The Running Kindergarten Governator

From Arnold Schwarzenegger's remarkable journey to the loss of beloved Gen X icons, this episode takes you through a nostalgic rollercoaster ride that perfectly captures our generation's unique perspective.

Arnold's story is nothing short of extraordinary. Born in Austria to an alcoholic father who favored his brother, young Arnold turned to bodybuilding as an escape. When his parents discovered his walls covered with male bodybuilder posters rather than typical teenage heartthrobs, they assumed he was gay and subjected him to beatings. This early adversity only fueled his determination to reinvent himself in America, where he would transform from champion bodybuilder to Hollywood superstar to California governor.

We can't help but laugh at pre-fame Arnold's appearance on "The Dating Game," where his language barrier led to adorably awkward moments like asking "What does hanky panky mean?" long before he became the action hero we know today. His personal life proved equally dramatic, from his Kennedy family marriage to Maria Shriver to the revelation that he fathered a child with household staff.

The show takes a poignant turn as we reflect on recently departed Gen X icons Ozzy Osbourne and Hulk Hogan. This sparks a deeper conversation about wrestling nostalgia (Macho Man! Andre the Giant! Rowdy Roddy Piper!) and the difficult balance of separating beloved characters from problematic performers. Can we cherish childhood memories of Hulkamania while acknowledging Terry Bollea's troubling statements?

Between dissecting the viral Coldplay "cheaters" scandal and South Park's latest political satire, we showcase the quintessential Gen X ability to find humor in cultural moments while maintaining our skeptical edge. Our generation has always existed in this sweet spot – sentimental about our youth while keeping a critical eye on both past and present.

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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(00:25):
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Speaker 1 (00:31):
Welcome to Like Whatever a podcast for by and
about Gen X.
I'm Nicole and this is my BFF,heather.
Hello, so on my way here, ittakes a little over an hour for
us to be together to record this.
I was driving down and Ilistened to last week's episode

(00:54):
and man was Pat, a goodinterview, yes, like holy moly,
like I knew in the moment thatit was just awesome.
But that was the first time Ihad listened to it and man, he
knocked it out of the park.
He made us look good for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah, we had a good time.
It was a lot of fun.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
It was really fun.
I can't wait to have him onagain sometime, but I just want
to give him a little shout outbecause nice work and if you
haven't listened to last week'sepisode, you should check it out
.
Pat Green is an author and hisbook Hearts of Glass Living in

(01:28):
the Real World is out, and itcame out on audio last Friday
and it is for sale wherever youbuy your books online, so check
it out.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
If you go to it's barnstormercom right.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Correct.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
He has autographed.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yes, Copies and I got confirmation from him today
that my signed copy is in themail.
I'm so excited, yay, yay.
So a couple of fun thingshappened this week.
First of all, I cannot getenough of the Coldplay cheaters.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm over it.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Are you?
Yeah, not me, not me, like Ithink I started to get over it a
little bit and then GwynethPaltrow came out and did a PR
commercial for them.
You know she's the ex-wife ofChris Martin and Astronomer
hired her to like smooth thingsover.

(02:18):
I just fucking love it, becausekarma's a bitch man.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
And I love the dude's soon-to-be ex-wife and she was
like I'm not.
No, I'm not going to sugarcoatany of this.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
I mean, you really can't come back from it.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Fuck you, I'm gone.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah, pretty much.
You don't really have much of achoice there.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah, and the memes have died down.
I guess Everybody's had theirfun, but it was fun while it
lasted.
Did you see even the Phillyfanatic?

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
And the female Philly fanatic did it.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
I have seen all of it .

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Okay, I'll let it go, but I had to bring it up
because it was just.
Hey, it's your podcast.
I freaking loved it, althoughwe just keep hearing about him
and how he had to leave his joband blah.
Did she get fired?
Did she have to leave, like?

Speaker 2 (03:11):
I don't know anything about her.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah Well, she was the head of HR in the same
company.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
I don't know.
So, Was she married?
Yes, oh yeah.
I don't know.
Was she married?
Yes, oh yeah.
I don't know Well, she's thehead of PR, so she HR or PR HR.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Oh, so I guess she had to report to herself Monday
morning she had a long talk withherself.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
I'm so glad we don't have HR, I'm not going to go
there.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Be good.
The other thing from this weekthat I loved was the South Park
episode.
Did you watch it?
I didn't, because I don't carefor South Park.
Okay, well, even if you don'tlike South.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Park.
I have heard about it.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
I know that you have heard about it and when I read
like best episode ever, I waslike, all right, there are a lot
of very good South Parkepisodes, I don't know, but it
really might be the best oneever.
And a friend of mine postedsomething that made a really
valid point.
I'm pretty sure it was a quotefrom somebody else, someone's
article or something.
But that is the way to bringdown a tyrant is satire.

(04:20):
Yes, to bring down a tyrant issatire.
Yes, Like you can say badthings about him and tell what
he's doing, even if he's lyingabout it.
But when you make fun of himand it's real, like they made
him very heavy set, they madehis wiener like the size of my

(04:41):
pinky and he climbs in bed withSatan and it's I know my uh, my
favorite podcast said that theydidn't think that was fair to
satan well in.
In all fairness, satan reallywasn't into him.
He was laying there like, andtrump would jump in bed and be
like, come on, satan, come on,you know, running his finger up

(05:01):
and down his arm, say it and belike, meh, nah, it was really
great.
And then, at the very end, um,they want south park to
apologize and to do some sort ofum, like marketing for trump,
uh, to show that they're sorry.
So it's Trump out in the desertand it starts in a suit and

(05:25):
he's walking and he's like, orthe narrator is saying something
about how much he loves thiscountry and he'll do anything
for it, and blah, blah, blah andhe's stripping down as he's
walking and it shows himcrawling with his flat, fat ass,
like, and he finally falls downand it shows like his little
wiener stand up.
It's just, it's so good.

(05:48):
I love South Park, though.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
I had a Facebook argument for like three or four
days.
Oh, your favorite.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
I know.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
I do love a good Facebook argument with a friend
of mine who I used to work withat fedex and it was just
infuriating because it was overthe epstein files and through
literally every otherdistraction in the world, and I
kept saying that's beside thepoint of what I because the meme
I posted was something aboutlike, um oh, if this was a, if

(06:19):
you know there's democrats onthe thing, yeah, I know, I know
who's on it.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah, I know who's on it, right, and they all know
who's on it.
They need to be punished justthe same as everybody else.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
Every one of them should be punished, and they
were like oh, because I've seena lot of people well, what if
Obama's on it?
I mean, he's not probably, butif he is, then he should be.
I'm not a.
I bet my left arm that he is noton that list also, but I'm just
saying that everybody on thatlist should be punished.

(06:48):
Yes, and then it was just backand forth with this and then it
was like, oh well, he just hangsout with other billionaires.
I wish you could see my faceright now, because it's just
come on I mean come on and his,his whole.
That was well.
My wife was an addict, but thatdoesn't make me an addict.
Did you fly to a pedophileisland with her?

Speaker 1 (07:11):
no, although, yeah, when they asked him if he had
gone there did you see this week?
He said he never had theprivilege of being invited there
.
I'm like, wow, I mean his PR.
People must just stand withtheir head in their hands
constantly, although nobodyseems to care.
So I mean, maybe there is stilla lot.

(07:32):
There is.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
There is a big pushback from them.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
And Scotland has been amazing.
Did you see the front cover oftheir newspaper the day he
showed up?

Speaker 2 (07:42):
And then all the protesters, and then the
bagpiper that played louder thantrump was talking when he was
trying to talk publicly and Ihate a bagpipe, but I just I
mean I I'm not gonna becausewe're gonna go on yeah, we could
talk the whole hour about thiswhere I don't want to go I I

(08:03):
just my only thing is I justreally hope this doesn't blow
over like everything else does,because I have lost hope in
there being any consequences.
We're only eight months in, likewe got another three and a half
years of this.
It's we're only.
I can't.
It's like unbelievable thatwe're only eight months in this

(08:25):
much, this much damage?

Speaker 1 (08:27):
yes, and I will tell you, I used um the information
you shared last week in the allday training I was in today for
work um, the first um speakertalked about um suicide
prevention and how to helppeople with that.
So she kept bringing up 988.

(08:48):
So at the end of her spiel Iraised my hand and I was like,
because a lot of us counselorswork with high schoolers, so I
was like, for those of you thatare working with anybody in the
LGBTQ plus community, just knowthat the option is not there on
988 anymore, and some peopleknew, some people were very

(09:08):
shocked.
And I talked about the TrevorProject and somebody else
mentioned that Canada is alsopicking up some of the slack for
us Good for Canada.
God bless Canada, I know.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
I hope they are excited that I'm going to be
moving there.
I'm going to fucking Canada.
I don't care, hey, because Ican't take this goddamn heat.
It's hot, it's just ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
I mean, this is the heat.
The weather here is the reasonyou don't go to Florida in the
winter or in the summer.
This is awful, it's horrible.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
We are in our fifth heat wave and our breaks in heat
waves have been like a day,although this weekend is
supposed to be super nice.
But I just I was telling Nicoleearlier I had sweat dripping in
my eyes and it was burning meso bad I couldn't see.
And it's hard to do your jobwhen you have to read things and

(09:58):
you have sweat dripping in youreyes.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
You need one of those like terrycloth headbands.
I know I have a hat no, not ahat that covers the top of your
head and holds your heat in, Iknow, but it also blocks the sun
out a little bit.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
You need a visor.
I'm never going to wear a visor.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
We've both had the Grim Reaper on it.
Never, I don't care.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
That's never going to happen.
You will never catch me in avisor.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
I can't wear hats because I have a big head, but I
like a visor.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
You can like a visor all you want.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
But that shit is not going on, this noodle.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
All right, get sweating your eyes.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
I would rather be blind than wear a visor.
You could wrap a bandana aroundyour head, I could, but again,
the hat.
I got a floppy hat and itblocks the sun out from my
eyeballs.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Does it have the little ventsin the top?

Speaker 2 (10:46):
Yes, it does.
Oh, okay, it's a North Face andit has vents that you just oh,
and then you could put ice packin it.
I could, probably I didn'tthink of that, freeze your brain
?
Yeah, I don't know.
Today I would have probablydone whatever you wanted me to

(11:09):
do to not be hot anymore.
I would have murdered whoeveryou wanted me to.
I would have murdered for hirefor an ice pack.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
That's all it would have taken earlier today my
kingdom for an ice pack.
I do want to talk about HappyGilmore 2.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
Okay, I watched Happy Gilmore 2.
But she's not going to tell toomuch because I haven't watched
it yet.
I'm not going to say anythingabout it.
And Happy Gilmore 2.
Okay, I watched Happy Gilmore 2.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
But she's not going to tell too much because I
haven't watched it yet.
I'm not going to say anythingabout it and Happy Gilmore is
one of your favorite movies ever.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
right it is hands down one of my favorite movies
of all time.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
So for you to say that the second one was
excellent.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
It was good.
It was everything it was good.
Yeah, it was good, I'll justsay that, but it was.
I was nervous and I had beenhemming and hawing about it and
I ended up watching it Was it.
Last night I watched it.
No, yes.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
I don't know.
No, it wasn't last night itmight have been Sunday.
Saturday or Sunday I watched it.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yeah, it was good, it was good.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
Yeah, my daughter and her husband watched it.
They loved it too.
I know I daughter and herhusband watched it.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
They loved it too I know I'll love it because half
of trey and tav are in there, sooh, trap trap, yes.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Tay and travis, yes.
I'm pretty sure I said thatwrong the first time.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
He is actually pretty funny in it, yeah yeah, with a
bad bunny I've seen little.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
I've been trying to not look at it, but he's been
like blowing up the internetwith pictures of him and Taylor,
so I'm not missing anything heposts these days and there's a
lot of.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
Of course, there's a lot of cameos, because that's
what I'm saying, and AdamSandler puts everybody in every
movie yep um his dog.
Both his daughters are in it,his wife are in it.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
His wife is in it.
I heard he paid tribute toChris Farley and the kid yes.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
And the kid.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah, yep, I can't remember that kid's name, but he
was in a couple's retreat.
Yeah, the one where they all gointo the woods.
Yes, into cabin.
Shit, grownups or somethinglike that yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
, which is one of my favoritemovies.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
I just I don't know how you.
It's not.
It's grown up, adam Sandler.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
Yeah, gotcha, that's not as.
Right, I mean, but my favorite,my favorite, and I will say it
all the time.
I say it all the time.
When I learn to do something,or I've done something well and
nobody thought I could, orwhatever, I always say oh happy,
learn to pot.
That's my go-to.
I say it all the time.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
Don't you see, dion?
He's got cancer.
He had his bladder removed.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
I'm going to keep my opinions to myself on that one.
Okay, you know how, I don'tcare for.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
Oh, I don't care for him either, but it's still
pretty wild, sure, okay, anyway,like share rate review.
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(14:10):
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have to include that.
Um, so let's fuck around andfind out about Arnold
Schwarzenegger.
Arnold, so Arnold's full nameis Arnold Aulosis Schwarzenegger
, and I did look that up andspelled out phonetically for
myself.
Because I was like there's noway I'm getting that right.

(14:54):
It's only five letters, but noway.
He was born July 30th.
Oh, tomorrow's his birthday.
Look at that Coincidence, Ithink not 1947.
Look at that Coincidence, Ithink not 1947,.
He was born in Thal, austria.
He was married to Maria Shriverfrom 1986 to 2021.

(15:15):
He has children named Catherine, christina, patrick,
christopher and Joseph, and hisastrological sign is a Leo.
Good to know.
I leave that in there, becauseall three of my kids are Leos.
Yes, they are.
So growing up with them was, orhaving them grow up was, a lot
sometimes.

(15:35):
Anyway, schwarzenegger'schildhood was far from ideal.
His father, gustav, was analcoholic police chief and
one-time member of the Naziparty, who clearly favored
Arnold's brother, meinhard, overhis gangly, seemingly less
athletic younger son, oops,which sounds crazy.
As an escape, schwarzeneggerturned to the movies, in

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particular those of Reg Park, abodybuilder and star in B-level
Hercules movies.
The films also helped propelSchwarzenegger's own obsession
with America and the future hefelt awaited him there.
Getting to his new country wasthe issue.
Schwarzenegger found his answerin Joe Weider, the man behind

(16:21):
the International Federation ofBodybuilding, an organization
that sponsored contests such asMr Universe and Mr Olympia.
Wider loved Schwarzenegger'sbravado, sense of humor and the
potential he saw in the youngbodybuilder.
Wider's instincts couldn't havebeen more dead on.
In all, schwarzenegger wouldwin an unprecedented five Mr

(16:43):
Universe titles and seven MrOlympia crowns during his
bodybuilding career.
Bodybuilding's never beenanything.
I really I don't get it.
I don't get it.
I just all the way around Idon't get it.
Yeah, and I'm not knockinganybody who does it, but it just
it's perfectly fine, if youlike that.
Yeah, I don't get it.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
It's so much work I don't.
You can't eat anything.
Yeah, yeah, and you have toexercise like all the time.

Speaker 1 (17:11):
I walked once last week and thought I did something
.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
I'm just going to be fat forever.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
Equally significant, schwarzenegger, who immigrated
to the United States in 1968,helped propel the sport into the
mainstream, culminating in the1977 documentary Pumping Iron,
which tells the tale ofSchwarzenegger's defense of his
Mr Olympia crown.
He became a US citizen in 1983.
Schwarzenegger made the moveover to the big screen after a

(17:43):
few small parts.
Schwarzenegger received theGolden Globe Award for Best
Newcomer for his performance inStay Hungry in 1976.
With his immense physicalstrength and size,
schwarzenegger was a natural foraction films.
He became a leading figure inseveral popular 1980s action
movies, includingan thebarbarian in 1982.

(18:06):
Uh its sequel, conan thedestroyer in 1984.
Uh.
Schwarzenegger also starred asa deadly machine in the future
in terminator in 1984 and laterreprised the role for terminator
2, judgment day, in 1991.
I didn't realize they were thatfar apart it is quite a

(18:26):
difference.
Yeah, the Terminator 3, Rise ofthe Machines was in 2003.
Additional action flicks fromthe actor's heyday include
Commando in 1985, Predator in1987, the Running man in 1987,
which is one of my all-timefavorite movies Total Recall in
1990, and True Lies in 1994.

(18:47):
I like True Lies.
That is a very good one too.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
That's the one with Gary Oldman, right?

Speaker 1 (18:53):
Mm-hmm, no offense to Arnold, but I love me some Gary
Oldman.
He also used his oversizedphysique to comedic effects in
Twins twins in 1988, which waswith danny devito, and in
kindergarten cop in 1990 whichwas a super cheesy movie.

(19:17):
But speaking of his acting um,when I think of Arnold and Gen X
, I think of Hans and Franz onSaturday Night Live.
We're here to pump you up Inthe sketch.
Carvey and Nealon play a pair ofmuscle-bound Austrian
bodybuilders in the mold ofArnold Schwarzenegger, using

(19:37):
padding for fake muscles, drabgray sweatsuits, weight belts
and speaking with Austrianaccents.
The background of the setincludes several life-size
cutouts of Schwarzenegger duringhis competition years.
The sketch's introductory andending music featured mock
Austrian yodeling.
Pumping Up primarily consistsof Hans and Franz denigrating

(20:02):
others for not being strong andas physically fit as they appear
to be.
Striking bodybuilders poses toshow off their muscled bodies,
complete with strained facialexpressions.
Schwarzenegger made one guestappearance in the skit, to much
applause, in which he ridiculeshis cousins for being girly and

(20:23):
weak.
Another sketch was done inresponse to recent sports news,
where the Saturday Night Liveeditorial showed Hans and Franz
barking back at a recent remarkby Jimmy the Greek that African
men were more apt to be muscularthan European men.
One sketch that did not havethe pair in their signature

(20:46):
sweatsuits and leather belts wasa halloween episode.
Hans and franz both dressed upas their idol arnold
schwarzenegger, with hans as thetitular character from the
first terminator film and franzas the t-800 from the terminator
2 judgment day.
The two compared how theirTerminators were tougher than

(21:07):
derived their derived othergirly costumes, even a boy who
was Superman.
Rather than hand out high sugarcandy, hans and Fros gave
treats of vitamin C pills,coconut oil and bee pollen to
encourage kids to stay in shape.
That was just absolutely one ofthe best gets ever.

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All right, so now a little bitabout his personal life,
specifically Maria Shriver.
Off screen, schwarzeneggercontinued his remarkable story
marrying into the Kennedy familyin 1986 by tying the knot with
Maria Owings Shriver, daughterof Eunice Kennedy Shriver, and

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her husband R Sergeant Shriver.
According to People, a mutualfriend introduced the two at a
tennis tournament in 1977.
They began dating shortly afterand Schwarzenegger proposed
eight years into theirrelationship.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
Have you ever heard?
As an aside, do you know?
I mean, we all know the Kennedycurse, but did you know that
there is a Kennedy who had alobotomy and it went horribly
bad?

Speaker 1 (22:19):
Rose Kennedy Rose.
Yeah, that's so sad.

Speaker 2 (22:21):
Yeah, that's so sad.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
And she just had mental health issues she should
have never had it.
No because she was basically avegetable.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
Well, because what happened was is they didn't want
her.
From what I remember about thewhat I was watching she when she
was being born.
They didn't want her born, sothey tried to keep her in.
Yeah did.

Speaker 1 (22:44):
She think she's staying there forever pushing
her back in.
So she, because they didn't,they were waiting for somebody
to get there.

Speaker 2 (22:51):
One of the kennedys, yeah, so yeah, she lost oxygen
and she was like half in andhalf out and then, yeah, that's
what happened to her and thenshe had yeah yeah, and then
nobody ever came to.
Yeah, they just shoved her in amental institution.
She's a very, very sad story.
It is really sad.
You should look it up sometime.
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
In May 2011,.
The couple announced theirdecision to separate after
Schwarzenegger's acknowledgementthat he fathered a son, joseph
Boehner, with Mildred Boehner amember of the family's household
staff.
Schwarzenegger and Shriverfinalized their divorce in 2021.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
I can't believe, it's only that, that it was only
that long ago.
Yeah, four years ago.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
I know it's really weird.
Yeah, and I think that son hehad out of wedlock.
Is he the actor?
No, that's PatrickSchwarzenegger.
That was in White Lotus.
No idea, yeah, he's an actor.
He's actually handsome, allright.
So there was a time that ArnoldSchwarzenegger was the governor

(23:59):
of California.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
Oh, I didn't know that.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
Now you do.
I didn't know that.
I know you did.
In 2003, schwarzenegger threwhis hat into the ring for the
California governor's race andwon a seat in a special election
.
In a state that was mired insevere budget woes, the newly
elected Republican governorpromised to bring economic
stability to his adopted state.

(24:23):
As expected, schwarzeneggerbrought his own unique brand of
confidence to his new job.
If they don't have the guts, Icall them girly men.
I know I didn't even feel rightputting in here that he kept
calling everybody girly, becausewhat's wrong with being a girl,
but that's how he talked backthen, um, and probably still

(24:47):
does, but anyway, uh, he said ofdemocrats say it to my face
bitch, yeah, bitch, you want tosee girly yeah, I got you girly
right here.
that's right.
Uh, he said of democrats earlyin his first term they should go
back to the table and fix thebudget, which is so funny to me

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because we're always financiallybetter when we have Democrats
in power.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
Yeah, yes, you know why?
Because they tax everybody,because we have more money
coming in than going out which Idon't know.
If you're aware of this, that'show businesses run well.
The whole point is to have morecoming in and going out.
Yes, yes, okay, thanks forclearing that up, no problem.

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Economics 101.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
In addition to focusing on the state's
financial situation, governorSchwarzenegger worked to promote
new businesses and protect theenvironment.
In 2006, he easily won his bidfor reelection.
Throughout his political career, schwarzenegger credited former
US President Ronald Reagan as apersonal inspiration, which is
not shocking, since theybasically took the same path.

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Remembering his early years inthe United states,
schwarzenegger once said Ibecame a citizen of the united
states when reagan was president, and he is the first president
I voted for as an americancitizen.
He inspired me and made me evenprouder to be a new american.
I guess, yeah, I mean yeah,somebody's gotta like him.

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True story.
His second term in office didnot run as smoothly, however, as
Schwarzenegger struggled tohelp the state through difficult
financial times because hescrewed up the economy in his
first term.

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After leaving office in January2011, he sought to revive his
career in the entertainmentindustry.
In March of that year,schwarzenegger announced plans
to work with famed comic bookcreator Stan Lee on a new
animated series inspired by histime in office.
Now, I am a huge Stan Lee fanand I had no idea what they were
talking about when I read that,so I was like I need to do some

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more research on this.
So out of the Stan LeeSchwarzenegger collab came
Superhero Kindergarten.
One of Stan Lee's finalcreations was an animated
superhero show for kids.
The show Stan Lee's SuperheroKindergarten stars Arnold
Schwarzenegger as ArnoldArmstrong, aka Captain Fantastic

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, a former superhero who losthis powers after a showdown with
the evil Doctor Superior.
The pair's battle caused sixnearby babies to be affected by
residual superpowers and fiveyears later, arnold is tasked
with being their kindergartenteacher and superhero mentor.
Five years later, arnold istasked with being their
kindergarten teacher andsuperhero mentor.
The show is filled withArnold-specific jokes for adults

(27:48):
, like announcing I'll be Buck,which comes with a wink at the
camera, animated Stanley cameosand references to both Marvel
and DC superheroes, such asCaptain America and Shazam.
So basically, it's the perfectshow for superhero-loving
parents and their kids to enjoytogether.

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Yeah, had you ever heard ofthat?
I've never heard of it, yeah meneither, and it's on a channel.
The only place you can see itis with a K cartoon with an
explanation point.
So I'm thinking that must beforeign, probably Because I've
never heard of that.
Yeah, I'm thinking that must beforeign, probably Because I've
never heard of that.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
Yeah, I'm not a superhero.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
Yeah, I like superheroes and I like Stan Lee
and I can't believe I just nevereven heard of it.
But anyway, schwarzenegger madeheadlines again later in 2012
when he admitted for the firsttime to having an affair with
his Red Sonya co-star, bridgetNielsen, in the mid-1980s, while

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he was dating and living withMaria Shriver.
Nielsen had written about theadulterous relationship in her
2011 memoir you Only Get OneLife, but Schwarzenegger didn't
publicly confirm Nielsen'saccount until the fall of 2012,
when his memoir Total Recall waspublished.

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So that got me thinking.
Well, that's around the timeshe was with Stallone.
So was she bangingSchwarzenegger and Stallone at
the same time?
I have no doubt, so I went anddid some research.
Bridget Nielsen was 21 at thetime and married to husband

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Casper, with a baby son namedJulian, and she says she knew
her marriage was over already,but her affair with
Schwarzenegger meant there wasno going back.
The blonde beauty became aregular in the headlines in 1985
when, after Red Sonja came out,she began dating Sylvester
Stallone.

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The couple married withinmonths and appeared in two films
, rocky IV and Cobra, beforedivorcing in 1987.
In her book, bridget describesher brazen approach to meeting
the actor, who she describes asthe sexiest, most delicious man
I'd ever seen.

Speaker 2 (30:15):
Okay, bridget, let's calm down, Get down a notch.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
Yeah, I mean, of course I love Sylvester Stallone
and of course I have a crush onhim, but the most delicious man
I've ever seen.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
No, no, oh, speaking of the most delicious man I've
ever seen, did you see thatAlice Cooper and Johnny Depp did
a tribute to Ozzy?

Speaker 1 (30:46):
No yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:49):
At Alice Cooper's show, johnny Depp came out and
they did Crazy Train.
I'm pretty sure it was CrazyTrain.
Maybe it wasn't Crazy Train, Idon't know, because I was just.
I could only pay attention toJohnny.
It's only one thing I can do.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
So now it's time for fun facts, fun facts.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
We need to get a thing for that.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
Fun facts we do Before, just fun facts becomes
what it is.

Speaker 2 (31:24):
That's lame.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
It is, although we're pretty lame.
So true story.
It was actually kind of hard tofind fun facts on Arnold
Schwarzenegger.
I had to read a lot of lists oflike.
I had to actually type in likehilarious things about
Schwarzenegger because the firstcouple are just kind of sad and
depressing.
Well, the first one's okay, butanyway, when Schwarzenegger was

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only 21 years old he wasworking in Hollywood and had
several bodybuilding awards, buthe was already a pretty
successful businessman.
In 1968, he opened abricklaying business alongside
fellow bodybuilder FrancoColombo.
The business took off for tworeasons the pair had excellent
marketing skills, which helpedto boost sales, and the

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devastating 1971 San Fernandoearthquake made their particular
kind of business one that wassuddenly in demand.
The pair made over a milliondollars.
I did not know that that is afun fact.
Yeah, and I'll bet you thatthere is a third reason they
were successful because thesetwo buff-ass guys showed up
shirtless in your yard.
I bet a lot of women hired them.

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That's true, that's very true.
Yeah, not my thing, but a lotof people like it.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
I think there's a moving company that does that
Shirtless yes Do you remember,back in the day there were
topless maids yes, I do rememberthat I didn't have one, but yes
, and.
I never did it, I don't like toclean that much, so that
already put me out it wasn'tabout being shirtless.
I don't care about it, I don'thave no boobs anyway, that's not

(33:04):
a big deal.
But I don't want to clean.
I want to clean my own house.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
Yeah, I mean, I bet that's still a thing, but it's
probably very low key now, Ithink, so, yeah, probably more
of a prostitution kind of thing,or you have to have, probably a
lot of money to have a toplessmaid.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
Yes, and topless maid probably has two other things
besides clean the house.
Yeah, if you people would likeand share and everything, and we
got famous.

Speaker 1 (33:37):
then we could find out for you how much topless
maids cost Although are theycalled maids anymore?
Is there more politicallycorrect?

Speaker 2 (33:42):
Housekeeper, housekeeper or cleaning lady,
because there was that showcalled the Cleaning Lady, yeah,
so I'm not sure what the properterminology is.
What's politically?

Speaker 1 (33:46):
correct.
I'm not sure what the properterminology is.
What's politically?

Speaker 2 (33:48):
correct?
I'm not sure.
I'm pretty sure it's not maids.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
I'm pretty sure it's not either because I think in
hotels it's housekeeping andthen I think it's like cleaning
ladies or cleaning crew, orbecause I feel like I know that
they have like a domesticservant.
That sounds awful yeah, thatsounds, that sounds like slavery
.
Yes, yeah, I'm sure I think itpretty much is probably um in
the 1970s, a little show hit theairwaves called the incredible

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hawk, and it boosted lou farignointo superstardom.
While farigno may have won thepart in the end, he had some
tough competition.
Schwarzenegger was up for therole when he was just trying to
get his career as an actor going.
He ended up losing the role toferragno largely because of his
height.
Schwarzenegger isn't a shortman by any means, as he stands

(34:37):
at six foot two, but that wasn'ttall enough for the producers
of the show.
Ferragno stands three inchestaller than schwarzenger.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
I did not know how tall Lou Ferrigno was.

Speaker 1 (34:47):
I didn't either, and I didn't think he was that tall,
because they make him just lookaverage when he's just a guy,
and I always just assumed.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
Because he was on.
What show was he on in like the90s?

Speaker 1 (35:01):
Was it?
It was, it was the King ofQueens, king of Queens, yep.

Speaker 2 (35:06):
And Was it?
It was King of Queens and hewas Lou Ferrigno on that show.
That was one of my favoriteshows.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
I love Lou Ferrigno.
I love the King of Queens.
He's deaf, he is.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
Good times.

Speaker 1 (35:20):
Just like Jenny in Hearts of Glass.
Yes, good callback.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
By author.
Good callback, good job.
Packering, that's a good one,that's good, nice Thanks.
I love the Incredible Hulk andI can honestly say that here in
the last six months or so I feellike the Incredible Hulk
Because I feel it physicallychanging into a Hulk.

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I haven't turned green yet, butwe're getting there, it's
coming, it is coming.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
Well, you're tan, which is very weird for you, I
know Maybe that's your green andon my way here.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
oh my God, I was like I was so close.
It was awful.
The trip here oh my God, I waslike I was so close, it was
awful.
The trip here not good.
The road rage was out ofcontrol.
Because I'm not allowed to haveroad rage in my job?
No, I can't.
You absolutely cannot, andpeople are such assholes they
will cut you off, they give youthe finger.

(36:22):
Look bro, I'm in the mostrecognizable vehicle besides UPS
and FedEx and Amazon, and youdon't know what I'm doing here
Exactly Like you know where I'mgoing and if you pay attention
you can see the next mailbox, soyou know, probably going to go
there.
And you're doing a whole likefive miles an hour Exactly so,

(36:46):
precious so when I get in my owncar I'm like, oh, I hate all of
you, yeah.

Speaker 1 (36:50):
And then you can't road rage in that, because then
you'll lose your license andthen you can't do your job.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
I never thought of that.
That's what I'm here for, butthen I could go to jail.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
Oh I know, three hots and a cot.
I love that idea.
They don't even make you gooutside that much.

Speaker 2 (37:07):
I know I'm going to put on death row.
Do we have death row anymorehere?

Speaker 1 (37:14):
I think we have death row, but not the death penalty
yeah.
I want the death penalty.
You got to go to like Texas orFlorida, for that, especially
Texas.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
It's really hot there , though, like all the time it's
really hot here, I know, butnot all the time.
True, but you'll be in jail.

Speaker 1 (37:31):
Do they have air conditioning?
Probably, probably, yeah, I betthey do.
We'll find out, all right.
Next fun fact that was not fun,but crazy, just crazy.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's parentsthought he was gay when he was
a young man.
This wasn't something that wasas accepted back then as it is

(37:54):
now.
Not that a lot of kids have agood time with it now and they
would beat him for it.
The reason they believe thathad to do with the posters he
put all over his room, wantingto become a bodybuilder himself.
He put up posters of other menwho competed in the sport, like
how fucking dumb were hisparents seriously I mean, and

(38:16):
didn't you say his dad was analcoholic cop?

Speaker 2 (38:19):
yeah, I mean that.
There you have it.

Speaker 1 (38:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But maybe ask your kid, whilehe has all his pictures up, and
he'd be like I want to be abodybuilder.
Oh, okay, you know, rather thanbeat the shit out of him all
the time, but what do I know?
Anyway, seeing this, hisparents assumed he was attracted
to men, since other boys hisage put up posters of women, so
so they beat him.
The actor who once portrayed adangerous cyborg spoke about the

(38:48):
issue in an interview with 60Minutes, when he mentioned that
his father ran after me with abelt and beat me, which he
expanded on with his thoughts ofhis mother's approach.
I don't know if mom thought Iwas gay or if she just thought
there was something off andlet's catch it early.
She asked the doctor, can youhelp me?
I don't know, thought there wassomething off and let's catch
it early.
She asked the doctor, can youhelp me?
I don't know if there'ssomething wrong with my son,

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because his wall is full ofnaked men.
All of Arnold's friends havepictures of girls above their
bed and Arnold has no girls.
So for those of you who arelike why do gay kids struggle,
there's a little glimpse, yeah.

Speaker 2 (39:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (39:29):
So yeah, that was.
That was kind of actually mademe feel really sad for him
because he wasn't even gay, butyeah, I don't know.
All right, before finding Nextfact Before finding success in
film, schwarzenegger was able toscore some work on television
in 1973, the year I was born.
The Oak appeared, by the way,the Oak was his nickname back in

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the day.
That was in some of the stuff Iread, but I didn't include it
anywhere.
The Oak appeared as acontestant on the new dating
game where men and women aretasked with choosing a
prospective partner from behinda partition.
Schwarzenegger was a tadsoft-spoken, referring to each
contestant as girl, and yet hetried very much to play into the

(40:18):
game.
Responding with that soundssexy when one contestant
suggested they should go toVenus Sounds cold or hot.
It's very hot.
Sounds like there's very littleoxygen there.

Speaker 2 (40:31):
Probably wouldn't be so sexy.
Does not sound like a good time.

Speaker 1 (40:33):
Doesn't sound sexy, for sure, unless you're into
that kind of thing.

Speaker 2 (40:37):
There's no kink shaming here.
We listen and we don't judge.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
We don't.
But when the actor was readingoff the card and asked his
questions, the audience wouldcrack up.
What does it mean, hanky panky,he asked.
When she told him it was likeplaying around, all he could say
was playing around with whatSee?
Language barriers are so cutesometimes.
Yeah, all he could say wasplaying around with what See?
Language barriers are so cutesometimes.

Speaker 2 (41:05):
Yeah, poor Arnold.

Speaker 1 (41:10):
I wonder what he called Hanky Panky, because I'm
sure he was doing that, Althoughhe was very intensely into his,
and he was on steroids which.

Speaker 2 (41:24):
Was he actually on steroids, or we don't know, or
we're just assuming.
I think it's safe to assume, Imean probably Especially if he
was a puny kid, yeah, probably.
But anyway, more importantly, Ithink that they try and keep
their.
They keep it tight, yeah, likeit's a discipline.

Speaker 1 (41:40):
Right, I don't think they have time.
No, outside distractions yeah,I don't think they have time for
that, right, nonsense.

Speaker 2 (41:45):
Yeah, nobody got time for that.

Speaker 1 (41:49):
So that's all I have today for Arnold, but we did
want to save a little time atthe end here, because Gen X had
a bit of a rough week and we gotto touch on it last week, but
we had our special guest and wereally, really wanted to talk to
him, so we want to just paytribute to what's happened this

(42:10):
past week.

Speaker 2 (42:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:14):
So, Ozzy.

Speaker 2 (42:16):
You know Well.
Malcolm Jamal Warner first Wasa I mean, I guess we all
probably knew Ozzy was coming.
And then you know the Hulksterwhich I did see someone say,
terry Baleo, who what is hisactual name?
Is a horrible, racist jackassof a human being.

(42:37):
He is but Hulk Hogan.
Correct Is not jackass of ahuman being, he is but hulk
hogan correct, is not.

Speaker 1 (42:42):
That's the tough part with all this because, as gen x
, hulk hogan's amazing.
Like the character hulk hogan,I mean, he was just
revolutionary and my dad wasreally into pro wrestling.
It's something that we bondedover.
I knew everybody.
Randy, macho, man, savage andelizabeth were my absolute

(43:04):
favorites.

Speaker 2 (43:05):
Um yeah, and then just the whole hawk mania was
just a sensation well, we usedto have um captain lou albano
used to eat in our restaurantall the time because he had a
house in bethany, that's right,I remember.

Speaker 1 (43:19):
But yes, we can't say all that without saying he was
a huge Trump supporter.

Speaker 2 (43:25):
And a big racist.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
Very racist.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
I mean, he's from Florida, it's not like it's a
big surprise.

Speaker 1 (43:31):
Right.
But I mean you're growing uparound athletes and the public.
You would think that would makeyou less racist, but I guess
everybody's different depends.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
I don't know I just feel like sometimes it's hard
you have to separate the art,like that's where we struggle
separating the art from theartist, so separating call cogan
from terry and, like when wewere talking about before,
separating mar Manson fromwhatever his dumbass name is.
I know it, brian something, butI can't remember it right off

(44:05):
the hook and I think that's partof the problem is you have to
like deal with separating theart from the act.
Like how do I enjoy MarilynManson and still know that he's
an asshole and did terriblethings?

Speaker 1 (44:21):
Yeah, it's really, really tough having to come to
grips with that, but I take apretty hard stand on things, no
matter what I think of you.
Once I find out you're a badperson, I'm pretty much done,
but I'm a very cut and dry likeBlack and white.
Yeah, I mean when Targetdropped DEI, I don't care if I

(44:43):
did a car side pickup once aweek.
Boom, that was it Done.
I will shop somewhere else.
It's funny.
Today I was talking to someoneduring our all day training.
She's very bent out of shapeabout her all day training it's
just such a long day and I don'tlike sitting for that long,
like my back starts to hurt andit's just so.

(45:06):
Then I have to get pretend likeI have to go pee for the 57th
time just so I can get up andwalk around.
But try not to yawn, try not toclose your eyes Like it's.
It's very hard, but my friend Iwas.
I was saying that somethingabout McDonald's had dropped DEI
.
She's like you know what was myhardest?
And at the same time we saidTarget.
She's like, yeah, I can't gothere anymore, but ugh.

Speaker 2 (45:29):
I don't know if I could drop.

Speaker 1 (45:30):
McDonald's?
I wouldn't expect you to.
I mean, mcdonald's is one ofthe like five foods that you eat
.

Speaker 2 (45:38):
McDonald's has become part of my soul and yes, yes,
and it is your absolute favorite.
Plus, I'm not telling otherpeople to do with it yeah, you
know that's, that's just me umwell, I mean going back to deon
sanders because I hate him somuch.
Right, I will not go to jiffylube ever, ever again.
And I have never stepped footin a pizza hut okay since he did

(45:59):
.
I won't, I just won't do it.
I hate him Because he was thereason that Eagles fans ended up
all over freaking ESPN over theMichael Irvin.
It wasn't because he broke hisback, it was because Dion was on
the sidelines acting like ajackass.

(46:19):
How do I know this, you ask?
Because I was on the sidelinesacting like a jackass.
How do I know this?
You?
asked because I was at the gameand I saw what happened and he
eyewitness account yeah, ahundred percent.
He was being a jackass on thesidelines and getting the crowd
fired up on the other side ofthe field yeah, where.

(46:40):
And so those people, because itwas at the vet, could not see
clear across the vet A, becausethe vet was a terrible venue.

Speaker 1 (46:49):
It wasn't, I loved it .

Speaker 2 (46:50):
And B, because they didn't know what was going on.
They cut all the cameras andstuff and all you could see was
him laying on the field, and ofcourse you know he's a cowboy
and it was him laying on thefield and of course you know
he's a cowboy and it was takinglonger.
So that's fucking Dion was overthere, yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:06):
I can't stand him either, and it breaks my heart
what he's turned this poor kidinto, because that kid has
talent and he's never going toget anywhere.

Speaker 2 (47:13):
Because Dion's a jackass.

Speaker 1 (47:15):
Yeah, because he's exactly like his father and
that's not going to fly in theNFL.

Speaker 2 (47:19):
I, because he's exactly like his father and
that's not going to fly in theNFL.
I'm sorry.
I mean, I get it.
I don't have to go to Pizza Hutanymore and it was really not
that hard of a struggle to stayaway from Pizza Hut.

Speaker 1 (47:27):
Did you see that Jalen Hurts actually did a
commercial?

Speaker 2 (47:30):
No.

Speaker 1 (47:31):
Sprite and it's actually kind of cute yeah.

Speaker 2 (47:40):
They were talking on Philly News about how weird it
is because he just does, he'sall business.
But it's actually a really cutecommercial.
Can we talk about the ring fora sec?
Oh yes, oh boy, that is a ring.

Speaker 1 (47:53):
Stunner, stunner, like for them to get that much
information on one.
I say little ring.
It's a huge ring, but it'sstill just a ring.
I mean the flag of Brazil is onthe inside of it.

Speaker 2 (48:06):
I was there by the way, 145 diamonds for the points
in the playoffs, two Lombarditrophies.
The wings pop out.
Shut your mouth.
I know I want one, I do too,but I don't think I mean I, you
can probably get it, I don'tknow.

(48:28):
I wonder if they make ones thatthe wings pop out like the
knockoffs.
I'm sure they do, but theybreak probably really easy.
But yeah, I don't know.
That ring is ringing it'sawesome, it is it's a nice ring.
I mean it's a little mig for me.

Speaker 1 (48:42):
It's funny because all the haters wanted to be like
it's gaudy.
They're supposed to be gaudy,they're all gaudy.

Speaker 2 (48:48):
They're all literally gaudy.

Speaker 1 (48:52):
It's like a mini trophy you can wear on your hand
.
It is a trophy that you wear onyour hand, yeah, 100 100%.

Speaker 2 (48:59):
It's gorgeous it is something I do, prefer the first
one over the second one mostlyI think probably because it's
just the first one and it hasthe Philly Philly on it and I
don't know, and it has the nameright, All the names of the
participants in the PhillyPhilly.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
And that one has the stadium on the inside of it
right.
Yes, on the side of it.
On the side, I thought itopened.
No, it doesn't open.

Speaker 2 (49:23):
Maybe that was some other the inside has the Philly,
philly lineup or that playdrawn.
Okay, and then I can't rememberit now and then.

Speaker 1 (49:34):
I mean like pop open top.
No, I don't think it pops open.
Okay, I don't think it popsopen?

Speaker 2 (49:38):
I don't think it.
No, it doesn't pop open.
Okay, because this ring is thefirst one that has like a
working part to it.

Speaker 1 (49:44):
Oh, yeah, this is the first of the.

Speaker 2 (49:51):
And I love the video of them all opening their boxes
at the same time and they had iton a little turntable inside
the box and everybody's likewhat it was so fun.

Speaker 1 (49:57):
I can't wait to win the Super Bowl again this year,
although we lost a lot ofdefensive players.
I'm so sad that Slay all day isgone.
The offense stayed about thesame, but we lost a lot of our
defense, and defense wins,championships, defense wins
championships, oh, you know what?

Speaker 2 (50:19):
No, I don't want to talk about Ray Lewis.

Speaker 1 (50:20):
I'm not going to talk about Ray Lewis.

Speaker 2 (50:22):
Okay, I'm not going to talk about Ray Lewis, I'm not
a fan.
But back to Ozzy.
Can we go back to Ozzy, pleasedo?
Because I don't want to talkabout.
I mean Hulk Hogan.
I did, I was, I saw Hulk.

Speaker 1 (50:33):
Hogan, I met Ric Flair, did you?

Speaker 2 (50:36):
I did See, I wasn't, I wasn't, I wasn't because he
was in the other one.
It was the wwf, and then theyhad to change the wwe and then
they both merged together, butwhat was?
He in.

Speaker 1 (50:46):
He was in the other one that wasn't the wwf rick
flair yeah, I can't rememberwhat it was shit I don't know
but when I worked, um, when Iused to work the skyboxes for
the NASCAR race at the casino, Iworked a box that was called

(51:06):
Velocity and the people whobought tickets for there were
like diehard NASCAR fans.
It was a very nice box.
They had their own bar.
I was the bartender, we servedfood.
I was the bartender, we servedfood, but one of the it was very
.
I think it was like $6,000 or$8,000 for the weekend to just
to get to sit in that box.
That didn't include everythingelse, but part of the perks were

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drivers would come in pit,crews would come in celebrities
and the one race, ric Flair, wasthe.
What's the word?
Mc?

Speaker 2 (51:42):
No, I don't know anything about.

Speaker 1 (51:43):
NASCAR, it's called all right.
So he was the Grand MarshalGrand.

Speaker 2 (51:48):
Marshal, which is Not Grandmaster.
Flash no In the break area.

Speaker 1 (51:54):
That's typically where they have a celebrity, or
I don't know.
I don't know whether it'salways a celebrity, but,
gentlemen, start your engines.
Well, I guess they don't do,gentlemen, anymore, because
there are female racers here andthere.
There's a new one, actually NotDanica Patrick, Not Danica.
She's European, but now she'sin NASCAR, anyway.

Speaker 2 (52:17):
I can't watch NASCAR.

Speaker 1 (52:18):
I'm sorry, I can't I can't do it am not a nascar fan,
but I know more about nascarthan you ever wanted probably 90
of nascar fans because, nodoubt I was in that skybox and I
listened to drivers and I didlearn some cool things, like the
they have spotters that sit onthe roof of the skyboxes and

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that's how the drivers they'retheir eyes.
They can't see anything inthose cars, like there's no
mirrors.
There's.
They have no idea what's goingon.
So they have a crew of like Ithink five or six guys that sit
on lawn chairs with binocularsand watch the cars go round and
round and round and they talk ontheir headset to the driver and
let them know what's happening.

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Yeah, it sounds horrible.
That's the worst job ever.
Yeah, but, um, and then theirdicks about it.
Like if the driver pisses themoff, they'll turn off their
radios and we'll give them anyinformation, which is super safe
and smart, but that's what theysaid.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
But anyway, um, I mean to be fair, NASCAR doesn't
seem very safe.
No Nor smart, no.

Speaker 1 (53:25):
So yeah, ric Flair was the Grand Marshal that year,
so he and LeBond he was withcame into our skybox and I got
his autograph for a friend ofours who was like super duper
wrestling fan.

Speaker 2 (53:45):
But yeah, it was pretty neat.
I mean, I used to be a, reallybecause I was a tomboy.
I know we're all shocked andsurprised.
Um, I used to be a very bigtomboy and when we stopped
living in a van which you canfind more about if you listen to
dragon's dream when we stoppedliving in a van, I had a friend
that lived down the street andhe was a boy and we watched

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wrestling on sundays every weekand I had posters all over my
walls of jimmy superfly, snookerand rowdy, rowdy piper and
andre the giant and and Andrethe Giant and the Sheik and the
Junkyard Dog, oh, yeah, yeah.

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And the Bushwhackers, wow, oh,I know them all.
I was in it to win it.
I have been to several WWFmatches.

Speaker 1 (54:38):
When it was.

Speaker 2 (54:38):
WWF.
When I got older, I didn'tanymore.

Speaker 1 (54:43):
I just had teen beat headshots all over my walls.

Speaker 2 (54:46):
I had the, who was the one with the Rowdy Rowdy
Piper, I think, is the one thathad no, no, jake the Snake.
Jake the Snake had the snake,of course, macho.

Speaker 1 (55:00):
Man.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
Macho man and Elizabeth?
Yes, of course Macho man and.

Speaker 1 (55:01):
Elizabeth.
Yes, of course.

Speaker 2 (55:04):
And then they had a cartoon that came on Saturday
mornings.

Speaker 1 (55:09):
Sounds familiar, yeah .

Speaker 2 (55:10):
And they had Cindy Lauper was on that with Captain
Lou and they lived in a house,yep.
And they fought crime orsomething I don't know actually
what they did, but I don'tremember that much of it.
I do remember Cyndi Lauper wason it and they had a cartoon.
I think it was kind ofA-team-ish yeah.
But yeah, I was a huge, but Inever liked Hulk Hogan, never.

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You're like a?

Speaker 1 (55:37):
dog that can sense a bad person Never.

Speaker 2 (55:40):
I was never a Hulkamani never.
I was never a Hulkamaniac.
I was never a Hulkamaniac.
I always liked the Well.
Roddy Piper went bad for alittle while.

Speaker 1 (55:50):
He did?

Speaker 2 (55:50):
He wore the black leather jacket.

Speaker 1 (55:52):
And he was such a jerk when he was bad.

Speaker 2 (55:54):
Yeah, I mean obviously later on it was the
Undertaker, because like yeah,he's my speed.

Speaker 1 (56:02):
He's later on.
It was the.

Speaker 2 (56:02):
Undertaker because like, yeah, he's my speed, he's
like still wrestling.
No, he did end up retiring whatlike a year ago.
Yeah, it's not been that long,but yeah, because I was going to
say.

Speaker 1 (56:08):
I saw Wrestlemania not that long ago and he was
still, and it's so sad to watchlike he can barely move yeah,
all of them, it is really sadall of them.

Speaker 2 (56:17):
It's awful to watch they do put themselves through a
lot for our entertainment.
But yeah, I was a huge, huge,huge, huge Junkyard Dog used to
wear a collar.
The Sheik wore his, and then,oh, was it Paul DiBiase?

(56:41):
Yes, that was, he was a.

Speaker 1 (56:45):
Mr Wonderful.

Speaker 2 (56:46):
Mr Wonderful, wasn't he, mr Wonderful?

Speaker 1 (56:47):
Yes, and then?

Speaker 2 (56:48):
oh, who was the?
We should not talk about him.

Speaker 1 (56:50):
Yeah, you want to talk about Ozzy.

Speaker 2 (56:52):
We'll just do a whole episode on WrestleMania, on WWF
, mm-hmm, yeah, ozzy, back toOzzy Osbourne.
I did say it.
I think in whatever episode Isaid it in, after I watched that
you knew it was over.
And my mom coming home, he toldus all it was over.

Speaker 1 (57:16):
So have, they said, cause of death?
Yet no, do you think it wasassisted?

Speaker 2 (57:20):
suicide, yeah, and I think they just probably won't,
or they'll just say naturalcauses.

Speaker 1 (57:25):
Yeah, because he was apparently very medicated.
It sounds like he was probablyin hospice care.
Yes, because he came off of allthat medication so he could be
coherent and be in the momentfor the concerts that he did.
So that definitely sounds like.

Speaker 2 (57:43):
I mean, I think we all know who was king of hospice
Jimmy Carter, because every somany episodes we have to bring
Jimmy Carter back.
Yeah, but I think, ozzy, Ithink it was probably.

Speaker 1 (57:58):
As it should be.

Speaker 2 (57:58):
Yeah, it went out on his terms.
I don't see anything wrong withit terms.
I don't see anything wrong withit.
I don't see.

Speaker 1 (58:03):
I think it is far less humane to force someone to
stay alive in pain, with theirfamily having to see them like
that, not being able to go tothe restroom by themselves, like
we give that dignity to ourpets, correct?

Speaker 2 (58:23):
why, would you not want to give that dignity to one
of your family members?
Yes, it makes no sense to me atall.

Speaker 1 (58:30):
No, because those people are ready to go, like if
they're, there's always hope andthere's always miracles that
happen, not the Jesus kind ofmiracles, but there are things
that happen that you didn'texpect.
But people know that and ifthey choose that that's what
they want to do, then theyshould be allowed to do it To be

(58:50):
honest, it's a miracle Ozziemade at the 76.

Speaker 2 (58:53):
Yeah, with the amount of drugs he did and alcohol he
consumed, his lifestyle, and youknow, and there's some great
memes about keith richards who'sjust like in another one, down
like keith is just never gonnadie.

Speaker 1 (59:10):
No, keith richard, how that man I swear those rock
stars from that era, mick jagger, um, um, uh, steven tyler, the
drugs and alcohol must havepickled them like like you
pickle vegetables because whyaren't they dead?

Speaker 2 (59:28):
why aren't they dead it?

Speaker 1 (59:30):
makes no sense.
You are not wrong, so there issomething to it.
I don't advise.
I don't advise people.
Well, the drugs were probably.
I don't advise people to try it.
Well, the drugs were probablyCleaner, cleaner.

Speaker 2 (59:42):
More pure, there's probably not a whole lot of crap
.

Speaker 1 (59:46):
But a lot of booze too, and booze has always been
bad for you.

Speaker 2 (59:49):
Good point.
Yeah, yeah, booze are booze.

Speaker 1 (59:52):
Yeah, how are their livers still working?

Speaker 2 (59:55):
You know, I don't know, maybe they just steal the
livers of other people.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:00:03):
Well, there is a black market for organs.

Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
So maybe that's the people that are buying them.
I did hear about the blackmarket, for I don't know if you
know this, but and I'm not goingto say who told me, but you
know who posted it on Facebook.
There is apparently Obama isthe ringleader of not only a sex
trafficking ring, but also notonly did they traffic young

(01:00:28):
children pedophile traffickingbut they also trafficked organs.

Speaker 1 (01:00:34):
Oh, he's a busy man.

Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
They are also lasering land from out of space.

Speaker 1 (01:00:42):
I don't even know what that means.

Speaker 2 (01:00:44):
I wasn't sure either.

Speaker 1 (01:00:47):
And I didn't ask because, like some of the shit
people post is like and it's notlike I don't.
I avoid all news.
I try to find the most neutralnews that I can find.
I feel like the 630 eveningnews on a network.

Speaker 2 (01:01:05):
Apparently that was on local news.
According to the post that Iread, this person was watching
the local news and apparently itis only happening in Hawaii and
Maryland.

Speaker 1 (01:01:23):
Oh, Maryland is so close to us.
Yeah, all right.
By local news do they meanTruth, social?

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
No, On their phone they were watching the local
news.
So what were they?
I?

Speaker 1 (01:01:37):
have no idea news.
So what were they lasering?
I have no idea.

Speaker 2 (01:01:39):
I have no idea because I thought to myself I
just cannot see WBOC puttingthat on the news.

Speaker 1 (01:01:49):
Even if it was real.

Speaker 2 (01:01:51):
First of all, I feel like WBOC is more.

Speaker 1 (01:01:56):
Now, if they lasered a chicken house in Sussex County
, boc might cover that.
Oh yeah 100%.

Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
They'd be like whoa, did you see?
The chicken house got lasered.

Speaker 1 (01:02:08):
Exactly how did that happen?
That would be big news.

Speaker 2 (01:02:11):
But they also and here's my other thing about the
cloud seeding, because that was.
I shouldn't stop this wholething right now.
Not that anybody who knows thisperson listens, thankfully.
Oh there might be one, butwhatever, apparently the cloud

(01:02:31):
seeding is what happened inTexas.
Now here is my question aboutthe cloud seeding, because if
you can cause floods in Texas,all right wait.

Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
Can you explain what cloud seeding is they dump?

Speaker 2 (01:02:45):
some kind of chemical in the clouds to make it rain.
I know what you're going tothink.
I know what you're thinkingBecause that's my issue.

Speaker 1 (01:02:55):
Is somebody up there with like a seed spreader?

Speaker 2 (01:02:57):
It's a plane.

Speaker 1 (01:02:58):
That they're pushing and it's making little cloud
seeds.

Speaker 2 (01:03:00):
It's a plane and they dump some kind of chemical that
makes it rain?

Speaker 1 (01:03:05):
Is that the laser thing too?
Because I know that the endtrails are.

Speaker 2 (01:03:10):
I think it has something.
It might have something.
I don't know what the trailshave to do with.
Okay, I think that's justpoison.
Okay, not really up on my crazyconspiracies, I shouldn't be.

Speaker 1 (01:03:23):
But it just aggrav poison.
Okay, I'm not really up on mycrazy conspiracies.
I shouldn't be, but you can'tkeep up anymore, you really.
I mean, there's more conspiracytheories than there is reality.

Speaker 2 (01:03:27):
But here's my thing about that conspiracy.
So if you spent all this moneyor whatever I'm not, I don't
even know who does it but if youdid all this work to just dump
this on texas, to prove whateverpoint like, just to kill a
bunch of Republicans, I guess,because you know little girls.

Speaker 1 (01:03:45):
Well, they were.

Speaker 2 (01:03:45):
Christians.

Speaker 1 (01:03:46):
Exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:03:47):
But when, like say, an entire Democratic state is on
fire, why that's God?

Speaker 1 (01:03:59):
Would you not?

Speaker 2 (01:04:03):
God's trying to kill all the gay people.
Why would you not see thoseclouds like?
Why would you not use thetechnology for something?

Speaker 1 (01:04:09):
and if these goddamn people would just learn a fact
once in a while, because wherethat flood happened floods all
the time.
It is a low point and thereit's made of limestone, so there
is nothing to absorb water.
It has flooded numerous timesand yet those fucking morons set

(01:04:29):
up a kids camp in there and puteverybody in there.
So like it's not rocket science, it's not.
It's not anything crazy.
It's low ground that the watercannot absorb into and it floods
.
So you shouldn't put any parkor any camp or anything there
where people are going to beasleep and then suddenly they're

(01:04:50):
going to drown.
So God damn, it's not that hard.

Speaker 2 (01:04:55):
I don't understand Jesus, but why are if you
believe that they are seedingclouds to just take out a
Republican area?
Why would they not quench thefires in a Democratic state,
just so they didn't have to killtheir own people?
Like, wouldn't they use it forgood as well as evil?
If they're going to use it forevil, you might as well use it

(01:05:16):
for good too.
And when the whole state is onfire or I don't know, in a huge
drought, drought, why wouldn'tyou just drop some rain there if
you could?

Speaker 1 (01:05:23):
I mean, it's the same thing as sending nuclear
weapons into a hurricane, whichis the most ridiculous thing
I've ever heard of my entirelife by the way, I was watching
some documentary show on one ofthe channels that have science
on them for real yeah and didyou know there is a firenado?

(01:05:46):
Yes, and that bitch gets likeit's taller than the empire
state building yeah, this onethat they had documented was
it's.
It's a tornado made of firetraveling at 200, 250 miles an
hour.
So there was the one that washuge and I don't think they had

(01:06:10):
photo evidence of it.
But then something very similarhappened.
That's what it was.
It was what in the World on, Ithink, discovery.
I love that because they findsomething obscure and then
they're like like, well, is italiens or is it?
It's almost always thegovernment, but it always has a
very regular explanation to it.
But anyway, this similar thinghappened in ohio once and it

(01:06:33):
wasn't as big as the other one,but it was fucking terrifying
and there's nothing you can doabout it.
Like firefighters were justlike, yeah, yep, there it is,
that's it and it's thedestruction of a tornado, only
everything's burnt like crazy,crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:06:52):
There is some crazy stuff that happens in this, in
this world yes yes, this is acomplex planet I just learned
the other day about point nemo,which is the only the there.
It's in the middle of thepacific.
Okay, one of the oceans okayand it's the point that is

(01:07:13):
furthest away from any point ofland.
You are actually closer to thespace station yes when you are
at point nemo than any piece ofland.
Yes, I just was learning aboutthis.

Speaker 1 (01:07:24):
I have heard of that.

Speaker 2 (01:07:25):
And it's insane.
Yeah, yeah, you were closer tothe space station.
Yeah, that's mind-blowing.
Like that blew my whole thoughtprocess.

Speaker 1 (01:07:35):
Yeah, I just can't grasp, like I think I have
trouble grasping space.
Think about the ocean.

Speaker 2 (01:07:42):
There is so much about the ocean, we don't know
because and that's where theytry to drop all this shit that
they that is orbiting us andthey want to bring it down.
They try and drop it out therebecause it's you know, no,
there's nothing around, so theycan just there's probably, like
it's all probably piled up withlike space garbage.

Speaker 1 (01:07:59):
Yeah, and in the meantime, the ecosystems and the
animals that live there are allfucked up.

Speaker 2 (01:08:04):
Like we don't even know what's coming up from there
.

Speaker 1 (01:08:07):
We don't even know what lives down there.
Well, they say aliens.

Speaker 2 (01:08:11):
That's where the aliens hide, oh Jesus.

Speaker 1 (01:08:13):
Is that?

Speaker 2 (01:08:13):
where the lasers come from.

Speaker 1 (01:08:18):
Maybe.
Okay, I can't do this anymore.
I'm getting stupider the longerthat we talk.

Speaker 2 (01:08:24):
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