Ep 010 - TACO Tuesday! - Attention Deficit Hyperactive Politics

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A million voices shout my name. Never.
Boring, never tame in this crazystorm

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I can't hide. Ladies and gentlemen, will you
please welcome the host of ADHD,Doug and Todd.
Hey everybody, this is another episode of the Attention Deficit
Hyperactive Politics podcast. That's ADHP with Doug and Todd.

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I'm Doug. That's Todd.
How are you doing today, Todd? I'm doing good.
We are. We are streaming live on my
TikTok and my YouTube today, so hopefully we'll get some new new
listeners or people is followingme on social media.
Like I said in previous episodes, the reason why I
stream it from my accounts is because I already have a little

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bit of a following year and I figured might as well use that
when I have it and instead of trying to create a whole new
account. So oh.
Yeah, absolutely. We'll we'll take all the help we
can get. Hope you're listening out there
and live streaming Internet land.
If you are, please drop us a comment.
We'll try to answer any questions, any legitimate

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attempts at interaction, we are happy to engage with you, so
please hit us up. Also, if you're listening to
this after it's been posted, leave any questions or comments
on the YouTube or the TikTok feed and we'll answer them next
week. Yeah, absolutely.
So, so this week is it is our Taco Tuesday show.

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You can guess what that's going to be about.
But we do have some late breaking news we want to talk
about because this is this is sad, this is infuriating.
This is exactly the kind of stuff you worry about under a
Trump regime with the wrong kindof people being emboldened.
But we, we just found out here that Jonathan Joss, who's the,

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the voice of John Redcorn on King of the Hill, which of
course is just coming back for its reboot.
He, he was shot and killed by a homophobe.
He, he is a gay man. He's, he was recently married
to, to his husband. And well, I'll just read you the

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statement from his husband because it pretty much tells the
whole story. And it's it's not, you know,
this is a trigger warning for those that need it that this is
extremely upsetting. And yeah.
And well, well, here's the statement.
So this is statement from Tristan Kern de Gazalas.
He's the husband of Jonathan Joss.

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He says my husband, Jonathan Joss, and I were involved in a
shooting while checking. The mail at the size of that
home was burned down after only two years of threats from people
in the area who repeatedly told us they would set it on fire.
We reported these threats to lawenforcement multiple times and

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nothing was done. Throughout that time, we were
harassed regularly by individuals who made it clear
they did not accept our relationship.
Much of the harassment was openly homophobic.
When we returned to the site to check our mail, we discovered
the skull of one of our dogs andits harness placed in Clearview.

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This caused both of us severe emotional distress.
We began yelling and crying in response to the pain of what we
saw. While we were doing this, a man
approached us. He started yelling violent
homophobic slurs at us. He then raised a gun from his
lap and fired. Jonathan and I had no weapons.
We were not threatening anyone. We were grieving.

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We were standing side by side. When the man fired.
Jonathan pushed me out of the way.
He saved my life. Jonathan is my husband.
He gave me more love in our timetogether than most people ever
get. We were newlyweds.
We picked Valentine's Day. We were in the process of
looking for a trailer and planning our future.

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He was murdered by someone who could not stand the sight of two
men loving each other. I was with him when he passed.
I told him how much he was loved.
To everyone who supported him, his fans, his friends, know that
he was. He valued you deeply.
He saw you as family. My focus now is on protecting
Jonathan's legacy and honoring the life we built together.

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If your concern is how someone coped with trauma or how loudly
they speak when recounting injustice and being ignored by
authorities that you never trulycared about, my husband Jonathan
saved my life. I will carry that forward.
I will protect what he built. And that's from Tristan Kern, D
Gonzalez, the widower now Jonathan Joss.

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This is this is not in any way, shape or form how I was hoping
to start Pride Month, That's forsure.
Todd. Yeah, absolutely not.
I mean. This was not intended to be a
Pride Month episode. We'll probably be doing
something like that next week orthe week after, but this was too
big a news to to put off. Yeah.
It's, it's sick. I don't know any other way to

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put it. It's, it's just, and this is
exactly the kind of thing that the Trump administration and not
just to make this a political Trump thing, but it's, this is
exactly the culture that we're we're empowering right now.
The bigots are, are as in as much control and are as and are
platformed as much as anything. They're all empowered to extent

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that they haven't been since, I don't know, the 70s.
Like it's, it's, it really is a revenge of the bigoted and it's,
it's, I mean, I, I, it makes my blood boil.
I don't know what else to do about it.
I mean, there's, it's, it is a war on people, it's a war on
humanity, it's a war on love that these bigots are raging.

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And, and when the police won't do anything because they're,
they're really part of the problem in that area, right?
Because they're just, they're the local police are made-up of
the local bigots in a lot of cases.
Right. Yeah.
And so they let it go until it becomes this.
And I can. I can only hope that this is not
in vain and it ends up leading to a resurgence in in

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protections, in consciousness, araising of consciousness to what
the hell has been going on recently.
Ever since Trump first got elected, the bigots have been
blasting themselves. They've been coming out of the
woodwork. They, they feel like they can
say whatever they want and then if you try and call them on
anything, they just go, oh, it'sjust a joke.
It's just jokes or it's just my.Religion, yeah.

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Yeah, it's my First Amendment right.
Comedies comedy is legal again and.
I absolutely hate that that people think that they could be
shitty and then they can call itcomedy.
That's not how comedy works, people.
You don't punch down when you'redoing comedy.
Punching down is very much hackything to do.
Don't fucking do that. So annoying.

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Punching up, you can get away with almost anything right?
But when you punch down it's it's almost even.
When you're right it, it comes off wrong.
Yeah. So, so sorry to bring bring
everybody down with that, but but it just they literally just
just came through the news and. Obviously, as we.

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Kick off Pride month and we think about all our LGBT 2 plus.
Yeah, all of our. Brothers and sisters and
everyone in between. We are me and you are absolutely
allies in this in this case. So I, I, some of my best friends
are a part of that community. It's every time I see somebody
be that that kind of evil, I'm, I just it it, it boggles my mind

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that people can be that way and think that is it acceptable and
that their God is is OK with that kind of thing And and it
just it's it's. It's.
It's beyond frustrating. Right.
It's the we don't have the wordsfor it.
We really don't. Yeah, it's, it's because what
can you do about it? I mean, we obviously we can't go

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back in time and prevent this instance and it's not like we're
advocating to go out and commit violence back.
So what can you actually do? Yeah.
So well, going forward, let's let's go into our into the
what's in the show notes. Yeah, let's see if we can't
cheer ourselves up a little bit with a little Taco Tuesday, AKA

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Trump Always chickens out. And I collected as many memes as
I could find. So hopefully you guys will like
what you see. All the memes were were hand
picked from from Facebook. A lot of these really made me
giggle. So I that's why, you know, Yeah.
Yeah, typically we would not want to be sharing Trump's face

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anywhere, but in this instance, we'll make an exception.
And we hope it gives you a laugh.
It's yeah. And what's even funnier, dude, I
don't know if you've seen this or not, but somebody found or
remembered and then went lookingfor it.
Apparently the last time he hosted SNL he did a a bit with

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the cast where he opens a Taco. Taco restaurant or no?
Excuse me? Not a Taco restaurant, a chicken
restaurant. Chicken restaurant?
Yes, so I saw this clip and I honestly wasn't sure if it was
AI or not. Like that's the unfortunate side
effect of the world we're livingin now.
Is is like you see an old clip where he's just standing on

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stage doing a buck buck thing and you're like, is that real or
is it is it edited? Is it AI?
It's, it's definitely not AI. It's, I don't, I don't know if I
ever watched that episode of SNL, but you can definitely tell
it's not AI because the people in it looked much younger,
including himself. So it's, it's, I think it's from

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like early 2000s, like before 2010, so.
Yeah, that's what it looked like.
That's definitely what it lookedlike.
So, so to give everybody a little background here, what's
going on? So that coming from Newsweek,
memes mocking President Donald Trump, dubbing him Taco Trump
have exploded across the Internet.
The term, which means Trump always chickens out, has come

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into the lexicon as the president has come under fire
for the handling of his tariff policies.
On Wednesday, CNBC's Megan Casella asked Trump about the
Taco trade, which has been circulating on Wall Street and
was coined by Financial Times columnist Robert Armstrong.
Casella asked the president. They're saying Trump always
chickens out on your tariff threats and that's why markets

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are higher this week. What's your response to that?
The president fired back at Casella, accusing her of asking
a nasty question. He likes that word.
When it comes to women he likes,he thinks that's like the best
insult he can give a woman is nasty.
And and he demanded that she never ask it again.
Don't ever say what you said, Trump told Casella.

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That's a nasty question. To me, that's the nastiest
question. Oh man I watched.
I watched that clip multiple times yesterday and just
cackled. I was so tickled by that, it was
so funny. He's so obvious when something
actually hurts him. It's it's so he has he.
I would love to play poker with Trump.
I could get all his money. The term is quickly caught on

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with with Taco Trump memes beingposted across the Internet.
Like we mentioned, you can see several of these if you're
watching the YouTube or or TikTok live stream on X,
formerly Twitter, Lucas Sanders,which is an account with 33,000
followers and identifies with the Democratic Party, posted Hey
everyone, let's get hashtag TacoTrump trending accompanied by a

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picture of a Taco with the president's face superimposed on
it. The post has been viewed more
than 270,000 times as of this reporting.
The the Canada hates the account.
Canada hates Trump, which how could they not?
Which has more than 160,000 followers on formerly Twitter
shared a similar meme on the platform.

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It included a picture with the president that has been edited
so that part of his head looks like a chicken Cam.
Should Trump always chickens out?
Hashtag Taco. It has been viewed more than 7.
It has been viewed more than 400,000 times as of reporting.
Similar images have flooded Instagram and TikTok, with some
accounts being set up under variations of the name Taco

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Trump on TikTok. A video posted by the account
Binary Infections shows multipleAI generated versions of the
president, who has been edited to look like a chicken eating a
Taco running through the New York Stock Exchange.
The video has been viewed 160,000 times out of as of this
reporting. And then lastly here the account

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at Crocker Boy on X in a post viewed 55,800 * 0.
Trade deals. Lots of talk, lots of promises,
lots of bragging. 0 trade deals.And why?
Because Trump always chickens out.
That's too funny, so. Moving along to CNN here to give

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you a little bit more backgroundof how this developed, but do
you have any comment on that first part time?
I just, I wanted to say one of my favourites though is is it
has is a a I don't know if it's AI or someone actually
photoshopped him into it, but it's basically a photo of Belle
like from Beauty and the beast and the big yellow flowing

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dress. But it's made to look like a
bunch of tacos. And then they put his face in
instead of instead of bells. But it says Taco Bell BELLE.
So my wife would love that one. Belle is her favorite Disney
character. Oh man, it's too funny so.
Some more background on this howthis all came about from CNN.

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The acronym was coined in early May by a Financial Times
columnist and is now used as shorthand by some on Wall Street
to indicate that traders shouldn't fret too much about
Trump's tariff threats since he usually backstep.
Trump's real time response also demonstrated his view that the
shorthand diminished what he sees as an essential negotiating
tactic on trade. He explained on Wednesday that

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sometimes he sets a ridiculouslyhigh number for tariff rates and
then relents of other nations give in to his demands.
However, nations aren't giving in to his demands.
Trump is just saying they are. In just the last week, he
threatened 50% tariffs on the European Union, then extended

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the deadline in return for more talks, just for more talks and
has threatened to re escalate his China trade war in an effort
to secure compliance with last month's agreement.
So not a new agreement, it's something that China already
agreed to. Last month.
He also imposed 145% tariff on Chinese goods before bringing

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that back down to 30% for this month, for the month, and he did
so this month and he got nothingfor that.
He just it basically once the bond Martin bond market got
threatened, he said cut it back.Well, we'll step away.
Eat chickened out it. It originated on a May 2nd

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column from Robert Armstrong, Financial Times commentator and
author of the publication's popular finance newsletter
Unhedged. Armstrong coined the phrase as a
way of capturing Trump's frequent willingness to walk
back, pause or provide carve outs from his most expansive
tariff threats. The idea, in short, is that

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Trump's threats had created a pattern of driving stocks down,
only to see them surge when he changed course weeks later.
So the net effect is to create aTaco shell like shape in the
market graph. A steep decrease when tariffs
are announced. A flat bottom as the market
finds its new level, and then anequally sharp climb once the
tariffs are walked back. So you get a nice Taco Taco

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Valley shape in the graph. So Armstrong used the term to
try and explain the steady upward trajectory taking place
in late April, which he wrote had quote a lot to do with
markets, realizing that the US administration does not have a
very high tolerance for market and economic pressure and will
be quick to back off when tariffs cause pain.

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This is the Taco theory. Trump always chickens out.
Within a few weeks, the Taco trade had become a fixture of
Wall Street chatter and started appearing in client notes from
financial analysts and economists.
Armstrong and likely everyone else in the financial industry
is hoping that the Taco talk doesn't result in Trump sticking

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to his tariffs next time, as they all believe that it's a
good thing when bad policy chickens out.
So that's the one thing to remember here is, is we do want
Trump to chicken out because everything he does is awful.
So it's best when he backs off his own ideas, right?
Right. So, so what's really been
happening to the markets? Here We go to the Guardian for

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this. The S&P 500, the US stock market
benchmark, has actually gained about a net 1% during 2025
despite a deep slump in April after the Liberation day,
tariffs had basically the worst the worst market since 1990.
The stock market rise appears tohave been aided by the Taco

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trade narrative. That market turmoil will correct
the president's course and allowcompanies to keep on making
strong profits. That belief will strengthen if
courts uphold Wednesday night's ruling by New York's Court of
International Trade. And that ruling was that Trump's
tariffs have been imposed illegally, which we've been
trying to say here on the show all along.

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So more detail on that. AUS trade Court ruled Donald
Trump's tariff regime was illegal in a dramatic twist that
could block the president's controversial global trade
policy. On Thursday, an appeals court
agreed to a temporary pause of that decision pending in an
appeal hearing. So the Trump administration is
expected to take the case to theSupreme Court.

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So once again, we're going to test the Supreme Court to see if
they're more loyal to Trump or more loyal to the Constitution.
So far, it's proven that Alito and Thomas, Justice Alito,
Justice Thomas, are indeed more loyal to Trump or to whoever
their benefactors are that want them to be loyal to Trump.
Obviously we know Clarence Thomas has been bought by his

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rich investors that take him on fantastic trips and take care of
his kid, his grandson, and do all these different things for
him. And of course Thomas, yeah,
Thomas through most of his career never asked a question.
Now that the now that they have a six or three majority, he's
finally chiming in and letting his his far right extremist

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positions come through and questions he asks.
But the others 7 justices on thecourt have taking turns being
against Trump a lot of things heis losing on or they'll recuse
themselves so that it can only be tied.
So we'll see where the where themy guess is this the Supreme

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Court will side with the Constitution on this one and say
that Trump needs congressional authority for much if not all of
these tariffs. But we'll see.
But but either way, the pattern is clear of a harshness that
Trump takes a harsh initial position.
Followed by a sizable retreat. The partial climb downs have

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often followed close behind slumping bond prices.
This is what we've been saying. So with that increases the US
government's borrowing costs andeventually could, if left
unattended, could expose the world's largest economy that is
the US if left unchecked. So just like we said, when the
bond market gets threatened, that's when Trump backs down.

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And then lastly, hear from the Guardian.
The Liberation Day tariff announcement was followed by a
90 day pause. Trump said he would raise EU
tariffs to 50% before delaying that until 9 July.
He ratcheted up levies to a punitive 145% on China before
dropping into 30 during a 90 daypause.
And he toyed with forcing out the Federal Reserve chair Jerome

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Powell, only to backtrack quickly once investor
displeasure became clear. Again, that's that is just the
litany of of instances where Trump has chickened out.
And then CNBC also recognized this, noting Ed Yardini,
president of Yardini Research, told he has told CNBC Trump's

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style of negotiating deals is hehuffs any puffs, but he doesn't
blow the house down. And Ford Asset Management's
Brian Arkisi says it's very difficult to build conviction
based positions when the policy direction keeps shifting.
And again, that's that's one of the worst effects of what Trump
is doing is he's just making thehe's making markets.

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And then all, all businesses really want is consistency.
Make the rules whatever you want, but then stick to them so
they can plan for the future. What Trump's doing is making it
virtually impossible to plan forthe future.
So that's part of why this Taco talk has caught on so well on
Wall Street, because it's it's giving investors A framework to
say, OK, we're just going to pretend like he's going to back

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down. We're just going to act
accordingly like he's going to back down.
The LA Times survives a good example the market's response
over the last few trading days to Trump's threat to levy a 50%
tariff on imports from the EU. Those were to begin on June 1st.
Trump issued the threat on Friday, May 23rd.

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That day, the Standard and Poor's 500 index fell more than
39 points, or .67%, and the NASDAQ fell 188.53 points, or a
full percent, two days later. Just two days later, on Sunday,
Trump announced that he would defer the tariff increase until
July 9. On Tuesday, the 1st trading day

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following the Memorial Day holiday, stocks jumped back up.
The S&P rose 118.72 points, or 2.05%, and the NASDAQ rose
nearly 462 points, or 2.47%. So you see how the Taco trade
works? It's a 2 step process.
By the dip, by the dip, the lowered prices, lowered prices

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following a Trump tariff announcement and sell at the
higher prices after Trump's inevitable chickening out pushes
stocks back up. And also if you're, if you're in
there and if you're an insider enough, you also know when the
dip's going to happen. So you can sell before the
tariffs are announced, then buy the dip and then make your
profits and, and sell, sell again or just keep holding.

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It's, it's, it's created this absolute field day for insider
trading. Now, we don't have any evidence
exactly of who may or may not bedoing that, but but I mean,
could you really put it past these guys?
You also notice that the fall and rise weren't symmetrical.
The strength of the recovery wasgreater than that of the

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decline. This can't be easily explained,
except that it may suggest that hope is a stronger emotion than
despair. And then likewise with the
Liberation Day tariffs. The stock back at the stock
stock market crashed upon Trump's announcement, with the
S&P falling nearly 5% the next day and the NASDAQ down nearly
six. It was the worst day on the

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market since the pandemic triggered fall in March of 2020.
On April nine, Trump did back off, announcing a 90 day pause.
We've mentioned that multiple times at this point.
And then that triggered a Taco relief rally.
The S&P gained 9 1/2 points, which is the third biggest one
day percentage gain since World War 2.
And NASDAQ went up 12 point 612.16, its second biggest one

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day percentage gain ever. Neither great.
Neither game brought those indexes back to where they had
been on April 2nd. However, it's also true that the
downdraft and updrafts have inspired suspicions that White
House insiders with the advancedword of of the announcements are
trading stocks on the knowledge.So it's just like we were saying

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this is this is the a big concern that this is part of
this is all just a get rich quick scheme by manipulating the
stock market. But here's here's the thing,
though. If you if you held on the whole
time you've you've you've experienced a net game.
If you had insider knowledge, you were able to really get a
game by gaming the system. But there are people who can be

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left out of this. So say you say you panic sold
after the big market dip and so you sold your assets at a lower
value than what they've been theweek before.
Then the big game comes back andyou're a day late on that.

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Now you've bought back in at thehigher mark.
So people who weren't in the know, people that are especially
retail investors like you or I could be, they're getting
absolutely screwed by this because you, you sell off when
you, when you see the disaster happening, but, but you needed

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to sell before it happened to take advantage of it.
And then you're not buying back in until it comes back up.
So you, you haven't, you've lostthat entire bounce rebound.
So LA Times explains this investors who stayed fully
invested in the S&P through the turmoil amid emerged with a gain

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of .7 on the year. Those who panic sold missing out
on the recovery ended with a year to date loss of 8.1%.
So we're talking a nine, nearly 9% difference in your portfolio
if you if you were in the know or just held versus if you tried
to sell and buy with the markets, if you tried to read

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the market and react. And so this is also supposed to
encourage investors to just relyon Taco, rely that Trump is
going to chicken out and don't ever panic sell.
Yeah. And lastly, from Yahoo's finance

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department they quote, Cali Cox,who's the chief market
strategist at Withholds Wealth Management, urged investors to
look beyond the tariff drama. We're going to get a lot of he
loves me, he loves me not, she said, referencing the back and
forth on policy gains. What investors really need to be
focused on is economic data, especially the jobs report

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coming up next week, and what the Fed is doing in response to
all this. Cox noted the Federal Reserve
has limited ability to interveneif the economy weakens, adding
markets haven't quite processed the fact that the Fed can't step
in and help us if the economy does end up weakening.
So, so while investors are beingencouraged to to hold the line

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with this Taco talk, there is the the looming threat here that
the the on again off again nature of the tariffs, the wild
swings in the market. They could be affecting hiring
rates. They could be affecting what
people are willing to to commit to hiring new people if the jobs
report is down because of all this, and the fundamentals of

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the economy are therefore weakened, and market movers are
going to start responding to those fundamentals above any
other tariff talk. And if, if the fundamentals do
weaken and the market starts dropping because of it, if the
economy itself weakens, let alone the market.
But if the fundamentals of the economy weaken the Fed, the Fed

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can't just loosen up market rates or loosen up or loosen up
the, the investment rates. The because that's how the Fed
controls things is by tighteningor loosening rates.
Basically the better an economy does, they will make rates

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higher to kind of slow things down a little bit so that we
aren't over gassing ourselves. And when the when the economy
gets worse, though, the lower rates to try and help encourage
loans and that kind of stuff to happen.
But if the fundamentals are weakened because of all this
uncertainty in the market, the Fed, the Fed only can do so

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much. And so that is where disaster
could truly strike. And, and people just holding the
line expecting Trump to chicken out.
At that point, it might not matter if he chickens out again.
This is another example of Trumpplaying with economic fire where
he'll be fine no matter what happens.
But my job could be on the line if if things got too bad.

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Oh man. So that's that's our Taco
Tuesday. How do you want?
Any other comments on this? No, I mean, I think you covered
all of it as far as you know, all the important stuff.
I mean, I I just think all the memes are funny myself so.
And we hope everybody finds the memes funny.

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And now we will take you the news of the week.
All right, and now it's time forour weekly news.
We're breaking down the key stories shaping our world, from
policy shifts to the latest in global affairs.

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Let's dive in. Love that beat song.
Epic. So for the news of the week,
we're going to, we're going to hit you with a couple of few
national stories that follow things we've talked about

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before. And then we're also going to hit
you with some local news to Washington, as we like to try
and do from time to time. So first story up forbid judge
says Rubio that's Secretary of State Marco Rubio likely
violated the constitution and ordering Mahmoud Khalil
deported. Mahmoud Khalil's somebody we've

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been following on this show. He is the the student from
Colombia, the recent the recent Colombia graduate who was one of
the prime organizers of their protest movement, particularly
their their pro Palestine, a protest movement who is a green
card holder but was detained andand sent to Louisiana just

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because they decided his actionsas a protester undermined the
president and his agenda. They were a threat to America.
So a federal judge has. This is coming from NPR.
A federal judge has ruled that Secretary of State Marco Rubio
likely violated the Constitutionwhen he stripped Mill Khalil
Mahmoud Khalil of his green cardand ordered him deported over

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his pro Palestinian activism at Columbia University.
In a lengthy, what this says mixed ruling U.S.
District Judge Michael Farbiars.Barbiars.
That's my my gringo name. My gringo tongue can't handle
these names in New Jersey declined for now to order Khalil

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released from federal immigration detention in
Louisiana, where he's been held since ICE agents arrested him in
New York City on March 8th. The judge said Khalil had not
yet proven that his detention iscausing him, quote, irreparable
harm or irreparable harm and gave him more time to provide
evidence that it is. It's, it seems to me that so

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part of the story is his wife was pregnant when he was taken.
This kid has since been born andhe's not able to be with his
child. To me, it is absolutely
irreparable harm to not be allowed that bonding time with
his child. That is 100% it's, it's, it's
harm to him. It's harm to the child.

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And, and that to me is irreparable.
You can't, you can't take back losing the first three months of
life with your child. You can't take back losing the
first six months or year, however long they're going to
keep them here. You can't undo that damage that
comes from a lack of bonding. And the judge also suggested
that even if Khalil is able to prove that, the government may

(33:46):
for now be justified in detaining him on a separate
charge it filed in immigration court allegingly alleging he
committed fraud by failing to provide certain personal details
on his application for a green card last year.
So they're trying to catch him on a technicality.
OK. Khalil's lawyers had claimed
that the charge was baseless andthat the government only filed

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it days after his arrest as retaliation for his speech.
But the judge ruled Khalil did not provide enough evidence for
the First Amendment retaliation claim and denied his request to
be released on those grounds. Khalil's lawyers are trying to
persuade an immigration judge inLouisiana to throw out that
charge. That same judge ruled last month
that she had no no authority to question Rubio's decision.

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In Wednesday's ruling, the federal judge in New Jersey said
he would soon issue another order detailing the next steps
in the case. In a statement issued by the
ACLU, Khalil's lawyers vowed to keep fighting for his release.
The State Department did not immediately respond to the
request. So you got to love the US
justice system. Yes, it was likely that this was

(34:53):
an unconstitutional stripping ofprotections.
But, hey, what can we do about it?
We're only a judge. We're all.
We're only in the judicial system.
The judicial system. Yeah.
It's it's it's it's. Madness.
Sorry I had to do that. It's one of those things I
remember hearing on a comedy bityears ago.

(35:16):
And every time I hear those words, judicial system, I always
think of that guy who couldn't say it or he was just really
drunk when he said it. But.
I swear I'm not drunk right now.No, I know you're.
Doing a lot of talking, I I wasn't implying that at all.
That's why I repeated you in that way.
I do. I do have an old fashioned

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waiting for me when the show's over.
Next story also from NPR. They've tracked Americans drug
use for decades. Trump and RFK Junior fired them.
So we've we've talked about how mental health is an important
part of this show, important, important part of our mission.

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And, of course, a federal study on mental health problems and
substance use across the countrythat has been running for
decades and is used by a wide range of researchers faces an
uncertain future after PresidentTrump's cuts to the federal
workforce. So what we're talking about is
the National Survey on Drug Use and Health.
It's an annual survey of households conducted by the

(36:20):
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration.
And that Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration is
being dissolved by our no good, very bad Health Secretary Robert
F Kennedy Junior of. Course he.
Is what great work he's doing for all of us coming out of the
Creek filled with bacteria. I mean, literally the the

(36:43):
substance abuse and Mental Health Administration.
Todd, do you think America has an issue with substance abuse
and mental health? I yeah.
And as of to the point where they actually, you know, they
they appointed one of their own as their leader.
Yeah, right. But yeah, it's not like
Americans aren't. It's not like America's not

(37:04):
unusually high on the mental health and substance abuse
issues charts. Oh, wait, we are leading the
world and we're at least leadingleading the developed world in
substance abuse and mental health issues.
So yeah, sure, let's dissolve the the administration that
looks into that and tries to help us with it because Omaha,

(37:26):
because we're making the countryhealthy again and and actually
doing real shit is a waste of money apparently.
Yeah. So, So what they do is they
survey about 70,000 people 12 and older each year.
And they, they, they analyze thesurvey data each year and they

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put out detailed reports on the prevalence of mental health
problems and substance use. This is critical for people that
are running data studies. They, they need this information
to check against how things havegone year to year and over time.
The fact that it's been going for decades is extremely useful.
And to cut it off at any point is just deciding to give

(38:11):
ourselves a black eye to tie one, if not both hands behind
our backs when we're trying to do other studies.
In addition to our report on national estimates, her team
also puts out state and substance state and sub state
estimates. It allows people to really
figure out who are the people inthe country that need help,
where do they live, what are their issues.

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In a recent study study published by JAMA Pediatrics,
they used this data from the survey and estimated that one in
four kids in the United States as a parent with a substance
abuse disorder. He says this data is critical
for researchers like himself, aswell as lawmakers and healthcare
providers, to address addiction and promote recovery.
And it's really difficult to monitor progress without one of

(38:55):
America's gold standard metrics.The same goes for efforts to
address mental health problems. Unless we know how many people
are affected by a common mental health problem, it will really
hamper our efforts to determine whether the interventions that
we're trying to implement are having any kind of effect, says
Catherine Keys, an epidemiologist at Columbia
University. This is really a central piece

(39:18):
of data, says Doctor Scott Hadlen, chief of adolescent
medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.
When we use it clinically, it's often in a way that is helping
pediatricians across the countryunderstand what's going on with
teenagers. For example, the prevalence of
opioid addiction amongst teens. We know now from the study that

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about one in eighty teenagers struggles with opioid addiction,
says Hadlen. That's a lot higher than any
pediatrician would guess, and weonly know that because of this
survey. The data also reflects the
success of past efforts to address substance use among
young people. You look at factors like
cigarette and tobacco use among young people, which is at an

(40:00):
extraordinary low. Binge drinking and alcohol use
have been declining among young people.
This is all this is coming from Catherine Cuse again.
But there's still a long way to go, she adds.
And if some of these trends reverse, we need to know
immediately. So the idea that there's so that
there's sort of a group of experts overseeing the entire

(40:22):
survey and really looking out for its future and the
reliability and validity of the questions in the survey is
really critical. But of course, we're not going
to have that if we eliminate theadministration that conducts it.
So if that information is not being disseminated out into the
public, we will lose lives. We will lose lives to overdose,

(40:44):
we will lose lives to suicide, and these are entirely
preventable, says Hoenig. If you can't tell, I'm a little
fired up about that. A.
Little bit yeah yeah, no, I mean, I'm just sitting here.
I had to restart the live streamover on TikTok because it it, it
got, I don't know what happened,but we're still recording.

(41:04):
Nothing stopped as far as the recording goes, just a live
stream. Had to reboot it.
But since the reboot of the livestream, we've gotten a few
people watching, so that's good.Well, that's dope.
Welcome to the show. Thanks for listening for.
Coming in, guys. Another, another story and this
will be our our last national story before we get local to
Washington State. And this is some potentially

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good news. So we haven't talked on this
show a lot about Palestine and Israel, other than to talk about
the protesters in America that are being detained for being pro
Palestinian. But this is really the, the,
the, the reason for this show initially was to kind of do a, a
local news thing. And in the wake of Trump and

(41:50):
everything, it's impossible to ignore the national news.
So going international really isbeyond the scope of this
podcast. But it affects the world and
we're part of the world. So we're going to talk about
this. Israel has finally accepted AUS
proposal for a temporary Gaza ceasefire.
Hamas is reportedly giving a cool response to it.

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This is coming from the AP. But the good news is that Israel
is finally accepting a framework.
Hamas officials gave the Israeliapproved draft a cool response,
but they said they wanted to study the proposal more closely
before giving a formal answer. Basically, the Hamas is saying

(42:35):
that it does not respond to their demands, which is stopping
the war and famine. You also got to believe that
Israel's not necessarily going to give in to their demands as a
cause of the ceasefire, because from Israel's perspective,
they're responding to an attack course.
From Hamas perspective, they're responding to decades of

(42:57):
occupation and a a blockade that's been going on
relentlessly since 2017, but honestly even longer than that.
The the famine is a direct result of Israel's stopping aid
to Palestine. But Hamas had previously said it
had agreed with Witkoff on a general framework of an

(43:19):
agreement that would lead to a lasting ceasefire, which they
want a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, which is really just
adhering to international law. Israel is is in violation of
previous treaties and international law with their
occupation of Gaza and the West Bank.
But the and Hamas would also like an influx of aid and a
transfer of power from the military group to a politically

(43:42):
independent committee of Palestinians.
So that's that's something that everybody should be a no brainer
to, to take the power in Palestine away from the militant
group and give it to an independent committee of
Palestinians. People want to act like any
Palestinian, any form of Palestinian government, any
Palestinian action is an action of Hamas.

(44:02):
But we need to take that excuse away and it needs to go to
independent Palestinians. Absolutely.
So, yeah, so we, you can read more, we'll we'll provide the
links in the description when this when the podcast goes up.
You can read more about what do Israel and Hamas want and what

(44:23):
is the late and but we'll, but the latest ceasefire proposal is
this. So Witkoff has not publicized
his latest proposal, but a Hamasofficial and an Egyptian
official independently confirmedsome of the details.
They spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the
sensitive talks. They say it calls for a 60 day
pause in fighting, guarantees ofserious negotiations leading to

(44:45):
a long term truce, and assurances that Israel will not
resume hostilities after the release of hostages as it did in
March. So we did have a ceasefire
before, right? And Hamas released a bunch of
hostages. Israel then broke the ceasefire
and attacked Hamas or Palestine in general.

(45:06):
More so, Israel has broken the ceasefire before, but part of
this agreement is Israeli forceswould pull back to the positions
they held during the last ceasefire deal on Hamas aside,
they would release Ted Living hostages and a number of bodies
in exchange for more than 1100 Palestinian and Palestinians

(45:28):
imprisoned by Israel, including 100 serving long sentences after
being convicted of deadly attacks.
Each day, hundreds of trucks carrying food and humanitarian
aid would be allowed to enter Gaza, where experts say a nearly
three month Israeli blockade haspushed the population to the
brink of famine. So it's it's an incredibly

(45:49):
contract complex issue over there.
But but it's, it's something that has to happen.
The killing has to stop. The genocidal actions have to
stop and we need basically we need to create a scenario where
no more where, where no more attacks are going to happen

(46:10):
against Israel, right? And and the solution can't be
will destroy all the Palestinians and then there
won't be any more attacks that that's not the solution.
The solution is to abide by international law, abide by past
treaties, have there be a Palestinian state that can, that
is independent of itself. If they want to do a 2 state

(46:32):
solution, that's really the onlyway that Palestine can exist.
And, and we have to have a solution that's not genocide,
That's not just all the Palestinians get killed or
displaced. That can't be the only solution.
And it's like it's I drop parallels to here in America
where we can either have a police state where we allow

(46:56):
everyone to be poor and just punish them for being poor.
Or we can have a welfare state where we make sure people have
enough, where we have a, a universal basic income, we have
single payer universal health care.
And then people are in a position where they aren't
committing crimes. Right.
If, if Palestine has a state, ifit has the resources it needs to

(47:18):
exist, there is no need for it to commit acts of violence.
I mean, my personal belief is that Israel sat on a tragedy keg
waiting for it to explode because they knew once it
exploded, they could hold all the cards and do whatever they
wanted to Palestine. And whatever deal they got
during a war would be better than whatever compromise they

(47:39):
would have had to have made in peacetime.
Like, that's why we're in this fight, that's why the Israeli
Palestinian war is going on, is because Israel believes they
will have better terms in this situation than they would if the
two sides were at peace. And.
I just, I want to give a shout, I want to give a shout out to

(48:00):
Malcolm and Jade who joined in on the on TikTok and are are
watching us right now. Thanks for popping in guys.
Yeah, guys, thanks so much. Hope you stick around.
We do this every week. Are we live record like this on
Sundays or Mondays and then the podcast goes live anywhere you
get podcasts on Tuesday at midnight?

(48:22):
The links are on the video the pod follow dot com slash ADHP
pod and then that will take you to where you can listen to the
show. Now I hope they didn't just
click on this thinking this is like some sort of Taco Tuesday
show, like we're just celebrating food and this be

(48:42):
quite the quite the shock to hear what they're hearing.
If they were expecting some sortof a party vibes and and and
food talk but. No, I, I mean, it's the
slideshow has been like, you know, the usual stuff plus a
little bit of the, the Taco Tuesday stuff as well.
So. Fair enough, right?

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Oh, and by the way, Todd, you remember we talked about
stagflation the other week? the Fed is forecasting
stagflation. Just so you know, the Fed is
forecasting stagflation. That's according to the Wall
Street Journal. Some more.
Yes, yes, that's wonderful. Speaking of stagnant, here's
some local news to the state of Washington, which is where we

(49:27):
record from. Washington Beach ranks among top
10 most bacteria contaminated inUS, according to a new report.
This is coming from the stories coming from mynorthwest.com.
So the South Sound Thea Foss floating dock in Tacoma was

(49:49):
found to have the sixth highest bacteria rate last year,
according to a report by the Surfrider Foundation.
Beaches were given percentage ratings based on how often water
samples exceeded each state's health standards for bacteria in
recreational water. So it's recreational water.
This is water people are allowedto swim in.

(50:10):
The Phos floating dock garnered.Yeah, for now.
Or, you know, this is just getting RFK junior excited.
He's planning a trip here now totake a dip, of course.
But the the Tacoma's Phos floating dock garnered a 64%
again. That was sixth highest.
Now, fortunately, it's nowhere near the highest.

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Do you have any guess where the highest contaminated water in
the country might be, Todd? That's that would be what is the
Creek that RFK junior swim in Alex Rock?
Creek. So no.
This is for recreational waters.This is for places you're

(50:53):
actually allowed to swim. So.
So Rock Creek doesn't fall on this list.
OK, I have no idea. Probably someplace it.
Actually surprises me, like I would have guessed something
like a New Jersey or something like that.
Right? Shout out to New Jersey, but no,
it's actually a beach in Hawaii.The Kahaluhu in Oahu with 92%,

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again, 64% in Tacoma is the sixth highest, but number one in
Hawaii is 92%. That's got to be just because of
all the people that are going and getting in it.
I got to think. Like, yeah, probably because
you. Got the Pacific Ocean there.
It's not like you're it's not like you're a little arm of the
Puget Sound. You're you're a whole, you're a
whole freaking ocean that shouldbe clearing that stuff out.

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But the other beaches on the list were a stream at Coke,
Kaloa Landing in Kauai, Hawaii, Parkview Kayak Launch in Miami
Beach, Imperial Beach in San Diego, Lindamar Beach in
Pacifica, CA, Ballard Park, which is not in America in our
Ballard, it's Ballard Park in Melbourne, FL.

(52:01):
This is a this is a double head fake.
So it's Ballard Park. I'm like, oh, Ballard, WA, No in
Melbourne. Oh, Australia, no Florida.
There's a Melbourne in Florida. Of course there is.
There's everything in Florida man and then they also have
Windmill Beach in Sag Harbor, NY, San Luis Creek mouth in
Avila Beach, CA and play a crashboat in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.

(52:28):
And so, so shout out to New Jersey.
You stayed off the list completely.
That's my fault. I shouldn't have even I should
have kept your name out my mouth.
It turns out it's mostly California, Miami and Hawaii
that has bacteria infected. From Jersey Shore, coming to
your doorway and wanting to beatyour ass.
No, I I I especially do not wantthose ladies.

(52:49):
No and then one more story from local to Washington and this is
just to. OK so I did one story about some
gross stuff in Washington so nowI want to do another story on
something beautiful in my state.This one's personal to me.
I am a graduate of the University of Washington, and

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Washington has one of the most beautiful college campuses in
the country, according to a a ranking of the 20.
Five most beautiful college campuses.
I mean, I, I didn't go to UW, but I, I'm a Husky fan as as
much as anybody else in Western Washington.
I I was told back in high schoolthat our school colors from

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Issaquah were given to us because our school didn't have a
football team until much later after the school opened.
But they were given they were gifted previous years uniforms
from the UW and that's how Issaquah got the colors of
purple and gold. Oh, that's crazy.

(53:53):
I did not know that. I knew they were purple and
gold. I went by high school, so Todd
and I did not grow up together, but we have recently learned
that we went to rival high schools a decade apart.
But but I went to Liberty High School, which our colors, our
school colors are actually they we're the Liberty Patriots.

(54:14):
Our school colors were going to be red, white and blue.
But our school opened the same year as the Seahawks first
season. And so they made our school
colors silver, green and blue like the Seahawks.
Yeah. So that's funny that that's
that's, that's hilarious that Issaquah, my rival, I got UW
colors and my school got Seahawkcolors.

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So when I was when I was in elementary school and my sister
was six years older than me. So actually I was probably, I
was probably in middle school bythe time she was in Liberty High
School. But I lived, I lived very close
to Liberty High School up until I went to middle school.
And I used to ride my bike over to the school with my buddies
and we used to go ride ride our bikes around the track and

(54:59):
there. You go nice.
We used to ride our bikes to theDairy Queen.
I've always been a fact. Yeah.
And she worked, she probably worked there when you went
there. Yeah, she worked there and back
in the 80s. So, yeah.
And that dairy worked in the Dairy Queen.
And that Dairy Queen is probablythe only thing on that part of
the street that's still been still there since the 80s.
Everything else, because this place used to be all farmland up

(55:20):
here. It was all farmland and across
the street from Dairy Queen was like an old, I think it was a
might have been. It was a bank and I'm trying to
remember the bank. I think it might have been,
well, now it's called Bank of America, but it was it, whatever
is, it was whatever the local bank.
It was like AUS Bank that used to be up there.
Oh, that's right. Yeah, Yeah, it was, yeah, that's

(55:41):
right. It's now U.S. bank.
Or it was U.S. bank until it gotthat building got tore down and
they they put in a strip mall with it with a QFC and and a
Papa John's and and whatever else.
Bartels Bartels apparently is going out of business.
Oh, I didn't know that. And now you've heard.
Something about this? Yeah.

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But the destination brand, Travel and Leisure, ranked the
University of Washington as having the 10th most attractive
campus in the country. And I would argue that that's
underrated. But we beat our schools such as
Princeton, Yale and Vanderbilt. So suck it Ivy League, suck it
Tennessee. Of course, the the, the Husky

(56:23):
Stadium at the University of Washington is regarded as the
greatest setting in college football, which it absolutely
is. I mean, I we should have thrown
a few photos of UW into the slideshow just because there
were some photos taken on Friday.
We had a beautiful day out here Friday.
And it's just, it's, it's these,I don't know if they're from an
airplane or from a drum, but they're these high angle up in

(56:44):
the sky shots. You get the stadium, you get,
And I just what I love about ourareas is if you get the stadium,
you get water around the stadium, then you get another
strip of land, then you get morewater, then you get a little
more land, then you get more water.
There's just these layers of land and water and land and
water. You look at any other urban
major urban center in most of America and it's just urban

(57:05):
sprawl. There's no green, there's no
blue. It's just urban sprawl and maybe
dead vegetation, brown vegetation.
But here we are, the Emerald State.
We wear it proudly. And I honestly, again, I may
have mentioned this on the podcast before, but if I've said
it before, I'll probably say it again.
It's my favorite quote from my cousin who moved to Vermont to

(57:28):
chase a woman. He was there for about 6 months,
came back and he just said I don't understand why everyone in
the world doesn't live here. Meaning the greater Seattle,
Seattle area, Western Washington.
For my money it's the greatest place in the world.
We don't have to worry about anykind of poisonous creatures and
never gets too hot. It never gets too cold and it's
always beautiful out. And, and here's a little bit of

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trivia for you, and you probablyknow this, Doug, but I bet
everybody else listening or watching doesn't.
But the origins of the, the waveyou see at like most sporting
events originated at the UW, at the UW.
So yeah, at our the UW Stadium, we.
Claim the wave, Yeah, Earth to the Husky Stadium.

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We claim it absolutely before mytime.
Yeah, it started before my time,but I participated it later.
Oh. I did too.
Anytime I went to a sporting event, we that's, that's
something we would do. And, and my sister who actually,
even though she's Republican, she went to UW and she told me
that she's like, yeah, they originated at the UW, the, the,

(58:35):
at the, at the Husky, at the football games, at the Husky
football games. But it became a huge thing
because they started doing it. Then he started doing it at the,
at the Seahawks games. Because, you know, everybody who
loves college football also likes the NFL.
They start doing it the Kingdom and then became a massive thing
at the Kingdom. And then they start doing
everywhere else because people would see us doing it during our

(58:58):
games. And now it's now it's fucking
everywhere. Yeah, no.
And and other places have tried to to claim the wave, but the
true wave as it's done today wasdone for the first time at the
University of Washington. We used to have our cheerleading
squad used to have a cheer. He, I don't know what he's a
cheerleader, but he wasn't like one of the acrobatic

(59:20):
cheerleaders. His he was basically APR guy
that got a microphone in the ampand he would actually get the
fans riled up almost like the host of a comedy show.
And he's the one who got the fans to do it.
Like the guy who does crowd workbefore the before a talk show.
Yeah, he's like a warm up guy, but he would do it actively

(59:40):
during the game. Yeah, and he so.
So we do have the full top ten list here.
I'm sorry. I mean, I didn't mean to derail
it. Yeah, go ahead.
Oh, no, no, I want you to derailit.
Wherever you have something you want to bring up.
I I do want you to derail. You're you're that's your job.
Derail me as much as. Possible this was actually
derailment. One of those things I remember
as a kid seeing. I actually probably saw that

(01:00:01):
guy. I remember there being somebody
like walking along the the walkways in between the the
sections of. Seating with a blowhorn thing.
All right, everybody get ready, you know, and when you see, when
you see everybody next to you standing up, stand up right
after them and then sit back down after them, you know, and
it would go around the entire stadium.

(01:00:21):
It wasn't because you know how not every stadium goes all the
way around? It's done a 360° like stadium
seating. Some of them all would go only
halfway or three quarters or whatever, and then would come
back. But this would go all the way
around at least two or three times before they'd stop.
Yeah, and and it was Rob Weller was the guy who who did it.
And it was it literally started on Halloween of 1981.

(01:00:45):
That was the. First time?
Yeah, that's awesome. So a little, a little trick and
treat for the world from from your friends at Husky Stadium.
Of course, I've, I'm a season ticket holder since I was nine
years old. So I'll, I'll be headed to my,
my 21st, 21st, 22nd season. Oh wow.

(01:01:08):
This year in the fall, can't wait.
My in fact, they actually they just announced that a game got
moved to Friday night on October10th, which is going to be my
40th birthday. So I will get to celebrate my
40th birthday at Husky Stadium with the World's Largest Over
the Hill party. And yeah, you're gonna probably

(01:01:33):
like celebrate with like some, some football food, you know, do
they do they have similar types of food at at the Husky games
that they do for the Seahawks? They have, they have some crazy
new food now since they revitalized the stadium.
They they've got they've got calzones and they've got you've
got your Ivar's, you have fish and chips.
You got Kid Valley burgers. Yeah, they got lots of yeah, I

(01:01:58):
think you can if you go to certain areas, if you go to the
more, the the more upscale Husky, I can't remember what
they call it. I don't ever get to go there.
But the, there's a more premium section where they sell like
sushi and that kind of stuff too.
So. All right, so we got two more
stories to go before we get to what's geek this week.

(01:02:20):
Feel like we might be running a little long, so that's fine.
I'll try and I'll try and speed this up a little bit.
Speed up. Do what you gonna do I, I, I do
like this story. These are stories that Todd
added and I think this this one in particular is as a former
punk rock kid, this one warms myheart.
Guy wears Nazi shirt. This is coming from
comicsans.com. Guy wears Nazi shirt to punk

(01:02:43):
rock festival in Vegas and it goes immediately S for him.
This link is leading to an article on comicsans.com tells
the story of an individual who attended a punk rock festival in
Las Vegas while wearing a shirt displaying Nazi imagery.
The article describes how this act was met with immediate and
negative reactions from other attendees.

(01:03:04):
It likely details the confrontations and consequences
the person faced for their choice of clothing, highlighting
the strong disapproval and rejection of hate symbols within
the punk rock community and the public in in general.
So you definitely want to check out that story.
Oh dude, it's it's. I saw the video of the guy.
It shows, initially it shows like two or three people yelling

(01:03:27):
at him and pushing him and stuff, and then somebody
actually popped him really good and he fell to the ground and
then he got back up and they continued to back up and kept
backing up until he was out in the parking lot.
That's, and that's how you got to handle those people.
You can't allow a Nazi in because once one Nazi gets in,
he invites his Nazi friends and once, once his Nazi friends show

(01:03:48):
up. Now it's a Nazi party and and
that's the Rep it's going to have.
And punks have to be very, you know, the reason there's a
history of, of anti Nazi behavior, specifically in the
punk community is because a lot of punks are, are shaved heads
or, you know, leather. They, they, if you didn't know

(01:04:08):
better, you might conflate them for a Nazi in one way or
another. So they have to be vocally and
clearly they're anti Nazi. There is absolutely a difference
between a Nazi Skinhead and a normal Skinhead.
By default are not Nazis, and every Skinhead I've ever met in
my life will tell you that straight to your face.

(01:04:29):
And if you argue with them, theywill let you know how they feel
about that. Yeah, and you can maybe you know
more about this than I do, Todd,but my, my understanding is the
original Skinhead movement is coming from like an Irish punk
scene, basically. Irish, but it was definitely a
European thing. It was definitely AUK thing and

(01:04:53):
there might be some Irish thingsin Irish elements in there but I
think for the most part it came from England and the because of
the the neo Nazis of the 80's the regular skinheads started
started a movement called Sharpsskinheads against was it?

(01:05:14):
I can't remember it now, but either way it's basically
they're against Nazis and in in in in fascism.
All the racists and the. Yeah, yeah.
So yeah. And Speaking of now, of course
we saw this, we saw this content.
Did you see this on Facebook originally?

(01:05:35):
I, I, I saw, I definitely saw stuff about it on Facebook.
And it may have something to do with the fact that Facebook
seems to be pushing violent content.
And we certainly are seeing morehigher a rise in violent content
and harassment after Facebook changed its policies, right?
Because Facebook used to actually have a fact checking

(01:05:56):
arm, and now they've opted for the community note version,
which doesn't really do anythingother than add context.
So this article from engadget.com reports on how
Facebook has experienced an increase in violent content and
harassment following recent changes to its policies.
The article likely discusses thespecifics of these policy

(01:06:17):
changes, how they may have contributed to the rise and
harmful content, and the potential implications for users
and the platform itself. It also covers any responses or
actions being taken by Facebook to address these issues and
mitigate the spread of violent and harassing material.
So that's an article you can find in our in our links, as you
can with everything else on here.

(01:06:37):
But, but basically, Facebook wants engagement and it's
learned that violent and hatefulcomments tend to keep people
engaged. If something pisses you off and
you respond to it, well, you're engaged with the platform and
they're, they'll take the engagement any way they can in
this day of social media wars asit is.

(01:06:58):
Did you have any other thoughts on that one, Todd?
I just, I saw the story and I figured it was something that we
would, we would absolutely have some thoughts about.
And, and yeah, I, I, I, I, I from the, when I first saw that
they were getting rid of the fact checking.
I think all this is not going toend well.
And, and as far as like the notes, basically it's not even

(01:07:19):
like, hey, just so you know, this is, this is in this
information is incorrect. Anybody can leave a note saying,
well, that's bullshit. You can't say that.
And it's, it's not, it's not helpful.
Yeah, that is absolutely true. It's just it's, it's, it's,
it's, it's, it's accelerating our path down the Idiocracy

(01:07:44):
path. It's, it's accelerating,
accelerating our our transversing of the Idiocracy
path. We're just closer and closer to
becoming Idiocracy the film. The documentary.
Yeah, and I mean, to me, the only bad, the only inaccurate
part of that entire Idiocracy film is the fact that it's set

(01:08:05):
in the year in the in the 26th century, like it's set 500 years
in the future. It's it's too far.
It's too far. We're going to be.
There in 30, yeah, yeah. So, Speaking of Idiocracy.
That's one of my favorite littlegeeky movies.

(01:08:25):
What's what else is Geek this week, Todd?
I'll tell you, welcome. To What's Jesus?
We're going for the coolest in pop culture category news.
Let's dive in. All right, so yeah, we have.
I had picked out a few stories here and we get that pulled up
real quick because I have other windows open.

(01:08:47):
Let's see here we got scrolling,scrolling, scrolling.
Scrolling, scrolling scrolling. Here it.
Is OK, so Nathan Fillion apparently and Nathan Fillion,
you know the guy from from Castle and Firefly and.

(01:09:09):
Rookies, of course. My favorite Nathan Fillion thing
is a is a Doctor horrible sealong blog.
You know, I don't know if I've watched an entire episode of
that. I think I've seen clips of it
and it was really funny. And it's probably the only thing
that Joss Whedon has done that was his.
It's that I think it's funny. It's the only thing that gets
Yeah, it's the best thing Joss has done, for sure.
So but yeah, he apparently is has based his character, his

(01:09:32):
character attributes off of off of somebody off of.
Of course, now that my I'm trying to find it here.
I had it written out and of course I can't fucking read this
shit. It's.
Ted Night. Ted Night.
That's right. Thank you man.
And I did this on purpose. I had this shit written out on

(01:09:55):
purpose so I could find it and read it.
And of course, as soon as I go to read it, I can't seem to find
it. I should just leave it to the
description that I used to have either way.
So Ted Knight, who would was like the the voice over
announcer for the Super Friends,meanwhile back at the podcast
kind of thing. And so, yeah, I'm looking

(01:10:16):
forward to seeing his his his version of the Green Lantern
with the bowl cut. I don't.
He looks like such a doofus. It's it's.
Hilarious. I mean, he really does.
And I really wanted to meet him at Emerald City Comic Con this
year because he was here, but the line was down the hallway
and out the door. And I didn't want to spend the

(01:10:39):
rest of the day standing in linejust to say hi.
I like your show and, and not have any money to buy anything,
so I just went home. But yeah, no, I I think it's
awesome. That's the character choices
he's he's making. See here.
What is this see inspiration theoldest cast member from The

(01:11:00):
Golden Girls where she just whatever she wanted to say
actually doesn't look like it was Ted Knight.
It sounds like it's a Estelle Getty says thank you.
Estelle Getty, thank you. Just whatever it was there it
is. He's going to say it.
Part of his origin was that he at one point was hit by a bus

(01:11:21):
and was in a coma. So just say what's say that's
the thing that flipped the switch, that's what caused a
little bit of brain damage and now he's just a little bit off,
Phillion said. So I don't know where Ted Knight
came from, but yeah, according to the article, that's what I

(01:11:44):
get for using AI to to write a summary for me.
Don't do it, folks. Or at least not using Google's
AI. But yeah, no, I mean, that's I'm
not. See, The thing is now I'm going
to watch the movie and just and picture him as is, is a is the
little the little mom of Dorothy.

(01:12:06):
So that's funny. That's really funny.
All right, what else do we got here?
The next story is. I'm so interested where where
the AI thought this, because theAI summary straight up says he
based aspects of his Superman voice and mannerisms on Ted
Knight. Yeah, and there's nothing of

(01:12:28):
that mentioned anywhere in the article.
Yeah, so ignore what this summary says and click the
article link if you want to know.
The next one is about the Harry Potter cast of the TV show.
And I, I'm going to, I'm going to say this.
I don't support anything that the woman who created Harry

(01:12:51):
Potter has ever said or done. K Rowling.
K Rowling. I, I couldn't care even more to
think about what her name was. So, but I mean, these kids are,
are going to forever be associated with her and, and
there's going to be a lot of hate thrown at them because of
it. And it's, it's unfortunate

(01:13:11):
because despite her being a garbage human being and not a
nice person in general, the stories themselves are
entertaining. I, I enjoyed the movies when
they, when they're in theaters. I, I don't own any Harry Potter
memorabilia, so it's not like I have spent a lot of money on it.
The few times, a few times I've seen those movies was paid by

(01:13:32):
other people. So yeah, I don't know.
I, I managed to stay away from the whole Harry Potter thing for
like, I had friends in school that were reading the books and
I just, I, I, I would be very smug about it.
I was just like, I'm, I'm, I am not a child.
I'm not reading those books for me.

(01:13:53):
And to be honest, I kind of feltthe same way initially.
And and then I I reluctantly went and saw one of the movies
in theaters with the family and I was like, oh wow, this is a
really cool story. I like it.
And I actually really enjoyed all the movies, but you know,
it's, I don't know, I, I, I, I'm, I'm of the mind of the

(01:14:14):
people who say you can separate the art from the person because
there's other people involved with, with that art and you can
focus on those things, you know?Especially the movies, because
sure, she makes money off the licensing, but she's not.
She's not the creator of the films.
No, yeah, she. In fact, the first one, the

(01:14:38):
first one or two is Chris is Chris Columbus right, the guy
who did Home Alone and misses Doubtfire and.
Yeah, you know, it's yeah. So I don't know.
I, I I'm looking forward to seeing at least the first
episode and then I'll kind of gofrom there.
I'm sure I'll watch the entire series, but I'm I'm not I don't

(01:15:00):
support her or her What what shehas said about the the trans
community. I don't agree with it at all,
but I do like no. She can fuck off with those
remarks she's made. Right, exactly.
Yeah. All right.
So. My wife, on the other hand, is a
huge Harry Potter fan, so I'm sure it's going to get shown in

(01:15:21):
this house. I, I did, I when I went to when
I went down to Southern California for my 50th birthday.
We did go to Universal on one ofthe days out one of the days we
were there and and I, I really wanted to ride the rides for
Harry Potter, but I was too fluffy for those rides and

(01:15:43):
they're not meant for large mark, large mammals.
But I did want that's. One of my biggest issues with
bean parks is I'm a little too big for them.
Yeah, it's like, you know, you, it's not like you can put in
like, you know, inserts to make yourself taller when it comes to
being, you know. Get some one Spanx.
Get some of those metal Spanx. Suck it in.

(01:16:04):
How many, how many clicks on theride?
Like Fluffy, did you know when Iclick?
Yes, one click, two click, threeclick.
But yeah. Coming to you live from Six
Flags where two large Latinos did not make the loop.
Oh man. Anyways, back to the podcast.
The next story I have here is Phineas and Ferb cast talk about

(01:16:28):
returning to the series after 10years.
I actually saw a video yesterdayof the cast singing some of the
songs that they're known for doing on the show live at
Disneyland. And I was like, man, I wish I
was there. This would have been so cool.
So this. Is another show that I've only
been reintroduced to as an adultthanks to my wife because she

(01:16:49):
loves this show so she shows it to the kids so we end up
watching it during dinner or breakfast on occasion.
I discovered the show on its last season, so I was really
bummed when it ended and it was like, oh, this, this is like AI
looked at. I I saw it as as like a modern
take on like the R gang or little rascals where just hey,

(01:17:09):
what are we going to do this summer vacation?
What are we going to do? And so it was, it was cute and I
thought it was, it was entertaining.
And I had little song and dance numbers that were always fun and
entertaining and very funny and.It's a smart show.
It's a very smart show and one of the things that I I really
liked about it was like all the all this, all the guest stars

(01:17:32):
they had on the show were like people you would not assume
would make an appearance on a children's show.
Yeah, that's always a mark of a good show is when it's like
you've got you've got people, you've got famous people wanting
to be a part of it. Right.
And, and, and the characters they play on the show are like
in kind of reminiscent of a character they're known for

(01:17:54):
earlier in their career or something they're really known
for, regardless of how long they've been doing it.
The thing that that like blew mymind was that the dad, the dad
on Phineas and Ferb, is Richard O'Brien.
You'll have to tell me who that that name does not ring a bell
for, Richard. O'Brien is the guy who created

(01:18:15):
and starred in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Oh yes, riff raff. Oh see, I've only seen Rocky
Horror once. Yeah, I've, I've only gone and
seen it would be be cast to people once or twice, but I've

(01:18:35):
watched it a number of times over the years.
I usually watch it during Halloween is one of those things
I do a good time. Yeah, so but this article talks
about, you know, them coming back after 10 years and they, in
fact, if you haven't seen it yet, go to the Phineas and Ferb.
No, it's not Phineas and Ferb's channel.

(01:18:55):
It's Disney. Disney's YouTube channel has the
first episode available. You can watch it now, or at
least part of it anyway. I mean, maybe not, it may not be
the whole episode, but it's all there I think.
But it is coming in August. It's coming back.
When is August? Fuck I'm having an ADHD day

(01:19:15):
guys, I'm sorry. It is.
Coming back, that's what we're all about here.
Season 5 premieres on Disney Channel on June 5th and on
Disney Plus on June 6th The nextday.
So it comes back in June. So like next week or actually in

(01:19:37):
like 3 days? Yeah, there you go.
So something I've always something not always, but
something that has occurred to me as I've gone back now and I'm
watching Phineas and Ferb as an adult.
I'm realizing that Rick and Morty is like Phineas and Ferb 4
adults. Like if that really has a

(01:19:57):
similar vibe to. Me, if you were to take Phineas
and Ferb and kind of mix it in alittle bit of like Back to the
Future and Beavis and Butt Head,then yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I actually like
those shows too. All right.
The King of the Hill revival, aswe've already mentioned, and

(01:20:17):
lost another cast member, but ontop devastating news.
About. That yeah, the that's coming
back. It's going to be on Hulu and see
here it is going to be on August4th.
So a couple more months, right? And I'm assuming that John
Redcorn, who you know, Jonathan Joss was the voice of, probably

(01:20:41):
already recorded some parts. So I'm hoping we get to see that
character again. I think yes, he is.
He comes back as John Red Corn and I think he's in multiple
episodes. I don't know if he's in the
entire season, but he he is the only person voicing that
character in this season. If they get another season,
they'll probably have to find somebody else to replace him, or

(01:21:03):
they will. Do something with the.
Character, His character will goto a farm upstate on the show.
You know, I'm sorry, folks, thatwas a terrible joke.
But you know, it's kind of how Ideal with with, with, with.
We're in mourning over this, where we give us give us a
little. I make terrible jokes and it's

(01:21:23):
not, it's not indicative of how I feel.
The tears. It's yeah, exactly.
But so, yeah, I, I saw the there's a clip on the Internet
of like like a like a trailer of, of just clips of, of the
show of this, this next season. And it's not a reboot, folks.
It is a revival. It's a continuation of the
original series. So the characters of of actors

(01:21:47):
who have passed away are are they're going to be talked
about, but you will not see them.
You will not hear them. And that's the only thing I know
about those characters like the Luann and her her boyfriend or
husband or whatever his name was, I can't remember.
But those the actors that playedDemo have both passed since the
last since the show went out there and and.

(01:22:09):
I'm looking forward to this revival because I was, for
whatever reason, I I didn't. I wasn't a King of the Hill fan
when it was on. Maybe I was just too young.
I wanted something more like TheSimpsons, right?
King of the Hill wasn't that forme.
But as I've gotten older, you know, once I got into my 30s,
especially now that I'm married and have two kids, I see I catch

(01:22:33):
an old episode and I appreciate it so much more.
You mean to tell me you've neverbeen like, that's my first, I
don't know you. Nope, I don't know.
I don't know the reference. So the.
Only things I know are like God damn it Bobby, God damn.
It propane and propane accessories.
I like propane and propane accessories.

(01:22:56):
Yeah, yeah, that way better. Well, I, I, I'm a massive Mike
Judge fan and I, I, I mimic a lot of his characters, but
Bobby, apparently he has become a chef and he like does like
Japanese food and specifically Japanese food that is cooked on
an open flame using charcoal. Oh, no.

(01:23:20):
So, so Hank, Hank is going to have a massive problem with
this. That's the one thing that's the
only thing really, that I am, I know about the show going
forward. And they, they did say that the
actor who played Dale Gribble. Yeah.
He he recorded I think 3 episodes before he passed away
and be actor Toby Huss will takeover the voice of Dale beyond

(01:23:45):
those episodes that Mister Hardwick had recorded and I'm
trying to remember his first name doesn't say his name at all
in this article you're. Talking about Chris Hardwick.
No, no different Hardwick entirely.
Let's see here. Continue without and I don't

(01:24:07):
really care. Stop at the pop ups.
No, Yeah, it's it's it's even spelled differently.
Johnny Harp. Johnny Hardwick is the guy's
name. It says the cast of the series
includes Mike Judge, Catherine and Jimmy, Pam and Pam Adelon
and the late Johnny Hardwick. Stephen Root, Tom, Lauren, Tom

(01:24:28):
and Toby Huss. And I think Toby is the one who
plays Con con senior and yeah, they but yeah, it comes out in
August 4th and that all 10 episodes all at once.
So you won't have to wait weeklyto watch the entire next season
of King of the Hill. I was a massive fan of the show

(01:24:51):
because it was from the creator of Beavis and Butthead, and I
loved Beavis and Butthead and I.Was not allowed to watch Beavis
and Butthead and by the time I got old enough where I could
have watched wherever I want Beavis and Butthead was over.
Like the the first beams and butt head thing I really saw was

(01:25:12):
the movie Do America. Oh yeah, the play scissors slots
in Vegas love that I. Remember the soundtrack that
was? Killer.
I have that sound. I bought that soundtrack on CD
and on MP3 at some point, so yeah, yeah.

(01:25:32):
So. So 13 episodes.
King of the Hill originally ran for 13 episodes, 13 seasons and
over 200 and. 50 seasons, more than 13.
Episodes 13 seasons and over 250episodes on Fox from 97 to 2009.
There have been discussions about reviving the show at Fox

(01:25:53):
all the way back to 2017, but that was prior to 21 Century Fox
and Disney's merger in in which Disney acquired 20th Century
Television and many other assets, but not the broadcast
network. The show marked the first

(01:26:14):
collaboration between Mike Judgeand Daniels, but the two
reunited recently to recent recently to from Bandera
reviving King of the Hill. I don't know any of that means
it doesn't make those words don't mean anything to me.
I don't know what that reunite. We know words together,

(01:26:36):
understand. Words are hard and was among the
top priorities for the company, while they have also set up
projects from various outlets, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
I don't know. I'm looking forward to it.
It's it's it's sad to think thatsome of the characters are not
going to be there because, you know, the actors who played them

(01:26:58):
are no longer with us. But I'm glad.
I'm glad they decided to like tosay, you know, yeah, so and so
went to college or so. And so they're living in another
city and this is what they're doing.
I would much rather than do thatthen then like try to.
Recast it. Because sometimes recasting
works and other times it doesn't.

(01:27:18):
And more often than not, at least in recent years that I've
noticed, the character voices are are similar, but not enough
for me to believe that it's the same person.
You know what I mean? Like it was like.
Doctor Hubbard on The Simpsons is this completely different
voice now. I mean, Doctor Hubbard is, is
Kevin Michael Richardson. So and, and I don't know, I to

(01:27:39):
me it sounded the same, but I don't know.
I met Kevin. He's really cool guy.
He he is, he's done so many other voices, but he's he's best
known for being the, the, the, the the white neighbor on the
Cleveland Show be the redneck. Oh, really?

(01:28:00):
Yeah, which is funny in itself, but where was it going with
that? And I just lost my train of
thought. Shit.
Now who's derailing who? You know what's going to the
next story because I I completely forgot what I was
saying and last, that train of thought, boom, there goes the

(01:28:22):
train. Mark Hamill reveals why he won't
return to Star Wars 10. OK, let's see what it says here
because I don't trust that the AI summary now, OK.
Ray's Ray's Journey, played by Daisy Ridley in the Star Wars

(01:28:43):
Galaxy, is set to continue in with the upcoming movie New Jedi
Order, but fans shouldn't expectto see her mentor Luke
Skywalker, played by Mark Hamill.
In an interview with comicbook.com to promote his new
movie Life of the Life of Chuck,which opens in select beaters

(01:29:05):
June 6th and nationwide June 13th, Hamill was asked if he
would return as Luke's Force ghost in New Jedi Order.
Though the actor is forever grateful he played such a
meaningful role in the Star Warsfranchise, he believes it is
time for Lucasfilm to move past the legacy characters and focus

(01:29:27):
entirely on the younger generation.
What do you what do you think ofthat, Doug?
I, I mean, I, I'm, I don't like the way they used Luke in the in
the sequel trilogy. I thought it was a disservice to
his original story arc. I thought he they made him act.

(01:29:47):
I really I'm a total Last Jedi hater.
I hated the way they did that. Just subversion just for the
sake of subversion is not anything to applaud in my book.
I just liked it to the point where I didn't even watch The
Rise of Skywalker. I honestly I will say this
knowing how much most people dislike the last Jedi a lot of

(01:30:08):
people felt that way. I however really love the the
Rise of Skywalker for a lot of reasons but the main reason is I
think it it really shows Leia more than we have in previous
movies even though she was barely in it because she passed.

(01:30:29):
Like I don't know if it was Midway St. pass.
Before The Last Jedi ended, I thought.
So they, they used a lot of footage that wasn't used in the
last Jedi for the rise of Skywalker.
Now the reason why I I really like this movie because I
believe and I I this is my head cannon as they say that the

(01:30:51):
fight at the end of the of the movie.
Not to give any ways any spoilers folks, but I'm going to
talk about it. So be sure to forget before you
watch the movie. I believe that when Leia the
character passes and she disappears like every other
force wielding person does, thatBen also disappears at the same

(01:31:12):
time. That what we thought was Ben was
actually her helping Ray in her last spot and her in the final
battle of the movie. And I once I realized that, I
had to go back and rewatch the entire movie because it's like,
OK, when did this? When did this become a thing?
When did he become his mom and his mom become him?

(01:31:37):
And so. I It's an interesting theory.
Yeah, and, and, and if you watch, and I recommend you
actually watch it at least once,that way you can say I've seen
it and I either like it or I don't like it.
I I actually think it's in my top three as far as Star Wars
movies goes. This will absolutely bump Empire
and Jedi if I have to pick anything else.

(01:32:01):
So and you're saying? Rise of Skywalker bumps Empire
and Jedi for you. Yes it does.
Wow, I really liked it. I.
Really, really, really liked it.And you're not just a casual you
are like Star Wars is your. That's my primary random thing.
Yeah, yeah, it's, it's, it's like.
It's that's a big statement. It's, it's, it's the thing that

(01:32:23):
turned the nerd switch on me. So it's, it's, it's what made me
like an Uber nerd. I, I had all the toys growing
up. I loved everything that came out
that was Star Wars, even the prequels.
Initially I liked them, but as Iheard people's complaints about
them, I know I can see that I can, I understand it.
I still, I'm entertained by them, but they're not my
favorite. So.

(01:32:44):
And but yeah, I, I think that, you know, yeah, I, I as much as
I would love to have seen the, the, the original 3 together
again, you know, fighting the Empire.
We didn't get that in those movies.
As much as I wanted to see Luke,Leah and Han and Chewbacca all
together on the on me in the cockpit of the morning Falcon.

(01:33:10):
Sorry, we didn't get that. We got, we got two of the of the
four in Macaque, which in itselfwas cool.
And I, and that's part of the reason why I'm getting choked up
because that scene where they get on the Millennium Falcon for
the first time in decades, like we're home and I, I lost it.

(01:33:31):
I, I, the people I was with are,are you OK?
I'm like, oh, my God. I don't, I didn't realize how
much I missed seeing these people on the deck of that ship
until this happened. And it was, it was.
And, you know, a lot of people shat on on The Force Awakens.
It's just a recycled version of The New Hope.

(01:33:53):
I was like, OK, that's probably why I like it, because it
reminds me of the original movie.
And I'll never call that movie ANew Hope, ever.
It will always. Be Star Wars.
I like the force awakens. I actually was I was excited
after the that's part of the reason I hated the last Jedi so
much is after the force awakens.I was like, OK, cool, this is
Star Wars again more so than theprequels.

(01:34:15):
This is this really feels like Star Wars again.
Even though it kind of felt likeStar Wars the ride, like it was
just kind of like a tour of the Star Wars mythos, I was still
excited for what it was setting up.
And I got into. It's one of the things that
really got me into like doing the YouTube breakdown in theory
videos. Like I was into all the

(01:34:36):
different theories, excuse me, that people had for The Last
Jedi. And like I was like, oh, which
way is it going to go? Who's right, who's not right?
Who's on the right track? What are they going to do with
this? And then and then Ryan Johnson
was going to be directing it. And I'm like, oh, he's freaking
an awesome director. He did some of the best episodes
of Breaking Bad. I was super.

(01:34:57):
I just my hopes got so high for The Last Jedi.
And then and then it. Looked great, it looked amazing.
And then they decided to just, they decided to just like make a
really awesome thing and then just destroy it.
What's the most shocking thing we can do?
Oh, let's destroy it. Let's subvert everything for
subversion's sake. I literally, I, I went with a

(01:35:18):
group of friends and like 20 to 30, like at some point during
the, the first act of the movie,I, I turned to my row and I was
like, did we? Is this the parody version?
Like did we accidentally get theparody version of this movie?
Like this isn't this can't be the real movie.
Right. I, I, I, I didn't really care

(01:35:41):
for that one. I mean, it was, it was still
Star Wars to me because they hadkey characters in it, but it
felt like, you know what, because people shed on the last
one, we're going to change things up a bit.
And I was like, no, that's not what you're, that's not the no,
you should have done that. And I liked.
The new characters I liked, Ray I liked, yeah.

(01:36:02):
FIB, who's what's joined John Boyega's character.
It's AFN 197 or. Something.
Yeah, I like Finn. I like, I like those characters.
And then they don't really do anything with Finn.
They like they just ask like this, like he becomes the B plot
and like. Yeah, he throw away.
He he becomes he becomes buttersfrom from South Park.

(01:36:27):
Yeah, that's. So true.
He's there and he says his key, his catchphrases once in a while
and shows up when the battle is happening, but then quickly
disappears when when other things are going on.
I I was, I was excited to see where his character went because
I liked his character. He was like AI was, I was forced

(01:36:47):
into this shit. I don't want to do with it.
And I'm going to join you guys because you guys seem like
you're saying that's kind of howI saw his character and the way
he was dealing with everybody around him.
And some of my favorite lines have been from him in those
movies because he has some of the funniest lines.
And so, yeah, so like in in there's a a line in the The Rise

(01:37:13):
of Skywalker, he goes, I forgot to tell you.
And then everyone, he got everyone.
And something happens and everyone gets interrupted with
what they're saying or they're doing.
And he never, he never finishes that sentence.
You know, you're like, what? What were you guys?
Tell her dude, what what was happening?
So Palpatine returned well. I know it was recently posted

(01:37:37):
like in the last week, even in in light of the new movies
coming out, the potentially he might be in them and that we
might see what he was referring to in that part of the movie
because it was mentioned one time in the movie and was not
brought up again throughout the rest of the movie.
So he was basically saying I gotsomething to tell you.

(01:37:59):
You know, I need to you to know this is important.
And then, you know, they they were like in like a like a like
a like a the sinking field is I think what they called it.
It was basically like quicksand,but it wasn't quicksand.
And they're all I thought they were all going to die.
So I need to tell you this thingthat I needed to tell you.
And he and as he was trying to tell her, they all fell through

(01:38:22):
and and they all survived it. But yeah, so apparently they're
going to like. And what what he was going to
tell was going to tell her was that that he is also Force
sensitive and that he's going tobe he's going to go into
training to become a Jedi. That's what I heard.
I don't know if that's true. I hope that's true because we do
see him use a lightsaber in one of.

(01:38:43):
The there is that that's kind ofa retcon because there's the
scene where he temporarily uses a lightsaber.
Not particularly well, but the fact that he can control it at
all is supposed to be, I think. That he was able to to pull, do
a Force pull and grab it says something about his force
abilities, You know, And I don'tknow, I just turn the volume up
a little bit. That's better.

(01:39:04):
So, yeah, it's just, yeah, the. I'm looking forward to the next
set of movies. I don't care if we see any more
of Luke, although I have also seen other people saying that.
Sebastian Stan. Should play.
Luke should play. A younger version of Luke and
and in in like at the very leasthave him play that character in

(01:39:27):
the next season of Ahsoka or anyother any other Star Wars
content that happens in that time frame in that on that
timeline. I would love to see Luke like
the saga of Luke of stuff he didbetween Jedi and and Force
Awakens. Force Awakens.
I, I, that's what I'm, that's what I'm thinking, that they're,

(01:39:49):
I would love for them to do thatand have Sebastian be the young
Luke. Yeah, and don't try and
digitally alter him to have MarkCampbell's face.
Just go with it. Just go with what he he's.
Close enough. He already looks.
Like, like he could be like one of Mark's kids.
Yeah. So.

(01:40:10):
All right, we ready to get in some weird shit.
I'm I'm excited about this. We got some really weird shit,
including some literal shit in the weird shit.
So there we go. All right, sorry, we babbled a

(01:40:35):
bit too long about Star Wars, but you know what?
That's OK. I like Star Wars, and it's all
right, we're going. Along tonight, I love it.
I love it. More content for the masses.
Yes. Do we still have our our viewers
on TikTok? We, we don't currently have
anybody viewing, but we did havea few pop people pop in and say
hi. And I just, I wasn't looking at
that screen, so I didn't respond.

(01:40:56):
So I apologize if you're listening now.
And we and, and, and I didn't say anything.
So we appreciate the people thatare we're watching over on
TikTok, on my TikTok account. And if you've gotten this far,
please go follow me on on TikTokand on YouTube and then you'll
see all the videos of of what? Well, the slideshow basically

(01:41:19):
what we've been talking. About Todd HD Todd ADHD rocks on
YouTube, is it the same on TikTok?
It is Todd dot ADHD dot rocks onTikTok.
But if you just type in Todd ADHD rocks, you'll find me.
So the first story I have here, this is the one I, I found this
story like like literally right after we recorded last week.
And basically it's this guy in, in, in Oregon who has discovered

(01:41:42):
a way to turn like recycled plastic into diesel fuel.
And there's videos on his website, naturejab.com, if you
want to see for yourself. He, he talks, he built this
machine and it utilizes a microwave oven and some like big

(01:42:03):
metal cylinders for I don't knowwhat, but it looks impressive
either way. I mean, if you, if you know
engineering, you probably can see it and go, that's not even a
real thing. It's just a prop.
But to me it looks like it's real and potentially real
anyhow. And I saw, I initially saw the
video because I was doing scrolling on TikTok and I came

(01:42:24):
across this guy saying, yeah, I'm going to pour this in and
I'm going to start this truck upand hopefully it won't destroy
the truck. So he pours it in and then they
wait a second or two and then all right, turn, turn the key
and it starts up. And it actually kind of sputters
a little bit at 1st and like, OK, this might not work.

(01:42:44):
But then it actually kind of, you know how like when you put
gas into a car that hasn't had gas in a while.
It did, yeah. We're trying to start a a a a
gas lawn mower that doesn't wantto start.
Exactly. So it's.
It had been sitting without gasoline in its system for for a
while at least. They poured in some gas into

(01:43:06):
the, I think the carburetors where they would pour in gas to
get to see if we can get start up without having to pour into
the tank. And it's it's, it kind of it
sputtered a little bit, but it started and actually ran and ran
until they used the fuel up and then it and then it, and then it
went off again. But I was like, if this is real,

(01:43:27):
if this is really cool, that guybetter.
I hope that guy gets himself some security because oil
companies are going to come for him so.
Yeah, well, they may just buy him out or.
Or they'll buy. I mean, yeah, they'll probably
buy him out, but. I mean, there's still the
concern here that it is still, you know, it's, it's, it's

(01:43:47):
burning, you know, we're, we're melting the plastic, we're
burning it up into fuel. We're burning the fuel.
It's still, you know, the, the, the, the byproducts of this are
still not going to be great for the Earth.
You know, I, I, I do think electric electrical powered
vehicles are still back to burning.
Fuel is usually smoke. Right.

(01:44:08):
So if you're burning smoke, if you're burning fuel that's based
on on, on plastics, I mean, it gets filtered and stuff.
So it's, it's, it's basically back to what it was before it
became plastic, right? It's back to being an oil by
product. Yeah.
And it's and it's still going topollute just like diesel or or
gasoline would. But it is a way to do something

(01:44:31):
with all the plastic we have. But really we need to be
reducing our use of plastics because of all the microplastics
that are getting into all of us and getting away from plastic in
general. Plastic was a tremendous
invention of the 20th century that allowed us to do a lot of
crazy things. But it's coming at a cost that
we're only just now starting to learn what the what the, what

(01:44:52):
the biological cost is of it. And, and ultimately, you know,
when it comes to transportation,the, the the solution really
isn't new ways to do personal vehicles.
It's having reliable, effective and universal mass transit.
Like that's really what we need is to where we don't have to
have personal vehicles. That's really what we got to get

(01:45:13):
to. But this is still, I mean, this
is definitely weird. It's interesting.
Yeah. OK.
I'm trying to get this thing pulled up.
Here we go. I got it.
All right. Stupid.
Advertisements on King Fives website.
The next story is this. And this happened a day or two
after we recorded last and I waslike, oh shit, there's actually

(01:45:34):
video of a semi truck carrying 250 million with an M million
bees crashed in Watcombe County,which I don't know.
Bees, bees, bees in the car, bees everywhere.
God, they're huge and they're staying crazy.
Run away. Your fires are useless against
them. The thing is, just what this

(01:45:55):
brings up in my mind, because I'm a little older than than
Doug is the. Killer bee epidemic in the 80s I
think it was or late 70s where people are freaked out by these
African killer bees, these bees these bees that came from Africa
that are like bigger and more aggressive than than the
standard bee. But I'm like, can you Can you

(01:46:16):
imagine I don't know part of Washington whatcom is in I I do
know that it's a a, a county here in Washington.
I think it's down on the West onthe West Coast, like ocean
shores. Oh, OK, OK, so all those people
down there who? Didn't have any issues with bees
are. Going to be just in inundated
with bees now and and and fun fact about the African killer

(01:46:39):
bees. That's kind of a.
Progress a product of Western racism?
They're not. They aren't actually from
Africa. They were.
Imported. To Brazil and they were called
Africanized because they're a hybrid between African and
European honey bees. But they but yeah, but they

(01:47:02):
were, they were actually hybridized for for beekeeping.
So they're not the the the name African killer.
Bees just. Kind of caught on because of
colloquial racism in America, right?
That makes a lot of sense. I always thought it was weird
that like just randomly we. We would get a bunch of bees

(01:47:23):
from Africa that are way more aggressive and, and you know,
they sting people and to stay away from bees and all.
That's what I remember as a kid.I mean, I was, I was little when
that shit happened. And I remember that being all
over the news. And my mom was really concerned
about me getting stung by these African bees because, you know,

(01:47:43):
of course now we got to worry about the murder Hornets.
Yeah, same fucking thing, exceptfor the the murder.
Hornets are, are are. Are are are different style of
bug all together They're like these 6 inch long fucking
Hornets. They're massive.
But, yeah, now there's video here of all the bees.

(01:48:05):
They're having a heck of a time.They're all in bee sinks trying
to round up the bees. Rose woke up to 250 million new
neighbors Friday morning after asemi overturned near her house,
sending honey bees swarming. I don't want to go down.
You can hear the bees in the video, but they're, like,

(01:48:27):
attacking the camera. Yeah, but just just insane.
I mean that amount of bees and. And I don't think it's going to
really impact the local like beepopulation, but it might.
That was my first thought was like, is this going to mess with
the the local population of bees?
Is this going to just have, there's going to be too many

(01:48:48):
bees? Are we going to, you know, yeah,
it's a legitimate concern. Like, is this?
Is this what's what? What is going to happen with
this? But I guess we'll find out.
So we'll find out in the next, in the next few weeks.
I guess we're going to find out the hard way, right?
And then the next story I. Thought was really.

(01:49:11):
Cool man. These guys, it's a punk band
that they released. What was it they they they did
like a local press. I think of of their album and
they they wanted to use Gwyneth Paltrow's vagina scented candles
from her goop brand. I was wondering if that's where

(01:49:33):
this was coming from. It was from her.
Damn. Candles so Australian punk
bandit private function are bringing the the smell of the.
Actresses privates to you at a much more economical cost and
you get a soundtrack too. So OK, this isn't this is this

(01:49:56):
is just as equally as funny as the other story that had.
Of. There was another story that I
replaced with this one because Ithought this was better better.
The other story was people that make the Sasquatch soap.
They they were they were taking the bathwater from a specific
actress in one of the Avenger movies.

(01:50:19):
I think it was either way, some actress in a movie, they took
her bathwater that it was in themovie and used that to make
their bars of soap. And there's like a yeah, I've I
heard recently earlier today about something about Sabrina.
Carpenter selling her bathwater.That's what it was.

(01:50:41):
Yep. That's.
That's what it was. Yep.
Yep. That was it, yeah.
And I didn't realize it was going to the Squatch soap
people. Yeah, yeah, and but can you?
Can you imagine like? Listening to this punk band and
just having your whole room smell like Gwyneth Paltrow.
Yeah, that's remember the image here.

(01:51:05):
On the article is just a a lady dressed as a site like she looks
like she's a lab tech and she's just got her nose right up on
this pink vinyl record. She's, she's wearing a lab coat
and she's got the Blues latex gloves on and she's got a pair
of like. Plastic goggles to keep her eyes
safe in case, you know, the album explodes or something.

(01:51:25):
I don't know. It makes you have eye
protection. Eye protection to keep herself
safe. And then she's wearing like
underneath the lab. Coat she's wearing like a band
T-shirt. With like a like a kind of a
punk looking like necklace with some some things on it.
I don't know. I just thought it was funny and

(01:51:46):
I wonder how it plays. I wonder how it plays on your
record player, Liz. It says scratch.
And snip all on it too. That's the big thing is the
album was scratch and Snip. You could.
It would actually. I think it only smells.
If you scratch the label or maybe it's the album itself, but
either way, having having a an LP that smells like somebody's

(01:52:07):
vagina in itself, I thought was kind of funny and weird at the
same time. Indeed, indeed, indeed.
Is that the? That is, that is not the.
Last story The last story I haveno, no the last.
Story is the worst story which is going to make me hold it for
the rest of my life. I I I think.
This will keep me from ever using a public restroom anywhere
near. A river or a lake?

(01:52:32):
This comes from the Mirror, which is a British, I think it's
a tabloid, a totally reputable British publication.
It's a tabloid publication. I think the photo shows what
looks like a Python in a in a toilet, but I think that's
photoshopped that that's that's not what it got.
Yeah, Pythons don't bite things off.

(01:52:53):
No, but the the the title of this out.
This this article is man takes ait.
Wasn't Python though. It says man takes a Wii and has
his penis bitten. Off by an 11.
Foot snake in his toilet IE. Oh man, a man was.

(01:53:13):
Left fighting for his life. After after suffering severe
blood loss when a Python bit himon his penis while he was using
the toilet. Thai man Fat snake who's a top
porn? Boon.
Boon Macaj. That's what it says here.

(01:53:35):
He's 38 years old, was attacked by a large snake in.
The bathroom of his. Home in the the Chow Ghazal
province, east of Bangkok, according to.
Reports he. Reached down after feeling a
sudden sharp pain, only to find the python's jaws trumped onto

(01:53:56):
the tip of his genitals. Oh my God.
In a panic, he called out for his wife and struggled to free
himself from the grip of the 11 foot serpent before losing
consciousness. He managed to tie and rope
around the snake's head and secure it to the bathroom door
to prevent it from escaping. There's a photo of it.

(01:54:21):
Oh my God, talk about a trouser snake.
Oh boy. Oh my God, that is a Python.
Holy crap. OK yeah, nice bloody bloody
toilet with a snake coming out. Jesus Christ, I don't ever need
to go to. Bangkok, that's for sure.
Yeah, I'm, I'm, oh, never, ever going to anywhere.

(01:54:43):
Near that part of the world ever, ever.
I mean, it's it's, it's, it's bad enough that I don't want to
go to Australia because of all the things that want to kill you
there despite their ability to not be able to kill you, but
still want to kill you. Exactly.
I guess it could have been worsefor this man.
At least he wasn't sitting down.I mean, I think he was.

(01:55:07):
I think he was. Do you think?
That's how it went. I mean, that looks like that
looks like one of those that yousit sit on, right I.
Just oh, I guess, yeah. Just dangle it.
Well, yeah, it's hard to say I don't want.
I mean, I think you would. Notice if you were if you were
standing over a toilet with withyour Dick in your hand and
you're urinating. Into the into the you would see
it coming and then back the fuckup.

(01:55:27):
I think he was sitting down peeing because I guess that's
that's the way a normal person does it, but I digress, I guess
It says Emergency services quickly responded and
transported him to the hospital,where he was treated for
significant blood loss. Footage from the scene shows
rescue crews working to extract a Python from the toilet's

(01:55:50):
plumbing, even using hammers to dismantle parts of the system.
The snake was eventually captured, placed in a secured
bag and later released back intothe wild, according to local
outlet Bangkok News. I mean, the fact that happened
in Bangkok, where's that button?Where is it, Where is it, Where

(01:56:13):
is it, Where is it? Here it is.
Oh, man. Oh my indeed.
So yeah, I just I saw that and Iwas like, this has to this is
the first story I added to the to the show notes document and I

(01:56:33):
was like, I don't think I'm evergoing to top this story ever.
So go. And I hope we never have to live
it. I I absolutely will never ever,
ever. Go anywhere in Thailand.
Or or anywhere near places that have snakes that will do that.
So I will never go to Florida ever again.

(01:56:54):
The worst part about this is I really have to go to the
bathroom right now and you're like.
I'll use one upstairs, yeah. Maybe I'll just piss out the
window. I'll just go step out in the
backyard and find a. Quiet.
I got a new pool. You could just go for a swim.
Yeah. Yeah.

(01:57:15):
Well. Unless you have anything else to
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(01:58:00):
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Yeah, it it, it's, it hasn't ever been on at the same time.
We try to do the same days, but you never know stuff happening.
We're eight. We're ADHD over here.
We're not. We're we're all over the place,
yes. All right, guys, thanks for for
tuning in and we'll we'll talk to you next.

(01:58:22):
Week bye. I take riding in this

(01:59:23):
crazy story. I can this can madness feels so
weird. ADHD we're riding hard.

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