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Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. They just had to sit in it,
Speaker 1: knowing that they were going to lose that game. For
Speaker 1: a large portion of that game, there was just no chance.
Speaker 1: They knew there was just no chance of a comeback
Speaker 1: at some point.
Speaker 2: Well that even the touchdown that they did score, those.
Speaker 3: Their two garbage touchdowns, well.
Speaker 2: The first one was one of those where it was
Speaker 2: early enough in the third quarter. I think there's like
Speaker 2: seven minutes left in the third quarter, and there was
Speaker 2: a little rumble of oh, here it goes, here's how
Speaker 2: it starts, some crappy, little mistaken touchdown, and then all
Speaker 2: of a sudden they're going to get rolled on.
Speaker 1: I just never had anything going. I mean even in
Speaker 1: the other Super Bowls that I watched them come back
Speaker 1: and win, they had something going at least going into
Speaker 1: the tear that they would go into in the second half.
Speaker 1: But they just had to sit in it. And it
Speaker 1: felt cathartic for people like me, I think, where it
Speaker 1: was just like there's nothing you can do, Just like
Speaker 1: we felt there was nothing we could do for so long.
Speaker 1: So your Eagles are your reigning Super Bowl champions.
Speaker 2: I credit you with the fly Eagles fly t shirt.
Speaker 2: You're the only one who actually wore actual team themed
Speaker 2: a tire yesterday.
Speaker 1: My hurt is real and that shirt is now in
Speaker 1: the good will pile.
Speaker 2: The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Speaker 1: But exactly so, that will be going to the veterans.
Speaker 2: Nice looks very nice. The city of Philadelphia did not burn,
Speaker 2: although it smoldered a little bit yesterday. There were plenty
Speaker 2: of people who took to the streets last night to
Speaker 2: celebrate the celebrate. The Eagles went over the Chiefs in
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl, and then they climbed light poles, despite
Speaker 2: the fact that the city of Philadelphia specifically requested please
Speaker 2: do not climb things when you're celebrating, because just two
Speaker 2: weeks ago a kid died after he fell off of
Speaker 2: a line.
Speaker 3: I would probably climb a light pole.
Speaker 1: If the forty nine Ers won, I would be very excited,
Speaker 1: or the Chargers, for that matter. I would climb something.
Speaker 1: I would climb something, maybe not a light pole, but
Speaker 1: maybe just a smaller like a stop sign, something of
Speaker 1: that nature. It was walked into one real quick. Hey,
Speaker 1: great job. With the Super Bowl party.
Speaker 3: Wonderful.
Speaker 2: Listen, my wife was when she was excited about having
Speaker 2: people over. We haven't done that in a long time.
Speaker 2: It was a lot of fun to that degree. And
Speaker 2: there was so much food there.
Speaker 3: Was There was a lot of food. There was so
Speaker 3: much food.
Speaker 1: At one point, I was just sitting there. I wasn't
Speaker 1: even in the kitchen where the food was, and you
Speaker 1: could feel it and I just said, all I smell
Speaker 1: is sugar, like it's coming from my pores. I think, well,
Speaker 1: and then my wife it was like Willie Wonka's factory
Speaker 1: in there with so much sugar. There are cookies all over.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, there were There were at.
Speaker 2: Least three different kinds of cookies. And then there were
Speaker 2: like not trail mixes, but like snack mixes with Hershey's kisses.
Speaker 1: I say to my husband, remind me not to offer
Speaker 1: to bring dessert next year because there.
Speaker 2: Was so and the cake, yes you want a giant
Speaker 2: football cake.
Speaker 3: It's like, oh my god, there was just so much food.
Speaker 3: Next year, I'll bring water, Like, oh my goodness.
Speaker 2: But everybody was well behaved. We didn't have to kick
Speaker 2: anybody out. Yes, you know what, there was nobody I
Speaker 2: totally overpaid you for the winning on the bets. I
Speaker 2: did well. I had money. I had my money in
Speaker 2: my wallet that I had taken out, and I was
Speaker 2: giving change to people, and then I just wallet and
Speaker 2: spent it. I told you to order pizza. Did you
Speaker 2: order pizza?
Speaker 3: You don't need We do not need pizza. Do we
Speaker 3: need pizza today? I just say I cannot.
Speaker 2: Have pizza today. No, not today, that would be crazy.
Speaker 2: Maybe on a rainy day, maybe like Thursday, when it
Speaker 2: starts raining here, it's gonna be that'd be a good warm,
Speaker 2: warm day food or cold day warm food.
Speaker 3: Well, I have to go back to the dentist on Thursday.
Speaker 2: Oh how many times are they going to fix your.
Speaker 1: I live there now. I've paid them enough money to
Speaker 1: where I get a room. I have let a room at.
Speaker 2: The I have a car service that comes and picks
Speaker 2: you up and everything like you're a high roller at
Speaker 2: a casino. That's totally that's so accurate commercials. What was
Speaker 2: your take on all of that stuff?
Speaker 1: You know, I didn't do a great I never do
Speaker 1: a great job of paying attention completely to the commercials,
Speaker 1: just because there's so many people around and you don't
Speaker 1: want to be like, just.
Speaker 3: Oh, shut up and when to watch the commercials?
Speaker 4: Guy?
Speaker 3: You know well, and I tried.
Speaker 1: I tried to get the gist of most. I like
Speaker 1: the sloths in the beginning.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, I'm still paying attention to that corrslight case
Speaker 4: of the Mondays.
Speaker 1: I like the cours light case of the Mondays, the
Speaker 1: same thing. Okay, well, that's why I liked it. I
Speaker 1: like both of those things. And then let's see, I
Speaker 1: didn't like all the AI stuff.
Speaker 3: I heard that. That was kind of a theme.
Speaker 1: The share was all the AI and what AI can
Speaker 1: do and what it does commercials with the penis hat
Speaker 1: heads and all that.
Speaker 2: I did the the cowboy hats, right, but everyone called
Speaker 2: them penis hats.
Speaker 4: Because they were skin It was great, what are we doing?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: And the Seal commercial was traumatizing.
Speaker 2: That was weird.
Speaker 4: It was awful. Who signed off on the Mountain dew?
Speaker 4: I mean, that was that was Why.
Speaker 3: Would Seal sign off on that that?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. He has to, he
Speaker 2: has to have final approval on it. It's it's his
Speaker 2: face as.
Speaker 3: Long as in the back of the boat at the
Speaker 3: end of the commercial.
Speaker 1: I know part of that right, It's just I mean,
Speaker 1: he had to have okayed it, but it was just
Speaker 1: why my husband said on the way home, you know
Speaker 1: that he read somewhere it was all about AI and
Speaker 1: what AI can do in these commercials, and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: So this was like remember that that that year, I
Speaker 1: want to say, late nineties, early two thousands, the dot
Speaker 1: com everything was dot com, Go Daddy or what all
Speaker 1: the all the dot coms and you're like, this dot
Speaker 1: com thing is.
Speaker 3: Gonna be a big deal, but keep an eye on
Speaker 3: that day. Is that the way it is with all
Speaker 3: the AI stuff?
Speaker 2: Thinks so, but it was more than just It was
Speaker 2: more than just the comer. And I was telling you that.
Speaker 2: In the pregame, one of the things they did was
Speaker 2: a tribute to Jimmy Johnson, who was working for Fox
Speaker 2: as one of the analysts of course longtime coach, and
Speaker 2: it showed they made a big deal out of saying
Speaker 2: AI brought to you by whatever company helped them produce
Speaker 2: this piece. And it was a fake Jimmy Johnson walking
Speaker 2: in Cowboys Stadium. I don't know why they needed to
Speaker 2: fake that part of it, and then talking like to
Speaker 2: his younger self playing at University of Arkansas. This twenty
Speaker 2: one year old kid at Jimmy Johnson, but he's kind
Speaker 2: of telling, narrating his sort of own story about his
Speaker 2: history in football, and it was it was unnecessary to
Speaker 2: do it with AI. I mean, just have Jimmy Johnson
Speaker 2: talk about his career. But even so, then the thing ends,
Speaker 2: it's four or five minutes long, and it talks about
Speaker 2: his you know, championships, his time with the University of Miami,
Speaker 2: and his time with the Dallas Cowboys obviously, and at
Speaker 2: the end of it, they go straight back to Jimmy
Speaker 2: Johnson and he's got tears in his eyes and he says,
Speaker 2: I've never seen that before, or that was the first
Speaker 2: time I'd seen it something like that. So they not
Speaker 2: only did they not include Jimmy Johnson, they completely manufactured
Speaker 2: the voice as you know, as the storytelling, as the
Speaker 2: narration thing.
Speaker 3: And I thought, that's just unnecessary.
Speaker 2: Just because you can produce something like that doesn't necessarily
Speaker 2: mean you should. Yes, And I just got watching that
Speaker 2: whole thing.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch it in the break because when you
Speaker 1: told me about that, I was fascinated and I forgot
Speaker 1: to look at it. But I totally agree with you.
Speaker 1: Just because you can doesn't mean you should. And with
Speaker 1: something like that, you want it to be as authentic
Speaker 1: as possible, you would think.
Speaker 2: Well, And there were so many other good things that
Speaker 2: Fox did with their pregame. One of them was I
Speaker 2: believe it was Carisa Thompson interviewing Nick Sirianni and talking
Speaker 2: about his mentality and talking about how he approaches the
Speaker 2: game and how important his family is and why he's
Speaker 2: so emotional about stuff, and she pulled out a letter
Speaker 2: written to him from his own child. Nice and it
Speaker 2: was all about don't forget what the dog mentality is
Speaker 2: and sometimes even if a play doesn't go right the
Speaker 2: first time, it will go right later something like that.
Speaker 2: And she's reading it and it's this little pencil scribbled,
Speaker 2: little kid writing and he's just.
Speaker 1: Like, well, it was very sweet. When in the postgame
Speaker 1: interview they brought his boys over. That was very That
Speaker 1: was a nice authentic moment. But anyway, we'll have more
Speaker 1: on all of the commercials. And Taylor Swift was booed
Speaker 1: and she couldn't understand. She said, what's going on? She
Speaker 1: was not used to this.
Speaker 3: We've got tariffs on steel and aluminum to talk to you.
Speaker 3: What will that all mean?
Speaker 1: No more pennies because pennies are completely irrelevant. They have
Speaker 1: been for a long time. And now Trump's like, you
Speaker 1: know what, getting ready the pennies were getting rid of
Speaker 1: plastic straws.
Speaker 3: Boom, just like that.
Speaker 1: Everybody is freaking out over the checks and balances, the
Speaker 1: checks and balances.
Speaker 2: There was a tweet from Elon Musk over the weekend,
Speaker 2: not the one where he said that he was banning
Speaker 2: Kanye West, but he was describing some of the things
Speaker 2: that this Doge group is doing or wants to require
Speaker 2: of the government agencies. And it's not what you think
Speaker 2: I mean. It's not the they're stealing your Social Security
Speaker 2: numbers and they're going to shut down the government. It's
Speaker 2: a clear bookkeeping things that need to be done that
Speaker 2: haven't been done in the past. And they'll blow your
Speaker 2: mind that we're spending billions and in some cases more
Speaker 2: than that without real accountability.
Speaker 3: Line by line item number crunching.
Speaker 1: It's it's irresponsible and gross. Specifically when you think about
Speaker 1: the people that need money in this country, and we
Speaker 1: are a very rich country, but there's a lot of people, a.
Speaker 2: Lot of the game or the commercials or all of
Speaker 2: it use the talkback feature on the iHeart app. We'll
Speaker 2: get to some of those talkback messages as well. So
Speaker 2: there were two commercials that freaking out.
Speaker 3: Hey guess the one with the guy staking his tongue
Speaker 3: out and licking.
Speaker 5: Things left and right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the Seal commercial.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that Seal commercial with I think everyone gasped
Speaker 1: in horror.
Speaker 2: What's funny is I saw just a quick screen grab
Speaker 2: from the Seal commercial. It just said Seal's going to
Speaker 2: be in the commercial. Yeah, and I couldn't. I didn't
Speaker 2: recognize it from just the little frame, the way they
Speaker 2: had cropped the picture. I didn't realize it was his
Speaker 2: face on a seal. And that's what made it really
Speaker 2: really creepy.
Speaker 1: You know what it reminded me of is that movie
Speaker 1: that Victor had me watched a handful of years ago
Speaker 1: where the man becomes a walrus.
Speaker 3: It's called Tusk.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what it reminded me of, Like there's something
Speaker 1: very unnatural.
Speaker 3: Kevin Smith movie.
Speaker 2: Remiredvie of the substance a man No, the last creature.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just humans should not become creatures.
Speaker 2: No, they shouldn't Karen Shannon, I love to hear your
Speaker 2: analysis of Super Bowl. I didn't watch it. I've been
Speaker 2: binging The Real Housewives of New York City from season one.
Speaker 2: I'm up to the middle of season twelve.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to like the news.
Speaker 5: Idn't watch the Chiefs Eagles in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I guess I'm not a romance, all right, No,
Speaker 2: that's not true.
Speaker 1: I think that there were not a lot of people
Speaker 1: clamoring to see a matchup that we just saw a
Speaker 1: handful of years ago. And and you know, the Eagles
Speaker 1: have won right relatively in recent years. Chiefs win all
Speaker 1: the time, so I don't think that there was a
Speaker 1: huge appetite for this matchup.
Speaker 2: There was. There were a few surprise I mean, the
Speaker 2: surprise was that the Eagles won. I think there was
Speaker 2: an expectation obviously that the Chiefs were going to three people.
Speaker 2: But they won. There's not a surprise. It's not like
Speaker 2: they had the crazy like wild card team that was
Speaker 2: going to come in and you know, had very low
Speaker 2: expectations and it's just you know, on a wing and
Speaker 2: a prayer making it all the way to the Super
Speaker 2: Bowl or something.
Speaker 1: I think that This was one of the first years,
Speaker 1: the first time that I can remember actually feeling like
Speaker 1: I don't want to say old, but I want to
Speaker 1: say it's going on, like just watching the commercials, like
Speaker 1: this is what we're doing now? Is what is this?
Speaker 1: Like where's the where's the you know? Somebody said that
Speaker 1: the Clydesdales were there. I did not see them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was I'm just kind of like.
Speaker 3: What are we doing? Where's Whitney Houston in a jumpsuit?
Speaker 1: Where the just the beer commercials and the potato chip
Speaker 1: wars like Hamburger, Like.
Speaker 3: Where is the super Bowl of my youth?
Speaker 2: It's funny because it's some of that. Some of that
Speaker 2: came back, like Carl's Junior, a girl in a bikini
Speaker 2: and a sloppy hairber came back.
Speaker 3: Okay, I would have enjoyed that.
Speaker 2: The Clydesdale was that there was one little horse that
Speaker 2: was too young to go out, and then as he
Speaker 2: watches the.
Speaker 3: Bo that's kind of cool.
Speaker 2: I horses take off. One of the kegs falls off
Speaker 2: and he pushes it in.
Speaker 1: I had the high hopes for the little girl, the
Speaker 1: three year old running down the sidewalk, and then Dove
Speaker 1: had to turn it into this commercial where she hates
Speaker 1: her leg when she's fourteen, Like that was awful.
Speaker 3: This series, there's no for me.
Speaker 1: There's no appetite for seriousness on Super Bowl Sunday, get
Speaker 1: it out of here.
Speaker 2: The kid to the to the wearing the boxing trunks
Speaker 2: and the gloves, and he punches the bell as he
Speaker 2: finishes his cancer treatment and then runs all the way
Speaker 2: home to mom. And you know, I didn't see that
Speaker 2: it was a Pfeiser commercial. But there was a question
Speaker 2: like how did mom not know that?
Speaker 3: Was she not there getting finished treatment? Yes?
Speaker 1: Today, Yeah, that's odd running all the way home, extremely odd.
Speaker 1: Mom would have been there to ring the bell with him.
Speaker 1: So yeah, anyway, let us know what you thought.
Speaker 2: We'll get okay, So we'll get into the terriff that
Speaker 2: President Trump has talked about. And by the way, there
Speaker 2: really is no expectation that a president stays for an
Speaker 2: entire game of any kind. Right, You're not gonna You're
Speaker 2: not going to have a president stay also through the
Speaker 2: fourth order and then come up traffic at the end.
Speaker 1: Also, the game sucked, yea, it was like everybody wanted
Speaker 1: to turn it off after like end of the third quarter.
Speaker 2: Maybe he's stayed for Kendrick Lamar and then Saucerena Williams,
Speaker 2: and then he was done.
Speaker 3: Right, fine, I get that, get out.
Speaker 2: A couple stories were following. Big storm is rolling in
Speaker 2: this week. They're gonna call it one of those atmospheric rivers,
Speaker 2: but we're not gonna call it that February. We'll call
Speaker 2: it February.
Speaker 3: It's rain.
Speaker 2: Rain is expected to start sometime Wednesday, uh, and we'll
Speaker 2: continue it looks like all day Thursday before it tapers
Speaker 2: off just in time for Valentine's Day. They do say
Speaker 2: National Weather Service, this is probably the strongest storm of
Speaker 2: the winter so far. So two to four inches of
Speaker 2: rain or more along the coast and the valleys, maybe
Speaker 2: as much as eight inches in the mountains in the foothills.
Speaker 2: So that is uh, that has coming in later this week.
Speaker 1: You first, I was just gonna say there is news
Speaker 1: to cover this Monday morning, President Trump saying he's gonna
Speaker 1: announce new twenty five percent steel and aluminum import tariffs today.
Speaker 1: He was on Air Force One yesterday obviously, and that's
Speaker 1: where he told reporters about this. We don't know if
Speaker 1: this is going to be in addition to tariffs that
Speaker 1: were already placed on countries like China. In his first term,
Speaker 1: he did impose twenty five percent tariffs on steel, ten
Speaker 1: percent on aluminum. It's going to announce reciprocal tariffs on
Speaker 1: what he said would be for every country tomorrow or Wednesday.
Speaker 3: I'll be announcing probably Tuesday or Wednesday at a news
Speaker 3: conference reciprocal tariffs.
Speaker 1: And very simply, it's if they charge us, we charged them.
Speaker 2: There you go. I mean, it's a little more complicated
Speaker 2: than that, the policies, but that's I mean, that's the
Speaker 2: attitude that he's taken to all of this.
Speaker 1: It seems like China is going to be at the
Speaker 1: heart of this. I guess you could call it a
Speaker 1: negotiation tactic because that's kind of his.
Speaker 2: Mo that's the that's the way the tariff talk has
Speaker 2: definitely worked out in the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: The top five suppliers of steel to America in January
Speaker 1: or Canada and then Brazil, Mexico, South Korea, and Germany.
Speaker 1: China does not export a lot of steel or aluminum
Speaker 1: directly to the US. There have been a lot of
Speaker 1: tariffs from previous presidents in commerce departments.
Speaker 3: When it comes to steal from China.
Speaker 1: Tariffs have also gone up lately on Chinese aluminum as well.
Speaker 1: Biden raised, why is the New York Times calling him
Speaker 1: President Joseph R. Biden. That's just they've done that the
Speaker 1: whole time. Yeah, I have not noticed that in four years,
Speaker 1: President Donald J. Trump, that's a lot of that's a
Speaker 1: lot of names. I feel like you get too. And
Speaker 1: if it's shortened to Joe, it should just be Joe,
Speaker 1: not Joseph. Who calls him Joseph's dead mother.
Speaker 2: Uh. I'm surprised they don't put his full middle name
Speaker 2: in there, Good Lord Robinette.
Speaker 3: Anyway, Joseph R.
Speaker 1: Biden raised existing tariffs on many Chinese and steel and
Speaker 1: aluminum products by twenty five percent as well. But China
Speaker 1: does dominate the global steel and aluminum industry, so it's
Speaker 1: not like us saying, you know, you give us so
Speaker 1: much blah blah blah. It's that they give everybody else
Speaker 1: so much, so let's hit them where it hurts.
Speaker 2: One of the other things that President Trump apparently ordered
Speaker 2: the Treasury Department to stop producing pennies because basically it
Speaker 2: costs almost four pennies to make one penny and there's
Speaker 2: no official announcement on penny production. He just put it
Speaker 2: on truth Social Treasury Department hasn't responded to any of this.
Speaker 2: Congress technically oversees the production of coins and the operations
Speaker 2: of the US Mint, which fall under the Treasury Department.
Speaker 2: So it's got to go through more than just a
Speaker 2: random truth social post for it to actually become a thing.
Speaker 2: And we'll talk more about that. There was also because
Speaker 2: there's a I don't know why there's a debate, is
Speaker 2: because Trump did it doesn't necessarily mean that it has
Speaker 2: to then be put up for a giant discussion of
Speaker 2: is this whyse are we doing? Other countries have done
Speaker 2: this recently where they've gotten rid of the smallest coins,
Speaker 2: usually because it.
Speaker 1: Doesn't make sense dollar bills. I don't know why we
Speaker 1: don't have just the coin for the dollar. Pennies do
Speaker 1: not make sense. Really, a most currency is going by
Speaker 1: the wayside with the phones and everything like that. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's hard to like, when you gave me cash for
Speaker 1: winning that prop.
Speaker 2: That thing you thought I was just giving you, what.
Speaker 3: Was like, what am I going to do with all
Speaker 3: this cash?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean Alex Stone showed up and he didn't
Speaker 2: even have any cash on him, right.
Speaker 1: He's like, do you take Apple Pay? And You're like,
Speaker 1: what the hell is this? This isn't like the brothel
Speaker 1: usually go to.
Speaker 2: I asked him to leave. I said, we are a
Speaker 2: cash only house here.
Speaker 1: You know, it's fun about Alex Stone as he introduces
Speaker 1: himself as Alex Stone. Hi, Alex Stone, Alex Stone, I'm
Speaker 1: Alex Stone. And I don't think I've ever introduced myself
Speaker 1: using my first and last name.
Speaker 3: I don't ever.
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever said Shannon Farrin. Maybe I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't think I have.
Speaker 2: Listen you and I I don't know how other people
Speaker 2: do it in their lot, in their.
Speaker 3: In their real lives.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but we say are we say our names an
Speaker 2: un common amount of times, just.
Speaker 3: Our first names.
Speaker 2: Yes, you're right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Except you guys refer to people in their first and
Speaker 3: last name. We do with that all the time. Like
Speaker 3: Amy King.
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever called her Amy Color, Amy King,
Speaker 1: Alex Stone. Probably the same thing. But I mean, but
Speaker 1: you don't, I mean Amy King. You don't introduce yourself
Speaker 1: as Amy King?
Speaker 4: Do you?
Speaker 3: In an official capacity? I do not at parties right,
Speaker 3: not at parties.
Speaker 2: You didn't last night, you didn't say.
Speaker 3: Maybe I don't. I didn't know.
Speaker 2: You didn't burst in the door and yell Amy King
Speaker 2: has arived.
Speaker 4: Normally, I do the party may begin now, I'm Ammy King.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I felt bad too, because every time Alex did it,
Speaker 3: I would start laughing way to make him feel welcome.
Speaker 2: The best part is you have zero sly there is
Speaker 2: no some so you would like you'd stand and point
Speaker 2: at him, and you said, Alex.
Speaker 1: I know it's my special brand of autism, and I
Speaker 1: apologize for it.
Speaker 2: It's just loud.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: I found that Elon Musk tweet I was going to
Speaker 2: read to you, So we'll do that. We'll talk about pennies,
Speaker 2: all of this good stuff still to come on the
Speaker 2: Gary and Chantons. Yeah, pitchers and catchers today for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: They actually showed up for the Cubs I think Saturday,
Speaker 2: because the Cubs and Dodgers are playing the early series
Speaker 2: in in.
Speaker 3: You're looking at me like I'm going to have an answer.
Speaker 2: They play early, and they play out of the country.
Speaker 2: At least they start the regular shoes. Also, keyk Hernandez
Speaker 2: signed again with the Dodgers, not a giant surprise. The
Speaker 2: military has apparently significantly increased surveillance of Mexican drug cartels
Speaker 2: over the last two weeks. CNN says that spy planes
Speaker 2: have been flying at least eighteen missions over the southwestern
Speaker 2: US in international airspace around the Baja Peninsula. These flights
Speaker 2: appear to be part of the President's directive to the
Speaker 2: military to secure the border deter drug cartels smuggling operations.
Speaker 1: We mentioned that the President says he's ordered the US
Speaker 1: Treasury to stop minting new pennies. The production is wasteful.
Speaker 1: It costs more than two cents to make a cent. Similarly,
Speaker 1: it costs about eleven to thirteen cents to make a nickel, So.
Speaker 2: Why not get rid of all of those smaller denomination coins.
Speaker 2: I mean, it is a what are we doing?
Speaker 3: It's unsanitary as well.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: Well, all the hands on the coins, all the time,
Speaker 3: and the touching.
Speaker 2: Did you have a problem with me handing you one
Speaker 2: hundred dollars for winning a bets yesterday? No, those were filthy.
Speaker 2: I don't know where I kept those.
Speaker 3: I went bowling over the weekend.
Speaker 2: So you and you were the dirtiest of all.
Speaker 3: I'm so dirty.
Speaker 2: Good morning everybody.
Speaker 4: So when I was stationed in Japan a couple of
Speaker 4: years ago, we didn't use pennies.
Speaker 2: It was not a big deal.
Speaker 4: Round it up, rounded down, that was it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's kind of the way it's going
Speaker 2: to go. Hey, good morning, Hey Gary. I'm sorry I
Speaker 2: couldn't make the party. Something came up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're going to talk about the pennies. And it's interesting.
Speaker 3: I heard something where it costs like a nickel to
Speaker 3: make a penny. So that's one of the things hopefully
Speaker 3: they'll cut out. Makes sense, but it was an interesting statistic.
Speaker 2: Nonetheless, Yeah, basically they said, The Washington Post reports it's
Speaker 2: three point seven cents per penny, and like you said,
Speaker 2: thirteen point eight cents to make a nickel.
Speaker 1: Do you want to know a fun fact about a penny?
Speaker 1: There was a halfpenny, at least in Ireland. There's the
Speaker 1: half penny bridge that goes over the River Liffy because
Speaker 1: it used to cost.
Speaker 2: The words it sounds like you said some things, but
Speaker 2: I say it's lower.
Speaker 1: There's a what it's called the half penny bridge because
Speaker 1: it used to cost a halfpenny to cross the bridge
Speaker 1: over the river Liffey in Dublin.
Speaker 3: Back in the eighteen hundreds. That is a that is
Speaker 3: a so this is a fun fact.
Speaker 2: That is a fun fact. That was really fun now
Speaker 2: that you mentioned it. Canada has done this before. They
Speaker 2: implemented a similar process. They eliminated the penny and all
Speaker 2: cash transactions. There the final post tax total can be
Speaker 2: rounded either rounded up or rounded down to the nearest
Speaker 2: five cent increment. Other types of transactions credit card check
Speaker 2: payments don't change because obviously you don't need to go
Speaker 2: scrounging for pennies. The total amount is still settled to
Speaker 2: the hundredth.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Canada, we haven't even gotten into the implications
Speaker 1: of the halftime show on what it meant for Drake
Speaker 1: in Canada.
Speaker 2: Oh do you know why? Huh? I don't care. I
Speaker 2: liked that. I it was really it was well done.
Speaker 2: It it was a clean aesthetic. Not that you mean
Speaker 2: that anybody would be dirty, but it was no.
Speaker 1: I mean the choreography that was really clean. That's what
Speaker 1: the kids say when they say clean. Oh, it's not
Speaker 1: like a filth thing. We forgot tough. I didn't forget
Speaker 1: it was tough sitting right here the uh.
Speaker 2: But but you pointed out, having gone to Super Bowls
Speaker 2: at halftime, the fifty thousand people in the stadium see nothing.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's obviously it's it's choreographed, especially in the
Speaker 2: last couple of years. It's choreographed and produced for the television,
Speaker 2: which is which is fine. If you're sitting at home
Speaker 2: watching it, I would have I can't imagine trying to
Speaker 2: watch that when you're in the stage.
Speaker 1: I guess the thing is is, though, if you're going
Speaker 1: to go to the super Bowl, at least I feel
Speaker 1: this way. If you're going to go to the super Bowl,
Speaker 1: you're not there for the halftime show. You did not
Speaker 1: care about halftime show. If you're going to make that
Speaker 1: kind of investment to watch your team, you care.
Speaker 3: Not about the halftime show.
Speaker 1: I remember the first time I went in New Orleans
Speaker 1: Niners Ravens, and there was girls there that were like, oh,
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see Destiny's Child and Beyonce, and
Speaker 1: it was like, who cares? Like all I care about
Speaker 1: is the forty Niners winning this game, Like I don't
Speaker 1: care about the entertainment.
Speaker 3: It's not why I'm here.
Speaker 1: There was If you care enough about your team, you
Speaker 1: don't care about being entertained by the halftime show.
Speaker 2: There were prop bets as to whether or not the
Speaker 2: power was going to go out yesterday. Yeah, I think
Speaker 2: they would have paid like that. Yeah, But how many
Speaker 2: of the fifty thousand people that are there, I don't
Speaker 2: how many of them are the die hard fans of
Speaker 2: those teams, you know. How many of them are just
Speaker 2: lucky enough to get some corporate something.
Speaker 1: A lot of it's corporate, A lot of it's corporate.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of people that do not care. But
Speaker 1: as evidenced by the booze to Taylor Swift, it was
Speaker 1: a heavily favored Eagles crowd. I think that a lot
Speaker 1: of the time. That is probably due to the fact
Speaker 1: that Kansas City's been there repeatedly. So all the Kansas
Speaker 1: City fans that want to go or have the money
Speaker 1: to go, have gone at this point keep going. But
Speaker 1: it was nice to hear fans that actually cared about
Speaker 1: the game, and you could hear them at times during
Speaker 1: in watching that broadcast. But I the first I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess it was the first Super Bowl I went to.
Speaker 1: I was floored by the lack of fans and the
Speaker 1: number of people who just didn't care about the game.
Speaker 1: They're the party, and it pissed me off. It was like,
Speaker 1: what do you mean, You're just there for the event?
Speaker 1: You know you had to work for.
Speaker 3: That Foothill ranch.
Speaker 5: My favorite Super Bowl commercial was by and for the
Speaker 5: David Beckham and Matt Damon commercial for Medello beer, and
Speaker 5: I was just cracking up because like David Beckham was like, yeah, no,
Speaker 5: I'm more like Ben Affleck famous.
Speaker 3: But also what happened about Damon? He just seemed really fat.
Speaker 5: And then the other one I really liked, Wow, Matthew
Speaker 5: McConaughey with like door dash and conspiracy theories.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been on a while football Food Bowl.
Speaker 2: He did it with Christian McCaffrey, and I think they
Speaker 2: just expanded on.
Speaker 1: And that must have been what I thought, because I
Speaker 1: saw the beginning of that and I just tuned out
Speaker 1: because that I had seen a million times.
Speaker 2: It was clever. He does a lot of different characters
Speaker 2: in one sixty second spot. This was my brother is
Speaker 2: a famous opera player. Yeah, so how famous are you? Like,
Speaker 2: not dam And famous, maybe Beneffitt famous. That's a show.
Speaker 4: The sad part is it wasn't Medello. Yeah, but that's fun.
Speaker 4: It was funny.
Speaker 3: I didn't see that in real time, but I went
Speaker 3: back and watched that. That was good. What are some
Speaker 3: of the other ones that are getting.
Speaker 2: The cul de Sac party? This was the Shane Gillis
Speaker 2: and post Malone bud light where Peyton Manning comes up
Speaker 2: at the end of the.
Speaker 3: As many bud lights as it takes a lot of
Speaker 3: bud lights.
Speaker 2: That was fun because they, you know, both Shane get
Speaker 2: I think post Malone perhaps more willing to make fun
Speaker 2: of himself. The Budweiser commercial, the one you didn't see,
Speaker 2: the Clydesdale. A horse walks into a bar and then
Speaker 2: literally a horse walked into the bar behind them, pushing
Speaker 2: the keg. The corse Light Case of the Monday Tomorrow,
Speaker 2: the Case of the Mondays. So corse Light made a
Speaker 2: better case to help you show get a case of
Speaker 2: the Mondays.
Speaker 4: But you liked it because you like sloths. I like sloths,
Speaker 4: and course light did you you didn't have any quess
Speaker 4: I did not have some left. I have a lot left,
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