October 6, 2025 • 40 mins
In this heartfelt and hilarious episode of the Opie Radio podcast, Opie dives into an emotional weekend celebrating his daughter’s 13th birthday, complete with a creative phone reveal inside a balloon! He reflects on the bittersweet reality of raising two teenagers and the fleeting nature of childhood. Opie also tackles the absurdity of dumping radioactive waste in the Hudson River, rants about the woes of shopping at Rite Aid, and shares a wild childhood story of snowball-throwing mischief that ended in a memorable beatdown. From subway surfing tragedies to bird app annoyances and a 95-year-old’s wheelchair rampage, this episode is a rollercoaster of laughs, nostalgia, and real talk. Tune in for Opie’s signature blend of humor and raw honesty, plus a shoutout to his loyal listeners and a nod to the haters. Don’t miss it—grab your coffee and join the Opie Squad!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Well, well, well, good morning everybody. It's time to wakey, wakey.
Although you're already awake as you listen to this in
your car on the way to work, aren't you. But
it is Monday, so that's a big h Hope everyone
had a fine weekend. I had a very very emotional weekend,
(00:27):
extremely emotional. I'm I'm having a I'm a I'm a
i'm having a having a tough time at this one.
My uh my daughter is now a teenager. I got
two teenagers in the house. I'm I'm sad when when
older parents told me in the elevator, when they were
just just little things, barely as high as my knees. Uh,
(00:54):
you know, we got a lot of compliments on the kids.
Oh my god, they're adorable, They're so so cute. Here's
a little advice. My kids are in college. It goes
real fast. And I said, yeah, yeay, yeah, oh boy.
I wish I'd listened to that man, because now I
got two teenagers in the in the house right now.
(01:16):
What made the weekend very very emotional. For my daughter's
thirteenth birthday, we got her a phone for her birthday. Yes,
a phone. Every parent goes through this, when do you
give your kid a phone? Well, in New York City,
they give kids phones at five years old, literally five
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years old. But we waited as long as we could.
And now that she's thirteen, you got to give her
a phone, man, you got to give her a phone.
So I was prepared to, like, just just put the
phone present on top of all her other presents. Eventually
she'll get to it, maybe put in the middle of
the presence, nice little surprise, right, Oh no, nah nah.
(02:04):
I told one of my friends that I was getting
my daughter a phone for her birthday and he goes,
how are you, How are you? How are you giving
her the phone. I'm like, I'm just gonna we're just
gonna wrap it and put it with the Oh my god,
you can't do that. You can't do that, this person said.
(02:25):
I'm like, what do you be. You gotta figure out
a presentation. You can't just have the phone wrapped up
in a pile of presents. You got to think of
a really cool, unusual way to give your daughter a phone.
I'm like, what like a like a like a like
a gender reveal And the guy goes, exactly like a
(02:46):
gender reveal. I'm like, oh my god. So it was
up to me. You know, my my wife took my
daughter as a part of her birthday presence shopping, and
so with all the other sou hours. Soho is a
nightmare now in New York City. Used to be a
cool place you go down their head, you want to
get a cup of coffee to a little shopping. Now
(03:10):
Soho is so bad in New York City that you
have to literally wait outside stores online to just get
in the store. But they went and did that. My
wife's like, good luck, good luck figuring out a cool
way to uh, you know, present the phone later on today.
(03:30):
And I'm like, ah, man, So I also had to
blow up I don't know, over one hundred balloons. I
go old school. I'm an old school big So I
blew up my balloons. Old school. Ban get those lungs working, right,
I know you got the not me, man, Let's blow
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them up. Let's blow up the balloons. I blew up
the balloons. And then I'm like, oh my god, how
am I gonna How am I gonna figure up this
phone thing? And then I'm like ahhh, because we got
some of those fancy balloons, regular balloons, fancy balloons, and
some of the fancy balloons they're a little more. There's
(04:12):
a little more to them, right, And I was looking
at my father in law, he was up at this
point from Philly. I go, I got the idea how
to present the phone? I go help me. So what
we did, because all the balloons were already blown up,
I was like, let's do surgery on one of the
fancy balloons. What do you mean. I got a I
(04:34):
got a straight edged razor that I keep in my
wallet just in case. Let me pull that out. And
I sliced the balloon just a little bit and you
might say, ohed it into the balloon. Pop. Hell no,
it didn't pop, because it was one of the fancier ones. Oh,
we did let a little air out. Okay, that's key
to the story. We had to like take a straw,
(04:54):
put it in the balloon, let some of the air out,
and we let just enough out where we knew if I,
you know, straight edged this balloon, it wouldn't pop. Got
a little incision, and then I put the phone in
there and I taped it back up, and then we
blew the balloon back up. At that point I did
use to and then the balloon. You know, it deflated
(05:20):
the rest of the afternoon, and I had to keep
taping it and taping it and taping it. And then
and then that fancy balloon was on the floor with
no less than one hundred balloons. I should take a
picture of this. Our whole apartment's filled with balloons. And
she opened up all our presents. She was very very happy,
and I said, hey, man, you got one more presents
somewhere in this house. And it took her until yesterday afternoon.
(05:44):
Her birthday was Saturday, but yesterday afternoon she finally noticed
that one of the fancy balloons were deflating. And she goes, Daddy,
that balloon feels a little heavy. I'm like, well that's weird.
Let's take a look. Oh, it does feel a little heavy.
I'm like, why don't you open up? See what's inside?
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And then she goes, I don't want, I don't want.
I don't want to. It's like, give me this pen,
and I went boo. I stabbed the dang ding kind
of splits open, and the big reveal her phone was
in there. And she was very very excited. So I, uh,
you know, so I don't think uh, I don't think
(06:27):
we'll be seeing our daughter anytime soon because now we
got our phone, and even though we go, you know,
there's a lot of responsibilities with a phone. I hope
you use it responsibly. You know, it's it's just over Johnny,
don't matter what. So that's why it was a sad weekend,
you know, having my daughter turned thirteen, two teenagers in
the house and finally getting her a phone. That's that's
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a big deal, isn't it. This guy just became a
member of my YouTube channel. Thank you very very much, sir,
greatly appreciate you. Hope everyone had a good weekend. Let
me say how to a few people. By the way,
I like doing a little roll call. Nick says, good morning,
we got the Ted Pallawada. We got the Cunkle greets you.
(07:10):
Oh my god, that's scary. We got a morning cupcake
coming in from Bill. Good morning, morning open squad. Scott Watson,
Good morning open all. Scott wats it up the river?
Oh my god, Scott Watson up the river. Scott, I
got river stuff today. So check this out. You know
how I say I hate all politicians. I truly do.
(07:32):
I truly do, But no I truly do. I hate
them all. I hate them all, every single one of them.
We got a government shut down day six right, guess what,
Congress still getting paid. That's all you need to know.
Hate them all and they've been fighting. This is this
is how crazy our world is. So you got this
(07:54):
river right, You got the Hudson River right. It applies
a lot of drinking water for a lot of people.
It's a big fucking deal if you do anything about
the Hudson River, A big fucking deal. Did I just
make ten dollars? I hope I made ten dollars because
we we went and got the fancy sushi, the fancy
(08:16):
sushi Saturday night. So I will grab every fucking super
chat I can today. Hey, Hope, I was sharing your
podcast with the boys at the yacht club and they
love how you humiliate Ron. Okay, well I don't humiliate Ron.
You just wasted ten dollars. You ATEI it. Don't waste
your stupid bunny. Don't try to split me and Ron.
Me and Ron are good, we're happy, we have good chemistry,
(08:38):
and we we throw some good podcast episodes out there.
What are you dealing? You just wasted ten dollars on that.
I didn't even read the rest of your comment. But anyway,
we got this Hudson River and uh, you know, and
it supplies drinking water for a lot of folks. And
then you got something called the Indian Point Nuclear Power
Plant up the river, and the Indian Indian Nuclear Power
(09:01):
Plant is shutting down and they're like, well, you know,
we pretty much shut down the whole plant, but we
kind of got a million gallons of processed waste water
which contains traces of radioactive material. Yes, I'm reading this,
h and we need to we need to put this somewhere.
And uh, you know, these rocket scientists they decided, well,
(09:25):
why don't we put the radioactive material. Sure the water
was treated, but there are still traces of radioactive material
in the waste. These brainiacts said, you know what, I
think we should dump into the Hudson River. They've been
fighting this for years. They're like, you know, the logical
people out there are like, ah ah, well people, ah,
(09:51):
I don't think they want a glass of water that's fluorescent.
Watch what are you talking about, you dumb dumb But
I don't know logically, a it doesn't make sense. And
then the other side is like, of course it makes sense. Well,
what else are we gonna do with the radioactive material
a million gallads? But we treated it though. Yeah, but uh,
they said, there's still traces of radioactive material in there.
(10:14):
That can't be good. Also, it's gonna set a precedent.
It's gonna allow other people to dump their radioactive shit
in the river. I tell you one thing, man, You know, Uh,
human beings are insanely stupid. I can't wait for three
I at lists. I'm praying that this thing's gonna land
right in the middle of fucking Manhattan and straighten us
(10:35):
all out because we're dumb. Since the beginning of time, Uh,
you know, humans saw rivers like, oh, look at this river,
Look at this body of water. Oh, let's just dump
all our shit in there. I don't think we need
the water for anything. So they've been dumping shit in
our rivers and our lakes and our ponds forever. And
(10:57):
then supposedly, well, we gotta we gotta fu the garbage
pile and middle of the ocean that no one could
officially prove that that's as big as Texas or something
like that. I don't know, I don't know. And then
I guess we have alien bases under the fucking ocean.
I don't know. I don't know. They said there's five
or six alien bases under the ocean, and they've they've
clocked shit moving at two hundred miles an hour under
(11:17):
the water. I don't know. I don't know what's real
anymore because it's stupid AI garbage, but I know this
is real. So they've been going back and forth with
the Indian Point Nuclear power Plant and the million gallons
of radioactive waste, and after years of fighting this battle,
wouldn't you think this battle would last one hour? You
(11:39):
get in front of a judge and the judge goes,
all right, what we got today? And the guy goes, well, sir,
I'm in charge of the radio active material from the
Indian Point Nuclear power Plant and I'm gonna dump a
million gallons in the Hudson River. Shouldn't the federal judge say,
next case, get out of here, you fuck it, knucklehead?
(12:00):
Of course not. Of course, of course, not went back
and forth for years, and I'm here to say on
this fine Monday that the other side lost. The smart
people lost, the logical people lost, and they are going
to dump a million gallons of radio active material into
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the Audson River. We deserve everything that's gonna happen to us, everything.
So with that's Scott Watson, good morning up the river.
You know, make sure you don't fucking eat it, eat
any of the fish you catch anytime soon, my god,
(12:46):
all right, let me see JD straight shot five dollars
erok made a video a few days ago. It's crazy
that Iraq can't get more than three views without mentioning Opie.
Is he rock now a hater? Is he rock down hating?
J eight shot? I don't pay attention, but is he
hating on me? I would assume he is because it's
the trendy thing to do. That's cool, that's cool, e rock,
(13:07):
that's fun, right, fun, fun fun, Thank you for the
five dollars. JAD straight Shot. In other news, I had
to I had to say goodbye to a friend this weekend.
I want to say goodbye to the friend that forced
me to, you know, uh do surgery on a balloon
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to hide my daughter's phone. I wanted to say, uh,
say goodbye to that guy. Excuse me, because that's just
fucking crazy. I should have been able to just hand
the phone over to my daughter. Here you go here.
Oh no, you gotta do something specially. You can't just
do that. Of course, of course not. I didn't say
(13:48):
goodbye to that friend, but I had to say goodbye
to another friend because we were we were out and about,
you know, kind of enjoying, enjoying the day, and uh,
in the middle of a you know, a decent conversation. Uh,
this friend of mine said, hold on a minute, and
then he takes a couple of you gonna go a
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couple of you guys are gonna relate to this. Wait
a minute, what do you mean, Wait a minute. We're
in the middle of talking. Year. I forgot about what
It wasn't gonna set the world on fire or anything,
but it was a decent conversation that shouldn't have been interrupted.
He goes, wait a minute. He goes on his phone
like this. He's obviously opening up an app, and then
he goes like this and holds it to the sky.
(14:32):
And then he goes to me, that's a bloom jay.
If you have a friend in your life that has
a bird app, get rid of them. Get rid of
them now. And I'm like, oh, blue jay, that's interesting. Well,
what are you talking about it's my bird app. It's
(14:52):
basically Shazam for birds. Is that a sparrow? Oh? My god.
And then at one point he was convinced there was
a hawk in the area. Oh my god. This this
this rarely happens. They're saying there's a hawk and he's
looking around like they're saying there's a hawk in the area. Ah.
(15:13):
The bird apple people beat it, so he's gone. So,
you know, I got an opening for a friend if
you if you want to, you know, apply uh, you
know and uh and uh and that would be uh,
that would be lovely. But the bird apps, what do
we do it? And then I'm like, you know this,
(15:35):
And then the bird app, I guess tells you, well,
there's distractions of the area. But you know, we can't
really determine what what bird that is because there's some uh,
there's some other noise in the area. Ah, yuck, you
mean partner, Yeah that's what I mean. Yeah, Yeah, that
that's exactly what I mean, Husker, My partner has a
(15:55):
bird app go away? All right? What else is going on?
All right? Maybe I'm a little ornery because I said
to my friend Rick, who works in the building a loose.
He's a casual friend. He works at the building. He's
a doorman, a really good guy, and he's a huge
Bills fan. He's the only Bills fan in this entire building.
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And we got a lot of people that live in
this building. I said to Rick on Friday, I said it,
I said it, I go the Bills are gonna have
a tough time at the Pats. And boy, if they
didn't have a tough time at the Pats. They lost
twenty three to twenty the you know the Pats. You
know they had a few lean years there after the Brady.
Everyone knows that. But they're on the way up big time.
(16:40):
They got a decent fucking team and they beat the Bills.
Bills first loss of the season. They're gonna be all right.
They'll regroup. At least they're not the Jets. Jets lost again.
They haven't won a game and I don't know about
twenty years. I think you gotta think at this point
the Jets are cursed because they've changed gms, they've changed coaches,
(17:06):
they've had twenty quarterbacks and they can't fucking figure it out.
So at this point, you can't blame all these people.
You hired over the years, your team is cursed, and
then of course a lot of people very very happy.
There's a lot of a lot of Yankees haters out there,
(17:27):
and you know, Yankees got passed the Socks Go Socks,
but they had to face the Blue Jays, and the
Blue Jays are giving them an old fashioned beating. Yanks
down two out of the Blue Jays. I think it
only goes five games, right, So the Yankees are on
the fence. So a lot of people are very very
(17:48):
happy at that. I hope your team won over the weekend.
I really do. Whatever team you root for, I hope,
I hope. I hope that that team, well, Mike tuaman
is Trump will congratulations. I hope he's winning. Mm hmm.
Any who, Right, Aid's closing down, all right, AID stores
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in America closing down. I'm gonna miss uh. I'm gonna
miss shopping uh with plexiglass. I'm gonna miss like needing
I don't know, some quick napkins and utensils and having
to push the button and then having a little thing
with the guy like look, I get that you got
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the fancy stuff and the drugs and stuff behind the plexiglass,
but really the napkins. Oh my god, of course they're
closing down. No one wants to shop like that. We're
all you hear around the store is the BP of
the button because you're just trying to get stupid toothpaste.
And then you hear other people beeping, and then you're like,
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oh no, he ain't gonna out beat me. Beep ba
be ba. Then the guy comes with the stupid keys.
What do you need? I need the odorant? Why is
this locked up? Can't you just hire a stupid scary
security guard and then maybe people will go, you know what,
I'm not gonna go into the fucking right a with
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a shopping cart and get as much as I can
in five minutes. Of course you're closing down. No one
wants to shop like that. Although I'm gonna miss uh
I did write it down? What did I write down? Oh? Yeah,
I'm gonna miss the thrifty ice cream? Where am I
gonna get my thrifty ice cream? If you know? You know?
Oh my god, you're where am I gonna find my
(19:39):
thrifty ice cream? And where am I gonna get my camps? Wait?
Hope you will you? Yeah? I buy camps? Yes, I
buy camps. First of all, I buy tamps. They're also
known as tampons. Where am I gonna get my camps?
Because they make great little tip? Little tip? Ready, they
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make great fire starters. Oh yeah, fire statta, fire stata.
So where am I gonna get my tamps? If I
can't get them at the right aid? Excuse me? Right A? Well, no,
you know what, right A didn't make it easy because
back in the day when you had to buy tamps
for your loved one, can you go and give me
(20:21):
some tamp oh? By serious, yes, seriously, you're gonna be
out and I need them. So then you go to
the right aid, right or wherever you get your tamps,
and uh, you know us us guys, you know you
might as well have told us that, you know, we're
going to handle platonium. And then you go to the
fucking store, right, and you see the tamps and you
(20:42):
grab a box of the tamps. Heavy flow yeah, heavy flow, yeah,
heavy flow yeah, heavy flow. And then what do you
do You buy I don't know, no less than twenty
things you don't need, so you can bury the tamps
on the counter before self check out, obviously, and then
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of course you get the the of course, you always
get the one. Oh camps, yeah, camps. Oh heavy flow, yeah,
I heavy flow Tamps. Could you just put in the
goddamn bag and get me the hell out of here?
Nothing better when you were buying something embarrassing that moment
where they rang it up and you could quickly throw
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it in a bag and bury and bury it basically
with all the other stuff you puyt. But right, eight
stores closing all over the place. Oh my god, that's
that's a huge story, right, The world has changed right
in front of our eyes. Uh uh uh uh uh
(21:44):
price check Yeah yeah, I'm not gonna miss the price check. No, no,
the miserable guy with the keys, because he's got to
deal with the fucking button pushing all day long. Oh
there's got to be a better way, right Yeah. I
think I think it's Japan because they're ahead of us, Right,
I think it's Japan. I think they got stores now
(22:08):
where look you can fucking you can fucking grab whatever
you want. As soon as you, uh you know, leave
the store, you get charged for everything you have. They
have those type of places. Maybe we need those type
of the type of places in America, right, I think
so well, we gotta, we gotta, you know, I like
(22:31):
to do the lighter side of the news on my
on my livestream every morning. And uh, well we have
two more. We have two more teenagers that died in
New York City because uh they were subway surfing. What
(22:51):
what Yeah, this is a phenomenon. And supposedly they had
social media accounts where their whole thing was where subway surfers,
and they were making all sorts of crazy videos. And
they were on the J train. I don't even know
where the J train is. I thank god that I
(23:12):
was born in such a way that I don't know
what the J train is. Thank you, Thank you, Lord,
Lord and Savior. But they were on the J train.
They were filming some subway surfing videos for their for
their probably their TikTok, right, and uh, this guy's just
seeing that. This guy look at this guy just being both,
(23:36):
Oh my god, you just gave me the hiccups. Training
saved my life. I know you came in here to hey,
but you just gave me a great laugh. Thank you, sir.
All Right, So, yeah, they died subway surfing on a
New York City subway, and uh, my thought, this morning
was very very simple. They're teenagers, and I was thinking
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about the crazy stuff we did as teenagers, and it
does and come close to the crazy stuff these teenagers
are doing. And then they got the pressure of trying
to pump up their numbers on their social media, so
they're taking more chances than we are. What was the
crazy stuff we did growing up? Climbed a tree, maybe
the tree in the neighborhood, like, you know what, no
one has ever climbed that tree. Well, I'm going to
(24:18):
give it a try, and then every once in a
while not make Thank god, Yeah, you know, one of
your falls off the tree and you just fucking broke
your arm. It sucked. Did we ride our bikes, of
course we did. But did we ride our bikes on
a on a busy road because it was the easiest
way to get to our friend's house. We did that.
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We built tree forts with rotting woods, so that could
have been a problem. We could have stepped through the flooring.
But man, these kids today, they're they're like, they're way
ahead of us as far as doing crazy ass shit.
I'm really trying to think of some of the some
of the risky stuff we did growing up and it
doesn't come close to what the these kids are doing.
(25:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, okay, we got a few coming in now,
sure I could pick up the chat, Charles says, m
Ad in the school urinal. That's right, I forgot about that.
We always had the It was always the kid with
the leather jacket and the and the and the long chain.
He would always be as soon as soon as an
m ad went off in the school urinal, they pointed
at that kid. It come with me. It could have
(25:25):
been more obvious. Oh, inclues, dude, we did inclues all right.
We lived on a very very busy road in Centerport,
Long Island, and when the plows came through. You know, kids,
I don't know. I don't know if you could deal
with this. But when I was growing up, it actually snowed.
But don't blame climate change. It's just a coincidence. It
(25:46):
doesn't snow anymore, of course. But the plows would go
by on this of a main road, you know, they
got to keep this main road clear, and the snow
would pile up into our driveway and on the side
right off the driveway, big giant solid piles, and we
would uh god, wolfin thank you. We would build I
(26:06):
forgot all about this. We would build igloos. And you
know what made that kind of risky was if you
if your blocks were a little thick and this whole
thing collapsed, it could be a problem for a couple seconds,
I guess. But uh, we built it right off the
main road, and you gotta remember, just snowed, so these
cars could be skidting off this road at any moment,
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and we had our igloo right next to the busy road.
I forgot all about that. And then our igloo, of course,
would turn kind of a grayish, light brown, grayish color
immediately that that fresh white snow would be covered by exhaust.
I was trying to tell my kids the other day.
I'm like, you guys don't understand. Man, when we would
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drive down the highway, it was a fucking cloud of pollution.
And uh, when you see that now on a highway,
some some cars, you know, it's just spewing a cloud
of pollution. It feels so weird and foreign. But when
we were growing up that that was every single fucking car,
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and man, if that didn't cover the beautiful white snow
immediately with that gray light brown garbage, all right, chrish crish.
I used to ride in the roof of my friend's
car and drive through Walmart parking lots old ladies. Looked
like I set myself on fire. All right, Yeah, that's
(27:31):
that's a little risky. Oh yeah, taking a pool in
the urinal sure, yeah, we were crazy kids, but nothing
like that what they're doing today, that's for sure. Uh.
All political and mass are caused by white male Republicans. Oh, gam,
I did not know that. I learned something new today.
That's crazy. Uh wow, bro, learn how to set your lighting. No,
(28:00):
although I am a little more cloudy than usual today,
I don't know why. I know, I'm competing with the
sun coming up behind me, but I'm a little I'm
a little cloudier than usual. That's weird. That's you know what.
Maybe I'm doing it on purpose, duck. Did you ever
figure that? Maybe you should figure that out, I should say,
older gentlemen, Ah, what's weird? My legings a little off?
(28:21):
Guess what it's hiding some of that hurt on my face.
Maybe I'm smarter than you. Oh yeah, we took risks
smoking in the bathroom, of course. Uh oh my god,
John Quartz, I did this I did this. This is
fucking scary, man. And I saw a video over the weekend,
(28:42):
a military training video. But John Courtz rights, he's down
there in Philly. We used to walk into the storm
drains and see how far we could go. We did
that shit. I lasted maybe twenty feet and said, fuck
this because the darkness would ye to me. I'm like,
what animals living in here right now? No, thank you.
(29:06):
Speaking of which, it's a video that's been out there
a long time at this point, training video. You know,
I bow to the military always. Uh. I know a
lot of you are frustrated by Trump's performance last week.
Oh my god, did you just say that? Op, you
just lost half your audience. I'm sorry, but I've heard
from a bunch of military people and like, we're kind
(29:26):
of frustrated by that presentation that Trump did the other day.
But I was called in from Taiwand for that, and
they're like, but you know what, uh, he's our president,
so we uh we uh we uh we gotta we
gotta support the president no matter what. But they are
very frustrated behind the scenes. Trust beyond that. But anyway,
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I saw this military training video. It was a guy overseas.
He had his weapon, he was in a lot of water.
The pipe that he had to go in headfirst to
the other side was just enough to fit his body,
so you gotta think clusterphobia, right. And then he had
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his weapon and the water with him in the pipe
was still going over his nose as he's on his back.
You understand this, right, And then the slashing. I guess
there's a way to do it where the water doesn't
slash as much because as the slashes, it's going up
your nose. Man, because you gotta hold your weapon as
you're going in this pipe backwards. I watched this video,
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I was like, the hair, the hair was standing up
on the back of my neck. I'm like, God, bless
the military. These guys have a gene that I obviously
don't have. I don't know how they do half the
shit they do. Oh my god, Uh, Amy, clean your camp, bro.
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We can't see anything, no Amy, Oh my god. I
don't even care what the video like, obviously, But yeah,
for the people that don't know, I got a podcast
it's called OPI Radio. Right. I turned this on hopefully
to get the sunrise. I'll be honest. The video does
look like shit today. Maybe there's a little grease on
(31:12):
my camera lens on my MacBook here, so sure it
looks a little worse than usual. But I don't really
give a shit because I'm gonna end this in a
couple of minutes, and then I'm gonna put the audio
version on my podcast ope be radio, and then people
are gonna download that and they're gonna enjoy this in
their car on the way to work. And that's what
I really give a shit about. All right, all right,
spoken to the Okay, where where else are we here?
(31:34):
Before we go throwing snowballs at the buses as they
went by? Oh my god, dudes, So I uh, I
just retold this story to my kids. Me and my
brother got ourselves in a situation we, like I said,
we lived on a very busy street out there in Centerport,
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and uh, you know, we had a little kind of like,
I don't know, a tiny little perch above where the
basketball hoop was. You could stand up there now you're
about I don't know, fifteen feet higher than the driveway,
and the main road was I don't know, fifty yards
away maybe, and the house was to our left, so
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we could we could see the cars going by from
our right to our left. Now it's going to disappear,
you know, behind the house and continue down the road. Right,
You got the visual, And me and my brother decided
it'd be hilaious to throw snowballs over the house and
try to time it and hit the cars on the
other side. And we would do this and everyone's while.
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You would hit a car, and you would just lose
your mind, you know, with excitement, Oh my god, and
we would be laughing at high fiving. We were just kids, man,
I don't even know if we were twelve years old.
Me and my brother are basically the same age. We're
barely a year apart. So we did this. We had
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some direct hits, and we're laughing, right, and we're getting
ready to throw another snowball. And this scary ass fucking gentleman,
who by the way, wasn't much older than us. I
would say he was in his if I remember correctly,
maybe like mid twenties, all right, so he had a
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good ten years on us or whatever. He came out
of the woods and gave both of us a beating.
He gave us exactly what a twelve twelve year old
could handle. So he beat us in a way where
it scared the shit out of us. He got his
(33:48):
frustration out because we hit his car. He beat us up,
didn't leave any bruises, no broken bones. We were able
to deal with the beating, but it's scared the living
shit out of us. And now is the lesser of
two evils? Because I had a very strict mom. Do
we go in the house and say, hey, a man
(34:12):
just appeared out of nowhere and beat us up. Well,
why did he beat you up? Well, we were throwing
snowballs and we hit his car. So the lesser of
two evils was to just deal with the beating this
older gentleman gave me and my brother. You know, we
we were sore for a day or two, but scared
(34:33):
out of our fucking minds this guy. It turns out,
after we hit his car right, he pulled over, even
though it was a main road, And then he got
up into the woods. Because where I lived, the house
were spread out with woods more or less enough that
you could have a playground behind your house in the woods.
So he decided, all right, I'll cut up the woods.
(34:54):
I'll come from behind, surprise them and give them a beating,
and that's exactly what happened, ten throwing snowballs at the
buses as they went by. I uh yeah, that's a
I don't know if that's a good memory for me,
but you you just reminded me of a decent story.
My god, Oh my god. All right, I think we're
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gonna go. Yeah, let's just go, man. I think we
did it. I think that's all I had today. To
be honest with you, you would get beat. Okay, so this
guy understands, Charles understands you would get beat and then
beat at home again. Yes, pretty good fake story my
(35:40):
guy wrote. My stories aren't fake. I'm sorry. I'm sorry,
but they're not fake. There's a lot of obsessed people
out there. I wonder why they're so obsessed. What did
I do to you? What did I do to you
that you're so obsessed with me? What did I do?
Is this pretty face? You get up early to do this?
(36:11):
All right? I think we're gonna go. We did it.
Uh yeah. People try to say I tell fake stories
or something that's not true. I just lived. I lived
a pretty a pretty decent life with a lot of
a lot of excitement. Oh my god, So I got
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I got stories for days. I think we did it.
I mean, the government shut down. I don't know what
those knuckleheads are gonna do down there, but I know
we're up to day six, and I know Congress is
continued to get continuing to get paid. Oh. I did
this story, but we got a little more on it.
Another fun, fun, fun story. I leave you with this,
(36:54):
another lighter side of the news. Okay, we got a
ninety five year old woman. She's in a home and
she much had it with her eighty nine year old roommate.
I would just love to know what kind of babbling
was going on where the ninety five year old basically said,
I've had it, So she took off her metal foot
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pedal from her wheelchair and beat the living crap out
of her roommate. I mean, I mean that's just like wow,
but she had it ninety five. What do you do
with a ninety five year old woman that just killed
somebody in a nursing home? For real? What do you
do with that? Isn't it punishment enough that she's in
(37:40):
a nursing home and none of her family visits her.
That's that's punishment, right? Hell yeah, all right, let's go, guys,
have a wonderful day. Thank you very very much. Made
a few bucks today, all right, I see what's going on,
all right, A little support, little support doesn't hurt anybody,
So thank you for thank you for watching. Thank you
(38:04):
for watching through the vesselene lens that is my camera.
But I had a you know what, I had a
wonderful weekend celebrating my daughter's birthday. We are very very tired.
We had friends and family and a lot of activity
and a lot of walking around. So I'm definitely tired.
(38:25):
So it doesn't hurt that I got the vassoline looking
lens today. So thank you, so thanks for giving me
a few bucks. More importantly, hit that like on the
way out, Thank you very very much. And what else?
What else? Deb saying you made nothing? I made it
some bucks? Deb? Y'all right? Deb? Where's deb? Deb? Y'all right?
(38:46):
Do you need a hug? Deb? Why does it bother
you if I make money or don't make money? Can
you explain that to me? My god, the life of
a hater. It's fascinating to me, It really is fascinating
to me. And then you know, and then and then
(39:06):
some of yeah, actually, I get it on a pretty
regular basis. They will apologize to me, Oh, I was
going through a bad time and I took it out
at you. I'm really really sorry. And then I got
to clench my teeth because I don't want to forgive anybody.
It's something I had to learn through therapy. You gotta
start forgiving some of these people. So I let them
off the hook. I'm like, I forgive you. But then
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I always asked, well, what did you do in particular?
And then they'll tell me something horrific. I'm like, I
forgive you. I forgive you, all right, I'm gonna go now,
hit the like on the way out, and don't forget.
More importantly, even though deb doesn't think I made a
(39:47):
few bucks, I did. I think it was a total
of I got a tenor fiver for a membership and
a tour. I think I made seventeen dollars today. That rocks.
That fucking rocks. But more importantly, if you could download
the audio versions of these wherever you get your Opie
Radio podcast, sit through the stupid commercials. I purposely don't
(40:10):
put a lot of commercials in my podcast, but if
you sit through them, I get it. I get literally
every time you listen, a couple of pennies, A couple
of pennies fall from the sky, and I'm hoping some
of the you know, the pile of pennies will add
up some day. All right, all right, guys, have a
wonderful Monday. I definitely appreciate GE. We focus on the
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cool people. The haters. They're gonna just be here for
whatever reason, doing what, and for who. I don't know.
I maybe maybe one of these idiots could explain the
whole thing to me, because I find it very, very weird.
All Right, we'll talk soon. Bye, guys,
Well, well, well, good morning everybody. It's time to wakey, wakey.
Although you're already awake as you listen to this in
your car on the way to work, aren't you. But
it is Monday, so that's a big h Hope everyone
had a fine weekend. I had a very very emotional weekend,
(00:27):
extremely emotional. I'm I'm having a I'm a I'm a
i'm having a having a tough time at this one.
My uh my daughter is now a teenager. I got
two teenagers in the house. I'm I'm sad when when
older parents told me in the elevator, when they were
just just little things, barely as high as my knees. Uh,
(00:54):
you know, we got a lot of compliments on the kids.
Oh my god, they're adorable, They're so so cute. Here's
a little advice. My kids are in college. It goes
real fast. And I said, yeah, yeay, yeah, oh boy.
I wish I'd listened to that man, because now I
got two teenagers in the in the house right now.
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What made the weekend very very emotional. For my daughter's
thirteenth birthday, we got her a phone for her birthday. Yes,
a phone. Every parent goes through this, when do you
give your kid a phone? Well, in New York City,
they give kids phones at five years old, literally five
(01:40):
years old. But we waited as long as we could.
And now that she's thirteen, you got to give her
a phone, man, you got to give her a phone.
So I was prepared to, like, just just put the
phone present on top of all her other presents. Eventually
she'll get to it, maybe put in the middle of
the presence, nice little surprise, right, Oh no, nah nah.
(02:04):
I told one of my friends that I was getting
my daughter a phone for her birthday and he goes,
how are you, How are you? How are you giving
her the phone. I'm like, I'm just gonna we're just
gonna wrap it and put it with the Oh my god,
you can't do that. You can't do that, this person said.
(02:25):
I'm like, what do you be. You gotta figure out
a presentation. You can't just have the phone wrapped up
in a pile of presents. You got to think of
a really cool, unusual way to give your daughter a phone.
I'm like, what like a like a like a like
a gender reveal And the guy goes, exactly like a
(02:46):
gender reveal. I'm like, oh my god. So it was
up to me. You know, my my wife took my
daughter as a part of her birthday presence shopping, and
so with all the other sou hours. Soho is a
nightmare now in New York City. Used to be a
cool place you go down their head, you want to
get a cup of coffee to a little shopping. Now
(03:10):
Soho is so bad in New York City that you
have to literally wait outside stores online to just get
in the store. But they went and did that. My
wife's like, good luck, good luck figuring out a cool
way to uh, you know, present the phone later on today.
(03:30):
And I'm like, ah, man, So I also had to
blow up I don't know, over one hundred balloons. I
go old school. I'm an old school big So I
blew up my balloons. Old school. Ban get those lungs working, right,
I know you got the not me, man, Let's blow
(03:52):
them up. Let's blow up the balloons. I blew up
the balloons. And then I'm like, oh my god, how
am I gonna How am I gonna figure up this
phone thing? And then I'm like ahhh, because we got
some of those fancy balloons, regular balloons, fancy balloons, and
some of the fancy balloons they're a little more. There's
(04:12):
a little more to them, right, And I was looking
at my father in law, he was up at this
point from Philly. I go, I got the idea how
to present the phone? I go help me. So what
we did, because all the balloons were already blown up,
I was like, let's do surgery on one of the
fancy balloons. What do you mean. I got a I
(04:34):
got a straight edged razor that I keep in my
wallet just in case. Let me pull that out. And
I sliced the balloon just a little bit and you
might say, ohed it into the balloon. Pop. Hell no,
it didn't pop, because it was one of the fancier ones. Oh,
we did let a little air out. Okay, that's key
to the story. We had to like take a straw,
(04:54):
put it in the balloon, let some of the air out,
and we let just enough out where we knew if I,
you know, straight edged this balloon, it wouldn't pop. Got
a little incision, and then I put the phone in
there and I taped it back up, and then we
blew the balloon back up. At that point I did
use to and then the balloon. You know, it deflated
(05:20):
the rest of the afternoon, and I had to keep
taping it and taping it and taping it. And then
and then that fancy balloon was on the floor with
no less than one hundred balloons. I should take a
picture of this. Our whole apartment's filled with balloons. And
she opened up all our presents. She was very very happy,
and I said, hey, man, you got one more presents
somewhere in this house. And it took her until yesterday afternoon.
(05:44):
Her birthday was Saturday, but yesterday afternoon she finally noticed
that one of the fancy balloons were deflating. And she goes, Daddy,
that balloon feels a little heavy. I'm like, well that's weird.
Let's take a look. Oh, it does feel a little heavy.
I'm like, why don't you open up? See what's inside?
(06:06):
And then she goes, I don't want, I don't want.
I don't want to. It's like, give me this pen,
and I went boo. I stabbed the dang ding kind
of splits open, and the big reveal her phone was
in there. And she was very very excited. So I, uh,
you know, so I don't think uh, I don't think
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we'll be seeing our daughter anytime soon because now we
got our phone, and even though we go, you know,
there's a lot of responsibilities with a phone. I hope
you use it responsibly. You know, it's it's just over Johnny,
don't matter what. So that's why it was a sad weekend,
you know, having my daughter turned thirteen, two teenagers in
the house and finally getting her a phone. That's that's
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a big deal, isn't it. This guy just became a
member of my YouTube channel. Thank you very very much, sir,
greatly appreciate you. Hope everyone had a good weekend. Let
me say how to a few people. By the way,
I like doing a little roll call. Nick says, good morning,
we got the Ted Pallawada. We got the Cunkle greets you.
(07:10):
Oh my god, that's scary. We got a morning cupcake
coming in from Bill. Good morning, morning open squad. Scott Watson,
Good morning open all. Scott wats it up the river?
Oh my god, Scott Watson up the river. Scott, I
got river stuff today. So check this out. You know
how I say I hate all politicians. I truly do.
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I truly do, But no I truly do. I hate
them all. I hate them all, every single one of them.
We got a government shut down day six right, guess what,
Congress still getting paid. That's all you need to know.
Hate them all and they've been fighting. This is this
is how crazy our world is. So you got this
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river right, You got the Hudson River right. It applies
a lot of drinking water for a lot of people.
It's a big fucking deal if you do anything about
the Hudson River, A big fucking deal. Did I just
make ten dollars? I hope I made ten dollars because
we we went and got the fancy sushi, the fancy
(08:16):
sushi Saturday night. So I will grab every fucking super
chat I can today. Hey, Hope, I was sharing your
podcast with the boys at the yacht club and they
love how you humiliate Ron. Okay, well I don't humiliate Ron.
You just wasted ten dollars. You ATEI it. Don't waste
your stupid bunny. Don't try to split me and Ron.
Me and Ron are good, we're happy, we have good chemistry,
(08:38):
and we we throw some good podcast episodes out there.
What are you dealing? You just wasted ten dollars on that.
I didn't even read the rest of your comment. But anyway,
we got this Hudson River and uh, you know, and
it supplies drinking water for a lot of folks. And
then you got something called the Indian Point Nuclear Power
Plant up the river, and the Indian Indian Nuclear Power
(09:01):
Plant is shutting down and they're like, well, you know,
we pretty much shut down the whole plant, but we
kind of got a million gallons of processed waste water
which contains traces of radioactive material. Yes, I'm reading this,
h and we need to we need to put this somewhere.
And uh, you know, these rocket scientists they decided, well,
(09:25):
why don't we put the radioactive material. Sure the water
was treated, but there are still traces of radioactive material
in the waste. These brainiacts said, you know what, I
think we should dump into the Hudson River. They've been
fighting this for years. They're like, you know, the logical
people out there are like, ah ah, well people, ah,
(09:51):
I don't think they want a glass of water that's fluorescent.
Watch what are you talking about, you dumb dumb But
I don't know logically, a it doesn't make sense. And
then the other side is like, of course it makes sense. Well,
what else are we gonna do with the radioactive material
a million gallads? But we treated it though. Yeah, but uh,
they said, there's still traces of radioactive material in there.
(10:14):
That can't be good. Also, it's gonna set a precedent.
It's gonna allow other people to dump their radioactive shit
in the river. I tell you one thing, man, You know, Uh,
human beings are insanely stupid. I can't wait for three
I at lists. I'm praying that this thing's gonna land
right in the middle of fucking Manhattan and straighten us
(10:35):
all out because we're dumb. Since the beginning of time, Uh,
you know, humans saw rivers like, oh, look at this river,
Look at this body of water. Oh, let's just dump
all our shit in there. I don't think we need
the water for anything. So they've been dumping shit in
our rivers and our lakes and our ponds forever. And
(10:57):
then supposedly, well, we gotta we gotta fu the garbage
pile and middle of the ocean that no one could
officially prove that that's as big as Texas or something
like that. I don't know, I don't know. And then
I guess we have alien bases under the fucking ocean.
I don't know. I don't know. They said there's five
or six alien bases under the ocean, and they've they've
clocked shit moving at two hundred miles an hour under
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the water. I don't know. I don't know what's real
anymore because it's stupid AI garbage, but I know this
is real. So they've been going back and forth with
the Indian Point Nuclear power Plant and the million gallons
of radioactive waste, and after years of fighting this battle,
wouldn't you think this battle would last one hour? You
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get in front of a judge and the judge goes,
all right, what we got today? And the guy goes, well, sir,
I'm in charge of the radio active material from the
Indian Point Nuclear power Plant and I'm gonna dump a
million gallons in the Hudson River. Shouldn't the federal judge say,
next case, get out of here, you fuck it, knucklehead?
(12:00):
Of course not. Of course, of course, not went back
and forth for years, and I'm here to say on
this fine Monday that the other side lost. The smart
people lost, the logical people lost, and they are going
to dump a million gallons of radio active material into
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the Audson River. We deserve everything that's gonna happen to us, everything.
So with that's Scott Watson, good morning up the river.
You know, make sure you don't fucking eat it, eat
any of the fish you catch anytime soon, my god,
(12:46):
all right, let me see JD straight shot five dollars
erok made a video a few days ago. It's crazy
that Iraq can't get more than three views without mentioning Opie.
Is he rock now a hater? Is he rock down hating?
J eight shot? I don't pay attention, but is he
hating on me? I would assume he is because it's
the trendy thing to do. That's cool, that's cool, e rock,
(13:07):
that's fun, right, fun, fun fun, Thank you for the
five dollars. JAD straight Shot. In other news, I had
to I had to say goodbye to a friend this weekend.
I want to say goodbye to the friend that forced
me to, you know, uh do surgery on a balloon
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to hide my daughter's phone. I wanted to say, uh,
say goodbye to that guy. Excuse me, because that's just
fucking crazy. I should have been able to just hand
the phone over to my daughter. Here you go here.
Oh no, you gotta do something specially. You can't just
do that. Of course, of course not. I didn't say
(13:48):
goodbye to that friend, but I had to say goodbye
to another friend because we were we were out and about,
you know, kind of enjoying, enjoying the day, and uh,
in the middle of a you know, a decent conversation. Uh,
this friend of mine said, hold on a minute, and
then he takes a couple of you gonna go a
(14:11):
couple of you guys are gonna relate to this. Wait
a minute, what do you mean, Wait a minute. We're
in the middle of talking. Year. I forgot about what
It wasn't gonna set the world on fire or anything,
but it was a decent conversation that shouldn't have been interrupted.
He goes, wait a minute. He goes on his phone
like this. He's obviously opening up an app, and then
he goes like this and holds it to the sky.
(14:32):
And then he goes to me, that's a bloom jay.
If you have a friend in your life that has
a bird app, get rid of them. Get rid of
them now. And I'm like, oh, blue jay, that's interesting. Well,
what are you talking about it's my bird app. It's
(14:52):
basically Shazam for birds. Is that a sparrow? Oh? My god.
And then at one point he was convinced there was
a hawk in the area. Oh my god. This this
this rarely happens. They're saying there's a hawk and he's
looking around like they're saying there's a hawk in the area. Ah.
(15:13):
The bird apple people beat it, so he's gone. So,
you know, I got an opening for a friend if
you if you want to, you know, apply uh, you
know and uh and uh and that would be uh,
that would be lovely. But the bird apps, what do
we do it? And then I'm like, you know this,
(15:35):
And then the bird app, I guess tells you, well,
there's distractions of the area. But you know, we can't
really determine what what bird that is because there's some uh,
there's some other noise in the area. Ah, yuck, you
mean partner, Yeah that's what I mean. Yeah, Yeah, that
that's exactly what I mean, Husker, My partner has a
(15:55):
bird app go away? All right? What else is going on?
All right? Maybe I'm a little ornery because I said
to my friend Rick, who works in the building a loose.
He's a casual friend. He works at the building. He's
a doorman, a really good guy, and he's a huge
Bills fan. He's the only Bills fan in this entire building.
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And we got a lot of people that live in
this building. I said to Rick on Friday, I said it,
I said it, I go the Bills are gonna have
a tough time at the Pats. And boy, if they
didn't have a tough time at the Pats. They lost
twenty three to twenty the you know the Pats. You
know they had a few lean years there after the Brady.
Everyone knows that. But they're on the way up big time.
(16:40):
They got a decent fucking team and they beat the Bills.
Bills first loss of the season. They're gonna be all right.
They'll regroup. At least they're not the Jets. Jets lost again.
They haven't won a game and I don't know about
twenty years. I think you gotta think at this point
the Jets are cursed because they've changed gms, they've changed coaches,
(17:06):
they've had twenty quarterbacks and they can't fucking figure it out.
So at this point, you can't blame all these people.
You hired over the years, your team is cursed, and
then of course a lot of people very very happy.
There's a lot of a lot of Yankees haters out there,
(17:27):
and you know, Yankees got passed the Socks Go Socks,
but they had to face the Blue Jays, and the
Blue Jays are giving them an old fashioned beating. Yanks
down two out of the Blue Jays. I think it
only goes five games, right, So the Yankees are on
the fence. So a lot of people are very very
(17:48):
happy at that. I hope your team won over the weekend.
I really do. Whatever team you root for, I hope,
I hope. I hope that that team, well, Mike tuaman
is Trump will congratulations. I hope he's winning. Mm hmm.
Any who, Right, Aid's closing down, all right, AID stores
(18:14):
in America closing down. I'm gonna miss uh. I'm gonna
miss shopping uh with plexiglass. I'm gonna miss like needing
I don't know, some quick napkins and utensils and having
to push the button and then having a little thing
with the guy like look, I get that you got
(18:35):
the fancy stuff and the drugs and stuff behind the plexiglass,
but really the napkins. Oh my god, of course they're
closing down. No one wants to shop like that. We're
all you hear around the store is the BP of
the button because you're just trying to get stupid toothpaste.
And then you hear other people beeping, and then you're like,
(18:57):
oh no, he ain't gonna out beat me. Beep ba
be ba. Then the guy comes with the stupid keys.
What do you need? I need the odorant? Why is
this locked up? Can't you just hire a stupid scary
security guard and then maybe people will go, you know what,
I'm not gonna go into the fucking right a with
(19:17):
a shopping cart and get as much as I can
in five minutes. Of course you're closing down. No one
wants to shop like that. Although I'm gonna miss uh
I did write it down? What did I write down? Oh? Yeah,
I'm gonna miss the thrifty ice cream? Where am I
gonna get my thrifty ice cream? If you know? You know?
Oh my god, you're where am I gonna find my
(19:39):
thrifty ice cream? And where am I gonna get my camps? Wait?
Hope you will you? Yeah? I buy camps? Yes, I
buy camps. First of all, I buy tamps. They're also
known as tampons. Where am I gonna get my camps?
Because they make great little tip? Little tip? Ready, they
(20:01):
make great fire starters. Oh yeah, fire statta, fire stata.
So where am I gonna get my tamps? If I
can't get them at the right aid? Excuse me? Right A? Well, no,
you know what, right A didn't make it easy because
back in the day when you had to buy tamps
for your loved one, can you go and give me
(20:21):
some tamp oh? By serious, yes, seriously, you're gonna be
out and I need them. So then you go to
the right aid, right or wherever you get your tamps,
and uh, you know us us guys, you know you
might as well have told us that, you know, we're
going to handle platonium. And then you go to the
fucking store, right, and you see the tamps and you
(20:42):
grab a box of the tamps. Heavy flow yeah, heavy flow, yeah,
heavy flow yeah, heavy flow. And then what do you
do You buy I don't know, no less than twenty
things you don't need, so you can bury the tamps
on the counter before self check out, obviously, and then
(21:02):
of course you get the the of course, you always
get the one. Oh camps, yeah, camps. Oh heavy flow, yeah,
I heavy flow Tamps. Could you just put in the
goddamn bag and get me the hell out of here?
Nothing better when you were buying something embarrassing that moment
where they rang it up and you could quickly throw
(21:23):
it in a bag and bury and bury it basically
with all the other stuff you puyt. But right, eight
stores closing all over the place. Oh my god, that's
that's a huge story, right, The world has changed right
in front of our eyes. Uh uh uh uh uh
(21:44):
price check Yeah yeah, I'm not gonna miss the price check. No, no,
the miserable guy with the keys, because he's got to
deal with the fucking button pushing all day long. Oh
there's got to be a better way, right Yeah. I
think I think it's Japan because they're ahead of us, Right,
I think it's Japan. I think they got stores now
(22:08):
where look you can fucking you can fucking grab whatever
you want. As soon as you, uh you know, leave
the store, you get charged for everything you have. They
have those type of places. Maybe we need those type
of the type of places in America, right, I think
so well, we gotta, we gotta, you know, I like
(22:31):
to do the lighter side of the news on my
on my livestream every morning. And uh, well we have
two more. We have two more teenagers that died in
New York City because uh they were subway surfing. What
(22:51):
what Yeah, this is a phenomenon. And supposedly they had
social media accounts where their whole thing was where subway surfers,
and they were making all sorts of crazy videos. And
they were on the J train. I don't even know
where the J train is. I thank god that I
(23:12):
was born in such a way that I don't know
what the J train is. Thank you, Thank you, Lord,
Lord and Savior. But they were on the J train.
They were filming some subway surfing videos for their for
their probably their TikTok, right, and uh, this guy's just
seeing that. This guy look at this guy just being both,
(23:36):
Oh my god, you just gave me the hiccups. Training
saved my life. I know you came in here to hey,
but you just gave me a great laugh. Thank you, sir.
All Right, So, yeah, they died subway surfing on a
New York City subway, and uh, my thought, this morning
was very very simple. They're teenagers, and I was thinking
(23:57):
about the crazy stuff we did as teenagers, and it
does and come close to the crazy stuff these teenagers
are doing. And then they got the pressure of trying
to pump up their numbers on their social media, so
they're taking more chances than we are. What was the
crazy stuff we did growing up? Climbed a tree, maybe
the tree in the neighborhood, like, you know what, no
one has ever climbed that tree. Well, I'm going to
(24:18):
give it a try, and then every once in a
while not make Thank god, Yeah, you know, one of
your falls off the tree and you just fucking broke
your arm. It sucked. Did we ride our bikes, of
course we did. But did we ride our bikes on
a on a busy road because it was the easiest
way to get to our friend's house. We did that.
(24:39):
We built tree forts with rotting woods, so that could
have been a problem. We could have stepped through the flooring.
But man, these kids today, they're they're like, they're way
ahead of us as far as doing crazy ass shit.
I'm really trying to think of some of the some
of the risky stuff we did growing up and it
doesn't come close to what the these kids are doing.
(25:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, okay, we got a few coming in now,
sure I could pick up the chat, Charles says, m
Ad in the school urinal. That's right, I forgot about that.
We always had the It was always the kid with
the leather jacket and the and the and the long chain.
He would always be as soon as soon as an
m ad went off in the school urinal, they pointed
at that kid. It come with me. It could have
(25:25):
been more obvious. Oh, inclues, dude, we did inclues all right.
We lived on a very very busy road in Centerport,
Long Island, and when the plows came through. You know, kids,
I don't know. I don't know if you could deal
with this. But when I was growing up, it actually snowed.
But don't blame climate change. It's just a coincidence. It
(25:46):
doesn't snow anymore, of course. But the plows would go
by on this of a main road, you know, they
got to keep this main road clear, and the snow
would pile up into our driveway and on the side
right off the driveway, big giant solid piles, and we
would uh god, wolfin thank you. We would build I
(26:06):
forgot all about this. We would build igloos. And you
know what made that kind of risky was if you
if your blocks were a little thick and this whole
thing collapsed, it could be a problem for a couple seconds,
I guess. But uh, we built it right off the
main road, and you gotta remember, just snowed, so these
cars could be skidting off this road at any moment,
(26:28):
and we had our igloo right next to the busy road.
I forgot all about that. And then our igloo, of course,
would turn kind of a grayish, light brown, grayish color
immediately that that fresh white snow would be covered by exhaust.
I was trying to tell my kids the other day.
I'm like, you guys don't understand. Man, when we would
(26:50):
drive down the highway, it was a fucking cloud of pollution.
And uh, when you see that now on a highway,
some some cars, you know, it's just spewing a cloud
of pollution. It feels so weird and foreign. But when
we were growing up that that was every single fucking car,
(27:11):
and man, if that didn't cover the beautiful white snow
immediately with that gray light brown garbage, all right, chrish crish.
I used to ride in the roof of my friend's
car and drive through Walmart parking lots old ladies. Looked
like I set myself on fire. All right, Yeah, that's
(27:31):
that's a little risky. Oh yeah, taking a pool in
the urinal sure, yeah, we were crazy kids, but nothing
like that what they're doing today, that's for sure. Uh.
All political and mass are caused by white male Republicans. Oh, gam,
I did not know that. I learned something new today.
That's crazy. Uh wow, bro, learn how to set your lighting. No,
(28:00):
although I am a little more cloudy than usual today,
I don't know why. I know, I'm competing with the
sun coming up behind me, but I'm a little I'm
a little cloudier than usual. That's weird. That's you know what.
Maybe I'm doing it on purpose, duck. Did you ever
figure that? Maybe you should figure that out, I should say,
older gentlemen, Ah, what's weird? My legings a little off?
(28:21):
Guess what it's hiding some of that hurt on my face.
Maybe I'm smarter than you. Oh yeah, we took risks
smoking in the bathroom, of course. Uh oh my god,
John Quartz, I did this I did this. This is
fucking scary, man. And I saw a video over the weekend,
(28:42):
a military training video. But John Courtz rights, he's down
there in Philly. We used to walk into the storm
drains and see how far we could go. We did
that shit. I lasted maybe twenty feet and said, fuck
this because the darkness would ye to me. I'm like,
what animals living in here right now? No, thank you.
(29:06):
Speaking of which, it's a video that's been out there
a long time at this point, training video. You know,
I bow to the military always. Uh. I know a
lot of you are frustrated by Trump's performance last week.
Oh my god, did you just say that? Op, you
just lost half your audience. I'm sorry, but I've heard
from a bunch of military people and like, we're kind
(29:26):
of frustrated by that presentation that Trump did the other day.
But I was called in from Taiwand for that, and
they're like, but you know what, uh, he's our president,
so we uh we uh we uh we gotta we
gotta support the president no matter what. But they are
very frustrated behind the scenes. Trust beyond that. But anyway,
(29:48):
I saw this military training video. It was a guy overseas.
He had his weapon, he was in a lot of water.
The pipe that he had to go in headfirst to
the other side was just enough to fit his body,
so you gotta think clusterphobia, right. And then he had
(30:09):
his weapon and the water with him in the pipe
was still going over his nose as he's on his back.
You understand this, right, And then the slashing. I guess
there's a way to do it where the water doesn't
slash as much because as the slashes, it's going up
your nose. Man, because you gotta hold your weapon as
you're going in this pipe backwards. I watched this video,
(30:31):
I was like, the hair, the hair was standing up
on the back of my neck. I'm like, God, bless
the military. These guys have a gene that I obviously
don't have. I don't know how they do half the
shit they do. Oh my god, Uh, Amy, clean your camp, bro.
(30:51):
We can't see anything, no Amy, Oh my god. I
don't even care what the video like, obviously, But yeah,
for the people that don't know, I got a podcast
it's called OPI Radio. Right. I turned this on hopefully
to get the sunrise. I'll be honest. The video does
look like shit today. Maybe there's a little grease on
(31:12):
my camera lens on my MacBook here, so sure it
looks a little worse than usual. But I don't really
give a shit because I'm gonna end this in a
couple of minutes, and then I'm gonna put the audio
version on my podcast ope be radio, and then people
are gonna download that and they're gonna enjoy this in
their car on the way to work. And that's what
I really give a shit about. All right, all right,
spoken to the Okay, where where else are we here?
(31:34):
Before we go throwing snowballs at the buses as they
went by? Oh my god, dudes, So I uh, I
just retold this story to my kids. Me and my
brother got ourselves in a situation we, like I said,
we lived on a very busy street out there in Centerport,
(31:57):
and uh, you know, we had a little kind of like,
I don't know, a tiny little perch above where the
basketball hoop was. You could stand up there now you're
about I don't know, fifteen feet higher than the driveway,
and the main road was I don't know, fifty yards
away maybe, and the house was to our left, so
(32:20):
we could we could see the cars going by from
our right to our left. Now it's going to disappear,
you know, behind the house and continue down the road. Right,
You got the visual, And me and my brother decided
it'd be hilaious to throw snowballs over the house and
try to time it and hit the cars on the
other side. And we would do this and everyone's while.
(32:43):
You would hit a car, and you would just lose
your mind, you know, with excitement, Oh my god, and
we would be laughing at high fiving. We were just kids, man,
I don't even know if we were twelve years old.
Me and my brother are basically the same age. We're
barely a year apart. So we did this. We had
(33:04):
some direct hits, and we're laughing, right, and we're getting
ready to throw another snowball. And this scary ass fucking gentleman,
who by the way, wasn't much older than us. I
would say he was in his if I remember correctly,
maybe like mid twenties, all right, so he had a
(33:26):
good ten years on us or whatever. He came out
of the woods and gave both of us a beating.
He gave us exactly what a twelve twelve year old
could handle. So he beat us in a way where
it scared the shit out of us. He got his
(33:48):
frustration out because we hit his car. He beat us up,
didn't leave any bruises, no broken bones. We were able
to deal with the beating, but it's scared the living
shit out of us. And now is the lesser of
two evils? Because I had a very strict mom. Do
we go in the house and say, hey, a man
(34:12):
just appeared out of nowhere and beat us up. Well,
why did he beat you up? Well, we were throwing
snowballs and we hit his car. So the lesser of
two evils was to just deal with the beating this
older gentleman gave me and my brother. You know, we
we were sore for a day or two, but scared
(34:33):
out of our fucking minds this guy. It turns out,
after we hit his car right, he pulled over, even
though it was a main road, And then he got
up into the woods. Because where I lived, the house
were spread out with woods more or less enough that
you could have a playground behind your house in the woods.
So he decided, all right, I'll cut up the woods.
(34:54):
I'll come from behind, surprise them and give them a beating,
and that's exactly what happened, ten throwing snowballs at the
buses as they went by. I uh yeah, that's a
I don't know if that's a good memory for me,
but you you just reminded me of a decent story.
My god, Oh my god. All right, I think we're
(35:19):
gonna go. Yeah, let's just go, man. I think we
did it. I think that's all I had today. To
be honest with you, you would get beat. Okay, so this
guy understands, Charles understands you would get beat and then
beat at home again. Yes, pretty good fake story my
(35:40):
guy wrote. My stories aren't fake. I'm sorry. I'm sorry,
but they're not fake. There's a lot of obsessed people
out there. I wonder why they're so obsessed. What did
I do to you? What did I do to you
that you're so obsessed with me? What did I do?
Is this pretty face? You get up early to do this?
(36:11):
All right? I think we're gonna go. We did it.
Uh yeah. People try to say I tell fake stories
or something that's not true. I just lived. I lived
a pretty a pretty decent life with a lot of
a lot of excitement. Oh my god, So I got
(36:32):
I got stories for days. I think we did it.
I mean, the government shut down. I don't know what
those knuckleheads are gonna do down there, but I know
we're up to day six, and I know Congress is
continued to get continuing to get paid. Oh. I did
this story, but we got a little more on it.
Another fun, fun, fun story. I leave you with this,
(36:54):
another lighter side of the news. Okay, we got a
ninety five year old woman. She's in a home and
she much had it with her eighty nine year old roommate.
I would just love to know what kind of babbling
was going on where the ninety five year old basically said,
I've had it, So she took off her metal foot
(37:16):
pedal from her wheelchair and beat the living crap out
of her roommate. I mean, I mean that's just like wow,
but she had it ninety five. What do you do
with a ninety five year old woman that just killed
somebody in a nursing home? For real? What do you
do with that? Isn't it punishment enough that she's in
(37:40):
a nursing home and none of her family visits her.
That's that's punishment, right? Hell yeah, all right, let's go, guys,
have a wonderful day. Thank you very very much. Made
a few bucks today, all right, I see what's going on,
all right, A little support, little support doesn't hurt anybody,
So thank you for thank you for watching. Thank you
(38:04):
for watching through the vesselene lens that is my camera.
But I had a you know what, I had a
wonderful weekend celebrating my daughter's birthday. We are very very tired.
We had friends and family and a lot of activity
and a lot of walking around. So I'm definitely tired.
(38:25):
So it doesn't hurt that I got the vassoline looking
lens today. So thank you, so thanks for giving me
a few bucks. More importantly, hit that like on the
way out, Thank you very very much. And what else?
What else? Deb saying you made nothing? I made it
some bucks? Deb? Y'all right? Deb? Where's deb? Deb? Y'all right?
(38:46):
Do you need a hug? Deb? Why does it bother
you if I make money or don't make money? Can
you explain that to me? My god, the life of
a hater. It's fascinating to me, It really is fascinating
to me. And then you know, and then and then
(39:06):
some of yeah, actually, I get it on a pretty
regular basis. They will apologize to me, Oh, I was
going through a bad time and I took it out
at you. I'm really really sorry. And then I got
to clench my teeth because I don't want to forgive anybody.
It's something I had to learn through therapy. You gotta
start forgiving some of these people. So I let them
off the hook. I'm like, I forgive you. But then
(39:27):
I always asked, well, what did you do in particular?
And then they'll tell me something horrific. I'm like, I
forgive you. I forgive you, all right, I'm gonna go now,
hit the like on the way out, and don't forget.
More importantly, even though deb doesn't think I made a
(39:47):
few bucks, I did. I think it was a total
of I got a tenor fiver for a membership and
a tour. I think I made seventeen dollars today. That rocks.
That fucking rocks. But more importantly, if you could download
the audio versions of these wherever you get your Opie
Radio podcast, sit through the stupid commercials. I purposely don't
(40:10):
put a lot of commercials in my podcast, but if
you sit through them, I get it. I get literally
every time you listen, a couple of pennies, A couple
of pennies fall from the sky, and I'm hoping some
of the you know, the pile of pennies will add
up some day. All right, all right, guys, have a
wonderful Monday. I definitely appreciate GE. We focus on the
(40:32):
cool people. The haters. They're gonna just be here for
whatever reason, doing what, and for who. I don't know.
I maybe maybe one of these idiots could explain the
whole thing to me, because I find it very, very weird.
All Right, we'll talk soon. Bye, guys,
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