3-10-25 - 6am - Dragon's Headline Stories

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Michael, does Dragon provide your bumper music for the weekend show.
It's currently kind of angry and aggressive, mostly just aggressive,
but a little bit angry. I don't know, it sounds
like something that Dragon might put out.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Dragon does not work on the weekend with Michael Brown.
But Dragon definitely was angry on Saturday.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Would you like to delve into that by any chance?

Speaker 4 (00:27):
That's that's pretty good. Your job is frustrated.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
You kind of believe that right where it is? Is that? Okay?
All right? All right? Yeah? You know what's interesting about
the weekend program is I can't hear the bumper music
because of the network. So, because of the way the
syndication works. When when we go to break, I hear
what what would you call that? Dragon? I know that

(00:51):
they play a it's not a song. It's just you know,
like some some film music, film music that they feed
down the pipeline out to all the affiliates.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Just so that the affiliates don't get silence alarms and.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Right, So that's all I hear during the break is
is that? And it's just this uh. In fact, it
drives me crazy. I usually pull my earbud out and
then watch the clock it's worse than Yeah, it is.
It's worse than that. It's worse than the elevator musac
or whatever they call it now. So I don't hear

(01:30):
any of that. And I've never thought to ask Michael
the producer what but he plays. I have no clue,
nor has he asked me what I want for bumpering music.
Maybe I should do that. I should find out.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
It's an eighties hip hop, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
It probably was with Damien, but I doubt it is
with Michael. Yeah, I don't. I doubt Michael's doing hip hop.
But now now I'm curious, but I can't here if
I listen to the podcast, can I.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
That is correct? Huh? They don't have the music rights either.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yeah, so uh huh. Interesting, No way, nobody's gonna hear it. Okay,
let's get started. We're just gonna kind of go through.
I've got show preps kind of weird today. And it's
weird in the sense that, well, just like Dragon isn't

(02:25):
gonna talk about his weekend, I want to talk about
my weekend. Uh, but show preps it's not haphazard. Well
there's there's there's a ton of it. I did some
show prep for you. I get some stories over there
for you. Well, well, you know what, we'll just do that. Well,
this is just kind of the mood I'm in today.
We'll start here.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
I told you in our little pre show meeting.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
We we need you and I especially need a no
politics show day. I don't know if it's today, it
could be later on this week, could be next month,
who knows, but it's gonna happen, or.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
Even maybe a no politics I'd be happy with that
right now, I am. I don't know about the rest
of you, and i'd be curious what you're taking. And
I know here's my all right, let's just have this
discussion on air. Here's my reservation about a no politics

(03:19):
day is so many goobers. In fact, I would guess
that ninety percent of the goobers tune in every single
day to hear what my take is on the stuff,
like like on a Monday, what they've heard all weekend,
what they've discussed at dinner with family or friends, or
when they've been out to eat, or they've gone to

(03:41):
a movie or whatever, or they happen to catch the
evening news or they're watching whatever, and right now and
as it has been since January twentieth, actually even before that,
because if you go back, even during the Biden administration,
even though he wasn't doing anything, there has it's just
been this. It's kind of like, do you remember this

(04:07):
would really date me, but I remember as a child
there used to be some sort of top that you
could pull a string on and then kind of throw
it down. It's like almost like a gyroscope of some sort,
but you could you could pull a string on that
and set it down and it would just spin, and
it would spin so fast and it would just, you know,

(04:27):
stay there forever. I feel like that's how the news
is flowing right now. It's just like it's just going.
It's non stop, and trying to keep up with it
and trying to kind of sift through what interests me,
what doesn't interest me, what I think might be something

(04:49):
that would be good because I might have a different
perspective than most people would have on It is tiring,
and I've I'm not going to mention what happened with
people's clocks, but that's a factor with today too. So
here's what dragon. So let me go back to my point.

(05:12):
Almost lost my point there for a moment, people tune
in because they want to hear what our take is
on the news. And we've been drinking out of a
fire hose for a long time, particularly since January twentieth,
So we're coming out pretty soon on three months of

(05:33):
drinking out of this fire hose. And it's some of
it is pretty tough, and there's a lot of nuance
because so many people just run to their corners and
they focus on, well, this is my position, and then
I'm not going to change or this is uh, there's

(05:55):
one overarching thing, and that overarching thing is all you're
going to look at, and you won't look at ey
the nuances or it is. It's a very divisive issue
and people get divided on it. And now that's never
bothered me in the least, but nonetheless that means I
have to be even more correct, factually, analytically everything because

(06:23):
I know it. I mean, of you will jump down
my throats. Now I don't care if you jump down
my throat, because sometimes when you jump down my throat
about something, eh, you know what, you're right, I miss
I miss that. That's a good idea, but my god,
it just is so much. For example, the first story
I was going to do today was about the jobs
numbers that came out on Friday, which I did not

(06:43):
talk about on Saturday. So I know that's what you
tune into. And then when we do a new politics Day,
we get backlash. We get backlash, like I tuned in
to find out because because I guarante ante if we chose,
if we choose tomorrow as the no Politics Day, world

(07:04):
War three will break out this afternoon, at this evening
at seven pm. True, And then you know, of course
we would drop the no Politics Day and go do
over War three. Yep, but that's that's the risk we run.
And Dragon does come in here and he'll give me
two or three stories every day, and throughout the week,

(07:25):
I'll use two or three of those stories. So I'll
get ten stories, and i'll use three of them, and
I typically use them as filler when I've finished, Like
I'm doing a story that is I know it's going
to take four segments, but I end up finishing finishing
it in three segments, so I'll grab one of these

(07:47):
stories that will be a story that I'll do for
a final segment. So here are today's so i'd be
curious what you think about the policy.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
For those that happen to be new here come from
the weekend and don't know what I do. All I
read is the headline and goal that's funny or that's interesting.
Oh I wonder what that's all about. And I just
print it and give it to Michael. That's all I do.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
And even when he looks ahead and says, oh, that's interesting,
he doesn't read it to see. All he said. All
he means is the headline. Yeah. Interesting. Yes, the headline
was either funny, odd or interesting.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
And we do have a correction from the text line here, Michael.
We are currently coming up on two months, not three. Yes,
it is the third month of the year. Oh yeh yeah, yeah,
right right the administration.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
Seat right there, right there, because I look down and
see March ten and I think, oh, we're almost to
March twentieth. Oh yeah, third month. Read Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
This comes to us from Westward, which, by the way,
I never heard from Patty Calhoun. I I think I
said something to her on x uh. Patty and I
have known each other for a long time. She's the
publisher and owner of Westward. Westward was one of those
newspapers that you know, it's one of those community newspapers.

(09:05):
Westward has been around. It has been a Denver staple
for decades and decades, and it's it used to be
basically ads comprised of massages that included a happy ending,
and then it went to weed and now it's all
about cannabis and weed and where you know, it's it's

(09:27):
half ads for Uh. I'm not quite sure you why
you need a newspaper ad for a dispensary, because if
you need weed, all you have to do is you
don't have to get in your car, just walk to
the end of your street. There's a dispensary there. More
so more more dispensaries than are Starbucks. Here's the first

(09:50):
story out of Westward. Denver mayor volunteers to bartend on
Colfax and readers respond, Uh, let me just say the story.
This has been a busy time for Mayor Mike Johnson,
who spent six hours oh the inhumanity, who spent six
hours testifying before a congressional committee this week, and his

(10:10):
public appearances won't end there. Quote Johnson says, I'm going
to launch a guest bartending program on Collfax for anyone
who would have me. I'm going to come in once
a month and have events at bars and restaurants on
East Coalfax and just encourage all of our neighbors to come.
It's easy to say, oh, gosh, construction is on Collfax.

(10:34):
Let's go to seventeenth or go downtown, or go to
wash Park. We once have it to be the opposite.
This is a time when we should all go to Collfax.
It was under construction and that's stupid. So Collfax is
under construction and the mayor says that's when you should go. Now,
I understand what he's trying to do. He's trying to

(10:57):
support the businesses. But the way to support the businesses
is to do the construction in phases so that you
minimize the impact on businesses. But Denver can't do anything
like that. Denver can't do anything right. He says. What
we're trying to do is help support all these businesses
and keep them alive in the process. Is it true

(11:18):
that some businesses occasionally close and that's a regular cycle. Well, yes,
but we really don't want to see these long term
Denver businesses get lost. So we're going to do everything
we can to drive traffic, expedite construction, and provide relief
where we can. That's just the biggest bunch of bull
crap that I've read, and I don't know when, and
I read an awful lot of bull crap. Why would

(11:41):
somebody send me a calendar invite at six seventeen in
the morning? Did you hear that? Being But in their
responses on the Westward of Facebook page, many readers suggest
that this isn't the solution to solving the problems created
by the bus rapid transit construction. All. I didn't realize
that that's what they were I thought they were actually

(12:02):
going to fix the damn road on cold facts. No,
they're building bus lanes, says Jamie, tell me you are
clueless without telling me you're clueless, Jamie Bingo Henry says,
is the mayor truly so TikTok famous that a guest

(12:24):
appearance once a month will draw revenue explosions to save
coal facts? This game is amusing, Bring me your finest
meats and cheeses, notes Matt, an all time example of
Democrats thinking they're celebrities and not public servants. Oh toche,
Matt wonders. Andrea Andrea, should we start placing bets and

(12:50):
how many drinks are tossed in his face? I don't
want him to get hurt, but I hope it happens.
Austin says, going to be aligned to get out the
door offers Gary politics plus alcohol. What could possibly go wrong?

(13:11):
Comments Bobby. Okay, so instead of creating an actual plan,
he'll just be getting people drunk so they forget how
terribly the city is being run drunk? Are you okay, Joel?
What if this is our Joel? Thanks for writing about this.
I was a study patron of both the lions Layer
and the Squire for twenty years. But don't make it

(13:32):
back to the old neighborhood much at all. I'll make
it a point to visit both bars in the upcoming
year for support. Well, good for you, Joel, and Kate
reminds us there are also many other businesses suffering that
are not bars or restaurants. Not to undermine them, but
the whole of Colfax is in threat of shuddering right now.

(13:54):
Support local when you can. You know, he truly is
an idiot, isn't he? It says that he uh where
was this? He just announced that it sounds like he
just oh. He told the city council this week. I'm

(14:15):
going to launch a guest bartending program on Colefax for
anyone who would have me. He told the city council
last week. I'm going to come in once a month
and have events at bars and restaurants in East Colfax.
Now that really once a month. So once a month,
that's when you want to go. You want to go
to a bar once a month when the mayor is

(14:37):
going to be there with the security detail and the
press is going to be there in the meet because
you know that Kyle Clark will be there. You know
that Paddy Calhoun and Westwood are going to be there.
You know that somebody from the Denver gazad or the
Denver Post will be there because they all want to
support the mayor. So you want to go to a
bar on you know, on a random night. And by

(14:58):
the way, is he going to announce I had a
time that you're gonna be there.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
I'm also curious if they're gonna have sales on the
drinks or the drink's gonna be more expensive.

Speaker 4 (15:06):
How's that all gonna work?

Speaker 3 (15:07):
Yeah? And are you gonna pay for the parking, you know,
and the crowded parking because now the mayor is gonna
be there, so you're gonna go. I'd say this was
not thought out very well, so boom, that one goes
in the trash. The next one, no, no, we'll we'll
do this one instead. Now we'll go to this one.

(15:29):
Man undergoes emergency surgery after suffering ruptured artery by picking
his nose a Chinese man. I'm just trying to think
of a joke there, but I just can't think of it.

Speaker 4 (15:41):
We'll just leave that one there.

Speaker 3 (15:41):
Yeah, we'll just leave that there. A Chinese man reportedly
needed emergency surgery after rupturing his facial artery. We have
a facial artery.

Speaker 4 (15:50):
Apparently this is news to me.

Speaker 3 (15:53):
After rupturing his facial artery. Where the hell is my
facial artery? I guess so he was. His case was
shared online by his wife, Thank you sweetie, Thank you sweetheart,
in the form of a short clip documenting his experience.
It hopes that it might dissuade other avid nosepickers from

(16:16):
indulging in their favorite pastime too much.

Speaker 4 (16:19):
How many people you think of picking their nose in
their cars? Right?

Speaker 3 (16:22):
Right now, right, now I'm even embarrassed sometimes like my
nose will itch and so I'll kind of scratch it
like this, And I'm always afraid even somebody that sees
me do that thinks I'm going to pick Picking my nose.

Speaker 4 (16:35):
Nose is just I swear.

Speaker 3 (16:37):
Yeah. Whether he was standing, sitting down, or lying in bed,
he would always be exploring his nostrils.

Speaker 4 (16:43):
With a finger two knuckles deep.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
Only recently, his obsession with nose picking came back to
bite him. One day, while picking his nose as usual,
the man triggered a serious nosebleed that simply couldn't be
stopped despite his and his wife's best efforts. In the end,
they went to the hospital, he was diagnosed with the
ruptured artery prepped him for emergency surgery. This is the

(17:10):
Man's wife filmed the entire hospital experience, including her snarky
question when he was recovering from the operation, honey, why
don't you pick your nose? Get up and pick it again?
And then posted that online. Can you what really bugs me?
He's thet She is the instigator. She was trying to
kill him. She was trying to kill him. But if

(17:34):
I side around picking my nose all day long. You know,
tamer I might want she was to kill me anyway,
but that might just be pusher over the edge. Here's
what can I ask a question? Why when your husband,
your spouse, your wife, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, or your child,
or your your parents, your elderly parents, somebody, what is

(17:54):
it about posting pictures of them like they're intubated or
they're rap and all sorts of things. And they're in
a hospital bed and they're bruised, and they're ugly, and
they look like they're on a death bed and you
put a picture of them on Facebook.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
I get taking the picture because then you can show
them ups look how bad you are.

Speaker 4 (18:12):
But hosting that, do.

Speaker 3 (18:15):
You not see that? I see it all the time.
It just and I and I this is this is
proof that I have some personal restraint. I always want
to comment and say, I doubt your loved one really
once they're photograph of them in the hospital bed dying
on social media. Michael Miguel, Hey, I lost an hour

(18:40):
on Sunday?

Speaker 4 (18:41):
Did I experience daylight?

Speaker 3 (18:43):
Doge? I would talk about Doge, but I'm not going
to talk about the other part of your of your
statement because you know why, I'm not going to talk
about it because everybody bitches about it, everybody complains about it,
and nobody's gonna do anything about it. It's one of

(19:05):
those things that it just is, and I just don't
care anymore, and so I'm sure there.

Speaker 4 (19:14):
Aren't used to it. Get over it. Yeah, let's move forward.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
Move forward. In fact, there are much more important things
to consider while we continue to clear off my console
of dragon stories. Doctors discover maggots and man's penis after
flies were attracted to a foul smell. Good night, everybody

(19:39):
going home, that's it. This comes from the UK. Son
Doctors were shocked. Really, doctors were shocked to discover maggots
crawling inside a man's penis and bladder. The seventy six
year old patient went to the hospital in the poll.

(20:01):
Why you know, of course, it's always these Third world
craphole countries where these stories come from. For example, not
I don't, I've already told the story away. I'm not
sure where in China China. China is not totally a
craphole country. Well it is because it's it's a communist country,
but it's not a craphole country like some places in

(20:25):
the third world where you know, there's no sanitation and
there's no healthcare, and there's no food and there's nothing else. Well,
there are parts of China like that, but all these
stories always come from places like the pole. The seventy
six year old fart went to the hospital complaining of
a bloody discharge oozing from its penis. But I'm really cute,

(20:48):
and maybe it's in a story, but how long do
you wait to go to the hospital if you look
down at your penis and it's oozing with goop and blood?

Speaker 2 (20:58):
You know, there are a few things that I will
go to the doctor for. I my finger gets all
crooked and is pointed the wrong direction. Maybe I'll take
a week or two see if it fixes itself.

Speaker 3 (21:07):
Right.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
Yeah, you know, if my elbow bends the wrong way,
it didn't hurt so much right now, But if anything
goes on down.

Speaker 4 (21:13):
There, I'm going to the doctor.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
I'm going to the doctor immediately, right, Which just proves
that that's the part of our body that we think
with true, not up here where our skulls are. Down there,
that's where we think. Two years earlier, he had been
diagnosed with an enlarged prostate a common condition. Obviously, when

(21:36):
the prostate becomes enlarge, you can press against the bladder
and the uretha, the tube that carries urine other body,
making it difficult to pee. You know, I find it
that's an interesting sentence. It contains the word prostate, bladder, urethra, urine.
But then when it comes to describing what all those

(21:57):
things do, they use the word.

Speaker 4 (21:59):
P and not urinate and not urinate. That is kind
of interesting.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
That interesting, that's my fascination with language. In his case,
published in the International Journal of Surgery Case Reports, I
Let Mine Lapse. Doctor said the bloodage of the block
each was severe enough that he needed a catheter inserted
to help him pass urine normally. When the medics examined him,
they found live maggots burrowing into an open wound near

(22:27):
his urethrop. Writing in the journal, doctors from Tributing University
Teaching Hospital don't specify how the maggots reached this penis. However,
they note that flies are attracted to It's just too
early for this.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
You have a texterer say hey, Michael, I'm eating breakfast,
you turd.

Speaker 3 (22:47):
However, they, however, they note that flies are attracted to
foul smelling discharges from body openings where they then lay
their eggs. These eggs then hatch into maggots, and said
that his wife had been taking care of his personal hygiene.

(23:08):
I was just I was pausing there because I was
just thinking, I just I doubt that. Well, my guess
is I'm bedridden.

Speaker 4 (23:24):
Yeah, yeah, that's where my head went to.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
I'm ninety six years old. I don't think Missus Redbeard
or Missus b or either one going to come and
take care of our personal hygiene.

Speaker 4 (23:34):
Not at that point.

Speaker 3 (23:35):
No, there will be there will be a you know,
some visiting nurse that will come and take care of
my personal hygiene. I don't think that either one of
our spouses are going to do that, you know. No,
it's just not gonna happen, isn't is Do you think
your spouse is going to take care of your personal
hygiene needs?

Speaker 4 (23:56):
Really? And that's the only thing I'm saving for the retirement.
Screw that.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
No, I'm just saving for a bucks of nurse to
come clean me up when I'm ninety six.

Speaker 3 (24:03):
That's right, that's right. Even more disturbing, some baby maggots
called larva were spotted wriggling through his euretha, raising fears
that they made his way into the bladders to stop
a cystoscopy where a doctor uses a camera to examine
the urinary track confirm their worst suspicions. The tiny parasites

(24:26):
had invaded his bladder. The condition known so see they
have a name for this condition, so it means it
happened before more than once. Your genital mayes. Mi asses
happens when flies lay eggs in open cuts or moist areas.

Speaker 4 (24:48):
You know.

Speaker 3 (24:48):
Dragon. When you don't read the story, uh huh, you
miss the little byelines where they tease other stories. Oh,
because in the next paragraph, in a place called life stories,
it says I had my penis amputated.

Speaker 4 (25:07):
Sounds like the worst day ever.

Speaker 3 (25:10):
The man who suffered a stroke and was dependent on
his wife to keep him clean was an easy target.
Doctors immediately set to work, using turpentine oil to force
the maggots to surface before manually removing them. His bladder
was then flush with the saline solution. He's given a
dose of a horse paste ivermectin, a drug used to

(25:34):
kill parasites, stayed in the hospital eleven days, got a
clean bill of health. The follow up confirm no remaining larvae.
He later underwent a circumcision to reduce the risk of
further infections. Doctor's treating the man road the discovery of
maggots in both the penis and urinary bladder is an
uncommon and alarming occurrence. No fece sherlock. Really, they said

(26:00):
that eurogenital miasis in the penis is not uncommon, but
infestation of the bladder is very rare, and it indicates
the severe and invasive nature of the disease. So then
dragging again because you don't read the entire stories.

Speaker 4 (26:14):
Uh huh.

Speaker 3 (26:14):
We have down at the end of the story bizarre
medical cases reports involving penises. From a man who got
food poisoning in his penis, I'll just leave that for
your imagination. To another who scroed them swelled to the
side of a beach ball, I'll leave that to your

(26:36):
pictorial imagination. Here's a roundup of medical cases involving Can
I say this word t O d G E R S.
I've never heard that before. I E T O d
G E R doesn't even come up in my Does

(26:57):
he even come up in my So I'm not gonna
t O D G e R s. So here are
the three examples they give.

Speaker 4 (27:06):
That's a British thing, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
I guess I guess it's a British Let me open
up a let me just do a Google search and see.

Speaker 4 (27:16):
It said replaces your marbles. I think that's that's yeah.
I think that's.

Speaker 3 (27:20):
Todger meaning a penis the part of the male's body
is used for urinating Scottish slang. See Scottish slang. A
man was forced to have his penis amputated after developing
gangreen following excessive alcohol consumption. Doctors found bacteria that tends

(27:41):
to cause food poisoning in a man's penis. A man
had to have part of his penis amputated after a
sex toy strangled his member and left it blackened and
gang Greeness.

Speaker 4 (27:56):
No, thank you.

Speaker 3 (27:58):
So there is the second story that dragon.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
Left A third no, because we did that Mike Johnston
the nose picking.

Speaker 3 (28:07):
Oh yeah, yeah, right right. Chewing wood can give your
brain an unexpected boost. Many dogs who two sticks are
onto something. We don't necessarily have to chomp with the
canine zeal, but the basic concept safely gnawing, gnawing on
some hard safely gnawing some hard safely gnawing some hard,

(28:33):
durable material might be worth considering. I just don't like
the verb gnawing with our twelve year old minds thinking
about hard durable material. According to a new study, chewing
on a hard substance like wood can boost levels of
a naturally occurring antioxidant in the human brain, which in

(28:57):
turn might improve a person's memory. Many people gum, of course,
which is softer but arguably more palatable than would and
avoids tongue splinters. Previous what's this gum? Yahoo news, Previous
research has shown chewing gum can in fact significantly increase
brain activity. As the authors of the new study note,

(29:17):
you know, I get an email like once a day.
It's uh the subjects always studies find and it's a
condensation of usually five, six, a dozen studies that I'll
just give you the one line about what the study finds.
I've gotten right. I don't even read it anymore because
I just deleted. I should unsubscribe from them because it's
so sweet.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
With with dose in effect, we may no longer get any
of these studies find stories.

Speaker 3 (29:43):
That is true? Oh would would seems would would would
seem to confer more benefit than paraffin. Wax gum might
not be sufficient evid and to recommend chewing wood for
better memory, but they do provide a compelling hint, and

(30:04):
it would be good news if chewing wood does have
this effect. The research is right. I can just say
that I don't. I don't necessarily want to chew would
nor would I want to be chewed. But maybe other
things help your memory too, help your brain. Do you

(30:26):
have any more penis stories for me?

Speaker 4 (30:28):
I'm sure I could find some.

Speaker 3 (30:29):
Now we're done. I'm sorry, sir, you're gonna die.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
You.

Speaker 3 (30:37):
But number ninety three seventy Mike, guess I'll see what
beck is talking about? A hole? See dragon, I'm.

Speaker 4 (30:46):
Not looking at this screen. Is he the one that
said it a hole to you? Or you call it?

Speaker 3 (30:50):
He said that to metcha? Yeah? Yeah, Well sure you
can go over and listen to back give a sermon,
have at it. I don't care. Uh give a number
thirty six so too, Michael, all this talking about private parts.
I thought you were trying to have a politics free segment.
Please stop. Fifty five sixty six Mike toothpicks, I recall

(31:12):
seeing a lot of people chewing on them back in
the day, but not so much anymore. They're usually.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
Back in school. You know, in grade school you'd chew
on a pencil and.

Speaker 3 (31:22):
Oh yeah, you chow on a pencil all the time.
But remember the little toothpick dispensers. Yeah, what's that thing
out there? Is that a toothpick dispenser?

Speaker 4 (31:31):
It very well could be. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
It's completely empty, so it's just it's just weird looking
trying to but sure, I need to pick.

Speaker 3 (31:38):
It up and just kind of handle it and see
what it is. But it looks like somebody left an
old you know, where you would twist a little knob
and a toothpick would come out.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
But the dispensing area is bigger than a toothpick.

Speaker 3 (31:50):
Oh, you're right, it is. I have no idea what
that is.

Speaker 4 (31:53):
Yeah, so it's it's strange.

Speaker 3 (31:54):
And then of course you got you went from that.
Don't You hate going into a place where they have straws,
but the straws are unwrapped and they're all just like
in a container. You just you're supposed to pull the
straw out of it. I hate that where the plastic
utensils barbecue places are notorious for this. They just have

(32:17):
one of those containers that has like five slots for
you know, spoons, forks, and a couple of sizes of
knives or something, and they're all just loosen there and
you're supposed to just reach in there and grab one.
I don't want, I know, I want it wrapped in plastic.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
I like the new ones that are like slot machines.
You have to pull the handle and then those, Yeah,
the little slot machines, you literally pull the handle and
out pops the fork. Oh, singular fork and it's handle
first for the fork, and okay, so you go move
over the knife one. You pull the handle on that
pops the knife.

Speaker 4 (32:47):
They're really neat.

Speaker 3 (32:48):
Are they wrapped in plastic? They come out if.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
They're just straight plastic, But I mean they're they're they individually.

Speaker 4 (32:53):
Come out to you.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
So you're the only one that touched it besides the
person that loaded the machine.

Speaker 3 (32:57):
Yeah, if you own a restaurant, I mean well obviously
barbecue place or a you know, a casual place, or
you know, a greasy spoon or whatever, and you use
plastic utensils, at least get them wrapped in plastic. Don't
put them out there or at least you know, well
then I don't want I don't want you handing it
to me either. I don't want other people touching the thing.

(33:17):
I'm gonna use it put in the food in my mouth,
true or that, and so anyway, so back to toothpicks.
So at least the single dispenser, you'd twist the knob
and one toothpick would come out. That was okay, But
then they went to paper wrapped toothpicks, and you never
know what to do with the wrapper there was because

(33:38):
there was never any place to put it. So you
had wadded up into a tiny little ball and you'd
set it over somewhere. And I knowiced people do that
now with straws that you unwrap the straw and there's
usually a round hole to put trash in, and people
will not wad up the straw wrapper. They'll just kind

(33:58):
of toss it over where that hole is, and pretty
soon the hole is covered with straw covers that are
just preventing you from putting trash to you.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
With the stories that I hand you, you just wad
them up and you try and shoot them into the
basket and if you miss.

Speaker 3 (34:13):
You miss you miss. That's right, because that's that's what
the little goober's there to clean up. To clean up
your mess. Yes, well, the other thing I hate is
if you're in a fast food place and they put
the piece of paper on the tray, which I appreciate
the paper on the tray, but then when you go
to dump your stuff in the trash, that piece of
paper won't come off. Do you try to take the
paper off or do you just set the tray up?

Speaker 2 (34:33):
No?

Speaker 4 (34:33):
I take paper off. Oh you do.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
Oh. I'll try to bang it a couple of times,
but I'd say fifty percent of the time, I just
see the paper. If you're gonna do that, then you
can take it off.