Speaker 1: Hey, hey, everybody, welcome to Everything Is a Bitch Episode nineteen.
Speaker 1: I'm Mike Agavino here with my buddy aj Benza's up.
Speaker 2: Dude, Hey man, how are you well? I know how
Speaker 2: you are.
Speaker 3: We just spent an hour doing Relationships is a Bitch
Speaker 3: and now we'll do this show and then I'll do
Speaker 3: famous a bit. That's a big day, a lot.
Speaker 1: Of we just yeah, we just did the the Ukrainian Hour,
Speaker 1: which the Ukrainian Relationship Hour, which enlightening. You know who,
Speaker 1: who would have thought that Kamala Harrison Doug Emma Off
Speaker 1: were meant for each other and that is a relationship
Speaker 1: that is forever according to our expert.
Speaker 3: Would I also, I asked, I'll ask my listeners again
Speaker 3: today to come up with some relationship type questions and
Speaker 3: to email me.
Speaker 2: And we'll bring them to Arena on our.
Speaker 3: Show and she can give personal advice to people who
Speaker 3: listen that are part of our Orbit of podcast.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and please, if you haven't given relationships as
Speaker 1: a Bitch a try, please give it a try. Today
Speaker 1: we talked about an unbelievable technical leap. If she's able
Speaker 1: to do that the way that she's talking about doing it,
Speaker 1: which is basically real time specific therapy done with the
Speaker 1: help of artificial intelligence and delivered through an avatar of arena. So,
Speaker 1: you know, two o'clock in the morning, you're in a
Speaker 1: fight with your husband and you need some advice on
Speaker 1: the fly, you know, lock yourself in the bathroom and
Speaker 1: get on the app and fire away.
Speaker 4: That's amazing.
Speaker 2: It's amazing.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: It reminds me of like you said, it's on steroids
Speaker 3: when I went to AA and it's fine. I just
Speaker 3: didn't like it to keep going. It just got to
Speaker 3: be the same. I don't want to keep hearing stories
Speaker 3: about alcohol and how much people lost. It just puts
Speaker 3: me in a bad mood. But I never had a
Speaker 3: sponsor either. I'm not really doing it the way people
Speaker 3: do it. But when people have sponsors, and I have
Speaker 3: a lot of friends who have sponsors, they'll go on
Speaker 3: the phone any hour of the day and talk to
Speaker 3: that sponsor if they're having a rough time, if they
Speaker 3: want to drink, et cetera. Could you imagine if you
Speaker 3: don't have to call you a sponsor, and you just
Speaker 3: go to an app and your your sponsor is now
Speaker 3: an AI version of themselves and you can talk to
Speaker 3: them at any hour, anytime, Like you said, depending upon
Speaker 3: how great arenas will avatar will. Look, that's a what
Speaker 3: an impressive leap that is for for people.
Speaker 1: Everything about all of the services.
Speaker 4: Yeah, look about lawyers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, instead of six hundred dollars an hour going you're
Speaker 3: out your lawyer app I mean.
Speaker 1: You've already got all these legal documents. There are companies
Speaker 1: like legal Zoom, and there are other ones that you know,
Speaker 1: whether it's a will, whether it's a divorce, whether it's
Speaker 1: following your taxes. I mean, all of these systems that
Speaker 1: are using AI to make the process a lot easier. Well,
Speaker 1: taking it to the next level to where you're not
Speaker 1: just using the AI, you are like speaking to it
Speaker 1: like Kirk did to the computer from the bridge on
Speaker 1: the enterprise, just telling it what you need it to do.
Speaker 1: And you know, I need a I need a new
Speaker 1: will that has that takes my ex wife to zero
Speaker 1: and splits everything that would have gone to her to
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. I mean all of that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: So I mean, we we tend to talk about AI
Speaker 1: from the negative side, all the things that scare us
Speaker 1: and all the stuff that could go really wrong. And
Speaker 1: there is a lot of stuff that's scary and could
Speaker 1: go really wrong, but it's also easy to see a
Speaker 1: lot of places where it could improve life. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, it's disintermediating professions in a in a
Speaker 1: big way. I mean, if things ever got to the
Speaker 1: point where in AI could prescribe medication, I.
Speaker 4: Mean, because we're not that far from that with what.
Speaker 1: We're talking about here. We're talking about and a source
Speaker 1: of artificial intelligence that could give relationship advice on.
Speaker 4: Fly Well, right, you know your's.
Speaker 3: Apply to tell of medicine now, so well, I want
Speaker 3: to listen on a similar topic. I've been making football
Speaker 3: picks against the spread all season, but I'm very selective.
Speaker 3: I don't play five games a weekend. I make believe
Speaker 3: Tutsi's handicapping. My dog is handicapping. She's fifteen with fourteen
Speaker 3: and no fifteen and three. After the last night's game,
Speaker 3: the Ravens won big fifteen and three. So what's the
Speaker 3: difference Later on in life or maybe next month, I
Speaker 3: can go to chat GPT or AI and ask why
Speaker 3: should I bet the Ravens or who do I bet
Speaker 3: with the Jets Steelers? And they're just gonna spit out
Speaker 3: a ton of information that makes my bet more enhanced
Speaker 3: or or gives me a better probability.
Speaker 2: That's fascinating to me.
Speaker 4: That's that's been done.
Speaker 2: For a long time.
Speaker 1: That's got to be going on right, Yeah, and forever
Speaker 1: it's been these handicappers, Yeah, that that have all the
Speaker 1: data crunched that Joe Blow isn't able to crunch. It's
Speaker 1: just like my I remember my father with the freaking
Speaker 1: racing form growing. My father would spend hours with that
Speaker 1: damn racing form before he went to the track. I
Speaker 1: mean yeah, and he knew, he knew how the horse
Speaker 1: ran in the mud.
Speaker 4: Hell, that horse ran in the dry track. But it's
Speaker 4: all of that ship where if I.
Speaker 1: Go to after a lot of track, it's to you know,
Speaker 1: I want to get drunk and you know, watch a couple.
Speaker 2: Of long shot. Yeah, yeah, I know. I know.
Speaker 3: It's crazy. It's changing everything, changing everything good or bad.
Speaker 3: It's changing.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, maybe the New York District Attorney can
Speaker 1: figure out a way to to use it so that
Speaker 1: some of the cases that they bring actually makes some
Speaker 1: freaking sense.
Speaker 3: But think about how many years we've heard and how
Speaker 3: many cents reason it's taken for animals and insects, fish
Speaker 3: to to adapt with.
Speaker 2: The world that they were in.
Speaker 3: Now we are the animal that's been adapting so quickly
Speaker 3: to all these changes in our lives that frankly our
Speaker 3: parents didn't have to go through, you know, I mean this,
Speaker 3: we're adapting at at warp speed constantly, all these new
Speaker 3: innovations that are that are sprouting up everywhere.
Speaker 4: It's scary or we're or we're not.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, if you don't, you're in trouble. You have
Speaker 3: to adapt or else you're going to fall to the wayside.
Speaker 1: You know, well, you know, until it until it becomes
Speaker 1: until these technologies become embedded in things that you use
Speaker 1: every day to the point that their existence is not
Speaker 1: transparent to you as an end user. So the eighty
Speaker 1: year old is using AI but doesn't know they're using
Speaker 1: AI because they don't have to understand how the AI
Speaker 1: works in particular context. I mean, that kind of stuff happened,
Speaker 1: but that's never what happens on the bleeding edge of
Speaker 1: new tech. On the bleeding edge, it's only the folks
Speaker 1: that really understand it well that are able to do
Speaker 1: anything with it. Right, So I don't know my father
Speaker 1: used to say. I mean he he would say, I
Speaker 1: bought a computer at a pretty young age, and you know,
Speaker 1: he would make statements like computer can't do anything that
Speaker 1: human can't do.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, that's right, dad, it.
Speaker 1: Can't, but it can do them like four hundred thousand
Speaker 1: times faster, faster.
Speaker 4: So isn't that valuable?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I know.
Speaker 3: Time is the big commodity, you know. Trying to teach
Speaker 3: my brother in law's sister, Well, mainly my brother in law,
Speaker 3: Jack doesn't really get out of the house much.
Speaker 2: If he does, he takes his car and go someplace.
Speaker 3: When why I had to tell him that he needed
Speaker 3: to get an Uber? He was he didn't know what
Speaker 3: the hell was going on.
Speaker 2: Give me a phone.
Speaker 3: I'll put a Uber in your phone, giving him Uber
Speaker 3: and him watching. So you're telling me, I say where
Speaker 3: I am and the car shows up. No, yeah, I
Speaker 3: don't have to talk to anybody. No, what about my money?
Speaker 3: The credit cards? And you put the credit You're good?
Speaker 3: He was fascinated. Do I give him cash? No, you're good,
Speaker 3: it's all good. I just leave the car, leave the car.
Speaker 3: So that's one example of Americans or human beings having
Speaker 3: to adapt to changes. But this last one or not
Speaker 3: the last one, the most current one, AI is, I
Speaker 3: don't know what comes after that.
Speaker 2: I can't imagine.
Speaker 4: Good question something. Yeah, of course the warp drive.
Speaker 2: Warp drive is a warp drive. Scary. I don't know
Speaker 2: what that is, but it's scary.
Speaker 4: Dude.
Speaker 1: You're not a track guy, are you.
Speaker 2: No, not at all? No, No, not at all, not
Speaker 2: at all.
Speaker 1: Any sci fi series that you like.
Speaker 4: What's your favorite? Ultimei?
Speaker 2: Well, I like Black Mirror.
Speaker 3: Black Mirror is fascinating on Netflix because they really have
Speaker 3: episodes that mirror what's happening in the tech world, like
Speaker 3: the mechanical dogs that are now being used in earthquakes
Speaker 3: and ship that fascinates me. But no, I never watched
Speaker 3: Our Trek, never watched Lost in Space, Uh, David, The
Speaker 3: cubb X.
Speaker 2: Files not my thing, not none, none, No sci fi
Speaker 2: in my life.
Speaker 4: Nothing. When we were young, I.
Speaker 3: Read you know, I read Fahrenheit four fifty one. You
Speaker 3: know I did those things when we were younger, But
Speaker 3: ever since then, I don't care about sci fi.
Speaker 2: I don't care about it now.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: The two worst topics in my life for sci fi
Speaker 3: and finance, Just to move on, they're.
Speaker 1: Kind of related because generally, if you like finance, you
Speaker 1: like sci fi.
Speaker 4: It's vice versa.
Speaker 1: So you wouldn't know what to do with the dilethium crystal.
Speaker 3: If you no, do you, I don't know idea what
Speaker 3: that even is?
Speaker 4: Can operate your warp drive without no.
Speaker 2: That's I'll just be calling you. You'll be You'll be
Speaker 2: getting messages from.
Speaker 1: Me calling Scotti and engineering what I what you'd be doing?
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 1: I mentioned the attorney, the district attorney in New York
Speaker 1: because the first story I thought we should talk about
Speaker 1: giving the fact given the fact that he hails from
Speaker 1: West Islip, New York. Yeah, that jury's selection is kicking
Speaker 1: off this week. Kicked off this week for the trial
Speaker 1: of Daniel Penny. For those of you who don't remember,
Speaker 1: this is the former marine who was charged with fatally
Speaker 1: choking this homeless guy on an f train. I think
Speaker 1: it was in New York. The guy's name is Jordan
Speaker 1: neely Is the homeless guy. Groups of New Yorkers will
Speaker 1: face a series of questions and be grilled about their
Speaker 1: own experiences riding the New York Subway before twelve Manhattanits
Speaker 1: are ultimately chosen to decide Penny's fate. Penny, He's only
Speaker 1: twenty five right now, is charged with manslaughter and criminally
Speaker 1: negligent homicide in Neely's death. The incident was caught on
Speaker 1: film and sparked debate across the country. The supposed similarities
Speaker 1: between this case and the George Floyd case have fueled
Speaker 1: drama as well. The incident occurred back on May first
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty three, so I think most people remember
Speaker 1: the story. Yeah, God, May first of twenty three, so
Speaker 1: it's a year and a half Agoah, And it doesn't
Speaker 1: seem like it was that long ago now.
Speaker 3: And the guy is from our hometown of Westland, West
Speaker 3: Isa kid Now, the story is fascinating in a lot
Speaker 3: of ways. When I was a journalist at the News,
Speaker 3: I covered the Bernie Gets situation where Bernie shot up
Speaker 3: those kids on the subway who were bugging him.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: If you live in New York or have lived in
Speaker 3: New York, you totally understand how terrifying certain subways could
Speaker 3: be at certain times of the day or night.
Speaker 2: You want to avoid them at old costs.
Speaker 3: The people get molested, assaulted, killed, stab shot on subways.
Speaker 3: You can't look anybody in the eye what this guy
Speaker 3: did was saving the rest of the car from God
Speaker 3: knows what put the guy in the head luck, which
Speaker 3: he knows how to do.
Speaker 2: It's very simple. And the guy died because he kept
Speaker 2: it on too long. But he was even told the cops.
Speaker 3: Perry even told the cops, I took care of the guys,
Speaker 3: you know, I held him at bay, like he said
Speaker 3: that to the cops immediately. He wasn't hiding anything. He
Speaker 3: didn't try to kill the guy. Tried to keep everybody safe.
Speaker 3: But it's a real scary lesson because I'm normally the
Speaker 3: guy that would do what he did.
Speaker 2: I'm normally the guy that's.
Speaker 3: The first tick it up and smacks someone on a
Speaker 3: threaten them or grab them if they're bothering people. But
Speaker 3: now you go, do I do this anymore? I could
Speaker 3: easily end up in prison when the justice system is
Speaker 3: so warped right now that they may look at me
Speaker 3: and think that, yeah, I tried to kill this guy.
Speaker 3: I mean negligent homicide that makes sense. I'm not sure
Speaker 3: about manslaughter, but this guy shouldn't serve a day in prison.
Speaker 4: It's a New York jury.
Speaker 1: But I mean, look, this be a really interesting test
Speaker 1: because normally I'd say New York jury, it's going to
Speaker 1: be ten out of twelve, maybe eleven out of twelve
Speaker 1: liberals on that jury. This guy is a conservative guy
Speaker 1: from the military. It does have a lot of the
Speaker 1: parallels to the George Floyd case.
Speaker 4: And you know, ridiculous, man, it is ridiculous. But I just.
Speaker 1: I think this is one where I'm gonna say I
Speaker 1: have enough faith in a New York jury because they
Speaker 1: at least eight of those regularly ride the subway. Right,
Speaker 1: eight out of those twelve are going to be regular
Speaker 1: subway riders who know the kind of craziness that goes
Speaker 1: on the subway. If they were on that car that
Speaker 1: day where that thing happened, they would have been really
Speaker 1: thrilled to find Dann Kenny riding that in that same
Speaker 1: car with them on that f train. And so hopefully
Speaker 1: you know that that that that comes to the forefront here.
Speaker 3: Otherwise I've lost. Otherwise, I don't have a lot of
Speaker 3: faith in New York now is this city.
Speaker 2: It's changed so much.
Speaker 3: I never thought i'd live a day where I didn't
Speaker 3: care for New York City, but I feel that way
Speaker 3: about it now. But there's got to be one more
Speaker 3: sympathetic jury that understands and have have ridden the subways
Speaker 3: to know that that guy's a hear, he's not a murderer.
Speaker 3: Come on, man, If they don't do it, if they
Speaker 3: don't find this guy innocent, I've lost. New York is
Speaker 3: completely dead, just completely dead, because all New York wouldn't
Speaker 3: have done that, not once.
Speaker 1: Well, here's an interesting subplot. The The guy that's defending Penny.
Speaker 1: His attorney is Thomas Kenneth, who actually ran against Brag
Speaker 1: for me that das. He's the rest that ran against
Speaker 1: Bragg back in twenty twenty one. Now, I don't know
Speaker 1: if I doubt that Bragg is actually the one trying
Speaker 1: this case.
Speaker 2: I don't think.
Speaker 4: I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I didn't see in any of the articles that I
Speaker 1: looked at it would that would be that would be surprising.
Speaker 1: But there's certainly a I'm sure there's there's bad blood
Speaker 1: between ken If and the DA's office and vice versas.
Speaker 1: So sure going to be more more at play here
Speaker 1: than just defending Penny and and telling the story.
Speaker 3: Well, like I said, if you lived in New York,
Speaker 3: you know exactly what that's like to be scared on
Speaker 3: a subway, and justice has to be served here. But again,
Speaker 3: New York is so fickle with the types of progressive
Speaker 3: people we have running the city of the state that
Speaker 3: this could go either way.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. It's a confined incident. So the
Speaker 1: you got witnesses, and they're all know, they were all
Speaker 1: known to police, they all gave statements originally, and so
Speaker 1: it's I don't know what the surprises could be. It's
Speaker 1: here are the people that here are the cops that
Speaker 1: showed up, and here's the cops that took his his testimony.
Speaker 1: Here's the witnesses. From what I remember, nearly all of
Speaker 1: those witnesses were pro Penny in the in the wake
Speaker 1: of this thing, I do remember there being one who
Speaker 1: was out there a little bit on it. But but again,
Speaker 1: you know, brag won eighty three percent of the vote
Speaker 1: in that and the case for DA so very who
Speaker 1: the heck knows.
Speaker 3: Well, But it sounds because what you're gonna lose. New
Speaker 3: York and other cities got a run by progressives. A
Speaker 3: guy like me who wants to protect a bunch of people,
Speaker 3: even if it means putting me in harm's way. I'm
Speaker 3: that kind of guy. I come from that kind of father.
Speaker 3: I don't know if guys like Gus are gonna want
Speaker 3: to get involved anymore.
Speaker 2: Not scary, No, it is it is.
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy, this guy is a is a
Speaker 1: legitimate hero. And look, I you and I have talked
Speaker 1: about the setting in in Minneapolis and everything that he
Speaker 1: with void and I mean, it's we don't need to
Speaker 1: go back there again.
Speaker 3: But uh, you know, changed changed, It changed America. But
Speaker 3: more than an people could even understand there should have
Speaker 3: been a.
Speaker 4: Change of venue for U for that for that trial.
Speaker 4: But absolutely, let's uh.
Speaker 1: Let's do uh, let's do something a little bit more fun.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Trump working at Mickey D's.
Speaker 3: Well, here's why I loved it because it showed him.
Speaker 3: It showed a light side of him that a lot
Speaker 3: of people on the left don't think is something he has,
Speaker 3: what she does.
Speaker 2: It showed a generous side of fun, side of light side.
Speaker 3: And you've got Kamala Harris raising her voice at rallies
Speaker 3: and saying things that I think are ridiculous, and there's Trump.
Speaker 3: The most liberals could say of the left is saying
Speaker 3: is like, can you believe you wore that shirt with
Speaker 3: the cufflings to start fries. Really, are you upset about
Speaker 3: the shirty waters to move fries? You know that that's
Speaker 3: McDonald's is a close McDonald's. All right, So what all
Speaker 3: of Kammelin, Doug's and Tim Wall's visits to gas stations were.
Speaker 1: They supposed to do it at an open McDonald's, Like,
Speaker 1: I know, he's what kind of a freaking security risk?
Speaker 4: Would that a bit?
Speaker 2: Yeah? This this other thing?
Speaker 3: You know why he's only been only been shot once
Speaker 3: an attempted to be shot twice. Let's bring him out
Speaker 3: again in a dangerous situation. Uh No, it was fun.
Speaker 3: It was good because we're seeing another side of him
Speaker 3: aside that I've known always existed, but other people don't.
Speaker 2: I know, a side of him that you know.
Speaker 3: I've been told by people close to him that the
Speaker 3: woman that we both dated would tell me he's very funny.
Speaker 3: You have no idea he's a lot like you. He
Speaker 3: does crazy shit, He's silly. I couldn't see that twenty third,
Speaker 3: twenty five years ago. Now I say it talking about
Speaker 3: Arnold Palmer's manhood. You know, he's just showing himself to
Speaker 3: be a regular guy, which a lot of people don't
Speaker 3: think he is, but he is in a lot of ways.
Speaker 2: It just is.
Speaker 1: Look, I thought it was the ultimate roll, the ultimate trol.
Speaker 1: You lied and told people you worked at McDonald's.
Speaker 4: Is bullshit.
Speaker 1: You how we know it's bullshit. There's no you never
Speaker 1: said it before. It was never a part of any
Speaker 1: of your other campaigns going backwards. This suddenly was injected
Speaker 1: into your resume during this election.
Speaker 4: Right if.
Speaker 1: If there ever was a time that you were going
Speaker 1: to come out and prove that you had worked at McDonald's,
Speaker 1: it would be in reaction to Trump saying that he
Speaker 1: just worked fifteen minutes more than you did at McDonald's.
Speaker 1: If you wanted to slam the door shut on your
Speaker 1: integrity and whether you were honest about your claims working
Speaker 1: in McDonald's, that was the time to do it. You
Speaker 1: haven't done it. You haven't done it because, let's face it,
Speaker 1: you never worked at McDonald's.
Speaker 3: Otherwise that picture will be posted within seconds of Trump
Speaker 3: at McDonald's.
Speaker 2: She can't do it.
Speaker 1: And this is the kind of stuff. See, I'm getting amped.
Speaker 1: It drives me nuts, It drives me freaking crazy.
Speaker 4: Walls.
Speaker 1: I was at Tianneman Square, I worked at McDonald's all
Speaker 1: of this shit, it's bullshit.
Speaker 4: I know who you are is who you are.
Speaker 1: It's it's the who's the.
Speaker 4: Parcels?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: You know you are who your record says you are.
Speaker 1: You are who your freaking record says you are.
Speaker 4: And what Trump.
Speaker 1: Should do next is he should go to the neighborhood
Speaker 1: in Montreal and the school in Montreal where she actually
Speaker 1: fucking grew up. Not Oakland, California, but go to where
Speaker 1: she actually freaking grew up and take a look at
Speaker 1: who she went to school and what her life was
Speaker 1: like and compare that to who she says she is
Speaker 1: out in the campaign trail anyway, I'm AJ's probably dying
Speaker 1: because no, what are you doing.
Speaker 3: You're not good, You're not put Trump. But you should
Speaker 3: be anti Kamala for this bullshit.
Speaker 1: I am in this particular instance, I am pro Trump
Speaker 1: for a fucking just a master class.
Speaker 4: Troll on the bullshit.
Speaker 1: That she has spewed. It's a it's a freaking ten.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now the Arnold Palmer stuff.
Speaker 2: Oh that's just so fun.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, yes, it's I know it's not
Speaker 3: called for, but yet, you know what if Obama can
Speaker 3: make fun of the size of Trump's manhood. In one
Speaker 3: of his speeches a few weeks back, Trump can't talk
Speaker 3: about this story about Arnold Palmy's not making fun of
Speaker 3: Barack Obama's manhood. So it's it works both ways. If
Speaker 3: you thought it was funny, Barack did it and what
Speaker 3: a genius he is. Then Trump's related story that was,
Speaker 3: who cares?
Speaker 2: This is no?
Speaker 1: Look, I don't I don't think. I don't think it.
Speaker 1: I don't think it would that it hurts Trump one iota.
Speaker 4: It's he's a guy's guy.
Speaker 1: Look, how much of our lives, ten percent of our
Speaker 1: lives between you, me and Kenny's been spent talking about
Speaker 1: someone's penis. I mean, it's just it's what we freaking do.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: Last week we talked about Richie Pepiel. What's Pepio's first name,
Speaker 3: Mike Pepio. Way, you're a low We know the guys
Speaker 3: at school who hung well, we shall with them.
Speaker 2: We're in the same ball fall clubs.
Speaker 1: Every person Kenny has ever met in his life has
Speaker 1: a nickname based upon their penis.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's just it's the way.
Speaker 1: And that's that's Trump being a guy and again doing
Speaker 1: the and that's fine.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: And and by the way, there's nothing at this point.
Speaker 4: You either love him or hate him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's very little in between. But if you're one
Speaker 1: of those two three percent of the population with two
Speaker 1: weeks left that are that are teetering, and you think
Speaker 1: through this McDonald's thing, and you think through.
Speaker 4: What it really what it really means.
Speaker 1: Yes, it was funny games and trolling, but what it
Speaker 1: The purpose was to drill into your head that this
Speaker 1: woman lies constantly. Trump's lies are mostly lies of omission
Speaker 1: because he doesn't know the whole story.
Speaker 2: And exaggeration.
Speaker 1: But it's it's it's again, guy's guy doing that sort
Speaker 1: of stuff versus somebody trying to convince you they are
Speaker 1: someone completely different than.
Speaker 4: Who they are.
Speaker 1: She is whiter than Trump. It's it's insane and and
Speaker 1: and like I said, the next move should be to
Speaker 1: go to that neighborhood and we all and go to
Speaker 1: that school and just make it perfectly clear who this
Speaker 1: woman is versus who she claims to be.
Speaker 3: And on top of that, when Trump is maligned in
Speaker 3: the press, He's got a couple of sons, a daughter,
Speaker 3: what have you. Even his wife will speak up for
Speaker 3: him and tell the public that's not true about my father,
Speaker 3: my husband, et cetera. Kamala Harris has nobody her mother
Speaker 3: and father. If my daughter was running for president and
Speaker 3: they said she never worked at such and such store,
Speaker 3: I'd find a reporter and hold the press conference and
Speaker 3: say I drove my daughter to that job for X
Speaker 3: amount of months or weeks or years she worked there.
Speaker 3: No one sticks up for her in her corner. No
Speaker 3: one stands up and says, yeah, that's true, my daughter
Speaker 3: did work there. Wouldn't you do that as a parent.
Speaker 3: That's weird to me. But she's got no backup. And
Speaker 3: and just if I could go a little further, you
Speaker 3: got hot, I'm gonna get hot. They're giving Trump a
Speaker 3: lot of shit. Let's focus on who Kamala Harris is
Speaker 3: with the other day al Sharp then the ultimate race
Speaker 3: Bader in the world. I know out very well. I
Speaker 3: know him since the Towanna Browley case. That bullshit shit,
Speaker 3: that lie. She's got Usher campaigning for her, Usher who
Speaker 3: was unfortunately sexually abused by P Diddy and then allegedly
Speaker 3: abused Justin Bieber. Usher, he's up there stumping and Lizzo,
Speaker 3: who's in burled in her own sex assault case with
Speaker 3: backup dancers saying she forced them to take part in
Speaker 3: a live sex show. These are the people you wheel
Speaker 3: out for what to make you seem more of a
Speaker 3: regular per It's shit. The whole thing is a circus
Speaker 3: of people being clueless and lying and not being real.
Speaker 3: And Trump at McDonald's, as much as it looks ridiculous
Speaker 3: of him being the other billionaire, it was for a
Speaker 3: different purpose. And I love the interaction with the people
Speaker 3: who waited hours to drive through that drive through the
Speaker 3: crowd there was bigger than her crowds to get McDonald's
Speaker 3: and to see them talk to him. Mister Trump, please
Speaker 3: don't happen. Please don't let America turn into my country Brazil.
Speaker 3: Please don't let don't worry. We're gonna fix it.
Speaker 2: People crying, You're not ordinary, you're great. But look at you.
Speaker 3: You're a beautiful wife, You've got all That interaction is real.
Speaker 2: Kamala can't do it. It's always phony.
Speaker 1: People have to see that he wasn't.
Speaker 2: Yes, he was, he did. She's a beautiful woman, very beautiful. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I know, I know. My other job is a un president.
Speaker 2: My other cars at rolls. Rice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he can't stop he loves women, and he's just
Speaker 3: always going to be that way. But in the last
Speaker 3: ten years, nine years, I've seen him love children in
Speaker 3: a way that I didn't think he had in him.
Speaker 3: I've seen him hold people's kids. I've seen him become
Speaker 3: a grandfather. And there's a different side to Trump now
Speaker 3: than there was years back. Uh. You know me, I
Speaker 3: just think he's got this victory easy. I don't think it's.
Speaker 2: Gonna go close to I do, you can't. I don't care.
Speaker 2: This is not going to be close.
Speaker 3: The swing states are going to go to him, almost
Speaker 3: all will go to him, maybe one. I don't think
Speaker 3: this is close at all. Mike, I have too much
Speaker 3: faith in the American public knowing a bullshitter and knowing
Speaker 3: we're not as.
Speaker 2: Well as we were four years ago. It's just comes
Speaker 2: down to that. But it's just it's.
Speaker 1: Easy to don't have that confidence.
Speaker 2: Most people don't. I know, I know.
Speaker 1: It's I think these I think these pulling outlets have
Speaker 1: you know, fixed a lot of the problems that they
Speaker 1: that they had in the past with tracking Trump's voters.
Speaker 1: And and I think this is, uh, this is going
Speaker 1: to be a really really tight uh.
Speaker 4: And and look.
Speaker 1: That's the the I hope it's Look, if Trump lost,
Speaker 1: I hope he loses in a blowout. If he if
Speaker 1: he has to lose, and and if he wins, I
Speaker 1: hope he wins in a blowout because a really really
Speaker 1: tight race that lingers for days after election day is
Speaker 1: a really scary proposition. And I just hope we don't
Speaker 1: get in to that. And you know, to me, if
Speaker 1: you said, Mike, you can only have one of these things.
Speaker 1: Either Republicans win the Senate or Trump wins the presidency,
Speaker 1: but not both. I'm taking the Senate. Really, I'm taking
Speaker 1: the freaking Senate because it will they will be able
Speaker 1: to stand opposed to any of the bullshit that that
Speaker 1: that she tries to come at them.
Speaker 4: She that's her idea.
Speaker 1: But but but look, certainly you could see you could
Speaker 1: see him winning and Republicans taking both houses. You could
Speaker 1: see her winning the Democrats taking both the houses. Who
Speaker 1: the f knows, there's so much drama built into this thing,
Speaker 1: and the polling is so close.
Speaker 4: Who they hell knows.
Speaker 1: Let's let's go to something that we can control, at
Speaker 1: least that somebody controlled. I love this story. I hate
Speaker 1: why it had to happen. But the story of the
Speaker 1: Redneck Air Force.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, man, love you guys.
Speaker 1: Ninety five people, I guess have as of yesterday been
Speaker 1: officially declared dead, but there are over one hundred that
Speaker 1: are still missing in the mountains of North Carolina where
Speaker 1: Helene dropped the historic rainfall that flooded the area and
Speaker 1: destroyed a bunch of a bunch of.
Speaker 4: Towns up there.
Speaker 1: The federal response to the disaster has been broadly criticized,
Speaker 1: and certain people took it upon themselves to help the
Speaker 1: desperate people in this remote area. Hundreds of Special Ops
Speaker 1: personnel in North Carolina have formed their own homegrown rescue
Speaker 1: and supply operation after they grew tired of waiting for
Speaker 1: the federal government to get its act together. The all
Speaker 1: volunteer operation is being run out of a Harley Davidson
Speaker 1: dealership with ruthless efficiency and military precision. Here's a quote
Speaker 1: from Adam Smith, the guy who started this. Who's an
Speaker 1: ex Green Beret? He said, Who's FEMA? This disaster has
Speaker 1: definitely proven, without a shadow of a doubt, FEMA's incompetence
Speaker 1: and incapability, he said, noting that the agency didn't even
Speaker 1: show up until Thursday, almost a week after the storm hit.
Speaker 1: Unwilling to stand idly by, Smith enlisted the help of
Speaker 1: a few good men and women to take matters into
Speaker 1: their own hands. This Harley Davidson Dealership has become the
Speaker 1: operating base, complete with a fleet of thirty five helicopters
Speaker 1: that have flown hundreds of rescue and reconnaissance missions and
Speaker 1: resupply sorties in the area. Organizers were calling the effort
Speaker 1: the Savage Freedom's Relief Operation, but Smith says they proudly
Speaker 1: adopted an alternate moniker, the Redneck Air Force. The dealership
Speaker 1: teams with current and former soldiers decked out in camel
Speaker 1: pants and army boots, with handguns strapped to their chest
Speaker 1: and hips, crop duster pilots, helicopter tour guys, and special
Speaker 1: operations pilots, most of them off duty or retired military,
Speaker 1: have answered the call from Smith and others in North
Speaker 1: Carolina's extensive military community. They're using their own aircraft to
Speaker 1: fly doctors, medicine generators, fuel and food to these isolated
Speaker 1: residents that were cut off to the rest of the
Speaker 1: world by the unprecedented floods, Surprise, and fuel for an
Speaker 1: operation of this magnitude don't come cheap, but the group
Speaker 1: has relied entirely upon donations, including around one hundred and
Speaker 1: ninety thousand dollars that's been raised through this Skilfundme page.
Speaker 1: The well Oiled Machine began when Smith, who's forty one
Speaker 1: years old, was unable to reach his daughter or her
Speaker 1: mother in a hurricane hit Broad River, which is located
Speaker 1: between the devastated communities of Black Mountain and Batcave. Smith,
Speaker 1: who was in Austin, Texas at the time, drove eighteen
Speaker 1: hours through the night to get back to his family,
Speaker 1: only to to fine there was no road access to
Speaker 1: his home or theirs, and so he did what any
Speaker 1: concerned father, who also happens to know a lot of
Speaker 1: people with helicopters, would do. He arranged for his family
Speaker 1: to be lifted out by a private pilot. Since then,
Speaker 1: the flights have been nearly constant during daylight hours. And
Speaker 1: this story is just it makes you feel good to
Speaker 1: be an American. I didn't know there was a Batcave,
Speaker 1: North Carolina.
Speaker 4: I actually had heard of bet.
Speaker 1: That's fantastic because I spent some time up in Grandfather Mountain,
Speaker 1: which is in that area.
Speaker 3: Well, I had a buddy, a riding buddy of mine
Speaker 3: who moved from New York to Connecticut. Then he went
Speaker 3: to North Carolina and he was in security and he
Speaker 3: always told me, this is ten twelve years ago, that
Speaker 3: things really get shitty in America with respect to the
Speaker 3: government wanting our guns, what have you. If there ever
Speaker 3: was a time where the government was against us, he
Speaker 3: would say, they're a ex military and people up in
Speaker 3: the mountains of North Carolina and in many places in
Speaker 3: America that will come down from those mountains with their
Speaker 3: own guns and their own AMMO and they won't be
Speaker 3: pushed around. And this reminds you of that story, because
Speaker 3: here are those guys are now doing what needs to
Speaker 3: be done to save American citizens' lives. And I love
Speaker 3: how they just appeared. We have that in America. We
Speaker 3: have this, this, this, this, I don't know what you
Speaker 3: call them, not group of men, but this army, little
Speaker 3: army of men and women who served who can still
Speaker 3: provide help and protection when we're in a bad spot.
Speaker 3: So this is a beautiful story and it just shows
Speaker 3: as much as it shows that the spirit of Americans,
Speaker 3: it also shows that when push comes to shove, your
Speaker 3: government is really probably not going to be able to
Speaker 3: save you. That is such a sobering thought that there's
Speaker 3: no help. That horrible picture of the grandparents and the
Speaker 3: grandson on the roof of their home before they just
Speaker 3: got washed away by the flood, it's pretty sobering. If
Speaker 3: you don't you can't trust your government to help you
Speaker 3: when all else fails, What the hell do you do
Speaker 3: without guys like this beautiful.
Speaker 1: He doesn't get covered again because of course not, you
Speaker 1: know you and you contrast that with Katrina. In the
Speaker 1: aftermath of Katrina, and you know, the picture of Bush
Speaker 1: flying over the damage that really destroyed his, uh, his presidency,
Speaker 1: his reputation on that, and you know the response here.
Speaker 1: I mean, overall, most people in the know give the
Speaker 1: government pretty good grades for Katrina response, and the opposite
Speaker 1: in this particular case.
Speaker 3: But who was the guy he said? Who was that
Speaker 3: guy who worked it was a governor? I believe one
Speaker 3: of the states down there. Sol saw you're doing a
Speaker 3: good job and the guy was doing an awful job.
Speaker 2: It was a black guy. He was a governor or something.
Speaker 3: He was always in front of the microphone during Katrina.
Speaker 2: But he failed in a lot of ways.
Speaker 1: And there was Nagan, who is the mayor of New or.
Speaker 2: Bush.
Speaker 3: Was Tony did a good job, but apparently he didn't
Speaker 3: do or wasn't wasn't quite ready.
Speaker 1: To kind of think that was the governor. And I'm
Speaker 1: trying to remember the guy's name, Tom and I can't,
Speaker 1: but yeah, no it h But anyway, uh, bless these guys,
Speaker 1: the the poor people lost there. I mean, they're they're
Speaker 1: finding and these are the people that are going in
Speaker 1: and finding these bodies now, I mean they're.
Speaker 3: Now those bodies now, Oh my god, I did. I
Speaker 3: was mentioning when I was in La in Florida. You know,
Speaker 3: I'm not used to watching Florida TV, and I didn't
Speaker 3: know there was a hotline to call for gators in
Speaker 3: your property and your garage. And it's some eight hundred
Speaker 3: double that engine gator. I couldn't believe it. But the
Speaker 3: story back then was I wanted to stay because I
Speaker 3: was curious about Milton and you know, I mean, a
Speaker 3: third story, expensive condo with generators. Nothing was going to
Speaker 3: happen to me, but I was curious to see what
Speaker 3: was going to happen to the people in Florida if
Speaker 3: it hit where we were staying, which.
Speaker 2: It really didn't.
Speaker 3: Uh, but it's such a sobering thought to think that
Speaker 3: you're not going to be able to just receive the
Speaker 3: help we always had an envision we received.
Speaker 2: From our government.
Speaker 3: And now to be told you're going to get seven
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty dollars when we've given sixty seventy eighty
Speaker 3: billion here oh, to illegal immigrants, sixty seven billion dollars
Speaker 3: to them, and our Americans are getting seven hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty dollars to take care of themselves during this hurricane
Speaker 3: after effect.
Speaker 2: It's just disgusting. It's disgusting.
Speaker 1: Well, one thing about the storms down here, I mean,
Speaker 1: one thing about everything down here. I mean there's such
Speaker 1: a contrast. Yeah, there's parts of it that I have
Speaker 1: to admit are a little bit irritating. I mean, I
Speaker 1: do not go anywhere where I go more than like
Speaker 1: seven miles an hour over the speed limit because.
Speaker 4: There are cops everywhere.
Speaker 1: But you're showed me when it comes to preparedness for
Speaker 1: natural disasters. I mean, Desanta's has this thing down. They're
Speaker 1: bringing people in from Linemen, in from other states. They've
Speaker 1: got the personnel they're deployed to the area. So that
Speaker 1: they can begin working on power lines immediately after the
Speaker 1: storm passes. I mean, there's just a level of seriousness.
Speaker 1: It's the It's no different than running a business. And
Speaker 1: this guy down here runs a business, and I mean
Speaker 1: it is a tight freaking ship. Ye, California is about
Speaker 1: as loose and looney as it gets other than the
Speaker 1: sheriff's departments that do an excellent job with the resources
Speaker 1: that they have. But it's quite a contrast coming from
Speaker 1: some other places to here. So if you're right and
Speaker 1: Trump wins, the MVP award has to go to Elon Musk.
Speaker 1: There's only there's only one.
Speaker 3: Outside of Kamlaaras speaking. Yeah, outside of Kamala Harris speaking stupidly.
Speaker 3: But yeah, in terms of what's been done, Elon Musk,
Speaker 3: I mean, this is even this latest thing a million
Speaker 3: dollars a day, he's gonna give a million dollar. I
Speaker 3: mean it's nothing. It's fifteen million by the time Lesson
Speaker 3: comes for him.
Speaker 2: It's nothing but just just rescuing Twitter, just having him
Speaker 2: buy X.
Speaker 3: God, if we didn't have X right now, as close
Speaker 3: as people think this race is, you wouldn't be speaking
Speaker 3: that way at all. If Twitter wasn't a platform that
Speaker 3: conservatives can speak on and get hidden truths out to
Speaker 3: the to the masses, because when I getting the truth
Speaker 3: from the media, now they.
Speaker 2: Don't even write that.
Speaker 3: Look, they wouldn't even write about Trump putting a bunch
Speaker 3: of Florida workers up at the Durrel Hotel during their
Speaker 3: stint working on the aftermath of Helene. He put them
Speaker 3: all off two hundred and something. Guys, it's just no,
Speaker 3: they don't.
Speaker 2: They don't write me. He doesn't cover what he does.
Speaker 3: They just like I said, you know, you you host
Speaker 3: to show the death of journalism. I was in journalism
Speaker 3: for many years, and it's just the most disappointing thing
Speaker 3: that's happened. Having grown up and studied it and wanted
Speaker 3: to be a journalist, becoming one chasing the truth, finding
Speaker 3: the truth, and now it's just I don't know what
Speaker 3: the hell that profession is anymore.
Speaker 4: Well, it's not.
Speaker 1: And you know, we spend more time lately actually talking.
Speaker 5: About sports coverage and the fact that reporters journalists in
Speaker 5: the sports world are worse.
Speaker 1: Even than what we see in the political and the
Speaker 1: news arenas.
Speaker 2: Give me a couple of examples this.
Speaker 1: Well, but the power, the power is completely changed hands.
Speaker 1: If if you dare to challenge an athlete and ask
Speaker 1: the difficult question, that athlete will have your removed and
Speaker 1: you'll be You won't be allowed to cover the team.
Speaker 4: He won't be allowed in the locker room boom.
Speaker 1: So if you dare to ask Lebron about whether Bron
Speaker 1: he deserves to be on the team, or you dare
Speaker 1: to ask Lebron about whether there was ever a racial
Speaker 1: epitaph written on sprint with garage, how he feels about China?
Speaker 4: And there.
Speaker 2: Did parties? What you said the best parties in.
Speaker 1: The world, and anything you can't you can't. It's it's
Speaker 1: completely turned a one to eighty. There's uh, the gen
Speaker 1: Z went nuts when Bob Costas called a playoff game.
Speaker 4: A week ago. They never heard of the guy.
Speaker 1: And what the hell is going on with this guy
Speaker 1: doing all these references to things from thirty years ago?
Speaker 1: And I know what the hell is Bob freaking cost
Speaker 1: I know Costas, al Michaels, Jim Nance, They're all whatever
Speaker 1: for a year two years. Nance may outlast a little
Speaker 1: bit instead do the Masters and stuff, but that generate
Speaker 1: it's over. It's it's it's gone by those legendary voices.
Speaker 4: The ones who who.
Speaker 1: Gave it to you straight, called the game straight. Let
Speaker 1: you know we played well, who didn't play well? Everything
Speaker 1: was just like the great news journalists of yesteryear that
Speaker 1: were uh that were unfiltered and were regardless of what
Speaker 1: their political affiliation might have been, their marching orders from
Speaker 1: above were to play it straight.
Speaker 4: And deliver and deliver the news.
Speaker 1: And and that's because there were three or four or
Speaker 1: five sources, and if you gave it with a slant,
Speaker 1: you were gonna end up on the short end of
Speaker 1: the stick.
Speaker 4: Audience wise.
Speaker 1: Well, now everything is is niched, and everyone providing quote
Speaker 1: unquote news is actually just providing therapy to a bunch
Speaker 1: of people who only want to hear one side. And
Speaker 1: that's all that they are delivering.
Speaker 2: You know what it is.
Speaker 3: Let me let me tell you about internal petty jealousies
Speaker 3: in journalism.
Speaker 2: I can tell you this for sure.
Speaker 3: I began as a high school sports reporter, moved up
Speaker 3: to college, did some pro stuff, Mets and Yankees, going
Speaker 3: to the stadium, writing about injuries, not the game story.
Speaker 3: But the point is, you want to become a beat reporter.
Speaker 3: That was my dream back in the day. To cover
Speaker 3: the Yankees or Giants or Nicks or you know, you've
Speaker 3: got to still play everything down the middle. But then
Speaker 3: inside journalism, everybody has a point of view, and you
Speaker 3: want to be a columnist. Columnists can give you their
Speaker 3: point of view and they don't have to be as objective,
Speaker 3: which is what I became, and it's what a lot
Speaker 3: of people who begin in journalism want to become. And
Speaker 3: not many people can because their views just aren't strong
Speaker 3: enough to be that kind of writer. But now we're
Speaker 3: so inundated with people just giving you their viewpoint, not
Speaker 3: just getting the down the middle stuff, that when we
Speaker 3: hear down the middle reporting, it's not reporting. And basically
Speaker 3: the way the baseball games were just called. Watching the
Speaker 3: Mets and the Yankees, I'm a Dog Yankee fan, and
Speaker 3: that night when the Yankees clinched and Soto hit the
Speaker 3: three run home run to put us into the playoffs
Speaker 3: and extra innings, that eight nine pitch at bat was brilliant.
Speaker 2: I got emotional. I cry, my eyes filled up.
Speaker 3: I was on a phone texting Jack and Row and Joey,
Speaker 3: and we're all emotional and we're all screaming because it's
Speaker 3: we don't have to like for a minute or two
Speaker 3: or an hour, we just got to just love sports
Speaker 3: and hear our announcers, hear them call the home run calls.
Speaker 3: It was just a great feeling of this is the
Speaker 3: way it's supposed to be, not about politics, not about
Speaker 3: the way the media covers everything, but just just seeing
Speaker 3: a big baseball game and letting it play out the
Speaker 3: way it plays out, no controversy, nobody writing lies, nobody
Speaker 3: trying to make you believe something that didn't happen.
Speaker 2: That was pure excitement. And there's not many of.
Speaker 3: Those moments left, unfortunately, because everything we go through in
Speaker 3: life is covered by people that have a point of view,
Speaker 3: and if it's not yours, you're going to suffer through
Speaker 3: their storytelling.
Speaker 2: And I'm sick of it. So sports is like the
Speaker 2: last bastion where you can.
Speaker 3: Go to get that just good old story without hearing
Speaker 3: a political version of it. And I don't know what
Speaker 3: to do beyond that. So hopefully this series goes to
Speaker 3: seven games, because once that's over, we're back to hearing
Speaker 3: bullshit from the media, well.
Speaker 1: Even when even when somebody pleays it quote unquote straight,
Speaker 1: Like I'm not a Fox News viewer, a not a fan,
Speaker 1: but I I am a fan of Brett Baer. I
Speaker 1: think Brett Baer is a is a.
Speaker 4: Good news guy.
Speaker 1: He uh, you know, there's there's the there's the news
Speaker 1: and editorial sides, and you know, bears in a different
Speaker 1: world over at Fox than the Five and the Fox
Speaker 1: and Friends stuff and and all of that. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's a legitimate journalist.
Speaker 3: It's like Tapper when you.
Speaker 1: Look at that interview with Harris, he asked the right questions.
Speaker 1: He asked the questions that any journalist would have asked
Speaker 1: twenty years ago. Not it wouldn't have mattered who they
Speaker 1: were affiliated with. Those are the questions that a journalist
Speaker 1: needed to ask of her because they haven't been asked.
Speaker 1: And and he played it brilliantly in that, you know,
Speaker 1: she had just come out of which I can't believe.
Speaker 1: They're they're trying as an angle this Trump being unfit
Speaker 1: and unhinged and and everything thing.
Speaker 4: Did you forget your guy in the White House? Now?
Speaker 1: But she just comes out of that and then he
Speaker 1: asks her, you know when she you know, became aware
Speaker 1: of Joe Biden's issues and and you and she can't
Speaker 1: she can't speak right, I mean all he can control
Speaker 1: is the questions I get asked. He can't control the answers.
Speaker 1: Her answer was a non answer. But but she needs
Speaker 1: to be accountable for was she part of the coup
Speaker 1: or was she outside oblivious to the fact that the
Speaker 1: coup was going on? Did she know that he lost
Speaker 1: his marbles? And if she did, why didn't she say
Speaker 1: anything about him? I mean, she's in a no win
Speaker 1: in that line of questioning, which is why she doesn't respond,
Speaker 1: because that's probably the only thing she can do is
Speaker 1: not respond. But but the American public needs to hear
Speaker 1: that question asked because they need to be asking themselves
Speaker 1: about that situation.
Speaker 2: Now she she.
Speaker 1: Comes to be the candidate without getting a single vote
Speaker 1: to be that candidate. It happens in a unprecedented removal
Speaker 1: of the guy who won the nomination, and now we're
Speaker 1: seeing that guy having what appear to be second thoughts about,
Speaker 1: you know, taking it like a man that he was.
Speaker 1: You know that they ordered the code read, as somebody
Speaker 1: recently said, ordered the code read. So she needs to
Speaker 1: provide an answer there and she didn't. And uh, Jim Gaffigan,
Speaker 1: who hosts who is no there was no conservative who
Speaker 1: hosted the Al Smith thing the other night.
Speaker 4: His opening was.
Speaker 1: Right in line with that Brett Baer question. You know,
Speaker 1: he made the joke about about George Clooney, and you
Speaker 1: know they needed, yeah, that they needed George Clooney's op
Speaker 1: ed to know that it was time to get rid
Speaker 1: of there was to be accountability for that that wasn't.
Speaker 1: This is the party that yells all the time about democracy,
Speaker 1: and there's no greater illustration than uh, they're not giving
Speaker 1: an f about quote unquote democracy, than the way in
Speaker 1: which she was put into that position. Anyway, we started
Speaker 1: with Elon as the MVP, and it really is absolutely
Speaker 1: if because if if Twitter x didn't become a platform
Speaker 1: with a staunch belief in First Amendment rights and allowing
Speaker 1: for that kind of freedom of speech, then it would
Speaker 1: have had a dramatic impact on every other platform, and
Speaker 1: they'd be playing it less straight than they are, even
Speaker 1: though none of them are playing it straight, they would
Speaker 1: just since they were the only one that you know,
Speaker 1: is a legitimate Yeah, you have the rumbles out there
Speaker 1: in the truth socials whatever, but.
Speaker 4: Ex Twitter is.
Speaker 1: The only one with a meaningful footprint that is out
Speaker 1: there providing a town square with a free exchange of ideas,
Speaker 1: regardless of where those ideas originate, and allowing the people
Speaker 1: to decide what's real and what's not not real, what's
Speaker 1: true and what isn't true. And for fro Musk, I
Speaker 1: mean look that to watch the booster, Oh yeah, the
Speaker 1: chop back and land in the holster crazy?
Speaker 2: How do you put the guy down?
Speaker 3: Let's it, he's basically taking a twenty story building and
Speaker 3: landing it perfectly. Well, not him, but the technology being
Speaker 3: caught by a couple of they called toothpicks or chopsticks.
Speaker 2: It was amazing to watch.
Speaker 3: You know, I will say this, yes, elon anybody out there,
Speaker 3: but especially him.
Speaker 2: His reach and his importance and influences so important. However,
Speaker 2: I will say this.
Speaker 3: He gets on stage and you know, he's not much
Speaker 3: for making public speeches. He's not really good at that.
Speaker 3: The guy's such a genius. He's on the spectrum somewhere,
Speaker 3: but for sure, of course. But he says, you know,
Speaker 3: like what a lot of people say, get call your
Speaker 3: friends called ten, twenty thirty of your friends, get them
Speaker 3: to vote for Trump, go together. Those are all good
Speaker 3: things to say. There's not one person doing that, so
Speaker 3: we could say that he's the MVP, and he is
Speaker 3: for very different reasons, particularly Twitter. But how many of
Speaker 3: us call our friends and go, you voted for Trump, right,
Speaker 3: let's go together, Let's all get in the car and go.
Speaker 3: It's just it's just not the way people are these days.
Speaker 3: How could you get a call friends to convince them
Speaker 3: to change their vote or all go together? Those are
Speaker 3: great thoughts, but I don't think that's what America does
Speaker 3: at all.
Speaker 1: No, I think you're right, but I think inside of families, family,
Speaker 1: there's there's some of that, especially the elderly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but no, I agree with you.
Speaker 1: But but he's been such a strong First and Second
Speaker 1: Amendment advocate, and in Twitter, you know, I forget exactly
Speaker 1: how big it is, but it's hundreds of millions of
Speaker 1: followers that he's got anything he puts out. And I mean,
Speaker 1: you see because because there's a lot of stuff he
Speaker 1: puts out that you're.
Speaker 4: Like, well that that isn't great.
Speaker 1: But it still gets two hundred million UH views and
Speaker 1: and hundreds of thousands of shares, and so.
Speaker 4: Anyway it uh.
Speaker 1: I can't help but but appreciate what the what the
Speaker 1: guy has has done, and and you know done at
Speaker 1: at some significant personal exact and significant personal risk, because
Speaker 1: you know he's got his own security detail. But I
Speaker 1: know I could easily see there being folks that want
Speaker 1: to take him out, and.
Speaker 3: I know, I know it's it's it's a it's a
Speaker 3: sobering thought. The guy really put himself out there, and
Speaker 3: it's very easy to forget just how big a person
Speaker 3: he is in the world, not only the richest man
Speaker 3: in the world, but how tech logically creative he is.
Speaker 3: I had to see him jumping up and down the
Speaker 3: stage for Trump and his shirt that was too short
Speaker 3: so it was belly kept getting shown. He has a
Speaker 3: lot to lose. He really isn't a compence. He put
Speaker 3: himself in a compromising position. But I really admire guys
Speaker 3: like that who don't care about the temperature inside the battle.
Speaker 3: They want to get there because they know what they're
Speaker 3: doing is right. I like guys like that a lot.
Speaker 1: If if your boy wins that, there's his there's his MVP.
Speaker 2: I agree.
Speaker 1: I wanted to share a personal story from from whatever
Speaker 1: from last week that just drives me crazy about Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1: So for that and now so you know, we we
Speaker 1: just moved into this new house in Florida, in a
Speaker 1: town called Jupiter, Florida. But Jerry and my wife had
Speaker 1: to go back to because we had sold our house
Speaker 1: in in New Orleans back in August and put all
Speaker 1: of our stuff in storage in Mississippi, where her family is.
Speaker 1: She had to go back to get our stuff, to
Speaker 1: pick the items from storage.
Speaker 4: That we wanted to bring choose the new house.
Speaker 1: And so she's booking a flight back to Jackson, Mississippi,
Speaker 1: and she's trying to get a rent a car and
Speaker 1: she's like, Mike, every rent of car place in Jackson
Speaker 1: has sold out.
Speaker 4: I'm like, what are you talking about. It's Jackson.
Speaker 1: There's no way the rental car places in Jackson are sold.
Speaker 1: So I go and National rent of Cars might go
Speaker 1: to because I love that. You don't have to stop
Speaker 1: at a counter. You just go out and you can
Speaker 1: choose any car in the just drive it away.
Speaker 4: It's great.
Speaker 1: Well National's gone and thrifty is gone, and Almo's gone,
Speaker 1: and Evis is gone, and I just took a personal
Speaker 1: after the OJ murdered. His wife never rent from Hurts again,
Speaker 1: and I haven't.
Speaker 4: In all that time. I never rent it from Hurts.
Speaker 1: But I decided, well, shit, she has to have a
Speaker 1: rental car. It couldn't get from Enterprise. So Hurts was
Speaker 1: the last place I checked, and I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1: I could make a reservation for a car. And so
Speaker 1: I go back to her as her hero. Look, you
Speaker 1: know it's uh, you know it's uh, it's OJ's car company.
Speaker 1: But you know, I got you Hurt confirmation. And she's
Speaker 1: so happy, you know, she's got it. And so she
Speaker 1: flies into Jackson and she goes to the the Hurts
Speaker 1: counter and they tell her they don't have a car
Speaker 1: for her. And she said, I got a confirmation here
Speaker 1: of my reservation and they're like, here's the the small
Speaker 1: print that says, this is a confirmation that if we
Speaker 1: have any cars, you get to have one based And
Speaker 1: so she's now unbelievably upset. She's got no way to
Speaker 1: get around. Then she needs to get around for all
Speaker 1: this stuff.
Speaker 4: And you can Uber and Jackson, but it's not an
Speaker 4: Uber town.
Speaker 1: I mean he needs to have a car and uh.
Speaker 1: And so she's very upset. She's at the counter and
Speaker 1: she overhears one of the agents tell one of the
Speaker 1: others that can you believe all of this because of
Speaker 1: a damn Taylor Swift concert in New Orleans.
Speaker 6: So so New Orleans was so concerned they weren't gonna
Speaker 6: have enough cars for all the people coming in to
Speaker 6: see the Taylor Swift show at the Superdome.
Speaker 1: That God, they took out all the rent of cars
Speaker 1: from the region. So from Lake Charles to Lafayette to Jackson,
Speaker 1: to Monroe to you know, all of these other they
Speaker 1: took them all. She ends up having to go to
Speaker 1: a place called Flowood, Mississippi, and gets a gets a
Speaker 1: Maroon Mitsubishi's something from an enterprise in Flowwood. It took
Speaker 1: hours and hours to get the thing. And you know,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry Taylor, but you.
Speaker 3: Know you've been you've been bothered by Taylor Swift. Then
Speaker 3: you have to deal with the traffic in Florida when Trump,
Speaker 3: the guy was on the on the golf course was
Speaker 3: maybe gonna shoot Trump up in a tree. You've been,
Speaker 3: You've been involved in some things that you really should
Speaker 3: be involved in.
Speaker 2: Just fate. It's crazy.
Speaker 3: But the car thing I've got stuck with too, where
Speaker 3: you don't have a you have a reservation, but there's
Speaker 3: no car there. Uh, that's happened to me, it drives
Speaker 3: me crazy. But then again, I've rented a car that
Speaker 3: I'll say I'll be back Thursday by by one, and
Speaker 3: then you find you need the car two or three
Speaker 3: more days. And I know there was somebody who had
Speaker 3: a reservation for my car the day I was supposed
Speaker 3: to return it, but since I didn't return it, that
Speaker 3: person should a lot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but they I mean not really.
Speaker 3: So you're telling me that that the end that that
Speaker 3: all those all those rental car companies were taken up
Speaker 3: because people.
Speaker 2: In New Orleans made plans to get those cars. People
Speaker 2: in Mississippi made plans to drive to New Orleans.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, this is this is the same companies
Speaker 1: that are operating primarily out of the UH Louis Armstrong
Speaker 1: Airport there in New Orleans, which is nice. It's a
Speaker 1: new airport, it's a very nice airport. That they needed
Speaker 1: to increase their fleets because of demand. So it was
Speaker 1: a it was a it was a supplied demand moved
Speaker 1: by the rene car companies, the reaction to the influx
Speaker 1: of tourists because of Taylor Freaking Swift coming to New
Speaker 1: orow So all these other cities and the people going
Speaker 1: there have to be inconvenienced because New Orleans has Taylor Swift.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure the hotels, I'm sure the Marriott's and
Speaker 3: all those places were probably booked up as well.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Oh no, I shan't.
Speaker 3: She's a force's a She's a worldwide force.
Speaker 2: She's not a person anymore. She's a force of nature.
Speaker 4: I don't get it.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't get it, do not.
Speaker 4: I get none of it. I don't look, I get
Speaker 4: none of it.
Speaker 1: Like I don't even get give her another five billion
Speaker 1: on top of what she has, And if I'm Travis Kelsey,
Speaker 1: I don't even there's not even a first date.
Speaker 4: I don't. I don't get it. I get nothing attractive.
Speaker 3: I get what you're saying. I don't find her beautiful.
Speaker 3: I certainly think she's an attractive girl. I don't particularly
Speaker 3: care for her stage show. I don't like that she
Speaker 3: wears an ice get paid outfit most of the time.
Speaker 3: But I mean, look, she does. She is a magnificent writer.
Speaker 3: And I'll give a credit for performing as long as
Speaker 3: she does and being so generous to people that she
Speaker 3: performs in the community.
Speaker 2: She gives money to homeless shell all that stuff is great.
Speaker 3: I don't like the that every day I gotta open
Speaker 3: the paper, we'll open the internet to look at the papers,
Speaker 3: and always see stories about her and Travis that really
Speaker 3: have they have no significance. Okay, they watched the Yankee game,
Speaker 3: there was a public display of affection. That becomes a
Speaker 3: three hundred word story. I don't understand it. The story
Speaker 3: is if they don't kiss, they're together for two and
Speaker 3: a half hours, don't show me that. It just and
Speaker 3: the guy is of course being run through the celebrity mill.
Speaker 3: Now he's got a you know, a quiz show he's
Speaker 3: gonna do are you Smarter than the fifth grader? He's
Speaker 3: got commercials, he's in grotesque ye the show and FX.
Speaker 3: He's being pulled in so many different directions, and yet
Speaker 3: he's still having a good season and the chief show
Speaker 3: on the feet.
Speaker 1: And he's not doing You're smarter than a sixth grader?
Speaker 2: You know, he didn't get.
Speaker 4: That gig, he didn't get that game.
Speaker 2: That's a little too hot yet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I'm sorry, Travis, you're you're a great player.
Speaker 1: I just and you know, I'm sure it's legit, it's
Speaker 1: gone on.
Speaker 3: Legit, but you got to marry it. I mean, what
Speaker 3: are you waiting for? Just I don't. I think after Tarzova,
Speaker 3: she'll be knocked up within six seven months of the
Speaker 3: tour being over, and they'll have that kid and get married.
Speaker 3: This is not gonna be a five year relationship. She's
Speaker 3: gonna lock this one up and he's gonna lock her up.
Speaker 2: And they'll go. They'll go, They'll go twelve years before
Speaker 2: it ends.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 2: Really yeah, they'll go. Good. They're young, they're young enough,
Speaker 2: but they can still make.
Speaker 1: It Shorten this thing. I'm short, Yeah, I'm short in it.
Speaker 1: I still he what's it?
Speaker 4: You know? I don't know the answer to this.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's some people would say, well, there's a
Speaker 1: meaningful difference, but I don't know what the difference between
Speaker 1: having seventy five one hundred million dollars and having a
Speaker 1: billion dollars dollars. You can go anywhere you want to go,
Speaker 1: you can do anything you want to be, you can
Speaker 1: be with anybody you want to be with. You're accountable
Speaker 1: to no one. I mean, yeah, so he is a
Speaker 1: billion more?
Speaker 4: Sure that? Does he need that?
Speaker 3: No, he doesn't need it. He doesn't need it. No,
Speaker 3: of course, it's not the money thing. But I only
Speaker 3: say they going to split up eventually because it's showbiz,
Speaker 3: that's the world of professional sports. Typically those marriages don't
Speaker 3: last because those people have so many options, et cetera.
Speaker 3: Their lives are so filled with wonderful things that can
Speaker 3: blind you. Otherwise, if they were two normal people but
Speaker 3: their backgrounds, I could see them being together forever, but
Speaker 3: only because they're in the fields they're in. I think
Speaker 3: it'll typically end at some point on not as early
Speaker 3: as you think. I think they'll go one or two kids,
Speaker 3: and then that'll end in about ten ten years or so.
Speaker 1: I'm going no marriage, no kids.
Speaker 3: Wow, Wow, no faith at all, I say, she's I
Speaker 3: say not only she have a baby before the tour,
Speaker 3: after the tours of her but she might be knocked
Speaker 3: up at the end of the tour.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: Well, I guess we'll know by the bump in the
Speaker 1: ice capades out.
Speaker 2: We'll see the ice cabade off again. A little too
Speaker 2: tight on her?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well sir, all right, dude, you warm me out
Speaker 1: between relationships as a bitch and everything is a bitch.
Speaker 2: I feel like I got famous a little last story.
Speaker 4: I acted like a complete bitch.
Speaker 3: So alright, buddy, all right, I gotta do my famous
Speaker 3: a bitch now and uh then you'll be good for
Speaker 3: the day.
Speaker 4: You do it.
Speaker 2: A lot of talk.
Speaker 4: It was fun. Thanks folks. We'll be back at you
Speaker 4: next week. See you a j
Speaker 2: Alright, buddy, talk to you later.