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hello and welcome.
Speaker 1: Thank you forgetting your pot on. Thanks for telling a friend.
That's how we spread the word about the pirate ship.
Go to make sure everything's kind of working all right
here because there was a lot of technical there's other
things happening in this space, and it's great, it's fucking awesome,
but people are touching things and it's not working right.
Fresh in the house.
Speaker 3: Who wait for that, buddy?
Speaker 1: How are you? I'm well. Doug came in with some
deviled eggs. I looked at him and burst out laughing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, why did you burnt laughing?
Speaker 1: It was like, it's like an offering. It was like
an offering.
Speaker 3: Uh, we're not in church, not a what do you
call those things? Wafers?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I tell you what.
Speaker 3: If priests gave out deviled eggs instead of wafers, there'd
be a line at church to get in there on Sundays?
Speaker 1: Do you think so? I know? So? How do you know?
Speaker 3: I because what teastes better? Wafer? One of Dougie Fresh's
deuviled eggs.
Speaker 1: Uh. Yeah, I've never I think I've had a waifer
once or twice because I wasn't raised Catholic.
Speaker 3: Neither was a so And I remember this bizarre I went.
I was in Scouts Sunday, always had to go to church,
and you just lined up and the priest gave me
a wafer and I just walked away, and guy ran
after me. He goes, son, let me have that, and
they're like okay. Because I didn't immediately put in my.
Speaker 1: Mind, oh well, you can hold it in your hand
and go. Yeah.
Speaker 3: He just came up to me, and I never forgot
there were some reason.
Speaker 1: It was really weird.
Speaker 3: I used to go to church as a Baptist. I
used to walk there and just because that's where my
Scout meetings were. So but no, never Catholic.
Speaker 1: I was until I was seven, and then my father
had philosophical disagreements and wrote a letter of resignation to
the Catholic Church.
Speaker 3: He got a fight with a priest right or he
had a disagreement.
Speaker 1: Well that was when he was that was when he
was in the seminary and he got basically asked to
leave because he put a Litz cigarette in the Virgin Mary's.
Speaker 3: Now I know where you get it.
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding.
Speaker 3: And he would like whenever you get a little buzz out.
He brag about it to me.
Speaker 1: And then I guess they had like a parent's weekend
and he brought some girl named Peaches who had a
really short skirt and long and big go go boots on,
and they just said, we don't think this is for you.
Speaker 3: If I want to find God, doesn't shouldn't matter.
Speaker 1: What you wear. Well, I think he was in the
seminary to be a priest. Oh yes, so, oh he
was studying me a priest. Yeah, I believe so. And
so he learned to write. But then he was working
in a bank. This is how kind of how I
ended up. This gives you the connection to why I'm
where I am. He was working in a bank, and
he's my dad's was a really brilliant man, like brilliant,
maybe almost not e brilliant. And one of the priests
came to him and said, if you don't leave Brooklyn now,
you're never gonna leave. And my dad had applied to
a bunch of colleges, but it was late August or
middle of August, and so everybody accepted him for a
January a January admission, and this priest is like, you'll
you'll find a girl, you'll knock up whatever, right, and
then you're just gonna stay here. And he's like, you
can't do that. So there was one college that accepted
him for that fall, Saint John Fisher. And so my
father my grandmother packed up a bag one suitcase, put
him on a plane, and he flew sight unseen to
Rochester and they drove up the following weekend with the
rest of his clothes and stuff, and he went to
Saint John Fisher and absolutely loved it.
Speaker 3: Cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so when I was looking at colleges, I
too got in everywhere I applied, but they told me
I'd have to take a class to prove I could
handle the work because my SAT scores are pretty good,
but nothing else is all that good. And my father's like,
you're gonna drink your way out of college. You get
one shot of my dime. So I didn't go right away.
I went to community college. And then when I was
looking for college, he's like, you should look at Fisher.
They have a great I'm like, I don't want to
go to Fisher. I don't want to go to Fisher,
So I come up. I was already working in radio.
I come up to Fisher and I found a party
on camp and I blew off the kid I was
staying with and I found these girls and stuff and
I was like, this is fucking awesome. And that was it.
Oh oh. And then the next day I went to
the admissions and they go, well, we'd like to accept you.
And I had done well in my community. I mean,
I don't want to diminish community college because I don't
think college work at any level is all that difficult.
If you do the work right, and even if you
don't get something, go find the help. It's all there
for you. So I don't want to diminish that. But
I did. I had like a three nine or something,
just easy. And I said, they said, we'd like to
offer you admission, and I said do I have to
write an essay? And they go no. I go done.
Like that was it. That was over my exact words.
I went to the caverns awhere because I just went done.
I'm in I can't wait. That was it. But the
Devil's eggs I didn't learn how to do that in college.
And I tell you that, Bud.
Speaker 3: Many people ask me for that ingredent recipe, the secret recipe. Yeah,
really that much to it?
Speaker 1: White vinegar, no mannaise.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got to tell you something about tell me somebody.
Speaker 1: Because you are uber excellent Uber driver. I have used
you to drive me to the airport, yes, in Buffalo.
Wow is it expensive? I could have gotten oh to
uber a Southwest flight for less and I'm not kidding.
Then it cost me to go to Damien's new pub
on the west Side over Degrease. Really there was about
I think Southwest keeps sending me these things get away
fifty nine dollars get away and I don't fly Southwest
all that often. But and I'm like, wow, So this
was Wednesday, Wednesday, what time I taped a podcast, went home,
had audio issues. I left around eight o'clock, came back
at like one o'clock.
Speaker 3: Sixty bucks each way, yeah, average, yeah, average? Now did
you just look at it?
Speaker 1: And no, I did a wait. I did to wait
and save me. And that was the sixty like the
other was like yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: So what you want to do is refresh your square
screen and keep refreshing.
Speaker 1: You know. But when I did that once they went up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it happens too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So whatever I mean, I'll tell you this, like
at all, I'm half kidding when I say that. Who
gives a shit? I don't want to d W I no,
and I and I know that you know, they're looking.
There's a new pup in town. They're looking. Yeah, and
it hadn't opened yet. It officially opens today, so you
may have been able to get away with it. But
I'm like, I don't want to fuck it. I don't
want to fuck it around. I don't I don't.
Speaker 3: Want to one o'clock in the morning, I was sleeping.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I know. I wasn't gonna burden anybody else
with this. And it was, you know, a friend and
I were going and so how was it?
Speaker 3: How does it look looks great? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Our friend Mac of all Trades with uh, the Mac
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Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: Who at our studio did their place? And it looks fantastic.
It's you know, it's a traditional Irish pub, Doug. I'm
gonna pause here for a second, okay, And I just
need to check the audio for some reason. It's coming
in a lot hotter than normal, and I can't figure
out why. And these are the things that are happening.
Like as things move forward with the podcast in this studio,
I'm allowing some things to happen. You don't build equity
in something if you have to be there all the time.
Understand that you're like, you just can't. It's not scalable.
So trying to do that then you run into hiccups
like this. So hold on one second.
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all is well, My bad. Sorry, just wanted to double
check that stuff and make sure things were good. You
got it. But life is good for Dougie Fresh Oh yeah, okay.
Speaker 3: Working hard, driving hard, New Year, and try to get
some resolutions in and resolutions in. Yeah, I'm one of
those guys that makes resolutions.
Speaker 1: Okay, the year, all right, I'll try to start the
year off on the right foot. Do you tell people
your resolutionsy do you keep them to yourself? Myself? Love
you for that. Yeah, And I'm not kidding because sometimes
you tell me I'm gonna lose weight to yoga. You
try that exactly right. Everybody says these things and it
kind of gets in your head. I really think it
affects your thinking.
Speaker 3: I don't think you should jinx it, and I should
let somebody like losing weight. Let lose the weight and
have somebody else toot your horn instead of twoting it yourself.
Speaker 1: Ah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I'm gonna lose weight. I'm gonna lose weight.
And then five months ago about you don't weight, but
if you do lose weight, and in five months he says,
Doug you lose weight feels a lot.
Speaker 1: Better sometimes see it yep, And sometimes things are better
done in silence. Yeah, I always go go forth and
tell no one right, don't say anything, whatever idea you
have about doing things like I haven't talked about a
lot of things with the podcast because I just don't
need people to be like and I'm like, no, not doing.
Speaker 3: It in jinxing things. I think I believe in that
for some reason, just because you're a superstitious way, Yeah,
I'm a little superstitious. Yeah, yeah, do you have what
other weird things that you don't look at the mirror
before wrestling match?
Speaker 1: Okay that was an old one. Yeah, yeah, when you
when you were wrestling, yeah, all the way through. You
did that for what eight years?
Speaker 3: All little more something in high school, college four and
then yeah, a bunch of years in wrestling tournaments even
after old timer tournaments or master's tournaments as they say, yeah,
under forty over fifty, did you do it?
Speaker 1: Yeah? How did you win? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Well eleven years ago was my list. Wow, that's that's
forty four.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I only had two matches. I mean that time.
The the the numbers aren't as large and it's mostly
parents and actually grandparents guys that are wrestling with their
sons and grandsons, so they're a little more in shape.
And one time I was at two No. One, seventy one,
seventy five, and I was right in between the one
hundred and sixty five pound weight class and heavyweights, so
I had to wrestled the heavyweights.
Speaker 2: Damn.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I still came in third, okay, just with
leg trips and then just ride them out or you know,
hopefully they get a little more winded than that I do,
and those things. It's more over fifty a couple of
takedowns and that's it. The periods are one with a
thirty second break, one thirty second break. When you're out
of college in your you know, twenty five, twenty six,
guys are still in shape. So there's some names around
that still just want to wrestle because they love it.
So yeah, sometimes you'll get some good.
Speaker 1: Matchups against the man and the single Yeah, right, like
not in those shorts and a T shirt? Is it
just shorts? Yeah? Oh so it's like backyard Yeah, that's like, yeah,
it comes Bob representing bud Light. Here's Doug from wind
Jammers with this wind Jammers T shirt on.
Speaker 3: The Jenny Light gentleman, the Jenny Like gentleman.
Speaker 1: That's even better. That's even better. No fear of like
getting hurt at that's the other guys.
Speaker 3: That's the other guys.
Speaker 1: Okay, I mean fair enough.
Speaker 3: If you think you're gonna get hurt, don't you don't
do it.
Speaker 1: Don't do it because you will. You're already, it's already
in your hand, it's already in your head.
Speaker 3: You don't want to be careful. That's so so okay,
let's just okay, no hard takedown.
Speaker 1: No, Yeah, you're out there though. Yeah. It's funny because
it's just amazing when I look at things, how fear
controls so many of our decisions and things. And I
don't think fear is necessarily a bad thing. It's almost
like a survival instinct at times. But I can see
where it plays into all of our lives. And you
sent me video and there's a lot I'm sure online.
I haven't looked a whole lot of chatter about what
happened in Minnesota a little over a week ago, I think,
and I think there's so many people who go I
would have handled it differently, And when I look at this,
I go, I don't know that you would. I don't
think anybody would, because I will tell you in that moment,
the biggest thing I see is fear on both sides, truly.
And I want to play the audio that you sent
me because it's kind of interesting. I don't necessarily agree
with everything the guy's saying, but it's an interesting discussion.
And he's a fun he's got a fun delivery of it.
It's uh, happened in Minnesota. Here he is right here,
now this woman who is now I can pause.
Speaker 3: He So this gentleman, we were talking about this last week. Yeah,
my buddy had found this. This guy has been arrested
over two hundred times, has been a more than three
hundred protests, I think.
Speaker 1: And he holds up pictures of him in handcuffs and
things over the years, thirty five years. He says, yeah,
but he'll explain that.
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, your buddy's gonna remember it.
Speaker 1: That's okay. Here we go.
Speaker 4: Sadly, she leaves a child and a wife and it
shouldn't have happened. I have a right to comment on this,
more than ninety nine point nine percent of all of you.
So listen to what I'm fucking saying here. Why because
I am the protester. You understand this the thirty five years,
this is what I've been doing, thousands of protests, dozens
upon dozens of arrests, And the reason I am still here, Oh,
I don't have stitches from a fucking billy club or
I don't have marks from a taser is right here
in this image. Every single time that I haven't arrested,
you will notice my hands I placed behind my back.
As I am told when I get arrested, I do
not resist, I do not spit, I do not curse,
I do not struggle. I do not fight or be
aggressive towards the authorities or there to arrest me. Because
when we protest, we step over a line, a line
that is there, and that line happens to be called
the fucking law. And thank god, in this country, we
can step over that line sometimes, but we have to
understand that we are now in a different zone. Because
that cop over there, I think his kids got leukemia.
That cop over there, I know was in a bank
robbery last night with the thugs and he got shot
at and he's back out in the street. But he's
all high tension. And that guy over there, that cop,
I know his wife is fucking the mail man. So
I'm in a high tension area and these fuckers have guns,
but tons and pases.
Speaker 1: Now I just want to pause he here for just
a second. And I wasn't planning to do that, but
I think you know, I'm sure somebody goes, oh, how
does he know? He doesn't, But he's basically pointing out
there are other things going on in their lives. They're
a human being, They're a human right, They're a human
being that has gone through something and it may influence
the moment. How many of us are taking out it's
displaced anger, right, displace anger, and we've all done it.
You continue with this guy.
Speaker 4: We have a system in this country. It's called a court,
a fucking law. And whether I'm wrong or right in
this situation, opp I didn't do anything right. Put your
hands behind your back, yes, sir, and I will take
that up with the judge and prove my innocence. I
do not bring the court. I'm right there at that
high tension fucking moment. Do you get what I'm saying?
Speaker 1: People?
Speaker 4: So this woman would still be alive I don't think
she was the kind of woman that would have done
what she did, which was resist and be aggressive towards
the authorities as you see in the video. And you're
gonna fight about that, but let's get to the base here.
The base is the wipe is probably looking to suit
Trump or the police, so the ice. So it is
the time she needs to look at the Democrat, liberal politicians,
community activists, and the fucking douchebag, mother fucking self loathing,
divisive cocksuckers in the liberal fucking media that tell her
and those like her to resist arrest and.
Speaker 1: Be Okay, I don't know why he stopped there, but
he's basically at the end. Let me see, maybe cut
off grab at all, but you get the thing, and
that was basically his end there, I think. So, you know,
there's so many things here. But I was trying to
really think about this, and I watched this video a
couple of times. I don't know about the liberal media.
I can't really comment on that only because I haven't
seen them say get out there and be resisting arrests.
I haven't seen that. I'm not saying it hasn't happened.
It's just not something I can really comment on fairly
because I don't know. I don't watch a lot of news.
I don't have CNN not buy for any protest. I
just I got rid of sling, and I now everything's
sort of a la carte. I think I watched ESPN
more than anything, you know what I mean, I really do.
And then I'll catch some of the over the air
channels and stuff Paramount picks up our local CBS and whatever.
So I haven't seen it, so I really can't say
I would be surprised if someone said that, because it
never works. What's that in some kind of like resisting
arrests or putting up a it never works? Yeah, I
mean the thing is they.
Speaker 3: Want to protest, like he says, Yeah, you know, if
you want to stand there, okay, it's time to go, right.
Speaker 1: But and I know that there are times they've done
crowd control things and they've shot people with pepper balls
and that kind of thing, and they think somebody in
town took one to the forehead or something. At one
point that was all over media. And Okay, I'm not
saying that it's it's always gonna be go piece calmly
or peacefully, but whatever. But I think in this moment,
the one thing that really jumped out to me is
because I watched and I told you I saw video
from the BBC side of things. Yes, but it was
somebody on the sidewalk from behind, so they were behind
her car and her wife was out of the car.
So this is why I think there was fear. So
we've all seen the video where it falls. I've seen
a lot of videos where the guy falls. The guy
who fell, wasn't the guy with the gun. The guy
who fell, And you'll see him get out of a
car and he slips. I don't know how, but he
slips as she like, it's Minnesota, it's cold, it's a road.
It looks like a side road, so who knows how
well they're plowed or whatever. But from the video I
saw that the so he got out filming, she backs
up the car. Who knows what he did. And so,
but that's the video we were seeing, and I think
a lot of people thought, oh, that's the guy with
the gun. She hit him. That guy never fell, He
never fell. Like she puts it in reverse. They forcefully
yell at her to get out. She puts it in reverse.
You can see the video that officer was pulling out
his gun as she's in reversed. She cranks the wheel
to the right. It looks like she would have missed him.
We don't know.
Speaker 3: And this is now one video I saw that she
does hit him.
Speaker 1: Huh.
Speaker 3: One video I saw she does hit him on the
side of his body and actually pushes him away.
Speaker 1: I didn't save it. Yeah, I didn't see that. The
one from the is all from behind, and that was
the one like she was a He never fell, he
never the guy. There is a guy who falls. That
guy wasn't really close to the car. He was coming
up from the officer screaming, get the fuck out of
the car, get the fuck out of the car. Down.
He went to reach for the handle. She hits reverse.
There's a guy behind him. That guy falls. The guy
with the gun does not fall. Doesn't mean anything because
you're in a split second moment. And this is where
I go. I don't know. But she didn't stop to
say to her partner get in the car. She was afraid,
so she wanted she was just gonna get out of there.
And she goes to crank ittt and the other guy
who she.
Speaker 3: Was leaven leave well, the.
Speaker 1: Woman wasn't there. Yeah, her partner was not, you know,
because you saw the partner on the other side of
the car in some videos and kind of saying some
antagonistic things, right, and but she doesn't stop to say
get in the car. That's why I'm going it has
to be fear based. At this moment, I'm fucking scared
of my mind. I'm gonna get the fuck out of here.
I don't want these guys putting their hands on me.
That's when the other guy reaches for his gun. He
pulls it out. He had been hit by someone in
that situation in the past, according to reports.
Speaker 3: Okay, I got tix months ago. I believe he was
hit and dragged.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so those so that's not happening again. And
he doesn't know. And it's a split fucking second, and
it's unfortunate and it's sad and it's awful, but it
was a split second, and I go, if we're being
really honest on both sides, to do what they were
doing takes bravery, if you're gonna actually take a stand
and put your money where your mouth is and go,
I think this is completely wrong, and I'm going to
block the road from guys with weapons. It's kind of ballsy.
And she was nice in all the videos, so she
was nice. She said hi. You know, like in one
video high officers, he's walking around the car. No, that
was the other woman. That was the other woman. The
woman in the car was nice. She doesn't really say anything.
The other woman goes, we don't change our plates. You'll
be able to come see us later and find us.
You guys change.
Speaker 3: I'm just talking to my dad the other day. I'm
just like, why some people that they hate on police officers.
Where it's come from all of a sudden. It seems
to me because I remember cops coming to grammar school
and asking questions and nine to one one if you're
in any kind of trouble. But like this, you just
want to aggontize them. I mean, they're not going out
in the community. Just okay, everybody, pick a number. We'll
go to that house and grab everybody and take them.
They're trying to get undocumented illegal aliens that have committed crimes.
Speaker 1: Well, I think yeah.
Speaker 3: And forcefully unfortunately, but they've come in the you know,
especially drug dealers or the mules as they call them.
You know, I mean, worried about there's more drug overdos as,
heroin and other things coming in to the country, and
you know you got to stop us some time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, you know, fear only cares about survival
in the next three seconds. I mean, if we're really
going to say that's where I go, you know people
will go. You got to get over your fear. In
a lot of situations, that's probably really good advice from somebody.
In this situation, I think it's just instinctual. And I
don't know that I agree with you on the pushback
with police officers at the at any level anymore. I
have a feeling and I've talked to officers, are just
with the the sheriff of our county last night, and.
Speaker 3: Well when I see people throwing shit at officers and
pushing them back, and yeah, I haven't not even if
maybe it's not the numbers I think, but just that
alone watching NTV is just.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen that, like even locally. And I just
think the attitude in general has gotten better. I almost
feel like the defund the police idea worked in reverse
because I think most people realized you can't, you can't
and you're not gonna have they still trying to do that. No? No,
So I think it was a phrase, right and and
and what I thought they meant was, can we can
we move money around and allocate it to do better
things in the community, community outreach, community work, talk to people,
get kids off the street. Basketball programs. They used to
have them where the kids would play basketball against the officers.
That's there's just not money for that anymore. So why
not if you're talking about I'm not saying defund, but
put that back. If you want to take some dollars away, so.
Speaker 3: No money to play basketball against the officers, I guess
I'll buy the basketball.
Speaker 1: It's not the basket, it's renting the gym, finding the time,
doing the stuff on our schools.
Speaker 3: They're paying for that already.
Speaker 1: I can't. I have no idea.
Speaker 3: Have the janitor throw on the lights and I look,
it's a couple of parents watching things. It sounds great,
it does, but I'm just telling you what I know.
Speaker 1: So that's where I go. Maybe that's what you meant.
Then find a better way to say that, because defund
the police now sounds relliant. Let's just get rid of them,
and it's not and it doesn't fucking and like in
this situation, a lot of these guys aren't officers. This
won't happen to me, but some of the guys are not.
They're like, you get a fifty thousand dollars bonus, and
they're signing up different people because they just need body trained.
From what I understand, the training is because I talked
to my son who did some research on this, and
he goes, it's not great training, and he goes and
not everybody's coming. But the guy who shot was like
part of his swat team at home or whatever. So
you're getting some of those, but that doesn't mean everybody.
And I'm sure some of these guys are like on
loan from a police force, right because all the police forces. Yeah,
you know what I mean, Well, Doug's out for the
next three weeks because he's doing ice. We need people
to cover those shifts. That's what I'm saying. So you know,
the whole thing is like crazy. I think with the ice,
they're feeling like there is it's not done in a
humane way. I look, I always say that the percentage
and I don't know then the percentage of people who
are coming in here illegally, that are doing bad stuff.
There are some well there's proof, yeah, but I don't
know that they're large numbers. And I think some of
the people, you know, you're it's ripping families apart. And
so people who have more of a bleeding heart see
that and go, is there some better way? You know?
And since they're all these years, well they did deport Look,
I mean you'll see people, well.
Speaker 3: I see I like watching all the old videos of
all all the presidents trying to get elected. So and like, Okay,
the first thing we're gonna do is deport anybody they're
not shouldn't be here. We're just gonna get rid of them. Well,
they never do it. They just want to They just
want to say what everybody wants to here. Well, there
was a lot of deportations under other presidents. There was
a lot under Obama, but it wasn't done like this.
They didn't come in kick and scream. They just didn't
do it this way.
Speaker 1: I don't know how they did it, but it didn't
get or at least it didn't get this attention. I
don't remember them having ice going into you know what
I'm saying, Like, so now.
Speaker 3: I don't remember him deporting anybody. Honestly, yeah, he did.
Speaker 1: You can look it up, okay, And it was the
same thing, because you can't have people coming in here. Look,
one of the worst things for all of us is
healthcare for everybody. Now, if I show up illegally and
I go to the emergency room, they have to see me,
and it's paid and it's paid for. But then where's
the money coming from? So now the prices go up
just that alone, right, it makes sense. I mean, I
get it. I don't know. I can tell you this.
Like I was with someone who just said coming into
the United States legally was a really really long process.
Guy from Toronto who got his American citizenship, and how
complicated it was and how long it took, but he
did it. My former brother in law, I guess he's
still my brother in law married a woman from the Philippines.
It was an arduous process to get her here, Like
it took almost two years to get her through legally,
and he was on his way to be a colonel
in the army. So you would think there'd be something, right,
I mean, I served whatever, there's nothing. So I always think,
is there a way to change those laws? Again? I don't.
I don't understand it, but I when I saw this,
I just go it's fear on on both sides, and
I start thinking, like, how's fear controlled my life? I
was thinking back to the dumbest thing I ever did,
fear based. I had a photography class in college and
I was trying and I needed an action shot.
Speaker 3: So I had my went streaking and had a friend
take a picture.
Speaker 1: You know, I have my little brother jumping off. This
is this is terrible. This is terrible because it's going
to show you. So I'm probably like eighteen years old,
and I'm having my younger brother, who at the time
is twelve, jump off the top step of our front
and try to get an act shot. And he's just
not getting the height, and I'm getting pissed. So I
asked for my sister to come out. She's two years
older than him, so if he was twelve, she's got
to be like fourteen or or thirteen. Maybe she's thirteen
because I'm five years older than there and he had
to be eleven.
Speaker 3: So I asked her to do it, and she gets
really great height. All right, all right, let's do it again.
And she does it, and I snapped the photo.
Speaker 1: She lands and she starts screaming in pain, and I
can see like her ankle has she just broke her ankle.
Oh really? Oh yeah, oh oh yeah.
Speaker 3: And what do you fear from your father?
Speaker 1: You fucking got it, Doug. Wait wait, so I fucking
like my father comes out? God dag.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't even remember exactly. All I know is I
got so scared. I did what I now look at
and go the weakest thing I could have done. I
jumped in my car and I took off.
Speaker 3: Wow at eighteen Jesus, he left your sister there crying.
Speaker 1: My dad was My dad and mom were there. I
was I was like, what am I gonna do? I
gotta get the fuck out of her. He's gonna kill me,
Like you're gonna have a broken ankle, I'm gonna be dead.
So I took off, but I go. I was so afraid,
Like in that moment, I was fucking afraid. And it's
just you know, here is powerful, right, and so you
just do something right. I think I'm gonna die here
because someone's coming at me with a car.
Speaker 3: Did you call home before you went home or you
just went home like five hours later, I.
Speaker 1: Don't remember my parents had because I grew up in
My brother always refers to it as Appalachia, which I'm
not exactly sure that that's inaccurate. But it was so
rural that where I went to high school, twelve miles away,
was a long distance phone call. So if you called
a girl who lived up there or something, you were
racking up phone bills. So my parents there used to
be something called call Home America and it was an
eight hundred number, and so we had an eight hundred number, and.
Speaker 3: I think I remember this. Yeah, so I could go.
Speaker 1: To any payphone or anything just call home. And they
did it. Because then when everybody you remember this, when
your mom did, Yeah, yeah, my parents put it in.
So so when I was in college and I knew
my brother was home alone, my buddies and I would
go call up and go douche bag and then say
things like we see you, and he'd be like freaking
the fuck out, which is nice. Really.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I did that once too, and the girl went insane.
What Oh this was in Geneseo years ago. We're all
friends and uh so he's like, where's your girlfriend? And oh,
she doesn't feel good? A prank caller, and I'm like, oh,
we all know you're home alone and we're going to
be coming over to make sure you have the lights
out of She did. She freaked out, found out, but
well we thought a little joke and yeah, that wasn't funny.
Speaker 1: It wasn't funny.
Speaker 3: Oh they had to be thirty years You scared the
ship out of her fear.
Speaker 1: Yeah, slacking all the doors, sleeping with a knife under
her bed. Yeah, somebody I know. How did your sister
work out?
Speaker 3: By the way, she's just tell her she have a cast?
Oh yeah, yeah, that bad all the way up to
the knee. Oh god, your picture came out. I forgot
to take the lens off.
Speaker 1: So poor dog, Like I COVID here and I had
been letting someone else use the laptop and things, and
I'm going the car. It just gives me, like the
camera with an accident. It's like, your camera isn't on.
I can't figure out what to do. So I'm searching,
I'm looking, I'm reading different things, and finally I just
do another Google search on this specific computer not Windows eleven,
and it says there's a little toggle Swiss at the top.
Just move it. That's it. And I'm like, oh dummy,
uh yeah, no, the I don't remember how the picture
came out. I didn't do well in the class. Yeah,
that's all I do.
Speaker 3: Did you get into see Jeff Fisher?
Speaker 1: That was fine. I'm back there now.
Speaker 3: You know I have to write an essay righting?
Speaker 1: Uh good?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: We just started up classes again and uh a little different.
Speaker 1: Lot of a lot of kids are still in January break.
Some of the yeah, I think Rockport is and some other.
Speaker 3: Kind of empty. Yeah, making a lot of rides out
of there. You'll you'll get them. They're gonna come flooding back, buddy, Tuesday. Boy,
I don't know. I think yeah, I think next week
probably starts classes. A lot of uh yeah, a lot
of airport rides and the train rides.
Speaker 1: Yep, yeah, coming up. I used to take the train,
Yeah I could.
Speaker 3: I love taking the train. Could I could have called,
could have could have called you take a six hour
trip to uh New York City, have dinner and turn around,
come on back.
Speaker 1: Uh huh uh. Let me ask you this then. Sure,
with like fear, a lot of times, like when we
think of fear, we're not thinking of those moments like
life or death.
Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of different levels of fear
there is, right, Yeah, losing a loved one, losing a job. Yes,
maybe you're on the highway with a flat tire yep,
you know, even your cell phone no reception or you know,
or you're at a juice or something like that, or
it's not real fair but suck somewhere and no self
phone service.
Speaker 1: Or yeah, yeah that's fear. Verizon went out this week. Yeah,
people were afraid. Yeah, people all of a sudden, We're saying,
was it a cyber attack, They're going to shut down
the country. They're gonna write fear all fear. But I mean,
how about fear that like isn't on a grand scale
like that. It's more individual like fear of dating somebody,
or fear of fear of rejection read something I ain't
know about. I don't put myself out there. Is it really?
Oh yeah? Really?
Speaker 3: That big ass personality, that big, smiling, happy.
Speaker 1: All the time, like playful guy. Yeah, Stephanie eyed and
I'm gonna have her in. I was in about a week.
She's good, she's busy, and she's very much in love
and she would rather spend that but she put a
Facebook post up this week saying that I have two
friends who are professionals and can't find a man.
Speaker 3: And well, let's take a look at him. They're attractive
and blah blah blah. She wasn't saying who they were,
she just put this up. This thing exploded, Oh I'm
sure exploded. And a lot of guys were putting pictures
and things, and she's like, some of these guys you
want to go, how how.
Speaker 1: Do you think I'm making to take this? Well, no, no,
not dick pics. But there's like a guy posted a
pic and his blinds are broken behind him and he's like, Eh,
take what you get. That's right. But I mean it's like,
but I really think that there is something going on
with men in particular.
Speaker 3: Like you know, Chris raxaid the best like twenty years
ago on stage, he goes, when you ask a guy
he's got a new girlfriend, the first question on everybody's
mouth is what does she look like?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Girls, I got a new boyfriend. What's his job?
What does he do? Yeah? What does he do? Right?
Speaker 3: And he's an uber drag that ain't going over well? Yeah,
but it well he's a bartender.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a.
Speaker 3: DJ's stand up comic raise money for breast cancer. He
does a podcast Bill Moran, Oh fuck him a loser?
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I mean the thing is like, what if
they're a dog center, what if they don't feel the
same right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm one on the electricity and lightning. It just
happens like I look at it.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I got you. That's always it's usually the best.
It's usually the best. I hear you. It's it's a
weird it's a weird thing. But it was weird to
me because I go, how many guys are just fucking
lonely out there because they won't put themselves out there?
Speaker 3: Probably just as many as women, or you think, or
I think we're getting to a certain age, I mean,
fifties fifty five. You know, obviously women aren't looking for sex,
and guys kind of slow down too. Yeah, but you
want to have somebody that you're compatible with, enjoy talking to. Sure,
I mean, sex isn't gonna happen like it was in
your twenties and thirties. It might, it might probably not, Okay,
okay on everybody's dream, I'm.
Speaker 1: Not what are you just gonna have sex all day long? Maybe? Yeah, yeah, No,
I you're right, and you are. You're probably looking for
more compatibility interest level.
Speaker 3: That's sort of what you don't want to kill when
they open their mouth.
Speaker 1: And I think you're yeah, And I think you also
would explain when it secks. Why so many guys we
see the mismatch, the guy who gets back in shape
after the divorce and starts dating twenty years younger. Well,
she's got all the things that he wants, she has
the sex drive, she has all that he does sore
of or has pills for it. And it's fine until
it just becomes a pain of the ass. You know,
I sometimes feel bad for when I look at him.
Speaker 3: Oh, and I know this isn't gonna go over well
at all. I look at Alec Baldwin sometimes.
Speaker 1: I Okay, poor fuck is out of a bitch. How
what did you do? Like? Why did you do this?
He's got a million little kids, he's sixty something years old,
his wife very attractive, and thirty things. I don't fucking know.
Speaker 3: I just go, no, No, he's got nanny's he's got
he doesn't have to I know, he doesn't have to watch.
Speaker 1: It, but they do. Family. You're right, I don't how
do I know. I have no idea what the truth is,
but I think he tries to be around the kids.
I think as you get older, you start to realize, uh, how.
Speaker 3: That goes over for other parts of your family when
you're dating somebody younger.
Speaker 1: Than your your daughters.
Speaker 3: Hear that some now. I used to watch entertainment a
little bit, but uh, some of the tabloid stuff, and
then just got bored with it so many years ago.
But every now and then you get the clips on
your phone, your reels, your TikTok, stuff like that, and
you hear or see things like this happened the same
with Uh, that'd mean more an Ashen Kushner. Yeah, she
was older, he was younger than he wanted a threesome.
She agreed because she thought it would strengthen the relationship,
right right, did you ever watch porn? Doesn't really strengthen anything.
And nobody's lasting forty five minutes. Let me tell you
how that we're going to try this and this and
this and this when you're younger.
Speaker 1: Is it editing?
Speaker 3: Huh?
Speaker 1: Is it editing? Is a editing? Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's ai no, And I'm saying and there's three things.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think you're right, right, And and that's
also I think another thing that.
Speaker 3: When you're younger, you're wild. Things happen sometimes in the
bar and you just die up in somebody's ouse. As
you get older, yeah, you know, and you might be
making wiser decisions, you think, so you'd like to.
Speaker 1: Not leave you are, Yeah, well unless.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it should go sideways.
Speaker 1: No, But I mean I think sometimes to your to
your point when you are younger, or here's one of
my concerns, right, because I have boys all all all
boys and rapid or wagon once in a pretty serious relationship.
I'm not so I think they're but they both are
pretty goal oriented to things. Look, it only takes one, right, Yeah,
but I would assume because she has a lot of
things she wants to do when she's graduating this year,
and so there's I think, and I usually don't say anything,
but you know, just kind of. But my worry is
more like with the younger guys like Jamison who can
access porn so easily on their phone. And I'm not
saying he is or he isn't. I don't.
Speaker 3: I've been not a fan of that for many years.
And I think anything why Why Because it's easy access
to children even if you're not. It's not like finding
your dad's old playboy should be instead of dot org,
dot com, dot sex, anything with dot sex, explicit pornography,
nudity should be dot sex. So you can just go
you go into your phone and uh block it, block it.
Then you can give your kid your phone because you
don't know if he's playing candy Crush or whatever going
through your stuff in your own on your own phone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but a lot of kids today are they it's
almost I know it sounds sort of ridiculous, and you
can certainly buy them with restrictions on it, but you
almost need a phone before the child because they need
to be picked up somewhere. I understand the wayte of track,
so it just makes it easy. But my bigger concern
with that, I.
Speaker 3: Think there or I hope there's restrictions if you give
somebody phone, all their texts come through you, all the
pictures both through you before they said and send it
goes to you, and then you click the.
Speaker 1: Apps and things that you can do that with.
Speaker 3: I don't know since fifteen I don't have a lot
of those restrictions on there, but even at fifteen, you
know that fifteen sixteen, that's when you're dating, trying to
kiss other stuff. But twelve and thirteen.
Speaker 1: Well, no, that's the thing. But since twelve and thirteen,
many of the kids have had access to that, and
so when they are so when they're doing their thing,
they're watching sex that isn't real, right, So the expectations
are there and they get in it, and you kind
of hope in that instance that a little bit of
fear so you're not grabbing her by the hair, you
know what I mean. And I know that sounds fat,
but you kind of hope a little bit of fear
of the moment will make you just awkward. And I'm
okay with that because the other shit is it's not realistic,
and most women probably don't like that, especially girls who
have no experience.
Speaker 3: Maybe later on, maybe later later on, well I know
a few of them.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yes, I'm not denying that. I'm not denying that
pull the hair. But I didn't. I certainly didn't. I
certainly didn't at sixteen, no, you know what I mean,
or when you were sort of coming of age, I
didn't know that. I didn't even get to see that shit.
So I saw stuff that was somewhat aggressive in club magazine,
but by that point I was nineteen, but it was
pulling the hair and look at this. But I also
would never say to a girl, let me put your hair,
because that just sounded nutty to me. I was like,
I try to do it. No, I know, but I
didn't know.
Speaker 3: You gotta learn, yes, you know, feel each other out.
That's the beauty of maturing with somebody growing a bond.
Speaker 1: This is true. Yeah, and you're you're hit on the
right thing. What else? Are you afraid of? Heights? But
I'm not going to get over that. No, But I mean, like,
how about things in life? Like you said alone fear
of is that really a fear of yours? Man? I
don't think i'll die alone.
Speaker 3: I'm sure I'll find somebody older and richer and just
retire in the next five years.
Speaker 1: That's my plan.
Speaker 3: Anyways, Doug, what's your five year plan? I'm tyke a
million dollars stelling devil Diggs my five year plan. Oh gosh,
I'm just you know. I printed out this month's January
thirty one days and just wrote everything down that I
want to do and bills and catch up here and
then take these two weeks two weeks in bank, and
then next month I got a wedding to go to,
so I want to get ahead of that and then
work on comedy and a few other things.
Speaker 1: Yeah you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Sammy Hagar's coming to uh Ohio and I went
saw a few years ago in a great venue called
and Kyuga Blossom Events Center. So I'd like to plan
to go to that drive down. I mean, little goals,
let me a new set of golf clubs, let me
go back.
Speaker 1: To like the comedy thing with you. I think it's
been a almost a maybe I'm gonna say this wrong,
but I love hate for you in that you love
doing it. It's hating trying to find the opportunities to
do it because it feels like.
Speaker 3: I don't think I hate that, it's just sad that.
Speaker 1: There aren't more. Yeah, you know, gotcha? And how do
you think your life would be different if you were
able to just push through that push yourself.
Speaker 3: To get to where I'm getting the phone?
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, it's like you would.
Speaker 3: Be great and where and how much? Yeah you know
what your budget? I'll be there to do that every
every weekend. Yeah, yeah, it would be a changer.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I'm still trying to get enough material to send you
a cruise line and see that avenue. And then maybe
I don't know how to go to New York City.
I mean, you call you audition, you send you reel,
which is your tape? Your MP three? I don't even
know if they I.
Speaker 1: Don't know the answer to that. I thought there were
times you could.
Speaker 3: Just I wanted to make or I had forty five
minutes before I did anything. Yeah, because going to New
York City and trying to get fifteen minutes anywhere, what's
that going to do? Come back next week? So another
plane ride, another you know, and if you're not getting paid,
what are they going to give you fifty dollars for
being on stage? If that I have no idea.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: So again, if if I get ahead on bills and
I can take a week off, even four days, and
then go down there, stay with a friend, and then
go to the comedy club, see what it's all about?
Did my you know, feet in the water?
Speaker 1: Do you? So? Many many years ago, in the early
two thousands, I had a conversation with a guy who
I think is extremely funny. His name is Jim Norton.
Maybe you've heard of Jim He's Yeah. I think I
just saw something about him. Yeah, so Jim's Jim is
a U. I just think it's a great comic. He
wound up on the Opian Anthony radio show. Uh he
and they met him through Andrew Dice Clay. I think
he was the opener for Dice and they just loved him,
and so he started being part of their show. And uh,
he was great and really did add a lot. I thought,
extremely funny, just quick, quick, quick, and kind of a
fucked up human being. I remember going to Montreal and
they had these things called the Confession Show, so comics
would get up there and they would confess something, and
he confessed to like, uh, just being so having such
an insatiable sexual appetite that he wound up He would
do hookers and things a lot, and he wound up
behind a dumpster with what he thought was a woman.
It turns out to be a transvestite and he didn't
carry fuck it anyway.
Speaker 3: Hey, I think he's broccoli until you try.
Speaker 1: I think he's married to a transgender woman. Yeah. From Europe,
and Jim is a pretty conservative guy in a lot
of his at least it seems that way. But I
remember talking to him and he was saying, like they
would go club to club to just work on material
on like a Wednesday Thursday night, and you would get
fifteen bucks and he goes. You know, by the end
of night, maybe he made seventy five because you hit
a bunch of different clubs. But it was to work
out material for whatever. Now, this is a guy who's
done arenas and specials, now and all kinds of things.
But it's like, I go the sometimes sometimes I mean,
what would happen if you just did it anyway? That
was my thinking with the podcast, what happens if I
just do it anyway? You know? I mean there was
a lot of behind the scenes stuff, right, you know,
there were lawyers involved and all kinds of things and discussions,
and then I let fear kind of dictate that I go,
I don't want to go this path. I don't want
to go this path. So I go this path, and
I don't know how this is gonna work or not.
And it's been an evolution and a learning process for
me for damn sure. But sometimes they just go you
just got to fucking jump. You just gotta fucking jump
and I don't know. I look at you, I go,
I said to you, and I don't. And I don't
mean to bring this up again because I don't want
to hit a sore spot with you. But I'm like,
how do women not oh the personality, the.
Speaker 3: Great A lot of single women and the women I do, did.
Speaker 1: You ever do like a fifty plus dating site?
Speaker 3: I don't think so. I joked about silver singles and
you go, you gotta be fucking kidding me, And I'd
actually looked into it, and then I did it because
of fear. I'm like, because of fear, because my dumb
ass I said, that's right, Yeah, no fucking do it.
I've not a couple of them. And you know what
it's funny is I love the women to say, please laugh,
know how to cook.
Speaker 1: I love the golf.
Speaker 3: No Trump, no mega, oh swipe BLUFFT like O, you've
already made up your mind?
Speaker 1: Yeah that that that This is the mo It's the
most divisive I've ever seen politics in politics, And and
I will say I'm not a fan of the guy.
He says and does some stuff that you just go.
But I like, I told you at the time I
played all that stuff. I just go if nothing else,
I'm sorry to the people who absolutely despise anything about him,
but I can find the fucker funny. He says, shit,
that is just funny. I don't know. I wonder where
we go from here. I wonder if it's a good thing.
I wonder if it's a good thing.
Speaker 3: We'll find out in three years.
Speaker 1: And well, but what I mean by that is, do
we get to see, uh, what's really what what a
lot of people were hiding or covering up in certain pockets,
like is there is there still a lot of hatred,
a lot of racism that we didn't necessarily we turned
a blind eye to or just pretended it wasn't there.
And now you've got this divisive person in and you know,
remember the whole boys thing and what some of those
guys were into or was more, you know, And he's
on the fence of does he support I think that
really turned some people, even conservatives off about Trump. But
I wonder if it just shows.
Speaker 3: Very bold he says, what's that in his mind?
Speaker 1: Well, he I have said to you, and I say
it over and over with this guy, when you talk
about fear, I'm not sure he has.
Speaker 3: I don't think he does.
Speaker 1: I don't think he has those fears to hold back
because how many times have other presidents been told, hey,
we did a poll. They're sick of hearing from you
right now, little less of you were ninety days into
the second administration, we need to back off. They back off,
and they're listening to somebody. Nobody's gonna say, that's President Trump.
He's going to get up there. The presidency, by pretty
much by definition, by what it is, what it was
established to be, is kind of a bully pulpit for
the rest of the world. It just is. And he
is maybe the best in the history of our country
to use it as such.
Speaker 3: And he doesn't down from anybody. He answers the questions,
and or he doesn't answer no, but or he doesn't
answer the question, he calls you fat.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. He's done that too, and
so I don't know. But when he does that, that's
when I laugh. I go, this is outrageous, miss piggy.
I'm not answering your question. It's like, oh my god,
right and I and.
Speaker 3: Even there, there's a tremendous fear with him that that's
why you're seeing that a tremendous fear of that stuff.
Speaker 1: I hated over the fact that I think there are
families that don't talk oh yeah, I know, which I
think is so sad because at the core issue, like
I always will say, there's not a whole lot at
the national level that directly affects me today, I'm not
saying it, you know, but it doesn't. Gas prices, yeah,
but a lot of those two are state taxes.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Also go around town, different parts of town. It's
cheaper than others. And I don't even understand that you
pay thirty five dollars for their card, then you get
cheaper gas, but you're paying thirty five dollars. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But I mean what I'm saying is, let me give
you an example of what I mean. And I think
this is just simply business. I'm a BJS member and
I will sometimes go there and get my gases cheaper.
It's under three bucks. It's like to something if I'm
ever in the Henrietta area and I try to avoid that.
That's another town in our area. It's even cheaper at
the same BJS, same gas way.
Speaker 3: Cheaper because they're competing with Delta.
Speaker 1: Yahah you got it exactly, so it becomes an economic decision.
And that's where I'm like, I don't know what goes
into all this stuff. I don't know how much.
Speaker 3: What competitors are closer to you. If you have more competitors,
your gas goes down. Remember during COVID, they dropped the tax,
the New York state tax for a while.
Speaker 1: Is that what it was. Yeah, they took eighteen cents
off in New York State. They dropped the tax was eliminated,
so they.
Speaker 3: Weren't but you kind of need it tax at the
same time for a new extent. Don't we get a
budget every year?
Speaker 1: Yeah? But I mean some of that's based on the tax,
the tax on your gas. It goes towards things like
roads and stuff that the infrastructure.
Speaker 3: You have, see the the the tolls. We're supposed to
give all the roads no taxes, and you have to
keep raising them. I don't know where our money is
going from the taxes on gas, your property tax, right,
the tax on your phone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I mean some of it stays local, right,
because there's some things that aren't tax and everything, but
they're But like, I don't think some of the roads
are they're not state roads, they're local roads.
Speaker 3: Local the tolls in the state. Yeah, but but there's
no tolls on some of those roads. I jumped out
four ninety and stuff. I mean that would be more interstate.
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying, like, there's different things. Here's here's
the here's my favorite one. And this is a big
one for a lot of people in different parts of
the state. And I had a relative confront me about this,
And again it's always like, I'll tell you this. What
do you get confronted with the question like this, or
at least I can see, I can see, I can
see where you're coming from. Not you, I just mean somebody, right,
and they're coming almost loaded at you in a sense,
and the you gotta be careful in the answer you give.
But again it becomes fear based because you don't want
to get in an argument with somebody over something because
it's just dumb. And we've been having a really lovely time.
So I'm not sure exactly why you're bringing this up,
but hey, what do you think about the Bills getting
a new stadium? Now this is a relative downstate. What
do you think about that they're building the thing? And
I said, oh yeah, I said that it's I think
it's gonna be great for the area. I said, you know,
and I mean they're going in and well, it's not
even going to have as many people, right, I said, well,
if you go back when it was rich Stadium for
many years, it had eighty thousand capacity and so it
was one of the biggest in the NFL. And then
as they put the suites in, I think you read
seventy two, and I think the new one's going to
be like six, somewhere between sixty eight and sixty five.
Somebody else is sitting at the table. They're checking my numbers.
They're looking it up what I'm saying so I can
and they're going yeah, no, no, or they're given exact numbers,
so they're going to be there. So you can already
feel like, okay, this is tense. And I said, I
know where you're driving at the text, Well, the people
are paying for it. And I said, here's the thing
that I don't think most people understand. It's not as
though if the money from New York State that was
allocated would go to schools or roads or anything. You
said it just a few minutes ago there's a budget,
and there's a budget, and there's entertainment. And so if
that money didn't come to Buffalo, that money was going
to go somewhere for entertainment. It was going to go
somewhere in New York State for entertainment. It may not
have all gone like it did. It may have been
a little bit to revitalize an amphitheater somewhere. It may
have gone to a historical entertainment site. But that money
is allocated for that and that alone. That's what it is,
and it's there in the budget, and people get, all right, textile,
we're paying for this. You're paying for it anyway. There's
a budget, and that's the part like we don't know
and it comes out of like fear base and I go,
why are people so angry about this shit? Who cares?
Speaker 3: Well, he's a five six billion dollar person. No, I
he could sell his properties and he could come up
with that billion dollars in Okay, his stadium. Yeah, I
mean even if he sells a team.
Speaker 1: He sold twenty percent of the team or no, I
think it was twenty he sold. Because now there's guys
like who's the best. There's a couple of basketball players
that are part owner. Vince Carter, who used to play
for the Toronto I was gonna say, organize, that's not it, Raptors,
and a couple other teams. Duke Kid, he is part
of one of this, one of the owners of the
Buffalo Bills. They were minority share owners. I think they
sold off twenty percent for two reasons, one the stadium
and the other. I think it prevents family from losing
because they can kind of come in and go you
can't afford it or whatever. I think there's some kind
of family trust thing that way. It stays in the family.
If you're not you know, you could still be majority owner,
but you gotta have other people. And so I think
that's that's part of the reason why. I again, I mean,
sure we billions and billions of dollars. I just feel
like we all rise to our next level. Broke. I
don't know what the fuck's going on. It's life, but
my point is, yes, okay, it seems unfair like I
could afford it, But at the same time, that money
is going to go somewhere and maybe it actually helps
an area. Maybe the Bills now are on and run.
Who knows who knows who knows. We're gonna find out tonight.
We'll find out that is Uh, that's it, all right,
that's it. Okay, let me see. Okay, somebody's just asking
what I'm gonna wrap up?
Speaker 3: Wrap up? Is this session one? No?
Speaker 1: We do? We just did one long when we've talked
for over an hour?
Speaker 3: Oh we did? Oh are we wrapping up? Now?
Speaker 1: Wrap up in just a minutes. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's all right, waiting for the break. Yeah, you
can tell me that at the beginning.
Speaker 1: No, I didn't. My head's been all over the place.
I've been, uh, studying a lot of things lately, not
just school stuff, and I'm trying to put it all
together and see where it goes.
Speaker 3: I guess the new jed jokes you want to hear?
Speaker 1: I do?
Speaker 3: Okay, just wrap it up with some dead jokes. This
is my favorite.
Speaker 1: Hang on, do I have? Hang on? Just one second?
I got to see if I have. I used to
have music that I could run underneath this and it
might be over here. Yep, there we go. Come on, Doug,
give me a little bit. Uh.
Speaker 3: What does a painter do when he gets cold?
Speaker 1: What does a painter do when he gets cold. Hang on,
What does a painter do when he gets cold?
Speaker 3: Brushes it off, puts in another coat.
Speaker 1: Oh that would be damn.
Speaker 3: Yeh Did I tell you I recently went to the
World's Biggest wind turbine exhibit?
Speaker 1: Say that again?
Speaker 3: What I was at the World's biggest wind turbine?
Speaker 1: Wind turbine? Yes, exhibit. You were blown away.
Speaker 3: I wasn't a big fan.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm trying so hardier. I'm really trying. I want
you to know this. I'm really listening.
Speaker 3: Since Christmas, I tell you, I got over my addiction
to chocolate, marshmallows and nuts.
Speaker 1: You got over your You got over your addiction to chocolate,
marshmallows and nuts.
Speaker 3: How I'm just gonna say it was a rocky road.
Speaker 1: All right. When does a dad joke become a dad joke? Uh?
Speaker 3: You know what, I don't know. That's a good question.
Speaker 1: When it becomes apparent.
Speaker 3: Ah, I like that. I bought a porn DVD at
a grassya, but when I put it didn't all I
could see it was a dark image of a fat
guy holding his dick. Then I realized the TV wasn't on,
or it'd be great somewhere somewhere. I used to have neighbors,
and I remember.
Speaker 1: My dad would get so upset because back in the
VHS days, they somebody had like HBO or something, so
they would tape a movie and then somebody else would
have it and uh, tap over with porn or no no.
Speaker 3: So yeah, well, so this one guy lent our neighbor
or or the neighbor lent it to this friend of
theirs and they get it back and he had spliced
in porn.
Speaker 1: Scenes at different stuff.
Speaker 3: So really the neighbor I think didn't tell my parents
and my dad mom were watch a movie and my
father was so pissed because I think.
Speaker 1: The kids were out and all of a sudden, it's like,
oh and would get fun you know you get that
snow right because you couldn't really edit well right, but
you just recorded a little bit. See now, I found
it funny. Oh that's my dad, did you again? You
can't see it.
Speaker 3: When I was living with my best friend and his wife,
we had a they had birthday party and there was
kids between three and twelve, and uh, they wanted a
family movie or something and I won't see it. Was
they put in hot tub time machine? Yeah, and uh,
funny movie, and I'm like, I enjoyed it. I'm like, Mike,
didn't anybody watched this beforehand? No, He's like, yeah, so
and so was supposed to it. And all of a sudden they're
in a hot tub with a girl with huge russ
and I'm just like, what the for the kids?
Speaker 1: You mean, yeah, the kids were all watching.
Speaker 3: All a sudden the parents are covering the kid's eyes,
and well, it's okay, you know, it's yeah at one point.
But I'm like, you could have fast forward this in
ten minutes to see if there was anything like this
and pick a different movie.
Speaker 1: The best used to be when he would go to
the video store and they always had that room off
that we had the beads coming down, beads coming down,
you know where you're going in a different dimension. But
you used to love to stand there and see if,
like who, you knew someone was in there because you
could hear some noise. And I used to be a
kid and we had a really small town and there
was this one that I was like, all shitty movies,
but they had the porn section and we used to
wait to see who would come out. Sometimes it'd be
one of our friend's older brothers. Sometimes it'd be somebody's dad.
I think once we saw a teacher and it was
like So, I remember my dad coming home because then
the Blockbuster bought up a bunch, right, he comes home
with a movie. I was really sick, and that's when
I had seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
Speaker 3: My father goes, I don't know if there's gonna be
any good. It's the worst title of a movie ever.
And I loved it, right, it was great.
Speaker 1: So then he comes home with another one and he goes, oh,
Flash Gordon. I don't know anything about Flash Gordon with
a flesh Gordon.
Speaker 3: Yes, it was, yes, it was, Yes, it was Flash
the Universe.
Speaker 1: I remember I'm watching and I think my dad was
like there with me. He had moved the recliner for
me into a different room and I'm watching it it yeah,
and I think he comes in. I think he put
in and he was just starting to watch with me.
And in the first scene I can remember this this
playing day. Oh yeah, they they're up and they're flying
a plane and they get hit by some kind of
ray right in the entire plane. You see it all
like Cloe and all this shit's like and everybody just
all of a sudden starts looking around and they're peeling
off their clothes, just fucking hump at each other. He
practically fell into the fucking TV. Try to get that.
I can't believe this. They need to check those days.
Speaker 3: I swear to god it was Flash Gordon Nights, Flash Cordon.
Speaker 1: It was the greatest. It was one of the greatest moments.
But again, fear, fear of what though in a way, well,
I mean you didn't have access that you have now, right,
I say. My fear is you don't really you have
an unrealistic expectation of sex fear. I don't have that fear. No, no, no,
I'm saying that's a fear I have with like my
young son today look at porns, not really how it is.
And you gotta I don't want you to be an
aggressive dick who all of a sudden is like, you know,
you get a reputation or something, but at the same
time I do. So you saw a titty pop out
or whatever like that, you know, but you worry because
you worry about people. I do not remember this. Remember
what the conversation I apparently had with the owner of
an establishment.
Speaker 3: You're supposed to have a meeting today.
Speaker 1: Okay, hey, pal, want them to follow up on an
old discussion about comedy downstairs. Call when you've got time.
Speaker 3: That was streious comedy.
Speaker 1: It's a really nice establishment at this place. I will
tell you off, Eric, I don't want to do that. Sure,
here's the problem. What's it. I don't remember. I don't
remember having the conversations you do.
Speaker 3: Rinking.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know a lot of time.
And with this person, Yes, they once had a they
once boxed me in on four ninety. I was married,
so we were out and we're drinking, and at the time,
this person, who now owns his own establishment, successful, very
nice place, was a rep for one of the beers.
So I was with a friend of mine who happened
to be a client, and that guy was just giving
him the business and he was spending, and this guy's
ordered and spending, and we were fucking hammered, and I
needed to be home because I had to sign the
taxes and get them to the mail. And I am
so bad that I get home and I went face
first into the gal. I thought at the time my
wife was ready to stab me.
Speaker 3: But was that fear. Oh, well, you were drunk, so
there's no fear when you're drunk.
Speaker 1: There was fear of things. I think that here's here
just to bring it up. Since you brought that up,
I think that everybody can relate to what I'm about
to say. The fear of saying something sometimes right, instead
of being truthful, we push it down. I don't want
to say that I don't know how they're going to react.
I don't know. I don't know, and a lot of
times it could be things that are annoyance. There's a
great book that I read last semester, and I don't
think use this as an example on somebody when I
use an example on the podcast in the past that
I was talking about them specifically and I wasn't. I
never even thought of this person because they reached out going, oh,
why you know, I hope I didn't, and I'm like, no,
I wasn't talking about you. But it's this woman who
is going to get her boyfriend, her fiance. He had
been away on a business trip and she's picking him
up at the airport and she's very excited, and she
had made like a really nice meal, candlelight has a
bottle of wine, and she's excited to see him. He's back, right,
they're gonna, you know, kind of and they're planning a
life together. And she said, he says, uh, hey, what,
so what's what's the player? She says something to him
about what's the plant? Oh, my battery's running low too,
because see everything's got to happen today, so we're gonna
have to wrap something a second. I apologize, So she
he says to her what was going on? She goes, Oh,
I have a really nice dinner and all that stuff,
and he goes, oh, when will it be ready? She goes,
as soon as we get home. He goes, great, then
I can go out with the guys after. I can
meet my buddies after, right, And you know, right, he's
just not thinking, right, He's just not thinking. And so
she in this thing is like in that scenario where
everybody can relate to in some way. She does want
to say anything. She doesn't want to rock the boat,
but she's pissed and she's hurt, and but if she
says anything, then it's like, oh, come on, you're always
wine and you're great whatever. So she doesn't and it
goes down and down and down, and I did that
a lot in relationships. And then you explode or I exploded.
Not good. That never goes well, by the way, that
never goes well. And that was why in this thing
was it was interesting. And then at one point she
and her fiance go away and she says, no phones
this weekend, we're not working whatever, and she can tell
he gets a phone call. He steps out of this
you know, they're at some little resort place. He steps
out of wherever they are, and he's kind of pacing
back and forth, and she's like, instead of pushing it down,
she did say to him, Hey, I know that was
a work call, and I get that that happens, but
we promised each other we weren't going to do that
this weekend. And instead of a fight, the guy turns
around because she would be afraid to say anything, guy
turns around and goes, you're right, let's enjoy the rest
of the weekend. I apologize and it was over right.
But how many times do we go? I don't want
to get into this, but god damn it, here, okay,
you mind if you get on that dating side. I
don't know a.
Speaker 3: For Dougie Fresh, I know we didn't get any of
the DJ stuff. I apologize, that's all right, I mean
true show.
Speaker 1: I will say this, fear keeps alive as a species
is a staring live now.
Speaker 3: No, no, So what are your predictions for this weekend football?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say Bill's Niners Chicago and I think Patriots
get upset.
Speaker 1: Wow. I kind of hope you're right. I'm gonna go
with your picks. I hope you're right. I'm a little nervous.
That's why my head's all over the place. I'm going
to watch this thing. I don't know. For Dougie Fresh, Yes,
for Dougie Fresh.
Speaker 3: What I was gonna say is, next time fear grabs
the wheel of your life.
Speaker 1: Don't floor it. Don't floor it, but maybe just take
a big, big breath and realize it's just a moment.
It's just a moment for Dougie Fresh, for his deviled eggs,
and for future comedy maybe somewhere. Who knows, we'll find out.
I'm Bill Moran. We'll see you tomorrow. Now year the
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