Dorm Room Bear Skinning, Birthday Cake Bottle Rockets, and Brake-Checking An Ambulance

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realm of reality. I am coming to the I guess

(01:13):
the conclusion that what started out as a great resource,
a great opportunity to connect to broaden the horizons, is
turning out to be a big rumor mill. And I'm
talking about the Internet. I mean, granted, there's a lot

(01:35):
of great resources out there you can access information at
the you know, with the click of a mouse, you
can also access a lot of stupidity, right.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
I ought to give you a piece of my mind.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
So I guess we should express our congratulations to America.
We've had yet another tragedy you know here, and once again,
instead of sitting with the discomfort of uncertainty like functioning adults,
we all as a society have collectively sprinted headfirst into

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the swamp of wild speculation. Some just completely ignore the facts.
I don't care what the facts are. My mind is
made up and we'll spout it off anyway. The assassination
of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk hasn't just shocked the public,

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It's apparently triggered a mass outbreak of keyboard detective syndrome,
because when faced with chaos, the only thing better than
waiting for facts is inventing your own or not even
waiting for the facts, just coming up to your own conclusions.
Let's be honest, okay, I mean, I think you humans
are like allergic to not knowing. I mean, ambiguity is

(03:04):
like kryptonite, you know. The second something big happens, especially
something violent, political headline worthy, our feeble little brains can't
handle the vacuum. So what do we do. We go
to the Internet. We fill up the la garbage, looking
at these half baked theories, whispering insider knowledge, conspiracy stitch

(03:27):
together with the finesse of a kindergarten art project. Suddenly
everyone's a forensic psychologist or criminologist and depending on their
follower count, the next Walter cronkait Jen that's the way
it is. Well, here's the kicker, the mess here and
scary of the event, the juice here the rumor mill,
and it's really emotional jet fuel. I don't know how

(03:48):
many times I've seen stories on Facebook and I look
at this and I'm going, huh. I just saw one
tonight before I recorded this, Tyrus from the Five on Fox.
Supposedly he went on this wild tirade as a guest
on the view and shook his finger in the face
of Whoope Goldberg, and he got in her business and

(04:11):
they had a big knockdown drag out and guess what.
Oh there's pictures. Oh yeah, there's pictures. None of that happened.
And yet people will see this and click that little
share button. We had somebody else send me people that
I know. Steven Tyler is going to literally pay for

(04:36):
all of the education for Charlie Kirk's children. Eh, didn't happen,
but somebody decided to share it as if it did.
Mick Jagger was appalled that we are glorifying murder and

(04:59):
basically was supposedly in some ways sympathizing with the assassination
of Charlie Kirk. Guess what, that didn't happen either, but
yet somebody hit the word click, clicked the little share button.
You know, people don't want clarity, they just want drama.
Oh did you hear it was staged? I read his

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neighbor's cousin's dog walker saw it coming. My uncle's barber said,
the FBI planted it. Plausibility doesn't even have to be
that strong, just enough to get a nod or a
repost or share, because once it's online, I mean, the
algorithms swoop in like digital vulture, circling over the fresh

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carcasses of tragedy and fattening themselves on rage clicks. And
don't even get me started on some of the banal
comments that people post. I mean, in the past, at
least the rumors are quaint you know, your great aunt
Mabel might whisper over coffee that somebody's husband ran with
the milkman. Of course, that nonsense pretty much stayed in

(06:03):
the church park pot luck, you know. But now no
one half baked thought on social media gets fire hosed
into the global bloodstream in thirty seconds. And once a
rumor has been repeated a few thousand times, well, people
treat it like gospel. Remember the old I used to
get letters, chain letters, you know, in the mail. The

(06:24):
mailman would bring it, put it in a mailbox. It
would have my address, but no return address. You would
open it up and it was a chain letter. You know,
you copied this letter to ten people, handwrite it, mail
it to ten of your friends, and you'll have unknown riches.
That used to happen. I used to get chain letters.

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There was the other old urban legend that the FCC,
we're gonna have to sign a petition to the FCC
because they were going to beginning to outlaw religious radio stations.
So you need to sign a petition telling the FCC
you do not want them to ban religious radio stations.
They never considered that, and yet people were sending petitions

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to the FCC in droves. So look, it's not just
because of the Internet, but I think the Internet just
basically put a magnifying glass on everything. You know, I
don't know. I mean you want to once you have
a rumor that's been repeated a few thousand times, really,
I mean, whether it's on the Internet or chain letters,
it's like people think it's the gospel. Nothing says a

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legitimate source like being shared by thirty anonymous accounts with
enemy avatars. But look, here's the brutal truth. Rumors don't
actually tell us anything about the event itself. They just
tell us about us. You know, we're creatures who crave
order so badly that we'd rather believe nonsense and admit
we really don't know. We'd rather feel like part of
the story, even if our part is just making something up,

(07:54):
and then sit quietly and uncertainty kind of self soothing
through stupidity, you know. Okay, So, yes, rumors will keep spreading,
And no, we're not getting smarter about it. No, because
we watched late night TV and listen to morons like
Jimmy Kimmel flat out tell falsehoods when we've had concrete
evidence to the contrary, and then he gets his little

(08:16):
butt fired because most television stations says, we're not running
this crap because you're gonna make you're gonna cause us
to violate our our license. Most most stations have to
agree to serve the public interest. And trust me, Jimmy
Kimmel is the last place I would want to go

(08:37):
to to serve the public interest. So he gets yanked,
He throws a hissy fit, big tantrum, gonna sue, he's
gonna break his contract with ABC. He gets jim he
gets the Chuck Schumer to get on his side and say, oh,
you should sue EBC. And you know, he's like a
little squalling baby, like he never got spanked when he

(08:58):
was a little boy, you know, just oh so yeah,
rumors keep on spreading, you know, because deep down society,
we don't really want truth, do we.

Speaker 4 (09:09):
Now.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
We want narrative chaos wrapped in a bow, a clickbait
headline to tell to yell about. We want something to
scream over, to get behind our keyboards and fire away.
Facts are really boring, right, you know. Rumors, Yeah, rumors
make us feel alive and that dear friends, that this
might be the stupidest coping mechanism ever invented, and unfortunately,

(09:33):
my feeling, I think this all got started whenever news
stopped being news and started becoming clickbait. And it really happened,
you know, in the in the nineteen nineties. I mean
it really did. I think that's what it did. I
remember when I was in college, we were taught about
yellow journalism, inserting your opinion into the newscasts. That would

(09:57):
get you fired in radio back in the seventies and eighties.
But by the time the nineties came around, they couldn't
sell the news. The news was boring, and they wanted
to try to make more money on the news. Well,
how do you make the news more sellable? You sensationalize it.

(10:18):
So that's when they bring in the entertainment division to
these broadcast networks to try to spice up the news.
And the next thing, you know, we don't have the news.
We have the National Inquirer. You know, the yellow rags
you'd pick up in the shopping checkout aisle that you
you know, like a big Martian visited, you know, your

(10:39):
local congressman or something, you know, something like that. Now
we see it like every day, and the internet has
only magnified it. So you know, just because it's on
the Internet and anymore, just because it's on a late
not talk show doesn't necessarily make it true. Do your homework.
It takes a little extra work, but now every everybody

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has to be an investigative reporter to you're trying to
sniff out the truth. Don't just repeat it, don't just
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Speaker 2 (12:49):
Thank you understand you.

Speaker 4 (12:51):
Men, come with me.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
Phone me let me be your only.

Speaker 6 (13:05):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
Once again, my insane Florida nephew, Pancho Buerro from the
beautiful city of Jacksonville, Florida, where Detention Depot is headquartered
or whatever is out there.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
How's it going you keep mentioning depot. Yeah, I still
don't think I've ever heard of this other than from
this podcast from you.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yeah, I know, I know. Well, I haven't heard much
more about it of late, but I mean now they're
focusing on the one in Louisiana, and then there's one
up in Kansas or somewhere they're talking about.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
I don't know, but.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
At any rate, so I I want to find out
two things. Okay, First off, has has the table been
working out well, I mean.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
You get tables great, okay. I mean so there were
a couple of places that like, we're trying to get
a smooth top coat on, yeah, without brushstrokes. And and
I don't I don't know if I mentioned not, but
my wife found this like like any hose.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
Yes, we talked about that. Yes, you don't have the breaststrokes.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
In the right lighting there you could tell a couple
of little small areas that were.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
Oh my god, in the right lighting.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah, well, I like the sun reflects and shies off
you can see like, oh man, it's not like and
so like that that question has been out there, like
do we go under it? Well, if we do that,
then we have to put a whole top quote on again,
I know, I know. Or do we just try to
like touch up and do one more top layer smooth
on everything? God? And if we do that, we have

(14:32):
to do in the right lighting. But then then we'll
take three days let that thing here before the water
can get it. So and and and the reality is
like the last couple of weeks, I don't think either
of us have noticed at all. So we might just
leave it and and call it, you know, and if
we could fix it, but.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
No, true, we have to you retire maybe, right, yeah
for real? Right? So no, I actually showed my wife
the before and after picture and and she kind of
like had this kind of a half smile and she says, well,
I actually kind of liked the before picture better than
the after picture.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
My wife kind of mentioned she's like, I don't if
you show them before that before it doesn't look bad.
And I'm like, it doesn't look bad, but but it
shows the transformation. Yeah, we didn't. We weren't a big
fan of the paint. The paint felt a little bit
sticky and cheap. Yeah. Oh yeah, it had a little
bit of a sticky feeling. And then there were blemishes

(15:29):
and like damage on the top as well. You didn't
see it very much in the picture, but there's the
areas that were like you could tell where you know. Yeah,
for us, yeah, we just know what we wanted in
our house though.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
But it's good. That's good now. But and you've got
chairs to go with the you are you still waiting
on the chairs?

Speaker 2 (15:45):
We're still we're taking our time, okay.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
So now then the other thing is how is the possum?

Speaker 2 (15:51):
Oh? Man, Well, I went looking for it the other
day and I did not see it, but I could not.
I did not check all rows of the deck, and
so so I see was the roll was looking down.
I did see the dog barking in a very specific
spot earlier today or maybe yesterday, so I know the
possum is still there.

Speaker 7 (16:11):
M hm, okay, but between the boards, you know, oh man,
So well, we're talking about.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
When we started recording, just all the stuff that's been
ginning up on social media and all the stuff that's
being talked about with all the world and national events
has been happening, and all that kind of thing. I mean,
have you has well for one thing, and then the
most recent thing is the cancelation of Jimmy Kimmel, which
I think is the great greatest thing that's ever happened

(16:43):
to America because the guy's a sniffle, sniveling little brat,
you know, like.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
The boobs, blackfaced guy from back in the day.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
That's the one, that's the one.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
I don't know why, right.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
Well, yeah, exactly. Well, here's an interesting thing that I
actually posted this today, and I knew that this was
I had heard something about this years ago. But then
I did a little more research and found out it
is true. I don't know, you know, the whole whole
thing of how Kimmel ended up getting canned. Obviously, he

(17:21):
opened his mouth and stupid came out, and so that
really ticked off a bunch of people, namely.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
Was it his ratings down.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
It used to. Yeah, I think that's all that. That
probably helped decrease the skids.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
I'm thinking like they're like, finally we have a good
excuse to like do what we've been waiting to do
for a while. Anyways, that's my take. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
Yeah, all the late night shows have not been done
except Gutfield.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
We've been doing well, especially since COVID.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
Basically right, well, yeah, I mean so so well, here's
here's the thing.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
Dancing back Sea Needles on the Cots complain about the
Farmer like you know ten years ago.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
Frankly, well, late night TV has not really been what
it should be since David Letterman was funny. I mean,
before the end Letterman turned into a bitter old man.
You know, I was watching some of his really older stuff.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
Yeah, look, let me tell you something.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
Some of his earlier stuff was absolutely the funniest stuff
I have ever watched in my life. I mean just
I would watch it in college and just his whole
interview process. My favorite one is when we brought out
Farah Face at Faraf neighbors or Majors and I guess
she'd been drinking and she was pretty tipsy and he
just let her, He just let her be herself and

(18:45):
it was hilarious. I mean, so, but no, what all
this where this whole thing started? Obviously, you know, Kimmel
said something stupid about the assassin with Charlie Kirk and
basically attribute the assassin was more maga than he was
you know, left wing, which totally is not true at all. Right, So,

(19:09):
I mean, he wasn't trying to make fun of it,
he wasn't trying to perry it. He made it sound
like it was an actual fact. So that's an outright
misleading lie.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
So that's it's pretty blatant.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
Right, So that really ticked off the viewers in many markets,
namely in the markets where Sinclair Broadcasting has a lot
of their stations and Sinclair which we have a Sinclair
station in Johnstown but they're not ABC, They're an NBC station.
But basically all the ABC affiliates. They are like screaming,

(19:42):
and so Sintclair told ABC, we're preempting the show, We're
not going to air it because it was highly offensive.
Well then right after that, Next Star Nexttar Media had
the same thing. They said, we're preempting the show also
because and part of it is we have a license
we've got to maintain, and we we have to maintain
to serve the public interest and Kimmel is not doing

(20:05):
that and therefore we could be fined or we could
be held accountable for airing this kind of stuff. So
that's what made ABC have the decision to yank it.
Now here's the kicker with next Our Media. Okay, we
have a station in Altuna is the Next Star station.
It turns out the guy who owns Nextstar Media grew

(20:27):
up in Do Boys, Pennsylvania, Oka. He's from Do Boys.
He worked in punk Satani and a radio station. When
he ended up getting into owning stations, he bought a
station up in Scranton, which is up in the Poconos.
He eventually he ended up buying the Altuna station because
that was his favorite TV station when he lived in

(20:48):
Do Boys. He liked watching the Altuna station and so
he ended up buying his favorite TV station, So over
time he ended up building a media empire over the
next twenty years to about two hundred stations around the country.
And they're on the verge of buying another company at
this point, so they got pretty good clout. So I'm thinking, well,

(21:10):
it's kind of neat that a guy from dou Boys Pennsylvania,
right here in western Pennsylvania was the one that kind
of was the tipping point that got ABC to pull
that moron off the air.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
He was.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
I mean, I mean, look, when when Letterman I got
tired of Letterman, I would I went to watch Fallon
and I watched Fallen for a little bit, and well
he just got to be goofy.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
I just like, he's like the most empty calorie like
talk show, right he is. I don't know anybody watch
these shows.

Speaker 1 (21:40):
So well, yeah, and when Colbert had his other show
before he went to the Late Show, that he was
pretty funny, but I mean, he got the Late Show
and then he just wasn't. He got to be offensive.
So then I went to Kimmel and well, okay, some
of his stuff was kind of funny, but then it
got to be more offensive. He was just saying more stuff.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
Than he started crying on National TV.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
Yeah, well all that kind of crap too. Yeah, that
was another thing. And I finally just said, you know what,
no late night TV is worth watching anymore. And I
just stopped watching all late night TV. I used to
record it, watch it the next day, and none of
it was even all that good.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
I've learned that the sad thing, Like I used to
love love watching comedies, I can't find a good comedy
from the last I can't live or eight years or so, like,
I can't either. People are afraid to make jokes and
you could you can tell in the writing how bad.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
Well, not only that, but some of the comedy the
way it is geared. It's geared to like LGBTQ, and
I'm not into that stuff, you know, or it's geared
into other you know, sexual innu window stuff and I'm like,
that's not even funny. It's just kind of filthy, you know.
So yeah, I mean you're right, I've not either.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
The shock for the for no purpose yeah yeah, crowds
for no purpose and no cleverness there. Yeah, so basically, yeah,
you got to kind of like wash it over for
the culture. I guess to make it unoffensive to the
loudest voices, I guess we'll just say out out in
the culture, which, yeah, when you when you try to
make something unoffensive, you make it completely bland and you

(23:19):
do and boring like I don't know, son interesting.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
Basically, I'm basically left with my four CDs of the
entire season, the entire series of the Monsters.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
So, yeah, you're gonna say, you're basically left old episodes
of TV on.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
B That's right, That's right. I've got to look. I mean,
I was watching the old seventies sitcom Soap, which was
absolutely hilarious because it was.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
Word for that buddy, because it.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
Was it was poking fun and all the soap operas
you remember. I don't know if you've ever heard of
the News Radio That was one of my other favorite.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
I've heard a lot about it.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
Yeah, Phil Hartman was in that one, and that was
pretty funny because of course it spoke to my blood
because of me being in radio, and I got a
lot of.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
The best radio show out there was Frasier though.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
Oh really you think so? I think WKRP.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
See I go back to the seventies, Okay, ye, look,
I forget how yah was.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
Funny, but but honestly, nothing can touch the Thanksgiving episode
of WKRP in Cincinnati when they did the Great Turkey Drop.
So that that was the best right there.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
How much of the listeners are even going to be
familiar with what you're talking about? Well, let me tell
you that, by your luck, I kind of know what
you're talking about.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
Well, but but one episode, that one episode is probably
the most popular episode of the entire series, and most
people have at least heard about it if they've never
seen it. They just heard about the Great Turkey Drop
on WKRP in Cincinnati. And it really is good. It's
thirty minutes of the best euphor yeah, you'll ever you'll ever? Wow, Yeah,

(25:07):
it's great. It is great, And that made up there
no no. I made my son watch it and he
agreed it was. It was great, and even tho it
was from the nineteen seventies, it was fantastic. Okay. So
bottom line is the station needed a big promotions for
Thanksgiving and they decided they're going to drop frozen turkeys
out of the out of a plane on top of people.

Speaker 8 (25:30):
Okay, and it was Yeah, it was terrible, but it
was absolutely hilarious. So but yeah, there's been a lot
of that discussion and a lot of discussion with the
whole pro and con over the whole Charliekirk thing. And
the funny thing is my wife never saw a Charlie
Kirk video until after his assassination.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
I know a lot of people that all of a
sudden they're like, yeah, all right, I'm watching videos. And
then I was looking for these, like these videos of
them saying something racist like everyone thinks, can you send
it to me? Yeah, I don't know. I haven't seen any.
I haven't seen videos. It seems pretty like to me, variety,

(26:14):
straightforward like conservative views. Yeah, and he was kind of
part of the kindest person out there doing that.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
So and and if you disagreed with him, he said,
come to the mic and let me hear you.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
So, yeah, I don't understand the whole you know, multiple
sides on this. Yeah, but I kind of figured political
violence is always bad.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
Well yeah, it's pretty funny though, watching these guys try
to try to argue with him. They couldn't even put
sentences together compared to how he would respond to them.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
I was about to say, like you know, all violence.
But I was actually, well, no, all violence isn't bad
because like violence, some of the opinion that violence is
a moral yeah, because you could use it to protect
and defend someone one, or you could use it to
you know, to do something and so so like, but
like I think political violence, like, yeah, obviously that's that's awful.

(27:10):
Someone who's innocent on something like For I say innocent,
I mean like not committing a violent threat to someone's
life or something, you know, So yeah, never never, okay.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
So well, nevertheless, I mean it's it's people. People. Honestly,
I'm beginning to think they no longer are able to
think for themselves anymore.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
You know, I've been thinking that for a while, just
with like phones and stuff, phones Internet. Honestly, the way
that schools like teach basically is like you know, I'm
the professor. I tell you what to think, and I
pick a book out and oftentimes they make you pay
a bunch of money for their own book that they
wrote on something and then so and they basically tell

(27:56):
you here's what to think, not here's how to think. Yeah,
and then you couple that, like for me, phones like
phones were a thing, but Thankfully I did not grow
up with like a smartphone in high school, so like
I still had this like this you still had to
critically think about things still, but like now when you're
not getting that in school and then you get all

(28:19):
of the other information by typing into Google and expecting
an AI answer, and like it's a lot of knowledge
what Google?

Speaker 1 (28:28):
Google? Google is old school.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
Now, right, I know? A lot of this is knowledge
are telling you what to think. So you're like, all right,
what's this? Or let me get this person's opinions. Then
I can now know what to think and feel. And
like knowledge changes, right, like sometimes we we you know,
know things until you learn something or discover something new, right,
you know, like like like science is always changing throughout
the world. Right, surely the thing is like wisdom is eternal, right,

(28:54):
wisdom is like ruth that is is ever loud, like
that will always be true? Right, And don't you don't
see people teaching that. You see people teaching knowledge based
things at this.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
Point pretty much pretty much, and then people get.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
It all from their phone. So yeah, I don't think
that that people know how to think for themselves. A love.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
I actually credit my my college experience because see, I
went to college and rebelled against my parents. You know
how that works, right, So.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
My parents, not for myself, but from others.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
Well, right, but I mean, I mean, my my parents
were pretty much yellow dog Democrats, Okay. And I went
to college and I really didn't have any opinion about
politics until I took a political science course and doctor
Susan powers in college. My professor was a huge Reagan
fans out there. Yeah, and that's what got me interested

(29:50):
in politics, was was her class. And that's I can
credit her. She, my college professor, was the one that
convinced me to, you know, just go more Republican then.
So I was, I went against my parents Democrats.

Speaker 5 (30:05):
You know.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
So but people like going, wow, that's kind of wild
that you're you went conservative from college rather than the
other way that, going to liberal. I'm like, well, that's
that's kind of interesting, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
Yeah, Well, I hear people that happened to people now
going to very liberal colleges, and then they kind of
see how much of them, I don't know, lack of
a better word, at the moment, kind of like a
cult like like the Star Trek, like the Borg Mind
or something that's right, because that seems like it's like
one like conglomerated conglomerate voice, because if you speak out

(30:41):
against any of it, then like you basically get canceled
or something.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
So right, right, well, I have to I have to
confess that, you know, with me working in radio, we
have a small staff where I work at right now, okay,
and so I am basically the news guy and the
morning show host, and so I'm the program director and
I'm this and that. So I have all these things
to do, and I have so little time. When I

(31:06):
get there, I wake up, like you know, in the
middle of the night, I get to the radio station
very early in the morning. I have to get all
this stuff done, and then usually I'm preparing my radio
show while the show is going on, you know. So
it's like I should already have it done, but I've
got so I confess I have decided I am now
just going to copy like a news story from like

(31:30):
a news website somewhere and ingest it into chat GPT
and let it spit out a thirty second story for me.
I decided I'm going to have to do that. And
you know what, I have all this extra time now
I can work on my show. So I'm actually having
to now use the chat shept so I can work faster,

(31:50):
so I can.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
You're not using it right now, are you?

Speaker 1 (31:54):
To talk to you? Yeah, I'm typing everything you say
the chat GPT, so.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
Well, you have I guarantee use chat GPT far more
than I have.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
I'm learning. I'm learning, and you know, it's interesting. I
can change my question and I get different results. It's
so it's so much fun, you know. So, I mean
you've got to be pretty smart to be able to
tell chat GPT to do what you wanted to do,
you know, do you though? Yeah? I mean honestly, I

(32:28):
mean I can type in you know, like here, you know,
please make a make a thirty second summary of you know,
with embedded attribution for a radio newscast using information from
the following article. And I just paced the entire article
and thirty I mean I got a thirty second, nice
clean script, all right.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
You don't like trying to tell it to like, you know,
make sure to include the words and like find something
aha the word to include in it.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
I probably could and it would do it. I mean,
it's pretty hilarious, you know.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
I've learned recently that my wife has started using it
periodically to try to try a meal plan for the week.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
Because because sometimes she's like, I don't know, I can't think,
and she just wants to get something there.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
So like healthy meal with you know, three three meals
this week, you know, healthy one of them for something,
you know, and and like, oh, that's that's that's that's brilliant.
That she does not do it often, but she has.
She has confessed me she has done it a couple
of times before and a little bit more because it's

(33:33):
some time.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
Missus Pancho is moving forward. This is awesome and funny.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
She's probably the least AI friendly of all of them.
She she's the one that's convinced that AI is going
to take over the world one day and try to
kill us.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
A well, you know what I wanted to try to
I wanted to try and find an AI that would
make a meal. I wanted to design a photo of
Jimmy Kimmel and a little boy Folter Roy outfit. But
I couldn't find one to do anything like that, or
a little schoolboy outfit, you know. So but I couldn't
find that I wanted to, so I could put it
all over the internet, but I couldn't find anything like.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
I know, I know exactly the kind of image you're
going for.

Speaker 1 (34:07):
That, yeah, but I did find one. A friend of
mine sent me it is outstanding. I'm gonna have to
send you the picture this time, because it was fantastic.
He sent me a picture of all three late night
talk show hosts working at McDonald's.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
It was, it was you could actually get pictures of
the real pictures of the president at McDonald's. Though.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
Oh yeah, yeah exactly. But I mean even he looks
a lot more you know, professional than most people would,
you know. So, but I'll have to find that and
send it to because it it is. I sent, I
sent it to my son and he he loved it.
He thought it was fantastic.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
For the underdog. That's that's that's me. Also, I'm pretty
sure at this point, I mean, I don't know. I
say not to get political bo you've been getting. You know,
I'm pretty sure at this point that the Democrat Party
is basically a death cult. But the more I think
about it, I'm like, all right, Ukraine, we want more

(35:14):
like but there's already been like what hundreds of thousand
people have died, right, and they're like, we need to
keep making sure more. Let's celebrate an assassination of a
CEO healthcare guy. The last like several school shootings were
all like trans shooters, right for Christian schools. And then
they say it's not political violence, even though I think
it's very clear what the motive is there, but they like,

(35:35):
there's no motive, No, we can't. It took whistleblows for
like with the Nashville Manifesto to come out right, So
like I could keep going on and on about this,
but like the more I see, the more I'm just like,
I don't know, like the the only people that see
celebrating or really like partaking in a lot of this,
I don't know. I'm sure there's examples on both sides.

(35:58):
I can't really think of anything. There's a guy in
I saw a video and was it like twenty twenty.
I think it must have been of a guy in
Portland who got shot after someone yelled out we've got
a Trump supporter here.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
Oh yeah yeah, And.

Speaker 2 (36:11):
I can't believe that that didn't get pushed all over
the news.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
I was like, oh, I know, there's a lot of
things that happened back in those days that did not
get as much coverage as some of the symblances it's
getting now and today's stuff and.

Speaker 2 (36:24):
The celebrating of all this and stuff like, I don't know,
it might be controversial, but I don't really want I
don't really want death. I think is bad. Firmly against.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
I am actually really in favor of going back and
reregulating broadcasting. I really am. I think that, you know,
the media has proven, at least to me be on
the shadow of it, out they cannot police themselves. And
so I think, you know, Reagan deregulated a lot of
the broadcasting, you know, and took most of the government

(36:58):
out of regulating broadcasters, and unfortunately, I guess that they
didn't do a very good job the policing themselves.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
But like it's in the flip side of that, like
as I don't trust the government to do that certainly.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
Well, But but what I'm saying is it was like
what it was, this is the government would say, if
you're going to interview a Republican, you must interview a
Democrat as well.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
Yeah, but they're going to choose like the squishiest people.
They're gonna they're always gonna have a way to try
to get around it, and there.

Speaker 1 (37:27):
Always will be, there always will be.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
And then they'll claim, oh, this is fair, even though
they're going to put.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
Like the thing is though that what really what really
goes for it is that they encourage the public to
write letters to the FCC and say, how is your
stations doing? Some stations will pick people, they will they
will go and pick hey, would you write a letter
to the FCC saying that we're doing this? I mean,
there's always ways around it. Yeah, the government no, but

(37:53):
it'll it'll at least put a few more sideboards onto
the side you know.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
That kind of to me like having more of these
independent uh honestly, social media for however much crap it gets,
and then however worse it makes society. That's the one
thing it has done, which is given people the means
to be able to actually see the other side of
the stories. All. Yeah, I think in general at this
point there's a reason all these like late night shows

(38:16):
are failing, right and a lot of these news agencies
are are really kind of starting to fail. And I
think it's just finally because like they can't really hide
the bias, I guess not necessarily with I'm sure some
of it is how they report, but a lot of
it's on what they choose not to report on. Oh yeah,
they get the government there, I think, wasn't it Trudeau

(38:36):
when he was running in Canada, it was like running
against the incumbent prime minister in Canada and they've got
government funded media. They're like news agencies, and I think, like,
I don't know the numbers, something is going to kind
of make up the numbers as a like, as a
as an example of kind of what it was. The
one guy running was like I pledged to give one

(38:57):
hundred million dollars to the other government news whatever thing,
and Trudeau basically was like I'll give two hundred million
and they're like favorable coverage to Trudeau and he won
and so like all that, I'm like, I don't know government.
That creeps me out more because there is a things
get weird, like the governments, they get weird when you

(39:18):
introduce stuff like that. So yeah, well, pretty libertarian, I
guess you are.

Speaker 1 (39:22):
You are, And honestly, you don't remember how the government
did the regulating in broadcasting. It wasn't quite like what
you were saying, But I know, how now I think
it would probably would probably do something like that nowadays,
since they've had their taste of freedom, you know, because before,

(39:42):
I mean when when the when radio and television was
first getting started, the government had quite a tight regulatory
arm around it, you know, because you're you're basically you
are the guardian of public information, and so therefore you
had to treat that with a high regard of responsibility
and respect. You know.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
Yeah, I don't know, man, I what was it that
the Twitter files when they came out and you saw
that the Biden administration was basically trying to coerce and
and uh oh yeah, strong arm Twitter and censoring certain things.

Speaker 8 (40:16):
Actually though, that's that was that was not happening back
in the seventies.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
But how do you know it wasn't at this point. Yeah,
well it wasn't because because they would have said that,
They told us that wasn't happening now until he Twitter
and and forced it to come out. That wouldn't have
come out otherwise.

Speaker 1 (40:34):
The guy, the guy who was the most trusted man
in America, you know, that guy was he was viewed
as the most trusted man in America.

Speaker 2 (40:45):
Hopefully. I'm talking about Walter Cronkite.

Speaker 1 (40:47):
Walter Cronkite, Yeah, he was. He was as left wing
as you could imagine. He was so liberal, but yet
he he I mean, people trusted his news and Walter
Cronkite said it, then everyone took it his fact, you know.
But but he was like a super big liberal, you know.

Speaker 2 (41:06):
Well they said it was all like middle like fair,
middle of the road. But like when you look back
here very clearly was a bias.

Speaker 1 (41:12):
Well, I mean you look at Watergate. I mean you
look at how how the media covered Watergate. They had
some other big, big investigations and what now Now let's say,
for instance, let's say the Kennedy assassination. I mean, there,
I don't think it was the media. The media was
trying to find out the answers. It was the government
that was trying to cover up to keep the media
from oh ude.

Speaker 2 (41:32):
The more information has come out, like recently, even more so,
I'm like, yeah, I bet you the CIA had a
big hand in that. Wild I can't verify anything, but
like after a certain point, you kind of just started
to ask, you know, ask yourself, like, what what is
the Aukham's razor right, Like, what's the simplest solution to
all this?

Speaker 9 (41:53):
And the simple solution starts to become like this was
probably some kind of you know, if it wasn't directly done,
it was probably indirectly you know.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
Yeah, paid the way to be able to make it happen.
I guess. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
It's a shame that my father in law is no
longer with us, but he was the death cult man, Yeah,
telling me my father in law was a big believer
in the shadow government. He didn't believe anything anybody said. No,
you know, I can only imagine what he would think
about artificial intelligence nowadays.

Speaker 2 (42:27):
You're not You're not making up stories like in your
peace of mind, now, are you?

Speaker 1 (42:32):
I could, I could easily do that.

Speaker 4 (42:34):
You know.

Speaker 2 (42:36):
We're we're gonna wig up on a tanger.

Speaker 1 (42:38):
Oh my god, it's okay. We'll chase rabbits as long
as you're fat.

Speaker 2 (42:43):
Yeah, there's too many rabbits, man, I can't.

Speaker 1 (42:47):
It's better than chasing possums.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
That was true. Yeah, I think possums here to stay.
I think more like it's gonna make sure that like
rats and other things don't take it home there. So
that's right. As long as we don't get like like
bubonic plague or some kind of like old form of cholera,
then I think we're good. Welcome to in Saint Eric Lane,

(43:14):
stupid world. I'm Pontagudo. I come in and I hijacked
the story. I pick out some headlines. We riff on
them back and forth. We've spent way too long and
small talk today and gone down some rabbit holes.

Speaker 1 (43:27):
That I don't know.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
Maybe, yeah, possible, I agree or disagree, I don't know.
I'm open to a conversation about some of this stuff.
I'm pretty chill and agreeable, so.

Speaker 1 (43:39):
Yeah, have with that.

Speaker 2 (43:40):
But one thing we can't. We talked a little bit
about chat ept and how you're using this for your
morning shows apparently and my news, and I certainly hope
that you're still not using it right now with me.
He's gonna be he's gonna be like, give me, He's
gonna copy and paste the little news because the only
thing I have here is like a little news clip,

(44:02):
right that kind of we'll go if he's going to
copy and pastes and be like, write me a short
you know, thirty second transition from this story into the
next story and he's gonna get better transitions than me
because of chat TPT. So keep in mind I'm trying
to beat the machine here when I'm going with this. Well, look,

(44:26):
hopefully you don't find yourself for this camp, you know,
years down the road. Eric, I don't know if you
know this. Some chat GPT addicts. This is a quote
they can quote no longer write emails or make decisions.
Oh yeah, well yeah, it's a slippery slope, that's all
I'm saying there. Well, one day it's summarizing your your

(44:47):
news articles for your radio show. The next day you're
asking it what you should do about grandma.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
Yeah, yeah, right, well, hey, missus Podo is asking it recipes.

Speaker 2 (44:58):
Room for supper.

Speaker 1 (44:58):
I mean, come on, I mean she does.

Speaker 2 (45:04):
Have a hard time making decisions about stuffer, so maybe
maybe they've already begun with her. Chat GPD could be
a slippery slope. You can go from not trusting it
to picking a restaurant for a date night to allowing
it to plan your entire wedding and honeymoon. At that

(45:25):
point you might be addicted. Though. According to a new survey,
seventy three percent of people who use AI chatbots say
they're dependent on AI on twenty five percent say they
now struggle to write emails without it, which I think
is wild. Say writing professional documents is harder without AI.

(45:45):
Forty six percent find it more difficult to fact check
or evaluate information critically, and twenty one percent say that
simply making their own decisions does become harder. Younger people
have become more addicted, which is not the case anecdotally
or with our podcast. It's kind of the other way around.
Right now, right, seventy percent of gen z and and

(46:08):
seventy five percent of millennium users say they feel dependent
on AI, compared to the sixty seven percent of gen
X and fifty nine percent of boomers. Right. Among those
who feel reliant, twenty six percent wants to scale back
their usage. Oh yeah, so I'm apparently twenty five percent
that don't use it or right, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (46:27):
Yeah, I was wondering if you fit in any of
those percentages.

Speaker 2 (46:31):
I yeah, I've barely used it for anything, and if
I have, it's been to make jokes or to try
to go out to try to get AI images of
my wife doing things.

Speaker 1 (46:40):
You never say you have a great aimage of business
poncho giving.

Speaker 2 (46:44):
Giving the middle finger. I would never do that, but
AI absolutely will.

Speaker 1 (46:53):
Oh, yes, it's great, it's great. Well, well, look, I
mean AI is taking over so many different things. I mean,
it's it's ridiculous. Of course, you know here in this
country as well. One of the things that is predominant here,
if I can say it's so typical in American culture,

(47:14):
is ads. I mean, you get I can't. I can't
scroll down my Facebook feed without you know, some paid
post that someone is trying to elevate, you know, to
get noticed. And and I'm like, I don't want to
see this, and I'm going, I'm clicking the excess on
my Facebook feed to close stuff that I just want

(47:37):
to see posts from people that I know, you know,
I don't want to see somebody else's you know. And
so but it's it's even worse in China. Okay, I mean, look,
it's bad enough. I don't pay for like a music service,
I you know, go to YouTube music and I'll listen
to a song, and then I'll listen to an ad,
then I'll listen to another song. And okay, so we're

(47:59):
used to kind of the ads that always pop up
online and play games or whatever, a million other things.
But here's here's one. Here's one million and one. Okay,
if you're in China, imagine you got to go to
a public bathroom and you're in China. Okay, there's a
chance you're gonna have to watch an ad if you

(48:21):
want to get toilet paper. Okay, I mean this is great.
So there's and then I mean I just saw.

Speaker 2 (48:29):
This on a couple of stories.

Speaker 1 (48:31):
Yeah, I mean there's there's this video that's going viral.
It shows how this works. Okay, you scan a QR
code that plays an AD on your phone, and then
the machine spits out yeah, modest amount, like six square.
It's a toilet paper Okay. If you need more toilet paper,
if you got you know, like a triple wipe kind
of thing, you gotta watch another ad. Okay. So I

(48:53):
mean it's from about a brand new thing. Actually, I
mean somebody on redd it shared a shot of a
similar dispenser in China in twenty twenty one, but most
people really didn't know that it existed. So if you
don't want to watch an ad, there is an option
you can throw in a few cents for some toilet
paper instead. So you're gonna pay for it one way
or the other. It looks like you have to you

(49:14):
have to pay with your phone, I guess. But look,
if you don't have your phone on you, you're out
of luck.

Speaker 2 (49:20):
So, you know, maybe.

Speaker 1 (49:24):
Maybe people should just go with the bedets or something.
I don't know, but can you imagine, you know, especially
if you had like a bad burrito and you really
have to go through the toilet paper.

Speaker 2 (49:34):
Shouldn't have you said that? Then you're you're, you know,
out of luck. You could say that you forgot to
add jokes into your.

Speaker 10 (49:52):
Hey, the potential for this is just like like the
way I envisioned this, You're like like this wipe is.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
Brought to you by draftings, draftings, You're whatever. I can
see it.

Speaker 1 (50:10):
Right now, you have to watch an add for pepto
bismal before you can get another square of paper.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
Right. I was like, you're gonna start to get targeted
ads within the next ten years. Wherever they're gonna like,
it's gonna hear that you know, you've man got the runs,
and it's gonna be like, you know, like, oh, you know,
here's some tuber pills or something.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
Can't pact take or something like that.

Speaker 4 (50:31):
You know, right, you have.

Speaker 2 (50:32):
Basically or they're gonna start like putting the in the toilets,
like some of that analyzes your poop and it's you know,
you're gonna get add like you know, vitamin C deficiency.
But here we can I just imagine the potential for
all this to just like go away.

Speaker 1 (50:49):
Well can you imagine artificial intelligence in the in the bathroom.

Speaker 2 (50:52):
That's it's a whole, the whole different version of the
dystopian future that we were headed for that I did
not This is what I did not see coming.

Speaker 1 (51:04):
Yeah, this is definitely is a step above the skippity toilet.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
Yeah, it makes perfect sense that this would come. I
that doesn't say it makes perfect sense that it's good.
It's certainly not good. Sold such a good bit, Like
I can't believe it's real. It's such a good bit.
You're going to write a joke? Wow, Yeah, something I

(51:29):
would have watched, like like in college and laughed at
if it was in a show, because I'd be like,
it's so ridiculous and it's just believable enough but outrageous
enough to like make it extra funny. Absolutely, Yeah, No,
real life is a satire at this point. And but
it's it's a you know, like how comedy and tragedy
are kind of tied together sometimes. Yes, I think, I

(51:51):
think unfortunately we're living one of those at the moment.

Speaker 1 (51:54):
Yes, yes, I would agree.

Speaker 2 (51:56):
Yes, Well, look, if you are needing to escape from,
you know, from I guess the stupidity of watching ads
for toilet papers.

Speaker 1 (52:05):
If you need to escape from the artificial reality, oh
that too, then you know, maybe you could escape from
that with you know, the way that some people do
I guess, by getting high.

Speaker 2 (52:21):
And if you're if you're not the one to kind
of do it yourself, and maybe you could just show
up instead at the animal shelter. Here, the staff and
some seventy five cats and dogs were evacuated from the
Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter and Billings Mount, Montana when the
building filled up with smoke after the FBI showed up.

(52:43):
Now you might be thinking that they were swatted or something,
but the FBI was actually helping them to get high,
because they showed up with two pounds of seized methanphetamine
and said, hey, you know what would be a great idea.
Let's burn it in the shelters. Incinerator.

Speaker 1 (53:02):
Some of my thinking.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
That sounds like a good time. But the incinerator it
normally used used to dispose of like euthanized animals, a
piece of equipment designed for the grim but necessary tasks
of animal control now repurposed for breaking bad community edition.
So like, what could possibly go wrong? Well? Everything apparently

(53:25):
now this sounds you got like federal law enforcement. There
can local law enforcement step in and arrest federal agents
for something? Or is it?

Speaker 1 (53:33):
I'm not sure they have the authority, would they?

Speaker 2 (53:36):
I don't, I don't. I don't think that they would. Yeah, well,
everything could go wrong. The the incinerator kicked the smoke
the wrong way because of something called negative pressure, which
sounds less like science and more like an excuse you
make when your middle school volcano project explodes in the cafeteria. Right,
but suddenly the entire building filled with meth mode. Man, right,

(54:00):
he got like secondhand meth high. I guess going for everyone.
But this resulted in fourteen staff members and seventy five
animals being evacuated. The fourteen staff members went to the hospital,
where they spent three hours in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber,
which man yeah to be fair something the kind of
luxury spa treatment that Gwyneth Paltrow or maybe Michael Jackson

(54:20):
would charge you nine hundred dollars for. But Michael Jackson
actually probably let you go in for free, but there'd
be another cost associated with it, you know. And and
oh no, what Eric's doing something here, He's adding this
in the chat. I could see you messing with this.
Eric is all right. I'm more to you now that

(54:42):
the next transition is going to be done by chat CHPT.

Speaker 1 (54:47):
Not by Eric. I'm mourning now, you know that. How
would you do that?

Speaker 2 (54:52):
Because you put the headlines here and like the stories
on a Google shared Google drive. I see you highlight
things right now. Yeah, and I just saw you and
then pasted back.

Speaker 6 (55:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (55:11):
No, okay, well in this case, look, the hyperbaric chamber
was actually medically necessary. The cats and dogs they got
emergency relocation VET care in some cases were closely monitored,
especially for leaders of kittens who were trapped in a
smoky room somewhere out there. The vet is now taking notes.

(55:31):
I'm sold about your chat TVT. That's not taking notes
on what it looks like when a six week old
kitten is accidentally hot boxed, and the shelter staff they
were blindsided. Executive director Trinity Halverson released a statement that
basically said, I run this place and I had no
idea the FBI was burning meth in my incinerator. Thanks

(55:51):
for the heads up, guys. She also confirmed very matter
of factly that my team and my animals had been
exposed to meth, which is a sentence no nonprofit leader
should ever have to write. But here we are. Meanwhile,
the FBI's response was this is standard procedure we used
out We use outside facilities for drug burns all the time,

(56:11):
which might be true, but you'd think someone along the
chain of command might have asked, hey, do we really
want to do this at the dog Pound. The shelter
is now shut down for weeks of decantamination, staff and
animals are displaced, and to add insult to injury, they're
fundraising for basics like pet food and blankets, because apparently,

(56:34):
once the FBI gases you're building with met smoke, the
least they could do is nothing. So what's the moral here?
If you're going to burn narcotics, maybe don't do it
in a place full of people and puppies.

Speaker 1 (56:47):
Yeah, probably a good idea. Yeah, so let's see what
I could come up with here, because obviously, because what.

Speaker 2 (56:56):
You could come up with? Yeah, yeah, you're gonna have
to really, I've got to do whatever I can to
run cover and derailed this right right by changing the
topic to the possum. Yeah, what would you do with methath?

Speaker 11 (57:14):
Eric don't know, but look when when the MBI turns
an animal shelter into a low budget, breaking bad reboot,
that has to be the week's peak in bad ideas, right,
So yeah, hey cute.

Speaker 1 (57:30):
Now. Meanwhile, over in New York, one man took a
break from doing absolutely nothing important to wager personal vendetta
against an ambulance because how dare life saving professionals try
to pass this twenty oh one Christ without a formal
duel and a glove slap first? Right, So there's that
you would normally use. That's right, That's that's that is

(57:51):
my transition. Okay, tanks the chance.

Speaker 2 (57:55):
It's a little bit too clean for my liks.

Speaker 1 (58:02):
That's of course.

Speaker 2 (58:03):
You know.

Speaker 1 (58:03):
I had a choice, asked me, do you want to
make this transition more snarky?

Speaker 2 (58:11):
Snark? Snarky, more sark?

Speaker 1 (58:14):
I need more snark that's right, man, that's just that's
absolutely hilarious. I love it, so I can have a
lot of fun with Chad GPT honestly goodness, but still no,
but actually though this you might call this in a
sense breaking news. Okay, from wall Kill, New York, on
a town, one man decides to go head to head

(58:37):
with an ambulance. All right, yes, an actual ambulance here,
the kind of flashing lights and sirens and a patient
waiting at the other end. All right, paramedics, Okay, they're
rushing to this emergency called doing the whole life saving thing. Okay,
they legally passed the car on the road, because that's
what ambulances do. Right. However, the forty seven year old

(58:58):
driver of that car, Terrell Osborne, apparently took this as
a personal insult. I mean imagine thinking, oh no, my
twenty zero one Chrysler has been dishonored by medical professionals.
I must offend its honor. So what does Osborne do?
He doesn't any completely rational adult would do. He speeds
after the ambulance pulls alongside that it illegally passes it,

(59:20):
then swerves in front of it to do a break check.
Oh my God, can you believe this, because, I mean,
nothing says justice like preventing trained paramedics from reaching a
medical emergency. You know, I mean somewhere in New York,
a patient waited while Terrell waged a one man war
against the flashing lights. I mean, authority said that Osborne's

(59:40):
actions obstructed medical services. Yeah. Translation, instead of helping to
save a life, he made himself the problem. Okay, The
police unsurprisingly arrested him, and he was charged with reckless driving,
obstructing medical services, and a whole liundry list of traffic violations.
And then, of course, in the grand tradition of baffling

(01:00:02):
judicial decisions, he was released with an appearance ticket because
apparently stopping an ambulance mid emergency ranks somewhere between jaywalking
and forgetting to upbate your inspection sticker. So, now, if
you're wondering whether mister Osborne at least won the race
against the ambulance, well, congratulations, you've hit rock bottom in
terms of curiosity, because nobody wins when your opponent is

(01:00:23):
literally carrying EMTs to try to keep someone alive.

Speaker 2 (01:00:27):
So in case, we probably have a dash cam that
saw the whole thing.

Speaker 1 (01:00:30):
Oh, of course you know. So in case you weren't
really paying attention, let me recap. Okay, we have the
ambulance trying to save a life. We've got mister Osborne
trying to prove a point. What exactly right away, Chrysler supremacy,
who knows? And then you've got society left shaking our
head wondering. Really terrill, really, So the final verdict really

(01:00:52):
wasn't road rage. It was road stupidity. Yes, if your
first instinct when an ambulance passes you is to say
challenge you check it, maybe it's time to turn in
your keys and call it a career.

Speaker 2 (01:01:05):
Believe that's someone break checked an ambulance responded to a callum.

Speaker 1 (01:01:10):
But only in New York, Only in New York. But
that happened.

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
I mean I can see it like New Jersey, Miami,
New York. Yes, but yeah, New York is the most likely.

Speaker 1 (01:01:21):
Unbelievable, unbelievable, I mean wow. So now see, while I
was talking, you could have been easily going through there
and making your own chat GPT transition.

Speaker 2 (01:01:31):
I'm better than chat GPT again.

Speaker 1 (01:01:34):
Uh yeah, oh man, this is great, this is great.

Speaker 2 (01:01:43):
Man. Well, look in New York you've got a guy
causing an accident by you know, trying to break check
an ambulance. Well, we've got a family that calls an
accident by mixing up their birthday candles on their birthday cake.

Speaker 1 (01:02:00):
Here, let's just wonderful.

Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
Is so good? Let's talk about birthdays all right? Most
people want cake, maybe some balloons, maybe a card with
ten dollars inside. If your grandma remembers, what what if
you don't you what? What you don't usually want? Well,
a near death experience via explosives. This is something that
would happen from like like Looney Tunes or something like

(01:02:27):
if you buy birthday candles from acme into one German
family that decided candles were just too boring. Instead they
stuck actual fireworks on the birthday cake. Because when you
think intimate family celebration, you definitely think, let's recreate a
Romstein concert, a ro Ramstein concert. And in the dining room,

(01:02:54):
you know, while working on the table, I did play
one Ramstein my wife and she looked at me with
this look.

Speaker 1 (01:03:01):
Like why do you have this?

Speaker 2 (01:03:04):
And what am I listening to? Yea, what is this?
H The video shows twenty year old asking at aker
leaning over his cake, ready to make a wish, except
instead of a gentle glow of candles, suddenly the entire
cake turns into a weapons test site. Right when your

(01:03:24):
birthday cake is ground zero, something went wrong. Sparks shoot everywhere,
the room fills with smoke, and people are diving for
cover like it's World War three. Asking said, I can
only imagine that was put in there because it's in Germany, right, Yeah,
Asking said that it felt like a movie scene. Yeah,

(01:03:45):
specifically the part where the main character regrets every single
decision that brought them to this exact moment. It's like that,
you know, it's like the beginning of the movie where
like it starts to go off and then like you know,
you get like the narrator. You might be wondering how
it got here. Let me back up first, and you
know it's one of those I don't know. He and
his brother ended up ducking under the table while flaming

(01:04:08):
shrapnel ricocheted around the room. Nothing says happy birthday like
accidentally simulating trench warfare. Here is the moment that the
fireworks started going off. Nobody's sure how the family confused

(01:04:36):
sparklers with small scale artillery. But online commentaris, Look, we've
had some stories of people, you know, finding old artillery
and making a mistake for gardening or something. But yeah,
I don't know. Like like, online commenters were quick, quick
to helpfully point out the obvious. My personal favorite though

(01:04:56):
of the online commers, that's why women live longer than in.

Speaker 1 (01:05:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:05:03):
Well, the good news nobody was injured. Better news. The
video has already wracked up more than one hundred thousand
views online.

Speaker 1 (01:05:11):
Of course, of course it did.

Speaker 2 (01:05:13):
Yeah, because if there's one thing the Internet loves more
than cake, it's cake that doubles as a fire hazard. Now,
to be fair, Asking says he can laugh about it now,
but in the moment, he admitted it felt like a
little bit of torture. Yeah. I mean he probably couldn't
even eat any of the cake, right, or flats all

(01:05:37):
on the wall.

Speaker 1 (01:05:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:05:38):
Nothing says a memorable birthday like your family accidentally turning
dessert into a hostage situation. What have we learned? One
check the box before you stick something flammable on top
of food. And two if you're ever invited to a
German birthday party and they'd bring out the cake, maybe
sitting near the exit.

Speaker 1 (01:05:56):
Yeah, that's probably a good idea. Either that or put
on like a bulletproof vest or something thing.

Speaker 2 (01:06:00):
You know, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:06:01):
I like I like the fact that the guy thought,
he said it felt like a little like torture.

Speaker 4 (01:06:06):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:06:06):
I can only imagine if you really want to feel
like you're being tortured, hire a mariachi performer to follow
you around for you know, all the time. This is what,
this is what this And I love this story because
this is something I would probably do, Okay, because I'm
just that kind of person.

Speaker 12 (01:06:24):
I mean, if if you if you do me wrong,
then I'm gonna find a way to get back at you,
you know, and especially here in this situation.

Speaker 1 (01:06:35):
Okay. I mean, let's say that you got you know,
you caught your your your partner cheating. Okay, that's that's
pretty shameful as it is right there. Okay, but now
now you've got to move your stuff out of the
apartment that you want shared with your very unamused X. Okay,
so yeah, you're the you're the person that was caught
cheating and now you know you got to move out,

(01:06:59):
all right, So it's that can be a little stressful
because you know, you know you're standing there packing all
yourself up while your partner is kind of like sulking
and watching you move out or something. It can be embarrassing,
can be humiliating. Let's just crank that humiliation to eleven. Okay,
because now what's happened is your very offended ex has

(01:07:20):
decided to hire a mariachi singer. This is so great,
this has actually happened. A Nashville TikToker decided the best
revenge wasn't yelling, wasn't throwing clothes off the balcony, Nope, nope, nope,
it was champagne in hand, calmly watching his cheating ex

(01:07:43):
pack Paul, a mariachi performer, followed the poor guy around,
blasting the trumpet, ukulele and heartbreak into the air like
some sombrero wearing soundtrack of shame. The video, if you've
seen it, it shows the X dropping a TV mid
move because nothing says dignified exit like Mexican folk music

(01:08:04):
aggressively serenading your regret. And the mariachi didn't stop just
at the doorway, no, no, he ma. He trailed that
cheater all the way out to the movie truck outside.
So now here's what it sounded like. The Mariachi singer
following the ex all around the house, man a man,

(01:08:35):
I'm telling you that's commitment, ladies and gentlemen. Of course,
obviously the clip went viral naturally, over twenty six million
people watch this man's heartbreak get soundtracked by brass instruments
and petty brilliance.

Speaker 2 (01:08:48):
That's almost the better part that in the moment it stings.
And then the twenty six million.

Speaker 1 (01:08:53):
Is the twenty six million is like, you have an
audience now to see this happen.

Speaker 2 (01:08:57):
Everybody knows your cheating face.

Speaker 1 (01:09:00):
Right, that's right. I mean I love one comment who
summed it up perfectly. He's gonna think of this every
single time he sees a Mariachi band, you know, and
you know it's true. I mean, you got wedding Sinko
de Mayo, Taco Tuesday. Guy's never going to be escaping it,
you know. And apparently Mariachi humiliation is just the tip
of the petty iceberg. Okay, another Influenzer wallpaper her cheating

(01:09:21):
boyfriend's life with screenshots of his side chick. Okay, we're
talking pillowcases, cereal boxes, even the toilet paper. So imagine
explaining that one to mom. Okay, and then there's a
Netflix avenger Okay, her cheating X kept watching on her account,
so she renamed the profile to cheater and said it

(01:09:45):
to toddler mode. So locked it down with parental controls,
gave him a said cartoon monkey avatar. Okay. So, and
I mean, that's not patty, that's artists artistry. Frankly so,
but I love to take away all right. Closure obviously
is overrated. If you really want to move on, maybe
all you need is a Mariachi band, maybe some petty creativity,

(01:10:08):
the eternal satisfaction of knowing that somewhere out there your
ex is still haunted by trumpets. So this reminds me
of something I pulled with one of my roommates whenever
I was living before I got married up in Northwest PA.
This guy, I mean, he needed a place to stay.
I had a two bedroom apartment. I'll let him, you know,

(01:10:29):
split the rent with me, but he owned nothing. I
owned everything, basically, and so I would come in and
each day the sink would get increasingly full with dishes. Yeah,
my dishes, okay, And to the point that I got
ready to have something to eat, and there was no
dishes left. So I basically held my nose, got out

(01:10:52):
the weed eater and cleaned all the dishes in the
sink that had been there for like a week and
a half. Okay, And when I did that, then I
went to Walmart bought a bike chain and a padlock
and put the dishes, the silverware, everything in the cabinets,
ran the bike chain through the handles and locked them up.

(01:11:12):
Nothing was more pleasing than to come home from work
and watching my roommate having to go out and buy
paper plates and plastic silverware to eat his dinner. So
because you know, it was wonderful, I.

Speaker 2 (01:11:24):
Mean to have a conversation.

Speaker 1 (01:11:28):
Yeah, yeah, well he was working and I didn't.

Speaker 5 (01:11:32):
I just I was.

Speaker 1 (01:11:33):
I was done having a conversation at that point. Yeah,
I think this spoke much louder so so, but yeah,
I I I love I love revenge stories like this,
you know, especially when they're done creatively like this. This,
This is brilliant, totally brilliant.

Speaker 2 (01:11:51):
Yeah, yeah, I love it. My wife definitely think it
was funny, not just because she's Mexican, but so you
bought a bike lock to I guess what lock up
all your dishes while you were in college? But what

(01:12:15):
if you instead bought a wench and a giant meat
hook instead for your your college you know housing.

Speaker 1 (01:12:25):
I did have a I did have like a little
hot pot. I could like heat up some soup or something.

Speaker 2 (01:12:30):
Well, I've got Cornell College students in our last story
who uh apparently killed a bear and then skinned it
in their dorm. But I mean, honestly, you know, you know,
I'm not I wouldn't even be mad. I'd be impressed,
and and uh yeah to be I just think heal house.

(01:12:53):
That's just a reference that anyone who's my age and
younger will probably not get. I could only assume we've
had an old enough audience though, because of all the
things you talk about.

Speaker 1 (01:13:04):
Of course, of course, well if anything else, you're going
out and googling all this stuff we talk about.

Speaker 2 (01:13:09):
Everybody, all right, I've done that before while listening to
a podcast of Cornell University the IVY League. Right, Yes,
a place of brilliant minds, groundbreaking research, and apparently bare
butchering in the dorms. This is I mean, I guess
not the extracurricular activities I think to put on my resume.

Speaker 1 (01:13:32):
But yeah, from college.

Speaker 2 (01:13:34):
But but yes, folks, that two Cornell undergrads legally shot
and killed a one hundred and twenty pounds black bear.
Nothing illegal there the problem. Instead of I don't know,
processing it in the woods like normal hunters, these future
Nobel Prize candidates thought, hey, let's drag this giant carcass

(01:13:55):
back to the dorm. The ra will love it. So
picture Okay, here you're walking back from the dining hall
with a plate of lukewarm pizza. In there in the
common room, Chad and Trevor are is getting a bear
like they're auditioning for a Discovery Channel survival show. Right,
maybe like like like bear grills or something man vers

(01:14:18):
I was thinking about. Nothing says higher education quite like
a taxidermy workshop between the ping pong table and the
vending machines.

Speaker 5 (01:14:28):
Now you go.

Speaker 2 (01:14:29):
Cordell officials confirmed the hunt itself was legal, no charges,
no environmental conservation violations, just vibes. Weird bloody bear in
the dorm vibes. One fun detail. Cornell's teams are called
the Big Red, but their unofficial mascot a bear, which

(01:14:50):
means these kids essentially murdered their own school spirit animal
then dismembered it in this in student housing, like someone's
gonna there's gonna be some remnant of that somewhere that
when the next people move into that dorm, they're gonna
be like, what is this? You know this this hair? Yeah,

(01:15:12):
so you kill your your own mascot. Basically I can
only imagine what they're doing in there and what this
means these kids. Essentially, I don't know, like like not
not not not good team. I guess uh sportsmanship in
that way. But all right, well, look imagine Yale students

(01:15:34):
tring a bulldog into stew or something like that Diamond Hall,
or Auburn students spatchcocking a live eagle on the quad, right, yeah,
I mean it will cook evenly when you do it
that way. You don't want dry eagle. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:15:51):
Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (01:15:52):
School probably has its limits. I think people officials assured
public this wasn't a safety risk, which is true unless
you count the emotional scarring of freshman roommates forced to
smell you did you did dead bear for three days straight?

Speaker 4 (01:16:11):
The uh.

Speaker 2 (01:16:13):
The Department of Environmental Conservation even said everything was done legally,
which sure, but maybe not morally academically or hygienically. Cornell's
admissions brochure brags about hands on learning. This probably wasn't
what they meant. Well, what did we learn? Lots of
lessons learned this podcast. Yes, well you learn that you
can be smart enough to get into an Ivy League

(01:16:35):
school and still stupid enough to think bear processing one
on one belongs in your dorm lounge.

Speaker 1 (01:16:40):
Oh man, that that would be you know. But honestly,
the stuff I have seen in in school and dorms anymore,
some of that stuff would not surprise me.

Speaker 2 (01:16:50):
I you know, I would be down for it. Would
It would have been a highlight of my day if
I walked in on that.

Speaker 1 (01:16:59):
Yeah, oh my gosh. Definitely getting down to the bear necessities,
that's for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:17:05):
Well, I mean, does the bear skin rug get to
stay in the in the lounge? Good point?

Speaker 1 (01:17:13):
Good point.

Speaker 2 (01:17:16):
Imagine the kind of shacking up that's going to happen
on that on the black bear. After all said and done,
that's right.

Speaker 1 (01:17:25):
Nevertheless, I guess you know, if they had a bear
skin rug at the school, I guess you know they
they that was one one good benefit from having a
skinned bear in the dorm there at Cornell. But we
do have some great ask Poncho questions and this having
to do I guess more with relationships once again, and

(01:17:48):
this is an interesting situation here. It's trust issues or
is it? Maybe you have an issue with your wife here?

Speaker 2 (01:17:58):
So that tells me I might I might have some
good firsthand experience on this one.

Speaker 1 (01:18:03):
Well you might, you might hear. Okay, so says dear Pancho.
My wife has a very outgoing personality. I've always known
she likes to joke around, but lately her joking has
turned to flirting with her male coworkers. She insists it's
just playful and I have nothing to worry about. Now

(01:18:24):
she brought that up. I didn't. I can't tell if
I'm being insecure or if this is, you know, crossing
a line. I've never had trust issues with her before,
but you know, watching her laugh, touch arms and banter
with the other guys makes me wonder if there's more
to it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:42):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:18:42):
I didn't say anything or prompt her, so why would
she say it's just playful and I have nothing to
worry about. So, I mean, if someone usually says something
like that, it means something's going on.

Speaker 2 (01:18:55):
So what do I do.

Speaker 1 (01:18:55):
I mean, do you think it's you think something's going on.

Speaker 2 (01:18:59):
I've heard something similar enough from an X of mine
and uh, okay, yeah, I either two things are gonna happen.
Either one you've got less than a year before she
leaves you for some other guy, or two, within within
less than a year she's going to be cheating on
you as someone else and trying to hide it. No,

(01:19:20):
I don't. I don't think that you're I guess what
like uh looking into anything or being insecure. You're reading
the room and it's pretty obvious.

Speaker 1 (01:19:28):
It sounds like okay, so so so. In other words,
either either one is not going to end a very
good No.

Speaker 2 (01:19:34):
No, none of this is going to end well for
you and I it sucks to be you. I'm sorry
about that because it's not in your control per se,
because she's the one doing it and if she's just
gonna do what she's gonna do anyways, but yeah, it's
not good. Signs that is a red flag.

Speaker 1 (01:19:55):
Should you like maybe cut her off of the past,
maybe get one up on her and you go ahead
and the horse first.

Speaker 2 (01:20:01):
Oh you can, but yeah, you'll always be wondering what
if you know, if true, but definitely start preparing mentally
or or I don't know, get get things in a row.
It's it's worth having the conversation now before anything gets further.
And if it causes a scene, I guarantee it will
probably not be as big of a scene that it

(01:20:21):
would cause if you let it get down further on
this path.

Speaker 1 (01:20:26):
But still, well, at least he's not going to be blindsided.

Speaker 2 (01:20:30):
Yeah, that's true. Yeah, that's what I don't want you
to be. Don't be surprised at all when you find
out either of those things, because yes, you don't. You
don't do that. That's not normal. And if you are
doing that, it's only a matter of time before uh,
you know, the playfulness turns into something more basically.

Speaker 1 (01:20:53):
Well, I mean I wonder if he could like just
test her metal to see if maybe he would just
start doing it with a women, to see if she
could yell.

Speaker 2 (01:21:02):
Honestly, I mean, that's not that's not the end. And
then then at the very least when she comes up
with that, then you've already got a head start on
your I mean, that's probably not a smart thing to do,
but well, I mean, look, I.

Speaker 1 (01:21:15):
Mean, for one thing, I mean it might get you
going ahead, like you said, to give you a head start,
you know, if something happens. But but if she does
take offense to it, then you can just say when
you stop, I'll stop.

Speaker 2 (01:21:27):
Yeah, you know, honestly, yeah, that's that's not that's all
a horrible idea in that sense. What happens woud you've
got no game or no one's interested in you though.

Speaker 1 (01:21:41):
You know, if if I was this guy and that
was happening to me, I would make sure I would
have it successful. I would. I would keep trying to
tell I was successful, right, I mean I would. I
would all literally go to swingers nights just so I
could make it successful. You know, Oh yeah, absolutely. The

(01:22:04):
fact that there would not be a success is not
an option, right.

Speaker 2 (01:22:08):
What I will say to anyone listening who is not married, Uh,
this is why it's important to to date and get
to know the person beforehand, because you don't want to
find yourself, you know, years down the road with someone
who's just like lirting with other people. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:22:27):
Well, but look, I mean I think this was from
an episode from the mid Week episode, but you know,
there was a story that was option that was out
there about you could go to Japan and you could
hire somebody you know, uh yeah, yeah, you know, the
rent a person.

Speaker 2 (01:22:42):
Like rent to scare or something like that, a scary person.

Speaker 1 (01:22:45):
Well, see, I would I would just go on rent
a wife, you know, in that way if.

Speaker 2 (01:22:50):
They've got I mean it's called mail order, isn't that
mail order?

Speaker 1 (01:22:53):
Yeah, that's right, that's it. See. So I mean, if
she's flirting, just going ahead and get you like a rent, rent,
rent a wife and and you you you got it covered. Yeah,
you know, I think I think most people would call
that a prostitute. But you know who you.

Speaker 2 (01:23:10):
Know? Oh my goodness, Yeah, poor dude. I like, I'm
one hundred percent certain I know what's coming to this
guy's future. All right, ask Pancho. I've got one more.
They say, Hell, do I stay in the will or
stay with my boyfriend? Well? This is interesting. It might

(01:23:32):
face value. It might depend on how much you love
your boyfriend and how much is in the will. I
don't know. Maybe they's got point though, I will see.
They say, dear Pancho, my father is not doing well
and is having some serious health problems. I have five
siblings who he plans to meet with this weekend. I'm
sure he's going to talk about what happens if and

(01:23:53):
when he passes on. I have a feeling he's going
to tell me I won't get any inheritance if I
continue to date or marry my boyfriend. He has never
liked him. There is a lot of money coming my way.
Should I choose to break up with my boyfriend? What
would you do if you were me? Inheritance or love?
My best friend says I should break up with my
boyfriend because I'm twenty two, haven't been dating him that long,

(01:24:17):
and I'm young enough to find love again.

Speaker 5 (01:24:19):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:24:19):
Oh yeah, No, that's interesting. I mean, is it gonna
be stipulating in the will that if at any point
you go back to dating or marrying this guy, then
you forfeit it because you say, like, hey, we're gonna
not date, and then if you think it's gonna be soon,
oh okay, we'll put it off for six months and

(01:24:40):
then now we'll get to dating again. Oh no, but yeah,
let's assume that we're going to do this the right way, right, yeah,
I mean for starters. So my question would be, what
does your dad see in your boyfriend that he doesn't like?
Because and is there a chance that he's trying to

(01:25:01):
look out for you and you know, and there's the
red flags you're not seeing, like maybe you know, after
you're married for a couple of years he starts flirting
with his female coworkers or something. But yeah, because that's
I think that's like the bigger thing for me, Like, uh,
because maybe maybe he's got a point. So at the
very least, instead of coming in their defensive or I

(01:25:24):
gotta choose one of the other, why not use the
time to have a conversation with him and get to
know your dad a little bit more and and see
like why or how he cares for you potentially or
maybe he's going to be a jerk about it and whatever.
You can't really you know, you can't control someone else, does.
I don't know your dad well enough to know you
know what he's going to be like. But but like

(01:25:45):
you can have a heart to heart with him and
kind of really see where he's coming from at least,
and if anything, that might still help you just like
like cope and and and maybe even like you know,
get to know your dad a little bit more before
he passes, and it might help you and that process
of nothing else true At that point, you know the
decisions for you, Like you don't take money with you.

(01:26:07):
I mean, certainly it's nice to have, right, but like
end of your life, whatever extra you have, you're going
to be passing on, passing down like he is so
so like what would you rather have? You know, now,
if you haven't been dating this guy long, I don't
know how you could you know, maybe you know this
guy is the one. But if you don't know he is,
then like why why stay as well? If you're not sure?

(01:26:31):
Maybe maybe that'd be an important question to kind of
evaluate right now, is this a work you know, got
a future or not? And for me at least, if
he's a really good guy and you really do see
yourself marrying him and being happy forever. My wife and
I got married. Both were like super poor and just
loved it. It was so much fun. We got married,

(01:26:52):
like you're twenty two, she was twenty. I think she
was twenty two when she got married. I must have
been like, what twenty six?

Speaker 1 (01:27:02):
I think?

Speaker 2 (01:27:02):
So yeah, that's sorry. Yeah, So, like we both were
were pretty young. My wife was the same at you
are right now, and we're super poor. We loved it
so much fun, you know, and we've kind of built
a life on our own with some of that. Now,
would we you know, like having like more, Yeah, sure
of course, But is it needed? No? I mean we're
perfectly happy still, you know that. So yeah, I don't know.

(01:27:27):
It's definitely a pretty interesting would you rather question? Yeah,
you're kind of stuck in the middle of it. So yeah,
I really couldn't tell you one way or the other.
I could certainly tell you that there are people have
dated that I would absolutely take the money over, and
you know, as as I got to know, the more,
I just it was like no, But at any point

(01:27:48):
when I got to that point, I just broke up
with them anyways. So I didn't see the future. And
so yeah, I was never like a date just a
date kind of kind of person. But yeah, but like
if you ask me, like, would I leave my wife
or break up with her or not married her at
the time for that, no, I would have absolutely if

(01:28:09):
I was like in your shoes and it was how
I felt about my wife at the time when she
was twenty two. No, we knew what we wanted and
there was no red flax I think on either side
for that song. I don't know. Maybe your dad's got
a point, or maybe it's just a journey. Yeah, not sure.

Speaker 1 (01:28:26):
Maybe there's no point in even talking to him because
he's got a lot of money and he can kind
of tell you what he wants you to do.

Speaker 2 (01:28:32):
With it, right, yeah, right? Is he trying to control?
And if that's the case, then you know, I don't know,
you could see if again, as it stipulated that you
can't go back and date this person, can can he
legally change his name and then be thus the will
is not like you're not you know, Let's say his
name is like Charles Johnson, and so he goes and

(01:28:56):
changes his name to like William I don't know, William
William Janssen. Uh, all right, well great, I am not
dating Charles Johnson, so I'm good. Yeah, maybe it's not
a loophole. Can he just change his name and get
around it once it's written into the will?

Speaker 1 (01:29:17):
Yeah? I mean look, uh, there's so many ways you
could probably do workarounds on this, you know. So maybe
it's just for them to try to be creative, you know,
exercise a little creativeness here. You know, it made me
a great story to tell the kids. You know what
your grandpa did?

Speaker 2 (01:29:35):
You know, I don't know, you could hire a mariachi
performer instead.

Speaker 1 (01:29:41):
Yeah, there you go, there you go. Well, you know,
you know what I I had this crazy idea and
I thought I'd let chat GPT design an insane game.

Speaker 13 (01:29:53):
Yeah all right, so just just for kicking giggles, let's
see what this is like. All right, all right, So
I'll read a question a loud to you, okay, and
then you have.

Speaker 1 (01:30:04):
To answer with a with complete confidence, regardless of whether
it makes sense or not. Okay, all right, and and
you'll get I guess you're get a point maybe based
upon the vibe, the phase of the moon, or whoever,
you know whatever. Okay, So here here is your first question. Okay,
it's a multiple choice. What is the correct way to
summon a sandwich a whisper rye not into your toast

(01:30:29):
at midnight? B challenge the nearest goose to a duel
see microwaven napkin while crying or d spin in a
circle until the sandwich appears, or you pass out.

Speaker 2 (01:30:42):
The right way to summon a sandwich? I'm gonna I'm
gonna say rhy not.

Speaker 1 (01:30:48):
Why not you like that?

Speaker 2 (01:30:48):
Well?

Speaker 1 (01:30:49):
The correct answer is depends on the sandwich's mood.

Speaker 2 (01:30:52):
Okay, well.

Speaker 1 (01:30:56):
That I just thought that was I just was gonna okay.

Speaker 2 (01:30:59):
A question, Yeah it was.

Speaker 1 (01:31:01):
Okay, here's another one. Okay, why can't turtles vote? Their
political opinions are too shellfish? B because Tuesdays are illegal underwater. See,
they forekeep they keep forgetting their Social Security pine cones. Indeed,
the government fears their ancient wisdom.

Speaker 2 (01:31:22):
I'm based on the last logic of chat GPT, I'm
gonna say it's because they're turtles.

Speaker 1 (01:31:28):
Oh well, actually the correct answer is d. Obviously the
turtles know too much.

Speaker 2 (01:31:34):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:31:35):
I just thought I would just I would just do this,
and we were talking about chat GPT, would just let chat.
You know, I'm open to talking about anything, but I
love talking about surviving in the stupidity that's always around us.

(01:31:57):
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(01:33:09):
Game Show starring his insane Florida nephew, Punch of wedd
We actually have the real insane game show with our
five mind benders, so these are a whole lot more
fun to play. I have a feeling I think you
enjoy these, okay, so obviously we'll give you a mind bender.
You get three clues and you figure out the correct

(01:33:30):
answer all right, So here is your first mind bender.
Soft drinks and beer are the two top things men
break in a diet. What is the third?

Speaker 14 (01:33:44):
The third?

Speaker 2 (01:33:45):
Men break?

Speaker 1 (01:33:47):
Yes, Soft drinks and beer are the two top things
men break and break a diet with. Okay, if they're
on a diet, they end up breaking the diet with
a soft drink or a beer. What's the third.

Speaker 2 (01:33:59):
I'm gonna say a milkshake.

Speaker 1 (01:34:01):
Ooh, I like that idea, but it is not a milkshake.
But I will give you your first clue. Not pizza.

Speaker 2 (01:34:11):
Not pizza. Oh, listen, in my mind, I'm thinking it's
gotta be a drink.

Speaker 1 (01:34:15):
But this would be any food you can anything that
you would break a diet. Soft drinks and beer are
the two top things men break a diet with.

Speaker 2 (01:34:24):
I don't know what it is, Okay, hamburger, a nice burger.

Speaker 1 (01:34:28):
Oh, not a burger? All right, your next clue. Women
love it, women love it. Soft drinks and beer are
the two top things men break a diet with. What's
the third? Not pizza?

Speaker 2 (01:34:45):
Women love it, women love it ice cream.

Speaker 1 (01:34:49):
Well, that's a good answer.

Speaker 2 (01:34:50):
I like that. My wife really likes lass cream.

Speaker 1 (01:34:53):
No, but you're getting close to the final.

Speaker 2 (01:34:56):
Clue, sweet, I'm gonna say chocolate.

Speaker 1 (01:35:00):
Oh there, I think that might work. Yes, that's it,
it is chocolate.

Speaker 2 (01:35:06):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:35:06):
I've never had to worry about doing a diet, so
I've never had to worry about what to break a
diet with.

Speaker 2 (01:35:13):
You know, I'll certainly tell you that none of those
things are good to break a three day fast with.

Speaker 1 (01:35:19):
Oh oh man, you got that right now. Well, we're
not talking about fast I'm just talking about dieting, all right.
So all right, so you you were successful with the
first mind mender. Here is your second mind vendor. Thirty
two percent. So we're talking just a little under one third.
Thirty two percent of people say this is their favorite

(01:35:39):
form of exercise.

Speaker 2 (01:35:42):
What is it? Well, it can't be wait how much?
How much?

Speaker 1 (01:35:47):
Thirty?

Speaker 2 (01:35:49):
So that could be. I might as well start with running.
Who likes running? But there's at least a third of
people out there who are going to be like I Do.

Speaker 3 (01:35:58):
You think that?

Speaker 14 (01:35:59):
May?

Speaker 1 (01:36:00):
I think more people?

Speaker 2 (01:36:00):
No running? That? I mean, it's good for you, but
like running to actually run in Oh my.

Speaker 1 (01:36:06):
God, it's not that So but here's your first clue outside.

Speaker 2 (01:36:12):
Outside their favorite. So I'm gonna say bicycling.

Speaker 1 (01:36:18):
Why not? Now your next clue is not jogging, not jogging.
Thirty people say this is their favorite form of exercise
that's outside and not jogging.

Speaker 2 (01:36:34):
Exercise outside not jogging. Hmm, what would that be?

Speaker 1 (01:36:47):
I remember just thirty two percent of the people say
that's their favorite form.

Speaker 2 (01:36:50):
Yeah, their favorite, I know. I mean it would be
like playing sports.

Speaker 1 (01:36:58):
I don't know. I mean if you would think that,
I don't know. But it's not sports though. Your final
clue seasonal in some cases, seasonal in some cases, seasonal
in some cases.

Speaker 2 (01:37:14):
So all right, all right, I'm gonna say, maybe it's
like roller skating.

Speaker 1 (01:37:20):
Wow, I used to do that. Yeah, well, I don't
know if you do a lot of this in Florida.
But actually the answer hiking hiking.

Speaker 2 (01:37:28):
Oh I like to hike.

Speaker 1 (01:37:31):
Yeah, I would agree. I loved go on on trail hikes,
you know, the rails to trails.

Speaker 2 (01:37:36):
I guess that makes way more sense, not that I
think about it. I'm thinking of like, yeah, what you
go like you go to the gym, and you're like,
right right, yeah, but yeah, no, that makes a level
more sense. I should have known that one.

Speaker 1 (01:37:50):
Yeah, I mean it's it's kind of a it's fun,
it's good exercise, and you all the time. Yeah, yeah,
all right, but we don't sometimes we don't sometimes think
of hiking exercise.

Speaker 2 (01:38:00):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:38:01):
I think that's probably why. Yeah, so all right, mine
bender number three. Twenty five percent of parents say that
their goal is to organize this before the end of
the year.

Speaker 2 (01:38:18):
What is it before the end of the year?

Speaker 1 (01:38:21):
All right, we're talking about parents here. Twenty five percent
of parents say their goal is to organize this before
the end of the year.

Speaker 2 (01:38:30):
What is it the rest of their kids' lives? No,
I'm just kidding. Uh, I'm gonna say their kids' rooms.

Speaker 1 (01:38:38):
Oh wow, well close, but that's incorrect. Okay, your first clue,
not their closets.

Speaker 2 (01:38:50):
Organize this before the end of the year? All right? Well,
I was saying they're rooms because in a sense, like
what happens that the in the year Christmas? So I
don't know, let me know if this is like it's
still within their rooms or not. I'm thinking maybe, like
because I think parents kids toys, there's too much of

(01:39:12):
it and you've got to make room.

Speaker 5 (01:39:13):
For new toys.

Speaker 1 (01:39:16):
Well, that is exactly correct.

Speaker 2 (01:39:20):
The kids toys that is me thinking like a parent
right now?

Speaker 1 (01:39:25):
Yeah, yeah, there you go. So you're in the twenty
five percent. So the other clue was it involves their kids.
And the final clue some children have lots of them.

Speaker 2 (01:39:34):
Well yeah, when you said parents, you're I already knew.

Speaker 1 (01:39:39):
Oh yeah, see, because you've got two kids, you got
to clean up after you, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:39:43):
So, and they don't put anything away. They've got way
they don't want to give give.

Speaker 1 (01:39:47):
The so yeah, well, and well that's true. And my
wife when our when our boys were really small, if
the if the boys had more than five toys on
the floor at any given time, my wife says, this
house is a pig stock.

Speaker 2 (01:40:00):
Uh huh.

Speaker 1 (01:40:01):
I mean I'm like, you got five toys, that's it.

Speaker 2 (01:40:04):
My house is always a pick side by that standard.

Speaker 1 (01:40:07):
Yeah, well right right, all right, so you did pretty
well on that one. I mean you didn't need but
one clue. So that's good. So all right, mine been
a number four. Here we go. Thirty eight percent of
people only wash this once a year.

Speaker 4 (01:40:25):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (01:40:26):
Only wash this once a year? Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:40:28):
Thirty eight? Thirty eight percent of people do that only
wash this once a year.

Speaker 2 (01:40:34):
Hmmm, I am going to say, like a like a
coat or a jacket.

Speaker 1 (01:40:41):
Oh wow, all right, your first clue not their comforter.

Speaker 2 (01:40:49):
Oh you would do that more than once a year.

Speaker 1 (01:40:51):
I think your comforter. I think I should have a
cat that barf's on it.

Speaker 2 (01:40:57):
Yeah. Well, we've got like a quilt or something that
that gets washed more than once a year at least,
probably because the animals are always like laying on it.

Speaker 1 (01:41:06):
Oh yeah, right, right, thirty people only wash this once
a year.

Speaker 2 (01:41:11):
I'm gonna say their carpet.

Speaker 1 (01:41:15):
Oh wow, that's a good answer that that's not there.
Your next clue something they wear.

Speaker 2 (01:41:22):
Okay, something they wear. Let's see. I like when I
think what you don't wash, like, is it something that's
dry clean only or is it I guess to say wash.
I'm not gonna hmmm because I'm saying, like, you don't
wash like suits or blazers, but you probably would true
dry clean that. I think probably.

Speaker 1 (01:41:43):
You know, oh, thirty eight percent of people only wash
this once a year.

Speaker 2 (01:41:48):
I it's got to be seasonal, I think, right, Like
maybe like a scarf or something you only put out
in the winter time, and so you're like, oh, okay,
let me wash all the winter clothes because they've been
packed away for so long. I'm gonna stick with it. Well, actually,
some people wash their shoes, don't they. I'm gonna say shoes, good.

Speaker 1 (01:42:12):
Answer, but it is not shoes. So your final clue
is sports.

Speaker 2 (01:42:17):
Sports, okay, sports.

Speaker 1 (01:42:20):
Something they wear, not their comforter. Thirty eight percent of
these people washed this only once a year.

Speaker 2 (01:42:26):
They're lucky jersey.

Speaker 1 (01:42:32):
That's good, their their favorite team's jersey. I can't believe that,
right that sex, that's good. That's really good something. You
used up all three clues, but you got it right there.
So do you have a lucky jersey yourself?

Speaker 2 (01:42:49):
Nah?

Speaker 1 (01:42:51):
No, I didn't. I was wondering if you even had.

Speaker 2 (01:42:53):
Anything like that, like a kid or something.

Speaker 1 (01:42:56):
But yeah, I don't have a lucky jersey. I can
probably that. So all right, your last one. You've done
pretty good this this week on the mind menders.

Speaker 2 (01:43:05):
I feel really good this one. But I feel great well.
I feel way less dumb than the old insane games
from last season.

Speaker 1 (01:43:14):
Right, all right, so my men are number five? All right?
Twenty seven percent of people have botched this easy dish
when trying to make it.

Speaker 2 (01:43:26):
What is it? Okay? Botched an easy dish.

Speaker 1 (01:43:30):
From twenty seven percent of people have done that.

Speaker 2 (01:43:35):
I mean, well I want to. I'm gonna say rice, iman,
I'm probably possiblenna say rice. If you've ever smelt burnt rice,
it's awful.

Speaker 1 (01:43:44):
Never, I've never done that before. Well that's exactly right.

Speaker 2 (01:43:49):
Oh my god, yes that one.

Speaker 1 (01:43:55):
Yes, that's it.

Speaker 10 (01:43:57):
You know, so you know what, I'm one of.

Speaker 2 (01:43:59):
The what oh my god, years ago, I used a
rice cooker in college for a reason.

Speaker 1 (01:44:09):
Yeah, is that right? Oh so yeah, your clothes were
side dish carbs white, yellow or brown. So that's awesome.
Did you not use like the minute rice that you
could make?

Speaker 2 (01:44:22):
No, I just I just bought like whole rice whole
day and you just got the.

Speaker 1 (01:44:26):
Whole the real stuff you had to actually see, I've
never I've actually never cooked actual like rice rice.

Speaker 2 (01:44:34):
That's like the that's the only thing we cook is
like real whole food. My wife not buys things like
that from from this like a giant like grain distillery
or whatever. Yeah, wheat and stuff from.

Speaker 1 (01:44:49):
Yeah, my wife gets the minute rice all the time.
The minute rice. I mean, I just you boil the water,
you pour the little cup of rice in you li's
it for fifteen minutes and then flaky.

Speaker 2 (01:44:59):
When we first got like we were dating and got married.
But yeah, but now we get like twenty five pound
bags of any kind of grain, it's all organic, and
then she'll milk.

Speaker 1 (01:45:09):
Yeah, my guess. My guess is I would probably be
the one to ruin the rice if we actually cooked
the real right. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:45:16):
I was so used to using a rice cooker in college,
so I was like, all right, rice cooker. And then
I was at a friend's house and we're like, oh, yeah,
we'll make some rice, and we're about like, how do
you do this? Like I don't know. We just start
putting water in it and then didn't go. We're like,
that doesn't look like, Let's add more water. And then
we just like, oh more, and we're like, let's send
me too much water. We got to kick this a
litle evaporates, and then and then the whole place smelt

(01:45:39):
and we're like, oh boy, this it was inedible. God.

Speaker 1 (01:45:42):
Oh no, I honestly I have never had that experience
that sounds. I haven't done this, my god, Wow, that's crazy.
All right, Well, we haven't had a whole lot of
stupidity here. I've been trying to mine the internet for
all the stupidity everything is and so so grim and
serious and hard.

Speaker 2 (01:46:04):
You can just take your peace of mind and just
make up your own stupid stories.

Speaker 1 (01:46:08):
I might just do that. I might just put it
in a bunch of fake GPT. Yeah, but no, we
we have a few that I have been able to find.

Speaker 2 (01:46:18):
You can put ITPT right now, give me seven fake
headlines for a stupid stories podcast.

Speaker 1 (01:46:26):
Yeah, I could do that so easily.

Speaker 2 (01:46:27):
I could probably do that. I think that's how you
should end it.

Speaker 1 (01:46:30):
If honestly, I should do that and see if you
can tell the difference.

Speaker 4 (01:46:36):
You know, I.

Speaker 2 (01:46:38):
Probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference. We have
some real stupid stories.

Speaker 1 (01:46:43):
There are some that you just can't make up. I mean, honestly,
but but this this is Have you ever been to
In and out Burger?

Speaker 2 (01:46:49):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah? Once?

Speaker 1 (01:46:51):
Okay, Well you know they they have the in and
out Burger. They have your back when it comes to
line cutters. Have you heard about that?

Speaker 2 (01:46:59):
I have not, but.

Speaker 1 (01:47:02):
Yeah, and frankly all drive throughs should have this policy.
It's if you cut line and in an out Burger
drive through, you get a home run. And what is
that well, you'll find out next week. It is wonderful.
It's one of those ones where it's like karma, the

(01:47:23):
best kind of karma anyone can get. All right, I
love it.

Speaker 2 (01:47:28):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (01:47:28):
So but that's what's coming. And here's one. We have
a guy who was accused of crashing his car and
then he hurled the kids over a fence. So he was, Yeah,
he was speeding. The cops were chasing and they gave up.
He crashed his car and then hurled his kids over
the fence to get away. I can make a run

(01:47:49):
for it.

Speaker 2 (01:47:50):
Does he not have like tags on his car where
they could eventually find.

Speaker 1 (01:47:55):
Probably, I don't know, but any rate. So, and then
we got a story where California restaurant workers duke it
out in a Benni Hanna brawl. So a big, big
brawl to Bennie Hannah. And then finally we have a
big wopping' meltdown at the Delta sky Club lounge in

(01:48:16):
the airport. So and and it's it's great, it's it's glorious.
So another another great story from people acting badly in airports.
So that's just a few of the uh, what we
got to look forward to next next episode. So, and
as always I usually find up find all the better ones,
you know, after we record the podcast, so hopefully we'll

(01:48:39):
have hopefully we'll have some more stupid stories to to
mine here, but it's been pretty few and far between
here of late. Everyone's still been wrapped up in the
whole Charlie Kirk thing and and the whole thing with
Jimmy Kimmel and everything else. It is, it is we

(01:49:00):
need to stop being so serious and get back to
being stupid. So but nevertheless, so but any rate, maybe
next week we'll have a better update on what's happening
with Ponchos.

Speaker 2 (01:49:11):
Possibly yeah, yeah, well maybe i'll give a look forward there. Yeah,
hopeless we're more stupid ha ha and less stupid all
m hm.

Speaker 1 (01:49:21):
Yes, And I might see if I can find a
good artificial intelligence story that I can make up, and
see if you can tell the differ. See, okay, we'll
fly past you see if you I might. I might
might stick it, sneak it in the headlines and see
if you pick it.

Speaker 10 (01:49:39):
You know what it is, right, You'll have to come.

Speaker 2 (01:49:42):
Back and let you know.

Speaker 1 (01:49:44):
Yeah, bro, let's go to.

Speaker 14 (01:50:00):
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