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Speaker 2: It's a hard Monday.
Speaker 3: I'll say this, the the amplitude of the wave in
Speaker 3: the beginning of the season is always very shallow. You
Speaker 3: don't get too excited, you don't get too depressed. You're like,
Speaker 3: d I get eighteen weeks to figure out all and
Speaker 3: then as you get you know, week eight, start to
Speaker 3: see some like well there's a chance or they're awful.
Speaker 3: And then you get into like week twelve, thirteen, fourteen,
Speaker 3: and you're like, we're going to the playoff one week
Speaker 3: and then three and a half hours after kickoff, you're like.
Speaker 2: This is the worst time. How in the world?
Speaker 4: Just these are.
Speaker 3: They're professionals, How could they possibly do this?
Speaker 2: What happened? Am I plugged in? Is it making noise? Okay,
Speaker 2: we're having a little computer issue in here, and I
Speaker 2: can't figure out.
Speaker 1: Exactly what's this is the excitement of a live podcast,
Speaker 1: you know, you listen to a taped podcast, you don't
Speaker 1: get they get to edit and post and all that storing.
Speaker 1: You don't know what's going to happen here on this
Speaker 1: live podcast.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, charge was lost yesterday. I had an opportunity
Speaker 3: to go to the game. I realized that we're it's
Speaker 3: getting busy, like there's a lot to do ahead of
Speaker 3: the holidays.
Speaker 2: And things like that, so I didn't. I didn't end
Speaker 2: up going. I'm kind of thankful that I didn't.
Speaker 1: Although it looked like a fun listen, it was fun
Speaker 1: to watch Baker and Mike Evans. Like Baker Mayfield, what
Speaker 1: a great story. What I mean, like him or hate him.
Speaker 1: He is a freaking winner and he plays with a
Speaker 1: lot of emotion, a lot of heart, and that's always
Speaker 1: fun to see. You know, Justin Herbert's great at what
Speaker 1: he does, but he is as icy as lake in
Speaker 1: the morning.
Speaker 4: Like he is.
Speaker 1: There is no high, there's no ups, there's no downs rarely,
Speaker 1: and when he gets frustrated sometimes he'll he'll, you know,
Speaker 1: he'll bang his helmet on the grass. But Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: wears his heart on his sleeve and it's fun to watch.
Speaker 1: And Mike Evans, holy hell, he reminds me of Jerry Rice.
Speaker 1: I mean, he is incredible to watch. Just a cut above.
Speaker 1: The Chargers didn't do much to help their playoff hopes.
Speaker 4: They didn't do much period, end of the story, and
Speaker 4: they know that, you know.
Speaker 2: So that was bad.
Speaker 3: President Elect Trump is holding a news conference at mar
Speaker 3: A Lago. He's taking questions and this is one of
Speaker 3: those that's going to go on for some time.
Speaker 2: He's been out there for about an hour.
Speaker 4: Looks good, doesn't he? Is that just good lighting? What's
Speaker 4: going on?
Speaker 2: Part of it's good lighting?
Speaker 3: But he was he was He was talking, among other things,
Speaker 3: about RFK Junior going to Capitol Hill. He's meeting with
Speaker 3: senators like we've seen other potential appointees do. So he's
Speaker 3: getting his first crack at some of those questions that
Speaker 3: he'll face about his feelings about.
Speaker 2: Vaccines and the healthcare industry, et cetera.
Speaker 1: The big investment was that one hundred billion dollar tech
Speaker 1: investment in the firm that's really big on AI. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're very into open AI. It's called soft Bank, and
Speaker 1: they say they're going to be creating one hundred thousand
Speaker 1: jobs in AI and infrastructure, which terrifies me.
Speaker 3: Which was then funny because Trump stood behind the guy
Speaker 3: that was speaking and goes, okay, how about this right now?
Speaker 3: I get I asked for two hundred billion. What do
Speaker 3: we say, two hundred Yeah, and the guy just laughed nervously. Well,
Speaker 3: we promised a hundred, but you know, we'll see.
Speaker 1: Part of this is that Trump likes to make these announcements,
Speaker 1: and his first term, early on, he announced a ten
Speaker 1: billion dollar investment by Fox Con promised thousands of jobs
Speaker 1: that never happened.
Speaker 4: So he does like to make these big splashes.
Speaker 1: He said back in twenty sixteen at Trump Tower with
Speaker 1: the same the same guys, that he'd spend fifty billion
Speaker 1: create fifty thousand jobs. Don't really know if that happened either,
Speaker 1: but it does make for a good announcement. It does
Speaker 1: make for a good boost of morale when you think
Speaker 1: about all of those jobs potentially being created.
Speaker 3: Okay, make sure we keep in mind there is a
Speaker 3: touch of hysteria in this issue.
Speaker 4: A touch. Well, that's what happens in a vacuum.
Speaker 1: You don't get information right away or for three weeks,
Speaker 1: and you start coming up with your own information.
Speaker 4: The government should know that.
Speaker 1: What's worse, they know what's going on, and they're not
Speaker 1: telling us, or they have no idea. I would love
Speaker 1: it if they knew what was going on. And just
Speaker 1: we're not telling us right.
Speaker 3: The scarier version is they don't know what's going So
Speaker 3: we saw this with COVID and there was a great
Speaker 3: There was a great op ed piece in the Wall
Speaker 3: Street Journal today, Drones and the cost of lost trust.
Speaker 3: The idea that we turn to the fed federal government
Speaker 3: and say to them, please tell us, Please tell us
Speaker 3: what's going on. Even if you lie to us, Please
Speaker 3: tell us what's going on. But to stand there with
Speaker 3: your palms in the air and go is the worst
Speaker 3: answer you could possibly have. Alejandro Majorcis, the Department of
Speaker 3: Homeland Security Secretary, was on ABC yesterday and said, oh,
Speaker 3: we are working on it, and we're asking state and
Speaker 3: local authorities in New Jersey, New York to take care
Speaker 3: of it as well.
Speaker 5: To assure the American public that we in the federal
Speaker 5: government have deployed additional resources, personnel, technology to assist the
Speaker 5: New Jersey State Police in addressing the drone sightings. Some
Speaker 5: of those drone sightings are in fact drones, some are
Speaker 5: manned aircraft that are commonly mistaken for drones.
Speaker 4: Low t.
Speaker 1: He said that one of the reasons seeing this is
Speaker 1: because there was a change of an FAA rule last
Speaker 1: year that allows drones to fly at night.
Speaker 4: That's why there's an uptick in drone sightings.
Speaker 1: Maybe it is just people at drones all getting together.
Speaker 4: And fly in their drones.
Speaker 3: Yeah, then how come none of them have come out
Speaker 3: and said, guys, it's just me.
Speaker 2: It's just Bob. I'm down the.
Speaker 3: Street of your neighbor. I didn't mean to I didn't
Speaker 3: mean to scare anybody.
Speaker 4: Excellent point. Where is Bob?
Speaker 3: And there are there are reports of drones that come
Speaker 3: in from the ocean.
Speaker 2: Now a listen. I'm not saying they're real or not.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying there are sworn law enforcement officers in
Speaker 3: the state of New Jersey who say, I have no
Speaker 3: idea what's going on, but as I'm driving my patrol car,
Speaker 3: I saw a couple dozen of these things coming in
Speaker 3: from the ocean.
Speaker 1: Yes, and there's there is video. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's verified video, but it's on Twitter. There's also the
Speaker 1: aerospace boss who says that they're trying to smell radioactive material.
Speaker 4: Have you read this?
Speaker 2: Whoa?
Speaker 3: We have talked many times about the cabinet appointees making
Speaker 3: our way around Capitol Hill, turns out that RFK Junior
Speaker 3: is going to be meeting with Republican lawmakers today trying
Speaker 3: to make his case to be the Health and Human
Speaker 3: Services Secretary. Said that he does not want to take
Speaker 3: away access to vaccines, but has question there at safety
Speaker 3: and that's one of the issues that's going to come up.
Speaker 3: President elect Trump continues his long winded news conference there
Speaker 3: down to mar A Lago.
Speaker 2: One of the issues that he was asked.
Speaker 3: About was the quest I suppose to have his daughter
Speaker 3: in law be appointed the new senator from Florida to
Speaker 3: take over for Marco Rubio.
Speaker 1: That's going to be real power play between Trump and DeSantis.
Speaker 3: Yeah, A good long article today is basically that DeSantis
Speaker 3: is considering her I mean, it kind of has to
Speaker 3: with this way. If it's the re question President elect,
Speaker 3: what is he going to get for it? But for
Speaker 3: what and why? I mean, what is what would benefit?
Speaker 3: Is he doing the calculus of we need someone who's
Speaker 3: going to benefit the state of Florida, or do we
Speaker 3: need somebody who's going to be close to the President
Speaker 3: of the United States.
Speaker 1: It's all about the power and what's he going to
Speaker 1: get and does he want to bend the knee to Trump,
Speaker 1: and Trump's all about I want to tell you what
Speaker 1: to do, and you're going to do it because I
Speaker 1: wield that kind of power.
Speaker 4: He says he will.
Speaker 1: By the way, Trump today said he will look at
Speaker 1: pardoning Mayor Eric Adams, who's facing those bribery charges.
Speaker 2: Interesting.
Speaker 3: Eric Adams has come out and has talked about last
Speaker 3: week he was talking about he's going to work with
Speaker 3: Tom Holm. And the borders are basically crossing lines that
Speaker 3: the Democratic Party would have considered untenable before Nancy Pelosi
Speaker 3: got her hip replaced. That was not a surprise. We
Speaker 3: knew that she fell while she was in Luxembourg. She
Speaker 3: was taken to a military hospital in Germany. Eighty four
Speaker 3: year olds and broken hips are not often a good combination.
Speaker 1: Not good usually. That was the kiss of death right
Speaker 1: in the eighties. Grandma broke her hip. She's not gonna
Speaker 1: make it. My grandma broke her hip when she was
Speaker 1: like in her fifties or sixties or something. Never got
Speaker 1: the operation, just walked like Jim harbought for her whole life.
Speaker 3: She walked around with cleats basically, you know how he walked.
Speaker 2: Cleats on the sideline.
Speaker 1: No, but you know she's terrified of that operation, and
Speaker 1: it's it's not good at eighty four.
Speaker 4: It's different if you're an athlete.
Speaker 1: You're moving around and you get your hip replaced in
Speaker 1: your fifties because people are doing that because the surgery
Speaker 1: has been streamlined over the years.
Speaker 4: We played the segment that the handle had on the drones.
Speaker 2: He makes more sense than you do.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna.
Speaker 4: God, i'd hear it. I didn't hear the segment.
Speaker 2: That's a veto let me play this.
Speaker 3: This is Chris Christie, former governor of New Jersey, talking
Speaker 3: about what's going and by the way, he said he
Speaker 3: saw a drone over his backyard.
Speaker 6: Most recently, administration and state authorities have to be more
Speaker 6: vocal and let people know exactly what they're doing. It's
Speaker 6: a lack of communication from the government at the federal
Speaker 6: and state level that's at fault. Here.
Speaker 3: I mentioned that Wall Street Journal op ed piece. It
Speaker 3: says no one in Washington seems to be able to
Speaker 3: convincingly explain these sightings. A joint statement by the FBI
Speaker 3: and Department of Homeland Security says, we have no evidence
Speaker 3: at this time that the reported drone sidings pose a
Speaker 3: national security or public safety threat, or even have a
Speaker 3: foreign nexus.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's all. Listen.
Speaker 3: All that is is absolutely probably true. They don't have
Speaker 3: any evidence that it's bad. But we've got to be
Speaker 3: able to defend against drones which have become a massive
Speaker 3: useful bullet in the wartime game plans.
Speaker 4: We just did you just listen to handle segment on
Speaker 4: drones and then you're.
Speaker 2: No, Okay why I was just trying to make sense
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 1: You were just you were just searching for your words,
Speaker 1: So I thought that you're. John Ferguson is the CEO
Speaker 1: of Saxon Aerospace, a drone manufacturer in Kansas. He's weighed
Speaker 1: in on the drones in a TikTok post it has
Speaker 1: gone viral. He says that the action could be due
Speaker 1: to potential gas leaks or radioactive material.
Speaker 4: He says in this nine minute video that the.
Speaker 1: Only reason an unmanned aircraft would be flown at night
Speaker 1: was if its operator was looking for something. He says,
Speaker 1: my own guess is that these drones are not nefarious
Speaker 1: in intent.
Speaker 4: If they are, they are, but I doubt it.
Speaker 1: The only reason they'd be flying and flying that lowestcause
Speaker 1: they're trying to smell something on the ground, to.
Speaker 4: Which I say, how is that not nefarious? What kind
Speaker 4: of what?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: Is he suggesting that it's like a one of the
Speaker 3: utilities is out there searching for leaks or something like that.
Speaker 1: The utility raise its hand and say, we're searching for leaks.
Speaker 1: Nobody's coming forward.
Speaker 4: To your point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the that's the end. Listen.
Speaker 3: You mentioned my Orcus and the rule that he said
Speaker 3: on ABC's This Week yesterday where they've changed. September of
Speaker 3: last year, they had changed the rules that they can
Speaker 3: allow drones to fly at night as long as they
Speaker 3: meet the certain parameters. They've got to be well lit,
Speaker 3: they've got to be visible within three miles all, I mean,
Speaker 3: all these rules. Yeah, which is fine. I have not
Speaker 3: done this yet, but I'm curious, if you just in
Speaker 3: any neighborhood in southern California, if you just stood out
Speaker 3: on your porch, back porch, backyard long enough, are you
Speaker 3: going to see these things? I mean, are they ubiquitous
Speaker 3: enough that you're going to see them regardless?
Speaker 2: I mean, if you're looking for them, you're going to
Speaker 2: see them.
Speaker 3: If you're just driving to or from the restaurant or
Speaker 3: something you're not necessarily going to notice it.
Speaker 1: Well, there are people walking outside in southern California and
Speaker 1: noticing these. Video was sent in to KTLA by a
Speaker 1: guy in Redondo Beach, described as moving light zooming across
Speaker 1: the sky. He saw it, well, he was putting up
Speaker 1: his Christmas lights. He said, what's this? They're just hanging out.
Speaker 1: There are alleged drones flying above riverside in footage uploaded
Speaker 1: to TikTok to Mecula as well. I mean, but drones
Speaker 1: are I think to your point, everywhere we just don't
Speaker 1: notice them, and now are we just? Is this just
Speaker 1: hysteria where one drone news story births one thousand more
Speaker 1: just because it's top of mind.
Speaker 3: Well, and I'll go back to the balloon story, the
Speaker 3: Chinese spy balloon that floated over the United States for
Speaker 3: eight days. People started seeing balloons everywhere. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 3: to the point where we were scrambling jets to shoot
Speaker 3: them down even if they were nothing.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 3: So yes, I mean, people look up for the first
Speaker 3: time all week because their face is buried in their
Speaker 3: phone or whatever.
Speaker 1: I think the takeaway is that the Emperor has no clothes.
Speaker 1: We think that we have the brightest minds that know
Speaker 1: everything over there in Washington, and I don't think they
Speaker 1: know Jack s.
Speaker 3: So who Well, yeah, but then who does Who is
Speaker 3: the person? Who's the agency's who?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know about that. Huh.
Speaker 3: Luigi Mangioni is pulling in all kinds of cash to
Speaker 3: pay for his.
Speaker 4: Lawyers and all kinds of tail.
Speaker 2: What's going on with you people?
Speaker 3: A new motion introduced by a couple of La County
Speaker 3: supervisors would declare the closing of Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall
Speaker 3: a local emergency that would grant the county access to
Speaker 3: powers that are usually reserved for things like natural disasters
Speaker 3: to try to avoid here's the thing they're trying to avoid,
Speaker 3: putting communities in extreme peril. If you remember, of course,
Speaker 3: the facility was legally required to close Thursday, last Thursday,
Speaker 3: but La County has defied that state law. One of
Speaker 3: the reasons is they said the two hundred and sixty
Speaker 3: juvenile inmates there. The only other option if they're not
Speaker 3: at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall is you release them back
Speaker 3: into their communities.
Speaker 2: That is the concern to tomorrow. LA County is going
Speaker 2: to be looking at that at that resolution.
Speaker 1: Several online defense funds have been created for Luigi Mangioni
Speaker 1: by anonymous people. You know, I wouldn't mention his name
Speaker 1: as much, but it's such a fun name to say,
Speaker 1: isn't that awful?
Speaker 2: That's why you say it awful?
Speaker 1: Including one defense fund on the crowdfunding website give Send Go.
Speaker 1: As of yesterday morning, they had raised over one hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. This is the guy that shot and killed
Speaker 1: United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown Manhattan. Of course,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of resentment of corporate power that exists
Speaker 1: in this country. A lot of it stems from some
Speaker 1: of the most well to do people like himself.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: It's that Ivy League way.
Speaker 1: Of thinking that corporate greed and power is bad. It's
Speaker 1: very prevalent on all college campuses.
Speaker 2: Really.
Speaker 1: I mean I remember thinking that way when I was
Speaker 1: a poor college student, and oh the man in corporate
Speaker 1: America and it's all greed, and it's a very common
Speaker 1: thought process. I'm still in the camp of this guy
Speaker 1: was a male in his early twenties, and we've seen
Speaker 1: it time and time again. If that's the time of
Speaker 1: life when if there's going to be a brain chemistry
Speaker 1: shortage or the wiring goes bad, that's when it happens.
Speaker 2: And there is something could be both, It could be both.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there is something admirable about someone taking up a
Speaker 3: fight on behalf of someone else, sure, especially the little guy,
Speaker 3: especially the little guy. But this guy does not appear
Speaker 3: to have been harmed by insurance companies, at least at
Speaker 3: this point.
Speaker 2: We haven't.
Speaker 3: We haven't gotten the information. We know that he you know,
Speaker 3: we know that he had serious health issues. He had
Speaker 3: that spondyl of Noah, I was gonna say it perfectly,
Speaker 3: spondalo life thesis, a back problem that apparently has aggravated
Speaker 3: while he was surfing in Hawaii, and it was chronic
Speaker 3: pain and it was difficult. His mother may have also
Speaker 3: suffered from chronic back pain. But there's nothing to suggest
Speaker 3: that he was denied coverage because of any of that.
Speaker 1: There's also something going on in our culture of being
Speaker 1: aggrieved for other people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And my point in saying that it's an admirable
Speaker 3: thing for you to be able to pick up and
Speaker 3: take on a fight on behalf of someone who can't
Speaker 3: do it themselves.
Speaker 2: But this is the egregious.
Speaker 3: Bastardization of that, you know, fighting the good fight kind
Speaker 3: of thing. We talked last week that term social banditry,
Speaker 3: of course, where if the powers that be cannot take
Speaker 3: care of us, we need somebody to fight back on
Speaker 3: our behalf. And in you know, that social banditry version
Speaker 3: of it comes out of Marxist thinking, uses a lot
Speaker 3: of illegal means to fight on behalf of the little guy,
Speaker 3: and this obviously would be a branch of that, I guess.
Speaker 3: But the idea that you would feel so moved by
Speaker 3: his action of killing a man that you would then
Speaker 3: send in thousands of dollars, even if it's a couple
Speaker 3: twenty bucks and it turns out to you know, total
Speaker 3: one hundred thousand dollars in some cases just is beyond me.
Speaker 1: Remember that woman we told you about last week, the
Speaker 1: one who was on the phone with her health insurance
Speaker 1: company blew Cross when she said, delay denied to pose
Speaker 1: you people are next, and she was arrested for that
Speaker 1: because they took that as a credible threat. Well now
Speaker 1: she has raised over twenty five thousand dollars for her
Speaker 1: legal defense.
Speaker 3: Wow, this is if you are a if you're a
Speaker 3: CEO of any of these health companies.
Speaker 2: I can't imagine what this.
Speaker 3: I can't imagine what going to the grocery store looks
Speaker 3: like for you, for fear the I mean, you have
Speaker 3: wanted posters in New York with your face on them.
Speaker 4: The good thing is is these aren't people who go to.
Speaker 2: The grocery store. Maybe, yes, they have people for them.
Speaker 4: Exactly.
Speaker 1: Have I mentioned that that's a really nice looking shirt
Speaker 1: on you? The usually you wear this shirt one tone
Speaker 1: of blue, and that shirt has two tones of blue,
Speaker 1: and that's fun.
Speaker 2: Well, and then I have blue shoes.
Speaker 4: Oh huh yeah, Oh look at that.
Speaker 2: That's different.
Speaker 4: Oh that's nice, that's fun, right, blue jacket? Doesn't it
Speaker 4: feel nice to get a compliment?
Speaker 2: Is this? Are you? Wait a minute?
Speaker 3: You did that only to tease the story that's coming
Speaker 3: up next hour.
Speaker 1: I did it for two reasons. I did it to
Speaker 1: tease the story and to give.
Speaker 4: You a compliment.
Speaker 2: But in that order, probably.
Speaker 4: Maybe I did get a job to do.
Speaker 3: I did get compliments on this jacket over the weekend.
Speaker 3: Oh good, Yeah, this is the jacket you gave me
Speaker 3: for Christmas last year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you.
Speaker 4: Have to wear it inside because it's so cold here.
Speaker 3: It is very cold. I almost brought gloves today.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 1: I was at the game last night and I just
Speaker 1: had like a light sweater on and jeans and I
Speaker 1: had a scarf in the second half. But I was
Speaker 1: just like, this is funny. I'm not as cold because
Speaker 1: the wind started to kick up. It's late after it's
Speaker 1: December win and I'm like, I'm not as cold as
Speaker 1: I would be in the studio in the eleven.
Speaker 2: O'clock anime building.
Speaker 4: It has really gotten me ready for the cold.
Speaker 3: For the first time in recorded history, the National Weather
Speaker 3: Service issued a tornado warning for the city of San Francisco.
Speaker 2: Really on Saturday morning. Oh that's funny.
Speaker 3: They had a couple of big cells that went through
Speaker 3: just before about six o'clock local time Saturday morning. People
Speaker 3: in San Francisco started getting National Weather Service warnings, tornado
Speaker 3: warnings and telling people to take shelter. About a million
Speaker 3: people were covered by this warning. It expired about fifteen
Speaker 3: minutes later. From a tsunami to a tornado.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 3: In just a few days, yeah, the latest wellness story
Speaker 3: that always this always fascinates me. Anybody over fifty, they
Speaker 3: say maintaining close friendships isn't just about having someone to
Speaker 3: chat with over coffee. It could be integral to your
Speaker 3: health and well being. Yes, if you're over fifty. Study
Speaker 3: revealed seventy five percent of older adults say they have
Speaker 3: enough close friends. Those saying they're in poor mental or
Speaker 3: physical health are significantly less likely to maintain these vital
Speaker 3: social connections.
Speaker 2: University of Michigan did this.
Speaker 1: Survey, speaking of would you like my good news story? Yes,
Speaker 1: we don't need to get into Pelosi's broken hip that much.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean it's broken.
Speaker 4: It's broken.
Speaker 3: I mean it's new now. It was broken, they fixed it.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I still don't know. Did they do
Speaker 3: just a titanium hip?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Did they do just the ball or the socket?
Speaker 1: I don't want to think about Nancy Pelosi's balls and
Speaker 1: sockets and hips. Three years ago, Lydia and her husband
Speaker 1: Andy moved into their new apartment in Honolulu, and they
Speaker 1: noticed loud music coming through the walls from the neighbor's apartment,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, what the heck is that.
Speaker 4: Exactly?
Speaker 1: So they decided to go over and introduce themselves and
Speaker 1: see what the ruckus is all about.
Speaker 4: And they meet their neighbor, Derek.
Speaker 2: Derek.
Speaker 1: Derek is a ninety eight year old former English pilot
Speaker 1: in the British Navy.
Speaker 3: I was going to say he could not be an
Speaker 3: American ninety eight year old named Derek. That name was
Speaker 3: not around the United States in the nineteen teens.
Speaker 4: Well, it was around the England.
Speaker 1: So they discovered that Derek was playing his music so
Speaker 1: loud because he wears hearing aids that were not working.
Speaker 1: So they helped him adjust his hearing aids. And while
Speaker 1: they were helping Derek with his hearing aids, would you
Speaker 1: want to touch someone else's hearing aids.
Speaker 4: It's been in their years.
Speaker 2: I did that when I had to adjust my dad's
Speaker 2: hearing aids. Put him on.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, I mean, it's it's your dad, but it's
Speaker 1: still anyway.
Speaker 4: They noticed that he has a piano in his.
Speaker 1: Apartment and they said, well, he starts playing this, well
Speaker 1: not yet, don't jump ahead. The couple learns that he
Speaker 1: had taken piano lessons as a kid, but he stopped,
Speaker 1: but when he got older, he realized he could just
Speaker 1: sit down and play anything from memory by year, feeling
Speaker 1: his way on the keys, he said that he would
Speaker 1: play for his new neighbors, Lydia and her husband sometime
Speaker 1: and that's where their friendship began. He invited us over
Speaker 1: for tea. We did that a few times, and he
Speaker 1: had We had him over for why and Christmas cocktails
Speaker 1: and dinner, and then he started playing for us, and
Speaker 1: you know, we have pizza sometimes.
Speaker 4: Pizza and beer. They never skip dessert.
Speaker 1: And then they have a mini concert from Derek, sometimes
Speaker 1: with a theme like Christmas songs or Valentine's Day love songs.
Speaker 1: Lydia enjoys singing, so sometimes he'll write lyrics for her
Speaker 1: to sing along with him. They love to do Secret
Speaker 1: Love by Doris day time. Anyway, she started recording videos
Speaker 1: of their performances to send to her mom, who also
Speaker 1: plays a piano. Then one day she decides to put
Speaker 1: them on TikTok spread some joy. It went viral, millions
Speaker 1: of views of Derek playing his yamaha. She says, I
Speaker 1: thought it was incredible. I read every single comment. I
Speaker 1: relay them back to Daniel. It's just such a positive
Speaker 1: little pocket of the internet.
Speaker 4: She says.
Speaker 1: I often ask him if if I can post something
Speaker 1: or keep posting, and he says post it all.
Speaker 4: He loves it. He can't believe the reach he has.
Speaker 2: That's funny, that beautiful. I used to TikTok more than
Speaker 2: you do. He's eight years old.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: He also has a cat named Biscuit. He likes to
Speaker 1: post pictures of videos of Biscuit.
Speaker 2: How old is Biscuit?
Speaker 4: Biscuit sixty seven? Biscuit used to go by Kevin.
Speaker 2: Oh he did.
Speaker 6: That? Wait? What?
Speaker 4: No, why did you call for that.
Speaker 2: Fat thumbs? Wrong button?
Speaker 4: We haven't played that in a while for good reason.
Speaker 4: Is it a booty song? Monday? I think it is.
Speaker 2: Body, Body, boody boy.
Speaker 6: Oh.
Speaker 3: Friend of mine said she enjoyed that interview with Russ Taffy,
Speaker 3: the lyricist of course, who did the trumpere is this?
Speaker 3: And he said, she said, it's a good thing you
Speaker 3: didn't play the booty song for him to describe some
Speaker 3: of the other songs that you play all the time
Speaker 3: on the show.
Speaker 1: I think he would like it, honestly, I think he
Speaker 1: would be like he had a pretty good sense of
Speaker 1: h totally all right, we come back. I couldn't not
Speaker 1: get the image of the dad in the back bedroom drinking. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I couldn't get that out of my head all weekend,
Speaker 1: like he painted such a picture of that household.
Speaker 2: Is that where you spent Saturdays in the back bedroom? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Drinking, Yeah, drinking cheap hooch. Yeah. Up next, the crazy
Speaker 3: weather from up north. They go, like you said, from
Speaker 3: tsunami to tornado warning over the course of just a
Speaker 3: few days, and then more earthquakes even today.
Speaker 4: Super glad I'm headed up there this weekend.
Speaker 3: Lucky you you've been listening to The Gary and Shannon Show.
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