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Speaker 1 (00:02):
In these bleak days, humanity is at a breaking point.
Economies are tanking, the woke mob is canceling everything, and
the little guy who's just trying to run a small
business is getting screwed from both ends. But not all
is lost. Amidst the chaos, two men offer up their
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voices in the darkness, dropping two thousand pounds laser guided
truth bombs on today's lunacy, introducing the Sirens of Sanity.
David Pridham and l Bradley Sheaf.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Brad nineteen eighty two. Hulkogan was He was an up
and coming professional wrestler and I saw him fight later
on in the I guess he called it fighting but
perform and really iconic. When you put together like a
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mural of the nineteen eighties, Hulk Hogan is like at
the center, you know, next to Dutch Reagan is at
the center of that deal, because you know who didn't
want to grow up in the nineteen eighties when that's
your your hero, like six foot was he sixty seven
six eight, three hundred and seven pounds, tanned like you
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couldn't believe, you know, twenty four inch pythons. I mean
the guy and he always beat the bad guys until
he didn't.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yeah, well right, yeah, I mean the staying power. I mean,
that's what I find remarkable, right, I Mean, you have
these flashes in the pan. You know, they're popular here
or there for one reason or another, and then they
just sort of fade. But I mean, who was literally
ripping his shirt off on camera in the most recent
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Republican National Convention, you know, less than a year ago.
He was still enough of a cultural icon that that
was relevant and you know matter right. I mean, I
don't know that it swung too many people's boats, but
I mean it just it just talks about what that
guy meant to you know, a whole generation of Americans,
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right that he was sort of, you know, just kind
of a wild and crazy version of a Captain America.
To your point, he was always beating the bad guys.
He loved America. You know, he fought for freedom, et cetera,
et cetera. Yeah, and you know to the point where,
in like I said, the most the last year, the
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guy was still you know, doing his shtick of ripping
a T shirt off and then you know, in front
of America in order to motivate certain behaviors, so yeah,
it's a bomber, dude, It's a momber. All these guys are.
It happens to everybody, and it's inevitable, and you know,
you sort of know that in the back of your mind.
These guys are going to be around forever. But it
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is a bomber.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
But if you think about it, some of the most
iconic moments from sport in the eighties were centered around Hulkogan. Yeah,
well for sure, and I saw something. You know, he uh,
they they create. He created WrestleMania, and in the third WrestleMania,
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he fought Andrea the Giant, even though they had fought
like five years earlier at Shay Stadium. The great thing
about pro wrestling is like shaking an Etges sketch, So
you know, nineteen eighty four or six or whenever that happened,
they just pretended that the other fight never happened. But
he slams Andrea the Giant in the middle of the ring,
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like totally iconic. And then a couple of months later,
they have what's called Saturday Night's Main Event, which was
on NBC, and it was like Saturday Night, it was
either ten o'clock or eleven thirty I think it was
ten o'clock. They would put wrestling on for like an hour,
and they had the rematch of Hulk Hogan and Andrea
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the Giant. At this point, Andrea the Giant, of course,
of course, had taken the money from the Million Dollar Man,
and so he was bought and paid for and thirty
three million people watched that thing live. And if you
take that in context today, if you stack the hockey playoffs,
the basketball playoffs, the World Series, and the Awards shows,
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it doesn't reach thirty three million people live on network TV.
So that's the type of stuff that was happening with
this guy, and that it doesn't even get into the
fact that you know, as part of the match, Andrea
the Giant pinned them, but his shoulder was up on
a one count, but the Million Dollar Man had invested
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in a body double plastic surgery for Earl Hebner, one
of the referees, and so he had a lookalike referee
he continued to count. That's how Hogan lost the lost
the title. But if you if you google how Cogan
and Evil twin referees, there's an interview in the locker
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room where he's like despondent talking about plastic surgery and stuff.
That's like one of the greatest pieces of American sport
history I've ever seen ever ever.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Well, and you know it may not be you know,
the top of the list of reasons that of why
America is great, you know, things that make America great.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
But the fact that that story could be concocted like
someone sat around in a room. It's okay, we're gonna
do We're gonna do a rematch full Cogan and Andrea
the Giant. Who I like it. Okay, that'll be great.
People watch it. Oh yeah, people watch it. And here's
how it's gonna end. We're gonna end have an end
with Andre the Giant, sword of pinning Hull, Cogan and
then a referee, a dirty ref, Like God, dirty ref.
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How's the ref gonna be dirty? Oh? Get this, it's
not actually even gonna be the ref. It's going to
be someone who had plastic surgery to appear to be
the ref who's in the pocket of a guy that's
in Andrea the Giant's corner and that and he's just
gonna continue to count even though it's going to be
a parent to all watching that Hull Cogan's you know,
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shoulder was off the mat. I mean, see, buddy, that's
you're not gonna get another country where someone comes up
with that and then televises it. Come on No No
in America.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
And it turned out that it was Dave Hebner's brother,
Earl or Earl. It was the evil twin that got
the plastic surgery. And then the million dollar man gives
the big bag of money to Andrea the Giant. He
just walks off. The giant just gives the title to
the million dollar man, and h and he wanted the
giant walked off with a bag of money. And then
and then what happened is there was a tournament. They
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had to have a tournament because the title got vacated
because the the cosmetic surgery and all that. And Hogan
the reason he lost the title was because he was
filming whatever that what was that Hogan Thunder and Paradise.
There was the Hogan answer to Baywatch when Hogan was
on the Beach Quality program. But I listen Absolute Icon apps.
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I used to sit there on Saturday mornings and watch
that stuff with my uh, my grandfather and uh and
then and then Hogan when I was in law school,
did a turn and became a bad, bad guy in wrestling,
and that was even more popular. So he had a
second I remember being on Bourbon Street when I was
in law school with.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
What in the world were you doing on Bourbon Street
in law school? Shouldn't you have been studying the law?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I was, I was, I was doing like a field assessment. Ah. Yeah, yes,
that's a different story. That's yeah, more horrific than fighting
the Giant. But all these people were in the Hulkgan
shirts when I was in in uh A school, So
he had a second life there. And then he became
a Republican speaker at the convention, so he will be uh,
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he'll be sadly missed. And then another great uh, I
mean four of them really this week Ozzy Osbourne passed away.
And I'm sure you're a big Black Sabbath fan.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yeah, and you know, and Ozzy as a as an
independent artist, I mean just I mean it's not your
it's not your favorite genre, but I mean heavy metal,
eighties hairbands, Ozzy Osbourne had a lot to do with
that whole genre of music and to sort of cut
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a path for many a band and I mean even
some of the musicians that he had around him were
just amazing. And I you know, again, for me, I
think it's cool that he, you know, was able to
keep it together long enough to do that fun final
concert that he did back you know, in his own hometown,
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right where everything started from. And then you know, basically
within a week he was gone. I mean you could
just sort of see he was holding on for that,
and then once he got that done, he was like, well,
I've done all I can do and that's it. So yeah, man,
I mean that is a that's another along with Eddie
Van Allen. I mean, that's a big loss in the
in that genre of music.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
He actually came out when the Patriots won the Super
Bowl back in the early two thousands. He came out
and sang one of his thong songs when they entered
on the opening night of the season after when they
get their rings. It was like eighty five or five
or something. But he's already he had his own he
had his own reality show.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
So to Hogan, yeah, no, I mean he was. I
mean he was. I mean to say iconic is all,
which is a big term to use, is almost under
selling it. And you know, the Rhodes was his guitarist,
kid eighteen years old. Just an amazing guitarist. Unfortunately, you know,
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died while on tour with Ozzy Osbourne. Just a weird
you know, plane accident kind of a deal. But I mean,
just an amazing guitarist in his own right.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Dusty Rhodes was a famous wrestler who wrestled with hul
Cocaine and he died.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
I don't believe they were related. That's true America.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
True tower Power, too sweet to be sour, Dusty.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Roads, American crud. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Uh it's it's too bad. All the greats are. And
then of course, uh, Malcolm Jamal Warner. Remember the Cosby Show.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
I do.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Yeah, the kid on the Cosby Show died this week.
He fifty fifty years only drowned in Costa Rica. The
theo Huxtable who we all grew up with. It was,
that was America's, America's family until they now you can't
even know. And we'll talk about the Cosby Show because
of all the mixology that the Cause apparently undertook.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Yeah, he had an evil twin.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Apparently he's still going though, The Cause is still going, like.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Well, that's because he's not swimming in Costa Rica.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
You know, it's amazing that that that show was the
top show, probably the top show of the eighties, I
would think, I mean it was, it was number one
for years, and he was a best selling author and
all this stuff. And in the meantime he's like drugging
these women and yeah, yeah, not not what you're looking.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
For that way you're looking for well, And it's just
another example of which are many of people who you
know are sort of living a double life, which I don't.
I have no interest. I don't think I'm smart enough.
I'm more along the Azzi Osbourne line. Yea, Ozzy Osbourne
was that what you see is what you get. Unapologetic,
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you know, I mean, that's that's sort of how he rolled.
Lots of people didn't like him, especially those you know,
in the evangelical right of the nineteen eighties and nineties,
and you know, but then he got Cosby, who everybody
would have said, well that you should model yourself out
to this guy, and it turns out maybe not so much, right,
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maybe not.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
So yeah, not exactly, not exactly what you're what you're
looking for. But again great, yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
You're gonna who's gonna tear off their shirt to the
next Republican Nationals. I'm gonna be a union step into
that role. No, no, I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
That wouldn't be good for anyone. No, I wanted to go.
He has a restaurant down in Clearwater, Florida, that Hogan's Hangout.
We were gonna go there last time we were in town,
but we didn't didn't make it over there. But apparently
he used to do the karaoke every Monday night. He
would he would yeah, yeah, he made he made good money.
He made really good money. And then he uh, you
may remember this. He was involved in that sex tape
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thing where he was filmed having inter after I don't
know if he was divorced or I was like two thousands,
two thousands. He was filmed having intercourse with a woman
and the website Gawker published it or put it out
or posted it or whatever, and then he sued Gawker
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and he won suit of like one hundred million. He
won like thirty forty million from that suit. That's the
suit that Peter Thiel funded, and they basically shut down
the Gawker. The Gawker website, but Jahogan was.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
I don't remember any of that.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Oh yeah, that's a big.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Icon with not a sex tape.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I don't think now, certainly now a twenty twenties icon.
All those Kardashian girls have sex tapes.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Well, that's how they got to be who they are.
Any great irony of the Kardashians is how they rose
to their fame. And now I guess see the lawyer
is that right? Jim Kardashian. Who Jim Kardashian. I believe
that she is a lawyer. I believe she has graduated
from law school because I saw some article where she
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was talking about, you know now that she was a
lawyer she wanted to do. You know, who knows what?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
That's hard to believe. I'm not gonna lie. Her dad
was a lawyer on the OJ defense team, and some
people say that what's happened with that family is a
result of the Kardashian curse that he brought upon them
for defending OJ.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
It could be I will say that, you know what's
what's more likely that someone would be a practicing attorney
before the bar, as we like to say, Kim Kardashian
or your former brother in law Kim Kardashian. Yeah, there
you go, both and yet both are nominally attorneys.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
pH nominally the property word being not. I mean, I'm
not sure if that's still true. By the way, I'm
not I am not one hundred percent of that.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Yeah, I find that hard to hard to believe. But
a lot of yeah, a lot of a lot of
eighties icons passed juck Manjione, chuck Man Gio with ball
feels So Good. I mean he was and he was
playing what we learned earlier today on our back we
we we conduct extensive background calls before all of these podcasts,
extensive and like when I say extensive, I mean extensive.
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And then as part of this we we learned that
his in that Hollywood Bowl iteration of feels So Good,
he played the flip flabiga flip flidd fldidal flididal flamingo horn,
Yeah flidal.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
The flaming horn, some sort of yeah horn. Yeah, that's it,
that's what he was playing. According to our research.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Can we agree that the anyone that has that kind
of information is.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Out of their mind? Oh? We got, we got, we
got definitely so so it's really a chicken and a
nagg sort of situation. I mean, some of our longtime
listeners are familiar with Silas Moody and the question is
does he know all these things because he's crazy? Or
is he crazy? Because I don't know. I don't want
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to answer that.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Well, listen, so let's let's get off these I mean
this kind of we can talk about this all day
and it's kind of depressing, but let's get onto something else.
What do you think about, uh, what do you think
about what's going on in the world. Let's see, we've
got the big Astronomer deal with the Coldplay concert. Have
you seen that where the couple was on the big
screen and they quickly like fell to the ground.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
You guys were talking about that last week. I didn't
know what. So there's some there was some illicit couple
that decided that interesting to go to a cold Play concert.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
It was the CEO of this company Astronomer and it's
an AI company, and his head of HR and they
were like he was like holding her, had his arms
around her, and they were playing the Coldplay concert and
then they Coldplay has what's called the kiss cam, okay,
and so they put them on the screen very American,
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very American. So this is happened like last a week ago,
like ten days ago, and so they put them on
the screen and the two of them just go, oh
my god, and they just fall to the ground and
hide and like hide their faces.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
And uh, the guy from they're sneaking out, right, they're
stepping out.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
And they're both married.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
In their fifty Yeah, And and they decide that on
their their illicit twist, that they're going to go to
some you know, private, out of the way place like
a cold Play concert where no one's going to see
you in a concert, right, I mean there's only a
couple of people at a concert or chance you get
seen together. And then they just be sniped by the
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kiss cam.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
That's exactly what That's exactly what.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
That's exactly what happened.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
And so he had to he's the CEO. He had
to quit. And then she just recently quit. And the
best part about this, this happened on like a Thursday. Okay,
it happened in Boston, and uh, by the weekend end,
all throughout Major League Baseball, they were putting up coldplay
cams and so like at the Phillies game, they put
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up a cold play cam and they show these couples
and the couples will kiss, and the couples and then
they go to the stands and they have the Philly
fanatic with his arms around the female Philly fanatic, and
they look up and they see and then they mimic
these two people like throwing their arms up, hiding their faces.
And it literally took off from there and it is
now happening all across baseball where they're they're getting people
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on the cameras and they're like literally acting like stunned
that they're on the cameras and they're like ducking under it.
I mean, it's just hysterically. Yeah, And that's why I
love America right there, that is why I love America.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
I think, just Buddy, I am still well, I agree
with everything you've just said. I'm stuck on the idea
that you are a you know, I've never heard of astronomer.
I've never heard of the company, but I presume in Boston,
I mean, you're a little bit of a public figure.
You employee, there are certainly people who are going to
know you have neighbor at a minimum. If you're not
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a public figure, you have neighbors, you have coworkers, you know,
you got people that know you, and your paramore, likewise,
is in that same situation, and you're both stepping out
on your respective spouses and you decide to go to
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a concert, a cold Play concert. Okay, this is not
like it. It is not like a little out of
the way venue or some jazz band no one's ever
heard of his playing. Right, You go to a concert
with there ends of thousands of people, all from your
local area, and you think that's the best place for
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you to hang out while you're on this twist. And
then the fact that you get nailed by the kisscam
is just whatever form of you know, sort of fate
you leave it, karma or you know, et cetera. I
mean that is that is it just coming to you know,
down main Street with the doors wide open. That just
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makes me laugh. What an idiot?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I mean, they had like a billion dollar a billion
I think, I think I saw they had like a
billion dollar valuation. This company is at a private But.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
You know what that is, buddy, That is a lesson
for all of that is hubris. What that is is hubris.
That is thinking that because you have been successful in
business and have earned some money, that you are bulletproof
and invisible, and nothing bad can can happen to you,
despite you know, any ridiculous lack of judgment that you
may display. That you're wealthy and so therefore you can
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do whatever you want, like go to a very public
concert with your very private, you know girlfriend that you're
not supposed to have boyfriend.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
The head of HR ahead of HR just see, and.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
That just makes it even better. I mean, the person
who's supposed to be, you know, head of HR is
everywhere and if if this, if you're the head of
HR at some company and this is not true of you,
I apologize, But in my experience, heads of HR everywhere
are just the most undescending, preachy persons you're ever going
to find. They're constantly walking around telling you can't do that,
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and you can't do this, and that's not reasonable and
that's not legitimate, and that's not how we do it.
They're like the mom of every business, the the you know, irritating,
annoying church lady mom of the business world are the
heads of HR. And you know, and and the fact
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that it's that it's her that's with the CEO both
of them married, and that they have the absolute hubris
to go to a giant concert and it's just yeah,
I mean, you gotta click.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
You gotta click the link. You got to click the
link in the in the chat because this is great.
Because they even put a blonde wig on the female
Philly fanatic and you gotta watch. You got it's only
thirteen seconds. You you gotta click this because this is
this is gread This is going out across the country.
Every stadium has got the Coldplay cam up. But this
is exactly how it looked with the guy and he
had his arms around here like this. They were having
a good time and then they like they literally with
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like gear in the headlights and the guy like jumped
to the ground and she just covered her face. It's
I just love them. I mean, this is what, yeah,
what an amazing Yeah, this.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Is how you do it. If you have a country,
this is how you do it. So if you're thinking
about starting a country, or perhaps you know, performing a
coup of some sort in the country that you're a
going to take over, this is the kind of thing
you're shooting for right here that when when you have
two arrogant dufases. They get caught at a concert, then
you make fun of them in this in this fashion,
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this is what you do.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Yeah, it's good to good times anyway.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
You know what else happened this week? Telsea Gabbard, the
head of the the d N. I guess he's not
the head. She the DNI released a bunch of files
on Russia Gate that seemed to point to the fact
that the Obama administration kind of cook this up in
the days after the in the days after the twenty
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sixteen election, it looks like, based on what she released,
that the assessment of the intelligence community was that Russia
did not interfere in the twenty sixteen election. You know,
I remember all we heard about was how Trump was
a Russian pawn and this and that. But the assessment
was that they did not interfere. And then that seemed
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to change after President Obama ordered a new review in
like December of twenty sixteen, and it involved the FBI
and KOMI and going after Jeff Sessions and all this
in Flint, General Flint. I mean, it's just the craziest stuff.
But what do you have you have you looked at
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that and what do you think about that.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Well, anybody, this is this is emblematic of what's wrong
with this country. Right, So we just got done looking
at what's right with this country, and now we're looking
at what's wrong with the country. So the problem is,
I think everybody knows in their heart of arts. I mean,
unless you are just a rabid anti Trumper who is
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willing to believe literally anything that is negative about Trump,
and there are plenty of those people. But unless you
are rabbit anti Trumper, I think everybody kind of knew
that this Russian gay thing was ridiculous, right that Donald Trump,
of all people, I mean, say whatever you will about him,
you know that he would somehow have been co opted
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by the Russians. It's just it's baseless, it's groundless. It's
just there's no world in which that makes sense. And
so I think everybody kind of knew this. But the
problem with coming out with this information now is that
the intelligence community, and this is not a good thing.
I'm not not happy about this. The intelligence community has
just lost all credibility, right because it was the intelligence
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community that came out and said that that wasn't Hunter
Biden's laptop, that somehow and again was the Russians.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Of course, it's always Russians.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Somehow the Russians had planted a laptop in some out
of the way nobody ever heard of computer repair shop.
And you know that that owner of that computer repair
shop and somehow discovered, you know, as he was noodling
through this laptop he was supposed to repair that it
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had all this Hunter Biden information on it. And the
guy comes out and goes, well, no, Hunter Biden brought
it in here. I mean, it's his lapto. I was here,
you know, the guy walked in handed it to me.
And yet you had some like fifty you know, senior
intelligence personnel who all signed a letter that said, you know,
this has all the hallmarks of Russian disinformation. And then,
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of course, if you're one of those folks that fall
into the rabbid anti Trump camp, you you know, you
were more than willing to believe that right that this
couldn't be Hunter Biden's laptop just had to be you know,
some put on, which is just again incredibly implausible. It's
just baseless, groundless, no chances is true. And yet people
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were like, oh, okay, it must be Russian. We're not
even to look at it, you know, not not no
one saying, well, how did the Russians get video? I
mean that's clearly Hunter Biden. He's clearly wearing his underpants.
You know, he's clearly with a hooker. I mean, how
does this happen? Yeah, I mean how does this? You know,
no one, no one wants to ask those questions because
you know, if they do, then there's a chance that
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Biden doesn't win, and we can't have that. And so,
you know, the intelligence community is just that they have
sacrificed their credibility. And so now you know, if you're
on the side of the street that wants to believe
that the Obama administration was behind this, this you know,
trumped up you know Russia, don't charge, Yeah, you can't.
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You're just like, well, that's the intelligence community. How can
you believe anything they say? And that's a reasonable perspective.
I mean, you know, that's an average man in the
street who said, well, these are the same plowns that
said that it wasn't Hunter Biden's laptop, you know, I mean, yeah,
I mean you got me there. I mean, if I'm
trying to make the case that Obama was behind this,
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and I'm using the intelligence community as the basis of
my case. And someone looks at me and goes, you
mean the same guys that said that wasn't Hunter Biden's laptop?
And I go yeah, and they go, well, how can
you believe anything those people say? So, I mean that's
we've gotten ourselves because of politics. We've gotten ourselves in
a position where we cannot trust the media, we cannot
trust the intelligence community. We have lunatics in our government,
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I mean diagnosable lunatics that are elected representatives of various
parts of this great land of ours, just saying anything
on television that you know, they hope will resonate with
the American people. We've just.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
We've lost their collective mind.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
We have. We've done away with the concept of honesty, integrity,
truth telling. And if you accuse anyone, if you just
go that's bullshit, you know, like you're just making that up,
then you know you're a racist or something, right. I mean,
they just hurl epithets at you because you disagree with
not only the position they're taking, but the basis upon
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which they're taking it. And their response is not to
defend their position, it's to hurl epithets at you right
to try and smirch you in some completely unrelated fashion.
And then you wonder why kids in school are like,
I don't get it. How am I supposed to live
my life? Well? Where is where is the truth? Where
is reality? You know? Upon what platform can I stand
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in order to you know, move forward and know who
I am? And healthing worked? How am I supposed to
do that? And you look at the four third grade
and you know, son, I don't I don't know. I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
You know the worst part of the whole thing is
that the predicate for for this new focus in December
twenty sixteen on the Russia thing was that Steele dossier
that was funded by the Clinton campaign. That was it
and everybody knows that, and everyone knows that. It's just
like no one will say it. It's like no one
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will say it. It's the craziest, the craziest thing. But
I don't know. I guess it's going to be interesting
because they said they're going to be criminal referrals, So
I wonder where that's added, But we will, we will see.
Speaking of international intrigue, Brad, have you been following the
litigation surrounding President Macrone of France. Fran is it France?
Speaker 3 (29:47):
France falls president? Is that guy still? How long has
he been the president of France?
Speaker 2 (29:54):
I believe for sixty two years, Brad, it's been.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
A long time, and he's ready to Many of the
French like that. You know, they had Napoleon, you know,
he was Sarkozy.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
You remember Sarkozy. He was a little guy. I liked
saying that, SARKOZI yeah, Francois meter.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
On he was that little though. Was he was a
big dude, but he was he was a goof. And
now you've got Macron Macron macrone. They pronounced that. Pronounce
it differently depending on the concerts. Around's very difficult. French
are very difficult language. But it was crafted such that
you could you surrender easily in that language. So it's
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a language crafted around the idea of surrender.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
And uh man, so I think it's a macron. Mccron
is a cookie. Those are deliciously good. Yeah, they're very good,
very good cookies. But no, there's a big case.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
I don't have any idea what happened.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
So I believe I believe he's like fifty something and
his wife you know he's married to like that seventy
three year old his wife, he's like twenty years older
than him. Very odd. Well, they I'll suit in Delaware again.
You know Candice Owens, you know who she is?
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Yes, I believe I do know who Candace Owns is?
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Is that right wing podcaster I'll writer off the in
Uh what was this? I believe it was last year?
She she wrote on the Twitter after looking into that.
She was referencing a documentary that was put up by
a a right wing French organization. She said, after looking
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into this, I would stake my entire professional reputation on
the fact that and and and Francois mccrone's wife brad
the seventy something year old. Her name is Bridget macombe.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
So she said she would stake her entire professional a
professional reputation.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
That's a good question. That's a good question.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
All right.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
It's like that that dirty Hebner brother, the dirty one.
I don't know which and what that was again, Earl
er Dave, one of the two mistaking everything on their
professional reput the dirty one.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
After looking into this, I would stake my entire professional
reputation on the fact that Brigitte mccroll is in fact
a man. Any journalist or publication that is trying to
dismiss the plausibility is immediately identifiable as establishment. I have
never seen anything like this in my life. The proof
is irrefutable.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
The implications of that who is who is making who's
Owens is saying this? Oh okay, I thought you were
reading a quote from Brigitte mcon So Candace Owens is
making the claim based on her professional reputation, whatever state
it may be in that that the wife of the
French president is a dude?
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Correct? And she she basically said yeah, this is March
of twenty twenty four on the Twitter or she basically
staked her reputation on the theory that Brigitte mccro own
was actually born Jean Michel Tugn.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Isn't this the same thing they say about Michelle Obama?
She's not friend, she's a man. Well, I don't know
if she's French or not.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
I quite Are you a francophobe. That's franko phoebish right there.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Excuse me, francophobe.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
You're a francophobe.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
I'm I'm a fluophobe.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
I love the hot dogs. Yeah, so this is so.
They've filed suit in Delaware, they have the Macrons have
they've tutor at eighty page lawsuit in Delaware accusing the
podcast of defamation, and they're seeking hundreds of millions of dollars,
which she doesn't have. I tell you that right now,
she doesn't have it.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
What took him a year? Didn't you say? This was
like a year ago?
Speaker 2 (33:45):
That did it in March of last year? I don't,
I don't know. Maybe they had to research.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
They had to make sure that that Brigitte mccron wasn't
a dude, They had to do their own.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. It's fascinating, isn't
it just fascinating?
Speaker 3 (34:00):
The world is so screwed up? Dude, it's just so well,
what basis did Candice Owens have for leveling that accusation?
Speaker 2 (34:09):
She watched this documentary?
Speaker 3 (34:11):
She watched a documentary? I just I don't. I don't, man,
I just don't know. I again, this is this is,
you know, more evidence that we just freaking lost it.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
That well, you know my you mentioned earlier, my ex brother,
my former brother in law. Yes, the lawyer, my brother,
the doctor, the lawyer. He when I first met him,
one of the first things he said to me was,
you know that Michelle Obama is a man, right, And
I said what and he said, yeah, yeah, yeah, he
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said it's it's it's it is uh it is irrefutable,
that basically present. And I said, what are you talking about.
He said, yeah, she she was. He named somebody, some
guy was a man's name, and he said to she
was like Bob Johnson or something, and he he was
a middle linebacker for Oregon and he played middle linebacker
for the Oregon Ducks and then he transitioned in and
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I was like what And he showed me the picture
of this guy, and I literally got my phone out
and I googled Michelle Obama high school graduation photo and
there it was. There she was. I mean, it's just
like the you know, you can criticize people for their politics. Well,
for sure, some of this stuff is just is just nutty,
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and this guy was. And even when I showed him
that picture, He's like, well, that's clearly a fake. And
I said, how do you know that's a fake. You're
telling me Michelle Obama didn't exist before she was twenty two?
I mean it's just not true. It's just not true.
They have kids.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
It's demonstrably, it's demonstrably not true. And again that's the
root of the problem in which we find ourselves in
modern Western culture, is that anyone can say anything and
there's no there's no repercussions. Right, so you're your former
brother in law can just say, yeah, that's a fake
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and make these states. And there was a time, not
just this country, but in the world in general, where
you know, your integrity as a human being mattered, right,
where you could shake hands on a deal and both
sides agreed to what reality and the truth was, and
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you could shake hand and you could count on it.
Because if a man lost his integrity his honor, or
a woman for that matter, lost their integrity or honor,
then they couldn't really exist in modern society. People wouldn't
trust what they said, people wouldn't do business with them.
You know, they were just sort of shunned from society
because they were liars and they were cheats and they
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would say anything. But not that since everybody, i mean
everybody just takes a completely ridiculous position on whatever subject
they want to take state it as the truth and
then defy you to contradict it, and if you do,
then they just accuse you of that truth. There's no
way he's crazy the function, right, I mean, if you
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can't and you know still obviously you know there are
people whom you trust by for instance, trust you if
you told me something was the case and you told
me you were going to do something or not do something,
I would take you out your word. But you know,
generally speaking, you can't do that anymore, and that makes
it very difficult to you know, sort of operate.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Yeah, I mean, look, and again I don't I don't know,
Brigitte Macron, but I uh, I would suspect that this
is that if someone is running for a high office
and something like that happened, that would come out. I'm
just gonna tell you for the record, for the record,
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that would concertainly be the Obama thing. That's just just absurd.
But anyway, lastly, Brad, we like to keep tabs on
what's going on in our in our neck of the woods, right,
I mean, that's something we pride ourselves on, pride ourselves on.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
Right, You're not going to get away with anything our
neck of the woods.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Exactly Two hundred percent. So there is an enormous asteroid
the size of the Leaning Tower of Pisa headed toward
Earth right now, and it is expected it's not expected
to collide necessarily with Earth. It is expected to pass
within about four hundred thousand miles of Earth on Monday.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
Wow. I have a couple of questions and you may
not know the answer. Listen, it's okay. First of all,
if you were going to pick a comparitor or something right,
something large, I in the hell would you pick the
Leaning Tower of Pisa. I mean, I will grant you
that when you say those words, most people will not go, oh, yes,
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the Leaning Tower of Pisa. But then if you were
to say to that same person, how big is that?
Ninety nine point nine percent of humans is two hundred
and ten feet? Is there one story? Is a two stories.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Fifteen story building?
Speaker 3 (39:07):
Will see you? Do you? You happen to be in
that point? One percent of people will be able to
go on it's two hundred feet. But if you were
picking a comparator again, why wouldn't you say, you know
the size of something? You know it's it's it's almost
a football field. It's I mean, just something that people
would know, as opposed to all the crazy objects on
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the planet saying blinius spot size, the leaning tower pieces,
you know what I'm talking about. That that is odd, okay.
And then four hundred thousand miles is a long way,
Like even a good American made pickup truck is not
going to be able to drive four hundred thousand miles
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before you know, it's just a broken down service oil.
Four hundred thousand miles and it's lifetime, you know, over
the course of a forty year career being a pickup truck,
you're not going to you know, you're not going to
go four hundred thousand miles. It's a very, very long ways.
So why why is that an object of concern for
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I mean, is this a rare event? We don't normally
have asteroids zipping, you know, within a hair's breadth and
or four hundred thousand miles of the planet.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
Just I don't think that's right because I in this
and by the way, this asteroid is named twenty twenty
five OW or OWL twenty five.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
Yeah, I mean, it'll be an owl if it hits you,
but it's going to be you know, four hundred thousand
miles away.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
So in twenty twenty four, the five hundred foot long
asteroid twenty twenty four mk five hundred feet. That's more
than two times the uh the height of the Tower
of Pisa for those.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
That's like going to the top of the Tower Pisa
then coming back down. That's the distance.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. That traveled within one hundred and
eighty four thousand miles of Earth last July. Oh so
this one, they're getting further away, but then next that
next year, the see the there's a large one thousand,
one hundred square foot a Purfos Purfos, yeah, which is
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expected to come within twenty thousand miles of Earth on
April thirteenth, twenty twenty nine. Oh okay, well yeah, now
we're getting closer.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
We're getting closer again, twenty thousand miles. If you told
me someone was going to shoot at me and but
that they were going to miss me by twenty thousand miles,
I would, you know, yeah, I'd be okay with it.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
So yeah, I mean that's a lot.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
I mean, it's it's a it's a very long distance,
but not as long as four hundred thousand miles. If
you told me someone was going to shoot at me
and miss me by four hundred thousand miles. I would
be even less concerned.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
Have you been to the leaning terra Pisa?
Speaker 3 (41:49):
I'm not Pisa.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
I bet to Pisa a half years ago.
Speaker 3 (41:54):
So this is meaningful for you. You can use the cans
say to yourself, Oh yeah, that's a big look at that.
I've been to the leaning Tower of Piece. Is it leaning?
Is it in fact leaning?
Speaker 2 (42:04):
Or it's leney a little bit, but not as much
as you would think. Okay, you got to it's weird.
It's a very weird. I didn't go up and I
don't trust I once went up to the Arcta Triumphant,
I got vertigos. I can't do it anymore any any
old structures. I will not like Bridgie McCrone, I will
not traverse. That was wrong. See there goes.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
We're gonna get a letter on that one.
Speaker 3 (42:27):
Oh yeah, wow, well, I.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
Mean there it is. Listen. Unfortunately this was not the
most uplifting episode because of the death of the Holster.
But uh, you know, Rick Flair is still out there
that he's not doing well. He's battling skin cancer now,
so he's he's uh not doing well, but all the
great spread, all the greats are leaving us, and you
know it's it's part of the cycle of life.
Speaker 3 (42:52):
It is it's part of a great, great circle of life.
It's melancholy, but it is predictable, and we're not afraid
to cover it, and we'll continue to do that hopefully. No,
we don't have any other cultural icons dropping dead this week,
but if we do, we will cover that. We will
cover asteroids, you know, just nicking the planet Earth by
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four hundred thousand miles. We'll give up all of that fearlessly,
eyes wide open, and we'll do it again next week,
right here on IP frequently.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
This has been IP frequently, once again, clearing a forest
of lies with the machete of truth.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
You're welcome.