July 8, 2025 • 45 mins
Ep. 291 - Bezos Goes Baroque
Jeff Bezos drops a cool $50 million on a Venice wedding that makes Versailles look modest, complete with foam parties and enough plastic surgery to stock a Benihana. Meanwhile, Trump's first six months delivered Supreme Court wins, NATO compliance, and DeSantis building Alligator Alcatraz in the Everglades. Plus, Secretary Noem's radio PSA has a very different tone than the previous administration.
From Somali flags in Minneapolis to Von Bülow documentaries, this episode proves the 70s and 80s were the last time America made sense – when wrestling was real, neighbors weren't narcs, and nobody had to explain what a woman was.
Jeff Bezos drops a cool $50 million on a Venice wedding that makes Versailles look modest, complete with foam parties and enough plastic surgery to stock a Benihana. Meanwhile, Trump's first six months delivered Supreme Court wins, NATO compliance, and DeSantis building Alligator Alcatraz in the Everglades. Plus, Secretary Noem's radio PSA has a very different tone than the previous administration.
From Somali flags in Minneapolis to Von Bülow documentaries, this episode proves the 70s and 80s were the last time America made sense – when wrestling was real, neighbors weren't narcs, and nobody had to explain what a woman was.
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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
(00:26):
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 (00:57):
There it is bred the Free Bird, Free Bird Leonard
Skin one of the great rock bands of all time.
Of course, all died perished in a plane crash the seventies.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I think damn near. Not not all of them, but
damn near. Now the brother of the original singer is
currently fronting the band. Does a good job of you.
You've seen them, yeah, I saw him last year actually,
and I've seen them more than once, but I I
the most recent time. Krista and Cassidy and I went
(01:27):
to see Leonard Skannerd and zz Top in the same show,
which was really good.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
She's Got Legs That's a great song that I watched
that video more than once when I was young.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I imagine you did, you and every other dude of of
our era.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
So I mean it was a classic. It was a classic.
But the free Birds, I'm not gonna lie. The free
Birds are you know what? Top? These were?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
The Yardbirds?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
No, no, no, the Fabulous free Birds, Michael psa Is Terry
Bam Bam, Gordie and who by the way, r I
P Terry Gordy and then Buddy Roberts. Greatest six man
tag team of all time?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Would you say, Oh, that's hard to say. I didn't.
I'm going to admit something that that may cause me
to be scorned by both you and other listeners of
this program. I didn't know there was such a thing
as a six man tag team.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Oh please, that's that's not true.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
So you you have but only one guys in the
ring at a time, right, so you're just rotating out.
It's kind of like regular tag team. But there's three
of the three of you.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Yeah, six man tag three three and three ice.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I actually like that.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
The Fabulous free they were terrific. They were.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
They used to come down and you know there there
was some some dated parts of their act, right dated
parts of their act. So they'd come down with Confederate
They were there from they were from Atlanta, Georgia, and
they would wrestle the Texas and they were like a villain.
There were villains, and so they would come down with
like a Confederate flag thing, and they weren't really vilified
(03:01):
for the Confederate flag paraphernalia. They were more vilified for
the fact that they used to beat up the Texas
wrestlers all the time. And then they would one of
them would dress like Santa Claus and pretend to congratulate
the father of one of them and then clothes line them.
And it was good times. Man, it was good to listen.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I will tell people till I'm blue in the face
that the years we grew up, you just you're not
going to get him back. You can never get the
seventies and eighties back the greatest.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
You'd say whatever you want about the Bezos, wedding or
any of this stuff. But I would sit there at
my grandmother's house on a Saturday night after church, and
she'd take a loaf of Italian bread, two pounds of bacon,
fry up. The bacon put about six or seven eggs
in their over medium, cut them up and give me
and my grandfather a slab of that. Then we watched
two hours of wrestling on TBS. I mean that is
(03:56):
that is great. That is great, great times. And there's
no foi gua or anything caviar related that's better than that,
And that's probably cost her two bucks to put out.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
I could not agree more. That's America, buddy. That's what
we're trying to get back to. Is when a young
lad could sit with his own grandfather, there's no debate
as to whether or not one of them is a girl,
one of them is a boy. No one discusss pronouns.
You just put on wrestling, You eat bacon and eggs
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and bread.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Italian.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Your own grandmother, who never once in her life thought
whether or not boy. I wonder if I'm a girl,
I wonder what was none of that he provides for
you while her husband and her grandson, whom she dearly loves,
enjoys and wrestling. That's what we're trying to do. We
did it in the eighties and we're trying to.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Do it nothing like it now. I mean, you would
have you know, you'd sit there and you'd watch the
nature boy Rick Flair, probably the greatest athlete of all time,
witching him well though he's apparently under the knife again
for something. Uh. And then you'd have like the the
Anderson's and you never knew whether theyre were brothers or
uncle and cousin or what cousins.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
You never knew, you never knew what. It didn't matter.
It was only an orn.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Oh yeah, that's different.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
You knew that. You know, those were the toughest guys
you're ever going to see on TBS on Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I could tell you that, my friend, I can tell
you that anyway. So lots going on in the world today,
but I did want to start with.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Did you say Jeff Bezos got married?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Yeah, we're going to talk about that.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
And you get married to that floozy he runs around.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
With, Yeah, yeah, she worked coursing. It was disgusting.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I mean, you know, I was reading the New I
read the New York Times now because it's all that
I can get delivered to the house. The local paper
is like a pamphlet now, right, you get it half
the time, half the time you don't get it.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
And so I started reading this screen.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I like, I like reading a newspaper and Sunday New
York Times is fine.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
I like it, so I get that.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
And then the Sunday New York Times this week had
it had an opbed about how disgusting that that wedding was,
like they spent fifty million dollars. Let me see, they
got fifty million dollars on a wedding.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Just on the wedding.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Yeah, and they didn't even.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Know it was even possible. Like if you just handed
out ten thousand envelopes containing ten thousand dollars to everyone
who came to the wedding, you wouldn't get close to
fifty million bucks.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Well, they I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
They pulled their their yacht into they they got married
in Venice, but they didn't fly everyone to Venice, and
it was hundreds of people, and they rented out all
these hotels.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
For the whole production.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
And she just is I mean, I'm sorry, but listen,
if I had Bezos is like the third richest guy
in the world, the last thing I would do, the
last thing I would do is flaunt it.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
You know, they had a he has this yacht.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Worth hundreds of millions of dollars where they had a
foam party and you've got this guy who's like sixty
or whatever. He is sixty, right, sixteen seventy, and he's like, yeah, what's.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Going to be sixty? I mean, you and I are
in our fifties old than we are.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
He's he's all definitely older than us.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
But they do a foam party, and so they're covering
in from and she's running around. She's had more plastic
surgery than Ja Jagabor.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
That's a daily reference. But I don't care.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
You've seen more knives than the Benahanna Benahannah.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's just disgusting. And look, I am
I'm all for true love. You know that I believe,
but that's not what we're talking about.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
I do.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
I know, I know that you do what I do,
and that is not what you and I are currently
talking about right here.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
And then it's like all these celebrities are going to
this thing and it's they're all flying in on private
jets and they're all lecturing us.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
About about carbon carbon footprint.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Leo DiCaprio is, it's just unfreaking believable. And they do
and you're not telling me they know these people people
have never even heard of Tom Brady was there at
Oprah and the woman for the Morning Show, and then
all these actresses, and it's just like it seems like
they wanted to have this wedding that was just you know,
(08:15):
all these influencers and the TikTok and the people from
the Only Family. They invited hundreds of people to this thing,
and they all showed up. First of all, if I
you know, I'm not going.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
If I'm invited, I'm not going.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
But can you imagine it's just a feeding frenzy of egos.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
And then there were all these.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Protesters who were just discussed by the whole thing, which
is great. I am all four protesting this nonsense, but
it just it just in Venice and they and they're
buying out these hotels and they're buying out all the
iconic restaurants so that tourists can't go into them.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
I mean, just.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Absolutely vile, just just just consumption, the legs of which
this earth hasn't seen since Louis the sixteenth was running
around Versailles until he get his head cut off.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Oh and I mean, but I don't even know what
to say. I don't know the White Ray to phrase it.
But Jeff Bezos has absolutely just debased himself right like
he's just made an absolute of himself.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Yeah, there is no.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
One, including all the people who came to that wedding,
who are not laughing at him right at the at
the pretension, at his apparent unawareness of how stupid he
looks leaving his wife, who again, I don't know his
former wife at all. Maybe she's a horrific person, but regardless,
she is the one that was, you know, stuck with
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him when he was trying to start Amazon and didn't
have two nickels rubbed together all of that stuff, and he,
you know, cannot get rid of her fast enough once
he becomes wealthy and then starts running around.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Well wait, wait a minute, I think the time I
think we have to do something here, Brett.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
You know, we are.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
One of the things we do is we track how
our little skits do. And one of the great things
we do is before and after remember that camp.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Oh yeah for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
So let me ask you this. So, this woman's name
is Lauren Sanchez Bezos. Jeff Bezos began his romantic relationship
with Lauren Sanchez before or after he divorced his wife
of twenty some odd years.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Well, I'm going to say before no, there you go. Yeah, yeah,
I mean I don't know that for a fact, but
I think I think that's a fact. Okay. And and
she's a sex bot. I mean that's wow.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
No, his wife is not a no.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
No, no, no, not the wife.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Well the new wife, I guess, Well, the new wife
looks more like I don't know what sex putt even
what does that mean?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Not sex pot, sex bot?
Speaker 4 (10:54):
And what I sex bought?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Sex bought I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Because Raquel Welch was a sex pot. That's what they
used to call. That's this ain't this ain't Raquel?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Well, it's this is no, no, this is a woman
who has customized herself to be sexually appealing to a
certain type of grossly overpaid, lack of self respect having
middle aged dufis.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
And you know she.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Got what she came for. I mean, one thing you
can tip the cap, do what your say, name was
Lauren Sanchez. One thing you can tip the cap to
miss Sanchez Bezos. Now I presume is that she got
exactly what she was trying to get, and that is
married to just an insanely wealthy dufus who will clearly
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do anything she asked them to do and has the
resources to do so. If that's your life objective, then
she has knocked it out of the park. She's like
a bray. She hit a grand slam and an inside
the park home run in the.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Same same swing.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Doesn't doesn't really happen very often.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
But listen, we talked about last week this Trump stuff
going on, right, so just to to go through the
roll call, right, he in the past week or so,
he won those Supreme Court decisions.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
He's got the stock.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Market at an all time high. I don't know what
it did today, but at all time high.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
He's got.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
He's got peace in the war between Congo and Rwanda.
He stepped in and broke at that piece. There's a
sixty day ceasefire with Hamas and Israel going on the
southern border again completely quiet, they're zero crossings. He's got
Rod de Desanta's building Alcatraz in the Everglades.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
I don't know if you saw that.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
They built this big high security detention facility for illegal
crossers of the border. It's called the Alcatraz for alligator.
And so Trump and De Santa's with air and it
seems like they're they're getting along well now. And then
you know, Trump was explaining how if you're going to
try to escape, you have to run the zigzag to
(13:08):
get away from the alligators. But even then you have
a one percent, one percent chance. So he's done that.
He's reforming the the the Department of Health and all
that stuff. He's getting the JFK documents out. He's about
to pass this budget bill that's going to make permanent
his tax cuts and give uh no tax on tips
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and no tax on over time and no tax on
interest paid for car loans. I mean, he in six months.
I and also I didn't even mention NATO. He got
all the NATO members except for Spain to kick in,
you know, five percent towards towards the Common Defense. When
it was a couple of years ago people we laughing
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about whether or not you get him to two percent.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
He's done all this in six months.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I mean, it's pretty freaking remarkable what he's uh, what
he's accomplished. Pretty impressed if you ask me, Oh.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Yeah, for sure. In fact, so as you mentioned, I
and my lovely bride are down here in Dallas in
the it's warm. It's warm, buddy, it's comfortable.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
And would you mind telling the audience where you're staying.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
I don't know the name of the hotel. It's the
hotel associated with Crescent Court.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Oh, so you're staying at the Crescent Court.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Yes, if they call that hotel the Crescent room number, well,
but yeah, it's well this trip, the room number is
four forty seven. And if you happen to be a
Crescent Hotel engineer and you hear this, check the door
on room four forty seven. It's very hard to close
and open. So that's just in the side. But in
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any case, but kicked in a couple of times maybe maybe,
but it is exceptionally hard to open and close unnecessarily so,
but in any case, that's where we're staying, and we're
down here, and so on the way in from the airport,
krist and I were in and Uber and there was
a radio commercial being played on broadcast radio for who's
(15:11):
the gal who's the Secretary of Homeland Security? Christine nom Christine, No,
thank you. That is exactly who it was who came on.
This is the radio. It's on broadcast FM radio. The
Uber drivers listening to the FM radio and this comes
on during a commercial break and it's the voice of
Christine Nomes. She doesn't identify herself until the end, but
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she says, hey, you know what I guess you must
have she must just said Secretary Nome of the Department
of Homeland Security and basically says, hey, if you are
an illegal alien, leave because if we find you, we
are going to deport you and you will not be
allowed back in the country ever. If you leave of
(15:55):
your own accord, and you reapply and come through the
legal process, then you know, we'll be happy to have you.
But if you get and you know, they're not out hunting.
But she said, if you get wrong up, you know,
if you commit a crime and you are apprehended in
the course of that crime and it has determined that
you are in the country illegally and we deport you,
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which we will, you will never be allowed back yet ever.
And that Chris and I lift to that. We're like, wow,
that's a little different. It's a little different than the
previous administration. Little then yeah, and then she just goes
and again, you know, this is Secretary of Christine Noan
or the of the Department of All Lamb Security, and
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you've been told.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
So have you seen the video speaking of that, have
you seen the video of the Minneapolis Somalia rally. This
is the mayor of Minneapolis. This this is the guy
who took a knee.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
The Floyd George Lloyd George stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
And he is a rally where he spoke.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
I guess it's Somali. Is that is that right? Is
it Somali?
Speaker 3 (17:04):
No? No, it's.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Oh shoot Thisali, it says Somali.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Yeah, No, it's they speak. Uh damn it, it's you
would you would know it right away if I said it.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
But anyway, but he's up there speaking whatever it is
they speak to this this crowd of people, and it's
just hello, Minneapolis. It's like Minneapolis used to be a
great American said what what the hell? He's waving a
Somali flag? I mean, are you freaking kidding me? But
that this is the good news is Trump is slowly
putting an end to craziness. And and look also the
(17:42):
tariff thing, right, the tariff thing. Now we've got to
deal with with Great Britain where we've got we've got
the deal, I guess, pending with Canada where they've they've
made some changes, and that looks like that's gonna go through.
And we're raising tens of billions of dollars in uh
new revenue, and it looks from all reports like a lot,
like some manufacturing is coming home. I don't know how much,
(18:05):
but some I don't know what industries, but some. And
that's something, right, that's something. It seems like things. I
don't dare say it because people will label you, but
it seems like things are going pretty well. And you know,
once we get around this big budget bill and sort
(18:28):
of move on to the next thing, we'll see where
he goes from there. But compared to the first term,
compared to any first term I can remember in quite
some time, this first six months has been I mean
it's only been five months, it's been a wild success.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Dare I say, well, yeah, I mean from the perspective
of being the chief executive of the last superpower remaining,
I would agree with you. And before we move on,
I'm going to stand correct. And I looked it up.
I was thinking of Swahili, which is what our interpreter
spoke to the Somali people when I was working there.
But I guess the official mother tongue of Somalia is
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a language called Somali.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Oh, so I was right.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
You were correct and I was incorrect. But they must
there must be some significant percentage and speaks Swadiili because
that is what our interpreter was speaking. But in any case,
that's what I was thinking of Swahili and I that's
the word I couldn't come up with. So but in
any case, yes, very successful for six months. From purely
(19:35):
the perspective of being the chief executive. I mean, you
can say with you will about Trump's personality and his
annoying tendency to allow himself to be dragged into, you know,
social media based pissing contests, which is just stupid if
you're in the president of United State, it's just stupid.
Just stop it. And he certainly does that, and he
(19:55):
certainly tends to have a seventh grade, you know, personality
with respect to you know, if he feels like someone
has said something mean about him, he's going to say
something mean back, and he should just stop that too.
But when he's able to avoid being in social media
pissing contest, he does seem to be doing a good
job of being the president of the United States.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Yeah, it makes you wonder if he's going to leave, buddy.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
You do that on purpose, You say that just to
get people wound up. You say it because you know
there will be people who just literally start to shake,
like physically quiver when you say when you just allude
to the fact that Donald Trump may not leave. And
what's interesting about that is that those people who begin
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to quiver at the thought do so because they think
there is a possibility that that could happen. Like they're
honestly concerned that Trump just takes over. And in order
for that to app a significant percentage of the population,
perhaps even the majority of the United States of America,
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would have to accede to that.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
And if they did, they did, and we just let
it go. They did.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
But if you think that, I mean, it is just
it is. I was having this conversation with somebody else
earlier this week, If you know, I just find it
remarkable the number of times that people will raise the
specter of some horrible thing going on. But notice when
they do it, it's never where you are right, Like
(21:37):
they'll say, I was.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
Just going into school and dragging out you know, five
year olds and deporting them, asking people and go where
they're like huh where, Like, not in the schools in
our neighborhoods, they're not. Are you aware of any schools in.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
This neighborhood, school district, or state where this has happened. Well, no,
it's happening somewhere, okay where it's all of these things.
They never happen where you are, right, there's all They're
always happening some other place. So either is never the
(22:17):
luckiest person in the world, or they're not happening right.
Either you just happened to live in the one town
where all of the fascist things that Trump is, you know,
fomenting on us. Either you happen to live in the
one town where he's not doing that, or it's nonsense.
And the answer is it's nonsense, So just relax.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
It's made up. It's made up.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I was talking to a mutual friend of ours about
the atrocities in Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Recently and where.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Criminals are being rounded up in criminal justice system.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Yeah, and he told me that he thinks that California
should just secede from the Union.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
I completely agree.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
I tell you what I had to I had, you know,
I I then I went into you know, because because
we listen you've heard this for years now, Brad.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
And you know.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Everyone who secedes from the Union is just to trade it,
like General Lee. And then you start calling him generally
because he was saying, well, you know, we have a
good economy here, and I said, just like they did
down there in Richmond in the Old South, General Lee.
And you just do that over and over, and then Jeff, oh,
Jeff Davis was a good, good President of the Confederacy,
didn't serve his full six year term, but maybe he
(23:36):
could be.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
President of California. And uh, and then you just go on.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Then you start talking about people sitting on the on
the on the porches eating the peanuts down there and
Richmonds just waiting for the old stars and boss to
be risen over the White House, and uh, you say
that a few times and then the conversation's over.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
It ends. Yeah, it just naturally goes away.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Yeah, and he has yeah, he has no he's no response.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
God bless them, God bless them anyway.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
So one other thing I did want to talk about quickly,
as you know, I told you this story. I go
to the mailbox the other day, right, because that's where
we get our mail.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Oh, yes, yeah, we don't have you know, we're not We're.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Not like we're just not The mail is not brought
to us, but we're not a von Bulah, if you
know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
And so they opened this, I get this, this weird.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
I have it here. It's a weird yellow envelope with
our family name on them on it. And then there's
a let.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Me ask you this mony let me as a former
federal religion. Was there a stamp on that? Was it
actually put in the US?
Speaker 4 (24:40):
There is no stamp on that.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Oh see that's a violation. You're not allowed to just
put things in people's mailboxes. That is a federal offense.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Okay, well that's good.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
To what the mailbox is exclusively for the.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Mail this we have a problem, then that's okay.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
And then I get this to get this threatening letter right,
And I didn't have any who was from until I
read the letter, but it basically said, yeah, because fourth.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
Of July, we have like a little thing where we
you know, we have four kids.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
They like to set off fire we'd like to have
someone set off firecrackers. So we'll safely do that and
do it.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Of course it's not like you're out there just Willy
Nelly blowing ship up, blew off his thumb, Peter Peter Paul, Jason,
Peter Paul, that's it.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Yes, you're thinking of Peter Paul and Mary. That's something different,
that's different.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
That's but so we always didn't blow themselves up.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
We have this little show and the kids in the
neighborhood love it. But so I opened this up and
I realize the deer print is not sure if you
planned a fireworks displayed some little last year, but wanted
to picture you read this. The wolves and the Wolves
are our neighbors.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
And very pleasant people, great people.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
The way we get introduce, Yeah, they moved. They moved
here a couple of years ago, next to us. And
then during COVID, one of our sons is on the
spectrum and uh, you know, COVID was very tough on him,
and uh, tough, tough on all kids, tough on all.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Someone should have just throbb. You know.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
That's amazing that Fauci got a pardon, by the way,
just a preemptive pardon for anything he did, for the
good bullshit. But in any event, are so we're trying
to have this. It's December, our since birthdays in December
and we're trying to have this outdoor, stupid.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Rule based party for him.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Outside everyone's freezing, and we invite like four kids over
because he hadn't seen kids that weren't his siblings in
a year, and so we invite them over. We all
are outside, we're standing outside, we're doing the cake outside,
we're freezing, and they call the police on this party.
These these these.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
These people, people, these people, you.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Know, they literally they had a they had a ladder,
they were looking over the fence and they called the
police on our sons fifth birthday.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Party or fourth birthday party with.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
A bunch of kids, and it's just just you start
to feel, you know, I think I think you know
this more than I do, but I think the Lord
would probably be sorry. I feel sorry for people like that.
But anyway, in any event, that's the context of this.
And they attached this threatening letter to a piece of
newspaper from the Requikly Thing, where they then pointed to
(27:24):
this article they wrote.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Letter to the editor. They wrote this letter to the.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Editor, it's signed by them, and about how you shouldn't
set fireworks off at at birds, which we don't do,
and you know the birds loved the show last year.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
They loved it.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
I specifically remember them commenting on it. So so let
me get this straight. They wrote a letter to the
editor which is subsequently published in your local I'm sure
that we're not talking about, you know, the Boston Globe here, so.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
We're talking about the very new Times.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Okay. So they write a letter of the they was
substutely published in the Barrington Times, which they then get
a copy of hut out, circle cut out, draw your
attention to and and self referentially say did you see
this article in the newspaper, as though they just happened
to see it and wanted to make you aware of it.
(28:18):
But it's a letter that they wrote. A lot has yes,
so it has no like I when you first showed
me that, I thought that some you know, someone who
who spoke with some degree of authority, an ornithologist or
a nature person for the state of Rhode Island, or
someone was saying, hey, be careful because sometimes birds don't
like fireworks. But no, this is written by your neighbors,
(28:41):
who you know, to the to the best of our knowledge,
are educated and actually nothing And you know the Barrington Times,
God bless them. They got to pay the bill somehow,
they publish that letter to the editor and then these
people send it to you saying did you see this correct?
Speaker 4 (28:56):
And they have it literally has a little a little sign.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
They put it away. It's it's just like read this
in an arrow pointed at it. Because again, I have
not talked to them since they call the police on
my son on the Spectrum's fourth birthday part I have
that time, I have not had occasion to talk to
to them. But in any event, that's uh, that was
obviously it is it is. You're right, it is a
(29:21):
violation of federal law to to do that.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
And the threats are just unbelievable, unbelievable. It's really hard to believe.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
In fact, yeah, no, it is hard to believe. It's
it's again you said it yourself. You cannot make your
life up, and that is true. I can tell you
that I am. I am older than you are.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Oh yeah, that's saying.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
I have never had anyone put a threat in my mailbox.
And I am someone who has done jobs that irritate people. Right,
people don't like it when they're committing crimes and you
slap the irons on them and they do time.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
They don't like that you're the CEO of p X.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
I am was that the CEO. I was the CEO
of No No, I was the president of Firepod. Yeah,
it was the president of the fire Pond. That's true. So,
I mean, there are things that I have done in
my life. There are people could say, you know, I
don't like that guy, and I'm going to put a
threat in his mailbox. But that has never happened to me.
And it happens to me, you can no longer say that.
(30:20):
And and someone went through the whole process of getting
a letter to the editor published just to make a
threat against you, I know. So that's says So. So
those folks obviously have a lot going on. The the
wolves are very busy people, clearly. Yeah, I don't know
how they fit in time for this.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
I know they're obviously got a lot a lot of
time on their freaking hands. But in any event, we
will will move on. We will, we will move on
and have a happy and healthy fourth Let's see what
else is going on in the world. Bill Moyers died,
duds That who's Bill Moyers?
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Yeah, are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (31:03):
You?
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Remember Bill Moyers? The newsman from the UH.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
He was Johnson's press secretary. He quit in sixty six
and he went to CBS and PBS. He used to
do all those Bill Moyer's specials on PBS the eighties.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Seventies, eighties, okay. Or the sweaters, Yeah, yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
The sweaters that did it for me. Yes, I can
picture him in my mind now. Well, he must have
been old, dude. He was old in eighty something. He
was like ninety something.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
He's one of the guys that was orchestrated the whole
Kennedy assassination.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
You're John Young.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
I did I have his book. I've begun to read it.
You'll be glad to know that I have begun to
read it.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
I'm doing a deep dive on the von Buloh case. Why.
I just find it interesting, you know. You know what's
interesting about it? I am so I uh.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
I read Dershowitz's book, and then I'm now I'm reading
this other the von Buelau Affair or something like that,
and it's another another book about the try. And then
I'm like talking to my wife about it last night.
And you know, YouTube is the greatest thing. You put
it on the Apple TV. You have the Apple TV.
I do, hey, you put it up there. You a
YouTube and you just so I googled Von Buloh documentary
(32:14):
and this and that, and so there's this. There is
this roundtable interview with a guy, Jim tarak Khani, who
used to be a local uh TV guy anchored and
I think that at the NBC ten affiliate here in Providence,
and uh, this is like the day he was aquitted
in the second trial. You know, he was tried, convicted
(32:37):
and then Dershowitz got him off because of that search
and seizure thing with a black bag with the insulin,
gets retried, gets acquitted, and so this is like the
day he was acquitted. And there they do this interview
with von but there's something that never happened today, Von
Bueloh and then the three of his lawyers and the
Jim tera Kani and so Jim tarak Khani is interviewing
him and Babula is just sitting there chain smoking cigarettes.
(32:59):
And it's like not what you'd expect because because it's
Kara Cone's interviewing them, but it's like, you know, how
do you feel now that you've been vindicated? And this
is just you know, just a now what are you
gonna do now? And Bmbula is like, well, I think
I I think I'll have a vacation and then we'll
see where we go from. Meanwhile, the wife is still
in the in the hospital. You know, clearly he was
(33:20):
ejecting with freaking insulin and but it was just like
hen and then he's you know, Kara Kanie is just
yucking it up with him.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
But it was just classic eighties.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
It was like something you would never ever see if
you ever, if that interview ever took place today, that
that guy would be fired before he even went off
the air.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
And oh yeah, oh for sure.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
The eighties it was fantastic. I'm not saying it was fair,
great TV. Great.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Mambula is just chained smoking and uh, you know at
the end he said what's next for Klass Bambula And
he said, well, now that I've quit smoking, And then
they all went, it's just and that that that TV,
that that second trial was on TV.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
They it's all on TV. There's video of all of it.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Yeah, it's fantastic. You can't but that's it. I mean
back to the original point of you know, stuff happened
in the eighties that you're just not going to get anymore.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
No, and you just felt so reaking was Well, now
you know, I'm telling you, I'm not hating it. I'm
not hating it. I'm liking what's going on the economies.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
I'm just I'm not hating economies amazing at this point,
speaking of witch, speaking of which, so listen to this.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
This is you know, you can't even you can't even
make this stuff up. So you know Trumps he's going
after the universities, right, basically cutting off all federal funding
to Harford. So he threatens you Pen with the cutting
off of federal funding. So he ends and ends up
(34:49):
in a in a stipulated settlement with u PEN. And
I remember Leah Thomas, the gentleman that won all the
woman's there was a year ago, wasn't that last here
we were talking about that, and we went on a
one about the guys dudes. So Trump enters into a
settlement with UPEN, and as part of that, Upen has
to issue apologies to the real women who lost to Thomas.
(35:10):
The college is required to restore all their Division one
swimming records and titles and wipe clean the air quote
records that Thomas supposedly established and they're going to update
the UH entire protocol and not allow biological men to
compete in women's sports. It's just hello, they were there.
(35:32):
They're like, you know, it's like toppling an old General
Lee's statue out in front of the old Confederate Cote
House and appomatics.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
You know, they're taking out the records are gone.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Well, I mean that still to the state, that's one
of the more remarkable things I've ever witnessed.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
Okay, set aside, she was a good swimmer, and that
was that was a great.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
I mean, set aside that the whole gender debate, right,
It's just set it aside. Okay, when your winner gets
out of the pool with a very evident penus duffed
into their bulge one piece designed for a woman swimsuit
and says, I want okay, I don't want to talk
about whether or not he honestly thinks he's a girl.
(36:17):
I don't care what he honestly thinks, or I don't
care about his pronouns. If he wants to be called
Cindy lu who, fine, But you cannot take the position
that that was a fair competition. That's the part that
gets me. I don't even want to have the discussion
about how you should treat someone who wants to, you know,
(36:37):
make themselves a member of the other gender. Fine, I mean,
I'm willing to accept that we can do that. If
you're a dude with a big old package and you
want someone to call you Susie. Fine, I mean, you
get one life to live. You can live it that
way if you want. But to take the position that
that does not matter in an athletic competition, especially one
(36:59):
like swimming, is not and for an outfit like you
pen to just swrug and go, well, we don't see.
It's just the amount of self delusion necessary to take
the position that the person with the penis wearing the
(37:22):
one piece swimsuit is the same as the person's without
penises in the one piece swimsuit is absurd, absurd, there's
no defense for that. Again, if you want to go
along with their choice or whatever you want to call it,
to be to be treated as though they are a woman,
(37:45):
I think they're fine. You can do that if you want,
But you cannot take the position that it doesn't matter
in an athletic competition and that somehow that is fair.
And even if you say, well, I'm not really taking
that position that it's fair. I realize it's a fair
I realize they have a gross advantage by being born
a male. But you know, we want to take care
(38:07):
of people. We sort of we're a democracy, right, so
we vote on things, and if you happen to be
in the minority, well then I'm sorry you don't get
your way. And yet when it came to this, we
let one person who said, no, I'm a girl and
I want to swim like I'm a girl against against girls,
(38:29):
even though I'm a boy. We let that one person
wreck it for everybody. Since when was that the American
way that you you wreck something for everybody because of
one person.
Speaker 4 (38:42):
No, I agree with that. I'm just saying, technically, she he.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
Was.
Speaker 4 (38:49):
Technically the swim portion was really good, Like the strokes
are really good. But it doesn't matter to you because
the records are gone.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Brad whispers in the way, peeing in the like you
never peed marketson. Yeah there's markets that's that's wipe from
the record books, just like Oh, generally, I'm telling you
that was Let me tell you something. If you ever
get that again from our mutual friend, and you do that.
He hung up with me after I did that for
about fifteen minutes. He it took fifteen, but it was
(39:18):
like I was laughing at the end, and my wife
was listening to it. She was she was amused, and
just just you're going to secede from the union just
like we did and betrayed as just like us.
Speaker 4 (39:29):
Boy, is that what you're going to do?
Speaker 2 (39:32):
And he couldn't take it. You can just hung up,
just hung up the phone. I'll talk to you later.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
Oh lord, Well, listen there.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
It is hard. It's got to be hard to be
our mutual friend, don't you think, I mean?
Speaker 4 (39:45):
I I yeah, It's just.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
He chooses and he's a smart guy, and he used
to be a regular guy. When you and I first
met him, he was a regular guy. And so I'm
not exactly sure what happened.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
Oh come on, but he still he.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Chooses the most most absurd positions to take on issues,
and he does it to himself.
Speaker 4 (40:05):
Listen to this. He was, you know, he's a member
at a very prestigious club in his area is Neck
of the Woods.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
And the Club of Oiled Slap and Tickle. I believe
I'm not.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
A golf this is a different one. Oh no, No,
that's right, You're right, because they have the this is that.
But then he wanted to join another club because he's
really straight, he's he's sharing the common man struggles. So
he joins this other club closer to where he works. Like,
so he joins this other club, and I'm in the
middle of doing this soliloquy.
Speaker 4 (40:35):
And he's like, just be quiet for a minute.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
I'm pulling up to the front and he's like, Hi,
my name is So and So I'm a new member here.
And I said, did you tell him you're seceding from
the union?
Speaker 3 (40:46):
Sir?
Speaker 2 (40:47):
Did you tell him that you'll be leave in this
union of ours to form a better one with old General.
Speaker 4 (40:52):
Lee and Jeff Davis, Senator Davids from Mississippi? Do you
tell him that? Boy?
Speaker 2 (40:58):
And of course I was quickly cut off at that point,
not even not even goodbye. It was just I was
just to hang up, just to hang up. At that point,
I'm trying to talk to the man at the front.
He's like, can I just get in and going going?
This is Jeff Davis's friend here, He's he's trying to
secede from the Union on no constitutional authority to do it.
Speaker 4 (41:20):
You can't make it up.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
And I, of course was just kidding, but although I'm
really not because there is a Supreme Court president that
said seceding for the Union is unconstitutional.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
But you know you don't carry about that. I mean, no, Well,
if you're going to secede from the Union, what do
you care about the Council? You don't even want The Constitution.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
Didn't matter, didn't matter to Albert Sidney Johnson, didn't matter
to General Lee anyway.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
That's that's point graduate generally.
Speaker 4 (41:49):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
The Battlecry of Freedom is a great, great book, great
treatment of ly Well again, you know again you can
say I I I recently he listened to an interview
of ken Burns, who I really like, and uh, you
know he did the Civil War, that Civil War documentary fantastic.
Speaker 3 (42:12):
Yeah, oh you're right about that. It was very good, and.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
He was he was talking about some of the the
context within which we view things.
Speaker 4 (42:20):
And I don't want to create a big I don't
want to get in a big argument about.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
Anything, but the context is important in how we view things.
Like you know, of course, modern context slavery is abhorrent
and and.
Speaker 4 (42:33):
You know, just terrible.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
But you also have to look at the full you know,
the other things that people did, like the funding Fathers
and why Jefferson owned slaves, why he didn't free slaves.
Speaker 4 (42:45):
At his death. I I don't know.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
I mean, he struggled with it, but you know, he
wasn't strong enough to do it in the context of
his times.
Speaker 4 (42:51):
But that doesn't take away from the other things. I mean,
Robert E. Lee was a great soldier, I mean he was.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
Lincoln tried to give him the keys to the Union
Army before where he ended up with that dwarf McClellan.
Speaker 4 (43:04):
And Lee wouldn't take it.
Speaker 2 (43:05):
Lee struggled with it, went home, thought about it, ended up.
Speaker 4 (43:09):
Not taking it. But and Grant was a drunk brad.
Speaker 3 (43:15):
Well I think, Well, I was going to say that
without question, Lee was the best general of his time
at maybe a stretch. There were some good generals on
both sides. I mean, Stonewall Jackson was a hell of
a general.
Speaker 4 (43:30):
Winfield Scott was a good general, sir.
Speaker 3 (43:32):
Yeah, I mean there were some. There were some excellent
military minds. Unfortunately, well, I mean it's unfortunate they had
excellent minds. But I mean shooting each other. Obviously more people,
more Americans were killed in the Civil War, because everybody
killed in the Civil War was an American than in
any other conflict. But I mean, and it was just
god awful, the whole thing. But that doesn't make you,
(43:56):
I mean, it doesn't make you a shooty general.
Speaker 4 (43:58):
So yeah, just like you know, you still you study
history and you.
Speaker 2 (44:04):
Learn from it and you don't you don't repeat the
horrible things. But at the same time, our history is
and and and look, maybe we're maybe we're coming full
circle on this, and maybe those Leah Thomas records should
be should be kept.
Speaker 3 (44:18):
The guy around, Yeah, I don't think it's the same thing.
Speaker 4 (44:21):
It's different, different, Well there is.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
I I don't know if there's much more we can
do here generally, so maybe we should just maybe we
should move on to private was.
Speaker 3 (44:30):
Proud of the fact that he had a noticeable bulge
in his swimsuit yeah when he got into it, whereas
Leah Amis was trying to, you know, do the talk
under and that's it. But we've done, We've done all
we can do. We've solved the UPenn swimming problem. I
corrected my mistake with regard to the national language of
small which is of course, which is Somali and not sweel.
(44:52):
And so it is what it is, and uh, what
else can you do? I mean, but on a podcast,
those are the had things to do. And you know what,
we'll do it again next week right here on IP frequently.
Speaker 1 (45:05):
This has been IP frequently, once again, clearing a forest
of lies with the machete of truth. You're welcome.
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Speaker 3 (02:07):
Would you say, Oh, that's hard to say. I didn't.
I'm going to admit something that that may cause me
to be scorned by both you and other listeners of
this program. I didn't know there was such a thing
as a six man tag team.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Oh please, that's that's not true.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
So you you have but only one guys in the
ring at a time, right, so you're just rotating out.
It's kind of like regular tag team. But there's three
of the three of you.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Yeah, six man tag three three and three ice.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I actually like that.
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The Fabulous free they were terrific. They were.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
They used to come down and you know there there
was some some dated parts of their act, right dated
parts of their act. So they'd come down with Confederate
They were there from they were from Atlanta, Georgia, and
they would wrestle the Texas and they were like a villain.
There were villains, and so they would come down with
like a Confederate flag thing, and they weren't really vilified
(03:01):
for the Confederate flag paraphernalia. They were more vilified for
the fact that they used to beat up the Texas
wrestlers all the time. And then they would one of
them would dress like Santa Claus and pretend to congratulate
the father of one of them and then clothes line them.
And it was good times. Man, it was good to listen.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I will tell people till I'm blue in the face
that the years we grew up, you just you're not
going to get him back. You can never get the
seventies and eighties back the greatest.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
You'd say whatever you want about the Bezos, wedding or
any of this stuff. But I would sit there at
my grandmother's house on a Saturday night after church, and
she'd take a loaf of Italian bread, two pounds of bacon,
fry up. The bacon put about six or seven eggs
in their over medium, cut them up and give me
and my grandfather a slab of that. Then we watched
two hours of wrestling on TBS. I mean that is
(03:56):
that is great. That is great, great times. And there's
no foi gua or anything caviar related that's better than that,
And that's probably cost her two bucks to put out.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
I could not agree more. That's America, buddy. That's what
we're trying to get back to. Is when a young
lad could sit with his own grandfather, there's no debate
as to whether or not one of them is a girl,
one of them is a boy. No one discusss pronouns.
You just put on wrestling, You eat bacon and eggs
(04:29):
and bread.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Italian.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Your own grandmother, who never once in her life thought
whether or not boy. I wonder if I'm a girl,
I wonder what was none of that he provides for
you while her husband and her grandson, whom she dearly loves,
enjoys and wrestling. That's what we're trying to do. We
did it in the eighties and we're trying to.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Do it nothing like it now. I mean, you would
have you know, you'd sit there and you'd watch the
nature boy Rick Flair, probably the greatest athlete of all time,
witching him well though he's apparently under the knife again
for something. Uh. And then you'd have like the the
Anderson's and you never knew whether theyre were brothers or
uncle and cousin or what cousins.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
You never knew, you never knew what. It didn't matter.
It was only an orn.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Oh yeah, that's different.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
You knew that. You know, those were the toughest guys
you're ever going to see on TBS on Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I could tell you that, my friend, I can tell
you that anyway. So lots going on in the world today,
but I did want to start with.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Did you say Jeff Bezos got married?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Yeah, we're going to talk about that.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
And you get married to that floozy he runs around.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
With, Yeah, yeah, she worked coursing. It was disgusting.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I mean, you know, I was reading the New I
read the New York Times now because it's all that
I can get delivered to the house. The local paper
is like a pamphlet now, right, you get it half
the time, half the time you don't get it.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
And so I started reading this screen.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I like, I like reading a newspaper and Sunday New
York Times is fine.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
I like it, so I get that.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
And then the Sunday New York Times this week had
it had an opbed about how disgusting that that wedding was,
like they spent fifty million dollars. Let me see, they
got fifty million dollars on a wedding.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Just on the wedding.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Yeah, and they didn't even.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Know it was even possible. Like if you just handed
out ten thousand envelopes containing ten thousand dollars to everyone
who came to the wedding, you wouldn't get close to
fifty million bucks.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Well, they I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
They pulled their their yacht into they they got married
in Venice, but they didn't fly everyone to Venice, and
it was hundreds of people, and they rented out all
these hotels.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
For the whole production.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
And she just is I mean, I'm sorry, but listen,
if I had Bezos is like the third richest guy
in the world, the last thing I would do, the
last thing I would do is flaunt it.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
You know, they had a he has this yacht.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Worth hundreds of millions of dollars where they had a
foam party and you've got this guy who's like sixty
or whatever. He is sixty, right, sixteen seventy, and he's like, yeah, what's.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Going to be sixty? I mean, you and I are
in our fifties old than we are.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
He's he's all definitely older than us.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
But they do a foam party, and so they're covering
in from and she's running around. She's had more plastic
surgery than Ja Jagabor.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
That's a daily reference. But I don't care.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
You've seen more knives than the Benahanna Benahannah.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's just disgusting. And look, I am
I'm all for true love. You know that I believe,
but that's not what we're talking about.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
I do.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
I know, I know that you do what I do,
and that is not what you and I are currently
talking about right here.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
And then it's like all these celebrities are going to
this thing and it's they're all flying in on private
jets and they're all lecturing us.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
About about carbon carbon footprint.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Leo DiCaprio is, it's just unfreaking believable. And they do
and you're not telling me they know these people people
have never even heard of Tom Brady was there at
Oprah and the woman for the Morning Show, and then
all these actresses, and it's just like it seems like
they wanted to have this wedding that was just you know,
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all these influencers and the TikTok and the people from
the Only Family. They invited hundreds of people to this thing,
and they all showed up. First of all, if I
you know, I'm not going.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
If I'm invited, I'm not going.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
But can you imagine it's just a feeding frenzy of egos.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
And then there were all these.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Protesters who were just discussed by the whole thing, which
is great. I am all four protesting this nonsense, but
it just it just in Venice and they and they're
buying out these hotels and they're buying out all the
iconic restaurants so that tourists can't go into them.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
I mean, just.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Absolutely vile, just just just consumption, the legs of which
this earth hasn't seen since Louis the sixteenth was running
around Versailles until he get his head cut off.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Oh and I mean, but I don't even know what
to say. I don't know the White Ray to phrase it.
But Jeff Bezos has absolutely just debased himself right like
he's just made an absolute of himself.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Yeah, there is no.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
One, including all the people who came to that wedding,
who are not laughing at him right at the at
the pretension, at his apparent unawareness of how stupid he
looks leaving his wife, who again, I don't know his
former wife at all. Maybe she's a horrific person, but regardless,
she is the one that was, you know, stuck with
(09:45):
him when he was trying to start Amazon and didn't
have two nickels rubbed together all of that stuff, and he,
you know, cannot get rid of her fast enough once
he becomes wealthy and then starts running around.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Well wait, wait a minute, I think the time I
think we have to do something here, Brett.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
You know, we are.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
One of the things we do is we track how
our little skits do. And one of the great things
we do is before and after remember that camp.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Oh yeah for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
So let me ask you this. So, this woman's name
is Lauren Sanchez Bezos. Jeff Bezos began his romantic relationship
with Lauren Sanchez before or after he divorced his wife
of twenty some odd years.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Well, I'm going to say before no, there you go. Yeah, yeah,
I mean I don't know that for a fact, but
I think I think that's a fact. Okay. And and
she's a sex bot. I mean that's wow.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
No, his wife is not a no.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
No, no, no, not the wife.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Well the new wife, I guess, Well, the new wife
looks more like I don't know what sex putt even
what does that mean?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Not sex pot, sex bot?
Speaker 4 (10:54):
And what I sex bought?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Sex bought I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Because Raquel Welch was a sex pot. That's what they
used to call. That's this ain't this ain't Raquel?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Well, it's this is no, no, this is a woman
who has customized herself to be sexually appealing to a
certain type of grossly overpaid, lack of self respect having
middle aged dufis.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
And you know she.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Got what she came for. I mean, one thing you
can tip the cap, do what your say, name was
Lauren Sanchez. One thing you can tip the cap to
miss Sanchez Bezos. Now I presume is that she got
exactly what she was trying to get, and that is
married to just an insanely wealthy dufus who will clearly
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do anything she asked them to do and has the
resources to do so. If that's your life objective, then
she has knocked it out of the park. She's like
a bray. She hit a grand slam and an inside
the park home run in the.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Same same swing.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Doesn't doesn't really happen very often.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
But listen, we talked about last week this Trump stuff
going on, right, so just to to go through the
roll call, right, he in the past week or so,
he won those Supreme Court decisions.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
He's got the stock.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Market at an all time high. I don't know what
it did today, but at all time high.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
He's got.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
He's got peace in the war between Congo and Rwanda.
He stepped in and broke at that piece. There's a
sixty day ceasefire with Hamas and Israel going on the
southern border again completely quiet, they're zero crossings. He's got
Rod de Desanta's building Alcatraz in the Everglades.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
I don't know if you saw that.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
They built this big high security detention facility for illegal
crossers of the border. It's called the Alcatraz for alligator.
And so Trump and De Santa's with air and it
seems like they're they're getting along well now. And then
you know, Trump was explaining how if you're going to
try to escape, you have to run the zigzag to
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get away from the alligators. But even then you have
a one percent, one percent chance. So he's done that.
He's reforming the the the Department of Health and all
that stuff. He's getting the JFK documents out. He's about
to pass this budget bill that's going to make permanent
his tax cuts and give uh no tax on tips
(13:29):
and no tax on over time and no tax on
interest paid for car loans. I mean, he in six months.
I and also I didn't even mention NATO. He got
all the NATO members except for Spain to kick in,
you know, five percent towards towards the Common Defense. When
it was a couple of years ago people we laughing
(13:49):
about whether or not you get him to two percent.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
He's done all this in six months.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I mean, it's pretty freaking remarkable what he's uh, what
he's accomplished. Pretty impressed if you ask me, Oh.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Yeah, for sure. In fact, so as you mentioned, I
and my lovely bride are down here in Dallas in
the it's warm. It's warm, buddy, it's comfortable.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
And would you mind telling the audience where you're staying.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
I don't know the name of the hotel. It's the
hotel associated with Crescent Court.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Oh, so you're staying at the Crescent Court.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Yes, if they call that hotel the Crescent room number, well,
but yeah, it's well this trip, the room number is
four forty seven. And if you happen to be a
Crescent Hotel engineer and you hear this, check the door
on room four forty seven. It's very hard to close
and open. So that's just in the side. But in
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any case, but kicked in a couple of times maybe maybe,
but it is exceptionally hard to open and close unnecessarily so,
but in any case, that's where we're staying, and we're
down here, and so on the way in from the airport,
krist and I were in and Uber and there was
a radio commercial being played on broadcast radio for who's
(15:11):
the gal who's the Secretary of Homeland Security? Christine nom Christine, No,
thank you. That is exactly who it was who came on.
This is the radio. It's on broadcast FM radio. The
Uber drivers listening to the FM radio and this comes
on during a commercial break and it's the voice of
Christine Nomes. She doesn't identify herself until the end, but
(15:34):
she says, hey, you know what I guess you must
have she must just said Secretary Nome of the Department
of Homeland Security and basically says, hey, if you are
an illegal alien, leave because if we find you, we
are going to deport you and you will not be
allowed back in the country ever. If you leave of
(15:55):
your own accord, and you reapply and come through the
legal process, then you know, we'll be happy to have you.
But if you get and you know, they're not out hunting.
But she said, if you get wrong up, you know,
if you commit a crime and you are apprehended in
the course of that crime and it has determined that
you are in the country illegally and we deport you,
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which we will, you will never be allowed back yet ever.
And that Chris and I lift to that. We're like, wow,
that's a little different. It's a little different than the
previous administration. Little then yeah, and then she just goes
and again, you know, this is Secretary of Christine Noan
or the of the Department of All Lamb Security, and
(16:37):
you've been told.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
So have you seen the video speaking of that, have
you seen the video of the Minneapolis Somalia rally. This
is the mayor of Minneapolis. This this is the guy
who took a knee.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
The Floyd George Lloyd George stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
And he is a rally where he spoke.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
I guess it's Somali. Is that is that right? Is
it Somali?
Speaker 3 (17:04):
No? No, it's.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Oh shoot Thisali, it says Somali.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Yeah, No, it's they speak. Uh damn it, it's you
would you would know it right away if I said it.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
But anyway, but he's up there speaking whatever it is
they speak to this this crowd of people, and it's
just hello, Minneapolis. It's like Minneapolis used to be a
great American said what what the hell? He's waving a
Somali flag? I mean, are you freaking kidding me? But
that this is the good news is Trump is slowly
putting an end to craziness. And and look also the
(17:42):
tariff thing, right, the tariff thing. Now we've got to
deal with with Great Britain where we've got we've got
the deal, I guess, pending with Canada where they've they've
made some changes, and that looks like that's gonna go through.
And we're raising tens of billions of dollars in uh
new revenue, and it looks from all reports like a lot,
like some manufacturing is coming home. I don't know how much,
(18:05):
but some I don't know what industries, but some. And
that's something, right, that's something. It seems like things. I
don't dare say it because people will label you, but
it seems like things are going pretty well. And you know,
once we get around this big budget bill and sort
(18:28):
of move on to the next thing, we'll see where
he goes from there. But compared to the first term,
compared to any first term I can remember in quite
some time, this first six months has been I mean
it's only been five months, it's been a wild success.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Dare I say, well, yeah, I mean from the perspective
of being the chief executive of the last superpower remaining,
I would agree with you. And before we move on,
I'm going to stand correct. And I looked it up.
I was thinking of Swahili, which is what our interpreter
spoke to the Somali people when I was working there.
But I guess the official mother tongue of Somalia is
(19:10):
a language called Somali.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Oh, so I was right.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
You were correct and I was incorrect. But they must
there must be some significant percentage and speaks Swadiili because
that is what our interpreter was speaking. But in any case,
that's what I was thinking of Swahili and I that's
the word I couldn't come up with. So but in
any case, yes, very successful for six months. From purely
(19:35):
the perspective of being the chief executive. I mean, you
can say with you will about Trump's personality and his
annoying tendency to allow himself to be dragged into, you know,
social media based pissing contests, which is just stupid if
you're in the president of United State, it's just stupid.
Just stop it. And he certainly does that, and he
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certainly tends to have a seventh grade, you know, personality
with respect to you know, if he feels like someone
has said something mean about him, he's going to say
something mean back, and he should just stop that too.
But when he's able to avoid being in social media
pissing contest, he does seem to be doing a good
job of being the president of the United States.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Yeah, it makes you wonder if he's going to leave, buddy.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
You do that on purpose, You say that just to
get people wound up. You say it because you know
there will be people who just literally start to shake,
like physically quiver when you say when you just allude
to the fact that Donald Trump may not leave. And
what's interesting about that is that those people who begin
(20:45):
to quiver at the thought do so because they think
there is a possibility that that could happen. Like they're
honestly concerned that Trump just takes over. And in order
for that to app a significant percentage of the population,
perhaps even the majority of the United States of America,
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would have to accede to that.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
And if they did, they did, and we just let
it go. They did.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
But if you think that, I mean, it is just
it is. I was having this conversation with somebody else
earlier this week, If you know, I just find it
remarkable the number of times that people will raise the
specter of some horrible thing going on. But notice when
they do it, it's never where you are right, Like
(21:37):
they'll say, I was.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
Just going into school and dragging out you know, five
year olds and deporting them, asking people and go where
they're like huh where, Like, not in the schools in
our neighborhoods, they're not. Are you aware of any schools in.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
This neighborhood, school district, or state where this has happened. Well, no,
it's happening somewhere, okay where it's all of these things.
They never happen where you are, right, there's all They're
always happening some other place. So either is never the
(22:17):
luckiest person in the world, or they're not happening right.
Either you just happened to live in the one town
where all of the fascist things that Trump is, you know,
fomenting on us. Either you happen to live in the
one town where he's not doing that, or it's nonsense.
And the answer is it's nonsense, So just relax.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
It's made up. It's made up.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I was talking to a mutual friend of ours about
the atrocities in Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Recently and where.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Criminals are being rounded up in criminal justice system.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Yeah, and he told me that he thinks that California
should just secede from the Union.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
I completely agree.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
I tell you what I had to I had, you know,
I I then I went into you know, because because
we listen you've heard this for years now, Brad.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
And you know.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Everyone who secedes from the Union is just to trade it,
like General Lee. And then you start calling him generally
because he was saying, well, you know, we have a
good economy here, and I said, just like they did
down there in Richmond in the Old South, General Lee.
And you just do that over and over, and then Jeff, oh,
Jeff Davis was a good, good President of the Confederacy,
didn't serve his full six year term, but maybe he
(23:36):
could be.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
President of California. And uh, and then you just go on.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Then you start talking about people sitting on the on
the on the porches eating the peanuts down there and
Richmonds just waiting for the old stars and boss to
be risen over the White House, and uh, you say
that a few times and then the conversation's over.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
It ends. Yeah, it just naturally goes away.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Yeah, and he has yeah, he has no he's no response.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
God bless them, God bless them anyway.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
So one other thing I did want to talk about quickly,
as you know, I told you this story. I go
to the mailbox the other day, right, because that's where
we get our mail.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Oh, yes, yeah, we don't have you know, we're not We're.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Not like we're just not The mail is not brought
to us, but we're not a von Bulah, if you
know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
And so they opened this, I get this, this weird.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
I have it here. It's a weird yellow envelope with
our family name on them on it. And then there's
a let.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Me ask you this mony let me as a former
federal religion. Was there a stamp on that? Was it
actually put in the US?
Speaker 4 (24:40):
There is no stamp on that.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Oh see that's a violation. You're not allowed to just
put things in people's mailboxes. That is a federal offense.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Okay, well that's good.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
To what the mailbox is exclusively for the.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Mail this we have a problem, then that's okay.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
And then I get this to get this threatening letter right,
And I didn't have any who was from until I
read the letter, but it basically said, yeah, because fourth.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
Of July, we have like a little thing where we
you know, we have four kids.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
They like to set off fire we'd like to have
someone set off firecrackers. So we'll safely do that and
do it.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Of course it's not like you're out there just Willy
Nelly blowing ship up, blew off his thumb, Peter Peter Paul, Jason,
Peter Paul, that's it.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Yes, you're thinking of Peter Paul and Mary. That's something different,
that's different.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
That's but so we always didn't blow themselves up.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
We have this little show and the kids in the
neighborhood love it. But so I opened this up and
I realize the deer print is not sure if you
planned a fireworks displayed some little last year, but wanted
to picture you read this. The wolves and the Wolves
are our neighbors.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
And very pleasant people, great people.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
The way we get introduce, Yeah, they moved. They moved
here a couple of years ago, next to us. And
then during COVID, one of our sons is on the
spectrum and uh, you know, COVID was very tough on him,
and uh, tough, tough on all kids, tough on all.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Someone should have just throbb. You know.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
That's amazing that Fauci got a pardon, by the way,
just a preemptive pardon for anything he did, for the
good bullshit. But in any event, are so we're trying
to have this. It's December, our since birthdays in December
and we're trying to have this outdoor, stupid.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Rule based party for him.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Outside everyone's freezing, and we invite like four kids over
because he hadn't seen kids that weren't his siblings in
a year, and so we invite them over. We all
are outside, we're standing outside, we're doing the cake outside,
we're freezing, and they call the police on this party.
These these these.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
These people, people, these people, you.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Know, they literally they had a they had a ladder,
they were looking over the fence and they called the
police on our sons fifth birthday.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Party or fourth birthday party with.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
A bunch of kids, and it's just just you start
to feel, you know, I think I think you know
this more than I do, but I think the Lord
would probably be sorry. I feel sorry for people like that.
But anyway, in any event, that's the context of this.
And they attached this threatening letter to a piece of
newspaper from the Requikly Thing, where they then pointed to
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this article they wrote.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Letter to the editor. They wrote this letter to the.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Editor, it's signed by them, and about how you shouldn't
set fireworks off at at birds, which we don't do,
and you know the birds loved the show last year.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
They loved it.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
I specifically remember them commenting on it. So so let
me get this straight. They wrote a letter to the
editor which is subsequently published in your local I'm sure
that we're not talking about, you know, the Boston Globe here, so.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
We're talking about the very new Times.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Okay. So they write a letter of the they was
substutely published in the Barrington Times, which they then get
a copy of hut out, circle cut out, draw your
attention to and and self referentially say did you see
this article in the newspaper, as though they just happened
to see it and wanted to make you aware of it.
(28:18):
But it's a letter that they wrote. A lot has yes,
so it has no like I when you first showed
me that, I thought that some you know, someone who
who spoke with some degree of authority, an ornithologist or
a nature person for the state of Rhode Island, or
someone was saying, hey, be careful because sometimes birds don't
like fireworks. But no, this is written by your neighbors,
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who you know, to the to the best of our knowledge,
are educated and actually nothing And you know the Barrington Times,
God bless them. They got to pay the bill somehow,
they publish that letter to the editor and then these
people send it to you saying did you see this correct?
Speaker 4 (28:56):
And they have it literally has a little a little sign.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
They put it away. It's it's just like read this
in an arrow pointed at it. Because again, I have
not talked to them since they call the police on
my son on the Spectrum's fourth birthday part I have
that time, I have not had occasion to talk to
to them. But in any event, that's uh, that was
obviously it is it is. You're right, it is a
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violation of federal law to to do that.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
And the threats are just unbelievable, unbelievable. It's really hard to believe.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
In fact, yeah, no, it is hard to believe. It's
it's again you said it yourself. You cannot make your
life up, and that is true. I can tell you
that I am. I am older than you are.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Oh yeah, that's saying.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
I have never had anyone put a threat in my mailbox.
And I am someone who has done jobs that irritate people. Right,
people don't like it when they're committing crimes and you
slap the irons on them and they do time.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
They don't like that you're the CEO of p X.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
I am was that the CEO. I was the CEO
of No No, I was the president of Firepod. Yeah,
it was the president of the fire Pond. That's true. So,
I mean, there are things that I have done in
my life. There are people could say, you know, I
don't like that guy, and I'm going to put a
threat in his mailbox. But that has never happened to me.
And it happens to me, you can no longer say that.
(30:20):
And and someone went through the whole process of getting
a letter to the editor published just to make a
threat against you, I know. So that's says So. So
those folks obviously have a lot going on. The the
wolves are very busy people, clearly. Yeah, I don't know
how they fit in time for this.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
I know they're obviously got a lot a lot of
time on their freaking hands. But in any event, we
will will move on. We will, we will move on
and have a happy and healthy fourth Let's see what
else is going on in the world. Bill Moyers died,
duds That who's Bill Moyers?
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Yeah, are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (31:03):
You?
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Remember Bill Moyers? The newsman from the UH.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
He was Johnson's press secretary. He quit in sixty six
and he went to CBS and PBS. He used to
do all those Bill Moyer's specials on PBS the eighties.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Seventies, eighties, okay. Or the sweaters, Yeah, yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
The sweaters that did it for me. Yes, I can
picture him in my mind now. Well, he must have
been old, dude. He was old in eighty something. He
was like ninety something.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
He's one of the guys that was orchestrated the whole
Kennedy assassination.
Speaker 4 (31:31):
You're John Young.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
I did I have his book. I've begun to read it.
You'll be glad to know that I have begun to
read it.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
I'm doing a deep dive on the von Buloh case. Why.
I just find it interesting, you know. You know what's
interesting about it? I am so I uh.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
I read Dershowitz's book, and then I'm now I'm reading
this other the von Buelau Affair or something like that,
and it's another another book about the try. And then
I'm like talking to my wife about it last night.
And you know, YouTube is the greatest thing. You put
it on the Apple TV. You have the Apple TV.
I do, hey, you put it up there. You a
YouTube and you just so I googled Von Buloh documentary
(32:14):
and this and that, and so there's this. There is
this roundtable interview with a guy, Jim tarak Khani, who
used to be a local uh TV guy anchored and
I think that at the NBC ten affiliate here in Providence,
and uh, this is like the day he was aquitted
in the second trial. You know, he was tried, convicted
(32:37):
and then Dershowitz got him off because of that search
and seizure thing with a black bag with the insulin,
gets retried, gets acquitted, and so this is like the
day he was acquitted. And there they do this interview
with von but there's something that never happened today, Von
Bueloh and then the three of his lawyers and the
Jim tera Kani and so Jim tarak Khani is interviewing
him and Babula is just sitting there chain smoking cigarettes.
(32:59):
And it's like not what you'd expect because because it's
Kara Cone's interviewing them, but it's like, you know, how
do you feel now that you've been vindicated? And this
is just you know, just a now what are you
gonna do now? And Bmbula is like, well, I think
I I think I'll have a vacation and then we'll
see where we go from. Meanwhile, the wife is still
in the in the hospital. You know, clearly he was
(33:20):
ejecting with freaking insulin and but it was just like
hen and then he's you know, Kara Kanie is just
yucking it up with him.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
But it was just classic eighties.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
It was like something you would never ever see if
you ever, if that interview ever took place today, that
that guy would be fired before he even went off
the air.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
And oh yeah, oh for sure.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
The eighties it was fantastic. I'm not saying it was fair,
great TV. Great.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Mambula is just chained smoking and uh, you know at
the end he said what's next for Klass Bambula And
he said, well, now that I've quit smoking, And then
they all went, it's just and that that that TV,
that that second trial was on TV.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
They it's all on TV. There's video of all of it.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Yeah, it's fantastic. You can't but that's it. I mean
back to the original point of you know, stuff happened
in the eighties that you're just not going to get anymore.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
No, and you just felt so reaking was Well, now
you know, I'm telling you, I'm not hating it. I'm
not hating it. I'm liking what's going on the economies.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
I'm just I'm not hating economies amazing at this point,
speaking of witch, speaking of which, so listen to this.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
This is you know, you can't even you can't even
make this stuff up. So you know Trumps he's going
after the universities, right, basically cutting off all federal funding
to Harford. So he threatens you Pen with the cutting
off of federal funding. So he ends and ends up
(34:49):
in a in a stipulated settlement with u PEN. And
I remember Leah Thomas, the gentleman that won all the
woman's there was a year ago, wasn't that last here
we were talking about that, and we went on a
one about the guys dudes. So Trump enters into a
settlement with UPEN, and as part of that, Upen has
to issue apologies to the real women who lost to Thomas.
(35:10):
The college is required to restore all their Division one
swimming records and titles and wipe clean the air quote
records that Thomas supposedly established and they're going to update
the UH entire protocol and not allow biological men to
compete in women's sports. It's just hello, they were there.
(35:32):
They're like, you know, it's like toppling an old General
Lee's statue out in front of the old Confederate Cote
House and appomatics.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
You know, they're taking out the records are gone.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Well, I mean that still to the state, that's one
of the more remarkable things I've ever witnessed.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
Okay, set aside, she was a good swimmer, and that
was that was a great.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
I mean, set aside that the whole gender debate, right,
It's just set it aside. Okay, when your winner gets
out of the pool with a very evident penus duffed
into their bulge one piece designed for a woman swimsuit
and says, I want okay, I don't want to talk
about whether or not he honestly thinks he's a girl.
(36:17):
I don't care what he honestly thinks, or I don't
care about his pronouns. If he wants to be called
Cindy lu who, fine, But you cannot take the position
that that was a fair competition. That's the part that
gets me. I don't even want to have the discussion
about how you should treat someone who wants to, you know,
(36:37):
make themselves a member of the other gender. Fine, I mean,
I'm willing to accept that we can do that. If
you're a dude with a big old package and you
want someone to call you Susie. Fine, I mean, you
get one life to live. You can live it that
way if you want. But to take the position that
that does not matter in an athletic competition, especially one
(36:59):
like swimming, is not and for an outfit like you
pen to just swrug and go, well, we don't see.
It's just the amount of self delusion necessary to take
the position that the person with the penis wearing the
(37:22):
one piece swimsuit is the same as the person's without
penises in the one piece swimsuit is absurd, absurd, there's
no defense for that. Again, if you want to go
along with their choice or whatever you want to call it,
to be to be treated as though they are a woman,
(37:45):
I think they're fine. You can do that if you want,
But you cannot take the position that it doesn't matter
in an athletic competition and that somehow that is fair.
And even if you say, well, I'm not really taking
that position that it's fair. I realize it's a fair
I realize they have a gross advantage by being born
a male. But you know, we want to take care
(38:07):
of people. We sort of we're a democracy, right, so
we vote on things, and if you happen to be
in the minority, well then I'm sorry you don't get
your way. And yet when it came to this, we
let one person who said, no, I'm a girl and
I want to swim like I'm a girl against against girls,
(38:29):
even though I'm a boy. We let that one person
wreck it for everybody. Since when was that the American
way that you you wreck something for everybody because of
one person.
Speaker 4 (38:42):
No, I agree with that. I'm just saying, technically, she he.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
Was.
Speaker 4 (38:49):
Technically the swim portion was really good, Like the strokes
are really good. But it doesn't matter to you because
the records are gone.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Brad whispers in the way, peeing in the like you
never peed marketson. Yeah there's markets that's that's wipe from
the record books, just like Oh, generally, I'm telling you
that was Let me tell you something. If you ever
get that again from our mutual friend, and you do that.
He hung up with me after I did that for
about fifteen minutes. He it took fifteen, but it was
(39:18):
like I was laughing at the end, and my wife
was listening to it. She was she was amused, and
just just you're going to secede from the union just
like we did and betrayed as just like us.
Speaker 4 (39:29):
Boy, is that what you're going to do?
Speaker 2 (39:32):
And he couldn't take it. You can just hung up,
just hung up the phone. I'll talk to you later.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
Oh lord, Well, listen there.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
It is hard. It's got to be hard to be
our mutual friend, don't you think, I mean?
Speaker 4 (39:45):
I I yeah, It's just.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
He chooses and he's a smart guy, and he used
to be a regular guy. When you and I first
met him, he was a regular guy. And so I'm
not exactly sure what happened.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
Oh come on, but he still he.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Chooses the most most absurd positions to take on issues,
and he does it to himself.
Speaker 4 (40:05):
Listen to this. He was, you know, he's a member
at a very prestigious club in his area is Neck
of the Woods.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
And the Club of Oiled Slap and Tickle. I believe
I'm not.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
A golf this is a different one. Oh no, No,
that's right, You're right, because they have the this is that.
But then he wanted to join another club because he's
really straight, he's he's sharing the common man struggles. So
he joins this other club closer to where he works. Like,
so he joins this other club, and I'm in the
middle of doing this soliloquy.
Speaker 4 (40:35):
And he's like, just be quiet for a minute.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
I'm pulling up to the front and he's like, Hi,
my name is So and So I'm a new member here.
And I said, did you tell him you're seceding from
the union?
Speaker 3 (40:46):
Sir?
Speaker 2 (40:47):
Did you tell him that you'll be leave in this
union of ours to form a better one with old General.
Speaker 4 (40:52):
Lee and Jeff Davis, Senator Davids from Mississippi? Do you
tell him that? Boy?
Speaker 2 (40:58):
And of course I was quickly cut off at that point,
not even not even goodbye. It was just I was
just to hang up, just to hang up. At that point,
I'm trying to talk to the man at the front.
He's like, can I just get in and going going?
This is Jeff Davis's friend here, He's he's trying to
secede from the Union on no constitutional authority to do it.
Speaker 4 (41:20):
You can't make it up.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
And I, of course was just kidding, but although I'm
really not because there is a Supreme Court president that
said seceding for the Union is unconstitutional.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
But you know you don't carry about that. I mean, no, Well,
if you're going to secede from the Union, what do
you care about the Council? You don't even want The Constitution.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
Didn't matter, didn't matter to Albert Sidney Johnson, didn't matter
to General Lee anyway.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
That's that's point graduate generally.
Speaker 4 (41:49):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
The Battlecry of Freedom is a great, great book, great
treatment of ly Well again, you know again you can
say I I I recently he listened to an interview
of ken Burns, who I really like, and uh, you
know he did the Civil War, that Civil War documentary fantastic.
Speaker 3 (42:12):
Yeah, oh you're right about that. It was very good, and.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
He was he was talking about some of the the
context within which we view things.
Speaker 4 (42:20):
And I don't want to create a big I don't
want to get in a big argument about.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
Anything, but the context is important in how we view things.
Like you know, of course, modern context slavery is abhorrent
and and.
Speaker 4 (42:33):
You know, just terrible.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
But you also have to look at the full you know,
the other things that people did, like the funding Fathers
and why Jefferson owned slaves, why he didn't free slaves.
Speaker 4 (42:45):
At his death. I I don't know.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
I mean, he struggled with it, but you know, he
wasn't strong enough to do it in the context of
his times.
Speaker 4 (42:51):
But that doesn't take away from the other things. I mean,
Robert E. Lee was a great soldier, I mean he was.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
Lincoln tried to give him the keys to the Union
Army before where he ended up with that dwarf McClellan.
Speaker 4 (43:04):
And Lee wouldn't take it.
Speaker 2 (43:05):
Lee struggled with it, went home, thought about it, ended up.
Speaker 4 (43:09):
Not taking it. But and Grant was a drunk brad.
Speaker 3 (43:15):
Well I think, Well, I was going to say that
without question, Lee was the best general of his time
at maybe a stretch. There were some good generals on
both sides. I mean, Stonewall Jackson was a hell of
a general.
Speaker 4 (43:30):
Winfield Scott was a good general, sir.
Speaker 3 (43:32):
Yeah, I mean there were some. There were some excellent
military minds. Unfortunately, well, I mean it's unfortunate they had
excellent minds. But I mean shooting each other. Obviously more people,
more Americans were killed in the Civil War, because everybody
killed in the Civil War was an American than in
any other conflict. But I mean, and it was just
god awful, the whole thing. But that doesn't make you,
(43:56):
I mean, it doesn't make you a shooty general.
Speaker 4 (43:58):
So yeah, just like you know, you still you study
history and you.
Speaker 2 (44:04):
Learn from it and you don't you don't repeat the
horrible things. But at the same time, our history is
and and and look, maybe we're maybe we're coming full
circle on this, and maybe those Leah Thomas records should
be should be kept.
Speaker 3 (44:18):
The guy around, Yeah, I don't think it's the same thing.
Speaker 4 (44:21):
It's different, different, Well there is.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
I I don't know if there's much more we can
do here generally, so maybe we should just maybe we
should move on to private was.
Speaker 3 (44:30):
Proud of the fact that he had a noticeable bulge
in his swimsuit yeah when he got into it, whereas
Leah Amis was trying to, you know, do the talk
under and that's it. But we've done, We've done all
we can do. We've solved the UPenn swimming problem. I
corrected my mistake with regard to the national language of
small which is of course, which is Somali and not sweel.
(44:52):
And so it is what it is, and uh, what
else can you do? I mean, but on a podcast,
those are the had things to do. And you know what,
we'll do it again next week right here on IP frequently.
Speaker 1 (45:05):
This has been IP frequently, once again, clearing a forest
of lies with the machete of truth. You're welcome.
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