040524 200 What's on Mike's Mind

Julie is out so TC is in! Is Sunday the best day to hold church? Rhynes used to smoke but quit because he saw himself in the mirror! The eclipse is Monday…and there might be a mystery guest joining it!!

Episode Transcript

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Let's begin the show by starting it. Look at us, Hey, look
at us, Look at us?Who would have thought not me? Two

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oh three is the time four minutespast two pm Central daylight time. According
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to one in all, no matterwhere you may be, no matter how
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of April. It's Beverly Duval's birthday, and we are here to edify you
in that way that we do forthe next four hours until the witching hour
of six o'clock tonight. So howdo you like that? I would be
Mike Reiner, joined by Jeff Cavanaugh, joined by t See Fleming. Once

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again, it's been with us allweek and done admirable work. It's been
such a fun week. We've enjoyedyou. This is the longest run I've
gotten with you, guys, andit's been it's been a dream, it's
been a treat. Well, it'sbeen delightful for I can't speak for the
other two, but I'll certainly speakfor myself. It's been delightful for me.

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I though Grooves has had a sourexpression the whole week, so I
really appreciate him suffering through it.But I'm just generally in a bad mood
all the time. That's you.That's how I go. Yeah, maladjusted.
I think it's been fine. It'sbeen fine. Yeah, it's been
fine. We'll take fine. Yeah, Yeah, it's been fine. Fine's
good name for Yeah. I'll takefine any way I can get it.

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It's better than bad or futrid byeons, Yeah, by long shot.
Yeah, yeah, for sure.I capped this momentous week by going to
Chris and John's for lunch. Tothat you guys have ever been to Chris
and Johns? I don't believe Ihave. I don't believe familiar with the
words. Is it known as asthat? Yeah? Chris without an Hcris

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and John are these guys? Iassume they're guys. Believe all the people
working that I saw were ladies,So I guess Chris and John were off
the premises somewhere. I believe theywere back in the kitchen. I would
have thought it Chris and John justChris might be a lady could be.
But just off the words, Iassumed you went and got like a sandwich.

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But now that I've looked up Chrisand John, I don't think you
got a sandwich considerably more exotic thanthat. Yeah, Vietnamese street food,
but with John at the helm,it's a fusion stuff. So I had
some chicken curry enchiladas and a littlesided dumplings just to make sure that we

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got full. How many dumplings thereare? Five? How many dumplings would
you get of? Chris and Johnalso five? Five dumpling. It's so
good. It's amazing. The factthat we have five out of how many
out of five? Okay? Yeah? The fact that the station is located
in next to one of the mostinteresting, exotic and delicious restaurants in all

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of Dallas is a special treat thatI hope that you guys treat yourselves too
soon in the future. Do youlike Vietnamese Mexican fusion? Mike? I
like Vietnamese, I like Mexican.I'm not sure how I would do with
them together. I bet you likeit. I bet there's something on there

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for you. Just put your pictureyour Vietnamese order inside a tortilla. Yeah.
Basically, they'll do a fu,burritos, things of that nature.
He'll do a carnea soda, butthey'll put it in a bow bun.
He's trying to process right now,I am because this sounds like a bunch

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of stuff that doesn't really go together. Well, here's the good news.
If you look at the pictures,you'll be You'll see how it goes,
and you'll like it. Any proteinon that menu could be substituted for tofu
if you wanted to. It's veganfriendly. Yeah, I think I would
pass on that opportunity. Okay,but I do appreciate them extending the offer

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and you know, trying to includeeverybody. We need a little bit more
inclusion in this world. What isit not for vegans? Keep them out
to look something up? What isthe Seventh Day Adventist Church? That is
the I believe what they do isthey do Sunday on Saturday. That's correct.

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Okay, Okay, this place isclosed on Saturday? Is it because
they're SDA? Indeed? It is? Wow? Yes, interesting, that's
a twist. It is a twist. Why did they pick a different day.
What day would you guys pick forchurch? I like it right where
it is. You like it ifI have to do it at all?
Sunday is comfortable. I like itright where it is. Yeah, all

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right, yeah, you know whatchange would you make? And then the
order of stuff. It's tough becauseyou know, we're really dialed into this
five day work week, nine tofive or eight to five for a lot
of people, so it's hard tofind a different place for it. I
certainly wouldn't want to jam up Saturdaywith church. Oh so, I guess

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it's on the right day. ButI mean Sunday already comes with enough angst.
What if we all got Monday offto go to church, then I
think Monday would be good. Andthat would also make Sunday better because it'd
be like a second Saturday. RightBecause right now, if you're power ranking
days of the week, I thinkit goes Saturday, Friday, maybe Thursday,

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Sunday. Yeah. I sometimes thinkabout putting Friday first. I love
this anticipatory feeling we have right now, which says a lot about us that
you like the anticipation of Saturday morethan it actually being here. Yes,
where's Monday? And all this.Monday's real far down, it's the last
problem. Monday night football doesn't raiseit any for you. But no,

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no season changes things a little bit. No, No, it definitely makes
Tuesday the worst, Wednesday the secondworst. And then I don't like Tuesday.
I don't like business Tuesday. No, Tuesday's not a good day.
Tuesday's not a good day. Thefact the Cardinals and Jets are going to
fling poo at each other Monday nightdoesn't change the rankings for me at all.
Yeah, maybe it shouldn't because Mondayis so bad though. It's never

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a quality game anymore, hasn't beensince I was in college. That's true.
I was just thinking from the perspectiveof Monday is so bad that I
put Thursday ahead of Sunday, likeSunday is a day off, but it
comes with the anticipation of Monday,Yeah, which is so bad that I

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would take working on a Thursday withthe anticipation of Friday, anticipating Saturday,
Yeah, over Sunday because of Monday. That's how bad Monday is. Monday
sucks. Monday is terrible. It'swe're gonna be sixty minutes brand by itself.
I don't know what that means.Everyone. Whenever you think about sixty

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minutes, you think about that clockticking Sunday night, knowing that this is
gonna be the last program ever anyone'sgonna watch before you gotta go to flipping
school. Yeah, I you know, no matter the quality of journalism they're
doing, there f them. Yeahfor reminding me that I got to go
back to school. There's stuff peoplewatch that aren't sports that they watch in
real time. Yeah. I mean, you can catch up on it later

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if you want to, but itwas the big thing is if you're watching
a CBS game, they're gonna beteasing the oh yeah whole time. Yeah.
I always watch sixty minutes. Imean, despite its terrible association with
Monday. Yeah, they do occasionallypeek their head out of water. They're
doing great work, is what I'msaying. But yeah, they are doing

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great work. I do fear thesound of that ticking clock. That annoys
me as much as it does anybody. But you ever seen The Insider?
You like that movie? God,I don't know if I've seen that or
not. I was getting the Airand Pacino mixed up. Obviously, Pacino
plays a sixty minutes producer. They'recracking open what's going on in the tobacco

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industry. But it's just cool seeingsixty like it's based on a real story
time ago. I don't remember onething about it didn't do great in the
box. Well, I don't know. It's sixty million good back in nineteen
ninety nine probably, and it wasmore of an awards bait kind of thing.
Okay, it's a Russell Crowe.I think Michael Mann is the director,
right if you. I think Idid see that, and I don't

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remember one thing about it. Isupport them going out. Maybe take a
look at it this weekend. Ithink that they should take down big tobacco.
Yeah, you're trying to take downbig tobacco right now. I'm just
warning you. Big tobacco has takenyou down today many times. Fair warning
to everyone out there. Jeff's alittle prickly. Don't fire in a negative
text because I will fire back.I'm gonna be a prickly bitch today.

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Day two is a tough day.Day one was okay, Day two has
been torture. You got your nicotinepatch on. I do maybe slap another
one, take the edge off.I only had a leftover patch. So
today I'm wearing a step two patchwhich is not strong enough. And I
went and bought the step once alongwith the D Clareton D and so I

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have the Step one patches in thecar. But I was like, well,
already have the step two on.We'll just get through the day.
We'll go step one back again.Tomorrow, you're gonna go back to the
car. I might need to manin your car. In your car,
this is getting off tobacco hurt yourallergies or that's an unrelated purchase. Uh,
not totally related. But I dofind myself getting under the weather when
I attempted to kick the habit.Yeah yeah, because your body is like

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what are you doing? And it'slike, well, why don't you not
be a bitch to me when I'malready ready to be a bitch to others,
Like body, chill out on.Don't you reward me for trying to
do something good instead of being likewe will attack. Yeah, it's messed
up, man, it is messedup. You were kicked a habit,
Mike crack harrow Um. You probablyused to huff darts right, Yeah?

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Yeah, I used to fire upheaters every now and then. But I
kicked it really easily. Okay,pretty easy for you, Huh Yeah.
I just couldn't pull the vibe offwith it. In fact, that's what
made me kick it. I wasplaying in a place and I was sitting
there at one of the tables enjoyinga nice heater before we started. Hell,
yeah, what was your brand?I've isolated. Sometimes I'd roll with

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Marlborough's. Sometimes I'd roll with Salem'sor Cools or the Menthol thing. Yeah.
Did you think Marlborough's were cool?Or did you think the Marlborough man
was cool? No? I don'tknow. He never really moved the knee
for me much. Either way.I knew he was a figment of the
mind of some Madison Avenue genius.What about Joe Cammell? If he told

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you to do something wrong, wouldyou do it? No? I wouldn't.
I'd do a felony if Joe Campbelltold me to. I wouldn't want
to look uncool in front of JoeCammell. Did you guys remember the camel
crushes? I don't know if theystill exist. There's a regular cigarette,
but if you bit down on thatfilter turned into Amenthol. Oh really?
Oh yeah, it was just inthere waiting to be accessed. That's a

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fun feature. You just crack it. I've never smoked a cigarette in my
life. Oh good for you.I'm sorry. I'm not trying to brag.
I'm just trying to establish I can'ttell you too much about the various
varieties of camel. Yeah, I'dbe fake if I attempted to. Yeah,
I didn't like camels too much.Did you ever dabble with a Marlborough

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Mild Yeah? Yeah, I've hada few Marlborough Milds. That was our
cigaret out of choice towards the endof high school and into college was the
marl Boroughmenthol. The mild blue.Just went straight up with the Reds.
God, dog, wow, I'veheard those are difficult. I doesn't knock
you down. Ye they will cowboykillers to some, Yeah they will.

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But you got to get used tothem. I gotta show you can hang
in there with them. You wereable to walk away from Marlboro Reds.
Just straight up, straight up.You are a monster, Mike, You
are a monster. He's an inspiration. You what a stud? Patch off?
Need this? You know what mademe do it? You got somebody
pregnant. No. I was sittingin a place where I was playing one

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night. Shooty's nodding, he's heardthis story. You probably have to.
And it was a long way fromhome, was like Columbus, Ohio or
something like that. You're traveling,and there was the place was outlining mirrors
and I was sitting there smoking acigarette. Looked up and I thought,

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look at that guy smoking that cigaretteover there. What an IDIOTY looks like?
Oh? Yeah. Then I realizedit was me. It was you.
Yea. So I put it outand I've not had one since.
That's great, amazing, just didthe rock and roll walk off? Thank

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you? Able to smoke inside.Yeah, that's the main thing I take
away from that. Hey, wegot a couple of spots. There's a
couple of spots. We did aremote from one a couple of weeks ago
a group of friends that I,uh, but it actually smelled fine.
Yeah, I didn't notice anything.It was not Yeah, it was not
big time, but it was.Air filtration has made a lot of leaps

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and bounds if you're it really has. Well. There's a place down the
road from my house. I believeit's technically in Garland. As you're departing
from Lake Highlands, I think Imay technically get to Garland and there's a
wee smoke in here place ventilation notupdated, not updated. Just walk in
and go BUYO. That's awful.Yeah, it's tough. I remember when

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I used to smoke cigarettes as akid and thinking you could hide that from
your parents, my yead, Ijust wash my hands enough or whatever.
And now it's like I can detelif you had a cigarette a week and
a half ago, I can smellit. We're stupid thinking you could hide
that. You ain't hiding that.I have a group of friends where we'll
often workshop what, in our opinion, it would take for Joe Biden to

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get re elected. What kind ofmessages would appeal to the electorate. Okay,
and we're pretty convinced. And Ithink once I say this, you'll
be on board too. He walksthe victory easily if he brings back smoking
cigarettes on planes. I don't think. No, people don't smoke anymore easy
being able to light up in thesky. I haven't walked to victory easily

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with that. What of Americans doesthat appeal to take a guess what percentage
of Americans smokes cigarettes? I willsay five percent or less. All the
swing voters, what percentage of Americanssmoke? I bet it's greater than five
percent. It's not even about smokingitself, it's just you know, the
image you can just see an Americaneagle flying proudly, boldly alongside a plane

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full of people smoking cigarettes. Twentytwenty one is the last number I've got,
And they had it at eleven anda half at that point, and
that's above five. That is abovefive. If you can convince eleven and
a half or so, yeah,if they're not all eleven and a half,
is that's more than enough. Mostelections, last you know, in
my lifetime, have been decided bywhat four percentage points? Maybe eleven and

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a half. You're just you don'teven have to try. Yeah, it's
fair. It might be a goodgood try. What will I have to

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say? What's up? Mid day? Mike's mind is fueled by Celsius Essential
Energy drinks. Thank you? Okay, Well, we are looking toward the

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big day on Monday, the dayof the solar eclipse, getting closer to
it with every passing minute. Weather, it's going to be perfect, isn't
it. I don't know how theweather's going to be, but there could
be a mystery guest showing up thatday as well, showing up to what,
to the sun, up in thesky, to the moon. Yes,

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we could see the first appearance inseventy one years of the Devil Comet.
I don't want to do that.I don't want to see that.
I want to see my comment.This is known as Comet twelve p slash
Ponds Broke, also called the DevilComet. Oh yeah, because of its
horn like silhouette, and it couldbe making its first appearance in seventy one

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years. Okay. In fact,this story says this will happen. The
comet is visible in the sky aboutan hour after sunset. But to see
it you got to have binoculars ora small telescope. I could get my
hands on one of those, ifyou're interested. You got a telescope,

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guy, No, but I couldfind one. I could go and search.
Mike, you seem like a guywho might invest in a nice telescope.
How about you like that? It'dprobably be one of those things that
I would invest in and then almostnever use for anything. I have a
a friend. I'm trying to notget into stuff like that anymore. Yeah,

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I minimize those, if that makessense. But what if you didn't,
What if you use it every night, Well that it'll be a worthwhile
investment. You could get you imaginewhat be using it, or you can
get one of those space apps onyour phone where you can go in your
backyard and you can turn and itcan tell you where stuff is and you
can dial in. You can checkout O'Ryan's belt. My dad loves that

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app. Yeah, he is justabout every night. He's got a nice
telescope the phone app or yeah,yeah, I was just yeah, he's
like what he's looking at up there? It's really cool. Your phone?
What's the what's the name of theapp? I don't hold. They don't
know. Well. The devil Commetis going to about twenty five degrees from

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the Sun, and NASA calls thisa very unusual coincidence. The devil Comet
is prone to outbursts, which makesit kind of difficult to say for sure
just how bright it's going to beon Monday. There have been several outbursts
in recent months, including one inJuly that briefly rendered it about one hundred

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times brighter. But apparently when theyget real bright like that, they can't
keep that going forever. The explosionsculpt of the comet's coma, it's fuzzy
outer layer into a striking spiral shape. This sounds fantastic. Oh yes,
I love a good coma. Theysay, if your horizon is clear,

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maybe near a lake, when there'san unobstructed western horizon, you'll be able
to spot it. That's what aphysicist at the University of Texas at Arlington,
who I probably had for some lowlevel science course that I was just
trying to get through for the credit, you know, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.I love hearing from UTA on these things.

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I feel like they've got a goodhandle. This follows a trajectory that
begins within proximity the Sun every twentyto two hundred years. That's a rather
it's a big gap that you're ratheritselves high range there. They characterize these
comments as cosmic snowballs, which soundslike something I might have purchased downtown in

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the sixties one night and it's likeice cream truck. Thank you, thank
you, You are too funny.Do another one? Come on? Give
us another one. It's gonna getclosest to the Sun on April twenty first,

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so it's gonna be up there hangingaround for a while. So yeah,
check it out if you can,because it won't happen again in Dallas
until the year twenty three seventeen.What wow, that's that. That can't
be true. You just said twentyto two hundred. That's almost three hundred.
Well, there are variations. Wegotta get our numbers together. We're

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gonna work on this crap. Well, what happens. It just flies at
the sun and then eventually the Sun'sgreat, but I'm fire and yeah,
melts it, I guess. Butthen it comes back later even though it
got melted. Yeah, I guess. It just goes up there and does
this thing for a while, andmaybe space wies too close to the Sun
and gets melted, and I don'tunderstand. It kind of disintegrates and the

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comet does its thing and we tryto see it, but we won't be
able to because it's gonna be cloudythat day and we all just poke it
with a stick. I don't thinkwe can poke it with a stick.
Well, we're off and running.Welcome to the Speakeasy on ninety seven to
one the Free. Yes, we'regoing to poke you with a stick and

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go home. We might