Episode 19 - It's The News

Matt is joined by Drew and Billy to discuss the ten biggest news stories of the week.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is interrupted by Matt Jones. All Right, Episode nineteen
of interrupted by Matt Jones, sponsored by Cornbread Hemp. This
is the good Life. We are sort of set up
here right before college football begins next week. We've got

(00:21):
Governor Andy Basheer as our twentieth guest. I timed that perfectly.
But before then, you know, Drew Franklin, we've been really
busy doing some other things. But that doesn't mean that
there's not like events in the world like that. The
world doesn't stop just because we have Pablo tore No.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
I mean, we've been getting our butt kicked around here,
but the world is still turning.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
There's still news. I mean, Mina Kimes is wonderful, but
the news is still gonna happen. So if we don't
know the news, then I don't know what happens in
the world. So we needed somebody to catch us up
on the news. I looked around. Billy was the only
person here, so I was like, Billy, you can come
up with ten news items. This is the news. It's

(01:05):
the news with with Billy our sports now A little
spoiler alert for his first couple of news items, I
would get him to give me an idea of the
direction he was going this one, no idea. He can
say anything right here, and I have no clue or
what's gonna come out. So if it's if he picks

(01:25):
good news items, he deserves all the price. If he
picks bad ones, it's on him.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
I trust him. We've done I think, is this fourth
one now?

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Thinks? I mean, he's got a good.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Feel for the news at this point, I would actually
trust him over most news sources out there. So even
though we don't know what's ahead, I'm just gonna assume
that Billy did his homework. These are the top headlines,
and they're not too depressing like they were a couple
weeks ago, and it's We're.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Gonna just be clear. The Trump administration has not in
any way pressured Billy as to what news he's gonna do.
We have not heard from anyone. Any of This is
Billy's news with no outside hindrance. So Billy, we're ready
to get started.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
All right, let's do it.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
There are You're going to go through ten? Ten? Okay? Yeah,
dun dun, dun, dun, dun.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Not as morbid as we have in the past. As well,
We've got some exciting things to get to. I do
want to start. This is not one of our topics,
but we do need to offer some condolences to everybody
that was impacted by the shooting in Minneapolis over the week.
A shooter killed two school children in a Catholic church
and school when he shot through the church windows, wounding
seventeen others.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yeah, very sad. It feels like these. I think the
saddest part of these shootings in some ways, besides obviously
the tragedy of the death, is how they don't even
really make a lot of news anymore. We just kind
of move on like that. We've become we've become numb
to them, and in some ways that's scarier than them
actually happening, is that they just sort of are like
a blip on the radar. I mean this this had

(02:54):
happened that night, somebody mentioned it and I had not
even heard it. That's that's kind of worrisome to me.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
That and just the places, you know, I've had people
ask me in the past, don't you get nervous in
Times Square these big events. This is a church in
Minneapolis with kids, like I mean literally anywhere. Yeah, you're
not really the first time it's happening to church. You're
exactly right, like there's not a there's no hiding from it.
And you know this happens more and more in more
and more random spots. So I agree with you. Prayers

(03:24):
to all those folks. Now that does continue your leading
with something sad.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
Needed to get that out of the way, needed to
address that. Now it's time for more news.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Let's let's get started.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Oh, sticking with the crime category, let's go to the
federal crackdown on crime. It's time to make America safe again.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Okay, so you're not doing any particular crime, this is
just a broader crime, exactly all right, to stop crime.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
We're talking about the deployment of National Guard troops in
cities around the United States. There's been two thousan two
hundred National Guard members in d C with seven hundred
plus arrest taking place since August eleventh, and now Trump
is threatening to take National Guard troops to Chicago. The
Chicago mayor has said that Trump's efforts are uncoordinated, uncalled for,

(04:14):
and unsound. Yet Chicago has topped the nation and homicides.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
For homotrades, homocide are homicides? You what do you say
you corrected it? What did you say the second?

Speaker 3 (04:29):
I'd hate to I'd hate to bring it up again, but.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Don't be too sad. Answer is homicide. Oh yeah, not
homo sides or homicides that happened only at home. Yeah,
it's not same sex sides. And it's not.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
I don't I don't have a rebuttal to that. But
they're okay, you're doing good, Okay, we're just being us.
Trump might be deploying National Guard troops to Chicago, to Baltimore.
He seems to be on a kick right now.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah. What a waste of money, Just a complete waste
of money. And then if he takes them to places
beyond Washington, d C. Troubling. So like, legally, I think
he probably has the authority to do this in DC
because he sees basically a federal territory. I think it's
unbelievably stupid because it's not what these people are trained for.

(05:25):
You know. One of the things I have some friends
in law enforcement, and they talk a lot about training,
and when you throw somebody in to do something they
don't have training for, you're asking for disasters. You put
military people in law enforcement training, it would be like,
if we just took all our police officers and put
them on the front lines of the war, would they
be better than me and Drew? Yes? Would it be smart? No?

(05:48):
And they also, this is the thing, Drew. They're also
not putting them where the crime is. The crime is
not on the national Mall for people like me wh've
lived in DC, the crime is in neighborhoods like Anacostia
and Exce and they're not going there. They're not going
to where the crime is. They're giving up this thing

(06:10):
that's like make it look like we're doing something. And
I will tell you if someone who's traveled a lot
in Europe, there are some countries. I mean, America is
not the first place to do this where they'll have
military walking around. And I don't know, Drew, it actually
makes me feel less safe. Yeah, like what's going on?
Do you know what I mean? Like, it actually makes

(06:31):
me feel less safe to see dudes walk around with
guns in military uniforms. I'm like, oh, wait a minute,
where am I So? I think this is stupid. It's
all for visual, it's all to make it look like
Trump's tough on crime. He'll probably try to do it
in Chicago and DC. You know, I don't know if
legally has the authority. I don't know it. It's gonna

(06:53):
make it'll make an impact, but do you want it's
like a rock? Do you want to just stay there forever?
You know what I mean? Make a short term impact,
but long term it does nothing to the root causes
of crime or poverty.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
You mentioned the National Mall. I was just there a
month ago in my biggest trouble. I was blowing bubbles
with the little girlfriend's daughter and she actually blew them
a little bit to someone having lunch, and I had
to go over there and apologize, like, sorry, she's only
three now she would bubbles?

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Are you telling me that? Now?

Speaker 2 (07:19):
There's just ak forty sevens all around where we were
blowing bubble guns drawn on them. I'm not pretty safe there,
to be honest. Before they stepped in.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
The National Guard is only supposed to be called in
in like emergency emergencies. And if you're not even gonna
send them work like I saw them walking the streets
of Georgetown. Have you ever been to Georgetown? Nice? First
of all, great shopping, I mean unless you are a
Mancha store.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Oh, it's a bad day to be in Bachia in Georgetown.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
And you you're you're gonna be fine, Like Georgetown is
the is the yuppiest place on earth, and you know
they've run out of things to do, so like they
had them picking up trash and there's no there's dignity
and picking up trash. But like, I don't know if
that's what we want our military to be doing on
a daily basis in the middle of summer. So it's
just a waste of time. I don't get up in
arms about it like some Democrats do, because amongst the

(08:11):
things that the administration's doing, I don't like that's probably
towards the bottom of it. But it's just a waste
of time and money. That's my is.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Completely agree And then you get like the the bickering
you see online and everywhere else. Is like the mayors
in these places are like, no, we don't want you,
and then it just becomes a conflict when you get.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
There and they're But the problem is the mayors of
big cities, like our three biggest cities have three of
the most unpopular mayors of all time, like has like
an eight percent approval rating and probably should be in
prison the I think the guy in Chicago's Brandon Johnson,
he's like twenty three years old and hasn't exactly been crushed.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
She's got some comments out there, yeah, I mean he's not.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
And then the woman in California, Karen Bass, she had
all the fire issues and she so honestly. I mean,
these mayors don't have a whole lot of you know,
they don't have a lot of ground to stand on.
I will say this, one of things Democrats are bad at,
and I know there's a lot of Democrats that listen to.
One of things we're bad at is we do deny

(09:14):
people's feelings. So if somebody feels unsafe, billy, and you
just tell them, actually, statistically crime is down thirty one
like that can be true. But if they feel unsafe,
they still feel insafe, right, And I do think we
have to sit there and think why is it people
feel unsafe? One is something happens and it gets poured
on your TV and you and it makes it think

(09:35):
it's everywhere. So that's one, But two is also I mean,
let's be real, there are parts of a lot of
cities that don't feel safe to walk around. And that's
in and that's not just in DC, New York and Chicago,
that's in Louis and Lexington, and so we do have
to do something about that. I don't think it is
pour the military into the streets and then, by the way,

(09:58):
it'd be like coming to Lexington and just putting all
the military and Chevy Chase. That's not that's not really
doing it. What are This is a renovation and it
is out of control. So that's my take. But thank

(10:18):
you for letting me know about the Homo side.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
Yeah, we'll work on that. Let's go to the second
biggest news story of the week, and that's the engagement
of Travis Kelcey and Taylor Swift.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
I'd argue that it might be first.

Speaker 3 (10:29):
The three time super Bowl champion and music superstar are
now engaged after a joint Instagram post on Tuesday afternoon.
Taylor joined the New Heights podcast just recently, where they
had over a million viewers at one time live.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
We were both one of them, right, yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
And now they are engaged. There is also some reports
that it was done shortly after the interview. The podcast interview,
they were actually getting these things ready while they were
doing the interview. It is taken not just the country,
but the world by storm. This could be one of
the biggest weddings in the last couple of decades.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
Biggest wedding in America. I mean, you know, we forget again.
There are other countries, so like in India, I think,
like the president got married and it was you know,
everybody in the country watched. But in America, I think this,
this could be the biggest. So I was on ESPN
radio when this broke. It was it was fun to
listen to people's reactions. But now we have more information. Okay,

(11:26):
need to break some things down. First of all, got
married at his house. Engaged. Engaged asked her to marry
like in the backyard, good or bad? I mean, like
if it looked nice backyard, let me just like, let's
say I'm at my house in Louisville, next to my

(11:47):
black beat up buick. Just get down on one knee.
Don't you think the woman might be like, could we've
gotten out of the backyard?

Speaker 2 (11:57):
I actually thought about this though it's Taylor. She can't
go anywhere. I'll basically send in a secret service to
sweep the place. So how do you how do you
set it up without letting her team and security know
what's going on, and you're trying to surprise her so
almost I don't even know where you would go except
your backyard, because if you're truly trying to do the surprise,
and that cause kind of go with the engagement because
anything else you would need to like notify so many

(12:18):
people to set it up that I think maybe that
was his only option because she can't take her anywhere.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
The Kelsey father, yeah, he's given too much, Like stop,
you need to not talk as much. I think he
sees a moment and he keeps talking about things. I
wonder if they want all this out. He was like, yeah,
he's gonna do a long time ago. They were gonna
do it at the O Charlie's, but he was sleepy,
and it's like, yeah, I don't know. I mean, like
Lee had gassed that night, so he didn't want to
do it. Leaves leaves some mystery. I think a lot

(12:46):
of people wanted there to be mystery about it, and
he's kind of like dumping all the information.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
Hey, I mean I knew he was in the picture,
but Donna Kelsey has always been the star apparent. I
feel like the dad here sees this as his time
to tell the story and get his own personal brand
up a little bit.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know then. Of course, there's a
lot of things about the wedding, the pre nup. If
you're Taylor, you gotta have a prenup, right, Yes, I
mean you gotta have a good, good one. Oh, absolutely, Travis.
I get the feeling it's just a guess. Like his
lawyer is like a dude that is like in downtown Cincinnati.

(13:28):
Saw Goodman in a shopping center? Yeah, like yeah, I
feel like his office is in a shopping center and
Travis might have seen him on television. It's got the
people behind him on his desk. So I feel like
Travis's lawyer's gonna be a little overmatched in the negotiating.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
I'll do you one better. I think Taylor's team could
get a stack of papers, only put words on the
top sheet, leave the rest blank, and slott it over
and he'd sun it and not even.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
Look at it. So when I was in high school,
I would do the same. Stephanie, I'm not gonna say
her last name, but Stephanie was a really good writer
and she believed her English teacher didn't read her papers.
She just gave her a night because she was such
a good writer. So onetime she wrote a paper. First
two pages were her pages, like three through six were
just gone with the wind, and then it went back

(14:12):
to her page. That's what she put in and got
an a and no one brought it up. That's risky.
I did the opposite.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
I also copy and pasted into a paper, but I
got a zero.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
Did you do gone with the wind? Did good? Did? I?
Kind of? Yeah? That might be what happens to things,
all right? And then you have the ceremony, like they
have so many people in theory they can invite. Should
they just Elope? I think they have to again kind
of with the engagement thing. It's just too much work

(14:46):
to take her out in public for something like this. Also,
I was thinking if I'm in Travis's shoes, like, okay,
Pat Mahomes gets an invite, but where did where's your Yeah,
you gotta have a line in the locker room, So
where do you cut that off? Because they're all gonna
come and there's been a I mean with that dynasty,
there's there's some guys that have been there a long time.
They would probably think they're geting invited, but you can't
invite the fifty two man roster. Yeah, that's exactly right,

(15:08):
And you can't invite like the KYNESA SA Royals.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
Definitely, Bud, I guess Andy Reid and Pat Mahomes would
be in. Other than that, I think there's gonna be
some difficult conversations.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
There may be other dudes he's actually better friends with
that just aren't as famous. Then you got all the
people he played college football with at Cincinnati, right then
Taylor's friends, Yeah, got all these singers Blake Lively are split.
Good point. Okay, what about the last name? She can't
change her last year? Yeah, I mean you can't. I

(15:39):
mean she's Taylor. I mean he can change his last name.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
Wouldn't you think he would?

Speaker 1 (15:44):
I mean it would be more appropriate.

Speaker 3 (15:45):
Would you go hyphen or would you just take the
entire classes?

Speaker 1 (15:50):
You know, I'm amazed, Like, I just want you to
think about him for a second. I mean, this dude
had a v H one dating show at one point,
Like people don't realize, kind of one of those trashy ones.
It was a trashy one. It was like girls came
out and showed their thongs on and like now he's
married to Taylor Swift. I mean, there's a great Saturday

(16:10):
Night Live skit. Have you seen the thing that has
come out since There's got Saturday Night Live skit where
this was a few years ago. They had this woman
who was like a poet and like an artsy poet,
and she was dressed very conservatively and she's like, this
is my new boyfriend. And it was a guy with
a hoodie, his hat backwards and a football jersey, going,
who she's smart, that's my girl. And I feel like
that and it was predicting Travis Kelcey and and her.

(16:36):
So his change is amazing if you think of it.
It and he just.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
Wore a bracelet to her concert and like on his
podcast was like, man, I sure would like to meet
this Taylor Swift person just completely shot a shot in public.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yeah, and then she's like, Okay, I'll give this guy
a chance. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
I mean, you know what a very public shoot your
shot moment there with Blake Shelton didn't work?

Speaker 1 (16:59):
Do you have a bracelet? Though?

Speaker 2 (17:01):
I've enjoyed the memes that have come out of this,
Like what was her caption? The English teacher married the
gym teacher that I saw one that was Belichick and
Jordan and it said the gym teacher married the English student.
Just the internet has been very great with a lot
of these.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
But it seems like everybody likes them, you know what
I mean? Was watching football get her out, like everybody
and then and then they'll show like some woman with
her with her brass out and they'll be like at
the football full. But besides them, I feel like most

(17:35):
people seem I always saw Travis Kelsey was a goober
and I kind of like him. I thought the podcast
I was kind of sweet. The way he like takes
tayte He seems so excited. I got their pet names.
And then like she's she knows he's dumb, but she
says to him like you're smarter than everybody. You are,
like you know, and he's like.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
Nah, it's the classic our girl jog guides.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
You know. That's that's exactly what it is. It would
be like a movie and then we'll probably have one nineties.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
What do you think about the Bachelor party? Hey, we
need a camera on Jason Kelsey. He's got to the
entire time. He's got to be careful because I feel
like I mean, you want to talk about everyone catching
you cheety if he were to do one thing, Oh, Taylor,
I have snipers, the lefties.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
They don't. He didn't. She doesn't need like every girl
would be like you, I can't believe you did this, Taylor.
So he can. I don't think he can have a
bachelor party. I think he's just got to be like, look,
I've lucked into this.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
I need Jason Kelsey on a bachelor party for his brother. Yeah,
maybe Jason will just go have one for him. Do
you like the couple, Billy, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
I was just a little surprised by the reaction by
some of the engagement. I mean, we had females, you know,
just stopping everything that they were doing, screaming, looking for
the nearest swifty to hug.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
The two hosts, the two host girls at ks Bar,
they heard me say it on ESPN, and they gave
each other a hug, And I was like, like, that
is amazing. Like if I'd looked at them and I
said I'm engaged, they'd have been like, HU, that's good whatever.
I'm like, I employ you can't you feign a little excitements.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
Taylor match, She's been through so much. She's had forty
eight breakups in like six years.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
So are they When do they have a kid? I mean,
everybody assumes this is Kelsey's last year playing because she's
always thirteenth year.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
And she's gonna do the super Bowl and he's gonna
win the ring and they're gonna walk off together.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yeah, and so do they When do they have a kid?
Do they have a kid? You gotta assume they do, right, Yeah,
I would expect after the wedding. Yeah, So you don't
think it's a shotgun wedding.

Speaker 3 (19:38):
No, No, I don't think they hurry up and.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
It's very sweet and uh yeah now that now it's
their America's couple. Would you watch the wedding if it
was live on television? Absolutely?

Speaker 2 (19:50):
I mean if I was in the middle of something,
you know, I'm not gonna like clear my schedule for it,
but if it's on, and I would pick that over
anything else that I would be watching.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
Yeah, me too, I mean just the people watch. Yeah,
of itself. I like Love. I was rooting for Love.
They found it. Good for them, Yeah, good, good for them,
and they seem like good people. I do like the
sort of way you know, all these the Conservatives really
don't like Taylor, so they ask him about it and
they're like, I hope they have a happy life. And

(20:19):
then they'll go, you know, she needs to learn to
submit to her man. It's like, no one shut up? Right?
What if do you think? Can I make a prediction?
If she has a wedding with a famous group of people,
Trump will tweet that he's angrily that he wasn't invited.
I could see that. Wait and see, do you want

(20:39):
to put a bet on that? No, I think he
would do that, even though he said awful things about
her and vice versa. He will be angry that he
doesn't get in body because it'll be like the biggest event.
I mean, the biggest event since what, Like, I don't
have one. I don't I don't had an American wedding America, yes,

(21:00):
since the Roil wet. I don't think we've had an
American wedding like this ever in history, at least that
I can that I know of. I don't remember any.
I mean in modern media, you know, you hear stories
about weddings like where the world would follow like a
Rockefeller daughter wedding, But that was like before TV, so
it didn't exist, and these are two.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
People with completely separate audiences that are huge and themselves.
You have NFL fans and Swifties coming together. Well, good
for good for those kids, all right, Well send a gift.

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Speaker 3 (22:29):
Speaking of forty five forty seven, let's go back to
Unpresident Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday requiring
the Justice Department to investigate and prosecute people for burning
the American flag. Back in nineteen eighty nine, the Supreme
Court ruled that flag burning is legitimate political expression predicted
by the US Constitution. But Trump says they're still room

(22:50):
to prosecute flagbird prosecute flag burning. It is if it's
likely to incite imminent lawless action or amount to fighting
words to put people in jail for a year if
they burn the American flag.

Speaker 1 (23:04):
Yeah, okay, So let's say I give Donald Trump the
best of motives for this. So it is the Supreme
Court has said you cannot ban flag burning, period, end
of story. So if he intends to stop flag burning,
that's illegal. So you lose. The second part, though, is

(23:26):
you are allowed to punish things that incite violent behavior.
So if you say, like, hey, everybody, let's burn this
flag and then go burn.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
What we're meeting at the courthouse, burn the flags.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
And then take over the Yeah, but that was already illegal.
You're a dis executive board like it was. That was
already illegal. So either he just tried to do something illegal,
or he just did something that was already illegal, you
see what I'm saying. So it either is unconstitutional or

(23:59):
it's meaning right. So I don't really understand. I mean,
this is the classic thing he does, which is he
does something that either he doesn't have the power to do,
and then when he gets pushedback on it goes No,
there's already a low. So I do think though it's
good to have the discussion about why burning the flag
is illegal. I'm against it. I think if you burn

(24:20):
a flag, you're being disrespectful and actually sort of like
off at the same time, though, that's what America is
is to allow people drew to do things like that,
even if you personally don't.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
Like, Yeah, I mean, I'm not burning a flag. I'd
rather not burn one near me. Heck, if had to
get rid of a flag and I wanted to take it, seriously,
you have to like take it to a flag recycling
place like Freddy Maggert's explained this to me. You can't
just like throw a flag away, So and that's how
flag recycling. Yeah, if you're getting rid of a flag,
are they I'm going to talk out of my rear
in here, but maybe like a legion. I don't know,

(24:54):
there's there's places there you can't just do an American
legion kind of place. You can't just throw away a flag,
is my point. And that's not even like I even
thought about how do I get rid of it?

Speaker 1 (25:02):
You're not supposed to so very.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
Anti burning flag, but you know, we do have this
free speech thing and as it's written, people have that right,
even though I don't think you should do it. And
as you said, Supreme Court said in eighty whatever, that's
how it works.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
It's funny to me that a lot of people that
get the angriest about things like flag burning, dispecting flag,
will also wear it like flag banana hammocks. When my grandfather,
when I was young, my grandfather did not believe you
should wear an American flag on anything. He did not
like when people wore the American flag like his T

(25:35):
shirts or as shorts. He was a World War Two
veteran and he believed it was disrespectful. I think one
time I had a like American flag socks and he
told me to take him off, and he was like,
you don't wear the American flag as an accessory. And
he was very serious about it. And now you fast
forward thirty some years and the people who claim to

(25:57):
be the most patriotic do that the most, you know
what I mean, They almost like do that sort of
trivial stuff the most. So I don't know, I mean,
but to me, the reason you don't burn a flag
is why would you do something that intentionally upsets people
for no valid reason. It's the same. I feel the

(26:18):
same way about people who would, like want to burn
a gay flag, like a gay rights Why would you
do that? What are you accomplishing? Are you just trying
You're just trying to make these people mad. So feel
the same way about burning the Jewish flag or the
Palestinian flag or the American flag, Like why are you
just trying to make people mad? You can make your
point without doing.

Speaker 2 (26:38):
That, completely agree, we all know the answer. People get
the satisfaction of the attention.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
And they just want to own the other side. And
I hate that. I hate that, Like, why do we
want to intentionally make other people mad, unless they're Louisville fans,
at which point it's perfectly okay.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
I'm guilty of what you said, and I honestly didn't
even realize till someone pointed out to me years ago.
But like, I have a onesie, that's an American flag.
You go the lake, American flag, there swam trunks everywhere.
I never even really do now, but it was brought
to me. I think my mom even said it might
have even brought up my grandfather, like this wouldn't fly
with a lot of.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
People a generation or two. That was that that part
of culture seems to have just gone away, but it was.
But my grandfather was very very serious about it, that
you just that was not something you would do. And
it's just amazing how that is just you don't ever
hear anybody say that anymore.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
And I'm guilty as anyone. Let the US play in
the World Cup, and I've got five flags.

Speaker 1 (27:40):
Everyone does it, yeah, yeah, and and and that's it's
just interesting. So I think also that shows how the
power of symbols changed. To my grandfather, you wearing an
American flag on your T shirt would have been as
disrespectful a thing as you could do. Now that same
symbol people would look at and say, that's one of

(28:01):
the most respectful things you can do. And it's literally
the exact same action. Yeah, now we put World War
champs on top of the flag and we and that's
it's just funny. How So I would say to people,
when you want to get really angry about somebody doing something,
think about that flag thing and think about how the
same action time is just completely changed in people's minds

(28:21):
what it means.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
So what's next, Well, there was an important update this
week to this next news story. After fifty five years,
the popular restaurant Cracker Barrel decided to do something that's
worth a minimalist approach inside and also changing the logo,
removing the old timer Uncle Herschel from.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
The crew that was technically actually Uncle Herschel. Yes, okay,
I didn't know. I didn't know that they act that
was actually who that was.

Speaker 3 (28:45):
In a matter of a few days, the company stock
dropped fourteen percent and lost one hundred million dollars in value.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
Guess who made money from that? You as soon as
I saw it drop all these things. It's so stupid
people always sell the stock to one of these protests companies,
they always go right back up. Happened on Target, happened
on Bud on Bud? Why and hazard Bush happened on this?
It did? It did? I think I'm not gonna say
the amount, but Uncle Matt made some money just going

(29:14):
this will go back up? So and go ahead.

Speaker 3 (29:18):
Oh well, just this Wednesday, Cracker Barrel announced that they
are bringing back the old logo. Many said it was
woke that they changed the logo and the interior. There
was a lot of backlash, but they have now since
changed back to the old logo.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
So why was it woke? That's one thing I never
understood about it. I understood why it was bad because
it was bad, like that was a bad change. Why
was it woke?

Speaker 3 (29:42):
Don't know. I think woke is a term for like
being overly politically correct. And so maybe people looked at
taking the old timer off as you know, I.

Speaker 1 (29:52):
Mean, could it have been Billy, I'm just spitballing here.
Could it have been at a restaurant didn't want an
eighty five year old man any longer to be the
symbol of the restaurant. Yeah, it could be like I don't.
That wouldn't be a crazy thing to think. No, but

(30:13):
now I think it was a poor idea because the
new logo sucked.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
Well, this is also a restaurant that A lot of
it has to do with the ambiance, right, you go in,
the things on the wall, the old time feel.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
But are they supposed to continue to market to people
until their entire audience dies?

Speaker 3 (30:32):
Well, you're posing an interesting question.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
I mean, you could understand how that CEO would think
a lot of our audience the days of people eating
biscuits and gravy is going down. Right. You don't just
see people every morning, like my grandfather getting up and
eating beat biscuits and gravy. So maybe we need you
could see why somebody would think that.

Speaker 3 (30:55):
Sure, in a vacuum, In a vacuum.

Speaker 1 (30:58):
That's exactly right. What did you think of it?

Speaker 2 (31:00):
I just I guess I wasn't designed like everyone else.
I am missing the part of my brain that cares
what a corporation is doing. Bud Light, Target, Sydney, Sweeney Cracker, Barrel,
chickfil You, Nay, I can't imagine carring, I genuinely can't.
It has no effect on your life. I agree it
does not matter at all unless you work for Cracker Barrel, Like,

(31:22):
why do you care what Cracker Burl's logo looks like? Okay,
maybe you like it and a little bit of nostalgi
and you'll miss it. But this outrage and like being
debated on news shows, who actually cares what Cracker Barrel's
logo really looks like?

Speaker 1 (31:34):
I mean, the answer to your question is no one exactly.
The reason they do it is the outrage exactly. The
outrage is the thing. And it used to be that
my side, the left, was the party of outrage. We
got so angry about everything, and we looked like sticks
in the mud. We'd get mad about it, like we
were the outrage Kings. And then somehow in the last

(31:56):
few years it's actually flipped and now the outrage came
and queens are on the right now Sidney Sweeney shows
we still got it in us, we still can do it.
But I'm with you. I think it's so stupid. Why
does anyone care? Why? Why would you care? Go back

(32:18):
to the bud light thing, Why would you care who
advertises for bud light? Why would you I don't even
I don't remember.

Speaker 3 (32:24):
Why were people mad at target, I'm not sure. Probably
a rainbow I don't know it, like rainbow flag, something influencer.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
That was bud Light, I believe, but I can't. And
then the Sydney Sweeney thing jeans jeans.

Speaker 4 (32:40):
Okay, who cares about American I'm glad all these people
have perfect lives where they can use their brain to
worry about a corporation's logo or their commercial.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
Go play with your kids, Go get a job. Like
we haven't find something to care about other than a
business in their logo.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
We have a new burger at Kspar the Bay and Jamberg.
Are we gonna get canceled for calling it the bacon
Bam out of bayold Berger?

Speaker 3 (33:07):
You might if Bam does something not kosher in the news. Matt,
you know, oh, I can't.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
Be responsible for BAM's personal life. It's just a pun.

Speaker 3 (33:17):
You just have to change the menu, I guess.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
I mean nobody says, hey, you did chili chili Gillespie,
Billy drinks too much? You know.

Speaker 3 (33:24):
Trump added field to this fire by treating it out
Cracker Barrel.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
Imagine that until Cracker Barrel walks in my house and
kicks over my TV. I don't care what they're doing
there good food. I've been there twice in the last
two months. If every Cracker Barrel fell off the earth
right now, my life would not change.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
When's last time you've been to a cracker barrel, like
a year and a half ago, and you.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
Said recently about three weeks Finley, Ohio, And was it good?

Speaker 1 (33:45):
It was good? But also if I never rated again,
I would be okay, Yeah, I used to when again now,
when I was a kid, Cracker Barrel was like you know,
you'd sit and you'd wait outside and sit on those
rocking chairs and go joan blonde now party of three
and like now, I don't know, I don't think about
it a lot. Older's breakfast was pretty good. I do

(34:07):
love their hash Brown cast role. Gift shops have kind
of gone away in my mind as important now that
I could get that Conway Twitty eight track tape online
if I want, I don't need to bude in the store.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
I used to love to go in there and get
a Stuart's Old Fashioned cream soda. Those are good, But
I used to think only Cracker roll help now.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
I can get Now you can get them anywhere.

Speaker 3 (34:31):
Target opted to forego DEI initiatives.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
That was the controversy.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
No, I thought it was now they had something in
the front of the store.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
I thought, yeah, I think that Target's been one that's
unluckily been hit by both sides. I think Target. Initially
the right was mad that Target was gay, and then
to show they weren't gay, they got rid of DEI
and then that made I think black black people angered
just can't win. I guess now they couldn't win, but

(34:59):
just they couldn't get on Target.

Speaker 3 (35:01):
Oh where's my bell? It's in the other studio.

Speaker 2 (35:04):
I think they have an opinion about Cracker Barrow. In
these places, we need to see a statement that you're
there five times a week and it actually matters to you.
If you're commenting and you haven't been there in six months,
shut up.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
Like, I don't really have strong opinions about Hardy's. I
don't get work though, haven't been there in Tenu. I
think it would be rude of me to have a
strong opinion about Hardy's.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
I used to love O Charlie's, great biscuits, great soup.
They've been gone a long time. You know what, the
world kept turning. It's a restaurant. There's others. We'll all
be okay.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
So let's quickly rank our hash cracker barrel foots, Hash
Brown castro. Number one, number two for me, uh bits,
biscuits and gravy, gravy, gravy. And then number three maybe
a little controversial, chicken and dumplings.

Speaker 2 (35:43):
Oh, not controversial at all. That's in my number one.

Speaker 1 (35:46):
What's your number?

Speaker 2 (35:47):
I will say you can get dumplings without the chickens
like a side item.

Speaker 1 (35:50):
Sometimes I do that.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
I think they're gravy is a little overrated. I'm gonna go.
I usually end up with some pancakes. Okay, so I'll
say pancakes. I agree with you on the hash Brown
cast role. Probably the dumplings. I'll throw on the corn
bread if I'm having good corn bread.

Speaker 1 (36:06):
Yeah, if it's not dry. Sometimes they may get real dry.

Speaker 3 (36:09):
But yes, yeah, I'm gonna be pretty unoriginal here, but
biscuits and gravy is my number one. I think the
corn bread is my number two. And then I've had
good steak and eggs there.

Speaker 1 (36:18):
Okay, they also have. I think Shandon mentioned on our
regular show country Ham. You can't get that. You can't
get country Ham in many devices, and that's pretty.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
If I may pay him another compliment since I kind
of went off on people who care about Cracker Barrel.
If you get a meal there, you can order a
five dollars to go meals. They're like a full dinner
for five dollars. I'll get like four or five of
them on my way out of Cracker Broll.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
We have some breaking news one I Dream of Genie
star Barbara Eden reveals Genie and Tony were never intimate.
That came up as a text that alert from Entertainment Weekly.
Were people sitting around talking about that show was on
TV sixty years ago. I thought I would have sworn

(37:01):
Barbara Eden was dead. No offense to her. That's the news.
There you go. So basically the Genie and the Soldier
they never fornicated. Well, what am I gonna do now?
That was a lot of the room. That was a
lot of the whole point of the show. Do people
think they were actually well they were. There was like
sexual tension between them. I didn't know. Was there like

(37:23):
rumors of stuff or do people always wondered did it happen?
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Speaker 3 (38:00):
The Apprentice is back?

Speaker 1 (38:02):
Is this number five?

Speaker 3 (38:02):
I promise this is my favorite, my last Donald Trump story.

Speaker 1 (38:05):
This is number I.

Speaker 3 (38:06):
Yes, the Apprentice is back. Trump has made some questionable
moves over the last week. He has fired the Federal
Reserve governor Lisa Cook, accused her of lying on financial documents.
She is now suing to try to keep her job,
And in the same week, he decided to fire the
CDC director, doctor Susan Monarez, who was just hired on
July thirty first, so she didn't even make it a

(38:27):
month before Donald Trump fired her.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
Yeah, I mean, I don't even know what you say,
Like he fires all these anybody who has what, in
my opinion, seems like a reasonable opinion, like oh, we
might want to invest invest in health fired? You know.
Federals are, I mean, federals are. Most people don't understand
what it does, to be honest with you, It's even
hard for me to understand. But it's pretty clear it

(38:53):
needs to be independent, needs to make decisions not based
on politics. He's trying to in that, you know. I mean,
it's almost comes to a point like it's hard for
me with him because he does so much stuff that
would like bring down other presidencies, and it's just a
Wednesday for him, you know. And it's probably a smart strategy.

(39:15):
It kind of overwhelms you with stuff and then it's
hard to focus on anything. So he's effective at that.
But I think these are bad things. It's boring as
to why I think they're bad, especially the FED. But
I don't think it's good.

Speaker 2 (39:28):
My thing is I'm all for, uh, well, let's let's
get healthy.

Speaker 1 (39:31):
What do we call it? Maha, ma, maha? Is that it? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (39:35):
I'm all for for making America healthy. I'll even wear
the hat. But let's just let's let's include a little
bit of science, just a little bit.

Speaker 1 (39:42):
When you think of healthy, do you really think of RFK? No,
but I would. I would like people to be healthy.
I just think we should. I mean, I don't understand
how we got to RFK. Of all the people involved
in the Trump world, the most insane is RFK, and
is don't hell like he is. I mean, the rest

(40:04):
of the people are road scholars. And I know because
I his father is like my hero, his father, Bobby Kennedy.
To me, like, if I were to say to you,
who's the person whose political life I most admire? Now,

(40:26):
his personal life was whatever it was, but his political life,
it would be Bobby Kennedy. And he's the guy who,
before he got shot, went into Appalachia really for the
first time and highlighted a lot of the problems there.
He did the same thing in the inner city. He
went to Indian reservations. He was like, exactly, and the
fact that this dude is his son and he has

(40:48):
no medical training none. And with the sentence he's in
charge of health and he has no medical training. That
shit in the conversation, no matter who it is that
care who it is. It could be the smartest person
in the world, that should end the conversation, and yet

(41:11):
we let him. I mean, he said he was walking
through the airport and he saw children and it looked
like they they're mitochondria hurt. What what does that even mean?

Speaker 2 (41:25):
All that training he has he can spot those things.

Speaker 1 (41:28):
Children are by every measure healthier now than they've been
in the entire existence of human history. I mean, you
realize it was only like fifty years ago that the
average lifespan was or seventy years ago that the average
lifespan was like twenty five years younger than it is.
Didn't realize that, I mean used to be people like God.

(41:48):
First of all, you go back two hundred years ago.
People were dead at my like, no one was mine.
I was I would have been one hundred in the
seventeen hundreds at my And I just I can not
believe America has allowed Robert Kennedy to be in charge
of health. Robert Kennedy is. They don't even let him

(42:08):
go the family reunions.

Speaker 3 (42:10):
You think it's a last name thing he got his job.

Speaker 1 (42:13):
No, I think it's because he represents this conspiracy. He
was part of the conspiracy theory left. Okay, Robert Kennedy
people were like Hollywood like wellness people, etc. And Trump
was able to win them over by bringing him in.
But he's a kok He is a cook.

Speaker 2 (42:37):
If you had to have a position, it should have
been something like the railroad.

Speaker 1 (42:40):
Railroad. Maybe give him some training wheels.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
We shouldn't be gone put him on the railroad. Yeah,
just not straight to health. Surely there was another commissioner
he could have practiced at.

Speaker 1 (42:49):
And you know, I used to always make fun of
his voice, and then I had a woman rite me
and say, you know, you always advocate not making fun
of people for things they can't help. And okay, fair enough,
but it doesn't he doesn't seem to me like the
person that can walk through the airport and tell who's
healthy and who's not.

Speaker 2 (43:06):
Can you like, dump a bear in Central Park or something.

Speaker 1 (43:09):
He like swims in whale blubber. He kills bears and
then leaves them in the park.

Speaker 3 (43:17):
But we're getting that die out.

Speaker 1 (43:19):
Okay, one positive thing, But you know, like one of
the things people in the Maha movement are really for
is getting chemicals off of farms, which, by the way,
is good. We need as few a pesticides and things
as we possibly can. Some of them we have to have.
But well, he just ended all regulation of that stuff.

(43:40):
Mister Maha ended all FDA regulation of pesticides or most,
not all, but most.

Speaker 3 (43:48):
How's that, ma, that's supposed to help farmers.

Speaker 1 (43:50):
No, it's pro corporate interests. I mean he is just
as crooked as anybody else. I mean the Kennedys, God
love him, A lot of them are crooked. So anyway,
he just he driving me nuts. What's next? He probably
did the cracker barrelot.

Speaker 3 (44:08):
Could be we'll blame him. Let's go to some world news.
This Wednesday was the eightieth anniversary of Spain's famous tomatina event,
the Tomato Street Fight. I've heard of that, yeah, it
took place on Wednesday. One hundred and twenty tons of
overripe tomatoes are shipped from the town of Bueno twenty
two thousand participants. The event was inspired by a food

(44:28):
fight between local children who pelt at each other with
tomatoes back in nineteen forty five. There's no teams, no points,
and no referees. There's just one rule. To avoid injuries.
People are encouraged to squash their tomatoes before throwing them.

Speaker 1 (44:42):
Have you ever seen video of this? Yes, it's awesome,
just soaked, right, it's awesome. I uh, when I was
in it's in what mid August? Is that right? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (44:50):
It was just just this Wednesday.

Speaker 1 (44:51):
I came home last year, right before because I even
considered extending my trip for a week because I wanted
to go. And it's in what was in that town
in Spain?

Speaker 3 (45:01):
Well, actually the tomatoes are from the town Bueno. I'm
not sure of where it's at.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
Yeah, it's a it's in a town I can't remember that.
But I think that looks fun. I like little stupid
festivals in towns. I think they're cool. Who cleans that up? Though?

Speaker 2 (45:16):
I mean it's not a small it's not a small
food fight. So tripping over tomatoes.

Speaker 3 (45:21):
It's done right after, and the citric acid from the
tomatoes actually helps clean the street.

Speaker 1 (45:25):
Look at this, so the tomato, well then what cleans
the citric as people?

Speaker 3 (45:31):
I mean, there's just a whole group of people that
clean it up.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
Do you do you know that? Are you making that?
I know?

Speaker 3 (45:36):
The citric astid thing?

Speaker 1 (45:37):
How do you know?

Speaker 3 (45:38):
It was in the news article The news Matty.

Speaker 1 (45:45):
A lot of towns they have their thing right. Everybody
has their thing. I went to seeing Italy to the
Il Polio, which is one of the most fun things
I've ever been to, where the horses raced through the streets.
Have you ever seen that.

Speaker 3 (45:56):
I've seen a video that they.

Speaker 1 (45:58):
Do it twice a year. Each neighborhood has its horse
right that represents the neighborhood. It's like six seven neighborhoods
and they get in the town square. They shut off
the town and the horses run in a circle around
the town square. The entire town either gets in the
center or like it's up in the balconies and all that.

(46:18):
I was in the center. I had to stand there
for hours waiting on it with Tall. We watched it
the horse It was very cool. So whichever neighborhood wins
that night, the city pays for them to have an
all night festival. That's awesome. And so we were just like,
wherever whatever neighborhood wins, we're going. And that party was amazing,

(46:39):
like just an amazing party. They do it twice a year.
It's called Il Palio. And Siena, Italy, which is a
beautiful city, anyway, but I loved it. I love things
like that. Yeah, I want to go to someone. What's
the one where they're just like rolling down the hill.
I don't know how people down in Scotland. I was
in Ireland one time and I missed it by a
few days. But they have one I can't think of
the name, but they like bowl but like the whole

(47:00):
town is their bowling alice. You'll start at the top
of a hill and roll the ball as far as
it can go, and I'll roll down and kind of
fall off to the side and you go pick it
up and roll it again. But they're like going over
the whole town, and the whole town's involved. So any
of these little events and mostly other countries look like
a lot of fun.

Speaker 3 (47:15):
Except the bulls through the street one. I'm gonna avoid
that one.

Speaker 1 (47:18):
I do that one.

Speaker 3 (47:19):
Well.

Speaker 1 (47:19):
I've been to this town, right, but I didn't the
didn't run Pamplona, and I was there during the running
of the bulls, but I didn't actually see like they
do it early in the morning. They do it at
like seven am, so because people stay up and drink
all night and then they run early in the morning.

(47:39):
So I was there in the afternoon, Hubby and Sarah
and I went and it was I mean, they were
just partying and it was crazy, like you couldn't move
and it was and everybody was like a these nothing
to night morning. Oh my, what I like? Your accents
really good? Like that? I'd like to learn about that

(48:01):
as that could be any country? Is that Poland?

Speaker 3 (48:06):
Little friend?

Speaker 1 (48:07):
It is? How do I say? What do you say
all accent? You just walk around the Epcot Center in
every station. The good thing about people from other countries,
especially in Europe, is if they will look at you
and within twenty seconds ago, how do you say.

Speaker 2 (48:31):
You're doing the hand can't see but you've got to
have the.

Speaker 1 (48:33):
Hands of baseball. How do you say like that that
you've just done an impersonation of everyone in Europe? Your
impersonations are growing for many years. You only have I
did now diversified all right?

Speaker 3 (48:51):
A news story number six. There's no place like the sphere.
The nineteen thirty nine hit movie The Wizard of Oz
will be at the Las Vegas Sphere.

Speaker 1 (48:59):
This that would freak you. Ye.

Speaker 3 (49:00):
One hundred and sixty thousand square foot screen will have
the movie. It's one hundred and four dollars per ticket
to experience the movie. Feel the wind of the tornado.
They have twelve foot tall fans that hit you during
the movie. You can feel the ground shake. The chairs
are programmed to move during certain parts of the movie.
But the concept is called AI outpainting, where they fill

(49:21):
the rest of the screen with AI because it's obviously
not going to be the same size movie that it
was shot back in nineteen thirty nine. But also they
have changed the movie from one oh two runtime to
seventy five minutes, so they're changing quite a bit of
the movie.

Speaker 1 (49:34):
They's cut a bunch of the movie.

Speaker 3 (49:35):
They've cut a lot of it.

Speaker 1 (49:36):
Yes, yeah, a lot of It's kind of boring though
people forget, like everybody think about a lot of The
Wizard of Oz. You try to watch it now. It's
a hard thing to get through.

Speaker 3 (49:43):
A little redundant at times.

Speaker 1 (49:45):
Yeah. All, by the way, all old movies are like that.
You watch a movie before nineteen seventy, just try to
watch it. You can't. They're so slow, you know, like
watching basketball. Yeah, it is kind of like the white
people playing back basketball in that air. That's how every
movie is. They just it's i know, everybody go, oh,
that's a class you know. They were like, oh, that's

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a classic. Go try to watch Citizen Kane and try
to look me in the eye and say that's the
best movie of all time.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
I mean, it could be a classic, but I don't
mean I'm gonna sit down and watch it in the
year twenty twenty five. I can just be like, yeah, sure,
that's a classic. Looks get on the show.

Speaker 1 (50:17):
It's so slow. But anyway, would you want to see
the Wizard there?

Speaker 2 (50:20):
I want to go to the Sphere really bad, to
the point my birthday was in June and we were
planning to go to the Sphere. Whatever the show was,
we were just going to go, and it was Kenny Chesney.
I'm like, I do have limits. But I tried to
catch Backstreet in July. Might try again in December. Unlikely
I got to get to the Spirit out Sphere.

Speaker 1 (50:37):
I really want to go. I wanted to see Dead
and Company, and that's the one that probably best. That
would have been the whole thing, right. I've been out
there many times.

Speaker 2 (50:44):
If it's being built, I've walked by it when it
had like the eyeball thing before. I've seen it so
many times I want to go to the damn place,
but it's it's hard to it's a costly ticket.

Speaker 1 (50:52):
Whoever you're seeing, I kind of feel like it's gonna
give me a seizure. Company did that to a lot
of people. I'm being dead serious, like I can't you know,
if I go into a like a club and it's
spinning and the lights are flashing on and off, I
kind of have to shut my eyes sometimes, Like when
the lights are blinking like that, I feel like I

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would be they feel like I was. The spears would
be dangerous for me. But I do think it would
be cool to be sort of encapsulated like that.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
The Wizard of Oz when I saw like a tornado
everyone in the crowd their hair is blowing and there's
like pieces of paper flying inside sphere.

Speaker 1 (51:29):
Yeah yeah, so that looks kind of wild, and they've
added to it a little bit.

Speaker 3 (51:33):
I remember my first Imax movie that was insane, So
I imagine this would be a lot of the same.
Right just times ten.

Speaker 1 (51:39):
I saw the it's all the way around you, like
you can't, you know, and I'm actually could at least
look to the side. I don't think you can do that.

Speaker 2 (51:44):
I saw the The Muppets Muppets three D maybe at
Disney World when I was a kid. But in the movie,
they had like a bunch of like a mice outbreak,
and they're just running all over the ground and then
they blewe air on your feet. It was the most
terrifying thing imaginable. Everyone in the They had like on
the screen that make you feel like there are a
bunch of mice running into the theater. But then they

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blow air on the back of your legs and you.

Speaker 1 (52:08):
Went to the movie, but the theater itself had a
mice outbreak.

Speaker 2 (52:12):
Well, they wanted you to think there was, and they
hit you with this air and you could fill every
set of legs in that place, and people scream shoot
up in the air thinking they were actually in the
theater with us.

Speaker 1 (52:20):
I think theaters and stuff are gonna have to do
more stuff like that, Like people just don't go to
the theaters like they used to. And I would, like, I
wish I could go to one at the Sphere, but
I don't know if i'd be able to. I just
I think it would. You can't get away, you know
what I mean.

Speaker 2 (52:36):
Yeah, you're you're committed, You're in and so that I've
enjoyed Kevin Richardson doing all his l's down. I felt
like every time Backstreet does a show, we get tweeted
a video of him doing a catch chin or an
l's down in the sphere. So he's representing BBN in there.

Speaker 1 (52:50):
Let's go all right? Is this number eight? Eight?

Speaker 3 (52:52):
Number eight? The twenty twenty five Global Peace Index dropped
this week? Boys, and we have a list of the
safetest safest countries in the world.

Speaker 1 (53:01):
What does that mean? The Global Peace Index.

Speaker 3 (53:04):
It's a international travel thing where they we rank the
or not we somebody, right's the safest countries in the
world based on twenty three different metrics stertle, conflicts and terrorists.

Speaker 1 (53:19):
Okay, so what can I make some guesses?

Speaker 3 (53:21):
Sure, we only have the top ten and then the
bottom five.

Speaker 1 (53:24):
I feel good about one, right, Well, let me I'll do.
I'll get to the bottom five and a second top ten.
I feel like Switzerland's one.

Speaker 3 (53:29):
Of Switzerland is number five, okay. Iceland Iceland is number one, man, great,
good job, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (53:39):
I mean it's isolated. Nobody, nobody's got a beef. One
letter off. There's Ireland on the number two. Look at
that very good. It's a little surprising to me. Ireland
is on there, is the safest, Like, I mean, they
they did have a history of like hundreds of years
of fighting with England, and they I guess they're just over.

Speaker 2 (53:59):
I drove all over Ireland. Never felt safer.

Speaker 1 (54:01):
Really.

Speaker 2 (54:02):
Yeah, it might be a little little bar fight you
see breakout that you're not involved in.

Speaker 1 (54:06):
Other than that, it was all over. Ireland's a surprising country,
like Ireland was like the first country to recognize Palestine. Like, so,
I think people don't realize kind of Ireland's probably not
the way you would stereotype it to be Luxembourg. No,
that's probably not big enough to be on there. All right,
we'll give me the Redmark.

Speaker 3 (54:27):
Denmark is number eight, is on there, filling out there,
filling out the list, number three, New Zealand number four,
Austria number five, with Switzerland number six, Singapore number seven, Portugal,
number nine, Slovenia and number ten Finland. Now to the worst,
Well hang on, hang.

Speaker 2 (54:43):
On, yeah, Slovenia, is that what you're said, Yes, whorse Canada.

Speaker 1 (54:48):
I had them surprising too, that Slovenia is on there.

Speaker 3 (54:51):
Oh nine.

Speaker 1 (54:52):
I went to Slovenia, and I actually found the big
city there a little scary. That's that's surprising to me. Portugal,
I can see completely New Zealand I think would be awesome.
I'd love to go to New Zealand. All right, so
the most dangerous one is gonna be South Sudan.

Speaker 3 (55:11):
Sudan is one, yes, One is gonna be Ukraine, Ukraine
and Russia.

Speaker 1 (55:17):
One is gonna be Israel.

Speaker 3 (55:18):
Right now that is not in the bottom five right
now mm Afghanistan, no.

Speaker 1 (55:28):
Hm, Syria mm hm Seri is a good guess. So
we've gotten three of them, right, South Sudan, Ukraine, Ukraine,
and Russia. Uh, there is like Botswana, what is it?

Speaker 3 (55:42):
Yemen and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Speaker 1 (55:45):
Yeah, because that they're in a war. And then Yemen's
just like I think there's a lot of terrorists.

Speaker 3 (55:51):
Now would you like to guess where the United States ranks?

Speaker 1 (55:54):
Well, I would need to know what the what the
what this cause? If it's like for world peace, then
it's pretty safe. If you're talking about just on a
daily basis, I would say twenty ninth one eight.

Speaker 3 (56:12):
And Russia was won sixty three.

Speaker 1 (56:15):
One twenty eight. I guess they're considering gun violence in
that heavily.

Speaker 3 (56:20):
Yes, Wow, homicides, I was gonna say, in the fortiesism,
external conflicts, military homicides, no homicides.

Speaker 1 (56:31):
One eight is surprising to me, though. We're gotta do
better than that. Yeah, we gotta get top one hundred.
But then again, we're more relying on guns than anybody.
I mean, like, at the end of the day, we
are we have so many guns compared to literally almost
everywhere in the world. I mean, we open this podcast
about a shooting at a church, So I guess it
shouldn't be that surprising that we're not the safest. Yeah, well,

(56:53):
that's that's surprising. What was last was very last? Ukraine? Yemen? Right,
yeomen Yimen was the last? Last? All right, what's next?

Speaker 3 (57:03):
All right, let's have some fun with these final two stories.
You know, we are on the cusp of the college
football season starting week one just this weekend, but Week
zero was also a lot of fun last weekend, and
the story of Hawaii's kicker is pretty incredible. Hawaii beat
Stanford with a last second field goal twenty three to twenty.
It was their first win versus a Power four team
since twenty nineteen. So feel good, right, but then you

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learn the story about the Hawaii. Hawaii kicker. Ken Say
Matsuzawa is a Japanese born kicker who hit the game
winner at age twenty. He was a waiter at Morton's Steakhouse.

Speaker 1 (57:37):
Hey, that's a good place.

Speaker 3 (57:38):
On vacation in the United States, he saw an NFL game,
so when he returned home, he decided to teach himself
how to place kick via YouTube videos. He eventually convinced
a community college to accept him in Ohio. He was
actually pretty good there, and then he transferred to the
University of Hawaii, where he hit the game winner just
last weekend.

Speaker 1 (57:56):
Very cool story. I would like to know how he
convinced the school in Ohio. Hey, man, I'm over here
in Japan, all right. Been on YouTube. I think I
can kick. Think I got this thing figured out. And
then the community college in Ohio is like, yeah, it
feels like you're a guy. That is a movie I'd

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like to see. That is a great story. So he
was at Morton's saw kicking, decided to wait till he
got back to Japan to learn yes, and then taught
himself from YouTube. Maybe he watched Max Duffy in order
to learn.

Speaker 2 (58:34):
Or Kai Ramsey how to videos. Maybe I don't want
a story though, I want to see the YouTube videos
he watched, Like I hope it was just some random
guy in his backyard with thirty four views, not even
a professional, and he just.

Speaker 1 (58:47):
Started there and worked his way up. You do wonder, like, Okay,
so in football specifically, we have taken all of the
talent in football as American. But like I you hear
me say, it's a big world out there, and there
there might be places all over the world where the
people who should be playing this position are and we

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just don't know. So I mean, obviously punting has shown
to be Australia is not even that big, and now
like half the punters in college football are from Australia
because as as we learned from Max, they grow up
kicking like that kind of motion like that, they grow
up with that. So it wasn't so once Australia was
opened up to college football it was like, oh, these
dudes are a lot better than ours. I wonder if

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that would be true for other positions, like you would
think like offensive line, like those dudes in the world
Strong's men contest count are like from like you know, Norway,
or from Let's get the Mountain from Game of Throne. Yeah,
it feels like those dudes might be even better at
offensive line than our guy.

Speaker 2 (59:46):
You know, it might be onto a strategy here. How
do we find these guys? The thing I learned this
the other day. The NFL has a thing where if
you are a team and you get someone from Europe
or from Asia or whatever and you put them on
your they don't count towards a roster spot. So like
every NFL team gets like fifteen players on their practice squad,

(01:00:06):
but you'll get a sixteenth if you'll get someone because
they're trying to develop the game in other countries. Yeah,
the NFL know that whole country will be buying merchandise
when they were to make.

Speaker 1 (01:00:16):
The team, because the NBA has obviously seen this happen
when they had Yal and when they've had all these players,
you know, they get themselves into new markets doing that
that way.

Speaker 3 (01:00:24):
I think you've had this opinion before. How about a
sumo wrestler as a hockey goalie.

Speaker 1 (01:00:28):
Yeah, I've heard it, But then I've heard people say
they have to stand on skates their ankles are not.

Speaker 3 (01:00:32):
Going to be they have to stand or can they
sit there?

Speaker 1 (01:00:36):
Oh you want them to just sit on his butt?

Speaker 3 (01:00:38):
Just be as big as the goal.

Speaker 1 (01:00:39):
I still think you're gonna have some openings up in
the corner and there's still reaction time. I watch a
lot of hockey. They can put it through.

Speaker 2 (01:00:46):
Some slots and they're moving around, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:00:48):
Yeah, I mean you need a really big Yeah, I
don't think it's going to work. But the kickers, it
would just seem natural that place kickers. Why aren't there
more American place kickers from like soccer, you know why?
I mean, I'm shocked that every kicker in football is
not front, is not from a you know, Hispanic country

(01:01:09):
or like, I mean, they're better at that. They'd literally
do that motion the theory, they should be better at
it than not.

Speaker 2 (01:01:15):
You can get a retired soccer player tired of running
around all the time, like, yeah, I'll walk out there, take.

Speaker 1 (01:01:19):
A few steps steps, kick it for you three or
four times a night. Yeah, I mean, I would think
there's gotta be dudes in soccer all over the world
who could do it better than I mean, how many
terrible college kickers there are there have to be other
guys who could do it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:33):
Yeah, go get some forty year old to just retire
from the Premier league. They're like, we'll put you up,
give you an education. I gotta just walk out here
and take a few steps and kick it for us.

Speaker 1 (01:01:40):
All right, let's do one more. It's Labor Day weekend, Billy,
we got places to go. What's number ten?

Speaker 3 (01:01:44):
Well, some might think that Labor Day weekend is the
unofficial start of fall, but Starbucks would tell you think
it was last weekend. Uh Tuesday, he says, it's the
start of fall many people. Okay, I don't like those
don't wear white either. This Tuesday, pumpkin spice latte returned
to Starbucks. It's been twenty two years of pumpkin spice, Matt.

(01:02:05):
Now we've got pumpkin spice deodorant, pumpkin spice cat litter.
Fall is here and you can always mark it with
a little pumpkin spice from Starbucks.

Speaker 1 (01:02:14):
Yeah. I mean, I know, people really like it. I've
always wondered why not just keep it all the time.
People seem to enjoy it. But I do think the
thing about the whole pumpkin spice smell it does make
me think autumn, Halloween. So I'm not as against this
as a lot of people who don't seem to like
when we get to pumpkin spice season, although I do
think Labor Day is a little early.

Speaker 2 (01:02:36):
I unfortunately frequent Starbucks. In fact, I've had two seven
dollars drinks from there today. The pumpkin just doesn't do
it for me. No, I'm not proud of it. We've
been I've needed caffeine from this damn day we have
in here been a long day. But I agree with
you that it's kind of like the turn of the seasons,
like we got a little colder here in Lexenon this week.
We're kicking off football soon, pumpkin spice is out. Might
have a pot of chili on soon. It's more of

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a where we're moving into the new season of the year.

Speaker 1 (01:03:01):
Yes, well, thank you all very much for listening. Billy
A nice job with your ten. We will be back
next week with Governor Andy Basheer. I hope everybody has
an amazing weekend. And you know what it was the
news and now you feel now you are, I guess
educated to get along with your weekend. Enjoy it. See

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you next week,