Skeleton Strip Show Snitfit, 67, Monkey Madness, & ‘Whitexicans’ In Queens

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the squeamies, you know, when I do this, some think
it's cool, if some think it's creepy. And well, we
have a new word, and I put word in quotes
that's pretty much overtaking the Alpha generation vernacular. And this
word now is the new word of the year.

Speaker 5 (01:54):
I ought to give you a piece of my mind.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Dictionary dot com has named six seven, not sixty seven
as any well anyone with between or teen no as
you're twenty twenty five word of the year. It was popularized,
of course by so jinn alf on social media, used,
you know as kind of a random comment and well,

(02:25):
if you've got kids in like, you know, schools around
you know, whether it's elementary or even junior high or whatever.
It's spread through schools and online circles all around the
country now. The director of Lexicography at the Dictionary Media Group,
Steve Johnson, he says the words viral momentum made it

(02:47):
stand out. Okay, this is kind of unlike any of
the other words that they're using. He says, it just
kept growing larger and larger snowballing into well of a
cultural phenomenon. The definition. I'm sure you're wondering, what is
the definition of six seven? Well, there really isn't one.

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There really isn't a definition at all, making it really
the first word of the year, he says, that we've
had in a really long time. That's actually more of
an interjection. It's something people are just you know, shouting
and saying. In that itself, it's pretty novel and well,
pretty spectacular. Now keep in mind, no some say it

(03:34):
refers to so so or you know, come see, come saw,
or maybe this maybe that This is how definition. This
is how dictionary dot com defines six seven. It's an
example of brain rot slang and is intended to be
nonsensical and playfully absurd. Well, you know, this entire podcast

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thrives on things that are playfully absurd. Dictionary dot Com
considered several other contenders for the Worthy Year, like agentic
that's artificial intelligence acting independently. There's also aura farming that's
cultivating some online charisma or as the kids like to say, riz.

(04:23):
And then there's the gen z Stare. We've talked about
this on this podcast. That's the generation's signature blank look
like when you come up to the checkout line and
they're just like staring off in space anyway, or are
you asking them a question and they just kind of
look at you. And then there's over tourism and tariff

(04:46):
and a treadwife was in there also that they considered
and actually brainwrot had its own moment back in twenty
twenty four. But the Internet is divided, you see. Some
social media users support the choice of sixty seven as
a reflecting out language, especially slang among Gen Alpha is

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becoming more about mood than meaning. They say. Picking six
to seven shows the fun, playful side of how words
are well in this case, numbers evolve online. A lot
of users balk at calling six seven a word at all.
One readit user wrote, this says all the feelings of

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an irrelevant website making a dumb announcement to garner outrage
and drive clicks and views well, of course, and to
my response, six to seven well. Some critics argue the
pick also dilutes the meaning of the word of the
word of the year. It just dilutes the meaning if

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the term isn't definable or widely used beyond a niche meme?
Is it really representative of a broad culture? Tick seven
six seven? I don't care, you know, look, I'm just
you know, I was just being able to catch up
with the skivity. Yeah that was another word last year,
wasn't it. I have no shot of early understanding six

(06:12):
or seven. I just like saying six seven. That's that's
how stupid this timeline is. I mean, the word of
the year is just two numbers, six seven.

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Let me be your only.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yes, we are once again joined by Pacha Gueto from Jacksonville, Florida.
My insane Florida. And if you slash correspondent but not
the Florida man, so uh and and and you're you're.

Speaker 5 (08:26):
Getting technically a Florida man.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
I guess, well, yeah, I guess in my location, you've
kind of lived all over the place. But but no, no, no,
you you you're you're getting everything all squared away for
open enrollment. Is that what we're doing here this week?

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Oh man? Yeah? Open enrollment for insurance and all that
it's buns and cheeks.

Speaker 7 (08:45):
Yo.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
Yes, that's good. That's good. Well, I uh, I want
to start right off because my I was gonna do
uh a different Uh.

Speaker 5 (08:58):
I've gotta, I've gotta do whatever your peace of mind.
I've got to keep my lingo fresh, you know.

Speaker 8 (09:03):
Yeah, well I was.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
I had a different one picked out, but then this
came across my my my desk earlier today and it
was really pretty funny because with me doing some youth
work with our church, I get this a lot. I
hear a lot because you know, I will send a
text to some of my youth kids that we're going
to get together and do something, and you know, someone

(09:25):
will right back and they'll say bet bet.

Speaker 9 (09:29):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (09:32):
You know you make me think of Steve and I
can't remember that movie. But you know, how do you
do fellow kids, fellow students?

Speaker 1 (09:41):
Well? And or or the next phrase is light?

Speaker 10 (09:46):
Okay, like l I D or no, it's l g
l g h T like l l I g h T,
not l I it's l g.

Speaker 5 (09:58):
H T, just l g A D. Right, you know,
more about the terms of our youth.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yeah, which when they say light, that's it's like like
they understand. In other words, you got you shine light
on the subject here. Well, the other big term that
is really gripping of Betty is this. It's not really
a word, it's a number, but dictionary dot com has
decided this is the twenty twenty five word of the year.

Speaker 8 (10:23):
It's six seven.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
And that's how I say it.

Speaker 5 (10:26):
That's how you seven.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah, so it's not sixty seven, it's six seven. So
it comes from this song. It's got this this phrase
in it and it means absolutely nothing, okay, And so
to use it in a sentence, it's like, you know,
I don't know, I don't know if we should go
to the football game tonight or not. And it's like

(10:48):
six seven that's the response, you know. So it means
it's like brain rot. It means nothing. So what I
did I thought.

Speaker 5 (10:56):
Brain rock really describes a lot of the media though, well,
yeah it does.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
It does well. Yeah, So so what I did when
this come up in my in my material from my
radio show today, I said, I'm going to make a
reel for Instagram or something, And so what it did.
I started out with the reel and was showing the
microphone in the radio studio. I moved it over to
the screen where it has the story that six seven

(11:24):
is dictionary dot COM's twenty twenty five word of the Year,
and I just kind of pan across that. Then I
switched the camera to me and I just make this
funny face and go sick seven. And then I posted
it out on Instagram Instantly, my son comments on it,

(11:48):
and he.

Speaker 11 (11:48):
Says and he hates it whenever the boomers, you know.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
His response was, and I quote, you still have time
to delete this, promise I won't tell. And he has
the prayer emoji, the laughing the crying emoji and looks
like a poop emoji or something else. So it's it's
it just sends reverberations through the Jenn Alpha world when

(12:17):
I do stuff like this, you know. But but yeah,
so if you really want to blow people's minds, you know,
if you just you know, have have that as your response,
you know that that'll that will really throw them.

Speaker 5 (12:30):
My wife would she would be looking at me like,
you have no idea, and she would she would be concerned.
I think that would be the right way of saying that.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
But yeah, and and it's just they just shouted you
know and uh, you know, I don't know. It just
means so so or maybe this maybe that you know,
that's in other words, it really it doesn't have a
meaning at all, you know, so.

Speaker 5 (12:57):
Hilarious.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
So what I did on my radio show, I just
I was, I was talking about it, and I said,
I can't stop saying six seven six seven all the time. So,
oh yeah, I'm gonna have so much fun with this.
I don't know what to do. I think it's going
to be fantastic. Frankly, you know, I.

Speaker 5 (13:15):
Heard, like on someone who's radio show down here the
other day that the was it three I Atlas, the
asteroid that's going by apparently yesterday. If we were going
to get word from aliens, it would have been yesterday.

Speaker 8 (13:30):
Yes, I did see that, but I don't think we had.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
And it makes me. It reminds me.

Speaker 5 (13:36):
Of the contact made. Yeah, Noling shot around the Sun
and yeah it's not heading towards us. Well, if it
was going to get a gravitational assist from the Sun,
it would have been yesterday. Correction.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
What you need to do, because next time you're on
YouTube or somewhere, look up the song by the Carpenters. Okay,
you've heard of the car Carpenters.

Speaker 5 (14:00):
Before I have, even though I am.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
All right, So look up the song about the Carpenters
called calling Occupants of interplanetary craft. And if you play that, well, well,
if you play it really loud, you might be able
to attract some extraterrestrials. I don't know, I'm I just
you know, I think about that song every time I

(14:28):
read stories about stuff like this is the the Carpenter
song calling Occupants of interplanetary craft. So yeah, it's it's
it's a it's a bizarre song, really, but I.

Speaker 5 (14:41):
Can only imagine it being sung by Bowie.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
Still, it's always imagine a Bowie song being sung by
Richard and Karen Carpenter. That's what I say. Weird, even more.

Speaker 5 (14:55):
Weird transmitting back to U something like that.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
Well, you're not far from the truth.

Speaker 8 (15:03):
I'm just saying.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
So, well it since we last spoke, we I I
made it. Speaking of, you know, making the trip around
the sun, we I made another trip around the sun.
So we went out for a lovely birthday dinner on
this past week. Thank you very much.

Speaker 5 (15:25):
I missed that one.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
Actually, well, you know, it's just some things you just
your your mother remembered it. So I mean that's all.
I got another. I got another one of her homemade
birthday cards once again.

Speaker 5 (15:37):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's all she homemade. It's printed out and.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
Folded, printed out and folded.

Speaker 5 (15:45):
She adds her own special touch to these.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
Yeah. Absolutely, all the time, I.

Speaker 5 (15:50):
Say homemade cards, like for my kids or something, it's
like hand drawn.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
Yes, well so this is this is the adult crayon.
It's it's called the the printer, so that's the adult crayon.
But yeah, she managed to work in a podcast reference
into the birthday card. So that was that was good.
But but no, no, we went out for normally on
my on my I get my birthday dinner, normally we
go and hit the Mexican restaurant, because you know.

Speaker 8 (16:16):
That's about the year action.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
That's the only time I really get to enjoy Mexican food,
you know, is when I go either Father's Day or
my birthday maybe twice a year. I get on.

Speaker 5 (16:25):
A technicality, I get to enjoy Mexican food every single night,
I know, because it's made by my wife at.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
Least, that's right, that's right.

Speaker 5 (16:34):
And when it's not actual Mexican food.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
Well, I know it's still Mexican because you're pachak wuido
the white Mexican.

Speaker 5 (16:41):
Yeah yeah, Mexican law is yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
But but which is a which is a reference to
what we're going to talk about later on.

Speaker 5 (16:50):
But I.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
Digress. But no, this time I decided to defer from
the years of going to skin restaurants because there's a
new restaurant in the area. It's called Bonfire Barbecue.

Speaker 5 (17:04):
Okay, Bonfire, and and.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
I'm like, let me just give this a try, because
most of the barbecue I've had here north of the
Mason Dixon line has not been the barbecue I grew
up with, all right, Okay, and it's mainly kind of
a sweet kind of barbecue. Well, I was pleasantly surprised
because they had some of the best brisket I've ever had.

(17:27):
All Right, So I had a brisket dinner with delicious
home cooked green beans and bacon and garlic mashed potatoes.
And they're chili. And this is the first chili I
have eaten in Pennsylvania that did not taste sweet. It
was a smoky, a savory kind of and it was
dark brown, and it had chunks of meat in it

(17:50):
and I'm like.

Speaker 5 (17:50):
Oh yeah, that sounds awesome.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
This is this absolutely rocked my world. And it's like
I wanted a bowl, but my wife's shook her head. No,
you're you're getting your In fact, I'm getting a brisk
at dinner. It's enough. That's that's enough money that we're
spending tonight, you know, this kind of thing. So but
I got my cup of chili, so we we enjoyed that.
So and and then of course Grandma says, well, I

(18:14):
definitely like this better than the Mexican restaurant.

Speaker 12 (18:19):
So everybody was happy with my choice.

Speaker 5 (18:23):
It could have been worse. Grandma could have just could
have left out the word restaurant.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
Mm, that's true, she could have done that.

Speaker 5 (18:32):
Well, this is a lot better than the Mexican than.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
The Mexicans, that's right. So so yeah, overall it was
it was a nice week, and I do I don't
feel any any older at all. You know. I guess
this is maybe why I'm becoming more drawn to the
gen alpha terminology, because since I'm another year older, I
just tried to maintain the youthfulness as much as I

(18:57):
can see. Yeah, yeah, so it's all the way you
have to say it. Properly.

Speaker 5 (19:05):
Yeah, you may not be able to understand my accent. Well,
I've got a couple of stories. I actually I've got
my own stupidity that I want to gat. Yeah, it
is homegrown. It's very close to home too. Did I

(19:26):
mention that I had? Was it like I'd gotten rear
ended like a month or month and a.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
Half and your car was in the shop.

Speaker 5 (19:35):
So my car. I got my car in the shop.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
And you had to have had to get a truck too,
didn't you?

Speaker 5 (19:41):
No, No, I almost did. Then Yeah, then all of
a sudden, they're like, oh, magically we found a new
you know car. Yeah, well, yeah, I returned that earlier
this week because they're like, we're only going to cover
for a few days. They weren't even covering the higher costs.
So like I took it to work on Monday, and

(20:02):
I'm like, all right, I'm returning this crap and I'm
working from home and we'll just deal with it. And
so so that's why I did. I work from home.
And the place that I took the car to I
do not live, and I live kind of like in
the middle of not not really suburbia, not the city,
but not really the country. It's kind of like I'm

(20:24):
across the street from a naval air base. You know,
there's a target like five minutes down the street. There's
a nature preserve like like one light down, like like
a quarter of a mile down the.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
Road, on the edge of the suburbs kind of thing.

Speaker 5 (20:38):
Basically, yeah, like we've got a small little neighborhood. It's
not an h away thing, but it's but which I
kind of prefer personally, and you know, so it's like
it kind of feels like we're a little bit out
in the country, but we're not. But there's still stuff there.
And of the few businesses that are really right next
to our house, which is it's few, it's not a

(20:59):
lot like it. But the car shop that I brought
it to for for like collision, it happened to be
like a ten minute walk away. The only problem is
like I've got to walk on the side of the
road to get there, like so you have no sidewalk together.
It's it's got a pretty good sized grass shoulder and
it's got railroad tracks as well. So I could have

(21:20):
chosen to take the railroad tracks, but I'm not gonna
do that because that's an active that's an active. Now
you can see there's no bends where you couldn't see.
But I'm like, I'm not gonna walk on the railway.
I know it's active. So I just walk on the
grass median. But I get most of the way down there,
and and there's a ditch on both sides of the

(21:41):
railway tracks right, and so I'm like, oh man, maybe
I can just cut across and and you know, and
then like I'll save myself five minutes walking or something that,
you know, cut the grass through the grass there. But
I'm like, ah, no, the ditch is a little bit
too much on this side. Well, it's only got to
where there's like a little grass like kind of medium

(22:01):
that's walking over to the railroad tracks. Oh I could, definitely,
I could. I could cross the here and save a
couple of minutes. And on the other side of the
railroad tracks is another ditch, but looking like it was
all filled in with grass and everything. So I'm like,
this should be simple, easy, And so I go over
the railroad tracks. I go on the other side and
I take a step in and before I know it,

(22:22):
I am standing knee deep up to almost my kneecap
in muddy waters and it was very muddy. It looked
like solid ground. We're gonna say that, it absolutely looked
like solid ground.

Speaker 13 (22:35):
And so I quickly oh, and then then my other
futs in and then before I know it, both of
my flip flomps are just completely submerged and launch and I'm.

Speaker 5 (22:46):
Having flashbacks when I lost my birken Stocks in the
ocean when I went kayaking the day from a hit
North Carolina or the Carolinas, and it cred the super tide. Well,
that super tide took my sandals off as I try
to get my wife. This is before you have kids.
I got tied to get my wife and my dog
and the kayak not from getting sucked into the ocean.

(23:08):
And then I was like, well, there, that's what I
get for buying expensive shoes. The thing is like all
of their shoes I destroy very quickly. Well, it's one
of the few things. Yeah, it's one of the few
things that I just learned, like I need to buy
nicer quality shoes or else I will be buying shoes every.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
Single all the time. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (23:24):
Yeah, And it's cheaper in the long run for me
to just buy something quality up front, right for like
for my wife can buy cheap shoes and she will
never out out wear them like for me. So so
here I am with these like one hundred dollars flip flops.
That was like, no, I'm like not again. It's I
go digging through like the mud there to get I get,

(23:46):
and I'm walking up now to the to get my car,
and and I smell like swamp at this point. It
was pretty nasty. My knees are like wet all the
way up like I'm wearing jeans. They're wet all the
way up to like almost my kneecap there and uh
and so I felt a little bit like a fool,
but I had to I had to sit back and

(24:07):
laugh as well. So no, don't don't cross the road,
which I take the extra two minutes, walk all the
way down to the light and follow the road.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
That's somehow, somehow, I I almost anticipated that was going
to happen, because then has happened to me more than once.
And the only thing that those things that could have
made this even worse was if there was an alligator
posing right across.

Speaker 8 (24:31):
From a man.

Speaker 5 (24:33):
Well, I don't know if it was enough water. It
was deep, but it looked it looked like solid ground,
and I would argue that it was fifty percent solid
grounds as well. Word the amount of mud and gunk
that was there. Yeah, I don't know. So yeah, I
got home and immediately through the jeans and the into
the washing machine with nothing else there, I'm like, wash,

(24:56):
jump in the shower, not with any parasites. Then you know,
I guess, well.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
Check check for leeches.

Speaker 5 (25:04):
While I know for I did. Actually I was like, listen,
I didn't think there would be.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
And I was like, oh, you never know.

Speaker 5 (25:12):
Yeah, that's that's my my stupid.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
That's great for there. Yeah, too bad there was no
no cameras. That would have made for some great artwork.

Speaker 5 (25:22):
Oh I know, right, I do have. I do have
another story, but I'm gonna save it as a as
a nice transition.

Speaker 1 (25:30):
Okay, Oh, we're gonna work it into the podkay, good, all.

Speaker 5 (25:34):
Right, we're gonna yeah, we're gonna work it. I'm gonna
I I mean, well, I don't know if this is
even monetized or anything. I don't look. Yeah, listen, share
like subscribe so we can so so so I can
monetize my stupid mistakes and stories. It monetize my wife's
stupid mistakes and stories coming up later.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
Yes, well, well yes it is monetized, but not enough
for me to see a check, solet's.

Speaker 5 (26:00):
Just say that.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
But yeah, we we've got to have massive amounts of
people for it to be for me to see any
residuals for this. That's true.

Speaker 5 (26:11):
So well we welcome to the podcast. Look, if you're
sharing it and you're now new to listening, welcome, you're
you're this this is our super world. We like to
well happens here. Eric, he minds like like for for cryptocurrency.
He goes up minding minding, can we get like a

(26:35):
stupid coin? Can we can we jump?

Speaker 1 (26:37):
Don't know, Yeah, I don't know what you would call it?
You know it's not and it wouldn't be a bitcoin.
It couldn't be a trump coin because you know Trump's
into this kind of thing too.

Speaker 5 (26:46):
Why would we Why would we name it a trump
coin for our I don't know, doesn't make any well,
I don't know, Well we we we could table this idea.
He goes up mining stupid stories and then I like thee.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
We'll call it a nit coin because you have to
be a knit whip to try to.

Speaker 5 (27:05):
Go out and yeah, or the Darwin coin, I don't know. Yeah,
I like that, like like the blockchain, I'm mine or
I am not mine? What you know, what you take
out the creed, I refine the stories, yes, and and

(27:28):
I love the intro here the first story we've got
for the week, mostly because it kind of describes me.
I think just by the name must mean actually I
more so describes my wife. I should say, well, I
always referred myself as Mexican, and law, I figure that, Uh,
there are crazier things that people believe currently, So I

(27:50):
think this is a you know, I don't know, this
is less of a stretch than other things. I'm married
into it, fair and square. So if you don't like it,
and look, you can marry a Mexican.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
Mexican yeah, but that's one of you get all the
tools you had ever won.

Speaker 5 (28:10):
Well, we do get a lot of tomolage every year,
every holiday, every birthday. It's yeah. Now, my wife though
she is actually her dad is white, all right, So
her dad's is American and and her mom is from Mexico.
I mean, like so Mexican. Her name is Guadalupe for real.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
Okay, okay, all right, it's.

Speaker 5 (28:35):
I keep like trying to convince my wife and we
have a daughter that we could name her Kenzuela, and
she's not for it. But when we do pick up
baby names, it has to be workable in English and Spanish.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
Man, that's great.

Speaker 5 (28:48):
But you know, but like she is, I think she
is like fully Hispanic in that way. She's half white,
but like she has she comes from a very Mexican household. Still, yes, bilingual,
she can speak to Spanish. She but I will say,
like the longer we've been married, the I kind of
joke the whiter that she's become. I'm not trying to do.
This is the thing. Like I loved she was a

(29:11):
g when we met, and I wish that she could
be just as much of that G that she was.
But I think it's this inevitable. It's whatever. I guess
the the me colonizing her life now, but I'm not
I'm not trying to it is the thing. So we
could call her like a white white, white white Mexican.

(29:32):
Is that how the because she is right, just half
of each of these things. Well, there's a New York
restaurant white Texican I guess that, Yeah, I guess it's. Well,
there's a New York restaurant I think that is going
by the name White White Mexicans. They call it, which, yeah, well,
I think again perfectly fits with at least what would

(29:55):
work at my household, I think. But I can see
a lot of outrage happening over this, which is more
of the funnier part. In Jackson Heights, Queens. If you're
down there, there's a new restaurant called White Mexicans opened
its doors and immediately opened a can of controversy. Yeah,
it's I don't know, a can of converse. It doesn't

(30:17):
seem like themed enough for like, I don't know, it's
like a refried some controversy or something like, yeah, being
I don't know. The first taco was served, the Internet
had already declared the place racist. Some folks on Reddit
and Facebook decided the name White Texicans was an unforgivable sin.

(30:37):
I mean it promoted white supremacy and classism, which supposedly
is probably what they would stay about my wife then
as well us very very possible. Others joked it sounded
like a gentrified taco bell, which, honestly, any any change
to Taco bell I think is an improvement anyways. So

(30:58):
but here's maybe maybe at LEAs it's that white Mexicans
they don't get their meat from a meat hopes.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
Yeah, that's good, it's good.

Speaker 5 (31:06):
Now here's the kicker. The people behind white Mexicans insist
the name was a joke, not the bad not the
bad kind the Teo Gomez Bermudaz, one of the four owners,
said they weren't trying to make a political statement. We
knew it would cause some disagreement, he said, But we
weren't trying to make this such a big deal. Now
they're getting free publicity.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Though, right sure.

Speaker 5 (31:27):
He explained that the name was meant to poke fun
at stereotypes. Now, what he failed to take into consideration
is that comedy has not existed since like two thousand
and eight when Trump came.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
Out exactly exactly.

Speaker 5 (31:42):
So a lot of people assume Mexicans have to be
brown or some sort of color, he said, But they're
also white Mexicans, and that's fine. It's not about discrimination,
it's about inclusion. Now, my wife is actually light skinned,
so she would be like a white Mexican. Now, some
of that like her is light skinned as well that's
probably the bigger reason why. Yeah, and uh and then

(32:05):
her dad, of course, you know, like is white. So
you add those two together. She's she's light skinned like that.
But unfortunately, okay, I I I don't know if she
if she had a little more of the darker skin,
I would not be against them. The irony, though, it
deepens when you learn that only one out of the
four owners is actually Mexican. Oh, which which ironically would

(32:29):
be basically like all of my kids, which are a
quarter Mexican. I think so, which I mean, would that
count if they opened a restaurant called white Texicans, then
I guess.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
Yeah, good question. U.

Speaker 5 (32:42):
This naturally made people even angrier, apparently one person, so
they probably hate my whole family. Then we're a mix
of like half in quarter Mexicans and then one white guy.
That's just completely that they'd probably be outraged at our
family dynamic in this way. One person online ranted that
the name was ignorant and divisive. Another declared the owner's

(33:06):
classes and racist. But the lone Mexican owner, Claudia Lopez,
who also happens to be Gomez Mudas's wife, so she
doesn't find the name offensive at all funny enough too.
My wife thought it was hilarious. I can only wonder
how many of these people that are commenting on this
thing it's like racist and all these things, how many
of them are actually white. It's the same thing like

(33:29):
I had to describe to my wife what Latin X
was or like she was like, what is that? And
she was and then the look of confusion and idiocy
idiocy came over her face. But she's like what what
She's like, that is so dumb. She's like, I guarantee
no actual Hispanic person is gonna have any care understand

(33:50):
what that means. Sure do they not understand that Spanish
is literally a gendered language that has things ending in
O and A depending on masculine and feminine, like so
she's like it literally, like it made no sense to her.
I thought was funny. So yeah, I'd argue just like
when they try to cancel speedy Gonzalez as well, and
can like speeding Gonzales and my favorite slow poke Rodriguez.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
Oh man, yes, yes.

Speaker 5 (34:15):
And uh and then like I talked with my mother
in law about it my wife, and both of them
are like, we love speedy Gonzalez. These our favorite. What
are you talking about? Right?

Speaker 1 (34:23):
Right?

Speaker 5 (34:24):
Yes? Again, I was like, look, I don't know. I
sometimes I wonder if these people even know like that
that complain about this, even know people from other countries. Sure,
but I don't know. Well, look the fact here she
said that they've asked several Mexicans about it before deciding
to go with it. Quote it's not insulting, she said,
It's about good food, good vibes, and different people together,

(34:46):
whatever your gender, your culture, your color. And well they've
doubled down on that message too. There's a big stign
at the entrance that reads all humans are legal. The
same words are printed on the back of the staff's shirts. Inside,
the restaurant is clean and modern, maybe a little too
white for some people's taste, but the food is fairly priced.
Rice bean bul runs about fifteen dollars, and the most

(35:08):
expensive dish on the menu, see bass with calamari and shrimp,
costs just eighteen dollars. Since opening, White Mexicans has actually
been doing well. Customers who've eaten there say the food
is great, in the atmosphere is welcoming. Still, online critics
keep stirring the pot. Gomez Bermudez says that the frustrating part,
that's the frustrating part. It's more about keyboard warriors. He said,

(35:32):
people on social media don't take the time to indulge.
They just say I don't like this, and then other
people pylon. That's how That's not how it should be.
He summed it up with one final plea, we opened
a business in this economy, it's hard. Before you start
hating on a business, get to know it first. Don't

(35:52):
be a part of the hate. So we have a
restaurant that serves tacos inclusivity in the side of outrage.
Like I know people that would probably pay for the
extra outrage. Sure, you know, it's a feature, not a bug.
I think because in twenty twenty five, it seems some
people will spend hours being offended by a name while
others are just trying to order lunch.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
Yeah, that's right. You know.

Speaker 5 (36:14):
It's with all these white people trying to get this
Mexican you know of a business out of a job.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
It's like they're trying to be offended on behalf of
the people that really are not offended in the first place.

Speaker 5 (36:27):
I guarantee you, I guarantee you. If I told my
mother in law about it, she would laugh. Sure would
totally be down for eating on a place like that.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
Sure, sure, absolutely, you know you're like, yeah, let's go exactly,
you know, so so you know the thing is there.
They would be upset at a restaurant calling itself white Texicans,
but would be perfectly fine with well supposedly high school

(36:55):
kids sucking on pacifiers.

Speaker 5 (36:58):
Maybe if they need to serve at this, maybe they
maybe they need.

Speaker 1 (37:02):
Yeah, give all the people that are you know, hating
on on the white Texican restaurant, give them a pascifiers. Yeah,
gets right. Dip the pacifier in a salsa and let
them suck on it for a little bit. But seriously,
this is the latest wave of human progress. So I
mean people that are hating on a perfectly legitimate restaurant

(37:23):
that all the other folks really like and are not offended.
And high school students using pacifiers. So this is right.
Pacifiers so you know, the things for babies, except now
apparently they're for teenagers because you know, maturity is optional.
I guess there's a And I told this to my wife,
and you know her, she had like push her mouth,

(37:46):
closed her mouth, her bottom of jaw just dropped.

Speaker 5 (37:48):
You know.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
Now, we're not talking about eying the ring pops either.
These are actual pacifiers here. All right. So there's a
high school English teacher recently was a vent thing on Reddit.
A lot of her students are bringing these pacifiers to class,
and to shocker, well, it's kind of disrupting the learning environment. Surprise, surprise.
She says. They can't talk while sucking on them, which

(38:15):
honestly might be the first silver lining in the whole
story when you think of it.

Speaker 5 (38:20):
No one's ever going to have boyfriends or girlfriends of
her again apparently not.

Speaker 1 (38:24):
Apparently not, but according to her, it was mostly girls,
but really going across all genders, So I guess equal
opportunity regression, wonderful. The teacher says she's tried asking them
to stop, obviously, but it's impossible to really manage because
what she's supposed to really do, I mean, confiscate pacifiers

(38:45):
one by one like a nursery worker with a lesson plan.

Speaker 5 (38:48):
You know.

Speaker 1 (38:49):
So, But now, before anybody starts to assume this is
some kind of underground rave revival, it's not, or at
least not directly. I mean adult pacifiers actually did get
popular back in the rave scene of the nineteen nineties,
where people on MDMA used to use them to stop
grinding their teeth. But I don't know about today's teens,

(39:11):
you know. I mean they're just copying what they see
on TikTok you know, no drugs, no raves, just pure
unfiltered stupidity. Okay. Now, the psychologists have basically checked in
on this. They they have a term for this. It's
called the regression phenomenon. So it's when adults are well.
In this case, the almost adults cope with stress by

(39:33):
doing things that they did as kids, except, of course,
you know, like taking an afro, hugging a teddy bear.
I mean, these kids are like walking around sucking on pacifiers. So,
because nothing really says I'm stressed, like voluntarily turning into
a toddler in algebra two, so some social media posts
claim adult pacifiers actually help with ADHD, anxiety or sleep.

(39:55):
Now that might sound harmless until you remember what the
dn to say. Pacifiers can mess up your teeth, They
can cause open bites, and well generally make your mouth
look like it's halfway through an orthodonic sabotage. Okay, So
let's be honest. I mean, there's other stress relief options.
There's exercise, meditation, therapy, or literally any activity that does

(40:17):
not involve public pacifier use. Okay, the Mayo Clinic even
suggests sleeping with your childhood blanky. That might even be better, see,
I mean comfort without looking like you're waiting for a
diaper change.

Speaker 5 (40:31):
You're going to need to be able to bring that
blanket to class with you for these men.

Speaker 1 (40:34):
Well, I don't know, would you rather bring blankets or
pacifiers if you had that choice? Yeah, you know, but
I guess teens are going to be teens. I mean,
the more ridiculous something looks to adults, I think, the
more likely that they'll do it. You know, that's just
how it works, you know. All I got to say
to that is six seven. I mean well, I mean,
once upon a time, though you remember long here on

(40:55):
boys was scandalous. Now we've graduated to pacifiers. Yes. Progress.
One teacher in the comments of the story summed it
up perfectly. She says, the stupidity of any trend has
no impact on its popularity. Wh's out love? I mean,
and that really is the truest thing you're probably going
to here all day. So if you if you're a

(41:16):
teacher and you're having to deal with this, just hang
in there. I guess it will eventually pass. The pacifier
fad will fade and probably be replaced by something even
more stupid, because I mean, if there's one thing you
can count on from our teenagers, it is their relentless
commitment to confusing every adult within a ten mile radius.
So and you've got two boys to look forward to

(41:39):
for this, just wait, Just want to know.

Speaker 5 (41:42):
I can't imagine how bad it's going to be for
my kids when they hit high school because of the
kids never took a pacifier. They were completely breastfed all
the way. They didn't bottles. So yeah, it's gonna be
very uncomfortable.

Speaker 1 (41:54):
And that could be that can that could unleash a
whole news center problems if that's the case.

Speaker 5 (42:00):
But you know, they're gonna be legends in high school.

Speaker 1 (42:03):
Though of course they are, because they're gonna be pos kids.

Speaker 5 (42:08):
That's why it was, because they're gonna be I'm gonna
phrase about talking about about kids.

Speaker 14 (42:15):
But yeah, I can't believe if I was a teacher
and my kids were sucking on passifiers, I would basically
tell them anyone sucking on the pass fire does not
get to a bathroom pass when you're in the classroom, because.

Speaker 5 (42:32):
I would fully expect you to also come wearing a
diaper at the you go, you're gonna suck on the pacifier,
You're gonna wear the diaper, and and uh, no bathroom
breaks needed.

Speaker 1 (42:43):
That's right, That's right.

Speaker 5 (42:46):
I cannot believe that. I think about, like, you know
how the fear of being embarrassed in high school is
like it's like the peak age of embarrassment, you know,
maybe like like seventh to eighth, you know, grade into
high school. I could not imagine the amount of embarrassment
for that.

Speaker 1 (43:05):
Oh oh yeah, tell me about it now. Now, embarrassment
is the least of their worries, you know.

Speaker 5 (43:13):
Yeah, I mean some pacifiers, dude, It's unbelievable. Well, man,
I I'm trying to figure out how to transition here
to this one. If you're new to listening, Eric and
I we do not come up but we have some

(43:33):
headlines and stories like that we read, but we do
not everything else ad lived. Yeah, and we did not
come up with transitions, and we kind of like, I
don't know, secretly or not or not so secretly try
to come up with the best transition of the of
the podcast for the day.

Speaker 1 (43:50):
Yeah. Look so far though you you've been doing pretty well,
you know, just free balling it.

Speaker 5 (43:57):
But I prefer it's more fun that way. Yeah. Well,
like I would need a pacifier, I think to you know,
the stress or calm down if I I'm trying to dude,
I don't know how to get into this need passify.

Speaker 1 (44:18):
If you wanted to be in a reality show, you
have to have a passive yer to watch a reality
TV well out, Yes, that is.

Speaker 5 (44:24):
True for sure.

Speaker 1 (44:26):
Yeah, because.

Speaker 5 (44:28):
I don't. I don't like drama. That neither my wife
or I do. If I do, I'm going to make
fun of it the whole time. But which is what
that's the the assumption, like that's gotta be the only
thing that's that people do when they watch that stuff, right,
I just make fun of it. It has to be.
I don't understand it.

Speaker 1 (44:46):
It's not my reality, that's for sure.

Speaker 5 (44:48):
Don't know. There's no way that reality TV could be
actually real. It's got to be scripted, stage and all
of this whatever stuff. But one thing that is not
age and scripted about reality TV is I guess the well,
I guess it is scripted in stage because they have
to screen before they get there. Actually most of the thing.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
And maybe not maybe maybe not scripted in stage, but
certainly coerced.

Speaker 5 (45:18):
Yes, oh you know what, And it's a The amount
of embarrassment I would have for Pacifier would be almost
amount the amount of embarrassment I would have if I
got rejected from a reality TV show for this.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
Oh yes, oh yes, there we go.

Speaker 5 (45:36):
It took me a minute. Oh man, I'm sorry, I
I will. I will take the l on transitions today
unless I really nail them later. Okay, reality contestants, and
again I'm not a reality TV guy. I think most
of it's got to be completely fake in bogus like
edited for the drama, like The Bachelor, whatever. They absolutely

(45:58):
edit that stuff to make it seem like you say
things that you don't.

Speaker 1 (46:02):
And right, there's been.

Speaker 5 (46:04):
Enough people that have been on it that have come
out sharing things like that. Well, something that you would
hope they don't share when you come out of this
is that some of these people are some of the
contestants are some of the sleaziest people on TV. And
I'm sure that that's by design, right, like they're chosen. Well,
here's something that you might not believe. If they're on

(46:24):
the show. There's a good chance they don't have any
social diseases. Right and even though we know that, you
know an STD, the S does not stand for social but.

Speaker 1 (46:39):
You know you get to yes, exactly well TMZ.

Speaker 5 (46:42):
They spoke to a reality TV casting director named Kristen Moss,
and she talked about what it takes to make the cast.
He said, if you're going, if you're living in a house,
you're going to have to go through a background check,
a psych test. I can only assume that most of
them want you to fail the psych tests just a
little bit. Maybe I'm like narcissism, but not violence or something. Right, Right,

(47:05):
people are going to be exploring each other sexually, so
there's gonna be STD tests. You can imagine that knocks
quite a few people out of the running. So the
next time you're watching your favorite reality show and you
think to yourself, I wonder how many diseases that gross
pig has? Now you know the answer probably zero. Yeah,
but you also know that a lot of people are

(47:29):
disqualified things to STDs.

Speaker 1 (47:32):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 5 (47:33):
So the people very embarrassing.

Speaker 1 (47:36):
Yeah, well the people that you yeah, well, the people
that you don't see in reality TV. That's the sleazy
ones right there. You know. So I'll tell you.

Speaker 5 (47:46):
That you're allowed to be sleezy and not not be
disease ridden.

Speaker 8 (47:50):
Not that you can be, but not diseasy.

Speaker 5 (47:54):
Yes, well, you know we're six seven.

Speaker 1 (48:00):
Yeah, well, you know we're recording this before Halloween. It'll
drop the day after Halloween. But we have maybe a
Florida Halloween display that probably needs an STD test. Okay,
all right, this is in Miniola, Florida. I don't know

(48:21):
where Miniola, Florida is. I've never heard of that town
in Florida before, but apparently it's where the sun shines
bright and common sense occasionally takes a holiday because we
have a neighborhood that's found itself torn apart by one
of the great moral questions of our time. Can skeletons
be too sexy? It seems like every year we come

(48:41):
across a Halloween decoration that pushes the envelope. Okay, so
this all starts when a homeowner thinks it's gonna be
a great idea to celebrate Halloween with a display featuring
skeletons and shall we say suggestive poses. Okay, and this

(49:03):
is not the first time this has been done. Some
of them are more creative than others, but in this case,
some of the skeletons here were smoking, some are stripping,
and all of them were well clearly having a better
time than most of the living, if you know what
I mean. One neighbor decided this was completely unacceptable and
complained and said this just wasn't your typical spooky decor,

(49:26):
which is true. I guess most skeletons don't have the
confidence to pole dance in public, but one did here
in this display. The outraged neighbor took to the community's
social media page and declared, I don't see stripping as art,
whether it's skeletons or cartoons. I wouldn't want my kids
exposed to sexual innuindows. Well, I guess that's a reasonable concern,

(49:50):
except we're talking about skeletons. Okay, they don't have muscles
or skin for that matter, clothes or even gender bonners,
your boners even right exactly? Yeah, Well, look, I know
the resident pointed out this out, saying, look, how do
you know if it's a female or a male skeleton,

(50:11):
which is I think is a fair question.

Speaker 5 (50:13):
That some of them had cigars, and I think that's
a pretty clear st.

Speaker 1 (50:16):
Well, that's true, that's true. It could well, it could
be a female skeleton posing as a male skeleton, you know,
I mean, it is the twenty first century. But I
would say, though, I guess if you're the kind of person, though,
that seeks a bear or sees a bear femur and
immediately falls the completely h your way, that might be different.
But meanwhile, we have these other neighbors, well, they think

(50:36):
the whole thing is just harmless fun. One woman, her
name is Gabriella. She said her two kids loved watching
the skeleton's well dance on the poor of course, yeah yeah, yeah,
she said, cheerfully. No problem for us. Well, apparently, the
only thing more horrifying than skeletons grinding on a fake
pole is the fact that, well this has become a

(50:57):
neighborhood controversy. Here's a name. It's Gabriella. She apparently just
loves these stripper skeletons.

Speaker 5 (51:04):
Here, no problem, I can see it. Here, let's have
something fun. I have two kids and they like to
see the cells them. They are dancing, no problem for us.

Speaker 11 (51:16):
I'm afraid when they put a lot of some scared
things with no.

Speaker 15 (51:20):
Hat something like that.

Speaker 5 (51:21):
But this is so fun, there's no problem here.

Speaker 1 (51:24):
Well, predictably, the situation just escalated. Now there were pretty
heated debates online. They had hurt feelings. We had somebody
can contact in the HOA, which, as usual, was both
completely unhelpful and entirely unsurprised. The HIOA said that they
really couldn't do anything because residents are allowed to decorate
however they want for the holidays. Their only advice just

(51:47):
waited out. You know, the skeletons will have to retire
after Halloween anyway. So and actually, Gabrielle is something that
theory in theory exactly. Gabrielle is something that Bess, she
says you she worries more about the gory decorations, you know,
the ones with no head or blood everywhere. Right, you know,
she goes, this is so much fun, there's no problem here.

(52:09):
And she's right. I mean, I remember one Halloween decoration
one year. It was so realistic with blood running down
the driveway. The cops were called, thinking there was a
mass murder at the house. Okay, it was, it really was,
but it was strictly a fake thing. So but look,
I mean, if the neighborhood just can't handle a few,

(52:31):
you know, bony go go dancers on a porch for
one night of the year, maybe the real horror isn't
the skeletons. It might just be the.

Speaker 8 (52:38):
Living, you know.

Speaker 1 (52:40):
So until Halloween is over, I guess the residents of Minneola,
Florida will just have to coexist with the world's first
undead burlesque show. Because if there's anything scarier than a
haunted house, that's people losing their ever loving minds over
something that doesn't even have one. So, as you said,
no boners resulted from that display either, So I think

(53:01):
it was all a win win, Okay, So, oh my gosh,
that's just great. I love it. I would I would
dress up our house that way, but I'm pretty sure
that I would have some internal opposition, right.

Speaker 5 (53:17):
Man. I I've been seeing all kinds of YouTube shorts. Yeah,
Like I go onto YouTube and then you know they're
really trying to push these shorts. Yeah, and so I've
seen some of like different like you know, Halloween. I
guess decorations and stuff like on the porch, especially getting

(53:39):
spooked and scared. Animals getting spooked and scared. And then
I realized, well, yeah, about what I realized was like,
wait a minute, this doesn't feel right, and I was like,
I can, I can almost guarantee, like like most of
these are probably AI completely Yeah. Well yeah, but the

(54:02):
thing is some of it looks so good. Yeah, it
looks really good.

Speaker 1 (54:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (54:07):
There's a couple I showed my wife and I was like,
look at these animals here. It's like what I'm like,
it's a doorbell cam. Eventually it's gonna catch something crazy.
And then yeah, then a Halloween decoration moves and the
animal gets spooked and freaks out. And then I realized,
like this is probably AI. I'm an idiot, but but
it looks still good. It is. It's creepy. How good

(54:29):
it's getting? All right? And then add on top of this, Okay,
earlier this week, my wife she's trying to make dinner,
and I guess she was. It was like a chicken
broccoli tedder rice kind of she hasn't made it in
a while, but usually when we do, like we should
make things like fresh, and this was still fresh, but

(54:50):
she put it in the instapop, and I guess she
followed a different recipe than she normally does because she's
trying to be quick and she was missing a couple
of ingredients or something. So she's like, I'll just find
this other recipe. This won't make it quicker, and she's
by on schedule, and so she makes it and then like,
before I even open the intpot to look at it,
she's already like like taken me to the side and

(55:13):
been like, so, I just want to let you know
that I apologize about the dinner. It looks like mush,
It looks gross and disgusting, but it tastes fine, right, Renue,
I'm never doing it again. Now, She's like, the kids
loved it. The last time we made this, they complained

(55:35):
the whole time, and they ate this up. So I mean,
I guess they will gladly eat food it looks like
cat food, but food that looks like real food. They're like, no,
I don't want this right right now. What my wife
said was she's like, I'm pretty sure the recipe I
followed was probably AI created and it did not work out.

Speaker 1 (55:56):
Oh my so never thought of using an AI recipe before.

Speaker 5 (56:02):
I don't think she knew that she was doing it
until later and then you know, but maybe it's too
late by that point or something, I don't know. She
she feels pretty convinced it was probably Ai, like that
had made this recipe for it looks like half food
and mush basically fine, all the all the ingredients and
the flavor was there.

Speaker 1 (56:22):
Just just just eat it in the dark.

Speaker 5 (56:28):
Right. You know there's a there's a Steel Panthers song
it's about something like that, other than it's about something
completely different. But yeah, turning out the lights makes it bit.
It plays a big role in this.

Speaker 8 (56:43):
It makes everything look better.

Speaker 5 (56:45):
Yeah. So yeah, so what are we gonna do with Ai? Right?
This is my wife sees these things, and she grows
increasingly concerned because you're like, like, we're going to have
a heart of telling, telling what's true and what's not.
What about our kids? You know, they see something and
they're like, I was gonna show my kids one of
the one of the little YouTube shorts. So then they

(57:05):
find it funny seeing the animals booped and skip by
Halloween decorations. Then I realized I was like, oh, this
is probably yeah, And we're like I'm not gonna show
them that because they're gonna look at that and they're
gonna think it's real, and they're not going to be
able to understand and articulate that that is not real
and like not thing. And so I don't want them
to teach them like things that are just not actual,
like like right, I don't know, like so crazy, Right,

(57:29):
it's gonna create I think there's a whole lot of
potential issues and concern we're gonna have here. Well, we've
got AI to blame for another kind of hoax. Right,
We've got hopes Halloween doorbell dash cams or whatever doorbell cameras.
We've got hoax recipes for dinner. We've also got hoax

(57:51):
monkey sidings and police the Newark, New Jersey. You're sure
that these aren't just like Italian men that are that
they are driving to work in the morning.

Speaker 1 (58:04):
The Italian most Italian men are purty furry.

Speaker 5 (58:08):
That's that's That's what I'm saying, right, Yeah, Well, police
in Newark, New Jersey, recently spent part of a morning
chasing after something that didn't exist. A troop of wild
monkeys supposedly running loose through an apartment complex, right, so
this is like actual police, they're going to do this. Well,
the problem monkeys were fake and not in the escape

(58:30):
zoo kind of way. They were AI generated hoaxes. It
started when photos began circulating online appearing to show monkeys
rummaging through dumpsters and climbing walls at the Georgia King
Village apartments. The image is spread fast, with some people
calling police and panic. Officers rushed to the scenes, searching alleys, buildings,

(58:52):
and trash bins for the reported animals, but there was
nothing there. No monkeys, no zoo escape, no tropical invasion,
empty streets, and a very confused police department. Well. Newark's
Public Safety Director Emmanuel Miranda confirmed what investigators eventually realized
the photos were fake and likely created using artificial intelligence.

(59:14):
Oh gosh. He said. Animal control officers had even received
similar false reports the day before. Officials called the incident
in a hoax, but not before police wasted time, taxpay money,
and resources responding to it. Local residents were less than amused.
One woman who works nearby said she got a warning
call from a worried coworker telling her to be careful,

(59:36):
only to later find out the whole thing was a
digital trick. She told reporters that US AI for the
right things, not something like this, because when something really
does happen, officers are going to take their time coming
out because it could possibly AI something that's most It's

(59:56):
like the boy who cried AI wolf, you know out.
Another resident pointed out the obvious having the police chase
imagining monkeys takes them away from dealing with the real problems,
like being paid off by the mafia. I'm not just kidding.
It is New Jersey though. Yeah, it's wasting their time,
he said. This isn't an isolated case either. The so

(01:00:18):
called AI homeless man prank, where people generate fake images
of a homeless person outside their home and report it
to the police, has also been spreading on social media.
It's part of a growing pattern of using AI tools
to create fake emergencies for retention, clicks or just amusement.
The next time someone calls in a legitimate report, there's

(01:00:38):
a real chance that will be taken less seriously, all
because of someone who thought it was funny to invent monkeys.
In the end, no animals were found, no one was hurt,
and the only thing truly on the loose, and Newark
was well, the morning was human foolishness, the crime that
doesn't need AI to exist, but now has a brand
new way to spread.

Speaker 1 (01:00:58):
Yes, it's right, This creates more opportunities for stupidity.

Speaker 5 (01:01:02):
Yeah, so next time you see a cat riding on
the back of a bear on a ring doorbell camera, yes, yeah,
you know, not to you know, freak out.

Speaker 1 (01:01:13):
I guess, just keep on scrolling, you know, just keep on.

Speaker 5 (01:01:16):
Scraping, scrolling.

Speaker 1 (01:01:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, right right. Well, unfortunately, there was some
monkeys on the loose and they were not AI, but
they also weren't what they thought they were at first. Okay,
these were supposedly aggressive lab monkeys that escaped when a
truck overturned down in Mississippi. Okay, this was just north

(01:01:39):
of this little tiny town of Heidelbird, Mississippi, somewhere probably
around mile marker one seventeen on I fifty nine. This
truck carrying these lab monkeys decides, eh, it's you know,
hard enough of the straight and narrow. So the truck overturned,
the driver fell asleep at the wheel, and then suddenly
we have a bunch of very can fused monkeys on

(01:02:01):
the loose. Sparking a full blown law enforcement frenzy down there. Now,
this is just some of the calls that were made
to the emergency services when the truck crashed and released
all the monkeys. We got, we got neutralized. Now, at
first things got a little well dramatic. I guess the

(01:02:25):
driver mistakenly informed the deputies the monkeys were infected with
a cocktail of dangerous human communicable viruses, you know, COVID nineteen, herpes,
hepatitis C, you name it. Basically, these monkeys were painted
as furry, little biohazard.

Speaker 5 (01:02:42):
They would never be allowed on any kind of reality
TV show.

Speaker 1 (01:02:46):
No reality TV show whatsoever, that's right, But little furry
biohazards on a rampage, basically full of apocalyptic starter pack
you might call them. Authorities were told that they were
highly infectious, dangerous to the public. Well, they reacted on
that information that they were given at the time. So
everyone in town thought the Planet of the Apes sequel

(01:03:09):
was happening live on I fifty nine. But then there
was a Tulane University who jumps into the fray trying
to calm everyone down, like, uh no, guys, they're not infected.
We checked They're just regular monkeys, so please stop freaking out, which,
by the way, is really not the kind of reassurance
you really every want to need it and to hear
in your lifetime. Yeah, don't worry, those escape monkeys are

(01:03:31):
not contagious. But still the sheriff's office goes full Hollywood
action mode here. They tell the residents to stay away.
If a monkey tries to run for it, shoot it.
That's right, shoot the monkeys. That became the official instruction.
Apparently Mississippi law enforcement has zero tolerance policy for lab
primate wonder list. But now the entire area is crawling

(01:03:55):
with first responders. We got the highway patrol of the
wildlife local police. They're all out there trying to angle
escape monkeys. Well half the county is wondering if they
should wear masks or grab bananas or something. I don't know.
One dispatcher even admits the department doesn't have proper monkey
catching gear. Of course they wouldn't. They're in Mississippi. It

(01:04:17):
should not have to be said out loud, right, nobody
expects a small town sheriff's office to have rogue biomedical
primate unit on standby. And then there were five monkeys
that were making a break for it, but four, however,
were unfortunately handled, and by handled, I mean shot Okay,
one manages to actually stay on the loose, probably hiding

(01:04:38):
somewhere in the Mississippi woods right now living his best
post lab life. I mean, you just know that monkey
is probably sitting up in a tree thinking, man, Freedom's weird. Also,
I miss free snacks, you know, But Tulane promises to
send a team of professionals, I mean, the real animal experts,
not deputies with shotguns, to try to retrieve the survivor safely.

(01:04:59):
But apparently the so step one in dealing with escape
lab monkeys is to not turn it into an arms standoff. Okay.
Officials later clarified the monkeys were in fact were not aggressive,
They were not sick, just a bit confused, which, honestly
same okay. The only real threat that they posed was
maybe making Mississippi look like a deleted scene from Jumanji.

(01:05:23):
So definitely a great exciting time down in Mississippi recently.

Speaker 5 (01:05:29):
Right, I mean, you think the herpes might have been
a threat still for maybe I don't know, desperate Mississippians.

Speaker 1 (01:05:39):
Probably a lot of that down in Mississippi, that's for sure.

Speaker 5 (01:05:43):
Oh man, yeah, like stay away from the monkeys. You
want to ever lay in that reality?

Speaker 4 (01:05:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:05:50):
Well right, and see when I lived in Arkansas, we
used to say thank God for Mississippi.

Speaker 5 (01:05:56):
You know when you ever watched like a flat of
the concords at all?

Speaker 1 (01:06:03):
Well, no, I've heard of it, but I haven't watched it.

Speaker 5 (01:06:05):
You've heard of it, Okay, Yeah, there's no there there's
a song I've got. At one point, he's like, like,
there there's a children out on the streets getting diseases
from monkeys. Yeah, that's what I said. They're getting diseases
from monkeys. Down this junkies with monkeys disease? Who's touching

(01:06:25):
these monkeys? Police?

Speaker 1 (01:06:27):
Oh no, the.

Speaker 5 (01:06:28):
Horsick monkeys alone.

Speaker 1 (01:06:30):
And I need to find that song.

Speaker 5 (01:06:33):
I'll send it to you. Yeah. I'm not a good stinger,
so flat with everything I try to sing. But yeah,
well I basically deranged. What aggressive monkeys being broken out
right before Halloween? About the escape truck or overture truck,

(01:06:56):
It's like the beginning of a of a bad horror movie,
right yeah, yeah, and kind of equally so I think
would be like imagine, like you ever imagine you got
like Cocaine Bear and all these other light like yeah,
Practune was one of the more recent. Yeah, so you

(01:07:16):
have these like these, you know movies nowadays, it just
doesn't have the same kind of like I.

Speaker 1 (01:07:20):
Don't know, sho.

Speaker 5 (01:07:23):
Like what it used to be. And so like, imagine
if Psycho was made today. You know, Well, this next
story I think basically I think kind of comes across
about like what that would look like.

Speaker 1 (01:07:36):
Okay, Okay, I.

Speaker 5 (01:07:38):
Think this makes a good Halloween themed story to end
on for the week. You know. So what what is
Psycho famous for?

Speaker 1 (01:07:47):
Well, lots of uh, lots of stambing, that's for sure.

Speaker 5 (01:07:51):
The shower scene, right.

Speaker 1 (01:07:53):
That too, Yeah, right, right, the shower scene.

Speaker 5 (01:07:56):
Terrified audiences have taken a shower, right, kind of like
how John's terrified anyone from wasn't any It's another shower
scene that we've got going. Only there's a little bit
of a twist on this one, Okay and maybe maybe
depending on maybe a residual smell, depending on whether certain

(01:08:19):
items were used or cleaned especially loundered the police in
South Carolina. They say that a Charleston man allegedly decided
the best way to Frank his ex girlfriend was by
breaking into her house, removing his pants, putting her underwear
on his head, and hiding in her shower with a

(01:08:41):
large knife.

Speaker 1 (01:08:42):
Nice.

Speaker 5 (01:08:43):
Yeah, girls love it when you do that. Okay, I've
been I've been married for eight years.

Speaker 1 (01:08:53):
And missus Podca has been craving for you to pull
something like this.

Speaker 5 (01:08:56):
She wishes she could get this from me. Not gonna happen,
but she wished you can't. Authorities have identified the man
as twenty five year old Jackson Arnold, who, according to
a recently fould civil complaint now face is both criminal
charges and a lawsuit for what the victim's attorney describes
as behavior quote so extreme and outrageous that exceeds all

(01:09:19):
possible bounds of decency, which is like simmling, lawyer, we speak.
But it's also like that's really good, it's really well
put together. Arnold is accused of sneaking into his girlfriend
ex girlfriend's house on West Wade Drive through a detached

(01:09:41):
garage apartment while she was out for dinner with friends.
He reportedly brought along the knife, but left behind the
concept of rational thought. Okay. The woman returned home, changed
clothes and was preparing to leave again when Arnold allegedly
appeared from her bathroom wearing nothing about her underwear on
his head, which she apparently believed qualified as a disguise.

(01:10:06):
I mean, guess it depends on how big the you know,
the size of the gal and the size of the panties. Yeah,
you know, if it was a song, I don't think
that's going to hide much. Your identity is not hidden yet, right.
The complaint states that he approached her at a rapid
pace while wielding the aforementioned knife. The woman, demonstrating more

(01:10:28):
composure than anyone in the story, reportedly managed to knock
the knife away. A struggle followed, during which Arnold allegedly
forced her to the ground and began choking her so
she eventually was able to remove the underwear from his face,
revealing his identity as though there'd been any real suspense
at this point, Arnold allegedly stopped the attack and began

(01:10:50):
muttering uncontrollably. The victim escaped to a nearby home belonging
to her parents and called police. When officers arrived, Donald
reportedly explained that the entire situation had been a prank
intended to lighten the mood and talk authority did not
a peer amused. Now, if you're choking her after this

(01:11:10):
and approaching her with the knife, I would argue that
saying this is a prank would just be you trying
to get out of bigger trouble, like let me get this,
you know, lowered to like aggravated assault and you know. Yeah. Well,
he was arrested in charge with first degree burglary, assault

(01:11:31):
and battery of a high and aggravated nature, and possession
of a weapon during a violent crime. Four documents also
described previous stalking behavior, with Arnold allegedly following his ex
to her workplace after their break, generally considered less romantic
and more like a felony adjacent. Arnold's criminal case remains pending,

(01:11:54):
and he also is being sued for a civil assault
in emotional distress. Yeah he is a Legal experts have
not confirmed whether the prank defense will hold up in court,
but most agree that sneaking into someone's home half naked
with a knife tends to fall outside of the accepted
limits of practical humor.

Speaker 1 (01:12:12):
Yeah yeah, I think that prank definitely crossed several boundaries.
Oh oh yeah, yeah, so, but I mean I'm not
sure if this guy understands the proper definition of the
word prank in the first place. You know, I think
maybe if somebody tried to explain it to him, his

(01:12:33):
response would be something like six seven.

Speaker 5 (01:12:36):
Oh my god, the joke is going to be old
by the end of this.

Speaker 1 (01:12:47):
The thing I'm having the most trouble trying to understand
in this whole story though here, okay, is why did
he feel the need to remove his pants to put
on her panties on his head? You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (01:12:59):
Yeah, I assume it's some weird kinky.

Speaker 1 (01:13:05):
Yeah, that that to me. I'm thinking, you know, I mean,
just just leave the clothes on, put her panties on
his head, and you could still kind of have the
same effect without getting perverted.

Speaker 5 (01:13:14):
Oh yeah, there's a lot of questions in my mind.
I think he's lucky that he didn't get blown away
from like, well, if she's on or anything like that,
like a concealed carry Yeah, mechanical advantage.

Speaker 1 (01:13:31):
Oh man, yeah, yeah, I'll tell you that's crazy. So well, see,
he didn't have somebody like Poncho to ask for advice
on how he could, you know, safely prank his ex girlfriend. Yeah,
if he just sent you a little note saying, look,
I'd like to do something creative to prank my ex girlfriend.

(01:13:51):
What would you suggest? I mean, I don't know, but
we have a few interesting questions for for you to
see if you can tackle, and some are definitely a
Halloween theme coming off of a Halloween holiday by the
time the podcast drops here, So we got one and again,
you know, having to do with appropriate Halloween costumes. I

(01:14:15):
guess here. So we've got a teen daughter who wants
to dress up as Taylor Swift for trick or treat,
which is okay until you find out what they're looking
for here. So they write, Dear Poncho, I'm the mother
of a sixteen year old girl wants to go trick
or treating as Taylor Swift. Now theory, I'm fine with that.
I mean, I love Taylor. We listen to her music

(01:14:35):
in the car all the time. The problem is she
wants to wear one of those sexy, sparkly rhinestone outfits
from the Eras tour, and I think it's just completely inappropriate.
She keeps saying it's just a costume, it's no big deal.
But I don't want my sixteen year old daughter showing
off her body like that for everyone to see.

Speaker 8 (01:14:54):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:14:55):
I tried suggesting that she goes the more wholesome Taylor
Swift with the cardigan sweat, but she just rolled her
eyes at me. I said, that's boring. Probably went six
seven and they don't.

Speaker 5 (01:15:07):
Oh my god.

Speaker 8 (01:15:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:15:08):
I'm trying not to embarrass her and act out of touch,
but I really don't want her freezing in sequence and
putting on a show for the men in the neighborhood.
How do I talk her out of it?

Speaker 5 (01:15:18):
Oh? Man, Well, yeah, there are two different things that
If the question is do you approve, No, I don't approve.
I don't think that's if I had a daughter, I
would not be happy about that either. How do you
talk her out of it? That is a that's a
tough I don't know. I don't know if you can, Yeah,
outside of this flat up bribery. But that's it's a

(01:15:40):
pretty bad precedent, you know. Yeah, but it is funny
like when you watch little videos of like dad's reactions
to you know, girls when they're about to go out
on a date or Halloween costume. You're allowed to have
a dad reaction. I think that's a good thing they
should see from you, how other guys should streat them

(01:16:03):
and look at them. But yeah, I don't know. I
hope to never be put in that situation. I do
hope to have a dollar one day. But I hope
that me.

Speaker 1 (01:16:17):
Being the big fan of Rush Limbaugh when he was alive,
his his motive, his mo o motives upper INDI. He
tried his his He strived to be absurd, to highlight absurdity.
That was his main. You know, the way he did,
he the more absurd he could be to highlight the absurdity.

(01:16:39):
That's what he would do. This is exactly what I
would do if I had a girl that wanted to
dress like that, like from the arrass tour from.

Speaker 5 (01:16:47):
You would dress like that along with her.

Speaker 1 (01:16:49):
Then I would put on the skimpiest thing I could
and walk right along behind. I really would.

Speaker 5 (01:16:55):
Yeah, I mean that's a better should be as ask
Eric today, because that's great. I love that.

Speaker 1 (01:17:05):
I mean, I would just say, sure you can do that,
and I will join you in there.

Speaker 5 (01:17:10):
The amount of six that will be spoken.

Speaker 12 (01:17:13):
That day, I'm telling you, man, See, you know the
fact is you've got to think like they do sometimes,
you know, and just see if you can outngross them out.

Speaker 1 (01:17:25):
See that's the thing. So I'm telling you that that
would I guarantee you it would talk her out of that.
She would be out of that mood and like so fast.
It would be like she you know, it would be amazing.

Speaker 5 (01:17:41):
It gets only fair she gets to do it than
you do. Right, Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 1 (01:17:45):
So that means mom, you're gonna have to shed some
of your own pride, you know, to do this. Okay,
but but trust me, I mean, yeah, you might have
every guy in the neighborhood following you around going trick
or treating that night, but you know, you prove a point.

Speaker 5 (01:17:59):
Oh bet you know. Yeah, well I hear from other guys.
I don't know how fully how this is that like
other guys that have daughters, they say that their wives
it's their wives job to be able to teach their
daughter how to be a woman. And for them, they
just get to enjoy their their daughter and show her

(01:18:20):
how a guy is supposed to treat her and you know,
look at her like that. And so hopefully that's you know,
the case. So maybe this is a job for your mom.
But I think there is something classic about the dad
approval or the dad like disapproval really in this case.
But I think that goes back to, you know, expectations
for you know, how a guy should look and treat

(01:18:42):
a woman, look at and treat a woman right right
in that way. So I, yeah, I don't know, tough though,
I am glad I'm not that guy right now. I've
got one too, they say, help. Shouldn't I be the
one to determine who give out treat who who to
give out treats do on Halloween? So this is heard,

(01:19:04):
it gonna be a hot take. They said, Dear Paca,
we had an HOA meeting on Monday night to discuss
tricer treating in our great gated community. So this is
exactly why I could see where this is going. I
mentioned at the beginning of the podcast, I'm not a
fan of it, Like I'm happy being in a non
HOA neighborhood. Yeah, well, because I can chomp down trees
if I want to, I can build fireplaces.

Speaker 8 (01:19:26):
Or what I don't.

Speaker 5 (01:19:27):
I don't need to get approval to paint anything slightly
different trades of beige.

Speaker 1 (01:19:34):
Yes, yes, exactly.

Speaker 5 (01:19:36):
Everyone is excited about the night the HOA board and
several residents turned on me when they asked what I
planned to give out for treats I set up in
keeping receipts. I plan to give out king sized candy
bars so the well behaved kids in our community, and
fun sized candy bars and possibly nothing to the brats.
They thought I was kidding until I wasn't. Several board

(01:19:59):
members and Pair It's criticized me for being petty. Then
two community members started to get heated with me. They
said I'm wrong for playing favorites and need to be
better than that. I told them if other parents did
a better job of parenting, then I wouldn't have to
give up fun size bars and possibly nothing. Am I wrong?

(01:20:20):
Since what am I obligated to give out candy? The
kids don't deserve it? The neighborhood narc it kind of
fits more with the alliteration. Yeah, look, you definitely aren't
like the good guy in the situation, But I also
don't think that the HOA is the good the right

(01:20:42):
side either or the good guy. Look, I think that
you're welcome to give out king signs. I know some
people like in the neighborhood that will go trick or
treating in that my parents neighborhood were right. I grew
up doing that. Well, you should go out there, go
with my grand my, mom and dad, my kids, grandparents,
we'll all go together, making a family event. And there

(01:21:03):
are some houses that actually do get some king size,
and they actually keep it for the adults. When the
adults can by, they're like, all right, mom, dad, here
you go. They kind of spot what over for us.
We're like, oh man, look at that. And then they
keep regularly, you know, fun size for the kids and
that that's cool. I get that. Like so they kind
of decide who to give it out to in that
sense based on like the age of the people or whatnot.

(01:21:27):
But to do it based on like behavior, that is,
I mean, that's pretty tough. I don't know if I
could take a right or wrong on this one. I
don't want I don't want to take anyone's side. Is
that the possibility. I don't know whose economy can support
king size.

Speaker 1 (01:21:47):
You have you this year?

Speaker 5 (01:21:50):
I don't want to.

Speaker 1 (01:21:53):
Candy prices are out of sight.

Speaker 5 (01:21:55):
Yeah, but yeah, I don't know who cares as long
as I'm not one of the fun sized kids.

Speaker 1 (01:22:05):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's I don't know.

Speaker 16 (01:22:08):
I I mean, granted, look my feeling is, you know,
if if she wants to do that, she's really making
it harder on herself because the next year, some of
the kids will get into what she's doing and those
are void her house altogether, and she'll be stuck with,
you know, five hundred dollars with a candy she's got

(01:22:28):
to eat by herself.

Speaker 5 (01:22:30):
That's that's true. Also. So one thing to think about
is hey, like, do you have kids, and will this
impact your kids on the community? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:22:39):
Two, yeah, your mom, your mom is me Ha.

Speaker 5 (01:22:42):
People can get like people in hi neighbors, they could
get really petty and really crazy and kind of like
what you're doing a little bit. So imagine the backlash
that you're gonna get from other families and people when
they go next year and say, oh, our whole community
has decided not to let any of your kids trick
or treat here because you know, so this could have

(01:23:06):
really back backfire. But you could have also done it's
just not mentioned anything and been like, oh, yeah, I've
got this candy here and then yeah, give out king
size to you know, to people that that you know better.
You're like, oh here, well like that, I would.

Speaker 1 (01:23:23):
Would that that would probably been better. Is you know,
I had a friend that would always tell me, never
volunteer any information, yes, you know, And and all she
would have had to say is I'm going to give
out some king sized bars and some fun sized bars
and leave it at that, you know, And that's it.
And the fact is she over shared what she was

(01:23:45):
going to do, and if she just left it at that,
she could have done what she wanted to totally agree.

Speaker 5 (01:23:50):
So yeah, that's I think that's the sway is you
you need to I guess, well, yeah, like I said,
don't overshare, and you ask for forgiveness not for permission. Yeah,
that's what I exactly for certain little pranks that I
would kind of pull in high school, there's something like

(01:24:11):
bad or crazy, but like you included the teachers and
on it, and you ask for forgiveness, not permission. That's
how you got. That's how you got, Like you gott
to skirt the line with things there and got away with.

Speaker 1 (01:24:22):
Things exactly exactly exactly. See, it's easier to get for
get forgiveness and it is to get permission.

Speaker 5 (01:24:29):
It really is.

Speaker 1 (01:24:30):
Well, you don't need any permission to play our insane
game show because you know, you actually have been doing
pretty good with it here in the last.

Speaker 17 (01:24:38):
Seple weeks, so we've got Yeah, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:24:51):
I'm open to talking about anything but love talking about
surviving in the stupidity that's always around us. And if
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Speaker 18 (01:25:58):
Eric Lane, It's time to play Eric Lane's Insane Game
Show starring his insane Florida nephew, Punch a Wee.

Speaker 1 (01:26:17):
Last week, you know it was. It was a challenge
last week, but but nevertheless, you you prepared for for
another round here.

Speaker 5 (01:26:25):
Yeah, I'm gonna do better than then. They'll be prior.
I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna do a good job
this week.

Speaker 1 (01:26:30):
Well all right, Well, actually I did a little post
production last week and tried to add some like game
show music while you were trying to think of something,
which sounded great, okay, but man, it took way so
much time to get everything done in post production. So
I decided I'm just gonna include the game show music

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while you're doing so it gives you a sense of urgency. Okay,
so you're trying to yeah, yeah, yeah, so so it
make it. It'll make it like a real game show here.
All right, So so what we got? We got five
mind benders here, and we've got three clues. The idea
is for you to get the correct answer without a

(01:27:13):
clue if you think you know the answer, or as
few of clues as possible. All right, So, and they're
all statistical, kind of factual kind of things and could
be relatively easy if you sort of know the direction
they're going. So you prepared for your first mind bender.

Speaker 5 (01:27:30):
Oh yeah, I've got it.

Speaker 1 (01:27:32):
All right. So and this again, you have to pay
attention to every detail. You know, these are your first
mind bender. Fifty one percent of women say that they
and their mother have the same blank.

Speaker 8 (01:27:50):
What is it?

Speaker 5 (01:27:50):
Have the same blank? Oh? Man, okay, the fift then
and their mother have this name blank blank.

Speaker 8 (01:28:07):
Women say they and their mother have the same.

Speaker 5 (01:28:10):
I'm gonna say, eyebrows. My wife. That's like the first
thing she notices on other people. I don't. That's the
last thing.

Speaker 19 (01:28:16):
I noticed the same eyebrows. It'steresting. No, it is not eyebrows. Okay, okay,
well that is a good guess. That is a good guess.
So but here's your first clue. Not political views.

Speaker 5 (01:28:34):
Non political views. Okay, all right, all right, I got
bad taste in men.

Speaker 1 (01:28:44):
That's good. But unfortunately that might be a bit over
the top. But no, it's not bad taste in men.
Women say that they and their mother have the same
blank and it's not political views.

Speaker 9 (01:29:03):
Your second view, Our second clue fun, fun, have fun,
same same fun.

Speaker 1 (01:29:13):
So of women say they and their mothers have these
same blank not political views and fun.

Speaker 5 (01:29:22):
Is it sense of humor?

Speaker 11 (01:29:26):
Okay, that's interesting enough, but it is not sense of humor.

Speaker 8 (01:29:32):
So your third and final clue.

Speaker 1 (01:29:35):
It starts with the letter h age.

Speaker 20 (01:29:39):
All right, I mean one of my first leftments with hair,
but his hair considered fun.

Speaker 3 (01:29:52):
Man, Well, it's not political views fun.

Speaker 8 (01:29:57):
And starts with the letter h age.

Speaker 5 (01:30:00):
That seems like a big clue. Age. Yeah, I mean
your hairstyle hair.

Speaker 1 (01:30:08):
But that's considered fun.

Speaker 5 (01:30:10):
I don't know it's age.

Speaker 8 (01:30:14):
Say, oh it was hobbies.

Speaker 5 (01:30:19):
Hobbies, Okay, yeah, I guess.

Speaker 1 (01:30:23):
That makes sense. You know, the women and their mother. Yeah,
girls and moms sometimes have the same hobbies. They do
hobbies together, so all right, well that's understandable. I mean,
you know, you've got two boys, so that might be
a little you know, if you have a girl, then
you would probably see that maybe a daughter and missus
ponce would have the same hobbies together or something. So

(01:30:44):
all right, well let's move to the second mind bender.
Twenty nine percent of people are most likely to do
this on a Monday.

Speaker 5 (01:31:00):
Percent of people are most likely to do this on
a Monday.

Speaker 15 (01:31:04):
Correct, I'm gonna say, go out to eat for lunch.

Speaker 11 (01:31:17):
Oh nice, it would not be going. But that's a
good answer. That's that's definitely a very good answer. So
your first clue not start.

Speaker 5 (01:31:29):
A diet, start a diet on a Monday.

Speaker 1 (01:31:34):
Yeah, they would not start a diet on a Monday.
So of people are most likely to do this on
a Monday. And your first clue not start a diet.

Speaker 21 (01:31:47):
Man, I'm I'm saying, all right, mostly to do this,
I'm gonna say, fill their car up with gas.

Speaker 11 (01:32:03):
Well, okay, I mean that would make sense too, I guess.
But no, is your next clue some dreaded, some dread Okay, yeah, some.

Speaker 8 (01:32:20):
Dreaded, not and not started dying.

Speaker 5 (01:32:28):
How about.

Speaker 22 (01:32:31):
Remember twenty nine people are most likely to do this
on a Monday.

Speaker 5 (01:32:35):
Yeah, is it like shower before work.

Speaker 8 (01:32:44):
On a Monday? I guess it maybe the day No,
that's I don't.

Speaker 5 (01:32:51):
Worse of these, all right, Your final clue health health okay, health.

Speaker 1 (01:33:04):
Health, not start a diet, some dread it, and health
with drinking?

Speaker 5 (01:33:10):
Oh god, are willing to start drinking on a Monday? Right?

Speaker 8 (01:33:17):
Well, that's true. The answer is go to the gym.

Speaker 5 (01:33:20):
Go to the gym.

Speaker 1 (01:33:21):
Okay, I thought, you know, being the exercise buff that
you are, that would be something.

Speaker 5 (01:33:27):
Yeah, but I do. I do my exercises at work
during like workoursk ok.

Speaker 8 (01:33:34):
That's good, yeah, true, true.

Speaker 1 (01:33:36):
All right, all right, okay that yeah. Off, So you're
you got three more to recover. Okay, so you're still
not behind the eight ball quite yet.

Speaker 8 (01:33:50):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:33:50):
Your third mind bendor for people are more likely to
go on a date with someone if they have this,
what is it?

Speaker 5 (01:34:03):
Okay, forty one percent of people are more likely?

Speaker 1 (01:34:07):
Yeah, forty people or forty percent of people are more
likely to go on a date with someone if they.

Speaker 5 (01:34:13):
Have I mean, we have a similar one of these
a few weeks ago, and the answer was like a pool,
like a swimming pool.

Speaker 1 (01:34:23):
Yeah yeah, but that was a different percent.

Speaker 5 (01:34:25):
That was a different percent. Okay, I'm assuming the percent
would be higher if I went with big boobs again.
I think that was my first answer last time, more
likely to go out with someone that they have this.

Speaker 1 (01:34:47):
Let's see how man, this was actually in the news,
actually in the last week in the news.

Speaker 5 (01:34:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:34:55):
So for people are more likely to go on a
date with someone if they have this.

Speaker 5 (01:35:01):
To have this, man, I'm gonna say, this is tough
if they have Oh well, also something out at the beginning,

(01:35:28):
a nice car, I got I gotta get something out there.
I gotta get a clue.

Speaker 3 (01:35:33):
A nice car would be good. But okay, yeah, but
that's not it. You're I think it would Yeah, you're firstly,
nothing to do with a job.

Speaker 15 (01:35:44):
Okay, so no job, the cars were people are more
likely one of they with someone if they have this.

Speaker 5 (01:36:00):
A house.

Speaker 8 (01:36:04):
That's a good answer. But that's not the correct answer.

Speaker 1 (01:36:07):
So your second clue something they own or it shows responsibility.

Speaker 5 (01:36:16):
Okay, that was what The house would have been good.
I'm gonna I'm gonna would be I'm gonna go with
the dog after this, after that, Ah.

Speaker 1 (01:36:29):
That would be exactly it. Yes, it would be a dog.
Of course, your final clue is not a house. So
but yeah, in fact, if you put the dog in
your picture on tender, you're probably gonna get a date faster.

Speaker 8 (01:36:43):
Than if you don't put the dog in the picture.
Do you know that.

Speaker 5 (01:36:46):
I don't need to know that.

Speaker 1 (01:36:49):
Well, you don't need to know that, but right, and guys,
if the guy has a dog in the picture on tender,
he'll definitely get the date, probably because the girls love
it when the guy has a dog in the picture. Yeah,
so there you go. All right, good, all right, yeah
you're moving up. You got that one, nailed it on
two clues, so that's good. So let's go to mind
bender number four. This is one third or thirty three

(01:37:12):
percent of kids want one of these as a pet.
What is it?

Speaker 5 (01:37:20):
Thirty three percent want of these is a pet?

Speaker 8 (01:37:24):
Yes, kid?

Speaker 1 (01:37:25):
One third of the kids.

Speaker 5 (01:37:26):
Can be crazy, though they could be like I want
a unicorn. Yeah, so like that could actually be the answer.
Wanting it and it existing are different things about right,
but they want one I'm going to say a rabbit,
like a bunny or a rabbit.

Speaker 22 (01:37:41):
Okay, well, okay, I would have thought that that would
have been a higher percentage. So if they wanted a rabbit,
see you're taking thirty three percent. So but no, it's
your first clue is not a dog, so that should
take care of that.

Speaker 5 (01:38:00):
I think a cat would be higher than a dog
as well.

Speaker 1 (01:38:04):
Probably, so, yeah, you'd probably right.

Speaker 5 (01:38:06):
When I was a kid, I mean I was one
of them.

Speaker 1 (01:38:09):
Yeah, you wanted the fair It would.

Speaker 5 (01:38:12):
Have been an awful decision. My parents made the right choice,
but not letting me do that.

Speaker 8 (01:38:17):
Yeah, get one decentive.

Speaker 5 (01:38:19):
How about how about a bird?

Speaker 8 (01:38:23):
But you had a bird when you use again.

Speaker 5 (01:38:25):
Did I did? Yes?

Speaker 7 (01:38:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (01:38:26):
Yeah, not a bird.

Speaker 1 (01:38:31):
Okay, well, all right, here here's another clue.

Speaker 8 (01:38:34):
And this might be a big help. It may not.
I don't know. But your next clue Jeff Goldbloom.

Speaker 5 (01:38:41):
Okay, Jeff Goldbloom, I mean I'm thinking about him from
Jurassic Park thirty kids. If we're going back to the
beginning of kids are crazy, I'm gonna say that dinosaur.

Speaker 8 (01:38:58):
That that's it.

Speaker 5 (01:39:00):
I was right, I mean I did. Unicorn was my
first unicorn.

Speaker 8 (01:39:05):
Unicorn. I was on the right, said unicorn.

Speaker 1 (01:39:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:39:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:39:09):
When you said unicorn, I thought, you're going to get
this if you think it's a unicorn. So that's good.
That's good.

Speaker 5 (01:39:15):
All right. You got to think like a kid, right,
you got to think like a kid.

Speaker 8 (01:39:17):
That's right. That's good. Now, now we're getting some momentum. Now,
now you're you're two out.

Speaker 11 (01:39:21):
You're two out of two or two out of four,
so you're halfway there. See if you can tip the
scales and get the fifth one correct. Okay, this is
mine Vendor number five. Thirty eight percent of mothers say
if they had a clone, they would have her do this.

Speaker 1 (01:39:40):
What is it?

Speaker 5 (01:39:41):
All right, it's gonna be one of two things. We're
gonna start with the dishes.

Speaker 1 (01:39:48):
Have her do the dishes.

Speaker 8 (01:39:53):
No, that's not that.

Speaker 1 (01:39:55):
So thirty eight percent of the mothers say if they
had a clone, they would have her do this. And
your first clue not the laundry.

Speaker 5 (01:40:02):
Okay, that was my next test. That was a good clue.
I'm glad I chose edishes first. Yes, yes, man. All right,
well those are the two most and knowing things that
my wife is basically always complaining about doing.

Speaker 1 (01:40:17):
Okay, how about remember.

Speaker 8 (01:40:19):
We're looking at thirty eight percent.

Speaker 5 (01:40:21):
Yeah, Well, we had a We had a from one
of these brain teasers a few weeks ago, some about
like one of the people's least favorite tours. And I'm
surprised it was vacuuming. I don't know, It's not a
big deal to me. To vacuum. That's better than other chores.
I'm gonna say vacuuming. A lot of people seem so
you don't like vacuuming.

Speaker 8 (01:40:43):
Yeah, yeah, well.

Speaker 1 (01:40:46):
In this case, it's not vacuuming. So but here's your
next clue. Some pay to have it done, some pay to.

Speaker 5 (01:40:56):
Have it done. Well, I mean like it's house cleaning, right,
like we.

Speaker 1 (01:41:02):
I don't know. Thirty thirty eight percent of mothers say
if they had a clone, they would have her do
this like dusting.

Speaker 8 (01:41:14):
Yep, it is not dusting.

Speaker 1 (01:41:17):
So your final clue, teen girls do it for money, babysitting.
I figured you would get it off. Yes, what watch
her kids or babysit?

Speaker 8 (01:41:37):
That is correct.

Speaker 1 (01:41:39):
So it's good. You got three out of five. Yeah,
kind of had a You started off like like Arkansas
State starts off playing for so you kind of stumbled
the first two. But yeah, so you didn't did very
good on these last Yeah yeah yeah, so well, you know,

(01:42:01):
you know, I guess this kind of stress is good
for you, you know, when you have that kind of
you know, pressure against you. So well, we've got something. Well,
that's right, that's right. You don't even you don't need
to suck on the paths of fire. That's right. We
got some great stuff coming up next this next week,
and and I mean some. I mean this, this has

(01:42:23):
been This has been pure gold that I've been seeing,
all right, So this is one. I read this and
I was laughing to the point I had to compose
myself before I could even talk on the radio because
just the idea of this happening was just hilarious. I mean,
it's unfortunate, but it's hilarious. Happened in Orlando. A Florida
woman was cold cocked, knocked out unconscious after being hit

(01:42:47):
in the face by a duck on a SeaWorld roller coast.
I'm like, I can only imagine coming around the curve
on a SeaWorld roller coaster it seventy miles an hour
and getting smacked in the fase of a duck and
knocking you out cold. You know, I just I don't know,
all right. That's that's one of the ones that's coming.

(01:43:08):
Another another great story. A United flight was delayed four
hours after flight attendants got into a fight. So now
it's not just a passengers now it's the flight attendants.
So another reason why I just dread having to fly.

(01:43:28):
And we have another monkey story. Okay, we have a
spooked monkey in a diaper gets loose inside a spirit
Halloween store, which created which created Yeah, so that created
a bit of pandemonium. All right. Then we have a
story where and this is I love this headline, a

(01:43:51):
Virginia man gets naked and chases after people around inside
a walmart. So so that that's another great story. I
just love to see the security footage on that. So
and then another great faux pau from people that probably
should not be making faux pause. Detroit police officer was

(01:44:13):
caught in a virtual court hearing not wearing any pants,
so yes, but he did have on his badge, it
just didn't have on his back. Yeah right, all right,
all right, And more Halloween stupidity. We have a Halloween

(01:44:34):
hater that set a Bob Ross skeleton on fire. So
you know the joy of painting painter. So yeah. So
those are just those are just some of the real
gems that are and I'm thinking, well, there should be
some great ones coming up after this, because just those
those alone were enough to keep me laughing for a while.

(01:44:57):
Because the stories that come along with these are brilliant.
They're just fantastic. So anyway, that's what you got to
look forward to, and then some hopefully, well hopefully you
will avoid any bogs this next week so you won't
get bogged down.

Speaker 5 (01:45:14):
I was really bogged down earlier this week. I'll tell
you what.

Speaker 1 (01:45:19):
I remember this. This was really really funny. And I
want to say this happened. I think this happened at
your parents' wedding, because this was what just made me
remind me of this because we were because my sister,
your mom, and dad were married in my hometown in Arkansas,

(01:45:41):
and so your dad's family came from Pennsylvania and joined
our family in Arkansas. And I remember that they got
to meet your dad's family got to meet Grandma Ruby,
and Grandma was talking about how she was going out
into the garden to pick some something from her garden
and had just rained really hard, and that she had

(01:46:03):
gotten out into the garden and got stuck in the
mud and got bogged down in the mud and literally
fell onto her knees and had to crawl out of
the garden in the mud on her hands and knees
so she could get out of the garden. And your
grandmother thought that was the funniest thing in the world
to see a seventy year old woman bogged down in
the mud, crawling on her hands and knees together.

Speaker 22 (01:46:24):
So so when when I'm thinking of that term bogged down,
I just think about how.

Speaker 1 (01:46:28):
Your your grandmother started laughing over Grandma would be getting
bogged down in her garden. So so, yeah, just just
avoid any any shortcuts. If it appears it's still saying, goes.
If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.

Speaker 5 (01:46:43):
Yeah, So I don't want to end like the seventy
year old grandma were. Yeah. Bro.

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