June 5, 2025 • 46 mins
Ep. 286 - The Entitlement Epidemic Hits Harvard and Whataburger
David and Brad dissect America's entitlement epidemic, from Harvard's demand for perpetual taxpayer funding while discriminating against Jewish students, to a Texas man filing a million-dollar lawsuit over unwanted onions on his burger. The hosts explore Trump's battles with an unelected judiciary that strips governing power from elected officials, question how Seattle earned a spot among the world's top-10 cities despite being a certified dump, and reveal the terrifying blind spot near Venus that could hide civilization-ending asteroids.
David and Brad dissect America's entitlement epidemic, from Harvard's demand for perpetual taxpayer funding while discriminating against Jewish students, to a Texas man filing a million-dollar lawsuit over unwanted onions on his burger. The hosts explore Trump's battles with an unelected judiciary that strips governing power from elected officials, question how Seattle earned a spot among the world's top-10 cities despite being a certified dump, and reveal the terrifying blind spot near Venus that could hide civilization-ending asteroids.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
In these bleak days, humanity is at a breaking point.
Economies are tanking, the woke mob is canceling everything, and
the little guy who's just trying to run a small
business is getting screwed from both ends. But not all
is lost. Amidst the chaos, two men offer up their
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voices in the darkness, dropping two thousand pounds laser guided
truth bombs on today's lunacy, introducing the Sirens of Sanity,
David Pridham and l Bradley sheaf.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Well.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Brad, there it is Rick Derringer seeing the anthem of
Hulkogan Hull. Hogan had a bit of a problem in
the eighties when he tried to use the I had
the Tiger song to enter the ring, but he was
one of the first ones that did that rock and
wrestling connection, as you know, yeahah, and so he had
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to switch his song and then he had Rick Derringer.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
I believe Vince mcmanhatta, I think Cogan was doing any
of the business side.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
But Derringer then wrote, I Am a real American, and
then that became Hulk Cogan's anthem, and really the song
you would always hear when Hogan entered the ring. In
the nineteen eighties and nineties. I Am a real American
fight for the rights of every man. Many troops have
gone into war apparently with that song being sung or
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played on a boom box.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah. Well, I mean oftentimes you will bring a boombox
to war because you know one you want to let
him know who you are too. It sort of helps
in combat to have a good bassline, nice rhythm that
you can sort of establish as you're working your way
through the process of combat. So I could see that happening.
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I think the Rick Darreinger song that I know best
is probably the rock and roll Huci Cou, which you'll
still occasionally hear on the radio.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
So what about hang On, hang On Sloopy? Did he
right hang on slooping hey on some of the New
York Times?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Oh? Bit, yeah, he did before he has passed away,
he's gone.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
On, he's no longer hanging on, no longer has left
the building.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Oh he actually did the guitar solo in the great
song Eat It Weird Al Yankovic's nineteen eighty four Grammy
winning parody of Uncle Jackson's Beat It. Yeah, but the
Hogan thing is the Hogan thing is is iconic. I mean,
would you would you agree he'll clog in top five
wrestler of all time?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Or no? Well, certainly for me, I'm not a wrestling officionado, so.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
You know, well, you're a podcast host.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I am a podcast host.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
It's demonstrably true listening to this podcast. I'm obviously on
it and I am co hosting it with you, So
those things aren't demonstrably true. But certainly for me and
my you know, growing up years and my history such
as it is with professional wrestling, Hulk Hogan easily top five.
I mean in order for you, in order for me
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to know you as a wrestler, you have to have
been famous and probably in a movie, and Hulk Hogan
was both, and so yes, I would say top five.
How about you, You're much more of a wrestling officionado
than I am. Would you place mister Hogan in the
top five on the Mount Rushmore plus one of professional wrestling?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Well, let me say this first, Brad, this is David
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Speaker 3 (04:47):
So anyway, you asked a question, but the top five
wrestlers of all time, Brad, So, I think you have
to take a you have to sort of take a
look throughout the years, right and also across many different
wrestling federations, right, and so Hogan hal Cogan was iconic
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and the height of wrestling was really the eighties and nineties.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
You gotta put Hulk Cogan in the top five. You
got to put the nature boy Rick Flair in the
top five.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Yeah, Well Stone called Steve Austin top five because he
just didn't care. The Rock probably goes in the top five.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
And then you have the Philly one and you're like,
is it Andre the Giant? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Super Fly Snooker, you can't really pick him because he
killed that girl, so.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
He would be out.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
But you know that you have the Undertaker, you have
the He was undead, Roddy was undead. Rowdy Roddy Piper
was great. He actually beat Jimmy Snooker with a coconut
and some bananas back in the mid eighties. My grandfather
thought that was the greatest thing you'd ever seen on TV.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Show US Roddy. Roddy Piper was in the movie that
Correct with that great line where he comes in and
he says, I am here to kick ass and chew
bubble Gum and I am all out of Bubblegum's great line.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Yeah, another, just when you think you have all the answers,
I changed the question was another one of his great
great lines.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
So, yeah, that fifth spot would be would be where
I would have h or I'd have trouble, right.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
You know, you know, you know, you don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
And there were the Anderson cousins, but they weren't that good,
and they weren't really cousins, so they wouldn't they wouldn't count, Brad,
they wouldn't count.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Well, buddy. See, one of the things that you've just
done right here inadvertently, but that's sort of the nature
of your genius is that you have made it clear
why they stopped at four presidents on Mount Rushmore because
easy to get to four. You easily got to the
four top wrestlers. Then you started debating about five. And
so if you're standing there looking at Mount Rushmore and
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you're saying yourself, I am man, I think I could
get five presidents on there, and then you start to
think your way through it. In the top four, it's easy,
just go ripping through them. These are the top four.
And then you start to think, wow, you know for five?
You know, do I put in ulyssess grant us? Yeah,
I mean what do I do here? And then you
realize I can't do it the fifth once too hard.
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I got the four. I'm going to stop there. That's it.
That's Mount Rushmore. And obviously the same thing applies to wrestling,
and as a bit of a tangential aside, I once
convinced my youngest daughter, who was five years old at
the time, and we went to visit physically visit Mount Rushmore,
and as we were walking up to it, she was,
of course enthralled, and I said, isn't it amazing that
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you know, this just naturally occurred that, just because of
the wind and weather, you are able to see if
you look closely, for presidents sort of carved into the
face of this mountain. And she was like, oh, I
do see it. I definitely see it. And I said, well,
there you go. I mean, that's just kind of an
amazing thing that we find here and still to this day,
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And of course all of her sisters were there, and
once they figured out what I was doing, they were
encouraging her to view it that way, and so that's
still a topic of mirth in the Chef household. Say
Cassidy once held on to the belief that Mount Rushmore
was a naturally occurring phenomena.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I went, speaking of this, I I your family trip
to Mount Rushmore reminds me of the first time my
grandpa took me to wrestling at the Providence Civic Center.
We saw Rowdy Roddy Piper wrestle Paul Orndorf, and Orndorf
pulled Piper shorts down to where you could see his
dairy air and that was that was a sight to behold,
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reminiscent of Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Yeah, also natural space. Actually, that may be what they
would have put up there for presidents and Roddy Roddy
Piper's six o'clock if you could.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Have been president, if you focused his efforts in that regard.
But he wanted to be the greatest of all time
and he's maybe top five.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
We don't know. We're not going to find that out here, Brett.
We're not going to find that out Wow, that's.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Not that's a different podcast.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Well listen, So I seaking of the Providence Civic Center.
I did to update you on my activities. I did
go to the it's now the Amiica Pavilion, right, and
I am.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
What is Amika Insurance insurance in assurance insurance, right.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
And so I went there. We went there earlier this
winner to go to the Round one NCAA Games, which
was just a you know, that was a nightmare.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
It was like Arkansas and Saint John. It was Saint
John's got beaten by Arkansas. And we saw that game.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
And there were a couple of Purdue but but that's
you know, you have all these college people come in
and alumni and it's just just a feeding frenzy. But
this was Barry Manila, right, So you're thinking, there's twenty
thousand seats in this in this in this place. And
I told my wife, I said, look, it's you go
in and out, not going to be many people. She
got this for my birthday because she knows that I'm
a big fan of the great Barry Manila, who my grandmother,
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God rest her soul, is probably still wondering, you know,
why he hasn't settled down with a nice wife yet.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I didn't know you were a big Berry Manilow fan.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Oh but listen.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Not by choice, but my parents, when they had their
stereo system, would constantly play Barber streisand Barry Manilow, Jane
Oliver and Billy Joel and they just kind of a loop.
But they had more.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Sort of the one that doesn't belong here.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Yeah, Well, they had one album and they'd play it.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
But they'd play they had multiple Verry Menilo albums and
they would just play them on so to the point
where I could sing pretty much any Berry Menilo song
in the top ten that he sings, right, And so
he rolls in there and he's the guy's eighty eighty
something years old, right, eighty something years old, and he's
up there dancing around singing. He's had more plastic surgery
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than anyone I've ever seen in person, right, and eighty
one years old, born.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
In nineteen forty three. And he's up there dancing. He
does an hour and a half and he's actually singing too.
He's actually singing these.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Songs and he's not bad. I mean, you know, was
he ever good? I don't know, but I mean he uh.
It's absolutely a terrific show. And the place was packed
to the point where you're looking up in the third
row of seats where there's never there weren't people there
for the NCAAA Games. Packed people waving these green lights
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feather BoA's.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
What the green lights thing? What's up with that?
Speaker 4 (11:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
They were handing them out and we got there, we didn't.
I just I don't want that because would had to
put down my wine spritzer and I didn't want to
do that. But they're just giving out green lights that
you wave while he's singing. These songs. I write the songs.
I made it through the rain. Okay, we didn't stay
for Copacabana because you know me, I'm fifty plus now,
and actually when I turned thirty, I stopped staying for
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these events because I have to get my get in
my car and get out before traffic.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yeah, well that's good thinking. Plus, Coca Cabana, while certainly
a hallmark of Barry Manlow's career, is not worth staying for.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Well, my lovely wife said multiple times on the way home, I.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Really wanted to stay for Cocoa Cabana, and then she
repeated that last night to people at our table at
the event we went to.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
So that's different. Coco Cabana is a different thing.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Different, It's a very different thing. But terrific show.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Highly recommend it, and you know, there's not much market
say about that.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
It is his last concert.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Tours announced it as his last, so I'm pretty confident
that if it does well.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
And it seems like he was doing very well, that
he will sort of resurrect it and yeah, do it again.
Like the Rolling Stones, I went to their last, their
last concert, their their retirement concert in nineteen eighty.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Seven, So yeah, I was going to say, you can
go to five or six last concerts of the Rolling.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Aston Us and Manelow is obviously bigger than that. I
mean some great songs, some great uh weekend in New England, Mandy,
I mean just absolutely terrific. I got videos of me
singing which you'll never see. But anyway, so God bless
God blessed Berry Manelone is still going on eighty to
eighty one week Martin Dale Brad also dead. Just I
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meant I was to mention this a couple of weeks ago.
Tic tac dough tic tec do. Yeah, he was ninety
ninety one, ninety one.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Be good Republican's a good hot run. Yeah, good for him?
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Good uh good Republican.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
So anyway, what's uh what's going on in the world?
Do you want to start? Where do you want to start?
Do you want to start with, uh the Trump administration?
What's going on there? Do you want to go to
uh some wacky you know, wacky stories in the news.
Do you want to go to, uh, some global issues
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that may result in the nation of all mankind?
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Where do you want to start?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Well, But here's here's what I think we should do.
I think if necessary, we should touch on what the
Trump administration is doing. If there's anything of note there,
probably owe it to the listenership in studio and out
to cover it just briefly. I don't as you know,
you know, to dwell upon it. And then you know,
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if we do think the fall of the human race
is upon us, we should probably touch on that as well.
But then I think we need to leave you know,
material time for wacky things in the news.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Okay, well, let's let's do that. So my thoughts. President
Trump had a busy week.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
He is in the middle of battling Harvard eliminating the
public subsidies for Harvard, which is just kind of crazy
by the way, that we're issuing, you know, all all
these funds for Harvard, which is like a three billion
dollar endowment.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
That's a little bit a little bit nuts.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
And then on top of that, you know all of
the foreign students who we are subsidizing to attend Harvard.
And I see this point, right, We're subsidizing all these
foreign students to attend Harvard when you know they're taking
less and less US students.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
If you look at it over the years, it's it's.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Gone down pretty dramatically over the last twenty or thirty years.
So he's he's in the middle of trying to cut
off federal funds for Harvard, and of course the courts
have struck that down, so he's in.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
The middle of that battle.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
He's in the middle of this tariff war and trying
to get fairer trade deals with these countries by using
you know, the carrots stick approach with tariffs, and the
courts have knocked that down. So it's you know that
those things are getting I guess a little bit frustrating.
And then on top of all that, he is in
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the process of trying to get the Congress to.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Pass this new budget, which seems.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
To be taking forever, as it always does, and it
seems like the budget is one that doesn't codify any
of the spending reductions that Elon Musk had worked on
during his time in the government, which has now passed
as he's leaving the administration. So anything there, I think
is uh is fair game to to go after and
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talk about what do you what do you think, what
what most interests you in that well?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
But a person foremost thank goodness that we have the
courts to strip any ability to govern from the elected officials, right,
I mean, first of all, the you know, thank goodness,
thank goodness, we have a bunch of unelected judges who
were be students in English in their undergraduate degrees, then
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went to one of the kazillion law schools we have
in this country and managed to get a degree out
of there and now find themselves garbed in a a
nylon robe.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
And are you know, just.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Willy nilly stripping the elected officials of their ability to govern.
So thank goodness for that. That's certainly what the founding
fathers had in mind. And Buddy, the Harvard thing. Here's
the thing I do not get again, as is usually
the case, I am at best marginally educated as to
the topic, and I don't care about the politics. I
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realize that the politics are the foundation of the issues.
So I realize this by saying I don't care, I'm
sort of, you know, saying I don't care about things
that's most important in the issue. But here's the part
that I don't get. So every article that I skim
on this topic, and they're you know, I've skimmed maybe
three and there are probably thirty thousand, so I'm you know,
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certainly not doing a ton of research on it. The
complaint by Harvard seems to be that the federal government
has no right to take away the federal government's funding
of this private institution. Right to say that. Another way,
it seems to be that Harvard is taking the position
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that they are absolutely entitled to the federal funding that
they have been getting for as long as they've been
getting it right, and then they sort of put some
icing on that cake by saying, you know, the last
thing we want is the federal government deciding, you know,
how we should educate people. So while I sort of
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agree with that, right, I do not think that all learning,
particularly higher learning, that we should be the topic and
content should be dictated by the government. I certainly agree
with that right. I mean, we're right into nineteen eighty
four if we do that, But those are not the
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same thing, right, I mean, to make that connect is
to create a false connection. Right. The federal government is
absolutely entitled to grant funding and remove funding from anything
that it is funding. Right. I mean, to my knowledge,
there is no one entitled, no one, no one person,
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no one in the sense of being a corporate entity.
There is no one entitled to federal funding unless you
have some contract with the federal government where they have said,
if you perform this way, then we will pay you.
Like if you're an employee of the federal government, you're
entitled to your salary or whatever you've agreed to if
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you have If you are a business and you have
a contract with the federal government to provide them with X,
and they will in turn pay you such and such
amount for X, then yes, you're entitled to that. But
this is very different. This is the government saying, hey,
we've collected tax payer dollars. And again, I don't think
you can say this often enough, because I've had a
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couple conversations where it becomes a parent that somehow in
our culture we have, you know, sort of just not
not necessarily universally, but certainly broadly fallen under this misimpression
that there's government funds, Like the government is out hustling
and earning money and you know, then spending it on
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things that it thinks are good. That that that it's
all tax payer money. All the revenue coming into the
government comes in in the form of tax money. It's
your money, it's money that you have paid personally, that
your business is paid, et cetera. That is the source
of revenue for the federal government. Okay, so there's there's
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no government money, right like you have your money, I
have my money. The government has its money. It's all
our money. It's public money, and the and the government
allocates that tax payer revenue to certain things that theoretically
the government says, well, this will be good for all
of America, and it can decide that, and sometimes it's
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right and sometimes it's wrong, and that's fine. I mean,
no one is requiring the government be perfect. And if
you would like to set a perfect standard for the government,
you know, good luck with that. But setting that aside,
I mean, the government will make mistakes. It allocates that
money where it thinks it should go, and then when
it thinks it shouldn't go there anymore, it absolutely has
the right to say, well, I'm not going to fund
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this anymore. I don't think it's good for the American people.
And what the chief executive of the United States, having
been duly elected by the people of the United States.
You can hate him, you can love them, it doesn't
matter he is the president is saying, is that I
don't think as the chief executive that we should be
giving funds to this institution. That is, you know, dramatically
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decreasing the slots it offers to actual Americans while increasing
the slots it offers to foreign students, which the government
is also underwriting, while at the same time taking this
very dramatic position with regard to Israel and Palestine. Right,
it's basically just saying, hey, if you're a pro palaced Stitian,
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you know, welcome to Harvard. If you're not only pro Israel,
if you just happen to be Jewish, you're on the Alps,
like you can't come in here. And you know, as
an aside, but an equally you know, sort of alarming
aside as Harvard taking the position they're just entitled to
your money, to taxpayer money, they should just have it
because they're Harvard. Equally alarming is that there are a
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large number of people just say, yeah, you know what
if if you're a Jew, you suck and you shouldn't
be able to go to Harvard and you shouldn't be
able to do many things. And if anyone said that
about any other group of people, just lump them together
and said, you're a member of this group of people
and you suck and you can't do these things. People
just lose their minds. It would be outraged, but there
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seems to be a very significant number of people say no,
that's right, Yeah, that's you know, and it's just it's
amazing in and of itself. But it's even more amazing
to say, well, if you happen to be ethnically Jewish,
you must therefore be responsible for the actions of the
government of the nation of Israel. That those two things
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don't go together either, right, So even if you happen
to be staunchly anti Israel, you just think that Israel
as a country is doing the wrong thing. Okay, you're
entitled to your opinion. You cannot then take that brush
and paint it across everyone who is ethnically Jewish. It's insane.
And yet people are you know, doing that, Harvard is
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doing that, and at the same time saying we are
allowed to do that, and you are forced, you are
obligated to take taxpayer money and support that. That is
a crazy position to hold. And frankly, if Harvard's gonna
hold it, I don't think they should get taxpayer funding.
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And the fact that they have, I think you said,
a three billion dollar endowment. Why do they even care
if they're getting taxpayer funding. I like to think you'd
be able to make ends meet on three billion dollars.
So that's what I think. That's it.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
There's a lot to unpact there, but I I uh
completely agree with you. These these schools that get public subsidies,
that have huge endowments shouldn't get them. I mean they're
all obviously they're they're don't like they're paying any taxes either,
but they're getting huge subsidies in terms of how these
foreign students are granted visas.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
And and and granted access to this country.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
And then they get up I mean, m I T
this past week had had someone get up in a
in a graduation and accuse Israel of mass unprovoked genocide,
which is just crazy when you look at what's what,
what sort of provoked the latest to foray into into Gaza.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
And then the chancellor gets up and doesn't say.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Anything about it, no apology, nothing, just sort of you know,
supports the student's position. It's it's insane, and I think
it's I think it's great that they're doing something about it.
And I think it's good that they're doing something about
the the foreign student to US student ratio, because that
doesn't make any sense that we're educating the entire world
and not our own kids.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
And then the other thing that that Trump.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Said that I thought was really good was how they
were going to redirect some of these funds to trade schools.
I think that's great. I think there are there are
ways to get these funds to education educational institutions that
can help American citizens first.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Which would be just absolutely terrific.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
And then and then Trump at the same time, you know,
Elon Musk is leaving, so they're doing a press conference
I think today to go over his time with the
with the government. And then Trump also took the time
Brad to.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Pardon a bunch of folks. Did you know he pop
pardoned Todd Christly.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
I don't know who that is.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I don't think he is a reality TV star who
uh had a bunch of tax issues and was convicted
of fraud and a bunch of things, and so Trump
pardoned him and uh sent him.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
What was Trump's interest in him?
Speaker 3 (26:31):
He's a reality TV star? Okay, So he's going home, right,
he is? He is going home and.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Want a reality TV stars being locked up for fraud,
especially if they've committed it.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Yeah, it seems like that's a pretty yeah dead luck
sinch that he committed it. But anyway, he's he's.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Uh, he's going home. And then Elon Musks is going on.
Good for Elon muskause I think Tesla the stock is he's.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Gonna go up. So that's uh, that's nice. Uh.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Next, Brad, I've got a list. He I've got a
list here of the top ten cities of the world,
Top ten cities of the world as ranked then and listen.
You know this often I am someone who gravitates towards
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these studies because of the rigorous academic approach that is
taken to putting these lists together. These studies often listen,
they take decades, sometimes even centuries to compile. So this one,
I'm not sure. I know it took multiple years and
(27:40):
it could be multiple decades. I'm not sure when they
started researching for the list of the top ten city
the best cities in the world, best ten using over
twenty thousand data points.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Wow, okay, well that seems like a.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Lot, including a quote variety of metrics. No, I guess
in companying encompassing five broad categories. So I guess that
I was a little bit off on that. But this
was done, as you know, by the Oxford Economics Global
Cities Index and Forum. Okay, so we've got our top
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famous world famous. It's an institution, Brad. Top ten cities
one is New York scoring.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
So I'm sorry if I missed this Top ten global
notes and I mean to live, to work, to land
in an aircraft.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
No, No, Top ten cities is just there's a quality of
life in general, quality of life quality. New York, London,
Paris are your top three, Okay, Okay, so there you go,
and the cities are obviously safer than ever. San Jose,
California number four really, and on the index, New York's
got a perfect one hundred, the UK, London and the
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UK ninety eight point five.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Then it goes to ninety four point four Paris. And
this was a photo finish for number three because San
Jose was ninety four point two. And the only reason
it didn't eclipse that is because they didn't go to
that Italian place.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
It seemed vic the square rules over the top Number
four five is Seattle.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Ninety one point eight, Melbourne, Australia, never been Sydney, Australia.
Then there's Boston, which is probably good food, and then Tokyo, Japan,
and then San Francisco running out the top ten. Now Boston, Tokyo,
and San Francisco all tied at ninety point three, so
you could you could mix and match those however you
want to do it, however you want to do.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
It that Uh yeah, that's well. I mean, let me
caveat this by first saying I am not a city guy.
I would choose to live almost any in any other
kind of appropriate menu than a city. Just I don't
like cities. I don't like anything about them, So I'm
not a s you got to begin with. But I
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mean new York being perfect, I mean, come on, have
you ever been to New York?
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Yeah, I mean it's just yeah, I mean that's the
murdering executives there.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Yeah, I mean, I that's hard to get your head
around it. This is the perfect city. London clearly not perfect.
You can get yourself killed there too as well. Paris,
at least from my experience, let's taken over Paris limited. Yeah,
I mean that.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
It's just it's it's not you know, it's one of
those things again, sort of like Washington, d C. Has
always been if you stay on the mall where the
monuments are and the Smithsonian is, you will be fine.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Wow, that's not true. I just murder those two Israelis.
They're pretty much on the mall. They're coming out of
the all acost of Museaum.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
You see that.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
That's what's just Yeah, I did see that right off
the mall. It is just off the ball. So yeah,
I mean there is that, but I mean generally speaking,
I mean the powers that be that run that city
know they have to keep that place safe. They're really screwed.
But you get into like sixty seventy you could easily
get killed. And you know, London and Paris kind of
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the same way, right, you stay around big band Harrod's parlor.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Parliament, all right, Parliament, Yeah, Herots has a great key,
the tea with the I haven't had it since I
was there last. But that clotted cream you ever have that?
Collect the clock?
Speaker 2 (31:22):
You know. The one place I had clotted cream, buddy,
was when we were flying back from where the hell
we were on British airways and they brought us some
clouded cream, which was very nice. It sounds disgusting, like
I don't think that you should use the adjective clotted
for anything because it just doesn't sound appetizing, but it
is very good.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
You put some jam on there with the clotted cream
on one of those crumpets or biscuits or whatever.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Skull can't tell the difference between a crumpet and a biscuit,
and a skull.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Crumpet has the holes in it. So it's like my
grandmother used to make this crumpet. You know, it's like
an English muffin, but you don't cut it in half,
and it has holes in it in the top, and
so when you put the butter, the butter absorbs it
like a sponge and then you take a bite out
of it, you just just drips right down your chin.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
All it's it's freaking fantastic.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
See that's why the British were at one point able
to control most of the globe. And then they stopped
making crumpets and they clotted their cream and now they're out.
But that's true of all these cities money, right, I mean,
you got this little section that again the powers that
we understand, this is why people come, and if people
are being willing nearly killed while here, they'll stop coming.
So we'll keep this part safe. The rest of it's
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a shit show. So I don't I'm not a city's guy,
but how in the world. San Jose, California is fine,
But I mean it's in the top ten cities in
the world and Seattle is a dump dump dump dump
dump yep. So yeah, I mean I think there's some
there's some room to perhaps improve that survey.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
And we have a friend of ours, a good friend
who is in Tokyo currently. He's in Tokyo golf. Well,
he was going to but now the forecast is for
tsunami like rains all weekend, so there'll be no golf
this weekend. So I asked, what are you going to
do coming home early? And he said, no, I guess
I'll just sleep.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
So so he's just going to sleep in the driving
rain in Tokyo.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Well, not in the rain, probably in the hotel.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Well I get that, but I mean it's going to
be right, Well, hopefully he's in a good hotel. You
spend a whole weekend in a hotel in the rain,
you know. I hope it's you know, they left the
light on for him.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure they I'm pretty sure
they did. But any event, that's that's that.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
And then the flip side of that is, Brad, there
is now a real threat that at least three city
killing asteroids could strike Earth in a matter of weeks.
In a matter of weeks, these are asteroids that.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Have been hopefully Seattle, we'd lose a well, that's the
gem of all humanity, I guess.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
That's what that's what's interesting.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
The researchers from Brazil, France and Italy, also affiliated BRAD
with the Oxford World Economic City Study Forum, have found
that several asteroids in sync with the planet Venus' orbit
are extremely hard to spot because they're often hidden by
the Sun's glare. And they are three in particular. It
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doesn't matter, they're all they're name numbers, and it's just
when I'm gonna do that, that's a waste of time.
They have orbits that take these asteroids dangerously close to Earth.
They don't follow stable paths because they're asteroids, and they're
between three hundred and thirty feet and thirteen hundred feet
and we may be able to We have a blind
(34:46):
spot apparently near the planet Venus, but folks at the
Reuben Observatory in Chile may be able to spot the
asteroids approaching, but it would be extremely short lasting, only
two to four weeks. And they said these are asteroids.
It would be if they hit Earth, it would be
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make a crater two miles wide and released one million
times more energy than the nuclear bomb dropped down Hiroshima
back in nineteen forty five. So a big plot that
could come down all by Venus and creating this blind spot.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
You know what I mean, Venus has always sucked. I mean,
that's just the kind of thing Venus would do. If
you know Venus at all. It's it's continually creating blind spots,
spots and glare and hiding asteroids. It's just kind of
a crappy little planet. But yeah, buddy, I I in
the history, in the relatively you know, recent history of Earth. Earth,
(35:46):
It's my understanding is about four and a half billion
years old. That's a long time. Early in the Earth's development,
it was being continually peppered by you know, various and sundry,
you know, space based objects because you know, the whole
soul Is system was coming together. But since that has
sort of occurred, the Solar system has sort of settled
down into you know, near steady statement. Obviously, things are
(36:09):
happening all over the place, but they tend to happen,
you know, in kind of the same way. Earth has
not been peppered by asteroids. There are a lot of asteroids,
and Earth seems to be you know, well positioned to
avoid them. I mean, the last biggin was the one
that wiped out the dinosaurs, and that was like some
(36:29):
ninety seven million years ago or sixty million years. It
was a lot of years ago, right, So now, I
guess you could take the position that statistically every year
that goes by the odds of one of these sing
slamming into Earth increases, and that's probably yeah, but it's
it's not a common occurrence, buddy, And and you know,
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I just I have a hard time getting wound up
about that when you know there's other things you can
probably wound up a little more likely to happen. So,
but not not. I'll tell you what it's not likely
to happen. Did you see this? I know I don't
normally do this to you, but did you see that
the North Koreans are trying to improve their navy, and
(37:14):
they built you know, this one just you know, sort
of destroyer class vessel. They were super duper proud of
going to be the pride of the Korean navy, and
it just flipped over on its side when they tried
to launch it.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
Now, but I mean, you have to crack a few
eggs to make an omelet.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
That's certainly true. And you know, I mean can Jong
un not afraid to crack an egg or to or
are human beings head? Because he certainly did that, because
he was physically present at the launch and you know,
along with all other high ranking you know, North Korean
types and you know, super proud of this thing. It's
just absolutely wrecked.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
It just trying to get it off the dock so
they can they salvage any of the thing for scrap
or well, I.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Mean he gave first of all, I had a number
of people arrested, which is you know, yeah, I mean exactly,
And then no one's surprised by that. They covered it
almost immediately with tarps because everybody with the satellite was
taking pictures of it and sort of chortling by themselves.
So they covered an immediately with tarps, and he gave
him like some incredibly short fuse to get that thing
(38:18):
like out to see like a week. Apparently they demolished it,
like they smashed the bow and then literally it was
lying on its side in the water. And he basically
told those people you got, you know, one week or
ten days or something like that to get this fricking
thing in the water, or I'm killing everybody. And uh so,
(38:39):
you know, we'll see, buddy, We'll see.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
Reagan did that with the Space Shuttle, didn't He probably
probably sounds like him. Well, I mean interesting, U interesting.
Let's see what else? What else?
Speaker 3 (38:52):
We got a big story out of Texas, the state
of Texas. You're familiar with the court system in Texas.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
I've certainly participated in the court system in Texas.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Yes, So I give you the case of Dimitri Rdell Wilson.
He filed a claim in Texas. Texas is two hundred
and sixty ninth judicial district in Harris County. Harris County, Texas.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Two hundred and sixty. That's a lot of judicial districts.
But Texas is a big place, all right. So he
filed a complaint.
Speaker 4 (39:23):
I guess he uh, he went to a what a
Burger and that was his first mistake. But yeah, he
went to a Whataburger, ordered a what a Burger?
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 4 (39:33):
What a burger?
Speaker 2 (39:33):
It does?
Speaker 4 (39:34):
Which is just not good. I mean, let's let's just
be honest.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
I mean, in terms of the hierarchy of fast food burgers,
the water Burger, fast food burgers suck.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:45):
I haven't had one.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
My whole life as far as I know.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
But yeah, you've had seen you.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
Had a couple of Okay, maybe I have.
Speaker 4 (39:54):
I don't know, I don't memorable.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
In any case, if I have had one, I don't
even remember. But but in any case, this gentleman decides
that what he's going to do with the time allotted
to him is fire up a water burger.
Speaker 4 (40:04):
So he does fires up a water burger.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
They put onions on it when he when he ordered
no onions, Oh bastards, and uh so he has filed
a million dollar complaint against water Burger. It's apparently allergic
to onions, although he had no reaction to this particular burger. Yeah,
the water burgers are kind of weird and they have
a lot of bread and they just I don't know.
Speaker 4 (40:26):
I can't eat any of that.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
Say, every time I eat that stuff, yeah, I get
dehydrated and I can't.
Speaker 4 (40:32):
I can't eat it anymore. I can't, I could do.
You know, we talk about this all the time. You
do the McDonald's breakfast.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
If you have to get a macmuffins, my grandfather called
it McMuffin, little macmuffin.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
That's it. There's nothing else, that's nothing. I don't want
to I don't want to completely agree. I mean, you know,
the five Guys is fine. You get yourself a five
guys burger, and.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
Yeah, that's not really fast food though, I mean they're
they're they're sort of Yeah, you're getting yourself. You know,
you're stepping in the right direction by going to a
five guys. Still to kill yourself if you eat that
on the regular, but you're moving in the right direction.
So anyway, this they have hot dogs too.
Speaker 4 (41:05):
I like hot dogs.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
The five guys?
Speaker 4 (41:07):
Does they grill the hot I like a grilled hot
dog once in a while, like fourth of July, I
will have a grilled hot dog.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
Well yeah, but you're grilling the hot dog yourself. That's
very different.
Speaker 4 (41:15):
Well what about but then yeah, five guys they do it?
Was it? Five guys are shaked. One of them does
a grilled hot dog. I don't know who.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
Okay, well, so what happened with the guy with the onions?
Did he win? Did you get a million bucks?
Speaker 4 (41:25):
Now we don't know. He just filed. The fact that
he filed alone is probably reason for this.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Unfortunately, that is all you need to know about the
state of American culture at this point is that you
got a burger instead of doing what you know you
and I would do, our parents would do, our grandparents
would certainly do, which is go back into the restaurant
and maybe with a touch of irritation, but you know,
with understanding the mistakes get made, beat the hell out
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of the flip the lid off the burger, and point
to the onions and say, hey, you know, I'm sorry
by you know, I order this onions? Would you be
willing to remake it? The person behind the counter would say, oh,
my goodness, I you know, we're terribly sorry. This is
not We've we've failed to meet our own standards. Let
us not only we make you this burger, but can
we throw in a shake? And you know, everybody.
Speaker 3 (42:15):
For then finally Brad a direct uh uh descendant of
our whataburger story? Have you you remember Steven Segall Oh sure,
great actor Above the Law?
Speaker 4 (42:27):
Yeah? Marked for Death?
Speaker 2 (42:29):
Yeah, oh yeah, who.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
Was the guy was above the law of the one
where his friend went on that cocaine bender.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (42:35):
And then Richie We're Richie is I mean we're Richie
and he just starts beating people with the pool just.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
Start to school. That was a good movie. I mean,
it's was good in that movie. Now, last time I
saw him, we had like four hundred pounds.
Speaker 4 (42:48):
Well that's the story.
Speaker 3 (42:49):
He's up over four hundred pounds. He's in, but he's
he's apparently. Uh do you remember Marked for Death? You've
been mocked for death man? Yes, yes, screwface. And then
the whole twist was that there are two of them.
Speaker 4 (43:04):
Yes, he killed them both. He killed them both of
his hands.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
Yes, he just killed them.
Speaker 4 (43:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
Oh lord, those were great. Then there was the one
where he was like a cook on a ship and
he killed on a ship he had the train. Yeah,
and that gal pops out.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
Of the cake. Yeah, remember that, like apropos of nothing
and everyone on the ship's dead except for Steven. Sagall
and the bad guy and this chick running around in
a bikini because she popped out of a cake. He
was a runaway train.
Speaker 4 (43:33):
One runaway train.
Speaker 3 (43:34):
But the boat was great because the captain had The
captain had a relationship pre existing with Sigal, not not
not sexual, and he knew that Cigar was like the
baddest guy in the world, but he decided for some reason,
he made him a cook and so cigals in the
kitchen doing all the cooking, and they were like fifteen
or twenty just just deadpan jokes about Cigal's cooking during
(43:55):
the movie. And then the whole thing is about him
getting vengeance for the killing of this captain who you
know it was, Yeah, it was was doing his bells
ringing who was murdered by the by the uh, I
believe it was Gary Busey.
Speaker 4 (44:14):
Was Gary Busey the one He was the first mate,
but he was just blew the movie. But if you
haven't seen it now you don't deserve Yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
Well yeah, and you're probably not going to.
Speaker 3 (44:22):
But that shows that that there we started, and we're
finishing with the reasons why the eighties were the greatest time,
seventies and eighties, greatest time ever to grow up, right,
because you have the top five wrestlers of all time,
all of which all of which made their bones in
the eighties.
Speaker 4 (44:38):
And then you have some of these movies.
Speaker 3 (44:40):
You know, the greatest, one of the greatest films of
all time was the one with Richie. I don't know
if it was not marked for death, but the law
above the law, great movie. I encourage people to go
out and rent it by it, do whatever you have
to do. And then you have Barry Manilow and Rick
Derringer and that that's There's nothing more you can do.
Screw the guy with the thing, screwing.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
No, the heck with them. Eat your onions, shut up.
I mean, that's it. I can tell you right now
is my grandfather would have just looked at me and said,
eat the damn mungons. Eat the damn onions.
Speaker 5 (45:08):
Shut your mouth when I come back there, Yeah, I mean,
just eat your burger. You're not putting for it in there.
You're look, you got a whata burger exactly. And you
know what, you grew up that way. I grew up
that way.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
And now look we're raising our children. We run a
successful business. We're paying our taxes, we're contributing.
Speaker 4 (45:24):
We do a podcast running around and how many.
Speaker 2 (45:26):
People do a podcast? Whatever? But there can't be more
than what like six or seven podcasts in the whole world,
and we're.
Speaker 4 (45:31):
There are many, and how many people are best known
for their podcast?
Speaker 2 (45:34):
Well that's exactly right, and so I mean, but that's
that's that's we're putting a pin in it. We have,
we've we've done, we do a podcast, we're raising children,
and we ate the damn onions. And we'll be back
here next week to eat the onions again, right here
on IP frequently.
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Speaker 3 (00:53):
Brad, there it is Rick Derringer seeing the anthem of
Hulkogan Hull. Hogan had a bit of a problem in
the eighties when he tried to use the I had
the Tiger song to enter the ring, but he was
one of the first ones that did that rock and
wrestling connection, as you know, yeahah, and so he had
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to switch his song and then he had Rick Derringer.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
I believe Vince mcmanhatta, I think Cogan was doing any
of the business side.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
But Derringer then wrote, I Am a real American, and
then that became Hulk Cogan's anthem, and really the song
you would always hear when Hogan entered the ring. In
the nineteen eighties and nineties. I Am a real American
fight for the rights of every man. Many troops have
gone into war apparently with that song being sung or
(01:44):
played on a boom box.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah. Well, I mean oftentimes you will bring a boombox
to war because you know one you want to let
him know who you are too. It sort of helps
in combat to have a good bassline, nice rhythm that
you can sort of establish as you're working your way
through the process of combat. So I could see that happening.
(02:08):
I think the Rick Darreinger song that I know best
is probably the rock and roll Huci Cou, which you'll
still occasionally hear on the radio.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
So what about hang On, hang On Sloopy? Did he
right hang on slooping hey on some of the New
York Times?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Oh? Bit, yeah, he did before he has passed away,
he's gone.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
On, he's no longer hanging on, no longer has left
the building.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Oh he actually did the guitar solo in the great
song Eat It Weird Al Yankovic's nineteen eighty four Grammy
winning parody of Uncle Jackson's Beat It. Yeah, but the
Hogan thing is the Hogan thing is is iconic. I mean,
would you would you agree he'll clog in top five
wrestler of all time?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Or no? Well, certainly for me, I'm not a wrestling officionado, so.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
You know, well, you're a podcast host.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I am a podcast host.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
It's demonstrably true listening to this podcast. I'm obviously on
it and I am co hosting it with you, So
those things aren't demonstrably true. But certainly for me and
my you know, growing up years and my history such
as it is with professional wrestling, Hulk Hogan easily top five.
I mean in order for you, in order for me
(03:24):
to know you as a wrestler, you have to have
been famous and probably in a movie, and Hulk Hogan
was both, and so yes, I would say top five.
How about you, You're much more of a wrestling officionado
than I am. Would you place mister Hogan in the
top five on the Mount Rushmore plus one of professional wrestling?
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Speaker 3 (04:47):
So anyway, you asked a question, but the top five
wrestlers of all time, Brad, So, I think you have
to take a you have to sort of take a
look throughout the years, right and also across many different
wrestling federations, right, and so Hogan hal Cogan was iconic
(05:08):
and the height of wrestling was really the eighties and nineties.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
You gotta put Hulk Cogan in the top five. You
got to put the nature boy Rick Flair in the
top five.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Yeah, Well Stone called Steve Austin top five because he
just didn't care. The Rock probably goes in the top five.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
And then you have the Philly one and you're like,
is it Andre the Giant? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Super Fly Snooker, you can't really pick him because he
killed that girl, so.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
He would be out.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
But you know that you have the Undertaker, you have
the He was undead, Roddy was undead. Rowdy Roddy Piper
was great. He actually beat Jimmy Snooker with a coconut
and some bananas back in the mid eighties. My grandfather
thought that was the greatest thing you'd ever seen on TV.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Show US Roddy. Roddy Piper was in the movie that
Correct with that great line where he comes in and
he says, I am here to kick ass and chew
bubble Gum and I am all out of Bubblegum's great line.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Yeah, another, just when you think you have all the answers,
I changed the question was another one of his great
great lines.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
So, yeah, that fifth spot would be would be where
I would have h or I'd have trouble, right.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
You know, you know, you know, you don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
And there were the Anderson cousins, but they weren't that good,
and they weren't really cousins, so they wouldn't they wouldn't count, Brad,
they wouldn't count.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Well, buddy. See, one of the things that you've just
done right here inadvertently, but that's sort of the nature
of your genius is that you have made it clear
why they stopped at four presidents on Mount Rushmore because
easy to get to four. You easily got to the
four top wrestlers. Then you started debating about five. And
so if you're standing there looking at Mount Rushmore and
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you're saying yourself, I am man, I think I could
get five presidents on there, and then you start to
think your way through it. In the top four, it's easy,
just go ripping through them. These are the top four.
And then you start to think, wow, you know for five?
You know, do I put in ulyssess grant us? Yeah,
I mean what do I do here? And then you
realize I can't do it the fifth once too hard.
(07:12):
I got the four. I'm going to stop there. That's it.
That's Mount Rushmore. And obviously the same thing applies to wrestling,
and as a bit of a tangential aside, I once
convinced my youngest daughter, who was five years old at
the time, and we went to visit physically visit Mount Rushmore,
and as we were walking up to it, she was,
of course enthralled, and I said, isn't it amazing that
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you know, this just naturally occurred that, just because of
the wind and weather, you are able to see if
you look closely, for presidents sort of carved into the
face of this mountain. And she was like, oh, I
do see it. I definitely see it. And I said, well,
there you go. I mean, that's just kind of an
amazing thing that we find here and still to this day,
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And of course all of her sisters were there, and
once they figured out what I was doing, they were
encouraging her to view it that way, and so that's
still a topic of mirth in the Chef household. Say
Cassidy once held on to the belief that Mount Rushmore
was a naturally occurring phenomena.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I went, speaking of this, I I your family trip
to Mount Rushmore reminds me of the first time my
grandpa took me to wrestling at the Providence Civic Center.
We saw Rowdy Roddy Piper wrestle Paul Orndorf, and Orndorf
pulled Piper shorts down to where you could see his
dairy air and that was that was a sight to behold,
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reminiscent of Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Yeah, also natural space. Actually, that may be what they
would have put up there for presidents and Roddy Roddy
Piper's six o'clock if you could.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Have been president, if you focused his efforts in that regard.
But he wanted to be the greatest of all time
and he's maybe top five.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
We don't know. We're not going to find that out here, Brett.
We're not going to find that out Wow, that's.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Not that's a different podcast.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Well listen, So I seaking of the Providence Civic Center.
I did to update you on my activities. I did
go to the it's now the Amiica Pavilion, right, and
I am.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
What is Amika Insurance insurance in assurance insurance, right.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
And so I went there. We went there earlier this
winner to go to the Round one NCAA Games, which
was just a you know, that was a nightmare.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
It was like Arkansas and Saint John. It was Saint
John's got beaten by Arkansas. And we saw that game.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
And there were a couple of Purdue but but that's
you know, you have all these college people come in
and alumni and it's just just a feeding frenzy. But
this was Barry Manila, right, So you're thinking, there's twenty
thousand seats in this in this in this place. And
I told my wife, I said, look, it's you go
in and out, not going to be many people. She
got this for my birthday because she knows that I'm
a big fan of the great Barry Manila, who my grandmother,
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God rest her soul, is probably still wondering, you know,
why he hasn't settled down with a nice wife yet.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I didn't know you were a big Berry Manilow fan.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Oh but listen.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Not by choice, but my parents, when they had their
stereo system, would constantly play Barber streisand Barry Manilow, Jane
Oliver and Billy Joel and they just kind of a loop.
But they had more.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Sort of the one that doesn't belong here.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Yeah, Well, they had one album and they'd play it.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
But they'd play they had multiple Verry Menilo albums and
they would just play them on so to the point
where I could sing pretty much any Berry Menilo song
in the top ten that he sings, right, And so
he rolls in there and he's the guy's eighty eighty
something years old, right, eighty something years old, and he's
up there dancing around singing. He's had more plastic surgery
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than anyone I've ever seen in person, right, and eighty
one years old, born.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
In nineteen forty three. And he's up there dancing. He
does an hour and a half and he's actually singing too.
He's actually singing these.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Songs and he's not bad. I mean, you know, was
he ever good? I don't know, but I mean he uh.
It's absolutely a terrific show. And the place was packed
to the point where you're looking up in the third
row of seats where there's never there weren't people there
for the NCAAA Games. Packed people waving these green lights
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feather BoA's.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
What the green lights thing? What's up with that?
Speaker 4 (11:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
They were handing them out and we got there, we didn't.
I just I don't want that because would had to
put down my wine spritzer and I didn't want to
do that. But they're just giving out green lights that
you wave while he's singing. These songs. I write the songs.
I made it through the rain. Okay, we didn't stay
for Copacabana because you know me, I'm fifty plus now,
and actually when I turned thirty, I stopped staying for
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these events because I have to get my get in
my car and get out before traffic.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yeah, well that's good thinking. Plus, Coca Cabana, while certainly
a hallmark of Barry Manlow's career, is not worth staying for.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Well, my lovely wife said multiple times on the way home, I.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Really wanted to stay for Cocoa Cabana, and then she
repeated that last night to people at our table at
the event we went to.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
So that's different. Coco Cabana is a different thing.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Different, It's a very different thing. But terrific show.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Highly recommend it, and you know, there's not much market
say about that.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
It is his last concert.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Tours announced it as his last, so I'm pretty confident
that if it does well.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
And it seems like he was doing very well, that
he will sort of resurrect it and yeah, do it again.
Like the Rolling Stones, I went to their last, their
last concert, their their retirement concert in nineteen eighty.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Seven, So yeah, I was going to say, you can
go to five or six last concerts of the Rolling.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Aston Us and Manelow is obviously bigger than that. I
mean some great songs, some great uh weekend in New England, Mandy,
I mean just absolutely terrific. I got videos of me
singing which you'll never see. But anyway, so God bless
God blessed Berry Manelone is still going on eighty to
eighty one week Martin Dale Brad also dead. Just I
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meant I was to mention this a couple of weeks ago.
Tic tac dough tic tec do. Yeah, he was ninety
ninety one, ninety one.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Be good Republican's a good hot run. Yeah, good for him?
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Good uh good Republican.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
So anyway, what's uh what's going on in the world?
Do you want to start? Where do you want to start?
Do you want to start with, uh the Trump administration?
What's going on there? Do you want to go to
uh some wacky you know, wacky stories in the news.
Do you want to go to, uh, some global issues
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that may result in the nation of all mankind?
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Where do you want to start?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Well, But here's here's what I think we should do.
I think if necessary, we should touch on what the
Trump administration is doing. If there's anything of note there,
probably owe it to the listenership in studio and out
to cover it just briefly. I don't as you know,
you know, to dwell upon it. And then you know,
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if we do think the fall of the human race
is upon us, we should probably touch on that as well.
But then I think we need to leave you know,
material time for wacky things in the news.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Okay, well, let's let's do that. So my thoughts. President
Trump had a busy week.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
He is in the middle of battling Harvard eliminating the
public subsidies for Harvard, which is just kind of crazy
by the way, that we're issuing, you know, all all
these funds for Harvard, which is like a three billion
dollar endowment.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
That's a little bit a little bit nuts.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
And then on top of that, you know all of
the foreign students who we are subsidizing to attend Harvard.
And I see this point, right, We're subsidizing all these
foreign students to attend Harvard when you know they're taking
less and less US students.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
If you look at it over the years, it's it's.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Gone down pretty dramatically over the last twenty or thirty years.
So he's he's in the middle of trying to cut
off federal funds for Harvard, and of course the courts
have struck that down, so he's in.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
The middle of that battle.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
He's in the middle of this tariff war and trying
to get fairer trade deals with these countries by using
you know, the carrots stick approach with tariffs, and the
courts have knocked that down. So it's you know that
those things are getting I guess a little bit frustrating.
And then on top of all that, he is in
(15:54):
the process of trying to get the Congress to.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Pass this new budget, which seems.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
To be taking forever, as it always does, and it
seems like the budget is one that doesn't codify any
of the spending reductions that Elon Musk had worked on
during his time in the government, which has now passed
as he's leaving the administration. So anything there, I think
is uh is fair game to to go after and
(16:22):
talk about what do you what do you think, what
what most interests you in that well?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
But a person foremost thank goodness that we have the
courts to strip any ability to govern from the elected officials, right,
I mean, first of all, the you know, thank goodness,
thank goodness, we have a bunch of unelected judges who
were be students in English in their undergraduate degrees, then
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went to one of the kazillion law schools we have
in this country and managed to get a degree out
of there and now find themselves garbed in a a
nylon robe.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
And are you know, just.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Willy nilly stripping the elected officials of their ability to govern.
So thank goodness for that. That's certainly what the founding
fathers had in mind. And Buddy, the Harvard thing. Here's
the thing I do not get again, as is usually
the case, I am at best marginally educated as to
the topic, and I don't care about the politics. I
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realize that the politics are the foundation of the issues.
So I realize this by saying I don't care, I'm
sort of, you know, saying I don't care about things
that's most important in the issue. But here's the part
that I don't get. So every article that I skim
on this topic, and they're you know, I've skimmed maybe
three and there are probably thirty thousand, so I'm you know,
(17:50):
certainly not doing a ton of research on it. The
complaint by Harvard seems to be that the federal government
has no right to take away the federal government's funding
of this private institution. Right to say that. Another way,
it seems to be that Harvard is taking the position
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that they are absolutely entitled to the federal funding that
they have been getting for as long as they've been
getting it right, and then they sort of put some
icing on that cake by saying, you know, the last
thing we want is the federal government deciding, you know,
how we should educate people. So while I sort of
(18:34):
agree with that, right, I do not think that all learning,
particularly higher learning, that we should be the topic and
content should be dictated by the government. I certainly agree
with that right. I mean, we're right into nineteen eighty
four if we do that, But those are not the
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same thing, right, I mean, to make that connect is
to create a false connection. Right. The federal government is
absolutely entitled to grant funding and remove funding from anything
that it is funding. Right. I mean, to my knowledge,
there is no one entitled, no one, no one person,
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no one in the sense of being a corporate entity.
There is no one entitled to federal funding unless you
have some contract with the federal government where they have said,
if you perform this way, then we will pay you.
Like if you're an employee of the federal government, you're
entitled to your salary or whatever you've agreed to if
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you have If you are a business and you have
a contract with the federal government to provide them with X,
and they will in turn pay you such and such
amount for X, then yes, you're entitled to that. But
this is very different. This is the government saying, hey,
we've collected tax payer dollars. And again, I don't think
you can say this often enough, because I've had a
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couple conversations where it becomes a parent that somehow in
our culture we have, you know, sort of just not
not necessarily universally, but certainly broadly fallen under this misimpression
that there's government funds, Like the government is out hustling
and earning money and you know, then spending it on
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things that it thinks are good. That that that it's
all tax payer money. All the revenue coming into the
government comes in in the form of tax money. It's
your money, it's money that you have paid personally, that
your business is paid, et cetera. That is the source
of revenue for the federal government. Okay, so there's there's
(20:45):
no government money, right like you have your money, I
have my money. The government has its money. It's all
our money. It's public money, and the and the government
allocates that tax payer revenue to certain things that theoretically
the government says, well, this will be good for all
of America, and it can decide that, and sometimes it's
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right and sometimes it's wrong, and that's fine. I mean,
no one is requiring the government be perfect. And if
you would like to set a perfect standard for the government,
you know, good luck with that. But setting that aside,
I mean, the government will make mistakes. It allocates that
money where it thinks it should go, and then when
it thinks it shouldn't go there anymore, it absolutely has
the right to say, well, I'm not going to fund
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this anymore. I don't think it's good for the American people.
And what the chief executive of the United States, having
been duly elected by the people of the United States.
You can hate him, you can love them, it doesn't
matter he is the president is saying, is that I
don't think as the chief executive that we should be
giving funds to this institution. That is, you know, dramatically
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decreasing the slots it offers to actual Americans while increasing
the slots it offers to foreign students, which the government
is also underwriting, while at the same time taking this
very dramatic position with regard to Israel and Palestine. Right,
it's basically just saying, hey, if you're a pro palaced Stitian,
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you know, welcome to Harvard. If you're not only pro Israel,
if you just happen to be Jewish, you're on the Alps,
like you can't come in here. And you know, as
an aside, but an equally you know, sort of alarming
aside as Harvard taking the position they're just entitled to
your money, to taxpayer money, they should just have it
because they're Harvard. Equally alarming is that there are a
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large number of people just say, yeah, you know what
if if you're a Jew, you suck and you shouldn't
be able to go to Harvard and you shouldn't be
able to do many things. And if anyone said that
about any other group of people, just lump them together
and said, you're a member of this group of people
and you suck and you can't do these things. People
just lose their minds. It would be outraged, but there
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seems to be a very significant number of people say no,
that's right, Yeah, that's you know, and it's just it's
amazing in and of itself. But it's even more amazing
to say, well, if you happen to be ethnically Jewish,
you must therefore be responsible for the actions of the
government of the nation of Israel. That those two things
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don't go together either, right, So even if you happen
to be staunchly anti Israel, you just think that Israel
as a country is doing the wrong thing. Okay, you're
entitled to your opinion. You cannot then take that brush
and paint it across everyone who is ethnically Jewish. It's insane.
And yet people are you know, doing that, Harvard is
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doing that, and at the same time saying we are
allowed to do that, and you are forced, you are
obligated to take taxpayer money and support that. That is
a crazy position to hold. And frankly, if Harvard's gonna
hold it, I don't think they should get taxpayer funding.
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And the fact that they have, I think you said,
a three billion dollar endowment. Why do they even care
if they're getting taxpayer funding. I like to think you'd
be able to make ends meet on three billion dollars.
So that's what I think. That's it.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
There's a lot to unpact there, but I I uh
completely agree with you. These these schools that get public subsidies,
that have huge endowments shouldn't get them. I mean they're
all obviously they're they're don't like they're paying any taxes either,
but they're getting huge subsidies in terms of how these
foreign students are granted visas.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
And and and granted access to this country.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
And then they get up I mean, m I T
this past week had had someone get up in a
in a graduation and accuse Israel of mass unprovoked genocide,
which is just crazy when you look at what's what,
what sort of provoked the latest to foray into into Gaza.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
And then the chancellor gets up and doesn't say.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Anything about it, no apology, nothing, just sort of you know,
supports the student's position. It's it's insane, and I think
it's I think it's great that they're doing something about it.
And I think it's good that they're doing something about
the the foreign student to US student ratio, because that
doesn't make any sense that we're educating the entire world
and not our own kids.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
And then the other thing that that Trump.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Said that I thought was really good was how they
were going to redirect some of these funds to trade schools.
I think that's great. I think there are there are
ways to get these funds to education educational institutions that
can help American citizens first.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Which would be just absolutely terrific.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
And then and then Trump at the same time, you know,
Elon Musk is leaving, so they're doing a press conference
I think today to go over his time with the
with the government. And then Trump also took the time
Brad to.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Pardon a bunch of folks. Did you know he pop
pardoned Todd Christly.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
I don't know who that is.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I don't think he is a reality TV star who
uh had a bunch of tax issues and was convicted
of fraud and a bunch of things, and so Trump
pardoned him and uh sent him.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
What was Trump's interest in him?
Speaker 3 (26:31):
He's a reality TV star? Okay, So he's going home, right,
he is? He is going home and.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Want a reality TV stars being locked up for fraud,
especially if they've committed it.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Yeah, it seems like that's a pretty yeah dead luck
sinch that he committed it. But anyway, he's he's.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Uh, he's going home. And then Elon Musks is going on.
Good for Elon muskause I think Tesla the stock is he's.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Gonna go up. So that's uh, that's nice. Uh.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Next, Brad, I've got a list. He I've got a
list here of the top ten cities of the world,
Top ten cities of the world as ranked then and listen.
You know this often I am someone who gravitates towards
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these studies because of the rigorous academic approach that is
taken to putting these lists together. These studies often listen,
they take decades, sometimes even centuries to compile. So this one,
I'm not sure. I know it took multiple years and
(27:40):
it could be multiple decades. I'm not sure when they
started researching for the list of the top ten city
the best cities in the world, best ten using over
twenty thousand data points.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Wow, okay, well that seems like a.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Lot, including a quote variety of metrics. No, I guess
in companying encompassing five broad categories. So I guess that
I was a little bit off on that. But this
was done, as you know, by the Oxford Economics Global
Cities Index and Forum. Okay, so we've got our top
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famous world famous. It's an institution, Brad. Top ten cities
one is New York scoring.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
So I'm sorry if I missed this Top ten global
notes and I mean to live, to work, to land
in an aircraft.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
No, No, Top ten cities is just there's a quality of
life in general, quality of life quality. New York, London,
Paris are your top three, Okay, Okay, so there you go,
and the cities are obviously safer than ever. San Jose,
California number four really, and on the index, New York's
got a perfect one hundred, the UK, London and the
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UK ninety eight point five.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Then it goes to ninety four point four Paris. And
this was a photo finish for number three because San
Jose was ninety four point two. And the only reason
it didn't eclipse that is because they didn't go to
that Italian place.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
It seemed vic the square rules over the top Number
four five is Seattle.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Ninety one point eight, Melbourne, Australia, never been Sydney, Australia.
Then there's Boston, which is probably good food, and then Tokyo, Japan,
and then San Francisco running out the top ten. Now Boston, Tokyo,
and San Francisco all tied at ninety point three, so
you could you could mix and match those however you
want to do it, however you want to do.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
It that Uh yeah, that's well. I mean, let me
caveat this by first saying I am not a city guy.
I would choose to live almost any in any other
kind of appropriate menu than a city. Just I don't
like cities. I don't like anything about them, So I'm
not a s you got to begin with. But I
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mean new York being perfect, I mean, come on, have
you ever been to New York?
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Yeah, I mean it's just yeah, I mean that's the
murdering executives there.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Yeah, I mean, I that's hard to get your head
around it. This is the perfect city. London clearly not perfect.
You can get yourself killed there too as well. Paris,
at least from my experience, let's taken over Paris limited. Yeah,
I mean that.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
It's just it's it's not you know, it's one of
those things again, sort of like Washington, d C. Has
always been if you stay on the mall where the
monuments are and the Smithsonian is, you will be fine.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Wow, that's not true. I just murder those two Israelis.
They're pretty much on the mall. They're coming out of
the all acost of Museaum.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
You see that.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
That's what's just Yeah, I did see that right off
the mall. It is just off the ball. So yeah,
I mean there is that, but I mean generally speaking,
I mean the powers that be that run that city
know they have to keep that place safe. They're really screwed.
But you get into like sixty seventy you could easily
get killed. And you know, London and Paris kind of
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the same way, right, you stay around big band Harrod's parlor.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Parliament, all right, Parliament, Yeah, Herots has a great key,
the tea with the I haven't had it since I
was there last. But that clotted cream you ever have that?
Collect the clock?
Speaker 2 (31:22):
You know. The one place I had clotted cream, buddy,
was when we were flying back from where the hell
we were on British airways and they brought us some
clouded cream, which was very nice. It sounds disgusting, like
I don't think that you should use the adjective clotted
for anything because it just doesn't sound appetizing, but it
is very good.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
You put some jam on there with the clotted cream
on one of those crumpets or biscuits or whatever.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Skull can't tell the difference between a crumpet and a biscuit,
and a skull.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Crumpet has the holes in it. So it's like my
grandmother used to make this crumpet. You know, it's like
an English muffin, but you don't cut it in half,
and it has holes in it in the top, and
so when you put the butter, the butter absorbs it
like a sponge and then you take a bite out
of it, you just just drips right down your chin.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
All it's it's freaking fantastic.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
See that's why the British were at one point able
to control most of the globe. And then they stopped
making crumpets and they clotted their cream and now they're out.
But that's true of all these cities money, right, I mean,
you got this little section that again the powers that
we understand, this is why people come, and if people
are being willing nearly killed while here, they'll stop coming.
So we'll keep this part safe. The rest of it's
(32:32):
a shit show. So I don't I'm not a city's guy,
but how in the world. San Jose, California is fine,
But I mean it's in the top ten cities in
the world and Seattle is a dump dump dump dump
dump yep. So yeah, I mean I think there's some
there's some room to perhaps improve that survey.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
And we have a friend of ours, a good friend
who is in Tokyo currently. He's in Tokyo golf. Well,
he was going to but now the forecast is for
tsunami like rains all weekend, so there'll be no golf
this weekend. So I asked, what are you going to
do coming home early? And he said, no, I guess
I'll just sleep.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
So so he's just going to sleep in the driving
rain in Tokyo.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Well, not in the rain, probably in the hotel.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Well I get that, but I mean it's going to
be right, Well, hopefully he's in a good hotel. You
spend a whole weekend in a hotel in the rain,
you know. I hope it's you know, they left the
light on for him.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure they I'm pretty sure
they did. But any event, that's that's that.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
And then the flip side of that is, Brad, there
is now a real threat that at least three city
killing asteroids could strike Earth in a matter of weeks.
In a matter of weeks, these are asteroids that.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Have been hopefully Seattle, we'd lose a well, that's the
gem of all humanity, I guess.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
That's what that's what's interesting.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
The researchers from Brazil, France and Italy, also affiliated BRAD
with the Oxford World Economic City Study Forum, have found
that several asteroids in sync with the planet Venus' orbit
are extremely hard to spot because they're often hidden by
the Sun's glare. And they are three in particular. It
(34:24):
doesn't matter, they're all they're name numbers, and it's just
when I'm gonna do that, that's a waste of time.
They have orbits that take these asteroids dangerously close to Earth.
They don't follow stable paths because they're asteroids, and they're
between three hundred and thirty feet and thirteen hundred feet
and we may be able to We have a blind
(34:46):
spot apparently near the planet Venus, but folks at the
Reuben Observatory in Chile may be able to spot the
asteroids approaching, but it would be extremely short lasting, only
two to four weeks. And they said these are asteroids.
It would be if they hit Earth, it would be
(35:07):
make a crater two miles wide and released one million
times more energy than the nuclear bomb dropped down Hiroshima
back in nineteen forty five. So a big plot that
could come down all by Venus and creating this blind spot.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
You know what I mean, Venus has always sucked. I mean,
that's just the kind of thing Venus would do. If
you know Venus at all. It's it's continually creating blind spots,
spots and glare and hiding asteroids. It's just kind of
a crappy little planet. But yeah, buddy, I I in
the history, in the relatively you know, recent history of Earth. Earth,
(35:46):
It's my understanding is about four and a half billion
years old. That's a long time. Early in the Earth's development,
it was being continually peppered by you know, various and sundry,
you know, space based objects because you know, the whole
soul Is system was coming together. But since that has
sort of occurred, the Solar system has sort of settled
down into you know, near steady statement. Obviously, things are
(36:09):
happening all over the place, but they tend to happen,
you know, in kind of the same way. Earth has
not been peppered by asteroids. There are a lot of asteroids,
and Earth seems to be you know, well positioned to
avoid them. I mean, the last biggin was the one
that wiped out the dinosaurs, and that was like some
(36:29):
ninety seven million years ago or sixty million years. It
was a lot of years ago, right, So now, I
guess you could take the position that statistically every year
that goes by the odds of one of these sing
slamming into Earth increases, and that's probably yeah, but it's
it's not a common occurrence, buddy, And and you know,
(36:52):
I just I have a hard time getting wound up
about that when you know there's other things you can
probably wound up a little more likely to happen. So,
but not not. I'll tell you what it's not likely
to happen. Did you see this? I know I don't
normally do this to you, but did you see that
the North Koreans are trying to improve their navy, and
(37:14):
they built you know, this one just you know, sort
of destroyer class vessel. They were super duper proud of
going to be the pride of the Korean navy, and
it just flipped over on its side when they tried
to launch it.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
Now, but I mean, you have to crack a few
eggs to make an omelet.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
That's certainly true. And you know, I mean can Jong
un not afraid to crack an egg or to or
are human beings head? Because he certainly did that, because
he was physically present at the launch and you know,
along with all other high ranking you know, North Korean
types and you know, super proud of this thing. It's
just absolutely wrecked.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
It just trying to get it off the dock so
they can they salvage any of the thing for scrap
or well, I.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Mean he gave first of all, I had a number
of people arrested, which is you know, yeah, I mean exactly,
And then no one's surprised by that. They covered it
almost immediately with tarps because everybody with the satellite was
taking pictures of it and sort of chortling by themselves.
So they covered an immediately with tarps, and he gave
him like some incredibly short fuse to get that thing
(38:18):
like out to see like a week. Apparently they demolished it,
like they smashed the bow and then literally it was
lying on its side in the water. And he basically
told those people you got, you know, one week or
ten days or something like that to get this fricking
thing in the water, or I'm killing everybody. And uh so,
(38:39):
you know, we'll see, buddy, We'll see.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
Reagan did that with the Space Shuttle, didn't He probably
probably sounds like him. Well, I mean interesting, U interesting.
Let's see what else? What else?
Speaker 3 (38:52):
We got a big story out of Texas, the state
of Texas. You're familiar with the court system in Texas.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
I've certainly participated in the court system in Texas.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Yes, So I give you the case of Dimitri Rdell Wilson.
He filed a claim in Texas. Texas is two hundred
and sixty ninth judicial district in Harris County. Harris County, Texas.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Two hundred and sixty. That's a lot of judicial districts.
But Texas is a big place, all right. So he
filed a complaint.
Speaker 4 (39:23):
I guess he uh, he went to a what a
Burger and that was his first mistake. But yeah, he
went to a Whataburger, ordered a what a Burger?
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 4 (39:33):
What a burger?
Speaker 2 (39:33):
It does?
Speaker 4 (39:34):
Which is just not good. I mean, let's let's just
be honest.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
I mean, in terms of the hierarchy of fast food burgers,
the water Burger, fast food burgers suck.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:45):
I haven't had one.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
My whole life as far as I know.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
But yeah, you've had seen you.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
Had a couple of Okay, maybe I have.
Speaker 4 (39:54):
I don't know, I don't memorable.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
In any case, if I have had one, I don't
even remember. But but in any case, this gentleman decides
that what he's going to do with the time allotted
to him is fire up a water burger.
Speaker 4 (40:04):
So he does fires up a water burger.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
They put onions on it when he when he ordered
no onions, Oh bastards, and uh so he has filed
a million dollar complaint against water Burger. It's apparently allergic
to onions, although he had no reaction to this particular burger. Yeah,
the water burgers are kind of weird and they have
a lot of bread and they just I don't know.
Speaker 4 (40:26):
I can't eat any of that.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
Say, every time I eat that stuff, yeah, I get
dehydrated and I can't.
Speaker 4 (40:32):
I can't eat it anymore. I can't, I could do.
You know, we talk about this all the time. You
do the McDonald's breakfast.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
If you have to get a macmuffins, my grandfather called
it McMuffin, little macmuffin.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
That's it. There's nothing else, that's nothing. I don't want
to I don't want to completely agree. I mean, you know,
the five Guys is fine. You get yourself a five
guys burger, and.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
Yeah, that's not really fast food though, I mean they're
they're they're sort of Yeah, you're getting yourself. You know,
you're stepping in the right direction by going to a
five guys. Still to kill yourself if you eat that
on the regular, but you're moving in the right direction.
So anyway, this they have hot dogs too.
Speaker 4 (41:05):
I like hot dogs.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
The five guys?
Speaker 4 (41:07):
Does they grill the hot I like a grilled hot
dog once in a while, like fourth of July, I
will have a grilled hot dog.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
Well yeah, but you're grilling the hot dog yourself. That's
very different.
Speaker 4 (41:15):
Well what about but then yeah, five guys they do it?
Was it? Five guys are shaked. One of them does
a grilled hot dog. I don't know who.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
Okay, well, so what happened with the guy with the onions?
Did he win? Did you get a million bucks?
Speaker 4 (41:25):
Now we don't know. He just filed. The fact that
he filed alone is probably reason for this.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Unfortunately, that is all you need to know about the
state of American culture at this point is that you
got a burger instead of doing what you know you
and I would do, our parents would do, our grandparents
would certainly do, which is go back into the restaurant
and maybe with a touch of irritation, but you know,
with understanding the mistakes get made, beat the hell out
(41:50):
of the flip the lid off the burger, and point
to the onions and say, hey, you know, I'm sorry
by you know, I order this onions? Would you be
willing to remake it? The person behind the counter would say, oh,
my goodness, I you know, we're terribly sorry. This is
not We've we've failed to meet our own standards. Let
us not only we make you this burger, but can
we throw in a shake? And you know, everybody.
Speaker 3 (42:15):
For then finally Brad a direct uh uh descendant of
our whataburger story? Have you you remember Steven Segall Oh sure,
great actor Above the Law?
Speaker 4 (42:27):
Yeah? Marked for Death?
Speaker 2 (42:29):
Yeah, oh yeah, who.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
Was the guy was above the law of the one
where his friend went on that cocaine bender.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (42:35):
And then Richie We're Richie is I mean we're Richie
and he just starts beating people with the pool just.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
Start to school. That was a good movie. I mean,
it's was good in that movie. Now, last time I
saw him, we had like four hundred pounds.
Speaker 4 (42:48):
Well that's the story.
Speaker 3 (42:49):
He's up over four hundred pounds. He's in, but he's
he's apparently. Uh do you remember Marked for Death? You've
been mocked for death man? Yes, yes, screwface. And then
the whole twist was that there are two of them.
Speaker 4 (43:04):
Yes, he killed them both. He killed them both of
his hands.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
Yes, he just killed them.
Speaker 4 (43:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
Oh lord, those were great. Then there was the one
where he was like a cook on a ship and
he killed on a ship he had the train. Yeah,
and that gal pops out.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
Of the cake. Yeah, remember that, like apropos of nothing
and everyone on the ship's dead except for Steven. Sagall
and the bad guy and this chick running around in
a bikini because she popped out of a cake. He
was a runaway train.
Speaker 4 (43:33):
One runaway train.
Speaker 3 (43:34):
But the boat was great because the captain had The
captain had a relationship pre existing with Sigal, not not
not sexual, and he knew that Cigar was like the
baddest guy in the world, but he decided for some reason,
he made him a cook and so cigals in the
kitchen doing all the cooking, and they were like fifteen
or twenty just just deadpan jokes about Cigal's cooking during
(43:55):
the movie. And then the whole thing is about him
getting vengeance for the killing of this captain who you
know it was, Yeah, it was was doing his bells
ringing who was murdered by the by the uh, I
believe it was Gary Busey.
Speaker 4 (44:14):
Was Gary Busey the one He was the first mate,
but he was just blew the movie. But if you
haven't seen it now you don't deserve Yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
Well yeah, and you're probably not going to.
Speaker 3 (44:22):
But that shows that that there we started, and we're
finishing with the reasons why the eighties were the greatest time,
seventies and eighties, greatest time ever to grow up, right,
because you have the top five wrestlers of all time,
all of which all of which made their bones in
the eighties.
Speaker 4 (44:38):
And then you have some of these movies.
Speaker 3 (44:40):
You know, the greatest, one of the greatest films of
all time was the one with Richie. I don't know
if it was not marked for death, but the law
above the law, great movie. I encourage people to go
out and rent it by it, do whatever you have
to do. And then you have Barry Manilow and Rick
Derringer and that that's There's nothing more you can do.
Screw the guy with the thing, screwing.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
No, the heck with them. Eat your onions, shut up.
I mean, that's it. I can tell you right now
is my grandfather would have just looked at me and said,
eat the damn mungons. Eat the damn onions.
Speaker 5 (45:08):
Shut your mouth when I come back there, Yeah, I mean,
just eat your burger. You're not putting for it in there.
You're look, you got a whata burger exactly. And you
know what, you grew up that way. I grew up
that way.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
And now look we're raising our children. We run a
successful business. We're paying our taxes, we're contributing.
Speaker 4 (45:24):
We do a podcast running around and how many.
Speaker 2 (45:26):
People do a podcast? Whatever? But there can't be more
than what like six or seven podcasts in the whole world,
and we're.
Speaker 4 (45:31):
There are many, and how many people are best known
for their podcast?
Speaker 2 (45:34):
Well that's exactly right, and so I mean, but that's
that's that's we're putting a pin in it. We have,
we've we've done, we do a podcast, we're raising children,
and we ate the damn onions. And we'll be back
here next week to eat the onions again, right here
on IP frequently.
Speaker 1 (45:50):
This has been IP frequently, once again, clearing a forest
of lies with the machete of truth.
Speaker 2 (45:59):
You're well come
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