speaker 2: Way because it was a big hit and they wanted
Speaker 2: to get Trump and on tape blah blah blah, and uh,
Speaker 2: what could they have done? That was the he was
Speaker 2: the goose with the golden egg with that show. They're
Speaker 2: not going to put that tape out because that.
Speaker 1: Well, but they they did because they Yeah, because I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know. The other day to look
Speaker 1: at is when did the show canceled? Because if they
Speaker 1: didn't cancel it until after they put the tape into
Speaker 1: the Washington Post hands, who the heck know? The point,
Speaker 1: the point I was trying to make is that what
Speaker 1: occurred to me was that we might not have Trump,
Speaker 1: the country might not have Trump had they gotten that
Speaker 1: regardless of what their motivation was, I had that tape
Speaker 1: gotten into the mainstream a few months earlier, during the
Speaker 1: primaries rather than closer to the election. So anyway, I
Speaker 1: thought that was.
Speaker 2: I take great I take great pride in the fact
Speaker 2: that I knew Trump's battling fighting habits and practices before
Speaker 2: anybody knew. Before he called Rosie o'donald a pig. I
Speaker 2: was the guy he publicly publicly called a loser on
Speaker 2: the Howard Stern Show in two thousand. I'm twenty five
Speaker 2: years into this thing, so everybody after me. I was
Speaker 2: the first. But I told everybody, you have no idea
Speaker 2: how this guy fights. You have no idea how he
Speaker 2: keeps coming. He is relentless. And here we are a
Speaker 2: quarter century later, and I'm one thousand percent right if
Speaker 2: he went, and then you know, and I we broke
Speaker 2: bread apologized, and I wrote letters, and we met and
Speaker 2: we talked, and I came away. Look, I know the
Speaker 2: guy's a fucking narcissist, egotistical. Of course he is. But
Speaker 2: there is a side of Trump, not a site, three
Speaker 2: sides of Trump that make him a really good man,
Speaker 2: a man you'd want with you in an emergency, in
Speaker 2: a disaster, in a time of crisis, or just wanting information.
Speaker 2: He's smart, he's.
Speaker 1: Helpful, he pas.
Speaker 2: Exactly. He's the Bill Belichick of politicians. He loves wartime generals,
Speaker 2: all you know. Vince Lombardy he comes from a different
Speaker 2: cloth that these younger guys don't. Now.
Speaker 1: Look, I the guy has, uh you know, has earned
Speaker 1: my support. I don't. I don't love his personal but
Speaker 1: you know you many times I know both flies by
Speaker 1: your freaking ear and your first instinct is to get
Speaker 1: up and yell fight fight. I mean you win, dude,
Speaker 1: I mean you you win. So ah, so I agree,
Speaker 1: And now he's surrounded himself or attempting to surround himself.
Speaker 1: But at least, you know, I don't know who first
Speaker 1: said it, but I was. I know it's the first
Speaker 1: to say MVP. I'm pretty sure I was the first
Speaker 1: to say MVP, but maybe not the first to say
Speaker 1: co president. But but you know, Elon is a big
Speaker 1: there's no doubt pardon the pun X factor for him
Speaker 1: now and and moving forward, and Trump just can't fuck
Speaker 1: that up.
Speaker 2: But I'll tell you something right now is what makes
Speaker 2: me nervous. And I got the spidy sense and the
Speaker 2: intuition to prove it. This is gonna be a problem.
Speaker 2: It already is with Steve Bannen wanting Trump, wanting Elon
Speaker 2: to get out of the country, and he doesn't like
Speaker 2: the fact that he's South African with the HPVSUS and
Speaker 2: all that ship. There's gonna be a problem that's gonna
Speaker 2: arise soon where Elon musk As as the richest man
Speaker 2: and so profoundly intelligent, isna gonna come a point where
Speaker 2: Trump is gonna have to tell him, you know, I'm
Speaker 2: the fucking president, right, let's not get this twisted. And
Speaker 2: there's gonna be a problem. There's gonna be an issue,
Speaker 2: and I hope they can sort it out.
Speaker 1: Well. They're both gonna have to be smart enough to
Speaker 1: recognize that they're co presidents. Like I said, Trump, Trump
Speaker 1: would be an absolute fucking moron to lose, to let
Speaker 1: something get in the way of.
Speaker 2: He's living in mar Alago. He's living there. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't know wherever the fuck he wants, but he's
Speaker 2: in mar Alago. He's living there. It's it's like, it's
Speaker 2: it's it's so crazy, dude.
Speaker 1: At this point, with her permission, Trump should be offering
Speaker 1: up uh millennia and you know, and uh, maybe he's
Speaker 1: daughters in laws, because that's how much the guy has
Speaker 1: meant to all of this. So you know, I'm given
Speaker 1: the verbal hummer to el On the whole episode. But
Speaker 1: but without him, Trump was ft and.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe he can he can have sex with Trump's
Speaker 2: pretty lawyer. I like her that that could be maybe.
Speaker 1: The The other thing that I think is h I
Speaker 1: means it's getting I think better understood, and and uh
Speaker 1: and and more play now. But uh uh Dvance is
Speaker 1: such a great choice. Yeah, you talk about like a
Speaker 1: lot of the people you were talking about saying that
Speaker 1: you know, they're giving Trump a chance and everything like that.
Speaker 1: It's much easier to feel okay in your gut about
Speaker 1: giving him a chance when you know that if if
Speaker 1: you had a twenty fifth amendment, somebody that JD. Vance
Speaker 1: is the one sitting there, not Kamala Harris. I mean,
Speaker 1: so he made a really choice at the time that
Speaker 1: was probably not a smart choice and an overplaying of
Speaker 1: his hand given everything that happened immediately post convention. But
Speaker 1: I'm really glad they made that mistake because sure it
Speaker 1: wasn't a mistake. It's got a we get a guy
Speaker 1: who ought to be a two term president of the
Speaker 1: United States at at a pretty young age and is
Speaker 1: another buffer to bad Trump. So you know, and and
Speaker 1: Advance and and again some of they if they go
Speaker 1: through you, you got some protections against bad Trump and
Speaker 1: people that will actually help keep him as in check
Speaker 1: as uh, you know, protect him from himself as much
Speaker 1: as uh as he can be protected and and so hey,
Speaker 1: well we'll see.
Speaker 2: But what do you think about Michelle Obama not going
Speaker 2: to Carter's funeral, not going to Trump's inauguration? This bitch?
Speaker 2: What a I can't believe what she's like.
Speaker 1: Man, he's on vacation.
Speaker 2: Come on, I know it's scheduling in conflict. You know what,
Speaker 2: there's trouble in paradise. Michelle and Barack are not on
Speaker 2: the same page.
Speaker 1: A while as us. So many AI fakes of what
Speaker 1: the conversation supposedly was between between Trump and I know
Speaker 1: it's all funy, but what was it really? Anybody? What
Speaker 1: was it?
Speaker 2: I loved seeing Barack laugh and Trump talking that man,
Speaker 2: and then to see Kamala turn around and get all
Speaker 2: that was a great moment, man. And you look at
Speaker 2: all the people around him who he's just the dynasties.
Speaker 2: He's defeated. It was magic. I loved it. But I
Speaker 2: love to hear that conversation. Man.
Speaker 1: No, the divisiveness, so you you see it all in
Speaker 1: that it's all told in in a short video one one.
Speaker 1: You've got you've got doctor Jill who won't freaking look
Speaker 1: at the woman. Then you have her looks to Obama.
Speaker 1: You got Obama laughing at whatever. I mean, sorry, Trump
Speaker 1: could have I mean, who the fuck knows. I hope
Speaker 1: Trump will tell us at some point. Uh, but it's
Speaker 1: all it's all there on on display, and you know
Speaker 1: that's what that's what happens when Okay, there's a bizarre
Speaker 1: story to relate to all of this. But so my
Speaker 1: first wife was entered a lot of beauty pageants. A
Speaker 1: met her down south, and her mother still alive to
Speaker 1: this day as far as I know, uh, domineering presence
Speaker 1: in her life and basically, ah, even into her thirties
Speaker 1: when we were still married, still depended on her mother
Speaker 1: to do everything for her. It was crazy, but her
Speaker 1: her mother. Uh So she enters the Maid of Cotton pageant,
Speaker 1: which is a which is the pageant to decide who's
Speaker 1: going to be the Queen of the Cotton Bowl.
Speaker 2: Okay, it sounds sounds racist.
Speaker 1: No, but it's for the Cotton Bowl. So this is
Speaker 1: in doubts. So but you know, they to do this thing.
Speaker 1: You've got to win your so she she has to
Speaker 1: win preliminary, a regional something. So she wins something in
Speaker 1: Tennessee or a region in Tennessee to where she is
Speaker 1: now one of whatever, like twenty five or maybe as
Speaker 1: many as fifty semi finalist whatever that go to Dallas,
Speaker 1: right and uh, and she says, you know, I really
Speaker 1: I really want you to come and be there, and
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. And I say, okay, look, I gotta work.
Speaker 1: I can't. I'll come on Friday.
Speaker 2: And I have a career. I've got a career, got.
Speaker 1: But boy, so I get there. I get there on
Speaker 1: the Friday morning, and I guess she's she's made it
Speaker 1: through one first part of the competition. That's whittled it
Speaker 1: down to like half of the number that it started.
Speaker 2: There's no swim suit competitions in these.
Speaker 1: I don't remember everything that they're there was she she
Speaker 1: would have done very well.
Speaker 2: She's she's beautiful.
Speaker 1: Uh, this is my first wife. We're talking.
Speaker 2: I know, I know, not not not g A.
Speaker 1: G A would have done very well too. But the
Speaker 1: so so the thing that uh that they do on
Speaker 1: the Friday, So I get to take a morning or
Speaker 1: a really early morning flight, and I'm there by the
Speaker 1: time this thing gets started at like ten o'clock in
Speaker 1: the morning, and there's some you know, local Dallas TV
Speaker 1: morning show thing that is that is the panel. The
Speaker 1: people from that show are asking the questions of the contestants,
Speaker 1: right and uh and right when I get there, I
Speaker 1: see for the first time sort of the resume on Lisa,
Speaker 1: my ex wife on you know who she is? Right,
Speaker 1: and this is the woman described in this resume was
Speaker 1: not the It was not it was she. She wasn't
Speaker 1: yet my wife at that point. We were we were,
Speaker 1: we were dating, but but she wasn't who would become, right,
Speaker 1: my wife? And a couple of things caught my caught
Speaker 1: my eye on it woman was that she had won
Speaker 1: the Tennessee State Science Fair as as a as a
Speaker 1: either I think it was a June, as a junior
Speaker 1: in high school. She won the Tennessee State Science Fair. Now,
Speaker 1: her mother is a chemistry professor. Lisa wouldn't have known
Speaker 1: eighty percent of the elements on a periodic table, right,
Speaker 1: So so okay, so mama's obvious spruced up her daughter's
Speaker 1: resume for this thing, right and well, I guess she
Speaker 1: didn't spruce up the resume, because, as I would find out,
Speaker 1: she actually least actually did win the Tennessee State Science
Speaker 1: Fair because of a project that was one hundred percent
Speaker 1: done by her chemistry professor mother and submitted on her behalf.
Speaker 3: Right right right, So you know, she it's her turn,
Speaker 3: and they and I'm there and I'm sitting between her
Speaker 3: sister and her mother in the in this auditorium at
Speaker 3: the Los Anatole in Dallas.
Speaker 1: And the the question gets a couple of softballs get
Speaker 1: thrown out there and she handles them well. And then
Speaker 1: the question gets asked, we see that you won the
Speaker 1: Tennessee State Science Fair in nineteen eighty two, can you
Speaker 1: or nineteen eighty whatever, can you tell us about your project?
Speaker 1: And she says, well, it was it was this dental
Speaker 1: thing that was all about dentistry. Oh well, I mean
Speaker 1: that's that's good, very close to what her answer was.
Speaker 1: And if they would have had real time electronic scoring
Speaker 1: at the time, you know, you would have seen them
Speaker 1: want you would have seen the disaster. Instead, the disaster
Speaker 1: played out where you know, they announced who makes it
Speaker 1: to the next level. She doesn't make it to the
Speaker 1: next level. And then and Mama are fighting in the
Speaker 1: hallway of the hotel. Ten minutes later on, I told
Speaker 1: you to put that damn thing in my risk? Well
Speaker 1: what else was I supposed to put whatever accomplishments to you?
Speaker 1: And I'm sting, okay, so and then hole did I
Speaker 1: walk down the aisle but it said whatever. I need
Speaker 1: a lot of time in Arena's chair for for that one.
Speaker 1: But name why did I go to that?
Speaker 2: I forget where we were, but we were talking about
Speaker 2: beauty and oh my god, I'm lost too. We went
Speaker 2: way too far off course. It was about.
Speaker 1: Please give give a rating and review to this episode.
Speaker 2: Uh, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Something triggered me towards people doing for you and what
Speaker 1: the what the cost is?
Speaker 2: Hell Obama?
Speaker 1: What the cost is of somebody doing every Oh Biden,
Speaker 1: Joe Biden? Whatever the That's the penalty you pay when
Speaker 1: you do nothing for yourself and it's all done by
Speaker 1: by other people. As you you know, it's fraud. You
Speaker 1: can't represent your yourself as having achieved those things. But
Speaker 1: I'm sorry that didn't you got a halfway funny stories
Speaker 1: in my former life.
Speaker 2: By the way, the morning after I do my podcast,
Speaker 2: I get people writing me, ye know, direct messages saying
Speaker 2: oh that bit about such and shuts, and I go,
Speaker 2: what did I say? Well, you, I don't know what
Speaker 2: I even said. You know, I don't you know, it's
Speaker 2: stream of conscious sometimes and after remind me, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: I said that right, right right. The beauty pageants situation. Again,
Speaker 2: I don't know why we're here, but we're here. Remember
Speaker 2: the Chip from South Carolina who just did.
Speaker 1: This was this was not the Iraq.
Speaker 2: The Iraq almost.
Speaker 1: Almost on that level. I didn't Maybe I didn't do it.
Speaker 2: This is pretty I'm almost there, okay, Right, So we're
Speaker 2: talking about like when you're with somebody you know is
Speaker 2: just not right, Like you you witness something you know
Speaker 2: you should probably walk away from. That's I think that's
Speaker 2: where we were. I think I know the feeling. I
Speaker 2: know the feeling because you can't you can't talk to
Speaker 2: people who just have a different idea about themselves and
Speaker 2: just don't understand. I think we were talking about stupidity
Speaker 2: and people saying things that just don't make any sense
Speaker 2: when the when the camera's on them or what have you.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know either way. Los Angeles
Speaker 2: is burning and it's two towns away from me, and uh,
Speaker 2: I don't know what to do. I'm not going anywhere.
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 1: What am I gonna do? Now, dude? They I mean
Speaker 1: noon tomorrow is when they say, uh, this thing's gonna
Speaker 1: sit down a little bit.
Speaker 2: And yeah, they got I got earthquake notifications. They said,
Speaker 2: this can be the biggest earthquake in fifty years that
Speaker 2: came across our phone that didn't happen. This with people
Speaker 2: don't understand and there's so many things happening when you
Speaker 2: live here that.
Speaker 1: They put in a in a warning that the worst
Speaker 1: earthquake in fifty years could.
Speaker 4: Get Here's here's what I got. Okay, here's what I got.
Speaker 4: Uh here it is, It says, okay, come on, uh
Speaker 4: where is it? God damn it?
Speaker 2: Earthquake watch longer than usual, basically without reading the whole article.
Speaker 2: It was be careful in the next thirty hours. This
Speaker 2: could be the worst earthquake California has ever gotten. And
Speaker 2: you just go, Okay, it's ten thirty. I'm going about
Speaker 2: to go to bed. People are burning down and now
Speaker 2: maybe an earthquake. I don't know what else you want
Speaker 2: to tell me. There's aliens in the sky drones everywhere
Speaker 2: is crimed.
Speaker 1: Why why hasn't that made new? I haven't seen that
Speaker 1: on the news everywhere.
Speaker 2: The girl, the girl who lives above me, sent me
Speaker 2: this at night because we've been talking. I meet it,
Speaker 2: let me see, I'll find it. Yeah, it was a
Speaker 2: it's a horrible here here we go. Let me see
Speaker 2: here it is here it is earthquake prediction. This is
Speaker 2: on Saturday fifty hour warning. Major earthquake is likely in
Speaker 2: southern California, most likely in Los Angeles, off in Turre
Speaker 2: County during the next fifty hours January twelfth and January thirteenth.
Speaker 1: Dude, that happened? That that had to come from some
Speaker 1: the website.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm trying to make it. I'm trying to enlarge
Speaker 2: it at one and large. No, it's not a reputable,
Speaker 2: you know, news site. But it Okay.
Speaker 1: I thought when you first said it, I thought you
Speaker 1: meant you got an alert from Verizon.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, there was a story. It was a
Speaker 2: story there. Look, there are people out there right now
Speaker 2: who are confusing the fires. There's a girl who said
Speaker 2: an independent journalist be careful, who said Alex Trippek's house
Speaker 2: has been demolished. Alex Trebek is dead and they tore
Speaker 2: his house down to build more homes in that area.
Speaker 2: So you gotta be to she was honest, but yeah,
Speaker 2: but it was it wasn't burned down. You gotta just
Speaker 2: take the news from people you respect.
Speaker 1: And listen technically see from from like the liberal news standpoint.
Speaker 1: You can't fact check her on it because his house,
Speaker 1: house was destroyed.
Speaker 2: It's gone. She's right, unbelievable, unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I'm glad that to know the earthquake thing
Speaker 1: was probably a farce.
Speaker 2: Let me let me ask you a question. Have you
Speaker 2: even well you're not around this. I gotta be honest.
Speaker 2: I didn't watch any college football playoff games and I
Speaker 2: love that and and I and I was like, I
Speaker 2: will say I was four and zero in the NFL
Speaker 2: wildcard games, even the Washington Commanders. I had uh minus
Speaker 2: two and a half. But it's taking me away from
Speaker 2: the normal, the normalcy of what we do every day.
Speaker 2: Last night was Rock Gill's birthday, made some dinner for
Speaker 2: the family, and you know, it just it just pulls
Speaker 2: you away. How could it not? Oh?
Speaker 1: I mean, I I don't I don't know how you
Speaker 1: could go on with as much of any of the
Speaker 1: regular right. And so what I just I still have
Speaker 1: my my doctor is still in California. I've been gone
Speaker 1: from those four years and I still use the same
Speaker 1: doctor in California. And I, as you know, I talked,
Speaker 1: was talking to him right as we were start uh
Speaker 1: to record, and uh I could see he was he
Speaker 1: was home and he's in Pasadena, and he told me
Speaker 1: they doing it for two days. Uh and he's back
Speaker 1: in now uh and everything. But but it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's disrupted. I mean, how could it not. I mean
Speaker 1: it's it's, uh, what are these hundred and twenty five
Speaker 1: thousand people more?
Speaker 2: I think more displaced? Right, what are they? Yeah? But
Speaker 2: I think it's more what are they going? Look it?
Speaker 2: Put yourself in the isshoes? What do you do? Mike?
Speaker 2: Your house on the palace aage is gone. You're staying
Speaker 2: at a hotel and now, okay, what do you do
Speaker 2: next to even think of rebuilding?
Speaker 1: It all depends on what my financial position is exactly.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're because everybody has this picture of
Speaker 1: you know, these five, ten, fifteen, twenty million dollar homes
Speaker 1: and that everybody's rich there but but you know, some people,
Speaker 1: a good portion of the people, especially the older end
Speaker 1: of the people there, are house rich, and so their
Speaker 1: greatest wealth was tied to the equity in their homes.
Speaker 1: And if they're unfortunate enough to be one of the
Speaker 1: families that was dropped by their insurance company in November,
Speaker 1: now you're talking about a really left up, desperate situation
Speaker 1: because what happens now, And I know it's going on
Speaker 1: already because I've gotten a number of phone calls about this.
Speaker 1: There are people already going in prospecting, low balling, offering
Speaker 1: to buy plots of land, and some people are going
Speaker 1: to feel desperate enough to sell that plot of land
Speaker 1: their home worth four million dollars was on for six
Speaker 1: or seven hundred thousand dollars because they have nothing else,
Speaker 1: and then they're just gonna get the f out of there,
Speaker 1: go to the desert or where else, you know. But
Speaker 1: I mean, if you if you are, if you are
Speaker 1: in the fifty plus age group, there, the majority of
Speaker 1: the rest of your life is likely to be spent
Speaker 1: in quote unquote rebuilding phase if you try to stay,
Speaker 1: because even even if you could rebuild faster, you got
Speaker 1: infrastructure that has to you. You've got no You've got
Speaker 1: no schools, you got no stores, you got no I mean,
Speaker 1: you've got nothing around you, the whole thing. And and
Speaker 1: this time people are going to be hesitant.
Speaker 2: Bro, do you live in Pacific Palace age. You've got
Speaker 2: to drive to Culver City to get food. And by
Speaker 2: the way, people talk talking about looting, Yeah, looting is
Speaker 2: going on. It's always going to be that way. But
Speaker 2: the real crime is these people who have properties to
Speaker 2: rent and they go, yeah, I know. There was a
Speaker 2: story about a guy who had the means and said, Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm going to get a house with my family, was
Speaker 2: seventeen thousand dollars a month to rent. As he's finalizing
Speaker 2: the details, this landlord says, now it's thirty thousand a
Speaker 2: month taking to leave it. You want to choke somebody
Speaker 2: to death when you hear something like that, I mean,
Speaker 2: that's just yeah.
Speaker 1: No, they're kind of price gouging and opportunism I mean
Speaker 1: happening over I'm not Look, I'm not surprised. It's the
Speaker 1: same thing as the people they are looking to prospect
Speaker 1: and buy a balanche. Look, that's capitalism though, too, because
Speaker 1: I know, because that may end up being the best
Speaker 1: option those people have selling their land for three quarters
Speaker 1: of a million dollars, and as horrible as that sounds
Speaker 1: versus what was on paper worth four million dollars a
Speaker 1: week ago, a week and a half ago, that it's
Speaker 1: better than nothing. And if they if they stay there,
Speaker 1: they may very well be looking at nothing. And you
Speaker 1: have to find an alternative place to stay. And if
Speaker 1: you're older, you're on some kind of fixed income, or
Speaker 1: maybe you have a verse mortgage or whatever.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's it's so it's not the it's always
Speaker 5: the eighty twenty rule, right, it's you know, the we're
Speaker 5: going to hear about the twenty percent of the households
Speaker 5: that controlled eighty percent of the wealth and in the Palasades,
Speaker 5: but you're not going to hear about the eighty percent
Speaker 5: of the households and only had twenty percent of the wealth.
Speaker 1: And those are the people that are that are faced
Speaker 1: with really difficult life decis. They're retired, they're.
Speaker 2: They're retired nurses, they're they're they're and I told you earlier.
Speaker 2: These are people, especially in the town of Altadena, which
Speaker 2: is traditionally a city where people who work in Hollywood
Speaker 2: behind the scenes live and they make a good living.
Speaker 2: But they're not movie stars. They're not going to get
Speaker 2: a twelve million dollar job next month for a script.
Speaker 2: These are people who make a decent living five six hundred,
Speaker 2: three hundred thousand, four hundred thousand a year. They're comfortable,
Speaker 2: and they got nothing. Now it's just awful, man, awful.
Speaker 1: Look, it's it's uh when I look around, you know,
Speaker 1: there's it's such a different world right now. It's a moonscape,
Speaker 1: it's not a landscape. But but economically, the a fraction
Speaker 1: of the money available in Hollywood now that there used
Speaker 1: to be in Hollywood, and after this it's going to
Speaker 1: be even worse. And so as as Hollywood deflats, the
Speaker 1: talent agencies, the writers, the I mean, everything that circles
Speaker 1: that business defleats, and then you know, what does that
Speaker 1: city have left after after that's gone? Right now, it's yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I don't I don't know. And that's just
Speaker 1: you know what what everything is. Everything is changing at
Speaker 1: such a rapid pace. You know, it used to be
Speaker 1: when I was in the radio business in the eighties
Speaker 1: and nineties that you know, a single radio station was
Speaker 1: you know, live in the morning and live in the afternoon,
Speaker 1: and live in the middle of the day, and probably
Speaker 1: live at night. And and you know, now we're on
Speaker 1: the verge of AI, just running radio stations everywhere and
Speaker 1: no one having an idea that that's even what's happening
Speaker 1: and where you might have had, I don't know, just
Speaker 1: throw out a number, let's say eighty employees at Z
Speaker 1: one hundred and or nineteen ninety five. Maybe you're gonna
Speaker 1: have eight, I know, I mean, it's there, well there.
Speaker 1: I mean, technology has changed everything so massively that if
Speaker 1: you take a hit like this at age fifty in
Speaker 1: the Palisades right now, your skills are so antiquated, right
Speaker 1: for forget being able to move to a different industry
Speaker 1: than the one you're in, to move back into the
Speaker 1: industry that you that you existed in, you came from
Speaker 1: for thirty years. It's impossible to do that because it's
Speaker 1: a it's a different industry than the one you knew.
Speaker 5: Or I.
Speaker 2: Can't even fathom the idea of what I'd be doing
Speaker 2: if not for the podcast industry for the last eight
Speaker 2: seven and a half eight years. Right now, it seems
Speaker 2: like even with all the disasters and the shit going on,
Speaker 2: that we can still operate. We can still and I
Speaker 2: think a lot of people are listening to us more
Speaker 2: than ever because of what we do and what we bring,
Speaker 2: you know, honesty and and just not the kind of
Speaker 2: news that's formulated in the newsroom and sent out. But
Speaker 2: god damn it, if suddenly I had to go back
Speaker 2: into some kind of workforce, I don't even know what
Speaker 2: the fucking would be. I can't go back to journalism.
Speaker 2: I'm not stepping foot in the newsroom television. I'm sixty two.
Speaker 2: They're not going to put me on air. It is
Speaker 2: so scary. And on top of that, if I lost
Speaker 2: all my shit, no, I can't imagine. I can't imagine it.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's a horrible, horrible situation, especially, you know,
Speaker 1: for those folks who are in that kind of an
Speaker 1: economic situation or of that age. I'm absolutely getting abused
Speaker 1: by this dog. She's just jumping up and biting me
Speaker 1: on her.
Speaker 2: I love it. I remember when I was younger, there
Speaker 2: was an earthquake or something and Johnny Carson on his
Speaker 2: show had mentioned, because he lived in Malibu, that all
Speaker 2: the animals, all the animals leave the forest or the
Speaker 2: woods and they go down to the beach and you'd
Speaker 2: see you know, you'll see deer with mountain lions and
Speaker 2: rabbits and they don't care. They just all want to
Speaker 2: stay alive. And the scene that look at her, look
Speaker 2: at that, Oh what a good it's the best. It
Speaker 2: makes me jealous. I can't wait to see to see
Speaker 2: at the end of this month, I'm going to Vegas
Speaker 2: to finish poker.
Speaker 1: I'm just getting freaking lapped up. This dog's tongue is like,
Speaker 1: look at that fucking tongue. It's it's Gene Simmons, Jean
Speaker 1: Simmons in a female dog.
Speaker 2: Look at that.
Speaker 1: She can't even when she closes her mouth, the tongue does.
Speaker 1: The tongue remains exposed when she closes her mouth. The
Speaker 1: freaking tongue is.
Speaker 2: I know, mysies mothers like that. It just stays out
Speaker 2: of her mouth. I know, God bless them these dogs.
Speaker 2: If on top of everything else, I don't have my
Speaker 2: dog with me. I just miss my little pal so badly.
Speaker 2: The girlfriend comes and goes, but that little pal man,
Speaker 2: I need her back.
Speaker 1: To see that video of the guys who goes back.
Speaker 1: I guess it was two nights that he hadn't been
Speaker 1: able to find his dog, and the dog had been
Speaker 1: living amongst the rubble and racing down the driveway.
Speaker 2: I mean, and you know, I'll tell you something. You
Speaker 2: want to respite from all this bullshit and nonsense and
Speaker 2: harm and scary stuff going on. I don't know what
Speaker 2: your algorithm is on Instagram, but I have a lot
Speaker 2: of animal stuff. I can't believe the animal world and
Speaker 2: how much they love each other and how much they
Speaker 2: all want to be loved by humans. I'm talking mountain lions, tigers, porcupines, ostriches.
Speaker 2: You take him in there. I can't have turkeys or pets.
Speaker 2: Now ducks sleep with dogs. It's you want to feel better,
Speaker 2: So look at that shit. You'll feel like there's a
Speaker 2: human kind that we're We're gonna be okay because.
Speaker 1: Our feeds are similar. I get all the I get
Speaker 1: all the same ship. My wife and are constantly trading
Speaker 1: each other. I love stuff that pops up with well.
Speaker 1: Speaking of speaking of of animals, so my is that Raleigh.
Speaker 1: This is banded.
Speaker 2: It's banded.
Speaker 1: So my well, my sons were still here before they
Speaker 1: they went back. My my wife says, okay, before you leave,
Speaker 1: you know we're gonna do something as a family together.
Speaker 1: Let's go. Let's go do this. Yeah, these glass bottom
Speaker 1: kayaks together and uh you we're gonna see tons of
Speaker 1: turtles and manatees and all of this, all of this
Speaker 1: stuff and glass Like we're like watching a football game.
Speaker 1: While she's doing that, We're like, okay, yeah, yeah, whatever,
Speaker 1: sign we'll do, we'll do it. So you know, comes
Speaker 1: the morning to go over to do this, and you know,
Speaker 1: I look outside and the trees are the you know,
Speaker 1: the wind is freaking howling, and I'm like, honey, we're
Speaker 1: still gonna go and kayaks in this in this wind.
Speaker 1: She calls the play. Yes, they're open and they The
Speaker 1: area we're going to be in is a is protected
Speaker 1: cove area and it shields it from the wind. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, all right, we're in. We're gonna go over there,
Speaker 1: no no problem whatever, We're there. So we all get
Speaker 1: over there and we're like three. It's like, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: grumpy old man in the back of the the way
Speaker 1: there and nobody wants to to be there, but we've
Speaker 1: all told her we'll do it. So we're yeah, we're
Speaker 1: all we're all in it. And okay, so first of all,
Speaker 1: the imaginary co that protects you from the wind. Uh.
Speaker 1: We kayaking into a gale wind and you know waters
Speaker 1: that I don't even know how they get rough because
Speaker 1: they're about two feet deep if you were in one
Speaker 1: kayak or two or two separate kayaks. And uh, but
Speaker 1: we did this for an hour and a half. I
Speaker 1: never saw a turtle. I never saw a manatee. The
Speaker 1: the tour guide was this guy was so full of ship.
Speaker 1: I mean, this was this was such a complete scam. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, he's for the fifth time he's given me
Speaker 1: the history of a certain type of mangrove. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm looking at this right now as just exercise.
Speaker 1: And that's that's all we're doing, is kayaking. I end
Speaker 1: up being the only one to spot any kind of
Speaker 1: a fish the entire time. And it's a little freaking
Speaker 1: mullet like that.
Speaker 2: Way South Fish and Island every day on the bay.
Speaker 1: So anyway, what I was going to segue to from
Speaker 1: that is that I just saw that five hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty five manatees died in Florida in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: That's according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission. They
Speaker 1: do this annual report. Ninety six of those were attributed
Speaker 1: to boat or jet ski incidents, so a lot of that.
Speaker 1: The voters don't see them, right, I mean maybe some
Speaker 1: do see them. I hope voters that don't see them.
Speaker 1: But the average number of manatee deaths over the last
Speaker 1: five years was seven hundred and thirty nine a year,
Speaker 1: so it's actually a twenty five percent or so declined
Speaker 1: this year. So manatees were killed. But for those of
Speaker 1: you who are curious, why is it so important to
Speaker 1: you know? Because manates are are protected you it's illegal
Speaker 1: to It's illegal to hunt, capture, kill, or harass.
Speaker 2: I don't want to. I've made fun of some manatees
Speaker 2: and I feel good about it.
Speaker 1: Don't get caught harassing amanite.
Speaker 2: Fat fuck home with that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, law enforcement catches you calling a manatee of fat fox.
Speaker 1: It's it's punishable for up to a year in prison
Speaker 1: and a fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: Fine, what are you went for? I've fuck.
Speaker 1: But but there are good reasons not to harass them. Manates.
Speaker 1: Are there there herbivores that eat large quantities of sea
Speaker 1: grasses and freshwater plants? They play important role in controlling
Speaker 1: plant growth in shallow coastal waters and estuaries, bays, canals,
Speaker 1: and rivers where they live. They also release nutrients from
Speaker 1: all those plants that they eat back into those environments,
Speaker 1: which gives other marine animals a reliable food source. So
Speaker 1: they are an important part of the ecosystem right here
Speaker 1: in Florida.
Speaker 2: They got they got a lot of pirates off. They've
Speaker 2: a lot of pirates fucked manatee, So I mean they
Speaker 2: served the purpose for a long time.
Speaker 1: I don't see. This is why we should have video clips.
Speaker 1: In the show.
Speaker 2: Mermaids.
Speaker 1: People thought they were just ugly, ugly.
Speaker 2: Mermaids, fat mermaids.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and that would have qualified as harassing one,
Speaker 1: I think, and you could have you could have gotten
Speaker 1: in trouble. But you know, as the Florida correspondent for
Speaker 1: everything is a bitch, I think it's important from time
Speaker 1: to time to bring little tidbits of Florida news to
Speaker 1: the to the table because we need to grow our
Speaker 1: Florida audience.
Speaker 2: So Manate's you know. I and again, I love the
Speaker 2: manate I never heard of manates until the eighties. I
Speaker 2: think my ex wife loved him. And I'm like, what
Speaker 2: the hell are they? And a lot of people, if
Speaker 2: you read literature, they thought to be mermaids. That's what
Speaker 2: people thought mermaids were. But there's videos of an orca
Speaker 2: going to a boat and flapping its fin hard at
Speaker 2: this boat and it's like, what do you want? And
Speaker 2: it swims away as the boat follows, And when the
Speaker 2: boat follows the whale, it stops with a manatee stuck
Speaker 2: in a net in the ocean, and of course the
Speaker 2: guy springs into action. He dives in the water, cuts
Speaker 2: the net off, freeze the manatee. There's fifteen dolphins around
Speaker 2: him and also manta rayse or not stingrays manna raised
Speaker 2: and after he does that, the whale looks at him
Speaker 2: with one eye and like thanks him, flaps his fin
Speaker 2: flies off, and then the dolphins do a certain around
Speaker 2: the boat and the man of raysed do this aquatic
Speaker 2: ballet to thank the human being who freed the manatee.
Speaker 2: We're all connected, we really are.
Speaker 1: Did this come from the same person who did the
Speaker 1: earthquake warning?
Speaker 2: I'm telling you you see a moose. A moose was
Speaker 2: banging cars on a street until the car followed the
Speaker 2: moose and his little son or daughter was caught in
Speaker 2: a net and they freedom and the moose came back
Speaker 2: to the guy's fucking house to thank them. I've seen
Speaker 2: these videos. It's amazing.
Speaker 1: Did he like send like chocolates prior to arriving or well, listen,
Speaker 1: who's out there netting mooses?
Speaker 2: Do not netting a moose. But there was a the
Speaker 2: moose was caught in something of fence or some ship.
Speaker 2: And there's a lot of instances of animals telling mourning newman.
Speaker 1: But from also, I just want to make sure the
Speaker 1: killer whale goes to the boat. It warns the people, oh,
Speaker 1: the killer Well they find them trapped in the net.
Speaker 1: They saved the manatee. Dolphins do a coordinated.
Speaker 2: It was an aquatic ballet with the.
Speaker 1: Aquatic ballets doing aquatic ballet.
Speaker 2: It was beautiful.
Speaker 1: And what there's something else that happens to.
Speaker 2: Well, the fish was free. The manta raised it their
Speaker 2: ballet and it was like, oh, oh no, I'm forgetting something.
Speaker 2: Three dolphins went down to the bottom of the sea
Speaker 2: and brought back gifts. One gave them a big fish,
Speaker 2: one had a sea cucumber in their mouth. They came
Speaker 2: to the boat and offered these gifts. Mike, We're all connected,
Speaker 2: uh you know, just like I am connected to the
Speaker 2: black security guard at Ralph's. We're all the same somehow, manatees, mooses, elks, we're.
Speaker 1: All part of the show me the video.
Speaker 2: I'll find it. I gotta find it on Instagram.
Speaker 1: You need to put that on the fastbook page so
Speaker 1: everybody can wait in on the justicity.
Speaker 2: It gives your hope of humanity at a time like
Speaker 2: this where we really don't know what the hell is
Speaker 2: going on. There's so many, so much mystery. It's such
Speaker 2: a sin. What's happening? So anything that looks beautiful, a puppy,
Speaker 2: a turkey that snuggles with the owner, I don't care.
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I'm with you. You. My wife, My wife
Speaker 1: is in New York for a few days, and she
Speaker 1: leaves me with instructions.
Speaker 2: Go out right the dog, her dog, her dog.
Speaker 1: And she says, you have to spend some time each
Speaker 1: day gazing. That's the word, is the word. She's gazing
Speaker 1: into Raleigh's pots.
Speaker 2: I know that I'm like the dog.
Speaker 1: Will she's not Will call up to her to her
Speaker 1: chest level and get to where her head is like
Speaker 1: right twelve inches away from my wife's right, and they'll
Speaker 1: just stare into each other's eyes. I know, you know,
Speaker 1: for minutes at a time. My dad don't could give
Speaker 1: two ships about me.
Speaker 2: Right, No, no, no staring. She'll come around.
Speaker 1: No, I'm I had to say. I sent my wife
Speaker 1: to text last night. Hey, I spent like eight minutes
Speaker 1: doing some gazing.
Speaker 2: With right with Raleigh and you know, yeah, no, it's great,
Speaker 2: it's great. My girl Andrew the ex girlfriend that she
Speaker 2: would spend ten minutes kissing both dogs on the net
Speaker 2: the head, looking at them, telling them how beautiful they are,
Speaker 2: what good girls they are? Yeah, dogs understand that ship.
Speaker 2: They really do.
Speaker 1: This one, this one, I mean gazing. I don't know
Speaker 1: about dog or whatever.
Speaker 2: Kenny's Kenny neath to gaze Actually, I mean, actually.
Speaker 1: We need to we need to send him something. Actually,
Speaker 1: gotta think about what would be funny to do he
Speaker 1: needs what This would be an elaborate, practical joke, but.
Speaker 2: For those who don't know, Kenny got not one puppy,
Speaker 2: but two labordoodles, which are like ten weeks old and
Speaker 2: already fifty twenty pounds. They're ripping up the lawn and
Speaker 2: they're playing with each other. You know, he's got to
Speaker 2: bathe them every two days. He's out of his mind.
Speaker 2: But he had the good idea to rescue two puppies brothers,
Speaker 2: which is nice. But now my.
Speaker 1: Neighbor's got a a pack of dogs over there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and uh, I should take one of them. Let me
Speaker 1: take one of them. Put a note on it that says,
Speaker 1: I've heard that this that you people love dogs and
Speaker 1: this could be an excellent home for me. My parents
Speaker 1: can't take care of me anymore. Blah blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: and just ring his doorbell and then go run and
Speaker 1: hide while they come to the door to see the
Speaker 1: dog tied up there? What do you think? What do
Speaker 1: you think happens of another dog enters that household?
Speaker 2: That would be look, you know, not for nothing. But
Speaker 2: his mother, Dott he's there, who was in her eighties,
Speaker 2: and you know she's a little you know, concerned about
Speaker 2: where she's walking because the dogs are crazy, they're young,
Speaker 2: bouncing around the house. I hate to say it, they're
Speaker 2: going to be rehoused.
Speaker 1: And events he went to he went too big, like
Speaker 1: Dot loves my dogs, so my dogs will just sit
Speaker 1: on her lap there show beat them under the table.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they don't remember before and they chopped
Speaker 2: on her lap.
Speaker 1: They love her, they know her well now and so okay.
Speaker 1: So but if if Dot can't be with the doc,
Speaker 1: dot is yeah, basically having to hide in her room
Speaker 1: all day.
Speaker 2: Oh, not good, not good, It's not good. Right, Kenny
Speaker 2: went too big. He's got to get a ten pound
Speaker 2: Pomeranian Brussels shits. So something for Arena that'll be nice
Speaker 2: on the bed, no problem, that's easy, but not too labradoodles.
Speaker 1: Okay, that does it for this episode of Dogs Are
Speaker 1: a Bitch or what? And everything is a bit anyway?
Speaker 2: Good?
Speaker 1: Uh? Good chatting buddy, huh catching up? Hanging there be safe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I will talk to you this week.
Speaker 1: Thank you, folks. How about you know, ah, a friendly
Speaker 1: rating or a review or sharing with a friend. Promise
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna get one of these out every week.
Speaker 1: It's just a little bit difficult the last few.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no problem, that'd be great. All right man,
Speaker 2: all right, brother, talk to you later.