Episode 24 - 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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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is interrupted by Matt Jones on news radio. Wait
forty WJS Now, here's Matt Jones. This is episode twenty
four of Interrupted by Matt Jones, presented by Cornbread Hemp.
This is the Good Life. We are day after two

(00:22):
days after the Louisville loss, Kentucky's loss to Louisville. But
that doesn't mean that there are other things to do.
We still have to know what's going on in the world.
So I brought in Drew Franklin so that we could
hear about the news of the day. Drew, it is
time for the news. Are you ready?

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yes, I would actually like something other than a louvill
basketball game to talk about, So take me into the
world of news and away from that game.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
So we got our news castor Billy R Sports. He's
found the top ten news items of the day and
we will discuss them. I don't know what's coming, which
means they may or may not be true. They may
not be completely correct, but they will exist. It's the
news with Billy R Sports.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Go ahead, Billy all right, guys, glad to be with you.
Let's start with something that's happening today. Right now, we're
in the middle of the longest government shut down in
American history. But it's almost over. On Monday, the Senate
approved a final package. It's gone through the House, and
it looks like flight restrictions, snap benefits, everything that's been
gone over the last almost two months now could be
coming back to American life.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
That's true. This was the longest shut down in history, Drew,
and I'm not I don't know how much it accomplished
for anybody. The Democrats ended up a few of their
votes went and they ended up passing it in the Senate.
The filibuster didn't go away. I don't really think much changed.

(01:52):
I mean, it did probably cost the Republicans a lot
of elections in the twenty twenty five elections, But I
don't really think much change. What did you What was
your biggest takeaway from the government being closed for forty days?

Speaker 2 (02:04):
So I thought you'd never ask, Matt, and you actually
just nailed it. The fact that there's no change. Real
human beings are impacted by this. They're at the bottom.
The people that are goofing around, playing and around, goofing
around playing politician makes so much money that that does
not matter to them. I know, maybe they don't get
paid whatever they're making their money on stocks.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
They probably don't even know they get paid to get paid, though,
I think I think they keep getting paid even if
you were.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
To take it away from him, that would not change
their lives whatsoever. So they sit there and goof off
and smile and continue to be rich. Real people are impacted,
and still nothing is coming from that. And that's the
shutdowns happen this time every year. They're as consistent as
a pumpkin spice latte. And I'm tired of it. Wow,
it's just a bunch of rich people fooling around and

(02:51):
not even considering that actual lives are affected. Wow, thank
you for giving me the platform to let that out.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Listen to that guy, Yeah, I mean, I don't think
you're necessarily wrong, you know, So go back to why
this had. This is why divided government is actually good,
because when the government's all in one side, it becomes
you know, they have no incentive to work with the

(03:17):
other side. And if you're the Democrats and you're the
minority power, this is really the only the only sort
of authority you have is to shut down the government.
And that's a perverse incentive. Like we have to find
a way in American politics to recognize that if you
win an election, that doesn't mean the other side should

(03:39):
get no say at all. Correct ever, because when you
do that, literally, whoever's in the minority, whether it's Republicans
or Democrat, this is the only chance they have to
get anything to happen is by shutting down the government,
requiring the filibuster, getting promises. And that's such a terrible
way to do it because the only chance they get
to be heard is by literally shutting down the entire thing.

(04:02):
This has been going on well a long time, but
really the mid nineties was when this started becoming like
a real thing. Part of why I don't understand it
is it's so destructive for both sides. The Republican the
president will always get blamed in this. If you go
back through history, with the exception of Bill Clinton, who
found a way to not it's generally speaking the case

(04:24):
that the controlling party gets blamed. And then the Democrats
really didn't get anything out of it. I mean, they
wanted to get concessions about health care, they didn't really
get them. Here's my view, all right, this is coming
as a self proclaimed Democrat, I think the Democrats should
make the Republicans vote on this. Let them vote on

(04:46):
all their unpopular things. Like I kind of agree with
President Obama who said, all right, you want to take
the health care, do it and then see what happens, Like,
see what happens when you take everybody's health care away.
I don't like that. I don't want that to occur.
But if they want to do it, have them do it.
And then when everybody's healthcare premiums double, they'll know who

(05:07):
to blame. The old mess around and find out the past. Well,
I mean, Obama said in an interview recently, he was like,
we've kind of gotten complacent with this idea that, oh,
all the politicians are the same. Well they're not. That
people think different things. But the problem is they can
people can have extreme positions and they never have to

(05:28):
pay for them because they never come into place. Right now,
they're going to come into place. So but it is
a waste of time because you're right, people don't get
to work. The airports got congested. They decide some people
should be paid, so they play like the law enforcement people,
some of them but not all of them. But then

(05:49):
the average person that works in government doesn't. It's just
it is a waste of time.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
And the people losing money and that are feeling this
the most really have nothing to do with There are
no say in the matter the politicians. Parks are like parks.
I love parks. I actually have a yetti. I've started
putting stickers on it. Have everywhere I've been.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
You have you have a park? Become the park guy?
National parks? What what? What park? What parks? Have you
put on your yetti? Oh?

Speaker 2 (06:15):
Actually, my YETI is already completely filled. But uh this
past summer runneth Over. Yeah, I did a little little
Mount Rushmore, a little South Dakota, little Colorado, hit several there.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
That's good. That's a good Comminy never thought i'd be
a park guy. Maybe that's why I'm so passionate about this.
The parks that got well, all these loyal people I
see with their nice little hats in their maps. They're
just the kindest humans out there in the wilderness, just
showing Americans and our international visitors just our our most
beautiful places. Do you know how many national parks there are? Uh? No,

(06:46):
I shouldn't know how many national parks are there? Billy,
will you look it up. Yeah, sure, I mean in
Kentucky you have Mammoth Cave. Also, got that sticker recently.
I grew up near there and it's never been the
last year. Gotten the sticker. Come to g app where
I'm and then I would think something probably to do
with Lincoln is a National park. There's sixty three sixty

(07:07):
three national parks. Give me the most obscure when you
see there is uh like the Daniel Daniel Boone area.
Would that be? That's well, that's Cumberland Gap. I think
there's a Daniel Boone something maybe in North Carolina. I
have no idea what I'm talking about. By the way,
I know I know Combland Gaps in National Park. I
know there's the bad lands and so we've been there.

(07:27):
We've been there. That that's not very obscure. The Arches
in Utah, I've been there. Got that stude. We've been
there too. You're picking places we've actually been. At least
they're not obscure. We've been to both of them. Are
you looking at Kosr's Instagram right now?

Speaker 3 (07:41):
No, there's a there's a ton in Utah though, Bryce
Canyon Canyon, we've been there.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
Okay, I don't think we went to Catere Reef in
Utah as well. I recommend the Arches by the way, Matt,
you've been to, Yeah, Arches would be very different, very
very very positive about the Arches. What about what about
like Cumberland Gap. If you weren't from Kentucky, you probably
wouldn't know. Is there anyone like that?

Speaker 3 (08:01):
There's Crater Lake in Oregon, Okay, which is pretty self explanatory.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
Since I don't think he has the Kentucky list, I
looked it up. All right, we have. You were right.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Abraham Lincoln's birthplace is a National Historic Park, Cumberland Gap,
Mammoth Cave, Big South Fork.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
I think that's one of those things there's a difference
between a National park and then like a National Registry
or something like, they're two different things. It says it's
in the historical parks system that's a national park. Is
like you know, you get rangers with little scarfs, That's
what I'm talking about. Yeah, you get those nic I
think we only have three of those. I think it's

(08:42):
Mammoth Cave, Cumberland Gap, and then I think it's something Lincoln.
I don't think because there are other places that are
like national this is fun. We have trails. We don't
close a park, and I think that's it. So so
those get closed and that's sad. But now it's back open.
Hopefully the airports are going to get u are going

(09:03):
to get better. And by the way, I read that
this is only for three months. This could happen again
in January.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
And fully it's expected will and then nothing will come
of that. Yeah, so and then repeat the next time.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Are you one year into the Trump term. I think
things are going well.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
It doesn't seem like it's going well. I do a
good job of ignoring most of it. I think it's
best for my my sanity and my mental health. But
you know, I have several people in my life that
were big fans of him. Seem like even they've backtracked
a little.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
I mean, I think there's sometimes you know, it feels
like the only thing he's accomplished he got two things.
One it does feel like they've stopped some of the
border crossings and then they tore down the White House.
That and I don't know who who said that was okay.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
See, I don't like the kind of what's the word,
like the cheap looking gold.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
He's Gody, Gody, Gody, I'm looking. I saw he was
on an interview and he was talking about is this
one of your things? Tearing down the okay, steal your okay.
But he was walking showing somebody around and he was like,
you see these these it's it's it's one hundred percent bronze,
hundred percent brass, Like that was the same thing, bronze,

(10:15):
and I think he thought they both started with b R,
so they were the exact same things. And like he
has a sign that says oval office. Did we need that?
Do you think that we were gonna be browsing? I'm like,
what is this shape? Funny? Is this a? Is this
an Ann? What's the place that women plus size women's shop? Oh?

(10:39):
An Taylor and Taylor? Is this an Ann Taylor? Is
this the office? I didn't think you're gonna pull out?
I don't know why I picked that. Things come to
your mind, but he did. He just tore it down
in like a day. Yeah, And that's not how I decorate.
Don't It's like chip rich, you know, it's money rich,

(11:00):
Like rich people don't really decorate like that. No, they don't.
I'd like I think government offices should be marble, yes,
like old, like grand and try to preserve what was
already there as long as possible. This looks like more
something like I could have bought these fixtures on QVC's

(11:21):
It looked like a DIY project. Yeah. Now, also, now
the ballroom is going to be bigger than the White
House needed. Do we have a lot of balls on
are in there?

Speaker 2 (11:35):
And it feels like they had balls before and no
one was like, man, no, it was not no space.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
You know what, this needs more bronze brass. I need
more room to dance. Also, you know, during the government
shutdown they had a great Gatsby party, which feels like
maybe the least self aware thing you could do.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
Well, you might have heard I got a little worked
up to start on my rant about that. Those images
from that were playing in my head like that. Actually
I don't know what I can say his live radio,
but that peed me off a little bit.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
There were just like knowing people trying to walking around
in pasties and you're I didn't see that photo. You
didn't Maybe that was stay shut down.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
If there's in fasties, let's shut it all down.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
Well, at least it's over at least for a while.
So I guess that's a good piece of news.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
What's next, Let's keep the news rolling with Trump? He
announced or really floated two new ideas over the past week.
I want you guys to tell me which one is
more plausible for Trump? Yes, okay, so these are not
law yet. These are just things that he's said, which
is going to be a lot. He announced over the
weekend that each American would receive a two thousand dollars
tariff dividend, not including high income people. And the other

(12:46):
idea was.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Oh way, he's not allowed to do that, So start
with that has to be passed by Congress. And then
the other idea he floated was a fifty year mortgage loan.
That's the worst idea I've ever heard, all right, two
thousand dollars bad idea. Inflation goes up. It doesn't really
do a lot of good. Also, it has to be
passed by Congress. But you know what, it's not a

(13:07):
bad idea that would like end the world. You could
everybody could go buy an iPhone if they want, right,
a fifty year mortgage just as a little thing. Anyone
that ever wants to sell you a fifty year anything run.
I saw if you bought a four hundred thousand dollars
house with a fifty year mortgage, it would cost you
one point two million dollars.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
You would pay twice as much for the house. Yeah,
I know your monthly would be down when you add
it all up, at the end, your house would have
been twice as much as it would have been.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
And that's the kind of thing, like, that's the kind
of thing payday loan places in a mall to ye,
I don't want Why is the government doing that? Apparently
I saw a story about how he ended up proposing this,
a guy named Pulty. Bill Pulty just he so, here's

(13:59):
why they wanted it. They want to do it because
the housing market has slowed. A lot of rich people
have a ton of money in real estate and they
want to spur it. And the white a spur it
is to get more people to be able to buy
and then lock them into these fifty year loans. So
Bill Pulty wanted that to happen. So the way he
did it, he got Trump by himself and apparently showed

(14:21):
him a graphic that just said FDR thirty years, Trump
fifty years, and then it had the title great President,
and that was all it took. Trump looked at it
and was like, I am a great president. And now
the rest of the White House is mad at Pulty
for doing it. But why isn't anyone mad at Donald Trump?

(14:45):
Like they get mad at the people who manipulat him,
but not the person who is manipulated.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
Dave Ramsey needs to call him. Dave Ramsey's probably losing
his mind over this because it will just absolutely rob
you in fifty years. You're basically just signing up for
rent to the bank. I mean, that is gonna be
a It's exactly.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
What you end up. You're just paying rent to the bank.
You know, if you're signed up for this is Ryan Lemon.
Ryan Lemon is more excited, I'm sure about a fifty
year more because he'd be like, well, I'm dead, it's fine.
Well that's the sad part.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
People will hear I will pay two hundred dollars less
a month, that's what I want, without even realizing that
over time you are doubling what you would have paid, I.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
Mean thirty your mortgages. I think that's too much, but
a lot of people have to do it. I understand that,
but a fifty year mortgage. Come on, So you asked
me which one's in today's world. Maybe they're both realistic.
I mean, you could tell me the next Secretary of
State's gonna be an elephant, and I would believe it.
But in terms of what's a good idea, that one's worse.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
I saw a clip, but I don't know who the
woman interviewing was or what network it was, but she
was asking Trump about it. He was like, it's only
ten years difference, and she's like, well, we currently have
a thirty, not a forty.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
And then he didn't really have an answer. He says,
you don't even know how it currently is. What he's
probably well, I mean I guess he has taken mortgages,
but it is it's absurd. The other part, and this
is dor key, but allow me to Billy. They're before
the Supreme Court right now, okay, and the Supreme Court
is trying to decide whether or not Trump can do

(16:12):
could do his tariffs. And the argument is this, Trump
is allowed to do national security. As the president, he
gets to decide our foreign affairs, and you really can't
question it. The president kind of has absolute authority. So
he says tariffs are national security. But then of course
in the court they're like, well, then why did you
put him on this island that was just penguins, Like

(16:35):
are you worried they're going Obamas. The other thing, though,
is if you're raising revenue or taxes, Congress has to
do that by the constitution. So does Trump's lawyers go
to court and say a tariff is national security, it's
not revenue. Everybody understand that, which makes sense until Trump

(16:58):
goes on TV and says, We've raised all this revenue.
We're gonna give it back, And then his lawyers gotta
be like, we just are cute. What's it revenue? Like?
He even undermines his own attorneys in this thing. Can't
help himself, he really can't. But at least I was

(17:19):
gonna say, at least he's done in three years. But
who knows. Just go to our parks when they open
back up. So I'm not going to get a two
thousand dollars check. Not likely? Uh, I think it's unlikely,
But I wouldn't say it's impossible. I mean I could say,
you know, Congress does whatever he asks, so maybe they
maybe they'll pass it. I don't know do you would
would that when you first heard the story, Billy, were
you like that's appealing.

Speaker 3 (17:41):
I mean, more money helps, but it's not like that's
gonna put me over the edge on any decision I
would make or likability of the guy.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
If he signed his name on it, which is what
he liked to do. That was a brilliant move by him.
By the way, what's that. Well, when when Trump sent
out his stimulus checks, he put his name on it. Yeah,
and when Biden did he didn't? You think that may matter?
People marketing people are stupid. People get a check and
they're like, oh, Donald Trump gave me a check. Sadly,

(18:09):
some people probably thought he wrote it himself. Yes, whereas
with Biden they're like, well, who's the secretary? You know?
So like you got it's actually smart marketing to put
your name on it. Who's next? The money's never for you, Billy? Yeah,
rices go up if you give everybody two thousand dollars
supplying de mand prices will go up.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
But go ahead, let's talk about some recent developments with
Jeffrey Epstein. House Oversight Committee. Democrats released emails.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
You said that, like, let's talk about the guy that
I know Jeffrey Epstein.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
That's how you said that financier, the late convicted second defender,
Jeffrey Epstein, that one.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
That one.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
Yeah, yeah, So he sent some emails to his co
conspirator Maxwell and journalist Michael Wolfe, and in one Epstein
claim that Trump knew about the girls, apparently referring to
Epstein's conduct. In response, House Republicans release their own twenty
thousand pages of documents that they say they obtained from
the Epstein estate during their investigation of the case, and
also the White House has said that the Democrats are

(19:12):
selectively leaking emails to the media to create a fake
narrative to smear President Trump, but mentioned by name in
the emails released by Democrats.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
Yeah, well they release the twenty thousand. That's called flooding
the zone. You do that in law, just give them
too much. Yeah, So, like in legal cases sometimes, if
it's a big legal case, they'll do document review and
they'll be like one document that really implicates somebody and
they'll bury it in like fifty thousand pages and they'll

(19:41):
be like, good luck, and then you have to search
through it. So I think what happened is Democrats release this,
then they released that, all these twenty thousand going, Oh,
focus on that. Don't look over there. This should be
the least controversial opinion in politics. Lease at all, all
of it, and whoever's guilty is guilty. And if it's

(20:05):
a Democrat, good, If it's a Republican, good, put him
in jail. Like, isn't it that easy?

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Yeah, there's no with everything involved this, there's not like
you're gonna defend anyone, like if anyone had real involvement,
whether it's on your team or not, doesn't matter. This
is unacceptable. Both sides agree, this is unacceptable. Any involvement
needs to be when you find out who it is
and get them out. I still don't understand that.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
I don't understand the Republican policy here of not wanting
it released. I don't get it. Like, by the way,
this is all gonna come out in the end one day,
Like it's going to come out one day and the
question in three years, Donald Trump's gonna be gone. And
you want to be the person that voted against it
being releasing? Is that really what you want? If I

(20:50):
weren't involved, I would be screaming from the rooftops. Please
release this. Donald Trump apparently called what is it Lauren Bobert?
That the woman who got a handy in a play?
Or did she get it or give it? She should
give it? Yeah, I think she's She gave her a

(21:11):
receipt she was to give her while vaping or something.
There's some vaping involved to And what was the play?
The sound of music? It was in a play, wasn't it? No,
it was it was I don't know the play. But
this is a congress we're talking about. This is like,
this is a US car. He apparently called her this morning,
woke her up Trump and said, do you want to

(21:33):
go to play? I said, you gotta vote against for
releasing it, which is not what innocent people do. Right, No,
that's what I mean. If you're cleared, I would be like,
we are not doing anything else until you all see
that I'm not involved in this. Okay. See, I have

(21:55):
no idea what anybody did. But don't you think his
actions are that of a parton who seems guilty? Yes?
Would you agree with that because his first priority should
be proving his innocence. Yeah, or at least just saying
here's everything now, good luck. Yeah. Now, the email said
something like he knew him. I mean, that isn't good,

(22:19):
doesn't necessarily mean anything. Was that about a big dog
doesn't bark or something? I think he was like big dog, roof,
Like what was he calling himself the big dog?

Speaker 2 (22:32):
I think it was Epstein was calling Trump the big
dog who doesn't bark or something like that.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
Wasn't that in there, Billy? It does say Trump knew
about the girls. That's the quote. What's the big dog?
Big dog? He's right, there's something about a big dog
be bark. I'll find it here. Hold on, Okay, well,
I mean it's the news. You'll figure it out. But
the yeah, none of this is good, right, No, not
at all.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
And the fact that it's been years and we're still wondering, like,
just lay it out there, we'll pick up the pieces.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
I've always thought it would be less than everybody thought
it was. But the longer it goes, you start to
more and more believe like people are hiding things. Right.

Speaker 3 (23:10):
Yes, Epstein sent an email that said, I want you
to realize that the dog that hasn't barked is Trump.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
There we go, what the dog that hasn't barked? Yes?

Speaker 3 (23:22):
The victim spent hours at my house with him. He
has never once been mentioned. That is the rest of
the quote.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
So is he saying the dog the person that has
not been associated with Epstein that should is Trump? Is
that what he means by the dog that hasn't barked?

Speaker 3 (23:38):
Epstein says Trump spent hours with someone the committee says
was a victim. I want you to realize that the
dog that hasn't barked is Trump. Did the victim spent
hours at him at the house with him? He has
never once been mentioned.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
Yeah, I mean, even if they prove that it's there
are gonna be people who just don't just don't believe it,
don't care.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
And that's crazy. This should not be something you have
to think about. Like if anyone that was involved in this.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
Yeah it's proven to be involved in it, then he
should go to jail. And I liked Bill Clinton. If
anyone working in our park system it's proven they're involved,
you're going to put the park people, even the people
with the scarfs and the hats. Isn't the person that
works at the Crater Lake You're saying the National Park.
I've been there. It's beautiful of them too. This You
are serious about that this this is not a debate

(24:25):
involved in something like this is discussed. Well, somebody's got
to step up for the park. So I'm glad Drew's
taking that cost. That's one of the things I've learned
about Drew. It's new by the way he gets older,
well obviously gets older every day, but every day by
the show. But like if the Drew I met seven
eighteen years ago, now being part guy was the park.

(24:48):
That was not something I saw. I mean, he used
to be jello shot Drew and nowadays just out of
the park. I take them for the park workers. Yeah,
you know, my mom does church at National parks. Did
you really?

Speaker 2 (25:03):
Honestly, when we went to Arches, that was one of
my first times where I was like, our park's kind
of cool. Because I never say that was the first
time you were like is there a god? No, But
we went around Arches. I'd never been to Utah. Just
get a little farther away from our circle here. I
was like, all right, this is pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
The Arches are going. So you were kind of my
my gateway park. You remember, we we thought we were
gonna get stuck in there, huh, which would have been scary.
Because they were like closing the gate and we weren't
out yet. But then you have to sleep overnight there.
I don't know. See Mike Johnson and fasties. I think
I'm not sure what happens? All right, what's next? You

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is the good life.

Speaker 3 (26:24):
Last week, last Tuesday was election day across this country,
many state and local officials being elected and the City
of New York has a new mayor, Zorn Mamdani, the
first Muslim mayor in the United States. Originally from Uganda, true,
and moved to New York at the agence.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
Do you know that's true. That's hard for me to
believe that he's the first Muslim according to my reporting.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
I mean, I'll do some double checking here. You want
to double and triple checking these things, but I will
look it.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
Up if you say it. Who am I to argue
in the news right?

Speaker 3 (26:58):
Originally from Uganda, moved to New York when he was seven.
His left wing platform has energized progressives matt and shaking
up the Democratic Party.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
Mondommie's plans. Here's some of the things that he wants
to implement. I love when he turns on his news voice.
I do too. It's energize the left. Tell him about it, Billy.

Speaker 3 (27:15):
A couple of things he wants to dory what he
wanted to do. Freeze rent payments in New York for
four years. He wants to create city owned grocery stores
and offer free public transportation in New York.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
All right, So the first one, I'm not sure if
he could do that. I don't really know the But
I don't know how you. I think he's talking about
freezing the They have something in New York called rent
control departments. Do you know about that? Where you can
only charge so much? Okay, I think he wants to
freeze that. I don't think he wants to I don't
think he can freeze all rent I'll double check that'd ben.

(27:47):
I don't think he's allowed to do it, but he
might be able to free But the second third one
to me, are are just good ideas? You know? For education?
What do we have? How's our American education system work? Terrible?
But I mean, how does it work? Memorize something until
the test? Yeah, you're not following my question. We have
public education and private and private. I don't know why

(28:10):
you can't do that with a grocery store. Have a
public grocery store. Maybe it's not as good as a
private one. You don't get ten dollars smoothies or twenty
dollars smooth We could call it publics. Names taken. But
you can have a public one and if you want
something else, you go the private one. Why is that
a bad idea? Sounds all right to me? Me too?

(28:32):
And then the second, the bus thing. Why shouldn't busses
be free? Why do we why? I mean, I don't
know if they have the money or not, but let's
just assume they do. Do I think buses are like
a dollar? Why it's so important to give the dollar? No?
I think it should be free. I just are the
books set up to do this? Now?

Speaker 2 (28:51):
I would guess not the books. What do you mean,
like they're accounting. No, I'm sure they're sure they're bus money.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
They are. I don't know if that's true. I wouldn't
know that either. I have no idea. I don't know.
But let's just say. Let me put it like this.
Let's say they could afford it. Would you be for
those afford it? Especially the bus thing, that's just getting
people to work and helping a lot of people? That
could You mean nobody rides the bus for glamour. No,
you don't see Wall Street guys hopping on the bus.

(29:18):
So if you're on the bus, you need it? Yes? Right,
So the free buses, like, who's out there going make
sure people pay for the bus? Yeah? Those people going
to work who can't afford a car? Yeah? Do you
know anybody billy that's pro pay a lot for buses.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
No, And you know I'm not trying to squeeze out
the change that people on the bus have so exactly.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
I mean buses. You only ride a bus if you
have to. Now, the grocery store thing, are you pro
or con a government growth? He wants to have five,
one in each borough. That's a government grocery store. I'm
fine if there's a split, like you were saying, give
me the choice. Yeah. Now, I mean that the people
that were against it would say, well, they'll be able
to charge last, which will put the other grocery stores

(30:04):
out of business. But if they're only putting one in
each borough, everyone kate use it, and you'd think the
inventory would probably a little different, probably not getting the
high end products in there, and it just be a
different selection. It's gonna be Bubba Cola. By the way,
first Muslem mayor of New York City, I should correct
city in America. You know, no disrespect to the other

(30:25):
Muslim mayors out there. I'll pass that along. Thank you.
Do you like that guy? Have you seen him at
all a little bit? I mean, you know, two nights
before the election he tried to go to none clubs
in one night. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
I mean, I know he's young and has that energy.
I just wonder, like on like the bus thing like
that sounds great, but I'm sure that money from the
buses is going to something right now.

Speaker 1 (30:48):
New York is the only place where going to clubs
is a prerequisite to be mayor. Eric Adams the mayor,
He went to club to club like while he was mayor.
That's where things go down, do they out there? Man?
But would you want to go to a club and
see your mayor like in a table? Probably not bottle service.
He's never happened to be in Lexington. It depends on

(31:11):
his state. I think. Sorry at the soccer god know,
but if she was like bottles full above, would you
wanted that? Like shooting one of those money guns over
the floor with farm with them come around with the
sign that says Linda Happy birthday girl? At first off,

(31:32):
all no, but you're talking me into it. Yeah, I
don't know. I don't know if he's going to work.
I mean, my biggest thing is he's never run anything.
So I think it's very hard to go from having
run nothing to being mayor of the largest city in
the United States. It seems like a big jump. Seems
like a big jump. But good luck to him though, Yeah,

(31:52):
I mean luck to him. Don't let don't let Wall
Street leaf? Where are they going to go? Texas? See?
And nobody's one anywhere? Though I wasn't the rich. Where
are they going? I don't know, Like you're already rich.
If you wanted to go somewhere, you already would have. Right,
who wants to Literally, New York City is the greatest
city on earth. If you don't want to live there,

(32:13):
you would have already left. I agree with you that
it's the greatest. Who wait, I mean you think there's
somebody in New York that's like I wanted to live
in Lubbock. Are they going to Lubbock? I think that's
where they're going, Abilene. We're packing up and moving to Abilene. Well,
they were talking about going to Austin, but like, if

(32:37):
all of Wall Street goes to Austin, then it's just
gonna be just as expensive as New York. Comedian who's
already did that? Yeah, they be you there, and very
few of them are funny, So I'm I'm I'm out.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
They're all just copying off Josh Hopkins. This was the
stars with interrupted. He was the first person I knew
that moved to Austin. All right, what's next.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
Let's talk about the ongoing dispute between YouTube TV and Disney.
It was October thirtieth that the ten million subscribers on
YouTube tv lost ABC, ESPN, NAT, GEO, Disney Channel and
a couple more. This has been ongoing for a while now,
and YouTube tv is now offering a twenty dollars credit
to subscribers.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
I got it me too. Did you had to apply
for it though? Right? You said a button, but I
just couldn't take it off of your bill. No, you
got an email that if you're not careful, would go
to your spam file, so you didn't have to be
careful about it. Okay, do you think that's sneaky?

Speaker 2 (33:30):
Yep, I'm picking up with billies putting down they sod
just have done it, but they knew that a lot of.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
People would have to do it. They didn't have to,
but if they were genuine, they would have just done it.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
The report is that YouTube tv is attempting to negotiate
rates for Disney content that are lower than the three
largest TV distributors. So we're talking Comcast, Charter and direct TV.
YouTube TV's argument is that's the only charter that's showing
growth over the last few years with many people cutting
the cord, so they are still at a standstill.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
There was a report just really so there's a report today, yes,
that they might be close to a resolution.

Speaker 3 (34:02):
So it sounds like ESPN is not the issue here.
It's abc that the price difference that Disney and YouTube
tv have on right now.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
So you know, they do this every year, but they
always settle it, but this time they didn't. And so
now it's been almost two weeks without it. How have
you found it? If you found like, not having ESPN
has been okay for you?

Speaker 2 (34:24):
I had the new ESPN before this happened, so my
life hasn't changed. Yeah, okay, and I have I can't
leave YouTube tv because I prepaid for NFL Sunday ticket,
which is not cheap, and I'm gonna have that till
the end of the season. So I just have to
have both. I mean, I didn't love caving to ESPN,
but it don't I mean, it's still ten dollars a month,

(34:44):
but I was already paying the original bus.

Speaker 1 (34:47):
For our job.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
We have y Like, I see people every day trying
something new. And you know, I understand some people when
I have ten dollars, but I know the people that
do have ten dollars are still going through it.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
And I'm just thinking, well, the our friend Ryan Lemon's
a perfect example because he will not pay the ten dollars,
but then gives random people on the internet ten dollars
to send them in a legal street.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
And they complains that he hadn't seen the game. It's like,
at this point, your life would not have changed over
ten dollars. Like I brought my own coffee today, I
didn't go to Starbucks downstairs.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
My belief I've had for ten years, which is we're
just heading to being right back to cable. The biggest
annoyance to me about television now is I have all
these apps and I have to exit out of one
to go to another to change the channel. It would
be so much easier if I could just flip the channel.
It was better the way it was before. Right.

Speaker 2 (35:37):
I'm actually in the process of canceling a lot of
them because what are you getting rid of? Well, I'm
on the chopping block. I have everything in a nice spreadsheet,
but you'll rank them for me. Well, honestly, some of
the ones I love. I can't tell you the last
thing I watched. Some on HBO, the last watch a
lot on HBO I did until three months ago. But
like a lot of them, their prices are going up

(35:58):
and their content's going down.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
So let's rank them then. All right, So here I
think I'm the major ones. You've got Netflix, HBO, what, Paramount, Peacock, Apple? Apple?
Are those the five big ones? Yeah, I'll tell you
if I'm sitting down, probably every night I go to
Netflix first, I would say it's it's Netflix one. What's two?

(36:21):
It used to be HBO.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
They really disappoint me though, So it's two now Peacock,
Maybe Peacock. I've been peacocking a lot. Oh my dateline's
on there though, it's.

Speaker 1 (36:30):
Oh you love date lines? Yeah. Hulu has been doing
no Disney Plus, so now Disney Plus. Now I ask Hulu,
so that's the bundle. I have the Disney Hoo. So
you're going. So you're going Netflix one, Peacock two. What's
number three? Probably Hulu? Hulu? What's four? I'll still go HBO?

Speaker 2 (36:48):
And then Apple or paramounts. I haven't checked on Apple
in a while, maybe it's been better. That's another one.
I haven't even opened it in a couple of months,
and they're just taking money from me. So you're going
pair Apple, then Paramount last, all right. I loved Paramount
while we had Dexter few months ago though, that was
my go to.

Speaker 1 (37:02):
So I go the one HBO. It's the one that
gives me the most consistent hooton nannies. Don't you think
they're slipping a little? But I still love I mean
because I can always go back and watch all those
old shows that I like a lot. Two is probably Netflix,
and then I think it is a huge gap from

(37:23):
one and two to the next one. I probably go
Apple third, but they don't produce enough content. It's like
two shows a month. I need more your Apple for goodness,
but when they put something out it's good. Four for
me is probably Disney because of Hulu. And then I
go Peacock and I want to watch Paramount, but I

(37:43):
feel like everything is a cowboy doing oil or just
a CBS show. Yeah, I'm not gonna watch that Tom
Sellick show is still on television. Blue Bloods, yeah it's
and now they have like Blue Bloods Grannies. So I
can't remember the last time I've watched something on Paramount.

(38:04):
Everybody always says watch Landman. I watched The Landman, but
I just can't. Just like, I look at all the
choices and I'm like, do I really want to watch
this that part? But I see all that on the
internet already, you know. Yeah. Amazon, by the way, a
lot of people watch Amazon. Amazon.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
No, Okay, So we have ads? Now, when I thought
the point of you subscribing was to not have ads.

Speaker 1 (38:29):
Yeah, that's a whole other thing. I would probably put Amazon,
actually maybe fourth. I do like Amazon. They have a
lot of movies. What do you like?

Speaker 3 (38:39):
It's Netflix and Hbo for me, and then there's a
gap and then that's probably Disney. But just yesterday we
got logged out of our Netflix account. We're not the
household of the net.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
You were stealing it.

Speaker 3 (38:49):
It was my dad's account. You could say that, I wouldn't.
That wouldn't be the.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
Word I would use. What word would you use? Borrowing?

Speaker 2 (38:57):
But he can add you I have to do. I'm
the howsehold and I have family members as well. It
costs money, but it's much cheaper. It's like six dollars
to add your house.

Speaker 1 (39:07):
So you can't just give you a give you like
you have. Your dad won't give you next, No, he
probably would, but you know I'm you're too proud to ask. Man. Yeah,
I want to do things myself.

Speaker 2 (39:17):
No, no, now, I knows your house bill. I had
to go through and pay extra for all the people
that were using mone now and they just sent me
six dollars like it knows if you're not the original house.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
Now. Well, every time I moved, like so, I have
a Lexi to the Louisville house and I have to
change the main house both times, I'm like, I'm the
same guy. Why not just have facial recognition?

Speaker 3 (39:37):
See that's a slippery slope. I mean, I know your
phone already does it? But how many things are we
going to have?

Speaker 1 (39:42):
Everything? But have you been you don't clear? Do you
have clear? Non? So clear is the way you could
even skip pre check? Okay? And now clear has it
to where if you walk up and they show your face,
you're just done, like you're already. You don't even have
to show your boarding pass, your passport. All you do

(40:02):
is show your face and like you're on the plane.
Sounds convenient that they pick you up and they carry
you and they take you all the way to the plant.

Speaker 2 (40:10):
That technology blows my mind because I feel like half
the time I'm looking down, my hat's pulled over, my eyes,
glasses on, and I'm like, there's no way it's gonna
recognize me this time. No, it gets me, and I
look like in the airport, Wow, Like, how does it
know us? It's just a radio show. We're gonna bleep
that one out.

Speaker 1 (40:29):
You have a button, don't you. Yeah, Saucy mat over
here with the facial recognition, he's had enough. I just
I'm not his anti facial recognition is because like they
already have it. You're already in a in a database,
already have everything. I mean, they could probably recognize my
butt if they wanted to. They certainly are gonna be

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Speaker 3 (41:27):
All right, let's go to the world of sports, where
two Cleveland Guardian pitchers were indicted in connection to a
sports gambling investigation. Luis Ortez and Emmanuel Closs allegedly conspired
with sports betters to rig pitches that they threw. They
often threw rigged pitches on the first pitching of an
at bat, and betters would bet on the speed and
type of the pitch.

Speaker 1 (41:47):
That's crazy.

Speaker 3 (41:47):
This is on the heels of the SBI investigation into
the NBA, where players like Terry Rozier and Chauncey Billups
were hit with major charges.

Speaker 1 (41:54):
So we've had a bunch of these guys get charged.
Now do you think there are lots of players in
sports sweating it? Yes? I mean that's now free Cleveland
Guardians pitchers over the course of about two or three months. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:10):
I know a lot of people are blaming the apps.
Now I think it's good because the apps catch it.
This has probably been going on since the beginning of
time with mafias. We all know the stories when they've
been caught. Now because it's legal and in front of us,
they have system in place to actually catch this and
a few of these stories, you know, the next guy
down the road is gonna be thinking long, hard about
getting involved in thish on site.

Speaker 1 (42:33):
A person that makes fifty thousand dollars on the first
pitch like that shit. First of all, I'm going to
assume you guilty. No one is that, and especially if
you're guessing the miles per hour. Yeah, like just so
it's clearly you are clearly doing some. But that's what's
good about these apps because that triggers it, and you

(42:54):
catch that now. And now they said he can't do
more than five thousand. That still seems like a lot.

Speaker 3 (42:59):
But these guys, they are making millions of dollars for
like a five thousand dollars pay day. I just don't
get that.

Speaker 1 (43:04):
The return on that seems so little for the risk.
But that makes me think that they just never thought
they'd get caught, which makes me think everybody was doing it,
you know.

Speaker 2 (43:14):
I mean, we'll never know, but I bet it's worse
than anyone could even imagine going back over several years.

Speaker 1 (43:21):
What is the most degenerate gambling behavior? Because I would
say betting on the first pitch is up there.

Speaker 3 (43:27):
It's high like Japanese baseball at four in the morning.

Speaker 1 (43:31):
Yeah, but you might do that because you think you
have an edge.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
Okay, and that's like people up late and there's nothing
like well, I'll try to watch this game on a bootleg.

Speaker 1 (43:40):
Preseason football is degenerate. But that's a good one.

Speaker 2 (43:45):
I've made a few bets on NBA Summer League for
like five bucks. But for five bucks, if someone bet
any real money on the NBA Summer League, I got questioned,
what's going on there?

Speaker 1 (43:54):
What about? You know, there's I've read stories that they
think now where the the most shady stuff is going
on is low levels of college basketball, like you know
Mary mac versus in j I t that that that's
where they think the real like there, some of those
games get crazy amounts of money bet on them and

(44:17):
who could even know, right, do you think that's you
think that's crazy behavior?

Speaker 3 (44:23):
Well, yeah, it is crazy behavior. I thought you were
going to say, is that like crazy to think that's possible? No,
I mean that's probably where they're doing.

Speaker 1 (44:28):
It now Challenger pro bet is that the problem prop bets. Yeah,
I can get rid of a lot exactly, the fact
that one person can control it.

Speaker 2 (44:39):
You can't change the outcome of a game. I mean,
have a big impact, but you don't have full control.
You can you can go out there and not get
ten rebounds anytime you want.

Speaker 1 (44:46):
In Europe they had these scandals about eight or ten
years ago with Challenger Tennis, so minor league tennis tennis
players were throwing the matches left and right. Drew and
I one time called a minor league tennis match in
Lexington and there were like hundreds of people watching online
and Drew and I were like, who is watching this?

(45:07):
And then our our announcer during the break was like gamblers,
and I go, oh, okay, it makes sense people from
all over the world watching these two Russians play tennis
and Lexington.

Speaker 2 (45:18):
That's why I put the money on the line. We
don't even know their names.

Speaker 1 (45:23):
Yeah, I mean, we were just talking about each other.
I just kept thinking the sponsors when I did everything
else to say, I was like, Drew's a fartface. And
so meanwhile I got into Baz got one hundred grand
on it. Yeah, so that's probably I would say low
level college basketball. I mean, I know you can bet
on the G League. Yeah, I might have done that.

(45:47):
You have. I've been on snooker recently. Snooker. Yeah. I
got a snooker tip and it hit. How did you
get a snooker the DM? It was like from who random?

Speaker 2 (45:58):
It was like Bob Anderson and minus one ninety at
three and I was like, that's so absurd, I'm gonna
bet on Bob Anderson.

Speaker 1 (46:04):
Didn't watch it, just woke up and had that money
on my account. You just have strangers sitting your great
tip of man, I didn't get any more. All right,
there you go. I'll take your snooker tips if you want.
But this is like play money.

Speaker 2 (46:17):
If someone were to bet a serious amount of money,
that would get red flagged because no one is actually
putting their hard earned dollars on something like that.

Speaker 1 (46:25):
By the way, interrupted by Matt Jones, sponsored by DraftKings,
Just kidding, get snicker on there, who's up next? All right?

Speaker 3 (46:33):
You know Starbucks is a big corporation. They just released
some new holiday merch on November sixth, including a plush
Hello Kitty doll and a new Barrista cup.

Speaker 1 (46:44):
Have you seen the Barrista cup? Play on words?

Speaker 3 (46:47):
Obviously, it's a glass bear with a green beanie on it.
But do you remember the Stanley Cup and how people
went crazy for the Stanley Cup a few years ago?

Speaker 1 (46:56):
The hockey? No, every year, everybody wants to win. It's
so bad. Yeah, yeah, Okay, it's a little different than
Stanley Cup. Okay, well it's called Stanley Cup and is it? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (47:05):
And that's what people are doing again. They're going crazy.
People are camping out overnight. They're flooding stores with calls.
People are even bringing pepper spray to make sure they
get there, they keep their spot in line to get
their bear Rista cup. These are being sold for forty
four dollars their retail but being resold on eBay for
one two hundred and fifty dollars right now bear Rista

(47:26):
cups from Starbucks?

Speaker 1 (47:28):
Is that the thing I see with the Proclaimer's commercial?
Are they is that what they're doing is the barri'stick cup.

Speaker 2 (47:34):
I just saw a picture of the Barrista's cup, so
I know what it is. I don't think it's on
that commercial.

Speaker 1 (47:39):
Maybe it doesn't. I've heard that commercial. Would you want
one of these? No? Not at all. The people. It's
sad that people fight over this stuff. I remember when
everybody was fighting over the Stanley things. But is that
still a thing? Do people still want them? No?

Speaker 2 (47:51):
The brand changes every six months, a new I guess
we'll call it a Thermos.

Speaker 1 (47:56):
New brand pops up. Is that just because of TikTok? Yeah? Yeah,
there's a phenomenon in New York where people just stand
in line for something because it was on TikTok. These
cups are big in that.

Speaker 2 (48:10):
Yeah, and like bagles, I feel like the sorority house
will decide which one they're gonna like, and then it
just blows up, and then that one you're not cool
three months later when the new one comes around. Well,
I gotta say one thing about this generation in their thermosis.
When I was in college, I don't know that I
ever drink water. I don't think I remembered to drink water.
I probably went months without drinking water. But now it's

(48:32):
like how much water can I carry around? Look how
cool I am? Look how much water I drink?

Speaker 1 (48:36):
And it feels like they want to carry the heaviest
of it. It's never big enough. Oh, I need a
handle for my water. Yeh. I didn't even know we
had water in my house when I was in college.
That's true. Water was not something I consider drinking water
like low class. So even though I think we're getting
a little materialistic as a generation, at least they're drinking
their daily water. I wanted someone with flavor and now

(48:59):
the most water possible. I was one of those people
water carrier.

Speaker 3 (49:05):
I mean, I had a yetti that I took to
every class. Everything that I did, I always had to
have water on me. Well, I've actually thought about this
because I'm thirsty. I don't know, but I thought about
this recently. He was you went talking about thirsty, Yeah,
Bob Ryan, but you went to Europe. They don't do
a lot of water over there, right, there's not cold water.

Speaker 1 (49:24):
No, they do water, but you you don't see like
plastic bottles of water. They no. I mean you go
to a meal, you get water, or get some sparkling
like spark parkling water, which I think is gross. San Pelgrino. Yeah,
they're they're big on sparkling water. They'll go uh uh
still or sparkling. They like to call it still because
it's not sparkling, right, but yeah, we we America. I

(49:48):
guess it's good because it's healthy for you.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
Yeah, but like spending this money on cups, like, come on, kids,
let's calm down with our fighting friend.

Speaker 1 (49:55):
It's another thing we never thought about when I was
a kid, was like, I mean, you would just drink
it out of the tab or the water fountain. Yeah,
and now it's got to be filtered, yeah, purified. See.

Speaker 2 (50:08):
I would just you know, the only thing I'd to
worry about was who was at the water fowl before me,
because we're all just putting our mouth.

Speaker 1 (50:13):
On that thing.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
Now everybody has their own. Everybody's got like four of
them too. I got my this one, I take the class,
This one's at home. This one has a right handle,
this one has a left handle. It's out of control.

Speaker 1 (50:25):
Yeah, good for the bar Eastas I did notice there
were a lot of people at Starbucks while I was
there the other day. Maybe that was why. What's next?

Speaker 3 (50:33):
All right, let's stay in New York. It is officially
Christmas time. The eleven ton Rockefeller Christmas Tree is now
up in New York City. Seventy five foot Norway Spruce
is eleven tons forty five feet wide and has more
than fifty thousand LAED lights on it. It started the
tradition in nineteen thirty one with depression earrow workers. And
there's actually a cool story involved with the tree. This

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year it was donated by somebody that whose great grandparents
planted the tree in hope that this would be the
Rockefeller Tree one day.

Speaker 1 (51:03):
Well that's nice.

Speaker 3 (51:04):
Where do they get it. It's a town outside of
New York City.

Speaker 1 (51:08):
Okay, yeah, I like that. Christmas in New York is cool.
It's it's very expensive now, so it's hard to do.
But the tree and everybody's skating, it's it's it's it's
a beautiful thing. I know you've gone to it before.
I went one time with an ext girlfriend and we
decided to go down there. Uh and uh, I think

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somebody gave me the flu while I was there. I
lost snaughty kids around, so I do have I do
have some negative correlation, but otherwise I'm for the Rockefeller Tree.

Speaker 2 (51:40):
Yeah, it's it's I've done it like every year for five, six,
maybe seven years. It's be the first year I don't
do it. I'm not normally like, take me to the
touristy stuff.

Speaker 1 (51:49):
But New York and Christmas just throw me in the crowd.
It is nice.

Speaker 2 (51:52):
Yeah, I give my hot chocolate. I stand on the
sidewalks that feel like they have two thousand people trying
to stand in one little space, and you can just
baby step forward.

Speaker 1 (52:01):
Put something about ice skated. I don't ice skates. It's
a thing.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
Abby is a big ice skater. It's a whole scene.
Do you remember Hay Kentucky Marry Joe took me to
ice skate that bit and I just kept falling and
you were really bad at me, really bad at it.
Why is how is the kid growing up that like
my friends would have roller skating parties at skate World
not have to hug the wall. You know, it's still
got some trauma.

Speaker 1 (52:25):
You still't have balance. It's weird. I can do most
other stuff balancing. It's just something with the roller skates.
I think I just never really gave it a chance.
And then it, you know, life went on. I became
an adult who couldn't do it. So roller skates too,
or just ice skates. The roller skate aunt well, roller blades.

Speaker 2 (52:43):
Calm down, she's trying to get me killed. But there's
there's video of me trying to ice skate down here
in Triangle Park at Christmas years ago, and then on
Hay Kentucky the Old Show. Both times I'm pretty much
just crawling over to the side.

Speaker 1 (52:57):
It's hard now. I mean, if you've never done it,
I've done it a couple but it's I have to
hug I'm now I can roller skate a little bit.
I don't feel comfortable. Part of it's being tall. It's
a long way to the ground and you short people
like you don't have as far to fall. Yeah, we
got to think about our landing. We do. And you
get to a certain age, like things hurt, you know, joints, knees,

(53:19):
you know they say your ankles start getting weak at
forty six. How's how's it feel. It's hurting. Money pop
a lot. My ankles pop a lot now. They didn't
used to do that.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
That's what I was bringing up in about the last
six months. My knees are constantly popping.

Speaker 1 (53:36):
Yeah, I get a lot of pops. They have walkers
that you can use when you're on the ice or
the road. Not at Rockefeller Center. There's so many people.
That's another thing about it. If you do it at
Rockefeller Center, you better be okay because there's so many
people they'll just knock you over if you if you
don't big Leaks.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
I couldn't do it at the Lexington, Kentucky Christmas Tree.
I'm not going to attempt it.

Speaker 1 (53:53):
At rock Filler. Yeah, who's next? All right?

Speaker 3 (53:56):
New trend here in the United States, calistenics is making
a comeback.

Speaker 1 (53:59):
Is that? Well, I mean it's it's coming back.

Speaker 3 (54:02):
It's new right now, the form of fitness that uses
little or no equipment and instead relies on body weight
for resistance. You know, not everybody has time to go
to the gym, matt and it's all that.

Speaker 1 (54:11):
Hasn't that been a round forever? Isn't that the original
form of Yeah?

Speaker 3 (54:14):
Well yes, and the military does it a lot as well.
Push ups, pull ups, But it is something.

Speaker 1 (54:19):
They're they're talking, they're not saying just push ups are calisthenics, Yeah,
I believe. So.

Speaker 3 (54:24):
I've got some more stats on that here, and just
to saycond the So, yeah, one in three Americans struggle
to do five push ups right now, fifty percent struggle
to do ten straight. And if you can do fifty
push ups in a row. You are stronger than ninety
nine percent of people in this country.

Speaker 1 (54:38):
Well, I cannot do that. I could do five, probably
could do ten, but it would be I'd struggle if
struggle gets you to tea, and I think I would struggle.

Speaker 2 (54:48):
I'm good for about ten. I'm not doing fifty. That
didn't even sound fun. I don't even know why anyone
would try to do fifty push ups.

Speaker 3 (54:54):
Shannon and I did a push up contest at a
remote four years ago.

Speaker 1 (54:57):
I did forty. Shannon did fifty five. Yeah, you guys
are little though again I think I think push ups
disproportionately hurt those of us that are tall and like
that push ups is a little skinny person thing chest muscles. Well,
but also you, I mean, how much do you weigh?
Like one sixty? Yeah, so I mean you're pushing up

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seventy five pounds less than me. I mean that's gonna
be you know that's different. Okay, So what what what
is the point of this story? Oh?

Speaker 3 (55:28):
Just you know, if you if you don't have time
to go to the gym, maybe you can't afford the
fancy telling.

Speaker 1 (55:33):
Me the news. The news is that I can do
push ups. Wait until prisoners find out it like this,
they're gonna be jacks. No, it's making a comeback. Oh,
I think you're telling people they do. Okay, says who
the news. Don't doubt the news, Matt. I believe is
the AP that had this story? And what is their

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basis for saying it's making a comeback?

Speaker 3 (55:56):
I guess uh, the workout routine of millions Americans? Okay,
and the study that has been done.

Speaker 1 (56:02):
Do you have another one? Yeah? I got one more? Okay,
that one might have been one you could drop. I
think people have known medics is an exercise for you
if you were trying to figure out which one of
your ten would have been one you could replace. I
might have led by dropping that. Well, I don't think
he just wanted to tell us he's done forty push
ups before. I think that's probably right.

Speaker 3 (56:23):
Oh, I'm I'm glad I got it in then, Okay,
I don't think I've done forty in my entire life.
Let's go with one more final story. A Chinese startup,
Lenovy Biosciences, has a exciting new claim. They have developed
an anti aging pill using a compound from grape seed
extract that targets so called zombie cells. Their goal is
to have people live up to the age one hundred

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and fifty, but right now, with proper lifestyle and medical
medical care, they believe these pills can help humans live
to one twenty.

Speaker 1 (56:53):
Yeah, I mean, do you want to live to one twenty? No? No,
I do not.

Speaker 2 (56:58):
I don't want to see who this place looks like
on a hundre twenty years. I'm just talking about My
knees are hurting right now, and I'm forty. It's time's three.

Speaker 1 (57:05):
There are people that believe that, like the generation of
people that are being born now are going to live
to I don't know if one fifty, but to that
kind of age that like they're going to kind of
look back at our generation as the last one that
sort of didn't get the Age Revolution. I don't believe that,

(57:27):
But can the planet hold that many people? Probably not,
we will.

Speaker 2 (57:33):
The technology will get so advanced, they'll find stuff, operate
on stuff, you know, medicine will be so far along.

Speaker 1 (57:39):
But I mean the question though, is I believe they
could keep you alive, But do you believe they're going
to be able to keep people like vibrant? No?

Speaker 2 (57:48):
And that's why I just mentally leave aside my body.
It's like my brain after one hundred and twenty years
is gonna be like I'm tired.

Speaker 1 (57:55):
I just I don't. I mean, if you told me, Matt,
you can be what you are right now for more years,
I would want to do that. But if you were
to tell me I'm going to be what I'm going
to be in thirty years, I'm not sure I would
want to keep doing that, would you?

Speaker 2 (58:10):
When you think of like when we see people are like, oh,
happy hundred and first birthday, it's like, awesome, they made
it that long, But think of the state they're usually in,
and then another twenty years on top of that.

Speaker 1 (58:20):
Yeah, and I don't even know what anti So the
zombie pills, I guess that means like you have genes
that break down, which is part of aging.

Speaker 3 (58:29):
Yeah, the zombie cells, I think. I guess this pill
is supposed to attack decaying cells and then leave the
healthy ones. You know, it's easy to say when we're
young and healthy, right, but if there was something wrong
with us, if we were on our deathbed, I'm sure
a lot of people with the fear of death would
want to live a little longer.

Speaker 1 (58:46):
Well, that's true. I mean, but I don't know. I mean,
this is not how I thought we'd end the podcast.
But do you think you'll be all right, like when
you're laying on your deathbed, as long as it's not soon.
As long as I do about the average, you know,
I don't need to it's important to you to hit
the average.

Speaker 2 (59:03):
I mean, I don't want to be on my deathbed
at forty one. But you know, if I'm much older
and about about the average, I think I'll just have
to accept it.

Speaker 1 (59:11):
I did have a moment I have to say this
week that sort of freaked me out a little bit.
So I was in a wreck Saturday, and I mean
it wasn't a terrible wreck, but it was a wreck,
like it totaled my car, and uh, when I hit
the I kind of swerved and I had to hit something,
and I think apparently what happened is my car hit

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a fire hydrant and then kind of got up in
the air and it went door first into a tree.
And it dazed me a little bit because I remember
the after effects. But I also was like trying to
get home and then the you know, I had to
deal with the police and all this stuff. Later, I
was like, I mean, I need to go see my car.

(59:57):
And when I went and saw the car and I
I saw how bad it was. That was kind of
like whoa, Like that was a lot worse than I
thought it was. And that was a little bit. I
don't know, that was like whoa, that could have gone
a lot worse. And so I don't know, I don't

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know what that has to do with the anti aging pills,
but it but it was sort of a moment of man,
that was a lot closer to being a really bad
thing than maybe I realized it was.

Speaker 2 (01:00:25):
It also shows you that you can have all the
anti aging pills, but sometimes your number will get called
when you at least expected. I mean, lucky it wasn't
you that day. But you know, yeah, final destinations.

Speaker 1 (01:00:35):
Right, A bigger takeaway on this news topic. I watched
that the Bloodlines, the new one.

Speaker 3 (01:00:41):
New one stinks, What are you talking about?

Speaker 1 (01:00:44):
I'd never seen the others, so it was new box set.

Speaker 3 (01:00:50):
Why they were just I don't know, maybe it was
better the first time, but they were.

Speaker 1 (01:00:54):
Up in that building and then it came down like
this one. Yeah. I was kind of liked it a
little goofy. It's supposed to be goofy, isn't it? Aren't
they all goofy? It's not real?

Speaker 3 (01:01:06):
Well before I mean, I couldn't get on an escalator,
like I couldn't drive behind a truck that had logs
on it for a while.

Speaker 1 (01:01:12):
Is that what you want? Just a horror movie? Sometimes
you want to be able to not drive behind logs? Yeah,
a horror movie that stays with me for twenty years.
Is So you didn't think that was good? It was fine.
It was not as good as the other ones. I
kind of liked it. Granted it was all new to me.
I was learning the premise as it went. Now if

(01:01:32):
I was watching it, yeah, yeah, I don't know if
you're supposed to Well, if you needed to know the
whole pot, can I tell you a conversation I heard
Bill Simmons have today with Chuck Klosterman on his podcast. Sure,
I'm not saying we should have this, but they said,
if Rocky Balboa was a real person, okay, lived a

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real life and he died, what would lead his obituary?
How does that even come up? I don't know, but
you know what, I've been thinking about it all day.
So have you seen all the Rockies? Yeah? Yeah, all
right in a while. But so he dies, it's his
New York Times obituary. What's he leading with? I mean,

(01:02:17):
husband of Adrian, Husband of Adrian, he's leading with his wife.
This is a man who is heavyweight champion. Depends on
what your value in life. Well, I don't think the
New York Times would lead with him being husband to
an anonymous woman. So would it be that he beat
the undefeated champion to become champion of the world. Would

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it be that he ended the Cold War? Forgot? I
didn't think about that. I was gonna say, Paulo Creed
should be his lead. I think you could argue he
single handedly overtook the Russians by beating Dolph Lundgren.

Speaker 2 (01:02:57):
So you're saying, Rocky Balboa, who takes down Russia dead
at X, Well, that's what I'm saying, what's the lead? No,
that's your answer, taking down Russia. I didn't even consider
that getting that broad. But you're not wrong.

Speaker 1 (01:03:10):
Yeah, I was gonna say, just of his fights, I
would have gone with the apollo Creed Rocky one as
his son.

Speaker 2 (01:03:16):
He lost in Rocky one, he won in Rocky two.
True I'm even thrown off on my rockies here.

Speaker 1 (01:03:21):
Husband of Adrian's right there. Maybe you talk about his
mentorship to Creed gave back what was his trainer? Mickey Mickey, Yeah,
I'm just saying it was an interesting thought. Taking a
character from a movie acting like they live their real life.

(01:03:42):
And then Michael Corleone from The Godfather, what leads his obituary?
War hero, Mafia don.

Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
This is a fun game. Now you're presenting it this way.
We get people. There's a lot of people. Can you
think of other people like that?

Speaker 1 (01:03:58):
They would be interesting, Bill Boat Baggins, I haven't seen
Lord of the Rings, but I was just Luke Skywalker. Yeah,
what leads his obituary Son of Darth, honest farm hand,
honest farmand farm Actually just want ability to write all

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these obituaries. We should give Billy ten characters. It's farman.
Michael Corleone brought all the mafia families together, he did.

Speaker 2 (01:04:34):
Can we celebrate that killed his brother? I don't think
you should. That shouldn't be the top of his obituary.

Speaker 1 (01:04:40):
You know, World War Two hero took over for his father,
took over the family business, took over the family business,
brought down in corruption trial, got the pope to be dirty.
It's Godfather three if he didn't get to it. I've
got the best character for this. Who's that Forrest Gump? Oh?

(01:05:01):
I mean, what what angle do you take? The question?
What leads Forrest Gump?

Speaker 3 (01:05:05):
Now?

Speaker 1 (01:05:05):
What what leads Forrest Gump will be? He's an Olympian,
Vietnam veteran at the Medal of Honor drink about fifteen doctor.
I think I think I think he I think you
lead his obituary with Vietnam Medal of Honor. I think so.
But he also represented us in the Olympics on the
ping pong team and return kicks for Alabama and taught

(01:05:27):
Ella Elvis how to dance. We don't teach Elvis how
to date. We don't have Elvis without young Forrest Gump.
I think they would lead his obituary with Medal of
Honor winner from the vehicle. That's hard to top, but
there's gonna be a lot in it. One of the
first people to lose someone to AIDS. She died on

(01:05:49):
a Tuesday. You got a daddy named for us too.
We have other people that this would apply to. Was
this in your news report? No?

Speaker 3 (01:05:58):
No, this was you invest and some food company anti
pills shrimp.

Speaker 1 (01:06:04):
That's right. His restaurants are still all over the place
to this day. Restaurants here. Do you think it would
lead restaurant and Medal of Honor winner, Oh, restaurant deer.
That's great. Well, all right with that. It's good ending
shout out Forrest Gump. There's your news, Billy, Thank you

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very much. Yeah, and we'll see you next week.