August 30, 2025 • 23 mins
The ongoing Cracker Barrel logo follies; why you should take a poop down an elevator shaft; Trump & Putin and more jocularity than should be allowed by law
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Readings and welcome to the broadcast. So, amid the huge
backlash over the logo or they planned logo change, Cracker
Barrel has reversed its decision and they're going back and
they're staying with the old logo, with the old timer
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I guess who was known as Uncle Herschel sitting in
the chair leaning against the barrel. I am somewhat disappointed
in Cracker Barrel for doing this, although I can understand
why they did, considering the huge public backlash against the
logo change, which I still don't understand. It's not like
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it's the end of the world. It's not like it's
some huge problem, but apparently it was. As I had
pointed out in a previous episode of this podcast, I
found the Uncle Herschel character on the logo to be
kind of creepy for lack of a better word, So
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of course that that's that's just me. I've been. I've been.
I've been told that I'm kind of creepy too, so,
you know whatever. Even even President Trump had joined in
on the the situation here, adding his comments during this
process of the logo change. Normally I don't agree with
anything that Trump has to say. But he did mention
(01:32):
that all of this fracass over the rebranding has provided
Cracker Barrel with a big and dollars worth of free
oritizing and and that is correct, although I don't think
that was the original intent here on the part of
the company, so they just never saw this one coming. Also,
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it is interesting to note that inside of every Cracker Barrel,
at each table, there's little board game. It's like a
pyramid shaped piece of wood with pegs in it, and
there's one peg missing, one hole empty. You're supposed to
keep jumping one peg over the other peg until you're left,
like I believe it's like one peg or no pegs.
I can't remember. I've been been so long since I
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played the damn game and the ones in Cracker Barrel.
It's not as Cracker Barrel that I've seen this in
other establishments. There's writing on the board which makes inferences
to someone's intelligence level depending on how well they perform
this with this peg game. Some have found that offensive,
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so I guess Cracker Barrow was going to change the
wording on the games not to be so. How should
I say harsh towards one's stupidity when they're not able
to solve this game. Well, let's put it this way.
If you can't jump one peg over another to figure
out how to be left with one or none, then
maybe there's a certain level of stupidity going on. Okay, well,
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the writing on the game is just calling it like
it is. But we are so hyper sensitive these days.
Is to not offend people, we have to reward the
damn board game, so it's not hurting anybody's feelings. God forbid,
we should actually hurt anybody's feelings. So we wouldn't want
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to do that, now, would we. But again, I'm kind
of disappointed in Cracker Barrel for buckling in on all
this and changing their direction. But with the money at
stake and the customer dissatisfaction over the situation, I can
clearly understand why they made this decision. So be it,
(03:44):
and the old timer Uncle Herschel lives on in his
creepy self, sitting in his chair leaning against the barrel.
All is once again good in the world. But moving
right along, I'm gonna take a minute here to talk
about a story that I read the other day concerning
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I believe it was a couple who bought a home
out in the area of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This is a
home that this is the dream home for this couple.
They've been researching and looking for just the right place
to buy and they found this house. They bought this house,
but now as a problem because they discovered down in
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the basement there is a swastika tiled into the tile floor.
So well, I'm not laughing to make fun of the
situation because obviously, since the Nazi regime, the swastika is
known as a symbol of hate and really bad things.
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Prior to the Nazis, though, swastika was a symbol of
good luck and good fortune in many ancient cultures. But
it was Hitler and his gang of thugs that ruined
the swastika for everybody. So fast forwarding here the the homeowners.
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The new homeowners have filed a lawsuit claiming that they
are suffering psychological damage and they're also trying to get
the cost of repairing and replacing the floor, which is
going into thousands of dollars, which seems a little on
the high side as far as the prices they're being quoted,
(05:35):
but whatever, But not not to sound like a jackass,
but I'm actually having some difficulty finding sympathy for these
homeowners because and let me explain why not not to
obviously make light of how they feel about this. Obviously
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it's it's distressing. It's distressing to them. But if they
have a home inspection done, which I believe they did,
the home inspector should have spotted this. I mean, it's
kind of backtrack a little bit here. This swastika was
under a rug, under a table. There was a table
on top of a rug down to the basement, and
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the swastika of the tiles swastika was under the rug.
So at no point did this home inspector bothered to
move the table or the rug to take a look
at the floor underneath. In Pennsylvania, basements have problems. The
basements leak quite often in this state. Basement floors get cracked,
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basement walls get cracked. So for a home inspector not
to a very least lift a corner of the carpet
to take a look the rug to see what's under
there is basically irresponsible and not very thorough. Years ago,
when I bought a home in New Hampshire, my home
inspector he when he went down to the basement, there
was boxes kind of piled up on the corner. He
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moved the boxes so he could get a look out
the floor and the wall behind the boxes to make
sure everything was okay. So for a home inspector in
this case, in this home in Pennsylvania not to bother
to do that, well, that's on him, you know. The homeowners.
They're suing for non disclosure of this on the part
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of the Cellaris, but really their home inspector varis some
responsibility here if they had one done. It's also been
pointed out that these people, the people bought the home,
had ample opportunity to look under that rug, but at
no point did they do this. It wasn't until they
had actually moved in or were beginning the process of
moving in. They were cleaning up some of the stuff
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left behind, including the table and the rug when they
moved it. Then they found the swastik up. Then the
shit hit the fan, And again I can understand why
there'd be some misgivings over this. Obviously, if you have
company over and you're down in the basement, it's gonna
be difficult to explain this swastika on the floor, and
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it's not surprising because back in the day, back in
when the Nazi Party first formed, there were many card
carrying Nazis here in the United States. It wasn't commonplace,
but it wasn't unusual either for people to follow the
Nazi propaganda and become members have a membership here even
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though they're living in the US, So they probably had
some sort of space in this basement where they performed
a Nazi Nazi ritual or whatever with the swastika. Additionally,
the woman here, one of the homeowners, is calling for
new laws to be enacted to prevent hate symbols from
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not being disclosed at the time a house is being sold. Well,
I'm sorry, but we don't need another law on the book.
And how often how often do you find homes with
hate symbols that are hidden and not disclosed or not
visible or something? Okay, nah, come on, I remembering a
hard time swallowing some of this logic here, So no,
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we don't need another law in the books along those lines. Again,
if you take the time to look through a house
before you buy it, do it thoroughly officially, You're gonna
find the hate symbols if they're there. I know that
makes no sense, but you understand what I'm driving at here. Also,
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to be claiming psychological damage over this is a little
extreme in this lawsuit. It's not like Hitler is buried
under that swastika. If that were the case, yeah, then
you got a problem. Okay, Yeah, then you have an
issue you need to address it. But no, Hitler is
not under the swastika. It's just a floor. And it
sounds like they want like the entire floor concrete and
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everything ripped up and replaced. Well why not? Just you know,
if it were me, if this were my house, I
would just go down to Lows and buy some buy
some of those peel and stick tiles and stick them
on top of this thing and forget about it. Okay,
out of sight, out of mind, or retile with ceramic
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tile over the top of the existing floor, bury it,
forget about it. But it sounds like they want to
have this this floor dug down to like six feet
and start over, which okay, whatever. So is there is
there a point to my little rambling here? Well, yeah, somewhat. There.
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There's an old saying that goes buyer beware. I think
the correct terminology is caveat caveat mpator, and obviously it
means you know what, if you're a buyer of anything
ought to be a house, a car, you know, a wheelbarrow, whatever,
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be careful and what you're buying. And you know, they
apparently did a lot of research to find this home
in the first place, but they didn't do that last
step to peel up the corner of a rug on
the floor and find a swastik under there. So so
here's my take. You know, you have the home that
you want, You have your health, you have your relative happiness.
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Now take whatever steps necessary to cover up this thing,
cover up, paint over it, whatever you need to do
to get rid of it, and go on. There's no
need for a lawsuit because it's it's not like the
house is falling down. I have known people, trust me,
who bought homes and they neglected to have a home
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inspect where they ran into some serious structural problems with
the house after the fact. Believe me, you're not in
that boat. So you're good. It's just this is cosmetic repair.
Get rid of, get rid of the swastika, and go
on with your life, your new happy home. Just saying,
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just saying, So let us venture over to Mumbai, where
recently a man, a fifty two year old man, fell
to his death while on the eighteenth floor of a building.
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He attempted to take a shit down an elevator shaft. Obviously,
while taking the said dump, he lost his balance or
something his footing and went tumbling down to go boom boom.
When I first read that, I thought to myself, what
a shitty situation. I wonder if he pissed himself on
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the way down too. So anyway, here here's my question.
This guy could not find like a toilet, bathroom, or
like an empty trash can anywhere nearby that he could
do is take a shit in he has to go
over to an elevator and take a shit down the shaft.
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And if you're gonna precariously drop your drawers and hang
your ass over the edge of this elevator shaft, couldn't
you get like a better grip on something like the wall,
the door, the frame, anything, rig a rope up somewhere
where you could hold on where you're Because taking a
crap could be quite an adventure for some people. It
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involves a lot of grunning, straining and moaning and whatnot.
So I'm guessing that's what happened. He just lost his
balance mid turn. He's he's probably one of those individuals
that rocks back and forth in the toilet when he
takes a shit, only in this case, rocking back and
forth did not turn out so well for him. But
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you know, I once had an who never put down
the blind in his bathroom and blame me. It was
quite a sight half the time, and it was one
of those windows. I was down to the floor. Okay,
So when he would sit on a toilet and take
a shit, not mind you, not that I was watching,
but you couldn't help but miss it. It's like it's
like a train wreck. You just had to look right.
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He would rock back and forth, and he would he
would hold his head like he was in severe pain,
which he probably was. He was probably consummated all the
time from all the crack that he used to smoke.
But so he would rock back and forth like it
was like he was getting in the crash position on
a plane. It's falling from fifty thousand feet. This guy
was probably doing the same thing when he went down
a shaft. I'm just wondering if when he hit bottom,
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if he landed in his own pile of shit. What
a way to go, whether your parts out around your
ankles at the bottom of an elevator shaft and your
own pile of shit. Oh, dear God, I thought my
day was going bad. Oh good Christ. Okay, So if
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I could sum this up relatively quickly. Again, I'm not
making light of someone's tragic end. But here here's a
little advice from me. And I've been on this planet
sixty years, and if you're going to take a good,
healthy dump, do it in a safe place, all right.
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Find a toilet, Find maybe a hole in the ground,
Find a place in the woods. It's close to ground level,
not at a high altitude like the edge of a
cliff or something. And definitely not an elevator shaft, because
elevator shafts, by their very nature are very dangerous to
begin with. With elevator the elevator car is going up
and down right there, there's a problem. Okay, But yeah,
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don't don't just be very careful where you poop. That's
my sage advice to all of you out there listening
right now. Don't end up like this guy I fallen
down eighteen floras While you're in the process of taking
a good, healthy dump. All right, just saying, just saying,
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moving right along. Yesterday, Russia launched its second largest aerial
attack of the war between Ukraine and Russia. They targeted
to Kiev and other cities with over six hundred missiles
and drones, resulting in at least twenty three deaths and
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it's significant damage to the civilian infrastructure. This attack occurs
just two weeks after that joke of a summit between
Trump and Putin up in Alaska, and yet again showing
that Putin continues to thumb his nose at the diplomatic
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efforts to end the war. And as I have also
pointed out, the fact that Trump allowed Putin to get
away from the negotiation table up in Alaska without so
much as a limited cease fire is an absolute joke.
That is one of the first points that should have
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been discussed instead of letting Putin get away with the
ability to still wage war. And still by time you know,
how much longer is this administration going to stay on
its knees and continue to kiss Putin's ass, It would
seem that puppet master Putin is continuing to call the
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shots here, making idiots out of the rest of US.
Russia has the audacity to claim that they're merely targeting
military sites, but the fact that they bombed civilian areas
is clearly counter to that statement. All the while, the
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Trump administration continues to jump through puppet Master Putin's hoops.
As I've said before or now say it again, it's
time to stop the amateurs from trying to handle this
negotiation with Putin and let's get somebody in there who
can take care of the situation and end this disaster
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of a war before any more people get killed that
should not have been killed in this case if a
limited ceasefire had been put in place, which it was not.
Again yet another epic fail on the part of the
Trumpet administration in this situation. ENEF said there but of
course doing what this administration does best, and that's enacting
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revenge upon people. It was announced that President Trump has
revoked Secret Service protection for former Vice president Kamala Harris. Well.
Vice presidents are normally allotted something like six months of
protection after they leave office. Joe Biden did sign a
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directive which extended the amount of time that Harris would
remain under the watchful eye of the Secret Service. However,
Trump felt necessary to end that because, as I said,
revenge is something that this administration does rather well instead
of dealing with the fucking problems which are plaguing this country.
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It's business as usual in punishing people. And again, while
Harris is no longer Vice president, she is currently on
a book tour to promote her latest book titled One
hundred and seven Days, and she's going to be out
in the public venues. So it would be practical, considering
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how unstable the world is, to have some sort of
protection for her. But again the Trump administration is seen otherwise,
and so we have yet another failure to perform from
the office of the President, such as it is. Recently
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here in Pennsylvania, we had a something I'm a vehicle
accident on Interstate eighty three down near the Maryland line,
which involved a tractor trailer that somehow I guess, struck
the median, ripping open the trailer and spilling a thousand
pounds of hot dogs out on the highway. This incident
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resulted in both sides of the highway north then south
being shut down for several hours. In fact, I was
traveling through the area at the time, and I had
to divert off on a detour which took me miles
out of the way and God only knows where, all
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because these wieners presented some sort of serious hazard. It
is said by the authorities that the hot dogs were
frozen and slippery. Now, personally, I like nothing better than
a frozen, slippery hot dog, but that's a story for
another podcast late at night. But I'm thinking to myself,
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only in Pennsylvania, with the genius level here shut down
an entire highway because of a pile of friakin' hot
dogs all over the road. I wondered to myself if
this could have gone a lot better if they had
used a snowplow to push the wieners off to the side.
But then I remember that here in PA, they don't
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effectively use the snowplows to push snow off to the side,
so I'm imagining the hot dogs would be completely out
of the question. So the moral here to my little
rant is, if you ever ever find yourself in Pennsylvania
traveling the highways and byways here in our lovely little Commonwealth,
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remember that your journey could come to a stop at
any moment, should a pile of goddamn hot dogs be
sprayed all over the road. Just keep that in mind
and plan an alternate route if you can. Just some
helpful advice from your friendly podcaster. And on that note,
there's now time for me to run out the door
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and make my escape. I'd like to thank you for
taking the time to listen to this verbal assault. I'm
sure it's not easy for some of you, and I
also like to remind you, as I do every week,
that this please feel free to subscribe to this happiness
and joy that we call a podcast. It is free
to subscribe, and there is a much free in life,
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except for maybe hot dogs on the side of the road.
And until next time, please take care, be careful, obviously,
try not to take a shit down an elevator shaft
if you should find yourself in such a situation. And
until next time, So long for now, bye bye,
Readings and welcome to the broadcast. So, amid the huge
backlash over the logo or they planned logo change, Cracker
Barrel has reversed its decision and they're going back and
they're staying with the old logo, with the old timer
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I guess who was known as Uncle Herschel sitting in
the chair leaning against the barrel. I am somewhat disappointed
in Cracker Barrel for doing this, although I can understand
why they did, considering the huge public backlash against the
logo change, which I still don't understand. It's not like
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it's the end of the world. It's not like it's
some huge problem, but apparently it was. As I had
pointed out in a previous episode of this podcast, I
found the Uncle Herschel character on the logo to be
kind of creepy for lack of a better word, So
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of course that that's that's just me. I've been. I've been.
I've been told that I'm kind of creepy too, so,
you know whatever. Even even President Trump had joined in
on the the situation here, adding his comments during this
process of the logo change. Normally I don't agree with
anything that Trump has to say. But he did mention
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that all of this fracass over the rebranding has provided
Cracker Barrel with a big and dollars worth of free
oritizing and and that is correct, although I don't think
that was the original intent here on the part of
the company, so they just never saw this one coming. Also,
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it is interesting to note that inside of every Cracker Barrel,
at each table, there's little board game. It's like a
pyramid shaped piece of wood with pegs in it, and
there's one peg missing, one hole empty. You're supposed to
keep jumping one peg over the other peg until you're left,
like I believe it's like one peg or no pegs.
I can't remember. I've been been so long since I
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played the damn game and the ones in Cracker Barrel.
It's not as Cracker Barrel that I've seen this in
other establishments. There's writing on the board which makes inferences
to someone's intelligence level depending on how well they perform
this with this peg game. Some have found that offensive,
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so I guess Cracker Barrow was going to change the
wording on the games not to be so. How should
I say harsh towards one's stupidity when they're not able
to solve this game. Well, let's put it this way.
If you can't jump one peg over another to figure
out how to be left with one or none, then
maybe there's a certain level of stupidity going on. Okay, well,
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the writing on the game is just calling it like
it is. But we are so hyper sensitive these days.
Is to not offend people, we have to reward the
damn board game, so it's not hurting anybody's feelings. God forbid,
we should actually hurt anybody's feelings. So we wouldn't want
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to do that, now, would we. But again, I'm kind
of disappointed in Cracker Barrel for buckling in on all
this and changing their direction. But with the money at
stake and the customer dissatisfaction over the situation, I can
clearly understand why they made this decision. So be it,
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and the old timer Uncle Herschel lives on in his
creepy self, sitting in his chair leaning against the barrel.
All is once again good in the world. But moving
right along, I'm gonna take a minute here to talk
about a story that I read the other day concerning
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I believe it was a couple who bought a home
out in the area of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This is a
home that this is the dream home for this couple.
They've been researching and looking for just the right place
to buy and they found this house. They bought this house,
but now as a problem because they discovered down in
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the basement there is a swastika tiled into the tile floor.
So well, I'm not laughing to make fun of the
situation because obviously, since the Nazi regime, the swastika is
known as a symbol of hate and really bad things.
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Prior to the Nazis, though, swastika was a symbol of
good luck and good fortune in many ancient cultures. But
it was Hitler and his gang of thugs that ruined
the swastika for everybody. So fast forwarding here the the homeowners.
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The new homeowners have filed a lawsuit claiming that they
are suffering psychological damage and they're also trying to get
the cost of repairing and replacing the floor, which is
going into thousands of dollars, which seems a little on
the high side as far as the prices they're being quoted,
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but whatever, But not not to sound like a jackass,
but I'm actually having some difficulty finding sympathy for these
homeowners because and let me explain why not not to
obviously make light of how they feel about this. Obviously
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it's it's distressing. It's distressing to them. But if they
have a home inspection done, which I believe they did,
the home inspector should have spotted this. I mean, it's
kind of backtrack a little bit here. This swastika was
under a rug, under a table. There was a table
on top of a rug down to the basement, and
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the swastika of the tiles swastika was under the rug.
So at no point did this home inspector bothered to
move the table or the rug to take a look
at the floor underneath. In Pennsylvania, basements have problems. The
basements leak quite often in this state. Basement floors get cracked,
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basement walls get cracked. So for a home inspector not
to a very least lift a corner of the carpet
to take a look the rug to see what's under
there is basically irresponsible and not very thorough. Years ago,
when I bought a home in New Hampshire, my home
inspector he when he went down to the basement, there
was boxes kind of piled up on the corner. He
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moved the boxes so he could get a look out
the floor and the wall behind the boxes to make
sure everything was okay. So for a home inspector in
this case, in this home in Pennsylvania not to bother
to do that, well, that's on him, you know. The homeowners.
They're suing for non disclosure of this on the part
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of the Cellaris, but really their home inspector varis some
responsibility here if they had one done. It's also been
pointed out that these people, the people bought the home,
had ample opportunity to look under that rug, but at
no point did they do this. It wasn't until they
had actually moved in or were beginning the process of
moving in. They were cleaning up some of the stuff
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left behind, including the table and the rug when they
moved it. Then they found the swastik up. Then the
shit hit the fan, And again I can understand why
there'd be some misgivings over this. Obviously, if you have
company over and you're down in the basement, it's gonna
be difficult to explain this swastika on the floor, and
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it's not surprising because back in the day, back in
when the Nazi Party first formed, there were many card
carrying Nazis here in the United States. It wasn't commonplace,
but it wasn't unusual either for people to follow the
Nazi propaganda and become members have a membership here even
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though they're living in the US, So they probably had
some sort of space in this basement where they performed
a Nazi Nazi ritual or whatever with the swastika. Additionally,
the woman here, one of the homeowners, is calling for
new laws to be enacted to prevent hate symbols from
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not being disclosed at the time a house is being sold. Well,
I'm sorry, but we don't need another law on the book.
And how often how often do you find homes with
hate symbols that are hidden and not disclosed or not
visible or something? Okay, nah, come on, I remembering a
hard time swallowing some of this logic here, So no,
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we don't need another law in the books along those lines. Again,
if you take the time to look through a house
before you buy it, do it thoroughly officially, You're gonna
find the hate symbols if they're there. I know that
makes no sense, but you understand what I'm driving at here. Also,
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to be claiming psychological damage over this is a little
extreme in this lawsuit. It's not like Hitler is buried
under that swastika. If that were the case, yeah, then
you got a problem. Okay, Yeah, then you have an
issue you need to address it. But no, Hitler is
not under the swastika. It's just a floor. And it
sounds like they want like the entire floor concrete and
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everything ripped up and replaced. Well why not? Just you know,
if it were me, if this were my house, I
would just go down to Lows and buy some buy
some of those peel and stick tiles and stick them
on top of this thing and forget about it. Okay,
out of sight, out of mind, or retile with ceramic
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tile over the top of the existing floor, bury it,
forget about it. But it sounds like they want to
have this this floor dug down to like six feet
and start over, which okay, whatever. So is there is
there a point to my little rambling here? Well, yeah, somewhat. There.
(10:44):
There's an old saying that goes buyer beware. I think
the correct terminology is caveat caveat mpator, and obviously it
means you know what, if you're a buyer of anything
ought to be a house, a car, you know, a wheelbarrow, whatever,
(11:04):
be careful and what you're buying. And you know, they
apparently did a lot of research to find this home
in the first place, but they didn't do that last
step to peel up the corner of a rug on
the floor and find a swastik under there. So so
here's my take. You know, you have the home that
you want, You have your health, you have your relative happiness.
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Now take whatever steps necessary to cover up this thing,
cover up, paint over it, whatever you need to do
to get rid of it, and go on. There's no
need for a lawsuit because it's it's not like the
house is falling down. I have known people, trust me,
who bought homes and they neglected to have a home
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inspect where they ran into some serious structural problems with
the house after the fact. Believe me, you're not in
that boat. So you're good. It's just this is cosmetic repair.
Get rid of, get rid of the swastika, and go
on with your life, your new happy home. Just saying,
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just saying, So let us venture over to Mumbai, where
recently a man, a fifty two year old man, fell
to his death while on the eighteenth floor of a building.
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He attempted to take a shit down an elevator shaft. Obviously,
while taking the said dump, he lost his balance or
something his footing and went tumbling down to go boom boom.
When I first read that, I thought to myself, what
a shitty situation. I wonder if he pissed himself on
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the way down too. So anyway, here here's my question.
This guy could not find like a toilet, bathroom, or
like an empty trash can anywhere nearby that he could
do is take a shit in he has to go
over to an elevator and take a shit down the shaft.
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And if you're gonna precariously drop your drawers and hang
your ass over the edge of this elevator shaft, couldn't
you get like a better grip on something like the wall,
the door, the frame, anything, rig a rope up somewhere
where you could hold on where you're Because taking a
crap could be quite an adventure for some people. It
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involves a lot of grunning, straining and moaning and whatnot.
So I'm guessing that's what happened. He just lost his
balance mid turn. He's he's probably one of those individuals
that rocks back and forth in the toilet when he
takes a shit, only in this case, rocking back and
forth did not turn out so well for him. But
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you know, I once had an who never put down
the blind in his bathroom and blame me. It was
quite a sight half the time, and it was one
of those windows. I was down to the floor. Okay,
So when he would sit on a toilet and take
a shit, not mind you, not that I was watching,
but you couldn't help but miss it. It's like it's
like a train wreck. You just had to look right.
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He would rock back and forth, and he would he
would hold his head like he was in severe pain,
which he probably was. He was probably consummated all the
time from all the crack that he used to smoke.
But so he would rock back and forth like it
was like he was getting in the crash position on
a plane. It's falling from fifty thousand feet. This guy
was probably doing the same thing when he went down
a shaft. I'm just wondering if when he hit bottom,
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if he landed in his own pile of shit. What
a way to go, whether your parts out around your
ankles at the bottom of an elevator shaft and your
own pile of shit. Oh, dear God, I thought my
day was going bad. Oh good Christ. Okay, So if
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I could sum this up relatively quickly. Again, I'm not
making light of someone's tragic end. But here here's a
little advice from me. And I've been on this planet
sixty years, and if you're going to take a good,
healthy dump, do it in a safe place, all right.
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Find a toilet, Find maybe a hole in the ground,
Find a place in the woods. It's close to ground level,
not at a high altitude like the edge of a
cliff or something. And definitely not an elevator shaft, because
elevator shafts, by their very nature are very dangerous to
begin with. With elevator the elevator car is going up
and down right there, there's a problem. Okay, But yeah,
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don't don't just be very careful where you poop. That's
my sage advice to all of you out there listening
right now. Don't end up like this guy I fallen
down eighteen floras While you're in the process of taking
a good, healthy dump. All right, just saying, just saying,
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moving right along. Yesterday, Russia launched its second largest aerial
attack of the war between Ukraine and Russia. They targeted
to Kiev and other cities with over six hundred missiles
and drones, resulting in at least twenty three deaths and
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it's significant damage to the civilian infrastructure. This attack occurs
just two weeks after that joke of a summit between
Trump and Putin up in Alaska, and yet again showing
that Putin continues to thumb his nose at the diplomatic
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efforts to end the war. And as I have also
pointed out, the fact that Trump allowed Putin to get
away from the negotiation table up in Alaska without so
much as a limited cease fire is an absolute joke.
That is one of the first points that should have
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been discussed instead of letting Putin get away with the
ability to still wage war. And still by time you know,
how much longer is this administration going to stay on
its knees and continue to kiss Putin's ass, It would
seem that puppet master Putin is continuing to call the
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shots here, making idiots out of the rest of US.
Russia has the audacity to claim that they're merely targeting
military sites, but the fact that they bombed civilian areas
is clearly counter to that statement. All the while, the
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Trump administration continues to jump through puppet Master Putin's hoops.
As I've said before or now say it again, it's
time to stop the amateurs from trying to handle this
negotiation with Putin and let's get somebody in there who
can take care of the situation and end this disaster
(18:21):
of a war before any more people get killed that
should not have been killed in this case if a
limited ceasefire had been put in place, which it was not.
Again yet another epic fail on the part of the
Trumpet administration in this situation. ENEF said there but of
course doing what this administration does best, and that's enacting
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revenge upon people. It was announced that President Trump has
revoked Secret Service protection for former Vice president Kamala Harris. Well.
Vice presidents are normally allotted something like six months of
protection after they leave office. Joe Biden did sign a
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directive which extended the amount of time that Harris would
remain under the watchful eye of the Secret Service. However,
Trump felt necessary to end that because, as I said,
revenge is something that this administration does rather well instead
of dealing with the fucking problems which are plaguing this country.
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It's business as usual in punishing people. And again, while
Harris is no longer Vice president, she is currently on
a book tour to promote her latest book titled One
hundred and seven Days, and she's going to be out
in the public venues. So it would be practical, considering
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how unstable the world is, to have some sort of
protection for her. But again the Trump administration is seen otherwise,
and so we have yet another failure to perform from
the office of the President, such as it is. Recently
(20:13):
here in Pennsylvania, we had a something I'm a vehicle
accident on Interstate eighty three down near the Maryland line,
which involved a tractor trailer that somehow I guess, struck
the median, ripping open the trailer and spilling a thousand
pounds of hot dogs out on the highway. This incident
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resulted in both sides of the highway north then south
being shut down for several hours. In fact, I was
traveling through the area at the time, and I had
to divert off on a detour which took me miles
out of the way and God only knows where, all
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because these wieners presented some sort of serious hazard. It
is said by the authorities that the hot dogs were
frozen and slippery. Now, personally, I like nothing better than
a frozen, slippery hot dog, but that's a story for
another podcast late at night. But I'm thinking to myself,
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only in Pennsylvania, with the genius level here shut down
an entire highway because of a pile of friakin' hot
dogs all over the road. I wondered to myself if
this could have gone a lot better if they had
used a snowplow to push the wieners off to the side.
But then I remember that here in PA, they don't
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effectively use the snowplows to push snow off to the side,
so I'm imagining the hot dogs would be completely out
of the question. So the moral here to my little
rant is, if you ever ever find yourself in Pennsylvania
traveling the highways and byways here in our lovely little Commonwealth,
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remember that your journey could come to a stop at
any moment, should a pile of goddamn hot dogs be
sprayed all over the road. Just keep that in mind
and plan an alternate route if you can. Just some
helpful advice from your friendly podcaster. And on that note,
there's now time for me to run out the door
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and make my escape. I'd like to thank you for
taking the time to listen to this verbal assault. I'm
sure it's not easy for some of you, and I
also like to remind you, as I do every week,
that this please feel free to subscribe to this happiness
and joy that we call a podcast. It is free
to subscribe, and there is a much free in life,
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except for maybe hot dogs on the side of the road.
And until next time, please take care, be careful, obviously,
try not to take a shit down an elevator shaft
if you should find yourself in such a situation. And
until next time, So long for now, bye bye,
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