Episode 10 - It's The News - Interrupted by Matt Jones

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is interrupted by Matt Jones. Everybody, It is interrupted
by Matt Jones, presented by corn Bread Hemp. This is
The Good Life, episode ten. We are coming at you
for another exciting news hour. It is It's the News
with my good friend Drew Franklin. Drew, you were on

(00:21):
vacation last week. It is great to have you back.
And since you've been gone, I felt like you would,
you know, like to hear the news.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
This is the second time I've returned from vacation to
immediately go into recording one of these, and once again
I will be learning.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Some people would say that's a lot of vacation. I mean,
I feel like you've been vacating a lot.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Done two weeks before that. It had been a long time.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Though. Well, I'm glad. Did you you went to Devil's Mountain,
Devil's Tower, Devil's Town, Mount Rushmore. Yes, you went to Deadwood,
the bad Lands, swam in Sylvan Lake. What is that?
Oh know?

Speaker 2 (00:56):
I went to see the lake and there were people
getting in it, and I was like, well that looks fun,
so just got in it.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
That's difference between me and you. If I see people
getting in water, I'm not like that looks fun. I'm like,
that looks like something I don't want to do. So
time good times out in the our most southern Dakota. Well,
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(01:43):
the news. Billy gives us the top ten news stories
of the day before we get started. We would be
remiss if we didn't talk about just the absolute tragedy
that has been taking place in Texas with the floods.
One of the sadder story I can remember seeing the
last I looked eighty one desk there are still over

(02:08):
there's forty people I believe missing, including you know fifteen
girls from the camp Myssic. You know, we I think
everybody has followed that story. We're not going to put
that as one of the ten news items, but I
did want to say, you know, huge level of thoughts
and prayers. That's not enough to say how sad it

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is and just an absolutely awful story, but also a
reminder of how not only precious every day is, but
how much we all have to be on alert. It's
easy sometimes to my phone will buzz and there'll be
weather warnings, et cetera, and you kind of look the
other way. But this came in the middle of the night,

(02:49):
fourth of July weekend, about as bad a time as
it could have. And I can't imagine the stories of
the people at camps like that. I've been to camps
like that. Have you've been to camps like that in
your childhood? Just terrifying into all those families. My prayers
out to you. It's it's a terribly, terribly sad story. Now,

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we do, however, have ten news items. We don't know
what they are. Billy picks them. I asked him to
try to make them equally as Newsy, but maybe with
a couple of brighter spots. We got pretty dark last
he was pretty dark glass.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
But it was the news. It wasn't Billy. It was
the news.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
The news is what it is. But Billy has created
ten news items. Well hasn't created them. They actually exist.
It's the news, Billy. Let's get started. What is the
first news story today?

Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah, let's start out with number one, guys, And that
is the one big beautiful bill has passed and is
now law in the United States of America. Trump signed
it into law on July fourth. But the bun Big
Beautiful Bill has passed by narrow margins in the House.
In the Senate, it will have deep tax cuts, immigration crackdowns,
military expansions, and sweeping reducttions to social welfare programs like

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Medicare and food assistant programs. But only two members of
the GOP voted no on the bill. That's Thomas Massey
of Kentucky and Brian Fitzpatrick. But Trump called it the
most popular bill in the history of the country and
it is now a part of loy Did he really
say that they did?

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Wow. He can't just say it's a good bill. It
has to be the most popular bill in the history
of the country. All right, couple things before the specifics
of it. Number one, Brian Fitzpatrick, one of the two
guys that voted no, thought I had a really interesting strategy.
Did you see what he did? I did not. He
voted no, and then he ran away so they couldn't
find just went and hid. He hid because they were

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trying to, you know, convince him to change their vote.
He apparently turned his phone off and just went and hid,
and so they could not find him for like, like
I was following this, there was like thirty six hours.
They're like, we're trying to get in touch with Brian Fitzpatrick.
Nobody is. He literally did the Billy Gillespie. I'm just
going to make it to where no one can find me.
And then ended up votes keeping his vote No. Do

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we know what he did?

Speaker 3 (05:04):
Like?

Speaker 1 (05:04):
What do you do there?

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Do you go to a movie theater? Just marathon movies.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
At home? You want to vote no because you think
the bill is terrible, but you just don't want to
be nagged about it.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Just drive around town.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
You cannot get in touch with me. So I like
that one second. I find it fascinating how people will
just accept whatever nonsense. Donald Trump says, and then it
just becomes so for instance, the Big Beautiful Bill, Why
do we call it that? Like that's what its name is.
That's my first question. This is so unseious calling it

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a big beautiful bill, like I see it in the news,
like the New York Times. I mean, it's the news
right here. And Billy didn't say they passed the budget bill.
Billy said they passed the big Beautiful Bill. What country
is it that? We're just like, so, can I just
call it the Drew Franklin gets it done bill? And

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then everybody just calls it that beautiful.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
There's just so many words you could use if you
did want to really to have some punch.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
I don't thought.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
I can't think of.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
Any bill as being beautiful now the sexy sexy give
it to me girl bill, Like you can't just call
it things like that.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
There's a male dancer somewhere named Big Beautiful Bill, and
he is cashing in right now.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
If there's not, they definitely should be.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
If you were a guy somewhere in the world, dude,
if you were a male stripper, would you not go
by Big Beautiful Bill?

Speaker 1 (06:34):
Now?

Speaker 2 (06:35):
Might do that after we're done here, I might launch
my own career. I think there's potential there.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Coming up on stage one, ladies, he's straight from the
hallers hazard everybody meet Big Beautiful Bill.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
President says he's the most popular bill of all time.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
So we're gonna do our own podcast on the Big
Beautiful Bill. I want to go through because it's I
think it's actually, I won't say, one of the worst
bills of all time. That's probably not fair, but it's
pretty terrible and it's gonna have a huge impact on Kentucky.
And it doesn't seem very popular. It only has like
twenty nine percent support. Lisa Murkowski, the Senator from Alaska.

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She voted yes, and then after voted yes, goes I
think this bill is terrible. I'm just hoping they'll change it.
And then guess what, they didn't change it because she
had already voted yes.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
She should have done the other move and vote no
and run.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
They've been better.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
So it just goes to show how much all these
people they're so scared of Trump, like once he's for it,
even if they're against it. So it raises the debt
more than any bill in the history of the country
raises the debt more than any bill in the history country.
It's going to take They estimate sixteen to seventeen million
people off of Medicaid, and it will probably close hospitals

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all around the country. And it triples the the amount
of ICE people in America, So then it becomes ICE
will now be bigger than the FBI. Do you like
that what I've said?

Speaker 2 (08:13):
So, but the rich people are going to pay more
in taxes, right, No, the rich people are actually getting
a huge tax cut. Oh so then the poor people
they get the tax cut too. No, the poor people's
taxes stay the same, except if you make tips, you
will get to write off your cash tips, of course,

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because everyone pays with cash nowadays, so that will start.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
So it's it's pretty awful. I don't know anybody that's
really for it strongly, except maybe the President, who there
were reports that the day of the bill didn't know
what was in it.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
Well, I don't like anything. I think the Medicaid parts
the most serious, because that will affect a lot of
people that need health care, and who knows how bad
that will get over time. But I started with the
very basic of the rich people getting another benefit that
they don't need. That that right there alone throws it
away from me. Yeah, we have people that are way
too rich as it is. People are that that is

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going to be the ultimate thing that destroys everything, is
people get into rich.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
I think if you're talking, if you were to ask me, Matt,
what are the things long term you're the most worried
about in the world wealth inequality. If it's not number one,
it's up there, because if you go look at society,
when the wealth inequalities get too big, that's when people
revolve and like, how much money does elon must need?

Speaker 2 (09:36):
We to this to day and age they can make
it so much faster too. That gap is just getting
bigger and bigger, quicker and quicker.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
Look at this economist here, it bothers him. He's what
he say. No, he's exactly right. Like in the Middle Ages,
if you were very wealthy, there was only so much
you could physically do to make more money. Now you
can just invest it and immediately your month your money
can continue to exponentially grow. And the theory of giving
people rich tax people who are rich tax cuts is well,

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they'll invest it back in the economy and it'll circulate
the money. But now they have ways of investing it
in things that don't help anyone, so it doesn't really
stimulate the economy either. If you look historically, tax cuts
for the rich are the worst stimulators of the economy. Oddly,

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you know what has historically shown to be the best
stimulators of the economy the government giving people money. And
you would say, well, why is that because poor people
spend their money. That's actually the case, Like when you
give poor people money. I'm not saying we should, but
when you do, poor people spend their money.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Rich people save their accumulating.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
They accumulated, so poor people reput it in the economy.
So oddly, even though it raised our dad, you know,
the COVID packages helped the economy a lot because the
people got the money and then they immediately spin it.
So it's terrible. We'll do more on it tomorrow. But
it was frustrating.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
And the name's not serious at all. Can't believe the name.
Do you think I thought that was just something people
were calling it on TV. No, No, no, it's actually
called it's actually on the top of it. It says
big beautiful bill. A couple things real quick to slow
it down. One of the things that Democrats were allowed
to do was make them read it.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
What a concept. They made them read all nine hundred
pages on the House floor, fair or foul.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
Fair, fair, and should be done with every bill that
has passed.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
So you think the person they should have to read
how many in all seriousness of the four hundred and
thirty five members of the House one hundred members of
the Senate, how many do you think read it all
in all seriousness? Any? I say zero?

Speaker 2 (11:50):
If we're talking front page to back page without skimming,
I'm gonna say.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
No, zero, none.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
I was going to give somebody credit out there. I
don't have a name, but somebody got to read the
entire legislation.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
Nobody, not one because the way they do it is
they let the committee chairs ride each separate part. And
it's not even the committee chairs, it's their staffers and
more to the point, it's lobbyist. Did you see there
was something.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
Where they gave like people who got tanning beds. Did
you see this people who operate tanning beds were able
to get a tax deduction for tanning beds.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
What's the case on that one? Probably just giving you
think I'm kidding. Probably some representative owns a tanning bed
so on, And when they asked the head Mike Johnson,
why is this in there? He goes, well, I'm not
one hundred percent sure about that provision, Like you're in charge,
if you don't know, who knows?

Speaker 2 (12:47):
I know it's never been this way. This is just
politics and wide stinks. But I would make the case
that everyone should have to read everything that they're voting on.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
You think they should have a test. Did you read
this or no? Yes?

Speaker 3 (12:59):
The bills?

Speaker 1 (13:00):
Okay? Then another thing? You tell me? Fair and foul.
They have a rule that the leaders of each party
are on any bill allowed to talk as long as
they want. Other people only have five minutes. So Akeem
Jeffrey said, all right, I'm going to speak for nine
and a half straight hours to slow this down. Fair

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and foul.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
I think that's fair. The filibuster has been used many times,
and if it's only the one person doing it, then
I can put up with it. If they don't have
to pee for nine hours, then you can talk. But
nine and a half hours, as soon as you have
to pee, you think.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
You could do it?

Speaker 2 (13:36):
Oh, I couldn't do it. I'll go foul. I say,
you put a time limit on this, all right, what's
the time limit? Two hours? Each person gets two hours.
No one has nine hours worth of things to say.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
Well, he didn't. He just read big chunks of the
bill too, So it's just more we're wasting more time. Well,
they were trying to waste more time to get people
to guilt their congressman not to vote for it. But
that didn't work so far.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
Of everything that going on in politics I disagree with,
except the guy voting and running. I like that. I
like that strategy. Fitzpatrick was that the name Fitzpatrick, I
need more Fitzpatrick's is what's the plural Fitzpatrick, fitzpatritrickes Yes
an office.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
Thomas Massey from Kentucky voted against it and then went
on THEO Vaughn's podcast that.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
He was mister political.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
You and I met Thomas Massey at the Republican Convention
in twenty sixteen, and little awkward guy right would you
have ever thought in twenty sixteen? First of all, Theovonn
didn't have a podcast in twenty sixte I told you
this guy right here is going to be on the
former road Rules Star political podcast. Would you have believed

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that was pausive.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
I would a need to sit down and just put
all those words together and make sure I'm processing them
clearly because none of it makes sense. But that's just
the world we live in now. I feel like THEO
Vonn's doing something in the political world about every other
week these days.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
Whatever happened to THEO Vonn just being like, bro, we
got like a apple pup? When did he become? And
what's crazy is I've heard him do some of these
interviews and I kind of like some of the questions
he's asking.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
I like theovon, but who would this can't be what
he wants. He can't know what he's talking about. I
think that's kind of the point he plays.

Speaker 1 (15:27):
That had on Thomas Massey and like Ted Cruz and
like he's got to think, can I get back to
Shane Gillis and Nate Like do I have to Chris Rock?
Do I have to talk?

Speaker 2 (15:40):
You've seen how far he can go? Wasn't he on
the Air Force One?

Speaker 1 (15:44):
Didn't he?

Speaker 2 (15:45):
I think he did.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
And did comedy stuff for the soldiers over a lot
of people have done that over, but he went like
on Air Force One with Trump?

Speaker 1 (15:53):
I think is what said It's got to be a
part where he's like I was like the bro.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
I thought it was amazing that he had any kind
of comeback whatsoever from road rules.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
There was a big gap. It was a big gap.
I mean, when does Puck come back?

Speaker 2 (16:10):
Fucking Putin? Have an interview coming up soon on his podcast,
John Brennan is interviewing Obama Truth or.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
Good for the von though? Do your thing? All right,
there's news item one one. What's next?

Speaker 3 (16:28):
Well, somebody that's been very critical of the One Big
Beautiful Bill is Elon Musk. And after a public falling
out and open criticisms of the President, Elon just announced
that he is starting his own political party, The America
Party will be coming out, he says, when it comes
to bankrupting our country with waste and grafts, we live

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in one party system, not a democracy. Today the America
Party is formed to give you back your freedom. Do
you think your freedom will be given back with Earty?

Speaker 1 (17:00):
The America parties very creative, So you know, I mean,
I'm not Trump fan, but I have enjoyed watching the
downfall of Elon Musk. First of all, predicted it, called it,
knew there was no way that partnership was gonna work.

(17:24):
This will be a humongous failure, like a he will
forget about it in six months failure. Do you agree? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (17:35):
It feels like a tweet he just sent when he
was being bored, Like what do you How does one
even start.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
A political party?

Speaker 3 (17:40):
Here?

Speaker 1 (17:40):
Anything? And I can do it. You just need signatures,
Like every state, there's so many signatures to get on
the ballot. You get and it's it's some states it's
surprisingly low, like a thousand, okay, a thousand signatures. We
have the uh Mario Loves BROWNNI party, and we can

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we can nominate people and they can run for office.
So he's just got to do a little paperwork and
he can. He'll get if he wants to. He can
have this party in every state. He's got the means.
But who's voting? Actually, Billy, you're the kind of person
I could see voting in the America Party.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
Well, would you disagree that we need another party? Like
do you think that Republicans and Democrats? Is this two
party system is ideal?

Speaker 1 (18:28):
I'm for a third party, but the key question is
what does that third party stand for? Like everybody likes
the idea of a third party. But for me, I'd
like a third party in the middle. I think Elon
wants a third party that's like Libertary. And then there
are people who want a third party that's like communist
or socialist. So lots of people like a third party,

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questions just drew what is the third party? Believe it?

Speaker 2 (18:54):
And then there are people who are like, hey, Elon,
go here back to Tuesla, just watch you just work
here and stay out of all. Tesla stock right down
eight percent today. It's down a lot though for the
last few couple of weeks.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
Right.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
I bought it years ago, so I'm still doing all right.
But it is a roller coaster of a ride, and
I don't have a lot. It's not like a ton
of money, but I do follow it, and it is
the Tesla chart is not for the fate of heart
if you're investing.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
Did you ever hear when Jesse vent You gotta read
some time Jesse Ventura. When Jesse Ventura was at the
peak of his you know, he was a governor of Minnesota,
right when it was the peak of it. He was
going to run for president under the Third Party, and
it was gonna be like the reform Party, and every
crazy person in America showed up at the convention because

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they were like, we have a third party. I want
to be part of it. And there's a documentary about
how it was just the land of misfits. Everyone who
didn't feel like they fit in anywhere just showed up.
And I think Jesse Ventura got there was like, all right,

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I need a party. I'm jumping in one of these
other two parties because if you're gonna have I want
a third party. But honestly, probably what we probably need
is five parties. We need a far left party, a
moderate left party, moderates Republicans, and then crazy people like

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that's what we need. But that feels like a lot
of work, so we'll probably just end up with the
same two we got.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
But this party's America, Matt, It's the America Party. Write this,
damn Billy be gone within a.

Speaker 3 (20:33):
Year, one year, not even getting to the next presidential election.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
Oh stop, you get to like November of this year,
Trump's poll ratings will be low enough that Musk will
be back and then they'll break up again. No, I
mean they're like a relationship of two people. I mean,

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do you know two crazy people that date each other.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
I could think of some Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
What happens at each other? They make out that they
put they overshare on social media. Yeah, that's exactly right.
You're the best person ever. You're in the Epstein report.
Like it's just it's just back and forth and back
and forth. That's what's gonna happen. This party goes nowhere.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
Well, if it gets to that point where it is
picking up some steam, we're gonna go to some America
Party events.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
I would love to go on the conventions. An America
Party convention would be it's.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
Only fair that we go to the other convention now.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
Be an America Party convention. Women. I mean, if you
ever looked at an Elon comment section, besides Russian bots,
mostly robots, Russian bots, and what is it? What do
you call the people who don't have sex? I was

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gonna say infant tails in cels okay, and then really
rich people there are no women.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
And people that love their teslaw way too much. They're
like own one and just want to talk about their
tests all the time. They're usually in there too.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
Well, Musk isn't going anywhere, so we'll see.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
You want to bet?

Speaker 3 (22:19):
I mean, I bet you it lasts longer than a year.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
Trump versus Elon is not a fair fight. Trump wins easy,
easy because he has people that like him, right who
likes Elon? His robots?

Speaker 3 (22:33):
Not a shareholders.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
Speaking of his robots, did you see the guy I'm
gonna tell you an interview you need to watch that'll
scare the bleep out of you. Did you see Peter
feel Do you know who that is? Peter feels like
he's like Elon, but you just don't know who he is.
He's basically the person that gave JD Vance to America.
He created JD Vans. Thanks Peter, And did you see

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the interview where he asked him do you want humanity
to survive? And he was like, it's a hard question.

Speaker 3 (23:06):
No, it seems like a no brainer, easy quick answer.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
I'm not kidding. I'll tell you what, Billy, when we
discuss number three, I want you to look up the
clip and I want you to play it because I
want you to hear his answer to that question. And remember,
this was Trump's third biggest donor. He's one of the
richest people in the world.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
He's one of the richest people in the world, and
he basically was like, yeah, if we switched from humans
to robots.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
It's cool.

Speaker 2 (23:36):
See I don't like this, just say the rich I've
already been made. My opinions of AI clear, they're coming
for us and the rich people being too rich. This
is this is a combination of both. He also has
he's got that planetar planet planetarium, planetar something.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
Do you want to say planetarium no some some oh
no no, palet palato something. Clearly I don't know enough
to know that our information. And then they're going to
like have I don't know what they're gonna.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
Do, this guy who doesn't want us to exist.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
Yeah, that's what's the government's about to enter into a
contract with this guy for him to have all of
our information. And he's on record going, yeah, I'm not
sure humans should exist. Pallanteer. There you go. I was.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
I was trying to get there. I think I had
the donis or from what I said.

Speaker 3 (24:24):
I do, but it's not timed out. Who knows how
long it would take to get to there. This is
a fifty nine second clip. If you want to hear the.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
Let's just just play it, all right.

Speaker 4 (24:32):
An artificial intelligence see it as a kind of mechanism
for transhumanism, for transcendence of our mortal flesh, and either
some kind of creation of a successor species or some
kind of merger of mind and machine. And do you
think that's just all kind of irrelevant fantasy or do

(24:56):
you think it's just hype? Do you think people are
trying to raise money by attending that we're going to
build a machine god?

Speaker 1 (25:03):
Right? Is it?

Speaker 5 (25:04):
Is it hype? Is it delusion? Is it something you
worry about?

Speaker 1 (25:08):
You?

Speaker 5 (25:08):
I think you you would prefer the human race to endure?

Speaker 1 (25:11):
Right? Uh?

Speaker 5 (25:13):
You're hesitant? Well, yes, I don't know. I I would,
I would. This is a long imitation, hesitation. There's so
many questions in place. Should the human race survive?

Speaker 1 (25:28):
That's it? Should the human race survive? Well? Uh uh,
that's a hard question now, that should be a hard yes.
Would have to think on that one. I'm just telling you.
Don't people scare me when you just go should the
human race survive? And they don't have a quick answer.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
What would you saying we need to set up our
like successors of species?

Speaker 1 (25:51):
Like?

Speaker 2 (25:51):
No, I like what we have here.

Speaker 3 (25:52):
If we're good machine God, I don't need a machine.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
We should have stopped as scary, and that was like
that wasn't that was unlike the that was not on
like a fringe show.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
So we should have stopped at the Industrial Revolution like
no one else in't been anything. We're stopping, right, We're good.
What's number three?

Speaker 1 (26:10):
Well?

Speaker 3 (26:10):
Musk has had some recent criticism about Donald Trump, saying
that he was on the Jeffrey Epstein list on x
But the DOJ and the FBI have just announced news
about Jeffrey Epstein.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
One.

Speaker 3 (26:22):
They released eleven hours of footage confirming that Epstein died
by suicide and a jail cell in twenty nineteen, and
nobody entered the facility that day. They released that they
released eleven hours of footage.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
Yeah where is that? I'm not watching it? But where
did they put.

Speaker 3 (26:36):
That on the web? I guess they just put it
on the web. It's available to watch.

Speaker 5 (26:41):
See.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
You just googled Jeffrey Epstein kills himself on the web
and there it is. You know.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
I don't know if it's on YouTube, but there may
be some hoops that you have to go through to
get it, but it's out there. They also found that
there is no incriminating client lists. There's also no credible
evidence that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals. Epstein's been the center
of conspiracy for a while now, after his death in
twenty nineteen. Elon Musk fanning those flames recently. But the

(27:06):
FBI and DJ announcing they found no incriminating client list.

Speaker 1 (27:10):
All right, So I actually have thoughts on this, But Drew,
I'd be interested in yours. You're not a you know,
you don't follow every moment when you hear that the
FBI dog j says epstein client list doesn't exist. He
did kill himself. What are your thoughts?

Speaker 2 (27:22):
I reached for my ten foil hat. I try to
not pick it up very often, but on this one,
there's some funny business gone. And if not, why, Like
remember when they gave out the binders to podcasters.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
Check out this list. Look, I am binders full of names.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
There have been people in high profile positions that have
been like, yeah, I have it at sitting on my desk.
I'm reviewing that person was the attorney genuist. There you go.
I don't know all my positions there, but I knew
someone high up had said that. And now we're just
supposed to be like, oh it didn't exist, and what
the hell do we just? What was all the stuff
we had been talking about? Why did you tell us
it existed?

Speaker 1 (27:59):
So I actually tend to believe that this is true.
I actually tend to believe that he did kill himself
and that there isn't a quote unquote list, because I
never believed either of those things were true. First of all,
did they think Epstein kept a list? That was like

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people who like under a like that's my favorite thing?
It was? It was he just had it, like in
a diary. So every time they would say this is
a list, I always thought that was not.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
That's just not how the world works.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
People don't write down, you know. He was known for
being secretive, but he just wrote down everything.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
This is the problem with conspiracy theories because Billy, here's
what happens with people with conspiracy theories. People who believe
in conspiracy theories would rather believe them than actually find
out the truth. Because we put conspiracy theorists in charge
of the FBI. Cash Betel and Dan Bongino were just
podcast hosts who used to fan the flames of this

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and then they're in charge and they're like, oh, yeah,
there's not because people just say stuff and then they
don't want People never want to hear the boring truth
that maybe yeah, he did just kill himself. They don't
want to hear that. Now, of course, there are people
who are conspiracy theorists now saying well, Trump must be
on the list. That's why they don't want to put

(29:29):
it out. But when you set up a conspiracy theory,
you set it up to where there's no way your
opinion can be disproved. Right, and we even put conspiracy
theorists in charge. They say they're going to do it,
and then they come out and say it doesn't exist,
and people still don't believe them. There's just like, so
this is I actually think this is probably true. But

(29:52):
the woman has to answer for the bonderscoring. She's got
an answer for that.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
How does that happen if it never existed? What was
that hole you read?

Speaker 1 (30:00):
They made it up. They just go on TV and
make things up and then they hope everybody forgets. I mean,
she got on TV and said the list is on
my desk, and then today they're like, there's no list.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
Well, then at that point, maybe she's not fit for off.

Speaker 1 (30:15):
She hadn't imaginary come out and say, did you lie?

Speaker 2 (30:18):
Are you seeing things?

Speaker 1 (30:20):
Because you said there was a list. I never believed
there was a list, which is not a popular opinion
because again, people don't just write down lists of things.
What do you believe?

Speaker 2 (30:33):
You don't think a drug dealer keeps a log of
everyone that comes out her house at the drug.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
Dealer has an official he does, But I don't. I
think they do things. I think the whole phrase off.

Speaker 3 (30:45):
Book, that's the thing. It's not in a leather bound
journal with the.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
But they handed those things out to those podcasters and said, ah,
look at here.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
I think it's Steve Bushimi and Billy Madison laying on
the couch and he's actually making a list.

Speaker 1 (30:58):
So what do you think you You've been pretty adaman.
I remember you saying that you thought Epstein didn't kill
himself and does do Patel and Bongino saying this change
anything for you.

Speaker 3 (31:08):
I've never known specifics or had a strong opinion on
the suicide or not, but I have always thought there
were some kind of list out there that was being
used to blackmail people in the past. Yes, I did
think that Jeffrey Epstein has still believed on celebs no.
I mean, the DOJ and the FBI are saying that it wasn't.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
But the DOJ. See this is what I don't mean
to get upset to you, But the DJ and the
FBI said that before, and you didn't believe it. So
why do you believe it now? I don't know.

Speaker 3 (31:35):
It's just the point of time that we find ourselves now,
and I you didn't.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
Believe it when Biden's DOJ said it, Why would you
now believe it that Trump's DJ said.

Speaker 3 (31:46):
I don't think it's the matter if it was Biden's
or Trump's DOJS. I guess it was the fact that
Trump was like, this is my one of my initiatives.
I'm gonna find the Epstein list. We'll reveal it. But
what if he was on it like that? It's fair.
I mean, that is definite possible souation. I'm just you
have to believe in somebody. We've talked about this.

Speaker 1 (32:03):
I agree, So why didn't I'm with you. You gotta
believe in something mm hmm. But why do these crazy
people now believe in Trump's DJ but they didn't believe
in the other one.

Speaker 3 (32:16):
I'm not sure. I wouldn't call myself crazy not having
this opinion before today, though, But you say so.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
Cash Patel and Dan Bongino changed your mind.

Speaker 3 (32:28):
The recent reporting, the release of footage and this news, yes,
has changed my mind.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Okay, I I never believe, Like I agree, you have
to believe in something, So what are you gonna like, Cash,
matel and Dan Bongino believing it changes nothing for me.
But I've always believed this didn't exist because it's just
people just act like it was gonna be a book that.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
Was like, here are the pervs it, you know, So anyway,
we'll see what, we'll see what the if you look
in the comment section that Elon Botts, They're all say, now,
you're a liar.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
But I'm glad. I'm actually glad that they put the
crazy people in charge so that even the crazy people
have to go. Well, maybe we were being a little crazy.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
It did seem reckless with names that they're around too,
like my guy Tom Hanks at here catching strays.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
You know, yeah, I mean what Jimmy Kimmel bekay, Aaron
Rodgers said, Jimmy Kimmel, I.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
Don't know anything, but it just the people that truly
weren't involved.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
I mean, stuff was going on Jimmy Kimmel was on
The Man Show.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
It's probably more likely to go when he was on
The Man Show than now.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
But didn't. Yeah, well anyway, Uh, what's up next?

Speaker 3 (33:45):
All right, let's change gears for a little bit and
wish a happy birthday to the Dali Lama. He turned
ninety this past Sunday.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
So the list.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
Are these two stories associated?

Speaker 3 (33:58):
They didn't release the connection. Thousands gathered in India to
celebrate the spiritual leader of the Tibetan Buddhism's birthday on
x The Dhali Lama emphasized the importance of a cheesing
achieving peace of mind through cultivating a good heart and
by being compassionate. Matt it is the fourteenth Dalai Lama.
He's been in exile for over sixty years as him

(34:19):
and the Chinese government are now fighting on who will
replace theory?

Speaker 1 (34:23):
Is he is? He in Tibet?

Speaker 3 (34:24):
He is in India? He is he is in exile
from Tibet, which is a part of China. I guess
the Dalai Lama is a reincarnation every year and who
the next Dhali Lama is?

Speaker 1 (34:36):
What does that mean? He's a reincarnation every year?

Speaker 3 (34:40):
Yeah, so the Dalai Lama, that's not his name, like,
that's his title. It's like the pope I believe.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
And well, what's name Bob? I don't know.

Speaker 3 (34:48):
I don't know his name. But there's a lot to
do with reincarnation when it comes to what Tibetan Buddhism stands.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
Okay, but but he has to be rein like every
year he has to be renewed.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
This Sunday, he said he plans on living until he's
one hundred and thirty. Talked about his longevity. He's at
ninety right now.

Speaker 1 (35:06):
Me say, it's a it's a hard you know, you're
gonna be proved right or wrong there Lama.

Speaker 2 (35:12):
I'll take the under I'll respect him.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
Lama's a person. You don't hear a lot bad about right, No.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
Not popping up on TMC to there's not a lot
of people for the Netflix scandals.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
He's been in office for thirty How's he picked? How
do we pick the Lama?

Speaker 3 (35:33):
See, that's what's in debate right now.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
I give me it's in debate. How'd he get it?

Speaker 3 (35:38):
You know, I'm not sure about that. There's a spiritual
process that depends on you decide well, yeah, that's the thing,
like he has made it so only one person's decides
somebody within the Tibetan Buddhism.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
Speed every year they decide again that he's the Lama.

Speaker 3 (35:53):
No no, I guess there's a for life for life. Yeah,
and then the Chinese government or the people in Beijing,
they think that they are the ones that think that
they should determine who is the next person to have
that role. And it's a big struggling match right now.
That is the undert that's true. That is that's the
research I've done.

Speaker 1 (36:10):
Yeah, So because I didn't know this, the Chinese government
says they get to decide who the Dolli government, so
they have their own lama.

Speaker 3 (36:18):
No. But the the you know, the Tibetan Buddhists say
that they have no say in the selection, and the
Chinese government obviously disagrees.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
I'm not sure that I totally think that's what that
fights about. But regardless, so you never told me who
got to pick?

Speaker 3 (36:34):
Yeah, So Dali Lama fled in nineteen fifty nine from
now controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. The Tibetan Buddhism sphere.
Who gets to pick is who the Dali Lama chows
choosing the next he chooses himself. Well, no, he didn't
choose himself. There's a there's an organization or it's a
group that will decide the next one each but Dalai

(36:54):
Lama is also shown. Yeah yeah, so like the pope,
there is a voting for sixty years.

Speaker 1 (36:59):
That he got it when he was thirty.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
It sounds I thought, and I may sound crazy. I
thought like a child was selected after the dia Lama
dies because they think that's you think it's just them
coming back in their new form, and then that's the next.

Speaker 3 (37:15):
There's some truth in that. There's a reason besides who
is the next Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama, like toddlers,
his office can only appoint his successor.

Speaker 1 (37:24):
Who's in the office, like someone has to decide. They
don't just all of a sudden, a baby doesn't. Like,
somebody's got to say that's the baby. They have like
a board of monks that Milly. For you to say
you don't know, it must be I feel like you're
just saying things.

Speaker 3 (37:40):
Must be like a vibe check or something like that.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
Okay, so I think it's fair to say Billy does
not know how you pick the Dali Lama. All right,
well somebody will know.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
Yeah, I was trying to read all this.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
They'll know and we'll find out. But happy ninetieth to
the Lama.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
So it just says he was selected in nineteen thirty nine,
so yeah, he have had been very young.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
So that was nineteen thirty nine is sixty six years ago.
And if he's ninety, that means he was picked at
twenty four okay than I thought.

Speaker 3 (38:10):
And he wants to make it to one ten, one
thirty a stretch.

Speaker 1 (38:14):
So the news is a little shaky on this one.

Speaker 3 (38:16):
It's his birthday.

Speaker 1 (38:19):
Maybe some of the other facts were a little shaky.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
You think he does anything different on his birthday? Maybe
working a sig, I don't know, maybe a white claw,
one white claw. Do you know anybody that's met the
dolly who said I know no, never met him like
his teachings, No, I have not.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
Yeah, but sometimes I feel like then like does he tour? No?
But like yeah, I feel like, you know, like Eddie
Vedder meets people like.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
They feel like people like that go and see any
better either, that's good, good for him.

Speaker 3 (38:56):
Choosing the next Dayli Lama is a specific process rooted
in ancient spiritual rituals, including which way the smoke blows
when he's cremated and which way he was looking when
he died. Each potential dalai lama has also shown objects
belonging to the previous dali lama to see who can
identify the belongings. They're testing them something carnation of the spiritual.

Speaker 1 (39:22):
So far, you've told me some things like which way
he looks, where the smoke is blowing, and then a test.
I would not put it past. Is this becoming a
reality show? It's a point, but figuring out who the
dalai lama, I'd like to see a documentary on that.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
I'm Have you seen Hook? Robin Williams, Peter Panke's familiar.
There's a moment where the Lost Boys they realize it's
pan inside there and they're like, there you are, Peter.
Maybe they wait until they think they've found the dial
lama in a new form. Billy said, they're showing him toys.
Do they recognize this? Do you remember this person?

Speaker 1 (39:57):
You've seen Hook? I didn't great films a lot of
joy Roberts. I thought you were gonna say, I didn't
think it was good. Justin Hoffman, all right, what's what's
our next news? Out of number five?

Speaker 3 (40:07):
All right, we'll move on from the Dalai Lama. We'll
go back state side, where United States measles cases have
reached a thirty three year record high one two hundred
and seventy seven confirmed cases across thirty eight states. There
have been three measle related deaths in the year of
twenty twenty five. Ninety two percent of cases this year
wherein people who were either unvaccinated or their vaccination status

(40:30):
was unknown. This was a disease that was considered eliminated
in the United States in the year two thousand. The
vaccination has been in place since nineteen sixty three. I
guess nobody's getting vaccinations anymore, and the measles are backed.

Speaker 1 (40:43):
So one of the good things about the Trump era
is that the crazy people have united. Like there used
to be crazy people on the left and crazy people
on the right, and now when it comes to vaccinations,
they have found common ground. They are crazy to get
because it used to be the anti vax people were
mostly on the left. It was like Jenny McCarthy and

(41:07):
it was like from McCarthy. Yes, she was one of
the biggest she made for a long time. She when
I thought of anti VAXX, I thought of her. She
was like the main person. But the anti vax people
it was generally hippies who didn't want it. Was like
Dolly Lama types. Yeah, no, that's exactly who it was.
And then during COVID the right wing started doing it.

(41:30):
And then RFK is kind of the figure because he
was a left wing guy. He was far left, and
they came together and you get this, Maha, make America
healthy again. It feels to me like, if a disease
is dead and we have a way to keep it dead,
we should have done that. The only other person I
knew that said don't give the measles vaccine was Matt Bevin,

(41:51):
and he left his kid in you know, like the
best dude in the world. RFK does not seem like
the best dude in the world to me. So, but
does measles? Does it kill you? What does it do
to you? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (42:09):
I don't have that answer.

Speaker 2 (42:12):
I mean a lot of brashes, I know that much.
I don't know how deadly it is. Yeah, And I
saw kid or two has died, and that's bad.

Speaker 3 (42:20):
Three total, three total.

Speaker 1 (42:21):
So it feels like it was gone. We had a
way to stop it. Might as well just kept going
down that route.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
Yeah, I feel like we're in a good place to
fight against measles. We had one, like we've really we've
flown a big lead here against the measles. I feel
like we were doing a great job.

Speaker 1 (42:45):
Some things.

Speaker 2 (42:45):
You know, we could have just focused our efforts elsewhere.
It was the bottom of the nine, two out.

Speaker 1 (42:52):
Uh, Well, I hope there aren't other diseases that come back.

Speaker 2 (42:55):
Yeah, and let's try to put it back in the
dead before it gets two out of hand. Yeah, because
it is very, very, very contagious.

Speaker 1 (43:01):
Yeah, Robert Kennedy, even, I really like if you're talking
about people historically that I really respect, his father is
maybe number one. But what does that tell you? Kids
of famous and rich people should not be allowed to
run anything because they end up being crazy and our health.

(43:28):
Let's leave the experts in charge. I mean, when Billy
and I did that one thing the other day, Billy
was shocked to find out he's not a doctor. We
put the guy in charge of health, not a doctor
that no medical training.

Speaker 2 (43:40):
Here's a communications degree.

Speaker 1 (43:42):
I don't even think he has that Yeah, let's run
the health service. How about Ryan.

Speaker 2 (43:51):
The guy's gonna eat too Friday?

Speaker 1 (43:56):
I knew you want to know when I knew RFK
was a fraud, mister make America healthy again? When he
was on the plane with Trump and they were eating McDonald's. Yeah,
if all things stop.

Speaker 3 (44:05):
Man dlly Alama has a cigarette every now and then,
he can't have a McDonald's burger.

Speaker 1 (44:12):
No, not if I mean I'm he can have McDonald's
every day if he wants. But don't say like you
don't like artificial things. If you're eating McDonald's one of
the most artificial things you can get. Good by the way, Yeah,
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What's number six? All right?

Speaker 3 (45:03):
One more slightly serious news story and we'll get into
some more fun stuff. Bringing up Donald Trump again. He
has delayed the tariff deadline. If you remember the April second,
Donald Trump announced reciprocal tariffs on countries that plan on
doing business with the United States. They lowered the rates
for ten percent for ninety days, and that deadline is
coming up, but Donald Trump has decided to delay that

(45:24):
from July ninth to August first. He did say that
now that letters are going to be sent through the
mail Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday to foreign countries.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
Say no, he didn't say through the mail.

Speaker 3 (45:36):
I may have added through the mail, but letters would
be being sent. Obviously, the timing and severity of tariffs
have gone up and down and has constantly changed. But
it looks like we're going to be getting that pretty soon.

Speaker 1 (45:49):
So I think they said when they introduced the tariffs,
ninety deals in ninety days, and I saw this morning
they have two. What was with Great Britain where I
feel like were pretty good before.

Speaker 2 (46:01):
Again, we're just preopening things.

Speaker 1 (46:03):
I feel like things were pretty good since the seventeen eighties.
I feel like great Britain and I've been we've been
on the same side most of the time. And then Vietnam,
which I was happy they had to deal with Vietnam
because my Nike stock went up. My Nike stock had
taken a hit. But then when the Vietnam wouldn't happen
because they make most of their stuff in Vietnam way up.

(46:26):
Tariffs are stupid, they just are they raised. I mean
they raised prices on Americans. People don't understand, you know,
they go Vietnam's paying tariffs. No they're not. You're paying tariffs.
You know, I will remind you that T shirt you
make when it's imported from Vietnam. Do you know who

(46:50):
pays that tariff? The company that makes that T shirt?
And you know who they then charge more for it,
you Mario, Vietnam doesn't pay any thing at all, And
that simple truth is lost, and then Trump says, well,
we need to have equal rates with these other countries.

(47:12):
Vietnam can't afford our stuff. They don't have any money.
So he's like I saw in the announcement, he was like,
now Vietnam is able to buy American SUVs.

Speaker 2 (47:24):
We've sold two. First of all, if you've.

Speaker 1 (47:27):
Seen Vietnam, their roads are like they can't have SUV's.
It's not like it's not like it's Louville, it's Vietnam.
So you know, this is another one like the tears thing.
It wasn't gonna work August first. They'll just stand the

(47:48):
deadline even longer.

Speaker 2 (47:49):
We're gonna have to pay a lot more. I mean,
that's just simple business. If you have a condo you
rent out and they raised the h o A, you're like,
all right, whatever, I'm just gonna raise them charge it
for our condo.

Speaker 1 (47:59):
It's exactly, you're just back to the left and right
have converged in idiotcy. You know who used to be
for tariffs, the far left that was who was for tariffs.
It was only like crazy liberals that were for terriffs,
like crazy, and now it's the policy of America. But
thankfully we get another month till the letters go out

(48:20):
and my Nike stock is back up. Congrats to Vietnam.

Speaker 3 (48:23):
Go ahead, all right, this one is out of left
field for sure. Tell me if you've heard any of this.
The federal government announced recently that they are planning to
breed millions of flies and dump them over Mexico and
Texas via airplanes in an effort to combat a flesh
eating maggot. Has this crossed your tesk?

Speaker 1 (48:42):
No, I haven't seen this, Okay.

Speaker 3 (48:44):
So the pest. Let me introduce you to the new
World screw worm fly. What's the name of it, The
New World screw worm fly.

Speaker 1 (48:53):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (48:53):
And it is the Department of Agriculture's plan to breed
these flies, to sterilize them in radiation, and then release
them out into I guess the environment. The thought is
that they would breed with the females, they would not
produce the larvae that many times spawn and live in
cattle and horses. This problem has gotten so bad that

(49:14):
they had to close the Mexican border for the I
guess the movement of cattle across the border.

Speaker 1 (49:21):
All right, So you're saying a lot of words. Let
me be simple. There's a flesh eating maggot in cows
in Mexico.

Speaker 3 (49:26):
Cattle, horses, and bison, and all imports along the southern
border have been so.

Speaker 1 (49:31):
The maggots eat the cows. Well that seems like a problem.
All right, So they're gonna release flies. Are these like
flies that really exist? Or did we create them?

Speaker 3 (49:41):
These flies actually exist?

Speaker 1 (49:43):
So we're just releasing there somewhere else and we're taking
them down there.

Speaker 3 (49:47):
Correct, yes, just.

Speaker 2 (49:49):
Putting them in planes and open them the doors.

Speaker 3 (49:51):
Just opening the doors.

Speaker 1 (49:52):
Interesting.

Speaker 3 (49:52):
These flies are native to many of the Central American countries,
so we're bringing them to Mexico in Texas, we're gonna
have a whole distric Abausi center in twenty twenty six.

Speaker 1 (50:01):
And then would you say they're sterile? So how are that?
You said they needed to mate? How are they going
to mate if they're stare right?

Speaker 3 (50:06):
So they I guess they put them in radiation that
makes them sterile. Then these flies come down with the population,
they mate with the females. They're sterile. They don't produce.
Oh they still they still do it just doesn't need anything.
They don't. The maggots don't come eventually, so they.

Speaker 1 (50:21):
Mate with flies that are there, or with maggot.

Speaker 3 (50:23):
Female flies that are already down there looking around.

Speaker 1 (50:26):
Well, how do they know that this is not a
fertile fly?

Speaker 3 (50:29):
Don't?

Speaker 1 (50:31):
I mean, they don't so they just bang all the flies.

Speaker 3 (50:34):
The hope is that you release so many flies that
the that the population is mostly radiated flies that then have,
you know, intercourse with the other flies that don't then
produce a maggot going on here.

Speaker 1 (50:47):
I don't I understand letting the flies go to eat
the maggots. Do the flies eat the magot? No, the
flies the maggots.

Speaker 3 (50:53):
Do they turn into flies?

Speaker 1 (50:57):
Maggots turn into flies? Or do flies turn into make.

Speaker 3 (51:00):
Come on, you know that one? You screwing with me here?

Speaker 2 (51:04):
I'm so confused on all of this. Who even thinks
of this idea? Let's just load these them all up
in a plane and open the door and let them out.

Speaker 1 (51:11):
I don't know. I mean, I think it sounds like
a good idea, though it's.

Speaker 2 (51:15):
Worth a shot unless a backfires, then you just have.

Speaker 1 (51:19):
All these I don't understand all the sex part of it.
I don't know who's who's having sex with who and
what that's going to do. But you know what, No,
you gotta trust somebody. I think I'll try. I think
I'll trust the government on the fly eating maggots over
over us.

Speaker 2 (51:33):
I wasn't aware we had this problem. It's hitting close
to home. I saw bison last week, several of them,
like two hundred we counted, very got very close to them.
I don't want the maggots. I didn't I don't want
the population. This was on Wildlife Loop Road.

Speaker 1 (51:47):
So has this had an effect on our beef prices
or anything I have? This is the first I've ever
heard of them. I mean, this is the news, But
this is the first I've ever heard of this.

Speaker 3 (51:55):
This is the news. I have not heard of any
prices being impacted.

Speaker 1 (51:59):
I knew them.

Speaker 3 (52:00):
Hots have stopped of cattle, horse, and bison. This is
actually a problem that was eradicated in the United States
in nineteen sixty six, just like measles. But I guess
a new outbreak in Mexico has changed things recently.

Speaker 1 (52:12):
Well, good luck to the flies.

Speaker 2 (52:14):
Yeah, we can't let the flesh eating maggots win this one.

Speaker 1 (52:17):
I can't. Is there anything grosser than the word flesh
eating maggot?

Speaker 2 (52:21):
No, maggot. I don't really get weirded out by stuff,
but maggots, that's pretty That one will give me make
some skin crawl a little bit thinking about those.

Speaker 1 (52:29):
When you were a kid, do you remember when there
was like you'd see on the news stands about the
flesh eating virus, and there was that what was it
called it? Ebola?

Speaker 2 (52:39):
Yeah, that was one of them.

Speaker 1 (52:40):
When I was a kid, that scared me to death
that I saw the movie Outbreak. Do you remember remember
Break with Dustin Hoffman? And I saw it in a
movie theater in Mexico.

Speaker 2 (52:54):
And surrounded by these maggots.

Speaker 1 (52:58):
No, we were in Mexico is when I was working
at a at a youth at like a orphanage, and
I was in high school, and we went and saw
Outbreak at the movie theater and people there were some
people in the theater that got scared and started screaming
and ran outside. Wow, And it only it made me

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more scared because the movie was in Spanish, so I
didn't know. No, I mean, there wasn't like subtitles. The
movie was in Spanish. So I was watching the movie
but I couldn't understand. And these people got up screaming
and ran outside, and I started getting scared because I

(53:43):
didn't know what was on the screen. Billy, that was
so scary, right because it was in Spanish.

Speaker 2 (53:51):
Yeah, so you like the get lease in them the
why we're running need a run coordinator from Kings of Comedy.
You're just running with the crowd.

Speaker 1 (53:59):
I was like, oh no, I mean you couldn't look
it up on the internet. I just remember the flesh
eating virus would always be on the like when you're
at the grocery store, the news stand, you know those
like tabloids. You'd be like Kid in something Sun Kid
in Michigan has flesh eating virus. And I was like, oh,
it's coming for us, poor kid. It scared me before

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I'll break Dustin Hoffman. It's in a great movie called Hook.
Here it is he pled the captain two references to Hook.
All right, what's next? All right?

Speaker 3 (54:29):
If you are a subscriber to Spotify, you may have
heard the new band called the Velvet Sundown. They've been
popping up on popular national playlist and people have been confused.
You know, this band doesn't have much of a digital footprint.
Where did they come from? Who is the Velvet Sundown? Well,
this is actually a full AI band that has over

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one point one million monthly listeners. Andrew Freelon tried to
take credit for The Velvet Sundown, but he was a
hoaxer and the actual real people behind the Magic had
to step forward just recently to say that the Velvet
Sundowns tracks use generative AI tools and the whole band
is now done with AI. They have a new updated

(55:12):
Spotify bio, and people feel a little deceived that the
band that they liked was completely AIM.

Speaker 1 (55:20):
Would it bother you if music you liked was all
AI a little bit.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
I've heard some songs that are AI and I bob
my head and they're catchy. They're usually that combining country
or rap or something. But the other day, if I'm
listening to music, I want to actually hear someone's talent.

Speaker 1 (55:36):
It matters to you that, like a person is a person. Well,
but I'm not gonna say I wouldn't enjoy it.

Speaker 2 (55:42):
Like so, there's some I have on my phone that
I'll laugh and you know, text friends occasionally because they're funny.
But if I'm sitting around listening to music, I would
want it to be a human being.

Speaker 1 (55:50):
Does that would that matter to you, Billy? If yes?

Speaker 3 (55:52):
Yeah, I don't want to hear robots.

Speaker 1 (55:54):
But what if you don't know the robots?

Speaker 3 (55:56):
It will it bothered me me not knowing? I like
to learn about Tyler Choulders who he is? You know,
like the reason why he's making the music that he is.
If that matters to you, Yeah, if it's just computer generated,
it's just just like anything else.

Speaker 1 (56:10):
Yeah, it's interesting. That's one of those things that I
don't think it would matter to me until I knew,
and then it would matter to Like if I couldn't
tell the difference, what difference would it make? But then
once you know you're right, you're like, this isn't a
real person. I can't go see him in concert. Do
you think they'll ever come a time that all.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
Of our music it's just ai well get ready for
like movies that are just look completely real, but none
of it was ever filmed.

Speaker 1 (56:39):
So would that matter to you?

Speaker 2 (56:40):
That one I think is even worse than or excuse me,
I think music is worse than that. Music kind of
want to hear someone movies we're gonna have like action
scenes that are just people typing in to a having
it creating cool with that, That one I could sit
with a little more because a lot of movies are
already cgi and fake anyway. But the music I would
want to actually hear from someone with talent.

Speaker 1 (57:02):
Yeah, I don't know. It's an interesting question, like would
you rather see a movie? I mean, movies could probably
end up costing very little money if you didn't have
to pay actors and camera people. But then that's a
whole industry that would just collapse.

Speaker 2 (57:15):
I've already seen some crazy examples of movies AI has made,
just like short ten minute clips. But once they finally
perfect it and they're putting out you know, blockbuster films
by not leaving the computer. Yeah, so depressing though, you know,
it's just so depressing, isn't it. Yeah, and you want
to see human acting. I don't know, I hate it.

Speaker 1 (57:40):
Together, we stir off the it's just an I hate it,
Like the whole point is to be human like that,
there's you know, there's the human. There's something about humans
need to connect with each other, and if all of
our art it's just AI. But then there's also a
part of me that said, like the picture of Mark

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Stoops smoking and drinking, that's AI is kind of awesome.

Speaker 2 (58:05):
And we enjoy those as we're just walking straight into
getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

Speaker 3 (58:10):
But we know it's AI as soon as we see it,
you know, But they'll come a point where we won't yet,
there's gonna be a point where the technology is so
good that we won't know.

Speaker 1 (58:19):
I mean, think about just special effects. There was a
time if you watch special effects in the seventies and eighties,
you can see that it's not real. But now you
can't really tell. So does it matter if in Mission Impossible,
Tom Cruise is there or not.

Speaker 2 (58:40):
Soon you won't even be Tom Cruise. It'll just be
a person that.

Speaker 1 (58:44):
Was Do you will Mission Impossible be worse to you
if it's not Tom Cruise and it's just a computer
figment of Tom Cruise.

Speaker 2 (58:54):
That's what I'm saying. I think I get used to
a movie a little easier than music. Music I'm still
gonna want to hear, And eventually I think movies is
just gonna be what it is. I mean, they already
make them up so much that in movies you can't
tell who they are. So what's the matter if it's
just computer generated?

Speaker 1 (59:09):
Do you think it'll ever get that way? With like
radio and podcasts, where it doesn't matter if we're here.

Speaker 2 (59:16):
Radio, I feel like it's more like music where you
want to actually have a human.

Speaker 1 (59:21):
Yeah, this is depressing, Billy. What's next? All right?

Speaker 2 (59:25):
Are you still Billy?

Speaker 1 (59:26):
Over there.

Speaker 2 (59:26):
Have you turned to new computer?

Speaker 3 (59:27):
You call me a big beautiful bill if you'd like,
but I will not. Uh number nine. Let's go to
something that's happening this week, the release of Superman this Friday,
July eleventh. A lot of people are excited for Superman
to come back, but James Gunn, the director's comments recently
has caused for some people to not be so excited.
He says Superman is going to be political, and here's

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the full quote. I mean, Superman is the story of America,
an immigrant that comes from other places and populates the country.
But for me, it is mostly a story that says
basic human kindness is a value in his so thing
we've lost. Yes, it's about politics, but on another level,
it's about mortality. Do you never kill to no matter what,

(01:00:09):
which is what Superman believes, or do you have some balance?
As Lowist believes. It's really about their relationship and the
way different opinions on basic moral beliefs can tear two
people apart.

Speaker 1 (01:00:20):
Yeah, if that was the movies to you, I'd be like, dude,
stop talking, you know, I mean that that's a lot
of words he should never just just just unnecessary, just like, Okay,
I mean, it's a movie about kindness.

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
You know, it's about a movie of a guy who
works at the Daily Planet, who flies and you know,
has a lot of power. We don't have to get
in the other stuff. I don't know if you thought
him on the screen. Do you ever think of Superman
as being an immigrant?

Speaker 1 (01:00:48):
No? Not at all.

Speaker 2 (01:00:51):
That's well, what are we doing? Just let him fly
catch the big planet rock there?

Speaker 1 (01:00:56):
Though when he comes down from Krypton, they don't ask
if he has his papers?

Speaker 3 (01:01:03):
Are you here legally Superman?

Speaker 2 (01:01:06):
His disguise was actually for Superman.

Speaker 1 (01:01:09):
I ain't getting you medicaid? No, I mean, like, I
think that's a little much by that guy, because the
whole point of the movies in some respect is to
not is to get away from the world. You know.

Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
I thought, I don't want to sound like the people
are like get politics out of my sports or get
at but really, can I just watch Superman and be Superman?

Speaker 1 (01:01:31):
And also just like we don't have to think about
that Superman. I don't sit there and go okay, Talladega Knights,
what is the political statement they were trying to make
by having the French driver? And did he get his
c one VSA before he came to raising Talladega. I

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just don't think like that, So maybe the dude just
needs to chill out. Who is Superman?

Speaker 3 (01:02:00):
Oh it's it's changed. I'm not sure the actor's name.
But I only know this because the previous actor refused
to help. The new actor refuse to help the controversy.
He didn't give him any tips. I guess the new
guy asked for some tips, and the old guy was like, stick.

Speaker 2 (01:02:16):
Your right arm up in the air and we have
the cape on. Alright, look, men, there's this phone book
phone booth. You're gonna get inside there. You don't want
to be in the phone.

Speaker 1 (01:02:27):
Alright. There's this rock, it's green. Stay away from it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:32):
You're gonna want to wear some glasses there. Canna blow
your cover at the Daily Planet.

Speaker 1 (01:02:36):
No, I don't know who you are. Here's a little
secret I picked up. I put the glasses in the town.
No one knows it's me.

Speaker 3 (01:02:47):
David corn Sweat is the new one.

Speaker 1 (01:02:56):
His name is what David corn Sweat?

Speaker 3 (01:02:59):
David We're in Sweat.

Speaker 1 (01:03:00):
He should more't worry about his name than the politics
of the movie. Never heard of that.

Speaker 3 (01:03:05):
Who was the last like Henry Cavell.

Speaker 2 (01:03:08):
It's not Dean Kane anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:03:10):
No, man, it's funny for his big as Batman movies
are I don't think of Superman movies.

Speaker 2 (01:03:17):
Oh yeah, I'm more of a Batman guy myself.

Speaker 1 (01:03:19):
What's what happens in Superman movies?

Speaker 3 (01:03:22):
Same thing every time, same thing.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
Really, because the Batman movies, there's a lot of different
things that happens depending on which one you see.

Speaker 3 (01:03:29):
And Kirk Allen was the first one. George Reeves, christ.

Speaker 1 (01:03:32):
George Reeves was the one on television. Christopher Reeve was
the one famous one in the movie Dean Kane. It
was on television.

Speaker 3 (01:03:38):
And then who Let's see You? Going down the list here.
Then we had Tom Welling never heard of him, Brandon Ruth,
Brandon Rufe, he works at Henry Cavell, Henry Cavill, and then.

Speaker 1 (01:03:52):
Brandon Roof works at ov W. They call him corn Bread.
He was Superman.

Speaker 3 (01:03:58):
Tyler was the TV ad debt taption recently, and then
David corn Sweat is the new one.

Speaker 1 (01:04:06):
Well, I have a feeling, it's just my prediction. I
think this Superman is gonna be a bust. I didn't
even know there was a new Superman coming out. It
feels like Superman and Spider Man. Especially every two years,
the studios are like, all right, do another one, so
run it back?

Speaker 2 (01:04:22):
Have you seen what? Have you seen any movies this year?
I'm a very bad movie watcher. I think this week, though,
I'm gonna try to catch f one before it leaves
theaters because it just seems like one that'll be better
in the Yeah, I saw Sinners. Oh that's streaming now?

Speaker 1 (01:04:37):
Is great. I was. I'm a big fan of Centers.
That first three force in that movie is one of
my favorite movies in a long time. Then it's a
little vampirey for me, but uh, but the first three
forces and you've seen it, Mario. The Irish music is
kind of awesome. I know they's supposed to be the
bad guys, but when they sing on when they sing uh,

(01:04:59):
what is it come me Lassie or whatever? Dude, so good.
The Irish, the Irish people, and then the scene where
they're in the dance place and all the different kinds
of music blend together, and that's a great scene. It's
a really really good movie. I think I don't like vampires,
but besides that, I think it's good.

Speaker 2 (01:05:18):
Now that that's streaming. I'll see it before the end
of the week. I usually watch more things. They're like
a hour episode, like a poop cruise on Netflix. You've
seen good stuff, right, really? Yeah, So they were stuck
on a I don't know if it's gonna win any.

Speaker 3 (01:05:31):
Awards, and engine fire cut the power to a cruise
ship for four days or so, and they couldn't use
the toilets and so it all backed up.

Speaker 1 (01:05:39):
And when you say they couldn't use them, they could,
it just wouldn't go down.

Speaker 2 (01:05:42):
It overflow, couldn't cook anything, so they're eating just where they.

Speaker 1 (01:05:46):
Has anybody seen the American apparel?

Speaker 2 (01:05:48):
Watched it yesterday?

Speaker 1 (01:05:50):
Good? No? Not good? No.

Speaker 2 (01:05:52):
I was pretty I was looking forward to a little
bit at that.

Speaker 1 (01:05:54):
I've read the book about that and it was it
was like kind of crazy. It didn't come through in
the documentary.

Speaker 2 (01:06:00):
It's pretty short. They don't get too specific, Okay, i'n
spoiler the guys a little creepy.

Speaker 1 (01:06:05):
Yeah, well that's the premise of the book too. When
I saw it was only fifty minutes, I thought that
was kind of short.

Speaker 2 (01:06:11):
Yeah, they kind of rushed through. I think that was
the issue.

Speaker 1 (01:06:13):
Yeah, I thought it was kind of I saw the
material list, which was, okay, it's about a person who
like Matchmaker and she's got two two hot guys. Which
one is she gonna pick? I'm gonna spoil alert one's
rich one, doesn't have a lot of money. Oh wow,
She's kind of into the poor one, but the rich

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one gives her the kind of life she would want.

Speaker 2 (01:06:36):
What are you gonna do? Which was anyone been in
the spaba fuks?

Speaker 1 (01:06:45):
But it was actually all right? But but anyway, all right,
what's doing with our last one?

Speaker 3 (01:06:49):
All right? Our final news bit of the day. We
all love a good pivot, and the newest pivot is
coming from Chuck E Cheese. They are opening adult arcades
called Chucks Arcade. No they're not, yep, And it features
a variety of new and current video games and retro
video games like misspac Man, Galaga, Mortal Kombat, Donkey Kong,
and Centipede. That has already opened in eight different states,

(01:07:13):
and each arcade has an animatronic character.

Speaker 1 (01:07:16):
It's got the things that has at.

Speaker 3 (01:07:18):
Least one Yes, are you interested in Chuck's Arcade?

Speaker 1 (01:07:24):
No? But I mean this isn't gonna work? Right? Is
there a market for our adult amazed how many people,
how many adults go to things like that? Like, let
me give you example. Last night, it was eleven fifteen
at night and I went for a walk downtown. I
was walking down Broadway and I don't know if you
know in that one building. People listening around the country

(01:07:46):
won't know this, but there's a building between Reperina and
where we have a bar. There's a building coming from
up towards Kasbar on the ride that's like got all
these apartments and now there's some commercial stuff in there.
I think there's a place called like the Kitty Titty
or something.

Speaker 3 (01:08:02):
That's what it's called, the name.

Speaker 2 (01:08:04):
Kitty Lounge or something like that.

Speaker 1 (01:08:06):
Okay, next to it is a bar where you can
come play like Dungeons and Dragons. Did you know that's there?

Speaker 2 (01:08:14):
Chaotic? Uh coming chaotic something?

Speaker 1 (01:08:18):
They sell coffee, but they also you can play like
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:08:22):
It's coffee in games, good trading card games.

Speaker 1 (01:08:25):
Yeah. So it's eleven fifteen on a Sunday night and
there were twenty people in there playing games and I
was like, wow, Kitty Titty doesn't have anybody in it,
but chaotic Dungeons and Dragons has a lot of people.
My point is to say, there's a lot more people

(01:08:46):
into this stuff than I would think there would be,
so maybe there is a market for Chucks.

Speaker 2 (01:08:52):
I didn't know this was happening, And would I go twice. No,
but I would probably make one trip. I'm a big
nostalgia guy. I gotta see the Bears in the in
their little theater. They don't have the whole music group.

Speaker 3 (01:09:04):
Just just at least one in the New What States
is this? I'd have to look that back up Texas,
New York. That's all I know off the top of
my head.

Speaker 2 (01:09:15):
Well, I missed the old I think it used to
be Showbiz Pizza at one point. So I would pop
in one time just to scratch that nostalgia itch, and
then I would not want to be anywhere near it
again because it's probably a little creepy.

Speaker 1 (01:09:27):
My problem with Chuck e Cheese was always the same,
which was there's little kids snotting in the pepperoni right,
and they were always like, you know, the little kid
would like take the cheese sticks and rub them on
their face and then like throw them back down and
they would just it just felt like a very unhygienic
place to me. So if you get all those stupid

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kids out of there, and then you just have the
pizza buffet, the bear and the Bear and I can
play Miss pac Man.

Speaker 2 (01:09:55):
I'm starting to talk into it.

Speaker 3 (01:09:57):
Georgia, Oklahoma, Florida, New York, Texas, Hampshire, Missouri, and Connecticut.

Speaker 1 (01:10:03):
Those are very different states, so they're kind of going
for all markets.

Speaker 3 (01:10:08):
More locations coming in California in August.

Speaker 2 (01:10:11):
I don't think it'll work, though, I kind of think
it won't either.

Speaker 3 (01:10:15):
Pizza was good.

Speaker 1 (01:10:17):
Is Chuck e Cheese that's still open?

Speaker 2 (01:10:19):
I think Lexingon still has one?

Speaker 1 (01:10:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:10:21):
Over on New Circle?

Speaker 1 (01:10:22):
Yeah? So do kids like still have their parties there
and stuff?

Speaker 3 (01:10:25):
Yeah, it's still a thing. It's just, you know, tough
to keep up with the times.

Speaker 1 (01:10:29):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:10:29):
Can I ask you one last question before we go?
You can ask me as many questions A little bit
off topic.

Speaker 1 (01:10:34):
Went to an Indian restaurant on Saturday and they were
having an Indian child's birthday party, okay, okay, And everyone
was dressed up. So when I walk in, there's like
fifteen or twenty people there, men and women and children.
They are in Native Indian garb. So I'm talking about India,

(01:10:55):
like the Asian country, right, native Indian garb, the what
do you call I don't even know what you call,
but you know what I'm talking like the robe kind
of stuff. And as I was leaving the restaurant, a
woman was walking in with her daughter and they were
both white, and they were dressed like that, and it

(01:11:17):
felt racist to me because it didn't like it looked
like what do you call it appropriation, That's what it
looked like. But they were crying going to a party
that was all Indian people and they were all dressed
like that. I'm going to presume that they checked first

(01:11:42):
to see if that was okay. And I'm not asking
you if it's okay, but can you see why I
would have felt like that. It felt sort of weird. Now,
maybe if I had seen him in the context of
everyone else, I wouldn't have felt like that. The person
I was with then told me that when when there's
an Indian wedding, they do that, and everyone that goes

(01:12:04):
to the wedding is supposed to dress like that.

Speaker 2 (01:12:08):
Which I know people who have gone Indian weddings and
they had to kind of go out of their way
to fund the traditional attire.

Speaker 1 (01:12:14):
I would feel very weird if you went to like
a Mexican wedding and everybody wore sombreros and like, like,
I would feel like I would feel like I was
being racist doing that. Does it not feel like that?

Speaker 2 (01:12:27):
I mean, to me someone that's not involved, it does
seem a little odd. But I've seen many examples of
what happened. I was at a coffee shop this summer
where there was an Indian wedding on the other side,
and I would say half the guests, uh, were, you know,
white people that probably had to go out and find
that that attire Because.

Speaker 1 (01:12:46):
During the Black Lives Matter movement when Nancy Pelosi dressed
in like African gear and I was like, Nancy, what
what are you doing? You look ridiculous, Like that's you're
clearly like you know, come on. But I guess, but
I think about it. If it was anything but Indian,
I feel like it wouldn't be appropriate.

Speaker 3 (01:13:09):
Well, I feel like there is like my culture is
not your costume here? But I agree with you, but this,
but but they seem welcoming like they did.

Speaker 1 (01:13:17):
Well, I didn't see her walking, so like I'm going
to assume when she got there. They didn't say get
out of here. Yeah, I'm gonna assume she wore it
because she was told to or thought to. But when
they walked in, it was very striking to me. I
felt like if they had asked me to come to
this party, I just would go, are you sure you

(01:13:37):
want me to wear this? Can I just because yeah?
Well they would feel like my culture is not your
cost to.

Speaker 3 (01:13:45):
And that's disrespectful. And I don't think that people want that,
like when you dress up with a sombrero and go out.

Speaker 1 (01:13:51):
But clearly I say this. I don't know, but I
do wonder like is it different with Indian people? Could
they want you to do that? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:13:58):
I think at least with weddings, it's like kind of
showing respect to their their culture.

Speaker 1 (01:14:03):
I guess would you feel they say you, we got
invited to an Indian wedding? Would you feel like, I
mean this is I should be where? Yeah? I would.

Speaker 2 (01:14:14):
I wouldn't know where to start, but I would have
to go out on my way to find it, to
be to.

Speaker 1 (01:14:18):
Wear it and also not be like, look at me,
people have done it.

Speaker 2 (01:14:25):
They heard from them, like it's hard to go and
buy all this stuff and wear and you feel a
little going to the store, but you go to the
but that's what they want at the go into the
Indian clothing store and you're like, all right, man, here
we go. I'm thirty two.

Speaker 1 (01:14:42):
Anyway, I'm not gonna wear that to Chucks. I'm just saying,
what made me think of that? But well, Billy, thank you,
thank you. It feels like we learned a lot of news.

Speaker 2 (01:14:53):
Learned about the Dialama got to shout out hook not
once but twice.

Speaker 3 (01:14:57):
Flush eating naggots, naggots.

Speaker 1 (01:15:00):
Yeah, all kinds of stuff. Well, thank you all very much.
I'll be back tomorrow and we will do a little
bit about the Big Beautiful Bill and its effect on Kentucky.
This is interrupted by Matt

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