Democrats performative outrage over Trump's ballroom

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don't be a there.

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You go, there you go. I say it every day.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
People who listen to this show consistently are like, stop
saying it already. I mean, come on with the friggin.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Why do you do things like that. You're like a
crazy person.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
They go Kevin Memi on me, They put on their
big pants, they start yelling and screaming. But as we
get underway in this hour, all the element screaming is
being done in regards to the White House renovation.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Project, which is it's so phenomenal.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
I mean a lot of us have the same takes
on this, which is, you know, the Democrats gave this
lecture about you know, we're preserving the history of the
White House. I played you the freakin Joe Scarborough one
It's so funny because when it comes to, you know,
preserving history. Do you know what the Democrats spent the
last ten years doing in this country tearing down statues. Oh,

(02:18):
we've got to preserve the history. Yeah, they're so concerned
with preserving the history that Teddy Roosevelt, one of our
greatest Americans who ever lived, had his statue taken down
at the Museum of Natural History that he found it.
I mean, come on, Democrats.

Speaker 5 (02:36):
Thank you for the education, gentlemen.

Speaker 6 (02:38):
We've just received a PhD in stupidity.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
He founded the museum.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Okay, he is the face of the museum, but they
took down the statue. Imagine you go to Graceland and
they're like, no more Elvis. Now we don't talk about that.
Here just happens to be a really tacky house, a
lot of rhinestones, a lot of peanut butter and banana sandwiches.
Who lived here? Shut your mouth talk about who lived here?
What's wrong with you? And that was always the inherent

(03:04):
flaw of Cancel culture, as you were trying to just
erase portions of our history. Yes, we know that Americans
in twenty twenty five don't have the same values as
Americans in nineteen twenty five or eighteen twenty five. We
have evolved as a people, But do you know why
we evolved as a people because of people like them?

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Bingo Man Bingo.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
Meaning Teddy Roosevelt isn't perfect. He was just the best
guy at the time. That's how the ball moved forward.
Past presidents don't necessarily share today's social values. But the
reason our country evolved in that era was because of
these great men. Okay, And that's the fool's errand of
tearing down statues. You're supposed to just leave the statue
up and maybe at a second plaque that goes although

(03:49):
he did all these things and was considered great at
the time, some of these views of aged poorly by
modern standards. That being said, history shows him as the
one who won this war, or won this election, or
invented this thing. That's the point of the statues. They're
there to commemorate a moment in time. They're not there
to line up with every single thing we've evolved to today.

(04:11):
But when it comes to preservation, I think Josh Holly
had a great clip, and I'll give you more of Yeah,
let's hear Holly first.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Then I'll give you the Democrats Clip twelve. Well, just
uprooting the this is an iconic building.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
I will just say this. I made this point yesterday
that I hear all of a sudden from my liberal
friends that they're very concerned about our history.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Really, these are the same people.

Speaker 4 (04:32):
Who tore down every statue they could get their hands
on to the last four years, Christopher Columbus, Thomas Jefferson,
Theodore Roosevelt. They didn't have any concern for history. Then
now all of a sudden, like the facade of the
East Wing is iconic. I don't give me a break.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
I mean give me a break, and he's telling you
the truth.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
The Democrats listen to this Democrat montage.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
This is phenomenal.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
And again, if you are teaching a college course in
performative outrage, every one of these kids, if this is
a thesis statement performative outrage, that's the college course. Every
one of these kids is getting a four point zero
GPI Clip thirteen.

Speaker 7 (05:09):
Donald Trump wants to be okay, it's the best explanation
for everything he's been doing just in recent days.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Just look at what he's doing right now to the
White House. It does to me when I look at
it quickly look like a Kim Jong un propaganda video,
right of you know, when he does the nukes on Washington.
Whatever it might be, there's something disturbing about it.

Speaker 5 (05:27):
This unprecedented moment.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
As an app metaphor, Trump's demolishing the White House as
he also demolishes our country's constitutional norms and rule of law, a.

Speaker 4 (05:37):
Perfect metaphor for how President Trump is trying.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
To just bulldoze his putle of fous.

Speaker 8 (05:41):
I'll tell you what I don't care about. I don't
care about that damn ballroom.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Life is hard, but it's harder when you're stoopid.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
Because Whoopy Goldberg also goes on to lie about that boardroom.
But back to the beginning, Trump's a king, it's Kim
Jong un stuff.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
It's a metaphor.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
It's destroying the White House like he's destroying.

Speaker 6 (05:59):
Our rule of life.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
Except there's only one small problem, you guys, Barack Obama
did it too waw an. Whereas Trump's renovation costs two
hundred million to private donors, Obama's renovation costs three hundred
and seventy six million to you, to you, the taxpayer.

(06:21):
Here is CNN in an unearthed clip from twenty twelve
covering the Obama renovation, which by the way, included the
demolition of a building at the time. Notice if and
it's gonna be subtle, but notice if you just you
catch a slight difference in the way they approached the
more expensive Obama construction versus the cheaper Trump construction.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
Here does clip eleven sounds like they're building another wing
to the White House. But we appreciate you keeping.

Speaker 9 (06:49):
You could imagine to you today it's gonna happen for
the next two years. All of the banging, the jackhammering,
the dust, the confusion, the noise of all places to
do construction is happening right here the front lawn of
the White House. It's a four year renovation project, estimated
costs three hundred and seventy six million dollars.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Did you hear that?

Speaker 10 (07:13):
It's a four year renovation project, estimated cost three one
hundred and seventy six million dollars.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
And by the way, it went over budget. We runt
muha money. Did anyone in the media, anyone crack down,
yell and scream demolition, death of America?

Speaker 2 (07:37):
All that?

Speaker 3 (07:39):
No, And that's the front right now. It's why no
one takes the media seriously. This is all pretend performedive outrage.
And here is Whoopy Goldberg, by the way, just flat
out lying about who's paying for this clip fourteen.

Speaker 8 (07:53):
This will also be decided the part that really tackles me.
It's going to be decided by some of the same
Justice Department lawyers who worked with him on these past cases.
So Americans, the question is, are you on board with
all of this?

Speaker 2 (08:10):
This is like a cash grab.

Speaker 8 (08:12):
Yeah, and your taxes are probably going to be paying
for that tech glor I mean, it's kind of cookie.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
Oh whoopee, that is a fact check false. I mean
seriously though, Okay, taxpayers aren't paying for it. You're not
on the hook for this. And by the way, guys,
I know it's hard to fathom. I know it is,
but we're going to have a Democrat be president someday
in our lifetimes.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
You must be crazy.

Speaker 6 (08:40):
What are you going to stop believing in something that
isn't true?

Speaker 3 (08:43):
No, stop, I'm telling you it seems impossible now given
the state of the current Democrat Party and they're you know,
they're activist in the media that are just laundering the
Democrat talking points as as you know, in place of
actual legitimate news program there will come a day in
your lifetime in mind when a Democrat will be president again.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
Have you ever had a check out?

Speaker 3 (09:06):
Now I'm telling you stop, it's gonna happen. And when
it does, do you know what they're gonna do? They're
all going to use the ballroom? Is the media gonna go?
How dare you?

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Hell? No?

Speaker 3 (09:20):
This is an injustice, This is an outrage. No, they're
gonna shut up and use the ballroom, okay, just like
they shut up and use the swimming lane. JFK put in.
It's like they shut up and use the bowling alley.
Richard Nixon put in, just like they shut up when
Harry Truman gutted the White House to the studs, the
whole entire thing and redid it, okay, just like they

(09:44):
shut up when Obama literally spent twice as much money
as Trump did for the same level of demolition to
build a basketball court. So you understand what you're watching
play out in real time this week, and Dana Perino
had the best summation of this on The Five yesterday.
She goes, somebody has to tell democrats you don't need

(10:05):
to swing at every pitch. Sometimes you can just let
Trump do something and have no reaction at all. Sometimes
you can let Trump do something and not pretend it's
an existential threat to our democracy in our White House
and the rule of law, and we're all going to die.
Sometimes a ballroom is just a ballroom. We're just gonna
have a party, you understand. It's like if Trump says

(10:25):
every kid gets free ice cream. Kids are excited, kids
are excited. But you know what the Democrats would say
a minute later. Well, you know Hitler liked ice cream,
and you know what happened to those kids.

Speaker 11 (10:36):
Yeah, the show that's got listeners on Lockdown, people that
are from prisons, people that are from mental institutions in Sama.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
Twenty minutes into the broadcast hour. That can only mean
one thing to the American people.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
Here it comes. It's time for producer Mikey's line, Highway.

Speaker 6 (11:01):
Your virgin who can't drive?

Speaker 1 (11:04):
Five stories from a man with two passions.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
My hobbies are fast cars and fast swim. Stop there
it is Mikey's headline, Highway.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
Let the race begin, Producer Max still under the weather,
I know is there?

Speaker 12 (11:27):
I am?

Speaker 2 (11:27):
Is there a flu?

Speaker 3 (11:28):
Going around massage pallers in mindown, Manhattan.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
I don't know what's going on.

Speaker 6 (11:32):
I didn't know he was so allergic to arsenic Rebecca.
That's how I got here.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
Trying to gain a bigger foothold on the show. We'll
Rebecca forget it is here, Hey girl, semi serious day
of headlines, Josh, Spotify, I don't know if you saw this.
Number five is running ice recruitment ads between songs.

Speaker 6 (11:50):
I didn't see this.

Speaker 3 (11:51):
And they're saying it doesn't violate company policy. So a
lot of musicians are upset, Josh. You know, because Ice
is literally deporting people in an ad after you download
Hit the Road, Jack, you know, like God.

Speaker 7 (12:04):
I mean, I understand why some people could be upset,
but you know from Spotify's perspective. You know the person
that sold that at time, Cash is cash, you know, Amen,
I'm talking.

Speaker 12 (12:13):
So I'm sorry by the premium of Spotify if you
don't want to hear those comers.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
Don't want to hear the fixed those those are back
of telling these migrants they need they need extra money
for streaming services.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
Now the Democrats are going to fund that too.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
Now I've got to pay for a migrant to hear
Motley cruising home suite home every time Homan.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
Kicks him out of the country. I'm an know on this, Mikey.

Speaker 3 (12:33):
Isn't this the same as like when they were pulling
their music over vaccine stuff?

Speaker 2 (12:36):
Do you remember when they were met at Grogan Oh?

Speaker 3 (12:38):
Yeah, and Joni Mitchell pulled their music off Spotify. Most
women listening to Joni Mitchell think Spotify is a hand cream.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
They have no they don't even know what it was, Mikey.

Speaker 6 (12:48):
They're still trying to figure out iTunes.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
Yes, So isn't this great? This is just grand standing, right, Mikey?

Speaker 4 (12:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (12:53):
But has anyone asked bad Bunny, what do he thinks
of this?

Speaker 3 (12:55):
Oh, Mikey, kick in the NFL hornets nest Mikey. We
have a enough sports leagues in trouble today without picking
a fight with the frigate NFL.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
And if you don't believe me, asked the NBA. All right,
let's move on.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
The White House responded to yesterday's closing story about Jensaki
Bosha Van's looks.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
Like a hostage. He wants to get out of her marriage.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
Here's White House Comms director Stephen Schunk okay, writing she
must be transferring her own personal issues onto others. She
is a dumb ass who has no comprehension of the
truth and has to overcompensate for her lack of talent
by saying untrue things. Stephen Chunk continued to circle back
on that moron, referring to her infamous catchphrase during the

(13:39):
Biden White House.

Speaker 6 (13:40):
Who got my mom's phone number?

Speaker 12 (13:42):
Does sound like a Facebook comments like the meanest I
it is so dirty out there now I can't even
take it.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
Duran politics had like everything began with like well do
you American people don't want this? And now they're like
this whiskey breast horse.

Speaker 12 (13:55):
Like whoa you can't for calling each other like fat bitches.

Speaker 9 (13:58):
It's crazy.

Speaker 6 (13:59):
I'm like, what dive bar am I at right now?

Speaker 4 (14:01):
Amen?

Speaker 3 (14:02):
But Josh, there is clearly a double standard when it
comes to the treatment of conservative women, is there not?

Speaker 7 (14:07):
I mean, yeah, most certainly. And you know this is
quite a clapback there by Chunk.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
Stephen Chung going hard roundhouse kick to sake not good.
Mikey Jensaki comes up to you to bar okay, and
she says, you know you know the answer.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
He's taking down the Redhead. Mikey's still got it. Everybody
does he does.

Speaker 5 (14:27):
He's still doubt it said that the Josh off the air.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
Oh you're a fan of sake, you know.

Speaker 6 (14:39):
I can go now thing I ever heard?

Speaker 3 (14:42):
Quest story number three, Snoop Dogg's sold out, caving to
the woke mob pressure. So you remember a month ago
we ran a story Josh about Snoop Dogg where he
was watching a cartoon on Netflix that had a same
sex couple, and he goes, I don't want to have
to explain that s to my grandkid. I just want
to watch it. Well, lo and behold, Josh, he is
just quoted a new song for his cartoon. Doggie Land

(15:02):
is the name of the show called Love is Love,
where he champions alternative lifestyle marriages.

Speaker 6 (15:08):
Wait, we're really offended by what Snoop Dogg is saying.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
I shouldn't it just not matter? Anyway?

Speaker 12 (15:13):
He was like the King of Marijuana when marijuana was
still a legal He was a rapper.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
He charged with murder. Yeah yeah, but.

Speaker 6 (15:20):
You know, same sex. Now we have a problem.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
So Josh tell me this.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
Do you think Snoop Dogg came around to recording this
song via some Netflix stop stock options offered to him
by Martha Stewart.

Speaker 7 (15:30):
I'm sure there's some financial applications. I mean, he just
somebody wanted to do a collaboration with him. He doesn't know,
so he's like, I'll just come in and do a verse.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
It doesn't matter what Mikey if Snoop Dogg walks up
to you, I'm kidding. Stop, we move on number. Dakota Johnson.

Speaker 12 (15:47):
Dakota Johnson, Oh God, get me out of here.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
Dakota Johnson. Her red flags with men, she was asked
in an interview show.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
Okay, she said, men who wear flip flops and block
I agree or our biggest you're not a fan of
the flip flop in the public. I mean, I'm not
wearing flip flops in public, but I get that as
a hang up.

Speaker 6 (16:06):
Do you want to look at a man's toes?

Speaker 2 (16:08):
No, I always.

Speaker 12 (16:09):
Mikey's toes hanging out when you're on the subway as Okay.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
Then it doesn't sound like it according to Rebecca Mikey.

Speaker 5 (16:16):
No, those aren't flip flops.

Speaker 6 (16:18):
Disgusting shoes.

Speaker 3 (16:20):
Yeah, the point is nobody wants to see your feet
except for the people.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
Who want really like they'll pay all kinds of gash.

Speaker 3 (16:29):
It's a very niche market, I think, is what we're
trying to say.

Speaker 6 (16:32):
Here isn't here Today.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
Max is Max got a sale at two for one
on pinky Toes that he couldn't resist.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
He got the group on and we moved on. Okay,
the number one story, we've covered it already.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
It's not often that the show top or makes Mikey's
headline Highway, but we're well within our rights to do it.
Today it's the NBA everybody can arrested, thirty one people
arrested gambling scandal.

Speaker 12 (16:54):
This feels like a you know, a movie that a
Draft Kings would make, like a Good Fellows sequel or something.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
Is funny, you know, it's funny about that, like your
heart's are the right place. But they don't actually want
this movie made. No, their culture is what led to this. Yes,
so they're just trying to act like, oh, it's not
a big deal. And you know what sucks about the
where we live in Josh which is also the best thing.
There were so many good Draft King jokes about this.

Speaker 6 (17:17):
I know.

Speaker 3 (17:17):
Brian Brenberg texted me the story at like eleven fifty
or what have ten to fifty?

Speaker 6 (17:21):
What?

Speaker 3 (17:22):
I write a draft Kings joke and the minute I
opened up my phone to see if it posted, it
was like one hundred good ones.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
I was like, I missed this one. You just got
to take the Llen movie I did. I did it
real quick.

Speaker 12 (17:30):
I was like, everyone's gonna make the show to do quick?

Speaker 7 (17:33):
Yep, as soon as you go over to ESPN. During
the coverage of this story was sponsored by ESPN.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
We're gonna show that on our show tomorrow night.

Speaker 3 (17:41):
I saw the clip of ESPN literally talking about a
gambling scandal with a gambling ad at the bottom of
the screen in.

Speaker 5 (17:49):
The world series Tomorrow Night again.

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Speaker 2 (18:02):
You go, we made it.

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Speaker 2 (18:25):
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Speaker 6 (18:31):
Man.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
I don't think we've done this in like two weeks.

Speaker 5 (18:33):
It's been way too long.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
I know.

Speaker 5 (18:35):
That's what two weeks feels about, right.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
I missed your touch the last exactly, I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
The last time we spoke, you said you were getting
ready to organize a Thursday night poker game with your
NBA friends.

Speaker 5 (18:45):
That's correct.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
Here we are two weeks thirty one arrests later, a
couple of bucks of a whole.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
You know, these things happen.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
Yeah, I figure, since gambling is legal, why not make
it illegal over at my house?

Speaker 6 (19:00):
You know.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
It's like, it's so funny.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
Though, as an Italian myself, there was a part of
me that felt a little pride when I heard there
were four crime families involved in like a two hundred
zillion dollar gallery.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
I was like, we still got it, baby, you know
it's funny.

Speaker 3 (19:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
I'm actually half Italian and I spent the day with
my son looking at old mob hangouts in Detroit. Yeah,
he's not in school and he's ten, so it's time
that he learns.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
Yeah, and then.

Speaker 5 (19:27):
That story came up.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
So I feel the same way. I have the Italian
and Irish in me. So there's two there's two people
that were never hoodlums.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
Too. Funny.

Speaker 3 (19:37):
Well, the one thing we did figure out is how
all of these Christopher Columbus statues managed to stay standing
the last five years.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
It looked for a while they're like they were all gone.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
But if the mob's still big enough to do two
hundred million dollars in fixed NBA poker games, Columbus is
gonna be a okay, Oh, he's fine.

Speaker 5 (19:56):
I'm happy they're still so active.

Speaker 8 (19:58):
You know.

Speaker 5 (19:58):
I began to worry that they weren't around much anymore.

Speaker 1 (20:01):
Yeah, and I because they really should clean up New
York uh huh.

Speaker 5 (20:04):
And we've discussed it many times.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
So I'm just excited that they're they're back in business
or still have been.

Speaker 6 (20:11):
You know.

Speaker 3 (20:12):
You know, it's funny because like it's half sounds like
a joke. But people who don't live in New York
City don't know, maybe don't know this mafia neighborhoods are
the cleanest neighborhoods in the city because they don't put
up with it.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
They don't put up with the petty street crime.

Speaker 3 (20:24):
And the vagrancy and the hookers and everything like that,
and they actually run a really clean slate. Now you
might argue again some of the things they're doing behind doors, okay,
but in public it's fine.

Speaker 6 (20:35):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
I lived in benson Hurst, Brooklyn when I first moved there,
and you could tell the people in the area were
still worried about what had happened to them before. And
it's the truth, though. I mean, look at when Gottis
and everybody had in New York. Do you think Zoran
mom Donnie would be winning an election.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
Possibly.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
I don't think he'd be running in one. I truly
don't think he'd be running in one.

Speaker 5 (21:03):
I don't think he'd be running with stable legs.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
Not good.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
There's no way that they'd be like soda nine to
eleven guys, gonna.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
That's exactly what they'd be calling him.

Speaker 3 (21:14):
In a post September eleventh world, the idea that New
York's about to elect a mayor, Like if you went
back to two thousand and one, and said they're going
to elect a pro Hamas mayor who literally literally talks
favorably about the Intafada and won't disarm Hamas and that's
who we're like, it is insane, Like to your earlier point,
he just wouldn't be running, he'd be limping. He'd be

(21:36):
limping for office, best case scenario.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
No, it's staggering even seeing like I'm in Detroit, so
we're not far from Dearborn. We're a stone's throw from
our own problem. Yea, but I mean, uh, diversity where
stones throw from diversity.

Speaker 5 (21:49):
But yeah, looking at New York, it's like, you can't.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
Be serious about this, like, oh, we're gonna have you know,
everything's free. You know, we have free groceries, we have
you know, free we have free subway rides, we have
free Palestine.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
It's all, it's all free.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
And of course we have the mayor's mansion on the
upper Middle East side.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
Yeah, it's the one where it's the one where they
just built on top of it so it looks like
a palace.

Speaker 5 (22:19):
But they still pay the same taxes.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
So I wanted to it on this gambling thing for
two more minutes.

Speaker 3 (22:25):
It's two guys who've been pretty upfront with our audience
about vices and are you know, struggles with them and
stuff like that. Okay, what the NBA is doing, what
the NHL is doing, what the NFL is doing, Major
League Baseball is doing, is they're praying on a psychology
of a lot of young people by making these like
betting offers like here's five bucks might win you ninety bucks,

(22:48):
and the five sounds very inconsequential, So it's a way
to take a kid with no money and get him
into gambling. But the point is they've created so many
cheap forms of betting and quick payday opportunities that don't
necessarily work out. But what they've created in the process
is so many avenues to corrupt sports through gambling. And
it was only a matter of time before it went

(23:09):
from the game where a pitcher on the Indians is
banned for life for fixing balls and strikes, and it's
only a matter of time before guys in that position
who don't necessarily want to fix the sport they're playing
and get banned, but venture into something sports adjacent like gambling.
And couldn't you argue that all of this incessant drum
beat of You Gotta Go Gamble probably created a world

(23:30):
where a guy like Chauncey Billups was prone to go
do it in an illegal poker game.

Speaker 5 (23:35):
Absolutely, I do.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
The problem is, look, I personally feel you should keep
gambling to Atlantic City and you should keep it to Vegas.
And that's the thing is, we've now seen an addiction
take over the country. We've seen it affect everybody.

Speaker 5 (23:51):
People think they're going to make money on parlays, hysterical.
It's just some people losing right and left. I'm not
surprised that this is.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
This seems more legit than half the casino. This is
more legit, I should say, than any Indian casino because
they don't have to be regulated.

Speaker 13 (24:07):
Oh that's fascinating stuff, Dave. It's true, not not even
being great. I'm not trying to, but you know, I've
been in India casino. I know the odds by the
amount of money that left my pockets.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
That's pretty funny.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
Well, Dave Landau taking a swing at Indian casinos. He's
gonna be on Elizabeth Warren kill list now wait to
gun his.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
Last appearance on the show. That's not good. You can't
even tell you.

Speaker 5 (24:34):
Yeah, go ahead, poison my pow wow show.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
I can't even can't even tell gambling jokes anymore of
the Senate will come after you.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
What a time to be alive. So I just want
to see you.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
I just want to see real gambling commercials. That's what
I want to see. Just a guy looking at his
bank account in his garage and he starts the car
and then you just see the door go down, just
says Draftking.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
It's a guy who's in a Yankees jersey with his
face painted with a foam number one finger. But it
transitions into him putting on a blonde wig, powdering his
Adam's Apple and doing something else with that number one
finger to get his money back. Next thing you know,
he's using the finger to flag down cars in the
red light district.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
Just putting on fake breasts that have the turtleneck attached
so it covers all of it, and just.

Speaker 5 (25:26):
Heading on down to the docks.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
That's so funny, eating.

Speaker 5 (25:31):
Dinner with his family while looking just filled with shame.

Speaker 3 (25:35):
Use code word stilettos for a profit boost on your parlay.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
Yeah, it's bad, it's bad.

Speaker 3 (25:40):
We're talking to Dave Landau and I have to tell
I have to talk to my son about this like
every day, because every sporting event you watch is like,
if you bet five dollars, you could win four hundred
and seventy eight dollars. But what are you doing. You're
betting like a twelve twelve. Things have to happen successfully
for you to make money. And you know, for every
one kid who does make money, there's ten million who don't.

(26:02):
But that one million, that one kid winning, is worth
one hundred dollar kids trying you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (26:08):
Oh yeah, I mean that's that's part.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
I mean, you had an issue with it, and you know,
you know how it is, and it's important to talk
to him about it just in case he has that gene.
But I remember I had a guy he you know,
they ran it was off of eight mile. They ran
a lot of numbers and they played a lot of stuff.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
With book in.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
My buddy would go, yeah, give me five bucks. I
won a lot a few times. Then I just stopped
because I'm like, why do you guys, Why did you
guys move from Vegas? And his dad had successfully knocked
over a casino.

Speaker 5 (26:38):
Oh god, they could never prove it, but he was.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
Blackballed from Vegas could never show his face again. God no, yeah,
nine kilopp became Disneyland. But when it was like the
star dust and everything, he was not allowed.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
That's amazing. That's all right, Listen.

Speaker 3 (26:51):
I'm just going to piggyback off that I had a
buddy in tenth grade in high school whose dad was
a bookie, and I didn't know that.

Speaker 2 (26:58):
So I had called up the kid to hang out.

Speaker 3 (27:01):
And you know this, back in the day, you called
the house, a parent might answer, whatever the case may be.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
So I goes already there and he goes, yeah, this
is already. Who's this?

Speaker 3 (27:09):
I go Jimmy. He goes, oh, Jimmy, tough one on
the next last night, what do you like tonight? And
I go, uh, oh, I think I'm looking for Artie
Junior maybe, and he goes, oh, hold on a second,
and he just starts screaming at his kid, you can't
tie up the phone right now. And I didn't know
what that meant till like two years later when I
was legitimately calling in bets and.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
I was like, oh, by the way, Artie's dad was
running numbers. That's amazing.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
Yes, two years later and you're like, I need to
speak to Artie Senior.

Speaker 5 (27:33):
I got some numbers.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
Yeah, I called Laty.

Speaker 3 (27:36):
He answered, I'm like, hey, can you put your dad
on the phone?

Speaker 2 (27:38):
Actually get out of here. Where are you telling jokes?
Right now? Where's Diamond Dave in the world?

Speaker 1 (27:45):
This weekend tonight through Saturday, I'd be at Mark Ridley's
Comedy Castle in Royal Oak, Michigan.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
Damn right, you are Royal Oak, Michigan. That's right. I
was there playing the music venue. I've never played. I know,
I've never played the Comedy Castle, though it is revered and.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
It's yeah, one of the best clubs in the country,
and yeah, the music for the Music Hall is amazing too.

Speaker 5 (28:05):
Well.

Speaker 3 (28:06):
Let me just jump in though, because the reason that
the Comedy Castle's on my mind is last Saturday I
was in. It was like five six in the afternoon.
Lincoln had just gone out for it, but that he
went for the night and I was watching Kevin Meanie
sets on YouTube and he was at the Comedy Castle.
So it's so it's so funny. I don't know that
you're going to do what we are the world closer.

Speaker 5 (28:28):
Probably not.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
Yeah, I'm probably not going to be talking about my
beard the whole time.

Speaker 3 (28:34):
I don't care. I don't care Meanie killed me. I
love meeting, so I would tell you a great Meanie
story since I got you here. Yeah me. I was
opening for Meanie in Roswell, Georgia. The club was called
the Funny Farm, and I remember that was brief. Yes, Marshall,
the kid who I think his family owned it, and
he would see it and he would open the show,

(28:55):
you know, in an effort to make things calm and
smooth for the other comedians. He would open getting a
drunk girl to give him a lap dance on stage.
Rich would often just ruin any pretext of an organized
comedic performance and it was just a disaster.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
But anyway he was.

Speaker 3 (29:12):
I was down there with Mini to open for him,
and after a show we went out and had a
particularly debauched night that ended with him deciding he was
going to do a stand.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
Up set at a waffle house at three thirty in
the morning.

Speaker 3 (29:27):
And I don't know what Mini rolled on. I don't
know what the vice was, but there's something that must
make you want to do comedy at three thirty in
the morning for unwilling patrons who were just eating waffles.
You know, letting off some steam after a night of
turning tricks or whatever.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
The hell you do? You know already fighting.

Speaker 3 (29:45):
Yeah, they're already fighting. The words haven't even taken place yet.
But the point is he was so out of it.
He did forty five minutes of what you'd expect him
to do on stage, and it had dawned on me,
as a guy that was very new to comedy that
the only mechanism I had to potentially get him off stage.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
Was to light him.

Speaker 3 (30:07):
So I held up a cell phone and lit him,
and he literally gave me the nod, did a few
minutes of a closer and left. It was insane, and
just went home and I, you know, never hung out
with him again.

Speaker 2 (30:18):
I know.

Speaker 3 (30:19):
The next time I saw I saw him again, I
was like twelve years later. He had come out and
it was a hole to do. But apparently I watched
him wrestle with coming out at waffle House that night.

Speaker 5 (30:27):
Yeah, yeah, I think that's something.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
Happened in the bathroom he had to forget about, Like
I I when he came out. It was so funny
because I'm like, he's doing it on the tonight show.

Speaker 5 (30:37):
I wonder how he's going to handle it, and he
just comes out. He goes, I had to tell my wife, hey, honey,
I'm home.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
Oh that was He had a great fit.

Speaker 3 (30:47):
He goes, I told my wife I'm gay. She goes,
you are, and I go.

Speaker 2 (30:51):
Who do you think decorated this place? Funny the lake?

Speaker 5 (30:57):
Really, dude, he really was one of the.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
I loved him.

Speaker 3 (31:01):
He was the best club act that I ever watched
on the way up in terms of like a guy
wrecking the room.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
It was a lot of musical theater.

Speaker 3 (31:08):
It was a lot of absurdities, you know, oh yeah,
jokes about his daughter Jean Benet.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
Out to lunch. A bit of a dark act, but
in all the best ways. It was great.

Speaker 3 (31:20):
But if they're going to the Comedy Castle, they're seeing
Diamond Dave Landaut, that's amazing.

Speaker 5 (31:24):
That's right all weekend.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
And yeah, Mark has always had good taste in comics,
especially club comics like that. He had all every one
of those guys, John Pinnett. His whole wall is just
lined with every famous person. He showed me a check
he wrote Seinfeld in nineteen seventy nine.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
That's a real thing.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
Yeah, that's crazy, but really, Yeah, and to be honest,
it's not off from what you make when you start headlining.

Speaker 2 (31:48):
Now.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
Yeah, like talk about an industry where the money doesn't
go up. Now, I realized that's it.

Speaker 5 (31:54):
When you hit a point. Yeah, but for a long
time you're going wow.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
So I made in twenty fifteen, Seinfeld made in nineteen
seventy nine.

Speaker 3 (32:04):
True, Like when you pass it the comic strip, you're
getting paid for that set exactly what they were getting
paid when they built the place.

Speaker 5 (32:12):
Right except your cab rider, you lose thirty dollars.

Speaker 3 (32:16):
Except yeah, except Eddie Murphy was nineteen and it was
four dollars to get downtown. You're thirty five and it's
seventy eight bucks.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
And someone listening to the crowd to discover Eddie Murphy.

Speaker 2 (32:31):
The only people in your crowd were other comics waiting
to get on.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
Exactly, or eight Hondurans who didn't understand the language.

Speaker 5 (32:39):
That's all you got.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
That's funny.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
When they were buying the tickets in Times Square, they
thought they were visas.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
They came.

Speaker 3 (32:46):
They come up there looking for citizenship. Diamond Dave, you
still got the fastball man. Good luck in Michigan this weekend.
Thank you, my friend, Thank you for having us. Any's time,
I miss your ready boo. Yes, sir, there he goes
the great time in dave Land. Out there we go
back bang there it is Fox Across America with Jimmy
Fail a quick hit with the Lovely Ladies, a Fox

(33:08):
New Saturday Night Leo, Annie Jen back in the studio.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
The crowd goes wild.

Speaker 6 (33:13):
We don't.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
We didn't mike the crowd today, so you don't hear it.
But they're there.

Speaker 5 (33:16):
Why.

Speaker 2 (33:16):
I mean, it's a bad situation out there.

Speaker 3 (33:19):
Okay, So normally we might even do a longer segment
about what's coming up on Fox New Saturday Night this weekend.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
But as it turns out, we don't know.

Speaker 6 (33:27):
We're not sure.

Speaker 12 (33:28):
If you listen to this segment every week, you're starting
to get a theme.

Speaker 3 (33:31):
We produced the ship, yeah, and now why would we
know on a Thursday?

Speaker 2 (33:34):
We we we we thought we did.

Speaker 5 (33:35):
Though.

Speaker 3 (33:36):
When we left yesterday we're like, wow, we've got these
people and we've got these stories and we'll probably just
push it in that direction. And then we woke up
and the NBA was at handcuffs. It's like a lot
of weird stuff going on.

Speaker 6 (33:46):
We had an amazing show yesterday.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
Yeah, yesterday's show was the one you guys should have
saw that was coming together night. Sandra Smith was hanging
it was looking good.

Speaker 6 (33:54):
Personally on the chaos.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (33:56):
Yeah, and I meet too. I like the madness, right an.
Do you like this spontaneous spontaneity of crisis.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
Do you like that?

Speaker 3 (34:03):
I mean, that's how I live every single day in
the city, so might as well throw that into work
as well. That is funny that you say that, because
you know, in screenwriting they say the number one rule
of screenwriting is that every scene needs a conflict. Like
if it's a scene where I'm telling you the Da
Vinci Code, I also need to be like getting something
off a shelf or jumping over it.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
When you live in New York, it's good screenwriting because
every scene has a conflict, right absolutely, get on a
subway there's a guy swinging a screwdriver and just yelling
at the thin air and then nothing nothing, So there's that.
So this is not a woe is Us moment. This
is a we're figuring it out, We're excited about it,
but you.

Speaker 6 (34:37):
Should definitely come be in our audience.

Speaker 4 (34:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (34:40):
So that was the point of the girls stop it
by so as we head into the winter late fall.
If you want free tickets to Fox New Saturday night
they go do you can go to Fox Coross America,
Foxcross America dot com. We actually have a big landing
spot there too, because that's where all my stand up
tickets are.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
And you could actually be in the studio audience.

Speaker 4 (34:55):
You might.

Speaker 6 (34:56):
You don't even have to watch the show. You could
just come hang out with me and Annie. Yeah, that's
what nine of the people are there.

Speaker 3 (35:02):
Yeah, they hang out with them, They go to them,
sometimes they go to the bar afterwards.

Speaker 6 (35:05):
Absolutely, they're like, oh, can use jimmy guy, Like, stop talking.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
So much, have a conversation over here.

Speaker 3 (35:09):
Our show is not normal in the sense that, like
we actually do talk to the audience all night. Sometimes
we see them in the bar afterwards. You know, if
you go to most TV tapings, they're just you know,
the audience is there to clap like seals and they
have a job to do. Okay. Our show is the
opposite of.

Speaker 6 (35:24):
Ta Yeah, we're like, what do you think we should
talk about it?

Speaker 2 (35:27):
Anybody got some ideas? You wind up lending us money?
Get home?

Speaker 3 (35:31):
It gets real our show is real life, Jen, would
you not say.

Speaker 6 (35:35):
It's the realistic?

Speaker 7 (35:36):
Can never be?

Speaker 2 (35:37):
You should just come see it, huh and email.

Speaker 5 (35:41):
Us some ideas.

Speaker 12 (35:42):
Okay, the best holiday gifts you can get for your
family or is free tickets to our show.

Speaker 6 (35:46):
Come into the city.

Speaker 3 (35:48):
Nothing, They come watch the show and we're talking about
real life. We have male guests who have an order
of protection against Jen's mom.

Speaker 2 (35:55):
Like that doesn't ear more real than that?

Speaker 3 (35:57):
It's also true and he goes home, her mom stays
in the how to.

Speaker 6 (36:00):
Give that keeps on good? And what's not?

Speaker 2 (36:02):
Act like my mom's throwing a perfect aviator. But what
do you know? When we'reund the time? Whoa This has
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