Episode 4 - Top 10 with Drew and Billy

Matt is joined by Drew Franklin and Billy Rutledge to discuss the top 10 news stories of the week.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everybody. It is episode four of The Matt Jones Show.
We hope you guys have enjoyed the first three which
we're all a lot of fun with Bomani Jones, which
that one made national news, like you can just google
Bomani Jones, Den Levatard you'll see it led to a

(00:20):
lot of discussion around the internet, Ryan McGee and Crystal Ball.
And for our fourth episode here we decided to bring back.
Some of you that are in Kentucky will know this,
but if you're not, you may not know. We used
to do a show and we'll do it again in
the fall fade this where we do football gamling picks.

(00:41):
We're not going to do football gamling picks. But the
dynamic of me doing the show with my good friend
Drew Franklin, who I've worked with for fifteen years, I've
enjoyed and so Drew here. First of all, welcome to
the Matt Jones Show.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
I'm excited to be here. Hopefully. I don't know if
I want to create a national scene like your first guest,
but if it goes, he.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Got in like well, I mean, he said. Lebtard was
shocked to see a black person be smart, and he
thought it was like a fish riding a bicycle. You know,
I knew when he said that, I knew what was coming.
I just I know when things. I was surprised it
got found so quick. But it is, and in the

(01:23):
LeBatard world, it is the discussion. If you were to
go to rebit or reddit rend it, read it and
look at the Dan Levatard Show, it's all discussion about
what Bomani said.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
So, yeah, I don't know if I have anything like
that in me to get that kind of attention, but
I'm excited to get the band back together here under
your new formance.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Wait till you hear what he says about Mike Greenberg.
But so, so I decided, you know, we can't do sports,
gambling pigs, so I decided we'd do something every few
weeks on this show where you and I take like
the top ten news stories that are going on and
we give our thoughts on him.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Do you like that idea that I did?

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Kind of like, you know, there's a lot of these
comedy bros that sit and talk about things, but but
they're idiots most of the time, and we are only
kind of idiots. It's definitely comedy bros. Though, Oh listen,
if you should see me at the mother Ship. Oh yeah,
in Austin. Now, the other voice you hear there is Billy,

(02:22):
and I like to incorporate Billy. This is UH and
so we have Drew Franklin. This is Billy Rutlts. So
here's what I decided to do, Drew. I'm going to
have it to where Billy picks the top ten news
stories that he believes are worth us discussed, and we'll
call the show when we do it top ten.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
I like that.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
I also like the not knowing any direction Billy might go.
He's a mysterious guy. So here what I told Billy. Billy,
your instructions were this, find things that are both newsy uh,
entertain you know, entertaining, maybe occasionally sports. But I said
pick ten, make the most import important ones number one,

(03:02):
and then we'll go down. Rather than going least important
to most, this will be most important to least. Like
at the top of the show, and you had twenty
four hours to do it, how do you think you did?

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Now?

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Don't we don't know what he's doing.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
I feel like I'm on a game show.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
I don't know what. Yeah, and you have to have
a you need to have a reaction. You haven't studied it.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
I could be completely in the dark on some of
these times.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Billy reads us the news. Billy, how do you feel
about your assignment and how do you think you did? Well?

Speaker 3 (03:32):
I'm always extremely confident, so I know this is going
to go swimmingly, just like Fade. This did always. I've
got several handwritten notes over here, as you guys can see,
we call that paper. The prep work is here. So
this is top ten.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
We'll do this every two or three weeks here on
the Matt Jones Show. This is more for this week,
may be on our Whas radio show, but this is
more for our internet the podcast. Fans normally will film it.
We don't have it filmed today because our film guy
Mario is not here. So Billy gets started. What is

(04:08):
the number one most important Billy news item of the week.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
Well, I think we have to start with Donald Trump's pardons, Guys,
I mean the number one news Trump parts.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
That's in the news I think today. So give the
summary of Donald Trump's part.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
Well, I really honed it on one guy, Matt, and
that's former Virginia sheriff Scott Jenkins, who was convicted on
fraud and bribery charges. He was found guilty of accepting
more than seventy five thousand dollars in bribes last December
in exchange for making several businessmen into law enforcement officers
without training. Yes, so I read this, Drew.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
He took seventy five thousand dollars in bribes. And what
he did is he took his buddies in town and
if they paid him ten thousand dollars, he would make
them deputies.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
In the cam at.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Which port they could carry a badge? Okay, and I
guess presumably then do whatever they want.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
They could avoid traffic tickets and carry a concealed firearm
without a permit.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
So for ten thousand bucks, the law doesn't apply to
you from a traffic perspective.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
You get to play dress up as a local law enforcement.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
You get to play dress up.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
Now he gets convicted, and I believe Billy, if I'm right,
Like he was about to go to jail, right.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
He has not served a day yet. He was sentenced
to ten years in jail in March, but he will
not serve one day and Trump pardoned him today. Well,
a couple days ago.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
So what's your initial take on, the first of all,
the scheme of selling your buddies deputies badges.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
So far, I'm one for one on being up to
date on Billy's topics. I actually knew about this one.
I knew I had a ten year since he's getting
out of I'll start with just the scheme, as you said,
I just picture like the just local buddies around town.
Maybe one runs a golf course, maybe a grocery store,
and they just they want to play dress up. They
want to be a local copy. Do you think they
wore the uniform?

Speaker 3 (06:03):
Yeah? Yeah, oh darny five.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
I mean there's ten thousand dollars you'd better get a uniform. Like, sure,
you can get on Amazon and get the plastic badge,
but I'm thinking they have the full authentic Oh.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
I think they definitely in the full authentic badge. I
didn't think about actually wearing the uniform.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
You think they were the uniforse.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
I'm sure some of them have gone into establishments and
gotten a ten percent discount on their fast food local restaurants. Yeah,
probably even threatened some of their fellow citizens as if
they're a real law enforcement officer. I just I don't understand.
I mean, other than getting the money. What was the
guy's named Jenkins? Yeah, Scott Jenkins. Yeah, other than what
did you see? I was gonna bring that up too.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Look at his picture if you were okay, So, if
you're sitting at home and you don't you don't know
about this story, I want you to picture rural Virginia
what you thought this guy looked like? And he looks
exactly like you thought you look like. Seriously, if you
had told me what does this guy look like? I
would have pictured this guy, this exact guy.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
Same way.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
I knew the picture before I even scrolled to the picture.
Kind of looks like a guy who might live on
fast food, got a bit of a got a bit of.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
A neck on it.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Maybe it could be the case he needed help in
law enforcement. I don't know if he has.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
You think he.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Actually needed the help because he's there, you know, respectfully
to the guy doesn't want to be the most in shape.
But uh, I just I don't know what he thought
other than getting ten thousand dollars from his friends. There's
a lot of money for him. I don't know what
the what the reasoning.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
For do you get it's a little antiquated for the
idea that you can just deputize people. Take away the
ten thousand dollars for a second. Why can you just
deputize citizens. I mean, this is not eighteen sixty South Dakota.
And while Bill Hitchock has has come to town. I mean

(07:53):
this is like you think there should be a rule
that pretty much all people who carry a bad should
have some train.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
Absolutely, you know, there's little there's little things here and there,
like in Kentucky. You know, they might name your Kentucky colonel,
and you get a certificate and you put on your
wall and you tell people Kentucky colonel. But that doesn't
get you anything.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
You have no power.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
He was actually giving power, law and order to these people,
just to what should have just been a little placular
in twenty five.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
We should just make a collective rule. We don't need
to just we don't need to call the deputies out
and deputize your buddies. Now the ten thousand dollars expensive.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
Or cheap, well, I you shouldn't do this. But if
I'm his friends, I got ten dollars or I don't
me But I mean, if I'm in their shoes, I
feel like that's a good pay.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
How much would you pay to be a deputy?

Speaker 3 (08:48):
I don't know. Is it for life? Do we know Billy?
How long was he like a subscription plan after they've
their scheme has been found? Well?

Speaker 1 (08:56):
Yeah, but if he hadn't been caught in theory, how
much would you pay to become a deputy? Me?

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Personally, I don't really have a desire to do it,
but I feel like if I did, ten thousand's pretty cheap.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
I see. I kind of agree with you.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
I feel like if I'm getting out of all speeding
parking tickets, I wonder if people, you know, somebody took
it seriously, like was coming to the scene of crimes
and showing his badge and be like I got this.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
Driving around traffic accidents.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
I might have just talked to you.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
Wait a minute, I didn't think about that. Oh that's true.
You think they got lights on their car? These have
very wealthy people. Do you think they got.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
To put on their like escalades?

Speaker 2 (09:42):
Can afford to one? Well, they have the little one
that you put out with your arm. You can put
it up out the window, just kind of magnet.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
Sitting on them. Now it's starting to seem compelling. Well,
ten thousand dollars. I did think it was interesting. It
was seventy five, which means somebody got like a half
a badge in order to do it.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
I feel like for what he put on the line,
ten years in prison, he should have gotten more money.
He should have had a bigger asking price.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
I agree with that. Now Trump pardoned him. Was there
any explanation why? Uh?

Speaker 3 (10:11):
Trump says Jenkins is a wonderful person who was persecuted
by the radical left monsters and left for dead, the
one persecuted by the radical left monsters. Yes, and then
Trump also went on to say Jenkins tried to offer evidence,
but the judge, who was a Biden appointee, refused to
allow it, shut him down and went on a tirade

(10:34):
in a jury case.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
So the code to all that is he's a Trump supporter.
Trump has one of the badges.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
I bet he's got one of the sirens on his car,
the Virginia sticker on in the back of his car.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
All right, Well, I mean I could do a more serious.
Trump seems to pardon anyone who just likes him. I
saw that another guy got pardoned and his mom just
gave Trump a million dollars at a bitcoin thing and
then he got pardoned and nursing home. So, like, I
think there's a lot of shape. First of all, I've
said this, I don't think there should be I'm not

(11:13):
sure that there should be full part absent like and
extremes like I don't think you should be able to
just pardon people that you like, especially if they haven't
even served a day, like he hadn't even gone to
jail yet, had he.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
This guy had done like five of his ten years.
You still shouldn't do it. But at least he felt
the punishment. If he's pardoned before even has served anything.
And so they said radical left monsters.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
Yep, they uh and left him for dead? What does
that mean? I don't know?

Speaker 1 (11:47):
Okay, all right, Well did the people did you see
Trump's Memorial Day message?

Speaker 2 (11:53):
I've seen a lot of talk about it.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
I didn't Memorial Day, including to the scum, and then
he just started was that.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
The long truth social posts he gave.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
He gave those who died in war three words and
then talked about scut He said, happy Memorial Day, including
to the scum who and then just I don't think
people take a step back, ever, and go that man
is in set, including to the in your Memorial Day post.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
Of all the holidays, Okay, sure, maybe some you're not
that into, but Memorial I think we.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
Really need that.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
On on Columbus Day, maybe Easter, you just say a
few things. That's pretty serious one too, but you know,
Memorial Day, Memorial Day, you need to you need to
be your most serious self. That's a very very very
big deal, honoring our servicemen and women who served and
gave that sacrifice. And he gave it three words and
then moved on to calling people names.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
It looked like, well they left him for dead. But
I guess he is now returned, and does he I
assume he doesn't still get to be shared?

Speaker 3 (12:57):
No, I don't think he retains the title. Now do
the deputies get to stay heavities? I hope so I'd
like to think that.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
Okay, well, all right, so it's a good number one.
Well done, Billy. What's number two on the top ten
stories of the week?

Speaker 3 (13:11):
All right, we were talking about pardons. Hunter Biden was pardoned
once upon a time. Also, I didn't like that, and
this that might relate to this story. The FBI is
reopening investigations into the cocaine found at Biden's White House?
What is this story?

Speaker 1 (13:26):
They found cocaine? This was while Biden was president. That's right,
they found cocaine. Where in the White House? Is that
like we know that? Or they just said that.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
A baggie of cocaine was found Where in the White House?
I don't. I don't know the specifics there in the
west wing or in the.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
I mean, I think where it is is important. Was
it in the press room? Was it in Biden's like
money pouch?

Speaker 2 (13:49):
Is it somewhere where someone getting a tour it could
have fallen out?

Speaker 1 (13:52):
I think where it is in the White House is
an important thing.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
And a storage locker near the entrance to the White
House West wing is where?

Speaker 1 (14:00):
Now who uses those storage lockers?

Speaker 3 (14:04):
You're asking the wrong person, the person who's supposed to
bring But the deputy director Don Bongino announced that they
are reopening several cases.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
You were it sounds like you're saying John Bonjo, his
name is dan.

Speaker 3 (14:19):
Oh that's my handwriting. Then it must be a uh
he's reopening several cases that garnered public interest.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
Okay, So I said, well, why, but why is he
reopening that.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
He thinks the public may have influenced how they were
decided or what people thought of it. So did the
public influence it? I'm not sure, But the DC pipe bombing,
the leak of the Supreme Court Dobbs case, and the
cocaine at the White House, or all three investigations the
FBI has announced. The DC pipe bombing is one of
the three investigations that the FBI is the DC pipe

(14:55):
bomb I don't remember that. Do you remember that?

Speaker 1 (14:58):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (14:58):
No, I do not?

Speaker 1 (15:00):
Sounds okay, all right, So this is in This is
in a storage locker next to the entrance of the
West Wait. Now, I have no basis for this, but
it would seem to me that it's very unlikely that
like Joe Biden used the storage lockers and that Hunter

(15:22):
Biden used I mean maybe they did. Maybe Joe was like,
I could put it in my office.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
Is this like a gym you come in and put
your bag in a locker before you go to the office.

Speaker 1 (15:31):
I think it's probably something where people who either weren't
there or who are visiting probably put their stuff in there.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
Is that what you think it is?

Speaker 2 (15:39):
I guess I'm trying to picture a locker at the
front door of the White House.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
So they're reopening investigation to find out whose it is.

Speaker 3 (15:45):
Is that right? Yeah? Yeah, to see what was going on.
I guess Matt, you.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
Know now, I saw that somebody believed there was some
politician who said they believed it was Joe Biden's.

Speaker 3 (15:55):
Well that was Trump. You said it could either be
Joe or a hunter, some politicians.

Speaker 2 (15:59):
Trump Joe was way over.

Speaker 1 (16:01):
Said okay, yeah, okay, hunter.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
Fair enough.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
Why would anyone think Joe Biden was on cocaine? He
looked like he was going to fall asleep every five seconds.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
Anything.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
He probably needed it. He seemed like he's more on
a downer. At no moment did I think Joe Biden
is on cocaine?

Speaker 1 (16:20):
Right now, Billy, I know you're not a big political guy.
Was there any moment though during that election where you
thought it looks to me like Joe Biden's on cocaine?

Speaker 3 (16:28):
He could have used some cocaine if you ask me,
That's what he just said. Ye, Crystal Ball called him
half dead Biden, right, is that what she called him
in episode three? Yes?

Speaker 1 (16:37):
Nice callback, But you didn't think he was on cocaine?

Speaker 3 (16:40):
No, never thought he was on it.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
Okay, So what happens when they find if they find
whose it was, then.

Speaker 3 (16:47):
What they make him a deputy?

Speaker 1 (16:50):
I guess.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
Okay, so does uh you know if it were on
the ground. We've been in the White House. I didn't
take cocaine, but I could see where so many people
in and out falls out of their pocket.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
If it's in a locker, I like, we've been in
the White House. Do you think it's possible? Like, Okay, look,
I was in there. Maybe my cocaine.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
Dropped out of my I mean, I mean it's plausible
if if.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
We're walking around in the White House aimlessly, which we did,
and it tells me a lot of people are trampling
through there. The fact that it's in a locker does
suggest someone with a little bit of importance or access,
you know, when we.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
Were in the White House, Well does it? I mean,
does the general public have lockers?

Speaker 3 (17:28):
Again?

Speaker 2 (17:28):
Is this like a Planet Fitness? Do you walk in
and you get your.

Speaker 3 (17:31):
Should not get a locker just to Is it.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
One of those where you put in the code and
you have to remember it.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
I hate those, Oh, I hate those.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
It seems like a hotel room.

Speaker 3 (17:40):
Spaes.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
If you go to a spa and they make you
put the code in and then I forget which lockers mine, Yes,
that's you got to get somebody with the universal keys.
You know, you don't think that they should just have
lockers for the general public.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
When we were there, I don't remember like, here's your cubby,
put your code in.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
You know.

Speaker 1 (17:57):
What struck me about the White House when we were
there is how out kind of terrible. It was very old.
It's old and it's old, but they wasn't touched up
very much. Yeah, I mean I've been to this, like
when we were in Amsterdam. We went to the Netherlands
like Presidential Palace and it's awesome. The White House kind

(18:18):
of sucks on the inside, like most of the offices
don't have windows.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
There's like brown just goo on the on the scene.
My picture just saw this luxury and maybe it's been
touched up since we were there, but I was, I mean,
it was amazing being in the White House, but it
was like, y'all should maybe consider a renovation around here
a little bit.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
I agree with that, and maybe more cocaine. Maybe there's
not enough cocaine.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
I'm back, I'm with your original question. Okay, it's been
a while. I'm not saying you should excuse it, but okay,
they find it. Did we how much time we wasted
searching for this prayer?

Speaker 3 (18:53):
We got a lot going on.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
Damn by Gino like ran a podcast, like he literally
got the job. He was like, Billy, it was as
if I it came prison just made Billy the FBI.

Speaker 3 (19:02):
Dre you'd make me something, right, Yeah, but you'd have
one of the offices.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
It doesn't have a window or locker. You don't get
a locker.

Speaker 3 (19:11):
Oh, I was thinking, like secretary of stage, No you're not.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
That's another thing. The office we went to, it was
very small, very confined space. Just felt like almost.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
That's now. The governor of Arkansas, Sarah sand Sanders, we
met that she was a secretary. Yeah, she was nice.
Now she had a nice office, but most of the
White House is not nice.

Speaker 3 (19:34):
All right?

Speaker 1 (19:34):
What's that? Another good one? Number two? What's number three?

Speaker 3 (19:37):
Okay? Well, speaking of ex officials from Arkansas, there was
another prison break just recently. You remember the ten inmates
who escaped from a New Orleans prison just earlier this month.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
That was kind of amazing. Ten and and a lot
of them are still out right.

Speaker 3 (19:52):
Two are still on the loose. Three were found over
this past weekend. Out about I saw they caught a guy.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
He was just on a public bench. Someone just walk
by and recognized him. I'm not an expert, just walked
by and yeah asleep. I would have maybe not slept
in public under a street light if I were him,
knowing there's a man hunt for me. But that's how
one of them got.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
There's two still gone. Yes, I thought that there was
not a way people could still escape prison. I thought
it was we had a pretty time. Like I thought
it was only in movies that you could do it.
You said there was another one.

Speaker 3 (20:24):
Well, in the New Orleans one. They yanked a faulty
cell door open, they squeezed through a hole behind a toilet,
They scaled a barbed wire fence, and they fled inside.
Or they fled and with help from a janitor who
was shortly arrested afterwards because he had to turn off
the water so they could get through the pipes. But
the ex Arkansas police chief that was just arrested, he

(20:46):
was serving time for thirty years for murder and rape,
escaped from prison on Sunday and remains at large. He
used a disguise, a nakeshift disguise to mimic law enforcement
and walked right out the door. What is it with
all this fake law enforcement on? This was a former sheriff,
former Arkansas police chief.

Speaker 1 (21:06):
And he was in prison for doing something.

Speaker 3 (21:08):
Horrendous, Grant Harden, and.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
He just put on a fake mustache and a badge
and walked down.

Speaker 3 (21:14):
It's still on the loose. This was last Sunday. Wow.
So so yes, I have the same question. Is it
that easy to break out of prison?

Speaker 2 (21:24):
It's the we gotta stop with the holes behind the toilet.
I feel like that's the way everyone goes they think
they did in Shawshank prison break. That's the first place
I'm checking.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
I'm award. I think the first thing you should do
is fix all holes behind the tool.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
It's either the hole behind the toilet or there's like
a supermodel poster and if you pull it down. They've
been digging for like six months. There's not that many
places they can go, yet they continue to get away
with it. They'll hang a poster that's what it was
in Yeah, and then yeah, every night they'll chise a
little bit. I feel like we should have already been
onto this years ago.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
So he just walked out the front, just walked down
out the loading dock. They've even got video of it
in him in his little uniform. What was his disguise? Uh,
just just a black outfit with a hat on. And
it says something.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
On the police official I promise.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
I wonder if it's like a sexy cop outfit? Was
a real short shorts. I'm trying to find a picture
of it. I don't see the disguss. Wow, so still
in the loose, so you still know I have a
picture there, he.

Speaker 3 (22:26):
Is there, he is Just wait a minute. That does
say police.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
Looks like you got a hallowell.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
That's another thing I've never understood. I didn't know the
regular police the FBI. They always hear those jackets that
say FBI on it. I'd be like, don't you want
to be a little more discreet?

Speaker 2 (22:46):
And it's not even that unique of a font. I
feel like you can fake that. It's just the yellow
basic block.

Speaker 3 (22:51):
You know.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
I've been to many Halloween parties where people were wearing
that with like underwear.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
Well.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
He it also says his nickname is the Devil in
the Ozarks. Sounds like a guy and we need to
find soon man.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
Well, at least according to that TV show, there are
bad people in the Ozarks. And if he's the devil.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
Are all ability? These topics gonna be so serious.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
This isn't till it gets less and less serious as
we go on. I think his topics have been good.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
So no, they're good, but they're very you know, they're
hard hitting.

Speaker 1 (23:21):
This is a hard hit. Okay, yes, this is hard hitting.
All right, what's what's next?

Speaker 3 (23:26):
All right? Let we go from Arkansas to Texas, where
House Bill one eighty six is poised to pass, and
it is different poised. It's poised everyone Billy says it's.
House Bill one eighty six is set to prohibit individuals
under the age of eighteen from having social media accounts
on platforms like TikTok, Facebook, and Snapchat. It's driven by

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concerns over youth mental health and online safety, while critics
would argue the First Amendment right is being violated and
it's a cut off and of an entire universe of
information and conversation for young people.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
Okay, so what state is this against?

Speaker 3 (24:02):
Texas?

Speaker 1 (24:03):
So this is poised to happen. All right, I'm gonna
you know, Texas is run by I would Republicans.

Speaker 3 (24:11):
I think I'm.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
For this, This is this is gonna be my hot.
Maga take magamat magmat. I think social media. I'm not
saying there's no value to it. There is value, But
I do think it does more harm than good for
young people because I think it it gives them an

(24:33):
altered sense of self. I mean there's you know, the
reality and also self esteem. So I'm I'm good with this.
As far as the First Amendment argument, I mean, we
don't let eighteen year olds under eighteen like by porn,
so I mean a gun you can't. I mean there
are things we can do when people are under eighteen.

Speaker 3 (24:52):
I'm okay with it.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
What about you, I'm completely okay with it. We got
to get these kids off their damn phones. My only
thing is I might lower it. You say it was
eighteen eighteen, I might do sixteen. If you're driving, what's
it hurts have an Instagram? What's it hurt to be
on your phone?

Speaker 3 (25:06):
Actually?

Speaker 2 (25:08):
All right, touche, But I I completely agree. Go out
in the street, play with your friends, talk to people.
There's too many people growing up in this street. Yeah,
come home when the street lights come on. But no,
there's too many people are growing up in just complete
isolation without any real world experiences, and they're just and

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everyone is fake on the internet. You only show your
best self. They just.

Speaker 1 (25:37):
Stop saying everyone's fake on the internet. Are you trying
to tell me this message that I got from Bonita
in Argentina who says she wants to meet me because
I look interesting? All right, wait a minute, Oh.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
Gabrielle just wrote, Oh Gabby, gabriel are you stop?

Speaker 1 (25:59):
She said, I look my profile and I seem fun.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
How much bitcoin does she want from you?

Speaker 1 (26:08):
So far?

Speaker 3 (26:09):
She hasn't asked for addy. She probably likes me.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
I'm getting a lot of those two. It's like, hey,
I found your profile. You're in the zero followers anyway,
But go out, make some real life friends, have some
real life problems. The internet will be there for you
when you're later. But I'm worried too many kids are
growing up just looking at their screens where everything is
perfect in everyone's world. The world's not perfect. Go outside

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and experience it for a little bit, especially when you're young.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
I'm for it. Billy, are you for it?

Speaker 3 (26:38):
I'll play Devil's advocate a little bit, because you know,
there's a wealth of information that you're just going to
hold me from until I'm eighteen.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
We still get on the internet. You can't be on Facebook,
Instagram and Snapchat. What is the last time you saw
something on Instagram or Facebook that changed that?

Speaker 3 (27:00):
Do you think was necessary to know? Well, I mean,
I think you have a point there, but like, I've
seen things on TikTok that can broaden my horizons.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
And that like, what's the last thing you saw on
TikTok that broaden your horizon? And it can't be carl
Town's going.

Speaker 3 (27:14):
Sec zesty towns. I do like Dusty Towns. Oh my god,
it can't be that. Maybe we'll talk about one later
in the show as a topic. But I also learned
how to fix my sink on TikTok, So I mean there's.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
YouTube you get sixteen year oldest fixing the sink you
don't know.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
Also, Billy has a host of sixty year olds that
he makes.

Speaker 3 (27:38):
Go around town fixing sink.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
One more serious point for argument, there's a lot of
creeps that message underage people on the internet, and it
would keep them from having access to them too.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
That's that is maybe the best point.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (27:51):
That's that's that's a very good point. So Maga, Matt,
I would vote with the Texas House and Senate. I
actually think wow that it should be a bipartisan thing
that we need to start controlling access on this particular thing.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
AI.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
Okay, I'm I'm officially worried about what's going to happen
with AI. I mean there are stories now that like
AI is telling people that they're going to beat them up, yah,
you know, and.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
Then as like, don't talk to me like that.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
And then I just read an article in New York
Magazine about how chat GPT like universities just have no
idea what to do with it, like no idea because
now it's so sophisticated that they'll people kids will write
in and go write an essay the equivalent of what

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an a student at my school would write about this topic.
So it's not too good. What are you supposed to do?

Speaker 2 (28:57):
And that's just the beginning of it too. I use Chatgypt.
I always say thank you at the end, because when
they do turn on us, I at least want to
be on their good I hope they remember years of
me saying you look nice today, Chadgypt, thank you for
the help.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
Chack.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
You think over time when they build the nuke on
their own. I hope they remember me over at Kentucky.
You know what, Drew was polite early. I always thank
your local robot.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
All right, Maga Matt with one vote for the Texas Legislature.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
All right? That was what number four? That was four?

Speaker 1 (29:31):
All right?

Speaker 3 (29:31):
What's number five? Number five? Let's go to Las Vegas
where the Bitcoin twenty twenty five conference will be taking
place this week with a host of very interesting speakers,
including Donald Trump's sons. No, there's two intellects. Several senators
include including Cynthia Loomis and Marsha Blackburn. Another rock star

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and the keynote speaker will be VP jd Vance at
the Bitcoin twenty twenty five conference, and they will look
to address innovation, financial sovereignty in the future of bitcoin.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
By the way, that sounds like my personal hell of
a conference. Only if you also had like eight year
olds that were there, would be their boss. Actually, I
like I'm talking like five year olds.

Speaker 3 (30:19):
No parking, oh yeah, and hard to get out lines
when it's over.

Speaker 1 (30:24):
Yeah, I still I mean, I know it becomes I
still hate bitcoin. I still don't know what it is.
I still know why you would do it. I still
don't know why people put money in it, Like it's
not real, it's just it's fake. But people do it
until they make money from it. But it feels like
tomorrow you want to talk about AI. What's gonna stop

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AI from just stealing everyone's bitcoin? Like, because it's not
backed up by law, why don't people just steal it?
I mean I saw in New York there they they did.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
You see the thing?

Speaker 1 (30:58):
They kidnap a guy and even to take his bitcoin pass. Yeah,
like that was awful. I mean, it just feels like
I don't understand why our society is encouraging.

Speaker 3 (31:12):
It's.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
First of all, I would venture to say most of
the transactions done it are illegal. There's no way to
trace it. Why do you why do we want this?

Speaker 2 (31:24):
I have a little bitcoin and I still don't even
know how it works. But I got it years ago,
so I'm not mad about the returns on it.

Speaker 3 (31:31):
It's got to be worth a ton.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
Yeah, it does remind me. I had a friend one time,
Uh he said, hey, I'm thinking about buying a whole
bitcoin for five thousand dollars, and I talked him out
of it, and it is now. It just hit one
hundred and ten this week. He reminds me often like
he was about to hit by a bitcoin. I'm like,
don't do that.

Speaker 3 (31:47):
And if you lose your pass word, it's gone, right.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
Lots of people have lost a lot of bitcoin. There's
even like one famous guy who had just a tone,
I can't.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
I have an American Express and I don't think I've
ever remembered my password. I that that card has had
seven hundred and fifty passwords.

Speaker 3 (32:09):
What will end up happening is.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
I will do something and be like, okay, cause you
know you have to have names, numbers, symbols.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
Oh, I could show you. Well, I won't show you
my password, but it's intense. You don't just put like
hot dog too. It's it's a whole, it's a whole.

Speaker 3 (32:25):
Parable.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
What ends up happening is when I'm doing it, I
will put whatever was on my mind at that point right,
So now it would be like Callaway Chrome Tour golf
ball seven hundred and fifty. But then if I don't
log in for a month, I'm not gonna remember. I
was thinking about Callaway Chrome Tour. So if I had
a Bitcoin, I know I would lose the pass.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
Or some people it's you just store it yourself on
like a USB. I would absolutely lose that. I've considered
moving some to something like that. I would lose it.
Within a week.

Speaker 1 (32:59):
I have lost approximately one hundred and forty five pair
of Shady Race sunglass.

Speaker 3 (33:06):
And bitcoin's not back.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
But the guarantee exactly, I can't take it in and
get it. And then the other thing is, you know,
money is a fake concept anyway. The only reason it
exists is because the government backs it up.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
But Bitcoin's backed up by nothing.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
Right, there's some big network of something or other.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
Well, they always say.

Speaker 2 (33:31):
The blockchain, but I don't know what that means. You
can see all the transactions.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
What is a blockchain? And they say computers have to
work to dig more blocks. What does that even mean?

Speaker 3 (33:40):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (33:41):
In college I lived with four dudes. One of them
never went out with us. This was in like two
thousand and seven. We would be at McCarthy's every night,
wid and so and so coming out. He would sit
at home in our basement and mind bitcoin and using
our power.

Speaker 3 (33:54):
I don't even know.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
Tell me what that phrase means though, to mine bitcoin?
What does that mean?

Speaker 2 (33:59):
He had a room in the basement, he had a
bunch of computers. Our electrical bill would come at the
end of months and we were tell him he osius more.
We would go back to drinking and he'd be like,
I like this bitcoin thing. There's no telling how much
money he made off of it, because this.

Speaker 3 (34:11):
Was what is mining bitcoin? What does that mean? I
have no idea. I picture mind sweeper. Some For some
it's some of.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
Your computers like constantly running and creating society.

Speaker 3 (34:22):
Do you have to mine it? Why can't you just like?
What are you? Like? Okay?

Speaker 1 (34:27):
So if I'm mine for for gold at the end,
I have gold a physical product when I'm mine bitcoin
and gold, by the way, was in the ground? Yeah,
mining bitcoin at the end? Do I have a bit?

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Where was it before? So the gold was in the ground.
Where was the bitcoin.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
Somehow when all these computers I don't know, but where
was it? It's been somehow in this network. When you
get in there and you're plugged in and they're using
your power in your internet, it's creating bitcoin. Bow from
what I don't know, you're I have some I don't
even know anything work get.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
The idea of what a fake currency is? Like, I
don't understand the mining part.

Speaker 3 (35:17):
Bitcoin mining is the process of adding transaction records to
bitcoin's public ledger, known as the blockchain.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
That's where you can see all the transaction.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
But what do you mean adding public what?

Speaker 3 (35:28):
The miners use specialized hardware and software to solve complex
mathematical problems validating transactions and securing the network.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
Validating transactions? Why can't they just be validated? Why do
you need your computer to validate it?

Speaker 3 (35:42):
Why?

Speaker 2 (35:42):
I have no idea. I just know what my electrical
bill was on Big Bear Lanes.

Speaker 1 (35:48):
This all continues to be my belief, and it's becoming
less and less likely that I'm correct that this is
all insane. Now, of course, you get the biggest grifter
of all time, Donald Trump as president. Now, so all
of this is getting bald.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
Talking about not taxing the games on it too?

Speaker 3 (36:03):
Oh so crazy?

Speaker 1 (36:07):
Why would you do that because the exactly like now,
you have an incentive to not invest in companies that
actually exist and employ people. You have an incentive to
invest in whatever.

Speaker 3 (36:19):
That is correct, But I'm already an idiot. You know,
you've seen like meme coins and I don't know what.
Oh that's where Yeah, that's stupid. Like people can create
these cryptocurrencies and then pull the rug out from under
hard work.

Speaker 1 (36:30):
And that's exactly what Trump did. He just created a
coin called Trump and then the next day created a
coin called Malania. And everyone does this.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
There's a fart coin there on, like they don't even
pretend with the name is.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
It seems to me like on paper it should be
utterly illegal, and yet.

Speaker 3 (36:48):
It's just what we do.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
It's our digital currency, even though I don't know how
it works.

Speaker 3 (36:53):
It's the future. Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
They're bitcoin experts listening and just thinking. We sound like
completelys but I.

Speaker 3 (36:59):
Don't understand it.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
I'm an idiot on this, but I will still contend
you you mark this there. This is all coming to
a head one day, and it's going to be bad.
All of this bitcoin think, like the economy is going
to crash one day and we'll be able to point
back to that and I'll have this episode where I
said it, all right, what's number six?

Speaker 3 (37:20):
All right, we've been through five, so we're gonna start
having a little bit more fun. We got to start
by talking about the video of French president Emmanuel Marcone.
Have you seen this yet, Macron Macron?

Speaker 1 (37:31):
Yes, no, His girlfriend like smacks.

Speaker 3 (37:35):
His wife shoved him in the face while they were
getting off an airplane. It's bizarre. He has said that
he was bickering and joking with his wife, but people
don't think so after you watch the video. His facial looking.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
At elon is forcing this video on me on on
my Twitter. So a couple of weeks ago, I couldn't
escape the Caitlin Clark and algorithm. I was begging to
get out of it. Anytime I went to my for
you page, it was Caylen Clark Angel Reese. In the
last twenty four hours, I cannot escape this video. I
don't know why they're trying to feed it to me.
I'm getting conspiracy theories about him and his wife. I

(38:13):
don't care about any of it. But if I put
up my phone right now, Billy and showed you my
for you page, I bet it's him getting pushed in
the face.

Speaker 3 (38:20):
Well, a new a younger generator, it found out. Well, Matt,
tell us about what you think about the video. First, Well, you.

Speaker 1 (38:26):
Can't see her, so you don't know if she's kidding
or not. Right, Is he saying she's kidding?

Speaker 3 (38:31):
Yes, he is saying that they are bickering and joking.
I love his bickering and joking.

Speaker 1 (38:38):
Well, you can't be Bickeren and Joe.

Speaker 3 (38:39):
That was his explanation.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
See, that's a bad explanation. If she had just said, oh,
he's beat, she's kidding, I'd have a Biggeren and joking.

Speaker 3 (38:48):
Those two things don't go together. Shoved him in the face.
I saw it.

Speaker 2 (38:52):
The best part is when he sees the camera and
gives the cheesiest smiling wave.

Speaker 1 (38:56):
Is he I thought he was not president anymore? Is
he still president? I believe so.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
He also has a cocaine scandal. According to all the info,
I keep getting that.

Speaker 3 (39:04):
I don't his cocaine scandal.

Speaker 2 (39:07):
Uh, there's like he was meeting with other leaders and
let the media in.

Speaker 3 (39:11):
Oh I saw that. That was stupid.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
It was a napkin, And everybody's saying, yeah, I saw
that one. He had like there were like six presidents
and people said they had cocaine on the table when
they let the media. Does anybody really believe that? They
just like Hey, we're the six most powerful people in Europe.
Let's just pull out the coke.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
Let's solve the world's problems.

Speaker 3 (39:31):
But you think they all just were like snorting during.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
The I just I can't get away from this guy
on social media. I don't want him to.

Speaker 3 (39:37):
That's the one whose wife was his teacher, right, that's
what I wanted to get into. This story has exposed
to a younger generation the story of him and his wife.
His wife, Bridget was thirty nine years old when she
met Emmanuel, who was fifteen. She was his high school student.
Emmanuel expressed his love for her to his parents, they
sent him to boarding school. Bridget had was married and
had three kids, yet she divorced and married him.

Speaker 1 (39:59):
Yeah, that's subjectively weird. But that's subjectively weird. But French
people are weird about that stuff. Like French people look
at sex billy very differently than we do.

Speaker 3 (40:10):
They do. Oh yeah, I didn't know that.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
French people.

Speaker 1 (40:14):
There, they don't like think of like sexual more. I'm
not saying they're right, by the way, because it's to
me weird. They didn't start dating though, until he was eighty, right, correct,
But French.

Speaker 3 (40:26):
People look at it like.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
It was really good. I don't know what you said.
You might have insaulted this, but that's good. And you
know I disagree with that epion blasphemy.

Speaker 3 (40:48):
You've added a.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
New you know, you've got like three accents. I think
we're adding the fourth to the catalog.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
But they just they just they're a lot freer about
this stuff. But that is I mean, the dating, marrying
your teacher when your teacher's twenty that's weird.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
It's very weird. Last night, when I should have been sleeping,
it was up at two in the morning and Elon
was sending me tweets.

Speaker 1 (41:15):
You keep acting like Elon is sending the teaching because
I felt I've told you just go to your following page.

Speaker 3 (41:21):
Why do you go to your for you?

Speaker 2 (41:23):
And I've told you I don't like the people I follow,
So you think.

Speaker 1 (41:28):
You're gonna like the strangers better. Well, I mostly follow
UK accounts, and I like UK. But when I've spent
fourteen hours of my day with the website and UK stuff,
when I got to my following, it's like Harry, who
you follow so that you don't have to follow cat
Turn or whatever it is that they have.

Speaker 2 (41:44):
I like playing Twitter roulette, and last night it was
a lot of these two and I saw a conspiracy
theory that his wife is actually his dad, and I
went down that mom.

Speaker 3 (41:53):
I'm serious, it exists.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
Elon sent it to me himself last night at about midnight,
but I went down that word house. Yeah, yeah, it's crazy.
I'm not saying I believe it. I'm just telling you
should believe it. I'm just telling you what Twitter was
putting in my algorithm last night.

Speaker 3 (42:08):
Okay, Yeah, I'm gonna go no on that one. Okay.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
But the best part of the video is just cheesy
smile when he.

Speaker 1 (42:14):
Gets so do we think they were fighting?

Speaker 3 (42:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (42:18):
Yeah, his face does not look like someone who's joking
until he sees the camera.

Speaker 1 (42:22):
Okay, so then let's assume they're fighting. That's a pretty
like if you ever has Abby ever pushed you in
the face like that.

Speaker 2 (42:30):
Especially it looked it was too handed, right, it was
like a I could face.

Speaker 3 (42:36):
How do you respond from that? Like you see you
look at the camera and you smile, you give your
that's a tough look.

Speaker 1 (42:45):
Well, I mean, he's already a guy who married his
twenty four years older high.

Speaker 3 (42:49):
School teacher who could be his dead.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
I do get the sense with him that he's going
out of office and he's just like middle fingers up.
You know he's gonna show up in like that borat
swimsuit one day and be like, yeah, she hit him clearly.

Speaker 3 (43:08):
Yeah, it was not a pleasant show.

Speaker 2 (43:10):
I don't think they're what's the word he's joking playing,
I don't think they're playing king.

Speaker 1 (43:16):
You cannot bicker and joke. You can bicker or you
can joke.

Speaker 3 (43:21):
I agree. I think that reveals to me it was
obviously a fight.

Speaker 1 (43:25):
Wow. Well, I don't think I've ever had that happen,
certainly on the air force.

Speaker 3 (43:31):
That a Louisville fan ever shoved you in the face
like that. Drew's gotten punched in the from behind before
I've said, I've told you I You've had a couple
of close encounters. I had an encounter where I was
just a love tap.

Speaker 1 (43:42):
You did the move that she did? Yeah, Misers Macron
wasn't that long ago. It was Tuesday and it was
a manual cr.

Speaker 3 (43:55):
What's all right, let's go back online. The United States
likes to be the number one there, likes to be
number one in everything. This will make you happy if
you're one of those people. Australian linguist scoured the web
to better understand how people might employ naughty words in
their written communications. Over twenty countries were surveyed, three hundred
and forty thousand websites and one point nine billion words

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were analyzed. Five hundred and ninety seven words vulgar words
were highlighted and what did we learn? The United States
sets the bar for the dirtiest mouth on the Internet,
followed by Great Britain, Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, Malaysia, in Ireland.

Speaker 1 (44:33):
I'm shocked it's not Australia cuz I've been around a
lot of Australians and they cuss constantly and say words
that we don't say here.

Speaker 2 (44:46):
One of our bad words is just common there.

Speaker 3 (44:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (44:50):
And one of the words that's a no go here
is like people's grandmas say there.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
It's like saying pow or bug.

Speaker 1 (44:58):
I mean, they'll just go like, well, I won't say
what it is, but family program. Yeah, I'm surprised by that.
I'm also surprised that this is a study that someone
paid to have someone too, you're the very son. What'd
you do today? Well, Mom, that education you paid for.
I studied to see which country cusses the most.

Speaker 3 (45:19):
Read me the top seven again, USA, Great Britain, Australia, Singapore,
New Zealand, Malaysia, and Ireland.

Speaker 1 (45:28):
All of those make sense to me, except Malaysia. They're
all basically European white countries. And then Singapore is insanely wealthy.
If you ever are bored, read the history of Singapore.
They basically created a country out of essentially nothing and
then just decided we're going to take the best of
all the countries in the world and just make it here,

(45:50):
and it kind of worked. Singapore is fascinating, but Malaysia
is weird to me because that's in Asia, where people
tend to be a lot more conservative, not like conservative
like we call it, but just deferential, etcetera. I'm surprised
are obedient people obedient that's a good word. I'm very
surprised that they're on there. But are you surprised to
cuss the most?

Speaker 2 (46:10):
No, not at all. I feel like we ran away
with this one. I mean, we're number one and a
lot of things. I absolutely can believe we're number one
in this one. I've probably contributed to the numbers too.
Did you say how they studied it?

Speaker 3 (46:22):
I didn't, but I think it's English speaking countries.

Speaker 1 (46:25):
Okay, but they don't speak English.

Speaker 3 (46:27):
Well that's what That's why I'm confused.

Speaker 2 (46:30):
Do they just say are arecass words?

Speaker 3 (46:33):
Not sure?

Speaker 1 (46:34):
Again, I would be accussing people if they say the
words in English. That's like you got to cuss a
lot if you speak Malaysian and our fifth even in
English words. Well, I'm not surprised we're at the top. Okay,
Well good for us. Have you ever have you cussed
on the air before?

Speaker 2 (46:54):
When the first time I went on radio, I thought,
oh no, I'm nervous, I gonna cuss. And now, like
fifteen years, not one time have I been dropped. Pretty shocking.
Not that I just walk around cussing all the time,
but I thought it would slip eventually. I think I've
only cussed once. I remember when you did it, it
was kind of funny.

Speaker 1 (47:10):
Yeah, and I don't remember the context, but I remember
everyone's screaming.

Speaker 3 (47:14):
When I did. Was it ambient day? No?

Speaker 1 (47:18):
And when i've when I'm on ambiy and I I
want to like challenge people to duels, run, Yeah, I
don't I don't. It's it's amazing that people don't cuss more.
Have you ever cussed on the Airbally?

Speaker 3 (47:31):
I have? One time?

Speaker 2 (47:32):
You drop yourself.

Speaker 3 (47:34):
I had to have the producer drop it. Yeah. I
was filling in for Dick Gabriel and you cannot use
that language on the Big Blue Insider. Let me tell
you it's certainly not a Big Blue Insider. You wouldn't
want to do that.

Speaker 1 (47:45):
All right, Well, that's good to know. What's number eight?

Speaker 3 (47:47):
All right? It's our feel good story of the episode.
I want to introduce you to Oliver Widger, or as
most people know him on TikTok as Sailing with Phoenix.
Sailing with Phoenix, excuse me? What is that means? Sailing
with fee? That is his TikTok account name. He has
gone viral over the last few weeks as a man
who was living in Oregon, who quit his job, liquidated

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his retirement savings, and set sail on a sailboat from
Oregon to Hawaii with his cat Phoenix. He taught himself
that's the that's the sailor, the Phoenix, the cats. The
cat spoken in Phoenix. He taught himself how to sail
via YouTube. He bought a fifty thousand dollars boat and
repaired it in a matter of months. A twenty five
day journey spanning twenty four hundred miles ended last Sunday,

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where he was greeted by a welcoming party.

Speaker 1 (48:33):
When you will say he sailed, are we talking just
like a rich guy boat or he was on one
of the things where he's hanging there and then the
thing's blowing in the wind.

Speaker 3 (48:44):
Which one? Is it talking more like a sailboat, old
school sailboat, common man's not a rich person's What does
that mean? Like like sailing competitions. I mean there is
the art of sailing, Like there's a lot that goes
into it. When he buys a fifty thousand dollars or
boat and has to repair it himself, he's not on
a you know, a yacht or a rich person's vessel.

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Is he the first part? Like a lot of people say, oh,
why is this? This is a feel good story on
the internet. The cat or the cat and quitting his job,
and you know he was diagnosed with a rare condition
three years ago. That that was fact.

Speaker 1 (49:21):
Just just for future reference. I think the disease is
very important. Drew to the story. Just getting on a
boat with your cat doesn't strike me as something I
could care about.

Speaker 2 (49:36):
Now did the disease is a big deal here?

Speaker 3 (49:39):
And what was I've never heard of the sea before.
Clipple veal syndrome, a condition that causes abnormal fusion of
cervical vertebrate. Oh, that would be painful just hearing it.

Speaker 2 (49:52):
I don't know that i'd want to go sailing if
I had not.

Speaker 1 (49:55):
Yeah, I bet it hurts. So have you been on
his TikTok account?

Speaker 3 (49:58):
Yeah, I've seen it a couple of times. He's a
nice guy, very personal. That helps. So what does he do?
What are the tiktoks about sailing?

Speaker 2 (50:05):
I've seen a lot of them too, just like, hey,
look at me, there's there's a water, here's my cat.
I'll check it back in tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (50:11):
He's got over a million followers, and you know, has
captured the attention of the country.

Speaker 1 (50:17):
Okay, I'm clearly I'm missing out. First of all, that
doesn't come up on mine. Is there a way on
TikTok to not see videos with people?

Speaker 2 (50:27):
I think there is a button like I don't like this,
and it'll try to move you on, which maybe I
should do that to Elon with the with the macron thing.

Speaker 1 (50:33):
Okay, cause there are some things that continually come up
on mine, Like I want every video where Jeff Tigue
is talking. So if Jeff Tige's talking, give it to me, right,
But I don't need videos of people at a club
in the Hamptons. I'm not going to I'm not going
to the Hamptons. I don't care. But I can't get

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it to stop. And so can you do that? No
videos of clubs in the Hampton.

Speaker 2 (51:00):
I could be wrong, but I think you can. There's
a little like I don't like this content. You'll remember
that move you on to another algorithm.

Speaker 3 (51:09):
Yeah, instead of hitting the block button. I think there's
a so you like. I think it's fine, but I can't.
I can't ignore.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
Yeah, could you see yourself just picking up the cat
and selling around the world?

Speaker 3 (51:25):
First all, I don't like to be in the water
strike one. What does the cat eat? Cat food? Probably?
So he brought like how long did this? Twenty five days?
Was the journey?

Speaker 2 (51:41):
Twenty five days? I thought this was going to be
that long?

Speaker 3 (51:45):
I would, why are you so cynical? I mean this
is on a boat, And went from like with a cat.

Speaker 1 (51:53):
I feel like, and I'm sorry about his cervical fusion,
but I would do this.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
Before a carnival cruise. I don't even my cats. Actually,
he gots out.

Speaker 1 (52:02):
When you said, I thought it was gonna be like
six months, twenty five days.

Speaker 3 (52:06):
Twenty five days. I mean, not everybody gets two months
off in the summer just do whatever they want. Excuse me?

Speaker 2 (52:11):
Did he even get out of sight? Can you see
the shore? Did he get that far out?

Speaker 3 (52:14):
Oh? Yeah, yeah, you guys are I mean, I'd like
to see you on a sailboat for twenty five days.
This is not like the coast, like just let's coast
for twenty five days. I mean, you're on waves and
you know the the hall just broke the what the hall?

Speaker 2 (52:29):
I don't know, I will say. In the Bahamas, I
met a guy at the bar and he said, do
you want to go on a boat tomorrow? And I
was like, heck you out. It sounds awesome, and I
thought it was gonna be one of the big super boats.
It was fine. It was about what our boy was
on here. But I said, take me to where I
can't see the land. And we went pretty far out
there and even though I knew i'd be back to
the resort soon. There is a little bit uneasiness when
you look in every direction and it's just water.

Speaker 1 (52:51):
Oh to your point, Billy, No, I couldn't do it,
but you know, I also couldn't dig a hole to China.
But that doesn't mean so well. Actually, if somebody was
doing it, I would like to see it. I would
like this. So never mind, take that back. I guess
it's and what was it called again?

Speaker 3 (53:09):
Hold on sailing with Phoenix? With Phoenix? All right? Number nine?
All right? Did this story with Shannon the other day.
He's a music guy. The All American Rejects are doing
a twist when it comes to the tour. It's the
twist the house party tour. Instead of set dates and
going to cities, they take dms and submissions from fans

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and they do shows from people's houses. They announced the
show the day of, and they've been to a lot
of different places, including college campuses on finals weeks. They
even did a show in a field in Iowa. But
they are appealing to a new generation of fans by
doing house party tour.

Speaker 1 (53:45):
I love the idea. How do they make money?

Speaker 3 (53:49):
I don't know. That.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
I feel like that's a big part of this.

Speaker 3 (53:52):
I'd want probably, yeah, talent fee, maybe to get the
guys there to the people at their house. Yeah, to
get there to the house party.

Speaker 2 (53:58):
Maybe it's not about the money. I saw they did
Barstool Chicago.

Speaker 3 (54:03):
I did.

Speaker 1 (54:03):
I do think that's very cool, and I've thought about
doing that. Maybe we'll do that one day.

Speaker 2 (54:08):
Radio show to people's houses.

Speaker 1 (54:10):
Yeah, no, I'm serious. I thought about, Hey, if you
would like to have us at your house, right, and
then we just pick one and randomly go to you
remember w CW Nitro did that one.

Speaker 2 (54:22):
I remember that.

Speaker 1 (54:23):
Do you remember they had a contest you could enter
and you could have Nitro at your house, and it
was someone who won was in West Virginia. I believe
they were in Nitro, West Virginia, which seems like too
much of a coincidence for it to have been random.
And they just did the show at the guy's house.
I thought that was awesome.

Speaker 2 (54:39):
Yeah, I'm one of the few people who preferred Nitro overraw.
I remember them doing that. At first, when you said
you're thinking about doing this, I wasn't sure if you
meant have the All American rejects come to your house
or take KOSR.

Speaker 3 (54:49):
Toss someone's house. I mean I'd have them at my house.
Well move along, good. Oh yeah, very little secret they
can keep it wasn't there.

Speaker 1 (55:04):
But aren't they I'm surprised that, like college kids, aren't
they old?

Speaker 3 (55:08):
They are, and that's why they've appealed to a whole
new fan base by doing this. They also said they're
not doing it for money. They took fifty thousand dollars
out of their own pockets, booked a bus, put the
crew on salary, and started this wild ride.

Speaker 1 (55:21):
Well, their crew can't be making that much money if
they took fifty thousand dollars and they're driving all around
the country like they are, what are they paying?

Speaker 3 (55:29):
Their crew doesn't say, but they it does say they
recently read about people financing financing festival tickets and they just,
you know, thought these weird and wild time very cool.

Speaker 1 (55:39):
It's very cool they're doing it. I'm not sure what
made me think it is. But can I tell you
one quick story about my neighbor. It's your show, you
can tell me whatever you'd like. So, you know, Mid
City Mall in Louisville for those of you that live
all the country. There's a I live in a neighborhood
that's like the hippie neighborhood, and there's like an old

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seventies mall that everyone agrees needs something needs to happen
to it because all the stores are empty. But people
love it and they're worried that they're going to put
like one of these modern six story housing things there,
and all these old people in my neighborhood don't want
that for me.

Speaker 3 (56:20):
Whatever, right, just not pickaball. I will show up at
a town meeting if they do pickle ball.

Speaker 1 (56:28):
But you know, probably what they should do is make
the first floor like retail and then housing. You can't
complain in cities when you say apartments are too expensive
if you don't build any housing, right, you have to
build housing for prices to go down.

Speaker 3 (56:42):
I hate when people don't realize that.

Speaker 1 (56:44):
So anyway, they had a town hall and they said basically,
you know, we're angry about this, and I saw then
they interviewed someone and they said, local resident is particularly
upset because from the new sixth floor thing, they will

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be able to look in their yard. And they were
talking to a woman and she was in my yard
and she doesn't live there.

Speaker 3 (57:14):
I live there. I'm not kidding.

Speaker 1 (57:19):
She was standing in my yard complaining that mid city
mall people will be able to see into the yard.

Speaker 3 (57:28):
But she was in my yard. She doesn't live there.
I was very angry about that.

Speaker 1 (57:35):
Maybe you want your yard to be seen from saying
I don't. I'm not saying that, but honestly, I legitimately
have that concern. If they build a sixth story high rise,
there will be people who will be able to see
down into my yard. I though have to use a
legal term standing to complain about that. She doesn't live there,

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And I was sitting there wondering because I know who
lives next door to me. I don't think she lives
anywhere through there. I think she was a rabble rouser
that was going and just complaining on behalf of people because.

Speaker 3 (58:10):
I live in that yard and she does not.

Speaker 2 (58:13):
Have you been checking your yard? Is there any chance
she's just been hanging out in your backyard claiming it
as her own.

Speaker 3 (58:20):
You need to know your neighbors, you need to meet them.

Speaker 1 (58:22):
I know my neighbors. I know she does not live
on one of the three. First of all, if you
could see where it is. There's only three or four
houses where conceivably someone could see in the yard. I
know who lives in three of them. Maybe she lives
in the fourth. But she cannot really stand in my
yard and claim that that am I being unreasonable?

Speaker 3 (58:41):
Stolen? It's not her.

Speaker 2 (58:44):
Property to complain. You can complain.

Speaker 1 (58:47):
I went to stolen valor trying. But she also she pointed,
she pointed as if to say, see.

Speaker 3 (58:59):
And I'm here, I think you have a lawsuit. I
just think it's hilarious. It's not our yard.

Speaker 2 (59:09):
I I recently went to my first career town hall
meeting in Lexington and I got to say, I'm checking
the schedule and going to all of them.

Speaker 3 (59:18):
People get mad.

Speaker 2 (59:19):
We had we have a big issue in my neighborhood.
My dad was going over there and it's it's they
had it at Frederick Douglas High School, which I do
my nightly walks, right across the street. I was like,
you know what, I'll go over there. I want to
keep a low profile. I don't want people to know
him there, but I want to check this out.

Speaker 3 (59:32):
I go.

Speaker 2 (59:33):
My dad is in the front row, almost like he's
part of the committee. I sit next to him there
every new station in town is there with cameras right
in our faces, and I'm like, dad, why did you
do this? For thirty minutes, I hated all of it.
When they started taking questions, I didn't want to leave.
I wanted it to last all night long.

Speaker 3 (59:49):
What was it about you?

Speaker 2 (59:50):
A new Kroger is coming in, is it? But the
questions people had.

Speaker 3 (59:53):
They don't like it.

Speaker 1 (59:54):
No, no, no no.

Speaker 3 (59:56):
And you know these people, what's wrong with a new Kroger.

Speaker 2 (59:58):
They're worried about traffic. It was more so this guy
gave a presentation, there's there's maps, diagrams, and then almost
every question was what he just told us, And then
the next person would ask the exact same question. And
my wife was like, you're ready to leave? And I
was like, absolutely not. I want this to last all night.
Some of us was a little sad because they had
genuine concerns. They're elderly, like I didn't want to make

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too much light of them. But then, like one woman said,
when I bought this house in nineteen sixty, there was
no talk of this road, dude, and I want to
be like, lady, that was sixty five years ago. You
didn't have Internet, you have to expect to say. But
those were some of the types of things that were
bringing up. So I'm all in on town meetings. I
might even go to the Mid City Mall meeting. If
there's another one.

Speaker 1 (01:00:39):
Called the apparently they are having another one. I just
I get here's how I feel. I think if and
I don't want to give the my exact location of
where I live because i'm but I think you could
make an argument you've been there. Of all the houses
in the entire neighborhood, there's a strong argument mine is
affected the most. Would you agree with that? Legitimately, that's

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not even hyperbole. I'm the closest to Mid City Mall.
I'm the one you can see in. I should have
more problems with this than anybody. And I didn't even
go to the meeting, and I don't like people using
my platform.

Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
Is there any chance they knocked on your door you
weren't home? And she sees the opportunity, saw the cameras
and thought, this is my chance to.

Speaker 3 (01:01:29):
Get on the news.

Speaker 1 (01:01:30):
Probably people love to be on the news. My neighborhood,
Billy is a weird conglomeration of old people, gays, vagrants,
and the public library and the jazzer size studio.

Speaker 3 (01:01:46):
Nice jazzer size, and then me and I love it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:50):
But one of the things can people complain about is
there's not enough stuff here in the neighborhood's getting old. Well,
how do you fix that? You create retail space and apartments.
And then someone comes around and says.

Speaker 3 (01:02:07):
Well, why don't we create some retail space and apartments,
and people go, That's exactly what happens.

Speaker 2 (01:02:19):
The people that don't want change have probably complained about
the mall being there.

Speaker 3 (01:02:22):
Also, And like the mall, the mall is an I store.

Speaker 1 (01:02:26):
It's an old building that has a great movie theater,
which I will be sad to see go if it goes.
And it has a grocery store and that's nice, but
it also literally has a jazzer size studio. When is
the last time you even heard the word jazzer size studio?
It inside the mall is a grocery store, a library.
Who puts a library in the mall? A jazzer sized studio,

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and youth karate.

Speaker 3 (01:02:52):
Night.

Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
Now you're talking to keeping them all.

Speaker 3 (01:02:55):
Drop your kid off at karate, you go jazzer size
a little bit. Either way, what you need karate to
get to in a robin place.

Speaker 1 (01:03:03):
Either way, lady, stop using my yard for your agendas.

Speaker 3 (01:03:11):
Okay, Number ten, I'm torn between two topics. Would you
guys rather talk about gymnast icon Mary lou Retton getting
a dui or if it's acceptable to tell your homemies tonight?
What did you say? Gymnast Icon? Mary lou Retton arrested
and charged with d UI what driving under the influence
America's sweetheart in West Virginia driving a Porsche.

Speaker 1 (01:03:34):
First of all, how old is Mary lou written? She's
got to be in her sixties?

Speaker 3 (01:03:37):
Fifty seven?

Speaker 1 (01:03:39):
Fifty seven she refused to breathest in West Virginia, in.

Speaker 3 (01:03:44):
Her hometown of West Virginia. Yep, driving a Porsche to
learn her words?

Speaker 1 (01:03:50):
Driving a Porsche in West Virginia.

Speaker 2 (01:03:53):
In West Virginia, it probably sticks out.

Speaker 1 (01:03:57):
Wow, that saddens me. I mean, Mary, the retin was,
who would you even compare to now? I mean she
was bigger than Olivia Livy Like you could see Livy done.
I mean, I'm not saying she would get a DUI,
but it wouldn't be shocking.

Speaker 2 (01:04:11):
I mean, Simone is the biggest thing since her gymnastics probably.

Speaker 1 (01:04:15):
Yeah, but Mary lou Rettin was like she was on
a wheaties box. Maybebiles just big time.

Speaker 3 (01:04:23):
So she got a d icon yeah, less than two
weeks ago. And uh, you just hate to see that,
don't you know. I mean I can't end with that.
That's a huge bummer.

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
Okay, Yeah, so I don't know what else say. I mean,
that's sad. Hope she gets help, but it's a huge
bum Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:04:38):
It is the news, you know. You can't can't stray
from the news. It's true, it is what, it is true.
This is the news. And to end on interrupt the news,
this is the news. To end on a lighter note.
This is the farthest thing we have from the news.
But there is a TikTok trend going around where people
are calling their friends and telling them And I'd like

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to ask you, guys, if you think that's weird, if
to call the homies good night at night? I love this.
Have you seen it?

Speaker 1 (01:05:06):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:05:07):
Oh, it's so funny.

Speaker 3 (01:05:08):
What do you mean?

Speaker 2 (01:05:09):
They'll record themselves. It'd be like if I almost did
it to almost called Mario and said work with me.
I want to do this to Matt and Ryan. But
like a grown man will just call his other grown
man friend and just be like, hey man, just want
to tell you good night, and they'll be like, what's
going on?

Speaker 3 (01:05:22):
What's up?

Speaker 2 (01:05:22):
It like nothing, just hope you sleep well, and like
the reactions on the other end are just so perplexed.

Speaker 3 (01:05:26):
Well, you get these blue collar guys, right and they're
they're friends telling him good night, and they're like, shut
the hell up. You know you don't tell me good night?

Speaker 2 (01:05:34):
Is that your blue collar impression?

Speaker 3 (01:05:38):
Pretty much? Yeah, Larry the cable guy all that.

Speaker 2 (01:05:40):
They're really funny though. They'll lay in bed and just
just call late at night and be like, hey man,
what's up? Like, Hey, what's going on? Why are you
calling me? I just want to say good night? And
the reactions are great. Actually, Aaron Fleener did this to
me two nights ago.

Speaker 1 (01:05:54):
I tell you good night, but you had to know
he wasn't serious. Yeah, and I've already seen the trend.
But I they're really funny. I do think that's a
funny idea.

Speaker 3 (01:06:03):
So I almost did.

Speaker 2 (01:06:03):
What would you have done if I called you eleven
PM's like, hey man, I just want to say a night.

Speaker 1 (01:06:07):
You would have thought. I'm just like eleven pm. I'm
probably sitting there laying in bud reading or watching, uh,
you know, some TV show and you call down. I
just wouldn't tell you to die.

Speaker 3 (01:06:18):
I would go like, what what's going on? All right?

Speaker 2 (01:06:23):
The videos are good?

Speaker 3 (01:06:24):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (01:06:25):
I do like that's a funny tread. I still prefer
to call people over texting.

Speaker 3 (01:06:32):
I know.

Speaker 1 (01:06:32):
I'm like, there are people who get angry at me
and just say why can't you just text? I feel
like that's a bad sign.

Speaker 3 (01:06:40):
So I like this. I would encourage it, but it'll be.

Speaker 2 (01:06:42):
Like a big construction worker type dudes like I just
want to say, you know, good night, sweet dreams.

Speaker 3 (01:06:47):
It's like, what's going on? So does it end with anger?

Speaker 2 (01:06:50):
Usually the confusion anger. One of them they call erkele
Jelil White and then his name. He took it as
a threat. He's like, why are you telling me good night?

Speaker 3 (01:06:59):
What's going on?

Speaker 1 (01:06:59):
Like this?

Speaker 3 (01:07:00):
Oh? I could see that? How you would think it was?

Speaker 2 (01:07:03):
There's some really good Uh, there's some really good examples
of it.

Speaker 1 (01:07:06):
Well, now I'll know my phone is listening to me.
That's a good test. I get on this tonight because
I haven't seen this. If I get on this tonight
one of those videos are coming. Then I know this
thing is watching this. Do you believe your phone is
like listening? Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:07:22):
Absolutely?

Speaker 3 (01:07:23):
Oh there's a lawsuit that it was. What lawsuit? The
class a class action lawsuit with Apple where you can
get one hundred dollars if you had a Serie device
from twenty fourteen to twenty twenty four because the device
was just listening to you. I mean you were.

Speaker 2 (01:07:37):
It is true, yes, and it's already been decided.

Speaker 3 (01:07:39):
Yeah, you get a twenty five dollars per Apple device
you owned from fourteen to twenty four You can get
up to a how do you know this show? Prep
the news? The news? Mad? This is the news the news.

Speaker 1 (01:07:51):
I got a show to do every day they do
do they reach out and tell us or do we
just have to know? Because usually in a class action
you have to be able to give the class notice.

Speaker 3 (01:08:00):
Yeah, they only expect three to five percent of people
eligible to even cash in on this. But well, probably the.

Speaker 1 (01:08:06):
People would know because they weren't listening to the news exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:08:09):
I cast on a Nike class action a few years ago.
The band I forgot what they called it. It was
like count your steps They basically just said we lied
about all of it. It just made up numbers, and
I feel like I got like fifty bucks.

Speaker 1 (01:08:21):
You know what. I knew they did that because how
could it know? How would it know how many steps
you take? This one even wasn't just steps. It had
some metric. It was like its own thing Nike created.
How would you know that you're How would something on
your arm know how many steps?

Speaker 3 (01:08:35):
That's a great question. Track your movement somehow the distance traveled.

Speaker 2 (01:08:40):
I was in a competition for who could get the
most what were they called Nike Something's And at the
end of the night, I would put it in a
towel and throw it in my dryer and it would
just bang around and you get a bunch of points.
So I can see why that wasn't exactly act your Yeah,
I was like, wait, it's like I didn't get off
the couch today. I gotta get these numbers up there.

Speaker 1 (01:08:57):
I like class actions like that. You get, Hey, did
you eat a donut at duc and Donuts in twenty eleven.
If so, here's a tick coupon for another donut.

Speaker 2 (01:09:09):
Do you have to get on this apple one if
it's not too late? Is it too late for the
Apple one.

Speaker 3 (01:09:14):
No, it's not. You can do that, right, I have.
I don't know the date of that unfortunate Well.

Speaker 1 (01:09:19):
Work on that for our next news. Well, Billy, I
actually think you did a good job. I think that
was good. The only one I didn't like was the
guy on the boat.

Speaker 3 (01:09:27):
Well, you might see that on your TikTok algorithm tonight
he shows up sailing with Phoenix.

Speaker 1 (01:09:31):
If I get sailing with Phoenix or good night, you're
getting both and some some Macron and his wife. You know,
I had not heard that story until till the news,
until you tell me till the news, until the news.

Speaker 2 (01:09:44):
The Nike fuel band, that's what it was. Cashed in
on that.

Speaker 3 (01:09:48):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:09:48):
I hope everybody enjoyed today's episode four aka the News. Drew,
would you like to do this again? Sometimes I had
a lot of fun. As I said to start the show,
I love the mystery. You have to get our natural
reac actions. No time to pause and think about it.
Just whatever Billy throws out, we have to. We have
to go with well done, Billy, thank you, you did
a nice job. We will see you with episode five

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