July 15, 2025 • 35 mins
Ep. 292 - Spinning Out of Control
Scientists have discovered that our planet is spinning faster—but the real spin happens when climate activists twist this cosmic event into their latest doomsday narrative. David and Brad dive into this issue and discuss how we've turned legitimate physics into political theater. In other news, TikTok influencers are terrorizing suburbanites with the "urban exploration challenge," because nothing screams viral content like potentially catching buckshot at 2 AM. Meanwhile, Joey Chestnut defied human anatomy by inhaling 70.5 hot dogs in ten minutes—a digestive feat that makes Earth's rotation look sluggish by comparison.
Scientists have discovered that our planet is spinning faster—but the real spin happens when climate activists twist this cosmic event into their latest doomsday narrative. David and Brad dive into this issue and discuss how we've turned legitimate physics into political theater. In other news, TikTok influencers are terrorizing suburbanites with the "urban exploration challenge," because nothing screams viral content like potentially catching buckshot at 2 AM. Meanwhile, Joey Chestnut defied human anatomy by inhaling 70.5 hot dogs in ten minutes—a digestive feat that makes Earth's rotation look sluggish by comparison.
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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's sheaf.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Well, there it is, brad don't tread on me by
the Damn Yankees. I'm not gonna lie. Maybe maybe I shall.
When I grew up, I don't. I don't necessarily remember
going to a Damn Yankees concert having one of their
records or eight tracks or cassettes lying around. But I
mean just listening to the ballad, and uh, don't tread
(01:19):
on me. I've got to say I'm the loser there
because I should have paid more attention. I mean, just terrific,
terrific harmony, melody. The piano is exactly on point harpsichord,
and I believe I heard a little into an obo there.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Well, you may have buddy, I mean Damn Yankees again.
You you are a seventies music guy more than an
eighties music guy. I am much more of an eighties
music guy, which is ironic because.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
I am a lot older than I am.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
You are a lot of But the Damn Yankees were
a supergroup. Tommy Shaw from Styx, Jack Blades from Night Ranger,
Ted Nugent, who remains touring to this day, and and
the drummer's name escapes me, but he uh he later
I think still does maybe drum for Leonard Skynyrd. So
(02:09):
I mean it's uh, they were legit not Buddy Rich.
It wouldn't be Buddy Rich, and I would not would
not be Buddy Rich. Wrong era there, but they don't
treat on me. It was a big hit. Probably their
biggest hit was and you mentioned you set a ballad
so good on you was there? You know, their eighties
power ballad high Enough was high.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Enough Gonna Get high Enough? I love that song. It
was really good, really good.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
How about did they also sing Jesse's Girl?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
You know, I'm in love with Jesse's Girl? How do
I find a woman like that?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Which is always ironic? Yeah, that's yeah, that's rich Springfield,
and I couldn't help as a child of the eighties
hearing Jesse's Girl good tune, but I would always think
of Uncle Jesse, do hazard? Dukes a hazard? And I
was like, I don't. My guess is Uncle Jesse's girlfriend,
given that he's you know, in his seventies. So you know,
(03:08):
there was just a little cognitive dissonance there for me
between Jesse's Girl and the dukes of hazards Uncle Jesse.
But yeah, I don't know. I'm probably getting off topic.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
So how was your How was your Fourth of July?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
It was good. It was quiet. We just hung out
and enjoyed the day, did a little grilling.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
We had we had some we had some fireworks here,
as you know, the Ospreys do well look through it.
We put on a Did I send you the video
of the show. No, I'll gott to send you the video.
The show was fantastic, okay, and uh, and then we
had a little incident where the neighbor you know, and
I'm not gonna again, I don't want to.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
This show is not about identifying.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
People, right, It's not certainly not Silas Moody.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
No, So let's just.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Say let's just say their name's rhyme was Skank and Merrill.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
So, so Hank and Cheryl were upset about the the osprey,
you know, because the.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
You have nesting osprey somewhere near your property.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
They put a nest up on the property line. Yeah,
I don't have them. They're not naturally nesting anywhere.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
They put a nest up on the property line after
they bought the house, like seven years after I was here,
eight years after I was here, ten whatever it was.
It was anyway, so they're concerned about the osprey. We
talked about that last week. So this week our pyrotechnics guy,
Russell was lining up the fireworks and Skank came over
(04:36):
to the fence and she had the flashlight out there
and their dog, and the dog was barking at Russell.
But for purposes of this show, let's call him Walter.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Okay, fireworks guy.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Yeah, he's he's and she's yelling what's your name? What's
your name?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
And he looks like he goes Walter, even though I
you know, his name is Russell. And so and he
sets off the.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
You know, all the fireworks and and she calls the police.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
The police show up and the you know, they we
got a DJ out back who showed up and he
was a little bit under the weather, you know, and
uh because he'd been in the parade all day and he,
you know, been enjoying himself and so altered.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
I I have a guy out here that who refers
to anyone and it drives me nuts. I'm like, why
don't you just say drunk? But he just the word
he uses constantly is altered. So Walter was altered. No, no, no, no,
Walter was no no, Walter was as the church must. Yeah,
the DJ was altered DJ Louis. And so DJ Louis
comes up to me when he gets to the house
(05:41):
and he he hands me this orange can and I
said what's that?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
And he said, what's gin and juice? And I was like, oh,
that's great, and it's warm. I mean, the thing has
got to be like eighty degrees. And he said, I've
been in the in the Bristol Fourth of July Parade,
which is the oldest Fourth of July.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Parade, brad in America, all of it.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
First one you burned your gin and juice in that parade.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
So okay, yeah, So he's been in that parade, and
he said he had like ten of them, and I'm like,
look at it's like five point five percent.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
I like, how are you gonna Yeah, So.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Then he proceeds to eat three plates of food and
then he starts playing graphic rap music to the point
where we had to remind him that it was a
kid's party.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
And then he started started. But anyway, so he started, he.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Got on the right track, and then he as the
fireworks are going off, he's playing that Toby Keith song, Uh,
you know, we lit up your world like the fourth
of July.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
I remember that. Oh yeah, you got to see the Red, White,
Blue Grit was just a terrific song.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
And they see that thing's blaring at like a twenty
on a scale of one to ten. The fireworks are
going off like your Disney World, and the police officer
shows up, and the goodness is the police officer shows up.
Very nice guy, very nice. They're all very nice and
he shows up here and that's a good gig to
be a Barrington cop. I mean, yes, yeah, So anyway,
a nice kid, nice nice kid. He comes over and
he's like, he's like, you know, we got a report
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that I don't think It was the same one that
they called on my son outdoor birthday party to shut
it down during COVID because they were so concerned about that.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Skank and Meryl.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
But anyway, so I'm like, you want to come in
the backyard and see and he's like, yeah, and there
are fireworks, you know, Walter is setting off fireworks.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
He's like, are those coming from your backyard?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
And I said, he said, you said, he said there
are no fireworks, and I said, no fire we were
setting off fireworks. But literally, at this time, there are
literally fireworks going off in every direction, like every house
is setting off fireworks. Not the scope and scale of
which we're doing, but they're everywhere. And I'm like, listen,
there fireworks going off everywhere. So he comes back. He
looks at like thirty kids under the age of ten
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in the pool and down the bounce house and everything,
and he's like, He's like, this is and then all
the Dublin Rose was here to tell you the Dublin
Rose came. No, oh, the Dublin Rose was here. Yes,
she stayed till eleven was the last one here eleven
o'clock at night.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Good for her, And about Stubby was there a stubby side.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Stubby and Roberta were here.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Oh okay, that makes me happy, all right, So my mother.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Didn't make it because you hurt her back.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
But so she's still in the cave, but they so
Stubby and Roberta there, And especially funny when the Dublin
Rose showed up Roberta under her bread said, oh my god,
I hope she doesn't remember that I accused her of
sleeping with the priest. And she did remember because Roberta
the Dublin Rose looked at Stubby and said, I remember
seeing you last time we were here for this, and
you fell out on your back on the dance floor
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because he and Roberta drank a handle of teitos. Anyway,
so that, yeah, that's neither here nor that. But so
you know the cut.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
The police officers like, yeah, this is fine and everything,
but but.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Skank keeps yelling at the at Walter and then she's
yelling at the guests, and she's got a flashlight and
the dog's barking at the fence, and it's really an
uncomfortable situation. So my wife and I made the decision.
We said, listen, we said, we are a Monday morning
going to go down to the police station and report
this because.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
There was the letter.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Remember the letter, Yeah, yeah, Well did the cop not
say anything about her yelling? I mean, if the cop
it happened after.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
It happened, it happened after.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
But so Monday morning comes and and I go down
to the police station and we're like, you know, we'd
like to speak to somebody, YadA, YadA, YadA. And the
girl behind the counter was literally like a twelve year
old girls. She's like, sit down. So we sit down.
We waited for like a half hour, okay, and finally
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this guy, this police officer, comes out to talk to us,
very nice. He talks to us for a minute and
he says, okay, sit down. I gotta get a room
for us to go into. And so we sit down
and as we're sitting down, skank to coffee to the table. No,
skank walks in to the police station and she goes
up to the right up to the thing and she goes,
I to the twelve year old girl and she goes,
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I would like to talk to the chief of police.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
And the twelve year old looks at her. She goes, well,
do you have an appointment?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
And the Skank's like no, and she goes, well, you're
not going to talk to the chief of police, then
have a seat.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
And so this is literally like a twelve year old
girl telling her this.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
And so then the police police officer comes and takes
em and I back to the room and we sit
down and we you know, we're telling him the full story,
and we he's like, can I see the letter?
Speaker 4 (10:08):
I hit him the letter. He's like, can I have
this for the file?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Very nice?
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Very nice?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
And he goes through our options and as he's doing that,
the twelve year old beeps in and she goes The
other neighbor is here now too. She's cooling her heels
in the lobby, and so the guy's like, okay, well
I'll talk to her next, and he basically advised.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Her, imagine, is this is this cops day? Oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
I looked at her.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I said, dude, I said, I am. I said, we
have not. I said, it's taken a lot for us
to get here, and we have not done this before
because we know you have many better things to do
than this. I'm sorry that this is such a BS
thing that you have to deal with.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
He's like, no, no, no, no, no, it's fine, it's fine.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
He actually was nice, and he advised us to get
a no trespass order against Skank and Merrill, and so
we did that and we signed it and then he's like,
this is going to be good because I can just
serve it on her when I talk to her next.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Okay, that's great.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
And and so basically, you know, prevents her from coming
back on the property or doing it. And so we
did that and then we left and they called me
after and you know, so so basically it was a
it was we've got now a no trespass order against
Skank and Merrill. And AM looked at Skank when she
came and didn't even the woman was like the skank
knew it was us. He was like, oh oh, and
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EM was just smiling and I'm like, you know that
is that's skank And it was like really and they're like, yeah,
she looks like the fucking scarecrow from the Wizard of
Oz and EM's like, that is skank.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Well you ought to get I mean, the no trespass
order is fine, keeps him off your property, but what
you need is some sort of restraining order that keeps
her from yelling at you across the property line. I
don't know that you can get such a thing, but you.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Can go to superior court and get a civil order.
But it's like, it's who you know. I think this
had the effect I wanted it to have. Tell you
the truth.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
But yeah, lots of stuff going on, lots of lots
of interesting stuff going on.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
What do you think about the whole you know.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
The weather, the weather patterns changing. I read an article
that the Earth, because of the way it's spinning, is
a couple of days in one day in July and
one day in August, the day will be the day
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will be one point three eight, and then another day
will be one point five to one milliseconds shorter than average.
And the theory is that because the Earth is spinning
a bit faster, and because the days are shorter by
milliseconds a millisecond between one and two milliseconds, this acceleration
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is creating these weather patterns that lead to tragedies like
what happened in Texas this past week and the flooding
in New Mexico.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
What do you think about that?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Oh? But I mean, so this is a big question, right,
This is one of those questions that you know has
the largely again because of social media. And we won't
go on a rampage about that now if I can
help myself. And I'm trying to kid though, I'm trying
to Oh, I could go off in a second. But
you know, climate change, and you know the devastation of
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at least this planet, if not the Solar System, if
not the galaxy, if not the universe as a result
of climate change is you know, a very hot topic
in this country. And so well, you've asked a big question.
I'll put a pin in the big part of her
second and just for a moment say that my guess is. Now,
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I'm not a planetary physicist or a geologist, or a
meteorologist or a climatologist, but my guess is that changing
something by a thousandth of a second. Okay, now a
second is not a long time, right, Like people say
I'll be there in a second, but they never are.
They literally know, because if they're unless they're already moving,
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if you're already there, they're not going to be there
in a second, right I mean, But to say I'm
going to be there in a second, the implication is
I'm not there yet. And you are a liar. You're
you're not going to be there in a second. A
second is a very short period of time.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
So there's a second, there's a second, another second that's
probably two a thousandth of a second is you know,
just an a an almost incomprehensibly short period of time.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
And so to say that the devastating weather that occurred
in the state of Texas, and you know, like everyone,
you know, your just heart just goes out to those
family members and those parents of those poor girls that camp.
To say that that is triggered by some you know,
the Earth's rotation being increased or decreased, whichever it is,
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by millisecond, I think is just stupid. So I'm going
to say that the answer to your specific question is
the Earth's rotation being off by one one thousandth of
a second the direct cause of the tragic weather induced
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deaths of you know, not just the folks in Texas,
but I mean, there's deadly weather in this country all
the time, I don't believe. So, now, what is a
more inching question, And I'm not going to dive into
it because I just don't have the background. And it is,
if you know, anything about the history of this planet,
then you know the climate has radically changed dozens of
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times over the history of the planet. Mean, one of
the ways that anthropologists, paleontologists, geologists, et cetera measure you know,
time relevantly to events on the Earth is by the
different ice ages. Right, So you've got ice age and
you've got a low period, and you've got ice age
and you got a low period, and I can't remember
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the number, it's like eleven times over the course of
the history of the Earth. So the climate is always changing.
And so to say, oh, we have climate change, that's bad. One.
It may be bad, it may result in worse climatological
conditions than we would prefer, but that's going to happen.
There's nothing you can do to stop that here on
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good old planet Earth. So the only real question is
to what extent is that climate change being driven by
human beings and to the extent that it is, And
again I don't have the background to comment on that.
Many many many people think it is. Many many many
people think it isn't. But I mean, to the extent
is there anything we can do about it? Or is
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just our mere existence causing climate change, right. I mean,
it's just the things that we sort of have to
do in order to have the human race on the planet.
We have to produce food, we have to produce energy.
I mean, we're not going to survive if we don't
have food and energy of some sort on the planet.
Just won't. So, you know, that's the real question. And unfortunately,
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instead of answering that question honestly, instead of having you know,
neutral scientists who simply collect data, analyze the data, create
a hypothesis, test the hypothesis, you know, the scientific method,
instead of doing that, we're literally politicizing something that could
materially impact the future of the human race because we
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just like to argue with each other, which is just bullshit,
but that is what we're doing. So I don't I
will say, I will go out on on what I
think is a relatively sturdy limb here and say that
the thousandths of a second thing not the problem. But
what is potentially the problem are things that we're doing
that we could potentially not do. But we're never going
to know what the truth is there because we don't
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care about the truth anymore. We just want to we
just want to poke somebody in the eye politically.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
So someone say you can't handle the truth, right, I
mean some would.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Some would say that was a great movie.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
It was a good movie, you know what.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
You know what bothered me about that thing in Texas?
And obviously it's you know, some of the kids were
in our neighborhood that our daughter knew a couple of them,
which is just I mean, it's just sick of it.
But how does it I don't you know when I
went to boy scout camp Camp Yago years ago, all right,
Camp Yago, the first thing they did was they they
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grab they gather y'all and the thing in the in
the square or whatever, and they have this big bell, right,
and they said, listen, if this bell is wrong, then
everyone comes running, right, Everyone needs to come running and
be at this square within five minutes.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Right.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
That means there's an emergency.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Like how in the world do they not have something
like that in place, especially in like Texas where there
are tornadoes all the freaking time in the summertime. They
put aside the river, right, I mean, obviously no one
could foresee this type of thing. I mean just or
maybe you know, but my goodness, how do you not
at a camp with kids. You know, first thing say, okay,
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this is the plan of anything goes heywire, right, We're
gonna get everyone out, leave all the stuff, get to
high ground or get to in five minutes if you
hear this bell you get there. Then someone has to
monitor their damn phone. For I mean, it's only a
few weeks out of the summer.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
How does that not happen?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Well, see, buddy, and that's I think you've identified the
weak link because I actually looked into that, because I
was fascinated by that too. So as soon as I
heard this story and that you know, this river had
risen at just an unprecedented rate or rate that no
one could conceive of, and I'd literally just wiped out
cabins full of young campers my initiative. My wife came
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to me with this, you know, upset, and and I said,
how does that have It's twenty twenty five. There is
no chance that someone didn't know that there were going
to be you know, potentially dangerous rainstorms. I get, you know,
we have pretty significant weather up here in the mountains,
and I get frickin' alerts all the time. For you know,
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my phone is just constantly going off. And so that
that was my question as well. And in the brief
investigation that I did, of which was you know, certainly
not comprehensive, was that they did get an alert, but
it was at three point fifteen in the morning, and
you know, no one was awake. Now you can you
can ask yourself, hey, they should have you know, they
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probably knew earlier that blah blah, three fifteen in the morning. Yeah,
people could be asleep. But I'll tell you what, buddy,
to your point and again you you know you've hit
the say of that points. It's only a couple of
weeks out of the year. How you don't have a
night duty officer. Crazy shit happens at night, right, Fires
get started at night, gas leaks get started at night,
water main breaks get started at night. You know, the
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police conduct activity at night because crazy people are you know,
breaking into things, shooting people, they've lost their minds. All
that stuff happens at night. And if you're respond I
give you a good example here where I live in
the Mountain Joe. The people's ski I mean have ski
resorts and they do grooming of the ski resorts from
four pm to eight am every day. That the reserv,
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the e Skew Resort is open, which is like you know,
seven eight months out of a year, right, And so
you got guys in snowcats way up in these mountains
during whatever weather. They do it every day. And so
there's a ski patroller who sits in one of the
high alpine ski patrol huts all night long and their
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job is to monitor the weather so that if weather
avalanche conditions get to a certain point, they just shut
it down. They tell all these guys they get off
the mountain it's not safe. So if I were responsible
for the life and safety and security of a whole
bunch of people of any age, quite frankly, I would
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set a watch schedule, right. I mean, there would be
someone working from eight to four, there'd be someone working
from four to midnight. They'd be someone working from midnight
to eight. And your whole job would be to, you know,
ensure the safety and security of all these people because
you cannot take the position and that once the sunsets,
we're all you know, nothing bad can happen. I mean
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that's just crazy, right, And so and again I am
not I want to be very clear, I'm not armchair
quarterback in this thing. I'm not casting stones. Maybe they
had a night duty officer, maybe someone wrong. I don't know,
but I mean that's so I and I you know,
I hate it when people are like, well, you big dum,
you should have done this. But I if they did not,
I would like to know why not, Like I would
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like to know what was the thinking of we're all
set here, nothing bad can happen because it's nighttime.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Yeah, especially like I guess that's something not this tragic.
But there was flooding in like the late eighties at
the same camp, and they were alertscause because there's somebody,
you know, these people just are vile. But somebody made
the point that you know, this is about the Trump
cuts to.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
The Weather Service. And then then well then the Weather Service.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Came out and said, look, we issued like ten alerts
and here they are, and they started on on Wednesday,
and they went all the way. And when you see alerts,
and obviously the big ones were we became like a
warning was like three in the morning, but there were
other alerts that the conditions were ripe for flooding that
started on Wednesday into Thursday and then.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Obviously into early Friday.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
But how do you not I just because I see
you see those pictures and you see the kids being
left at camp, And if I were a parent, I
mean I said to my wife, I said, if I if.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
That were our daughter, I.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Would be beside myself. And then especially something like this
that is preventable, like you, like you go on a
cruise ship. First thing they do is get everyone together
and they say, Okay, these are the things can happen.
I mean, like I think about tornadoes. Tornadoes rip through
Texas all the time, especially in the summertime. Always they
do it at night, and they do it at night
and they come very quickly. And like how you don't
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have a plan for that that can then be translated
into this flood thing, which by the way, is much
more predictable than tornadoes.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Is just beyond me. And obviously it's a terrible thing.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
And I don't want to you know, but man, that
is for those parents, you know, the mothers, uh, just.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Absolutely heartbreaking, absolutely heartbreaking.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Well and hopefully, I mean there's nothing you can do
about it at this point, right and hopefully there was
no real like negligence in the sense of someone just
shrugging their shoulders and saying, oh, I don't care, right,
and I don't suspect there was, but hopefully we will
learn something from it. And ironically, I think part of
the problem might well be. I think if you were
to sit someone in a room and say, look, this
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is just between you and me, and you know no
one's ever going to hear this, I think what you
would hear as these people, you know, just sort of
frustrating in a frustrated fashion, saying, Loo, can we get
these freaking alerts all the time and nothing ever happens? Right?
You know, if we rallied the campers every time the
National Weather Service issues an alert, we would do nothing
but rally the campers, right, we would never camp We
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would just be meeting in the square because the National
Weather Service it issued something. And there's some truth to that, right,
I mean the National Weather Service. And again I'm not
knocking them. It's a very I'm sure it's very hard
line to cross because you want to put out your alert.
But if you and it's certainly true of me, I
don't even read the alerts anymore. I get so many
on my phone, like okay, whatever we're gonna you know,
we're gonna have a thunderstorm, there's gonna be high winds, whatever. Right,
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So how you're supposed to distinguish between the mini many
alerts you get that don't result in any kind of
devastating event and the alerts that are actually telling you, hey,
this could be a devastating event. I don't know. I
don't know what the solution for that is, but my
guess is some of that was also in play, that
that they got the alerts and they said, well, we
get these alerts all the time. It's Texas, Like you said,
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it's Texas. This weather comes and you know, we get
some rain, we get some wind, the river goes up
a few feet. You know, it is what it is.
If we, you know, lived our lives according to those alerts,
all we would do is be in a shelter all day.
And so that sucks too, right, And I'm sure that
to the extent that that happened, those people will be
kicking themselves and wake up every morning and that will
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be the first thought was damn it. You know, why
did I not listen to that alert? But you know,
it is what it is human nature.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Yeah, I I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
I don't know what the answer is, but that's just
tragic and and you know, hopefully they can figure it out.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Lastly, Brad, we like to end on a more.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Upbeat note, right because it is it is what it is.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
There are two things I'd like to talk about.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
One.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
You know, we've we've we've we've we've talked about the
Remember the tide pod challenge?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Oh yeah, what was the story with that?
Speaker 2 (26:42):
You had to eat a tie pod with a detergent.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
That's natural selection at work right there. You eat a
tie pod, you deserve what comes.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
But anyway, here's here's one I'd like to get your
take on, Like if this happened to you, because you're
not you're not on TikTok, are you?
Speaker 4 (27:00):
No? No, okay?
Speaker 2 (27:01):
And a lot of these folks on TikTok are trying
to create content, right, That's what their their deal is,
right Yeah, yeah, ninety of these kids, these these some
adults on TikToker, they're trying to create content that they'll
post and then.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
You have to put adults in air quotes there.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
By the way, Yeah, that's true, they are adults.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
But there's a new challenge called the urban X or
Urban Exploration Challenge. And this is also known as the
door kicking challenge. And this is where teens come to
doors late at night and kick the door and ring
the bell and try to like they'll wear masks, try
to scare people.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
How do they not get shot?
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Well, that's I mean that that's a problem, right, I
guess I.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Would suspect it is.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Yeah, I guess A couple of these haven't ended well
for the influencers. But most of them, the influencers just
go ring the bell people up scared the hell out
of them. But a couple of them people came out
the door and got a hold of the influencers and
then hurt them. Like, what would your plan be like?
If someone was kicking at your door with like a
mask on? What would you how would you rid the
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urban che say something? Do you have a ring camera?
Speaker 3 (28:18):
We do?
Speaker 2 (28:19):
So you have a ring camera? Someone wake up at
two in the morning. Someone's kicking your door, you know,
hello with a mask on? What do you do kicking
kicking your door?
Speaker 3 (28:29):
I literally beat the ever loving dog shit out of them.
I mean, I hopefully I wouldn't kill them, but I might, right,
I mean, if someone and not because they rang my doorbell.
I mean if you ring my doorbell at night, and
the benefit of having the camera is I can communicate
with you via that device and try to figure out, like,
are you in danger? I mean, if you're in my
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house at two in the morning, I live, you know
you've been here. It's kind of the middle of nowhere.
So I mean, if you're ringing my doorbell at two am,
either you're a neighbor who has some desperate problem, and
which case I want to help. You're some poor citizen
vacation or something who has some desperate problem, which case
I want to help, or you're some form of jackass,
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in which case I don't want to help. And if
I can just convince you to leave my front porch
by communicating with you through that device, then fine, then
you know you're on your way. And that is what
is you start trying to kick in my door. I
turn to my lovely wife, I say, call the police,
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and then I go up there and I proceed to
just beat the hell out of you in the fastest, best,
most efficient way I can, because you're trying to come
in my house where my family is, and if you
die of that, I will be marginally regretful, but I'll
be get over it. You were kicking in the door
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of my house, Okay, so in the middle of the
night for no reason. So that's what I would do.
I don't own a gun, so I mean, I'm not
gonna shoot animuddy, but I mean that's that's what I
would do.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
What would you The kool Aid challenge that people just
run through tried to run through the fence.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
I saw that that. I think, as long as it's
not my fence, I think it's both humorous and it's
probably self correcting, where you know, you smack into a
fence a couple of times and you probably say yourself
with jeez, you know, I don't want to do that.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Finally, Brad, the Big, the Big hot Dog eating contest.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Every year we report on this, and I know it's
your favorite.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Other than the Turkey Gobbler episode where we talk about
the turkeys of the year, this is the big one.
So this year Joey jaws chest on his back. He
reclaimed his title after that little Chinaman I think one
last year, but in any event.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
He consumed.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Let's see, seventy point five hot dogs and buns you
have to eat the hot that it's not just the
hot dog, it's hot dogs and bunser singingly.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
You don't have to eat them together, No, you have
to eat them together. Seventy that's a lot. I'm always
fascinated by the same budd He's marginally grossed out, but
always fascinated by the fact that you're eating seven, on average,
seven hot dogs a minute. Okay, so that's a hot
dog at night. I can't do the math every eight seven,
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eight seconds something like that, so that that's a hot
dog every seven or eight seconds straight for ten minutes.
And for me, it's not it's not a health issue.
It's it's not a you know, this is just disgusting issue.
It's a physics problem. What does a guy stack? Exactly?
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If I stack seventy hot dogs and buns on a
table and then I put Joey the Jaws Chestnut or
whatever his name is, you take.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Them next to that. This is how many hot dogs
you hate?
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Yeah, next to that table, And I say, okay, this
amount of physical material is going to go inside of
this person, and it's going to happen in ten minutes.
Just look at that, right, I mean that seventy quite
five hot dogs.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
How is that possible?
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Possible?
Speaker 2 (32:17):
But you know, the greats spread, the greats always come through,
and I mean, that's it. His record is seventy five, right,
he had seventy five once and seventy six in twenty
twenty one. Now that's during COVID, so that could explain it.
But he said, I wish I had a couple more
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hot dogs, sorry to the fans as.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
They cheered, but he said they'll be back next year.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
And then in the woman's division, Miki Pseudo of Tampa
we talked about last year, had thirty three hot dogs
in ten minutes. Last year she had a record fifty one,
but she won by.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
She was like Seattle slew last year.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
She was so far ahead. So now she dialed it back.
Her cardiology I think probably told her yeah, or somebody said, hey,
this is going to kill you. I yeah. That's the
biggest thing for me.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
I would like for someone who actually knows what they're
talking about to say, okay, well here, I mean, I
get it. The bread is mostly air, and there's probably
I mean, a hot dog seems like a relatively dense thing,
but maybe there's space there. I mean, I get that
you can you know, you take some of that initial
volume out of play, but still you take all the
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air out of those things. That's still larger than a
human being's digestive tract. So I would like for someone
to say, well, this is this is what happens. This
is where you know, the ten pounds of stuff fits
in the five pound bag, right, this is this is
how that happens. And I it's fascinated by that. I
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don't want to do it. I do not want to
experiment with it, but I would like someone to explain it.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
You're not allowed to throw it up either. I think
you have to. You have to digest that. They require it.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Yeah, that's buddy, Like I said, I mean for me,
it's like a magic trick. I don't I do not
know where the hot dogs and buns go.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
You gotta take your five and five after this and before.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
And during and yeah, I mean it's just.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Like being in the ocean though.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
I mean, it's just it literally must take disgusting days
to recover from that. It must. But I don't you
know what, but it's probably not. We're thinking about it something.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
Yeah, I think we're I think we're good. I think
we're going to wrap it up here.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Yeah, well, let's let's do that. I mean again, we've
we've done everything we needed to do. We talked about
you know, weathers and alerts and that stuff is important
and we should be paying attention to it. And then
you know, we transitioned over to Joey who is still
to this day on the can regretting his life choices,
and we covered all that in less than an hour
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on one podcast. Where are you going to get that
nowhere but right here? And we'll do it again. I mean,
that's an amazing thing. We'll do it again next week
right here.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
I frequently, this has been IP frequently, once again, clearing
a forest of lies with the machete of truth.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
You're welcome.
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
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(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's sheaf.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Well, there it is, brad don't tread on me by
the Damn Yankees. I'm not gonna lie. Maybe maybe I shall.
When I grew up, I don't. I don't necessarily remember
going to a Damn Yankees concert having one of their
records or eight tracks or cassettes lying around. But I
mean just listening to the ballad, and uh, don't tread
(01:19):
on me. I've got to say I'm the loser there
because I should have paid more attention. I mean, just terrific,
terrific harmony, melody. The piano is exactly on point harpsichord,
and I believe I heard a little into an obo there.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Well, you may have buddy, I mean Damn Yankees again.
You you are a seventies music guy more than an
eighties music guy. I am much more of an eighties
music guy, which is ironic because.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
I am a lot older than I am.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
You are a lot of But the Damn Yankees were
a supergroup. Tommy Shaw from Styx, Jack Blades from Night Ranger,
Ted Nugent, who remains touring to this day, and and
the drummer's name escapes me, but he uh he later
I think still does maybe drum for Leonard Skynyrd. So
(02:09):
I mean it's uh, they were legit not Buddy Rich.
It wouldn't be Buddy Rich, and I would not would
not be Buddy Rich. Wrong era there, but they don't
treat on me. It was a big hit. Probably their
biggest hit was and you mentioned you set a ballad
so good on you was there? You know, their eighties
power ballad high Enough was high.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Enough Gonna Get high Enough? I love that song. It
was really good, really good.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
How about did they also sing Jesse's Girl?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
You know, I'm in love with Jesse's Girl? How do
I find a woman like that?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Which is always ironic? Yeah, that's yeah, that's rich Springfield,
and I couldn't help as a child of the eighties
hearing Jesse's Girl good tune, but I would always think
of Uncle Jesse, do hazard? Dukes a hazard? And I
was like, I don't. My guess is Uncle Jesse's girlfriend,
given that he's you know, in his seventies. So you know,
(03:08):
there was just a little cognitive dissonance there for me
between Jesse's Girl and the dukes of hazards Uncle Jesse.
But yeah, I don't know. I'm probably getting off topic.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
So how was your How was your Fourth of July?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
It was good. It was quiet. We just hung out
and enjoyed the day, did a little grilling.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
We had we had some we had some fireworks here,
as you know, the Ospreys do well look through it.
We put on a Did I send you the video
of the show. No, I'll gott to send you the video.
The show was fantastic, okay, and uh, and then we
had a little incident where the neighbor you know, and
I'm not gonna again, I don't want to.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
This show is not about identifying.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
People, right, It's not certainly not Silas Moody.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
No, So let's just.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Say let's just say their name's rhyme was Skank and Merrill.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
So, so Hank and Cheryl were upset about the the osprey,
you know, because the.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
You have nesting osprey somewhere near your property.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
They put a nest up on the property line. Yeah,
I don't have them. They're not naturally nesting anywhere.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
They put a nest up on the property line after
they bought the house, like seven years after I was here,
eight years after I was here, ten whatever it was.
It was anyway, so they're concerned about the osprey. We
talked about that last week. So this week our pyrotechnics guy,
Russell was lining up the fireworks and Skank came over
(04:36):
to the fence and she had the flashlight out there
and their dog, and the dog was barking at Russell.
But for purposes of this show, let's call him Walter.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Okay, fireworks guy.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Yeah, he's he's and she's yelling what's your name? What's
your name?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
And he looks like he goes Walter, even though I
you know, his name is Russell. And so and he
sets off the.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
You know, all the fireworks and and she calls the police.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
The police show up and the you know, they we
got a DJ out back who showed up and he
was a little bit under the weather, you know, and
uh because he'd been in the parade all day and he,
you know, been enjoying himself and so altered.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
I I have a guy out here that who refers
to anyone and it drives me nuts. I'm like, why
don't you just say drunk? But he just the word
he uses constantly is altered. So Walter was altered. No, no, no, no,
Walter was no no, Walter was as the church must. Yeah,
the DJ was altered DJ Louis. And so DJ Louis
comes up to me when he gets to the house
(05:41):
and he he hands me this orange can and I
said what's that?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
And he said, what's gin and juice? And I was like, oh,
that's great, and it's warm. I mean, the thing has
got to be like eighty degrees. And he said, I've
been in the in the Bristol Fourth of July Parade,
which is the oldest Fourth of July.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Parade, brad in America, all of it.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
First one you burned your gin and juice in that parade.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
So okay, yeah, So he's been in that parade, and
he said he had like ten of them, and I'm like,
look at it's like five point five percent.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
I like, how are you gonna Yeah, So.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Then he proceeds to eat three plates of food and
then he starts playing graphic rap music to the point
where we had to remind him that it was a
kid's party.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
And then he started started. But anyway, so he started, he.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Got on the right track, and then he as the
fireworks are going off, he's playing that Toby Keith song, Uh,
you know, we lit up your world like the fourth
of July.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
I remember that. Oh yeah, you got to see the Red, White,
Blue Grit was just a terrific song.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
And they see that thing's blaring at like a twenty
on a scale of one to ten. The fireworks are
going off like your Disney World, and the police officer
shows up, and the goodness is the police officer shows up.
Very nice guy, very nice. They're all very nice and
he shows up here and that's a good gig to
be a Barrington cop. I mean, yes, yeah, So anyway,
a nice kid, nice nice kid. He comes over and
he's like, he's like, you know, we got a report
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that I don't think It was the same one that
they called on my son outdoor birthday party to shut
it down during COVID because they were so concerned about that.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Skank and Meryl.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
But anyway, so I'm like, you want to come in
the backyard and see and he's like, yeah, and there
are fireworks, you know, Walter is setting off fireworks.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
He's like, are those coming from your backyard?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
And I said, he said, you said, he said there
are no fireworks, and I said, no fire we were
setting off fireworks. But literally, at this time, there are
literally fireworks going off in every direction, like every house
is setting off fireworks. Not the scope and scale of
which we're doing, but they're everywhere. And I'm like, listen,
there fireworks going off everywhere. So he comes back. He
looks at like thirty kids under the age of ten
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in the pool and down the bounce house and everything,
and he's like, He's like, this is and then all
the Dublin Rose was here to tell you the Dublin
Rose came. No, oh, the Dublin Rose was here. Yes,
she stayed till eleven was the last one here eleven
o'clock at night.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Good for her, And about Stubby was there a stubby side.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Stubby and Roberta were here.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Oh okay, that makes me happy, all right, So my mother.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Didn't make it because you hurt her back.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
But so she's still in the cave, but they so
Stubby and Roberta there, And especially funny when the Dublin
Rose showed up Roberta under her bread said, oh my god,
I hope she doesn't remember that I accused her of
sleeping with the priest. And she did remember because Roberta
the Dublin Rose looked at Stubby and said, I remember
seeing you last time we were here for this, and
you fell out on your back on the dance floor
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because he and Roberta drank a handle of teitos. Anyway,
so that, yeah, that's neither here nor that. But so
you know the cut.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
The police officers like, yeah, this is fine and everything,
but but.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Skank keeps yelling at the at Walter and then she's
yelling at the guests, and she's got a flashlight and
the dog's barking at the fence, and it's really an
uncomfortable situation. So my wife and I made the decision.
We said, listen, we said, we are a Monday morning
going to go down to the police station and report
this because.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
There was the letter.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Remember the letter, Yeah, yeah, Well did the cop not
say anything about her yelling? I mean, if the cop
it happened after.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
It happened, it happened after.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
But so Monday morning comes and and I go down
to the police station and we're like, you know, we'd
like to speak to somebody, YadA, YadA, YadA. And the
girl behind the counter was literally like a twelve year
old girls. She's like, sit down. So we sit down.
We waited for like a half hour, okay, and finally
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this guy, this police officer, comes out to talk to us,
very nice. He talks to us for a minute and
he says, okay, sit down. I gotta get a room
for us to go into. And so we sit down
and as we're sitting down, skank to coffee to the table. No,
skank walks in to the police station and she goes
up to the right up to the thing and she goes,
I to the twelve year old girl and she goes,
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I would like to talk to the chief of police.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
And the twelve year old looks at her. She goes, well,
do you have an appointment?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
And the Skank's like no, and she goes, well, you're
not going to talk to the chief of police, then
have a seat.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
And so this is literally like a twelve year old
girl telling her this.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
And so then the police police officer comes and takes
em and I back to the room and we sit
down and we you know, we're telling him the full story,
and we he's like, can I see the letter?
Speaker 4 (10:08):
I hit him the letter. He's like, can I have
this for the file?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Very nice?
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Very nice?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
And he goes through our options and as he's doing that,
the twelve year old beeps in and she goes The
other neighbor is here now too. She's cooling her heels
in the lobby, and so the guy's like, okay, well
I'll talk to her next, and he basically advised.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Her, imagine, is this is this cops day? Oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
I looked at her.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I said, dude, I said, I am. I said, we
have not. I said, it's taken a lot for us
to get here, and we have not done this before
because we know you have many better things to do
than this. I'm sorry that this is such a BS
thing that you have to deal with.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
He's like, no, no, no, no, no, it's fine, it's fine.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
He actually was nice, and he advised us to get
a no trespass order against Skank and Merrill, and so
we did that and we signed it and then he's like,
this is going to be good because I can just
serve it on her when I talk to her next.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Okay, that's great.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
And and so basically, you know, prevents her from coming
back on the property or doing it. And so we
did that and then we left and they called me
after and you know, so so basically it was a
it was we've got now a no trespass order against
Skank and Merrill. And AM looked at Skank when she
came and didn't even the woman was like the skank
knew it was us. He was like, oh oh, and
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EM was just smiling and I'm like, you know that
is that's skank And it was like really and they're like, yeah,
she looks like the fucking scarecrow from the Wizard of
Oz and EM's like, that is skank.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Well you ought to get I mean, the no trespass
order is fine, keeps him off your property, but what
you need is some sort of restraining order that keeps
her from yelling at you across the property line. I
don't know that you can get such a thing, but you.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Can go to superior court and get a civil order.
But it's like, it's who you know. I think this
had the effect I wanted it to have. Tell you
the truth.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
But yeah, lots of stuff going on, lots of lots
of interesting stuff going on.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
What do you think about the whole you know.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
The weather, the weather patterns changing. I read an article
that the Earth, because of the way it's spinning, is
a couple of days in one day in July and
one day in August, the day will be the day
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will be one point three eight, and then another day
will be one point five to one milliseconds shorter than average.
And the theory is that because the Earth is spinning
a bit faster, and because the days are shorter by
milliseconds a millisecond between one and two milliseconds, this acceleration
(12:46):
is creating these weather patterns that lead to tragedies like
what happened in Texas this past week and the flooding
in New Mexico.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
What do you think about that?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Oh? But I mean, so this is a big question, right,
This is one of those questions that you know has
the largely again because of social media. And we won't
go on a rampage about that now if I can
help myself. And I'm trying to kid though, I'm trying
to Oh, I could go off in a second. But
you know, climate change, and you know the devastation of
(13:18):
at least this planet, if not the Solar System, if
not the galaxy, if not the universe as a result
of climate change is you know, a very hot topic
in this country. And so well, you've asked a big question.
I'll put a pin in the big part of her
second and just for a moment say that my guess is. Now,
(13:38):
I'm not a planetary physicist or a geologist, or a
meteorologist or a climatologist, but my guess is that changing
something by a thousandth of a second. Okay, now a
second is not a long time, right, Like people say
I'll be there in a second, but they never are.
They literally know, because if they're unless they're already moving,
(14:00):
if you're already there, they're not going to be there
in a second, right I mean, But to say I'm
going to be there in a second, the implication is
I'm not there yet. And you are a liar. You're
you're not going to be there in a second. A
second is a very short period of time.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
So there's a second, there's a second, another second that's
probably two a thousandth of a second is you know,
just an a an almost incomprehensibly short period of time.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
And so to say that the devastating weather that occurred
in the state of Texas, and you know, like everyone,
you know, your just heart just goes out to those
family members and those parents of those poor girls that camp.
To say that that is triggered by some you know,
the Earth's rotation being increased or decreased, whichever it is,
(14:51):
by millisecond, I think is just stupid. So I'm going
to say that the answer to your specific question is
the Earth's rotation being off by one one thousandth of
a second the direct cause of the tragic weather induced
(15:12):
deaths of you know, not just the folks in Texas,
but I mean, there's deadly weather in this country all
the time, I don't believe. So, now, what is a
more inching question, And I'm not going to dive into
it because I just don't have the background. And it is,
if you know, anything about the history of this planet,
then you know the climate has radically changed dozens of
(15:34):
times over the history of the planet. Mean, one of
the ways that anthropologists, paleontologists, geologists, et cetera measure you know,
time relevantly to events on the Earth is by the
different ice ages. Right, So you've got ice age and
you've got a low period, and you've got ice age
and you got a low period, and I can't remember
(15:56):
the number, it's like eleven times over the course of
the history of the Earth. So the climate is always changing.
And so to say, oh, we have climate change, that's bad. One.
It may be bad, it may result in worse climatological
conditions than we would prefer, but that's going to happen.
There's nothing you can do to stop that here on
(16:18):
good old planet Earth. So the only real question is
to what extent is that climate change being driven by
human beings and to the extent that it is, And
again I don't have the background to comment on that.
Many many many people think it is. Many many many
people think it isn't. But I mean, to the extent
is there anything we can do about it? Or is
(16:39):
just our mere existence causing climate change, right. I mean,
it's just the things that we sort of have to
do in order to have the human race on the planet.
We have to produce food, we have to produce energy.
I mean, we're not going to survive if we don't
have food and energy of some sort on the planet.
Just won't. So, you know, that's the real question. And unfortunately,
(17:03):
instead of answering that question honestly, instead of having you know,
neutral scientists who simply collect data, analyze the data, create
a hypothesis, test the hypothesis, you know, the scientific method,
instead of doing that, we're literally politicizing something that could
materially impact the future of the human race because we
(17:24):
just like to argue with each other, which is just bullshit,
but that is what we're doing. So I don't I
will say, I will go out on on what I
think is a relatively sturdy limb here and say that
the thousandths of a second thing not the problem. But
what is potentially the problem are things that we're doing
that we could potentially not do. But we're never going
to know what the truth is there because we don't
(17:45):
care about the truth anymore. We just want to we
just want to poke somebody in the eye politically.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
So someone say you can't handle the truth, right, I
mean some would.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Some would say that was a great movie.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
It was a good movie, you know what.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
You know what bothered me about that thing in Texas?
And obviously it's you know, some of the kids were
in our neighborhood that our daughter knew a couple of them,
which is just I mean, it's just sick of it.
But how does it I don't you know when I
went to boy scout camp Camp Yago years ago, all right,
Camp Yago, the first thing they did was they they
(18:19):
grab they gather y'all and the thing in the in
the square or whatever, and they have this big bell, right,
and they said, listen, if this bell is wrong, then
everyone comes running, right, Everyone needs to come running and
be at this square within five minutes.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Right.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
That means there's an emergency.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Like how in the world do they not have something
like that in place, especially in like Texas where there
are tornadoes all the freaking time in the summertime. They
put aside the river, right, I mean, obviously no one
could foresee this type of thing. I mean just or
maybe you know, but my goodness, how do you not
at a camp with kids. You know, first thing say, okay,
(18:58):
this is the plan of anything goes heywire, right, We're
gonna get everyone out, leave all the stuff, get to
high ground or get to in five minutes if you
hear this bell you get there. Then someone has to
monitor their damn phone. For I mean, it's only a
few weeks out of the summer.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
How does that not happen?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Well, see, buddy, and that's I think you've identified the
weak link because I actually looked into that, because I
was fascinated by that too. So as soon as I
heard this story and that you know, this river had
risen at just an unprecedented rate or rate that no
one could conceive of, and I'd literally just wiped out
cabins full of young campers my initiative. My wife came
(19:37):
to me with this, you know, upset, and and I said,
how does that have It's twenty twenty five. There is
no chance that someone didn't know that there were going
to be you know, potentially dangerous rainstorms. I get, you know,
we have pretty significant weather up here in the mountains,
and I get frickin' alerts all the time. For you know,
(19:59):
my phone is just constantly going off. And so that
that was my question as well. And in the brief
investigation that I did, of which was you know, certainly
not comprehensive, was that they did get an alert, but
it was at three point fifteen in the morning, and
you know, no one was awake. Now you can you
can ask yourself, hey, they should have you know, they
(20:20):
probably knew earlier that blah blah, three fifteen in the morning. Yeah,
people could be asleep. But I'll tell you what, buddy,
to your point and again you you know you've hit
the say of that points. It's only a couple of
weeks out of the year. How you don't have a
night duty officer. Crazy shit happens at night, right, Fires
get started at night, gas leaks get started at night,
water main breaks get started at night. You know, the
(20:42):
police conduct activity at night because crazy people are you know,
breaking into things, shooting people, they've lost their minds. All
that stuff happens at night. And if you're respond I
give you a good example here where I live in
the Mountain Joe. The people's ski I mean have ski
resorts and they do grooming of the ski resorts from
four pm to eight am every day. That the reserv,
(21:03):
the e Skew Resort is open, which is like you know,
seven eight months out of a year, right, And so
you got guys in snowcats way up in these mountains
during whatever weather. They do it every day. And so
there's a ski patroller who sits in one of the
high alpine ski patrol huts all night long and their
(21:24):
job is to monitor the weather so that if weather
avalanche conditions get to a certain point, they just shut
it down. They tell all these guys they get off
the mountain it's not safe. So if I were responsible
for the life and safety and security of a whole
bunch of people of any age, quite frankly, I would
(21:44):
set a watch schedule, right. I mean, there would be
someone working from eight to four, there'd be someone working
from four to midnight. They'd be someone working from midnight
to eight. And your whole job would be to, you know,
ensure the safety and security of all these people because
you cannot take the position and that once the sunsets,
we're all you know, nothing bad can happen. I mean
(22:04):
that's just crazy, right, And so and again I am
not I want to be very clear, I'm not armchair
quarterback in this thing. I'm not casting stones. Maybe they
had a night duty officer, maybe someone wrong. I don't know,
but I mean that's so I and I you know,
I hate it when people are like, well, you big dum,
you should have done this. But I if they did not,
I would like to know why not, Like I would
(22:25):
like to know what was the thinking of we're all
set here, nothing bad can happen because it's nighttime.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Yeah, especially like I guess that's something not this tragic.
But there was flooding in like the late eighties at
the same camp, and they were alertscause because there's somebody,
you know, these people just are vile. But somebody made
the point that you know, this is about the Trump
cuts to.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
The Weather Service. And then then well then the Weather Service.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Came out and said, look, we issued like ten alerts
and here they are, and they started on on Wednesday,
and they went all the way. And when you see alerts,
and obviously the big ones were we became like a
warning was like three in the morning, but there were
other alerts that the conditions were ripe for flooding that
started on Wednesday into Thursday and then.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Obviously into early Friday.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
But how do you not I just because I see
you see those pictures and you see the kids being
left at camp, And if I were a parent, I
mean I said to my wife, I said, if I if.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
That were our daughter, I.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Would be beside myself. And then especially something like this
that is preventable, like you, like you go on a
cruise ship. First thing they do is get everyone together
and they say, Okay, these are the things can happen.
I mean, like I think about tornadoes. Tornadoes rip through
Texas all the time, especially in the summertime. Always they
do it at night, and they do it at night
and they come very quickly. And like how you don't
(23:49):
have a plan for that that can then be translated
into this flood thing, which by the way, is much
more predictable than tornadoes.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Is just beyond me. And obviously it's a terrible thing.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
And I don't want to you know, but man, that
is for those parents, you know, the mothers, uh, just.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Absolutely heartbreaking, absolutely heartbreaking.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Well and hopefully, I mean there's nothing you can do
about it at this point, right and hopefully there was
no real like negligence in the sense of someone just
shrugging their shoulders and saying, oh, I don't care, right,
and I don't suspect there was, but hopefully we will
learn something from it. And ironically, I think part of
the problem might well be. I think if you were
to sit someone in a room and say, look, this
(24:31):
is just between you and me, and you know no
one's ever going to hear this, I think what you
would hear as these people, you know, just sort of
frustrating in a frustrated fashion, saying, Loo, can we get
these freaking alerts all the time and nothing ever happens? Right?
You know, if we rallied the campers every time the
National Weather Service issues an alert, we would do nothing
but rally the campers, right, we would never camp We
(24:52):
would just be meeting in the square because the National
Weather Service it issued something. And there's some truth to that, right,
I mean the National Weather Service. And again I'm not
knocking them. It's a very I'm sure it's very hard
line to cross because you want to put out your alert.
But if you and it's certainly true of me, I
don't even read the alerts anymore. I get so many
on my phone, like okay, whatever we're gonna you know,
we're gonna have a thunderstorm, there's gonna be high winds, whatever. Right,
(25:16):
So how you're supposed to distinguish between the mini many
alerts you get that don't result in any kind of
devastating event and the alerts that are actually telling you, hey,
this could be a devastating event. I don't know. I
don't know what the solution for that is, but my
guess is some of that was also in play, that
that they got the alerts and they said, well, we
get these alerts all the time. It's Texas, Like you said,
(25:38):
it's Texas. This weather comes and you know, we get
some rain, we get some wind, the river goes up
a few feet. You know, it is what it is.
If we, you know, lived our lives according to those alerts,
all we would do is be in a shelter all day.
And so that sucks too, right, And I'm sure that
to the extent that that happened, those people will be
kicking themselves and wake up every morning and that will
(26:00):
be the first thought was damn it. You know, why
did I not listen to that alert? But you know,
it is what it is human nature.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Yeah, I I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
I don't know what the answer is, but that's just
tragic and and you know, hopefully they can figure it out.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Lastly, Brad, we like to end on a more.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Upbeat note, right because it is it is what it is.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
There are two things I'd like to talk about.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
One.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
You know, we've we've we've we've we've talked about the
Remember the tide pod challenge?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Oh yeah, what was the story with that?
Speaker 2 (26:42):
You had to eat a tie pod with a detergent.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
That's natural selection at work right there. You eat a
tie pod, you deserve what comes.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
But anyway, here's here's one I'd like to get your
take on, Like if this happened to you, because you're
not you're not on TikTok, are you?
Speaker 4 (27:00):
No? No, okay?
Speaker 2 (27:01):
And a lot of these folks on TikTok are trying
to create content, right, That's what their their deal is,
right Yeah, yeah, ninety of these kids, these these some
adults on TikToker, they're trying to create content that they'll
post and then.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
You have to put adults in air quotes there.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
By the way, Yeah, that's true, they are adults.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
But there's a new challenge called the urban X or
Urban Exploration Challenge. And this is also known as the
door kicking challenge. And this is where teens come to
doors late at night and kick the door and ring
the bell and try to like they'll wear masks, try
to scare people.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
How do they not get shot?
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Well, that's I mean that that's a problem, right, I
guess I.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Would suspect it is.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Yeah, I guess A couple of these haven't ended well
for the influencers. But most of them, the influencers just
go ring the bell people up scared the hell out
of them. But a couple of them people came out
the door and got a hold of the influencers and
then hurt them. Like, what would your plan be like?
If someone was kicking at your door with like a
mask on? What would you how would you rid the
(28:14):
urban che say something? Do you have a ring camera?
Speaker 3 (28:18):
We do?
Speaker 2 (28:19):
So you have a ring camera? Someone wake up at
two in the morning. Someone's kicking your door, you know,
hello with a mask on? What do you do kicking
kicking your door?
Speaker 3 (28:29):
I literally beat the ever loving dog shit out of them.
I mean, I hopefully I wouldn't kill them, but I might, right,
I mean, if someone and not because they rang my doorbell.
I mean if you ring my doorbell at night, and
the benefit of having the camera is I can communicate
with you via that device and try to figure out, like,
are you in danger? I mean, if you're in my
(28:51):
house at two in the morning, I live, you know
you've been here. It's kind of the middle of nowhere.
So I mean, if you're ringing my doorbell at two am,
either you're a neighbor who has some desperate problem, and
which case I want to help. You're some poor citizen
vacation or something who has some desperate problem, which case
I want to help, or you're some form of jackass,
(29:13):
in which case I don't want to help. And if
I can just convince you to leave my front porch
by communicating with you through that device, then fine, then
you know you're on your way. And that is what
is you start trying to kick in my door. I
turn to my lovely wife, I say, call the police,
(29:33):
and then I go up there and I proceed to
just beat the hell out of you in the fastest, best,
most efficient way I can, because you're trying to come
in my house where my family is, and if you
die of that, I will be marginally regretful, but I'll
be get over it. You were kicking in the door
(29:54):
of my house, Okay, so in the middle of the
night for no reason. So that's what I would do.
I don't own a gun, so I mean, I'm not
gonna shoot animuddy, but I mean that's that's what I
would do.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
What would you The kool Aid challenge that people just
run through tried to run through the fence.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
I saw that that. I think, as long as it's
not my fence, I think it's both humorous and it's
probably self correcting, where you know, you smack into a
fence a couple of times and you probably say yourself
with jeez, you know, I don't want to do that.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Finally, Brad, the Big, the Big hot Dog eating contest.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Every year we report on this, and I know it's
your favorite.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Other than the Turkey Gobbler episode where we talk about
the turkeys of the year, this is the big one.
So this year Joey jaws chest on his back. He
reclaimed his title after that little Chinaman I think one
last year, but in any event.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
He consumed.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Let's see, seventy point five hot dogs and buns you
have to eat the hot that it's not just the
hot dog, it's hot dogs and bunser singingly.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
You don't have to eat them together, No, you have
to eat them together. Seventy that's a lot. I'm always
fascinated by the same budd He's marginally grossed out, but
always fascinated by the fact that you're eating seven, on average,
seven hot dogs a minute. Okay, so that's a hot
dog at night. I can't do the math every eight seven,
(31:21):
eight seconds something like that, so that that's a hot
dog every seven or eight seconds straight for ten minutes.
And for me, it's not it's not a health issue.
It's it's not a you know, this is just disgusting issue.
It's a physics problem. What does a guy stack? Exactly?
(31:41):
If I stack seventy hot dogs and buns on a
table and then I put Joey the Jaws Chestnut or
whatever his name is, you take.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
Them next to that. This is how many hot dogs
you hate?
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Yeah, next to that table, And I say, okay, this
amount of physical material is going to go inside of
this person, and it's going to happen in ten minutes.
Just look at that, right, I mean that seventy quite
five hot dogs.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
How is that possible?
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Possible?
Speaker 2 (32:17):
But you know, the greats spread, the greats always come through,
and I mean, that's it. His record is seventy five, right,
he had seventy five once and seventy six in twenty
twenty one. Now that's during COVID, so that could explain it.
But he said, I wish I had a couple more
(32:37):
hot dogs, sorry to the fans as.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
They cheered, but he said they'll be back next year.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
And then in the woman's division, Miki Pseudo of Tampa
we talked about last year, had thirty three hot dogs
in ten minutes. Last year she had a record fifty one,
but she won by.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
She was like Seattle slew last year.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
She was so far ahead. So now she dialed it back.
Her cardiology I think probably told her yeah, or somebody said, hey,
this is going to kill you. I yeah. That's the
biggest thing for me.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
I would like for someone who actually knows what they're
talking about to say, okay, well here, I mean, I
get it. The bread is mostly air, and there's probably
I mean, a hot dog seems like a relatively dense thing,
but maybe there's space there. I mean, I get that
you can you know, you take some of that initial
volume out of play, but still you take all the
(33:29):
air out of those things. That's still larger than a
human being's digestive tract. So I would like for someone
to say, well, this is this is what happens. This
is where you know, the ten pounds of stuff fits
in the five pound bag, right, this is this is
how that happens. And I it's fascinated by that. I
(33:51):
don't want to do it. I do not want to
experiment with it, but I would like someone to explain it.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
You're not allowed to throw it up either. I think
you have to. You have to digest that. They require it.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Yeah, that's buddy, Like I said, I mean for me,
it's like a magic trick. I don't I do not
know where the hot dogs and buns go.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
You gotta take your five and five after this and before.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
And during and yeah, I mean it's just.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Like being in the ocean though.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
I mean, it's just it literally must take disgusting days
to recover from that. It must. But I don't you
know what, but it's probably not. We're thinking about it something.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
Yeah, I think we're I think we're good. I think
we're going to wrap it up here.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Yeah, well, let's let's do that. I mean again, we've
we've done everything we needed to do. We talked about
you know, weathers and alerts and that stuff is important
and we should be paying attention to it. And then
you know, we transitioned over to Joey who is still
to this day on the can regretting his life choices,
and we covered all that in less than an hour
(34:58):
on one podcast. Where are you going to get that
nowhere but right here? And we'll do it again. I mean,
that's an amazing thing. We'll do it again next week
right here.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
I frequently, this has been IP frequently, once again, clearing
a forest of lies with the machete of truth.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
You're welcome.
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