October 16, 2025 • 42 mins
Ep. 305 - Gastrointestinal Minefield
Turns out when federal workers stay home, America keeps right on trucking. But while Washington idles without consequence, David stumbles into actual operational chaos at Rhode Island's mysterious "Preserve," where he survives a surreal evening featuring purple-coated moguls, hostage-taking hospitality staff, disappearing celebrity chefs, militant scheduling protocols, and Hobbit houses under armed guard. Think Goodfellas meets boutique hotel meets witness protection program, with a side of free-range rams.
Then the conversation turns to Colorado's Taco Bell Ultra Marathon—a 31-mile gastrointestinal minefield where runners must consume nine Taco Bells worth of food while maintaining forward momentum. Mandatory chalupa supremes, crunchwrap supremes, burrito supremes, and nachos Bellgrande—all while your body screams for mercy and every exit strategy becomes a potential biohazard. Optional "challenges" include bathing everything in Diablo sauce and doing a Diablo shooter at the finish line, plus chugging two liters of Baja Blast without vomiting.
Turns out when federal workers stay home, America keeps right on trucking. But while Washington idles without consequence, David stumbles into actual operational chaos at Rhode Island's mysterious "Preserve," where he survives a surreal evening featuring purple-coated moguls, hostage-taking hospitality staff, disappearing celebrity chefs, militant scheduling protocols, and Hobbit houses under armed guard. Think Goodfellas meets boutique hotel meets witness protection program, with a side of free-range rams.
Then the conversation turns to Colorado's Taco Bell Ultra Marathon—a 31-mile gastrointestinal minefield where runners must consume nine Taco Bells worth of food while maintaining forward momentum. Mandatory chalupa supremes, crunchwrap supremes, burrito supremes, and nachos Bellgrande—all while your body screams for mercy and every exit strategy becomes a potential biohazard. Optional "challenges" include bathing everything in Diablo sauce and doing a Diablo shooter at the finish line, plus chugging two liters of Baja Blast without vomiting.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
In these bleak days, humanity is at a breaking point.
Economies are tanking, the woke mob is canceling everything, and
the little guy who's just trying to run a small
business is getting screwed from both ends. But not all
is lost. Amidst the chaos, two men offer up their
(00:26):
voices in the darkness, dropping two thousand pounds laser guided
truth bombs on today's lunacy, introducing the Sirens of Sanity.
David Pridham and l Bradley Sheaf.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Happing down the stream where the road is to short standing.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Well, there it is, brad The Beach Boys the b
side to Surfing USA Shutdown, which also was covered by
the Calypsos, a North Korean girl band, so very popular
and interestingly enough, it was picked up as one of
the top songs of twenty twenty one in North Korea.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Oh well, there you go.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I don't know a lot about North Korean or South
Korean whatever Korea is.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
No, that was North Korean, wasn't it?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
So? North Korean?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Whatever they are, I don't know a lot about them,
but God bless them my own group, they continue to
great success. And yeah, b sides, buddy, See that's something
I miss. I miss records with Christ and I bought
a turntable a few years ago because we It turns
out now, you know, turntables disappeared entirely and then they
came back because now they're you know, they could they
(01:51):
have some little widget they put them between a turntable
and the rest of your system that makes it digital
and it's awesome. You can now go back and listen
into all year old records and albums and.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
See what the band. Yes, yeah, I highly recommend it.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Well, anyway, this is the Pritim in Chief podcast David
Pridham and Brad Chief. This is episode number three hundred
and five, three hundred and five episodes. It seems light.
It seems light to me.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
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(03:08):
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at IP underscore frequently m h. And and yet yeah,
so it's uh, it is a good time to be around,
good time to be Americans. We've got the government is
completely shut down now for more than a week. So
that's one. And no, I have not I still get
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the mail, not that I even care because it's all junk.
There's nothing in the mail. I don't even understand the
mail anymore. You get the mail, we.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Do, and you know, here in the Mountain West, they
do not deliver to your house.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
So despite what the Postal Service likes to say.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
About rain and hail and dark of night and blah
blah blah, they can't get their sorry butts up here.
And so you have to have a post office box,
which you can either get at the post office and
that's a mistake here in our particular town because the
post office sucks here. So what everybody does is you
have your your mail delivered to the UPS store and
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then those people are locked in, I mean they have
their crap together. And the beauty of that additionally is
that if something has to be signed for while, they're
always there, right so you don't have to worry about
being home. If you have something that's you know, being
fedaxed or ups'd or whatever and you have to sign
for it, don't worry about that because they're going to do.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
It for you. So we do.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
And so we have a little mailbox and you open
it up and inside are all the slips for the
things you have to go to the counter to get
like all your boxes and your Amazon crap and whatever.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
And then junk mail. That's it.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
And so very wisely at the UPS store they have
a huge garbage can.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
And so the process is this.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
You walk in to the UPS store, you go to
your box, you get out your little key, you open
it up, you.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Take out all the stuff, and again the stuff falls.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Into two categories, the slips that you need to go
to the counter to pick up your boxes and garbage.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
You just walk down to the garbage. Can you throw
all that stuff away?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
And I have to believe and maybe it's because like
our parents' generation is still around, that there's someone who
looks at that stuff, because otherwise it would be completely
cost and effective to produce it. And everyone producing that
stuff cannot be an idiot. I mean, let's just assume
that fifty percent of the people producing the stuff are
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idiots that just think someone's looking at this, when in
reality they're not. The other fifty percent must have their
eye on the ball, and so there must be someone
who is looking at their junk mail. But that's someone
is not in our generation and certainly not in our
kids generation, So it must be the generation above us
that still reach junk mail. But Christ and I just
(05:46):
march over to the giant garbage, can throw that stuff
in there, pick up our boxes and leave.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
That's how you do it. Yeah, you got We just
we go. I don't even know why we check the mail,
but we go and we check the mail in the
mailbox and it's just all junk. And then the other
day a thing and I'm sure you've seen these before
where you get the big envelope that looks like someone
took the time to write on it, and it says
it's an evaluation of our windows, and it basically says,
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you know, you can upgrade to renewal windows by Anderson.
And what's good about that is you don't have to
tear the whole house down. They'll just come in and
bust out all your windows and put these new vinyl
windows in. And so my wife, god bless her, looks
at this thing and she's like, oh, somebody must maybe
this is you know, for you, somebody must have done
an evaluation, and maybe we need these new windows. And
(06:35):
I looked at her. I said, well, we just built
the house in this building in the last.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Year, five minutes ago.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Yeah, yeah, with hurricane grade windows on this house, right,
and uh. And then I'm like, but these, these these
vinyl windows do look good. And the sarcasm, by the way,
is being completely missed at this point, and I'm like,
maybe we should do this. What do you what do
you think? And she said, whatever you want to do,
that's fine. Said okay, well let me just take that
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and throw that into the pile of trash. But anyway, yeah,
that's uh. I don't get I don't. I don't understand
the budgets that people have for that, but then it's
better than the junk man. I don't know, I don't know.
I'm just it's annoying.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
But let me take us on just a slight rabbit
trail here, because you reminded me of this when you
said junk mail has got me thinking about the fact
that my phone rings five hundred times a day, okay,
and exactly six of those five hundred times it is
a call that has value and is important to me
and that I want to take right from one of
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my family members, or it's a business call, you know,
some of that nature. Six out of five hundred. Now,
the other four hundred and ninety four times my phone rings,
it's it's just some auto dialer with some jack hole
that's created and AI produced message that you get on
your voicemail that says, you know, this is Rachel or
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this is Meredith, or this is Bob from myther the
tax resolution department or the business loan department, And it's
just bullshit and it's annoying, and there's nothing you can
do about it. There's nothing you can do to prevent
that from happening. And so my question is why is
there not Why does vers so in my case, we're
on the Verizon network, why does Verizon not employ an AI.
(08:20):
It would take an AI thirty seconds to figure out
which of these, you know, phone calls that are coming
through the Verizon network are being produced by some auto dialer.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
And you know it's so Christa and I's phone.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Numbers are we got them at the same time one
hundred years ago. And somehow, even though we got them
at the same time, they're like three numbers apart, right,
And so my phone rings. My my number is three
sequentially three numbers before hers.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
So my phone rings a split second later.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Christa's phone rings, right, like not even a second, like
a fraction of a second later. Christa's phone happens every time,
And so why can you not use an AI to go, oh,
wait a minute, this particular phone number is calling out,
you know, ten times a second to various numbers throughout
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the Verizon network. This must be an auto dialer. No
one wants to get these calls. I'm just going to
shut that down. Why can we not do that?
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
I am constantly I get the same calls about the
business loan. The texts thing they're now fishing with. I
now get these things where I get texts from people,
and it will be a text I've never interacted with before,
saying hey, I just found your number in my book.
What can you you know? Just remind me your name?
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Clearly a scam. And I've received that text about thirty times, yes,
in the last month. It's a new thing. I just
delete it and report junk. But they don't know, and
I don't know who you're reporting junk to because nobody
is doing anything with the information, because you get the
next text from the next number, and then the next number,
then and it just keeps, it just keeps, it keeps.
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It never ends, It never ends.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Yeah, And so if you're you know again, we're for
some reason, we're very popular in Scandinavia. If you're in
Scandinavia and you work for a major mobile phone network,
ask that question for on our behalf police, call up
your boss and say why in the hell can we
not fire up an AI that will immediately determine that
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certain numbers are just auto dialers pestering our customers and
shut that down.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Do that on our behalf please?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Yeah, I don't disagree. Maybe we can talk to somebody
over there.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
That would be nice.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Anyway, the government shutdown week two of then you have shutdowns.
Speaking of show, Speaking of that Korean reminds me of
that North Korean girls group Calypso or whatever it's called.
Speaking of which I did? I did? I don't think
I told you my Hobbit House story. Did I tell
you my Hobbit House story?
Speaker 2 (11:03):
No?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
You did? Yeah, No, you told me. Did you tell
me on Friday?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Or did you tell me on last week's podcast where
you went to some new place owned by the Ocean
House and you went to the Hobbit House but they
wouldn't feed you there because you have to have the
Hobbit House menu.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Yeah, but that was before now I've gone, Oh you've
been there? That we did. We went on Friday night.
We had oh no, you've done this thing? Yeah, at
the Hasbro Children's Hospital auction last year, and so we
went because my wife wanted to go on because they
decorate thet the Hobbit House for Halloween, so it's got
all sorts of pumpkins around it and stuff, and then
they got other Hobbit houses, which apparently I asked the guy.
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We get it. We go out to this place, right,
it's called the Preserve, and it's in the middle of Richmond,
Rhode Island. And for people who don't know much about
Rhode Island, Richmond, Hode Island is literally in the middle
of the woods in southern RhoD Island. It's actually we're
a friend of mine, Jim Vickers. I don't know if
I've ever mentioned him before, but he had a compound
there years ago. It was called the Vickers Compound. He since,
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of course, moved to North Carolina, where he lives on
an island that is frequented by wild horses.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Oh well, there you go. That's an upgrade.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Yeah, And I mean what's interesting about him is he's
named all his kids after Oakland writers.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Yeah that I knew is.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Conrad Dolber Vickers, Art Shell Vickers, Howie Long Vicars, what's
his name, the tight end, Todd Christensen Vickers. But there
are a couple of those Vicars kids that's still roam
the woods in Richmond. I explained that to everyone the
other night, and again that no one get the sarcasm there.
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But we go to this place and it's like Richmond
Rhode Island is a very it's not a it's not
a wealthy community.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Right.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
So we show up to this place. I've never been
here before, and my wife has.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
I have not.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
She went took the kids there a couple of years
ago to take pictures in front of the Cobbit House
and we uh we we pull up and this huge,
huge entrance it's Preserve and you go to this guard
shack and it's it's like the guy in the guard
shack is like one of the vicar's cousins, right, and
he he's like one hundred and twenty years old. It
looks like he could hit him with a bat and
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he wouldn't move. And the guy's like he digs our
name and everything. He's like, well, welcome. You got to
go to the main lodge first to check in. Then
they'll take you to the Hilltop Lodge, which is where
the hotel is, because we got a night's stay in
the hotel too. And so we pull in. The first
thing you notice is on both sides of the road
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there are rams running free. Well not free, I mean
they're in a gated area, but they're rams, so actual,
actual sheep, not not not Vince Ferragamo, but right like male.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Sheep okay, running battering rams per se.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
But the animal I don't know. They might have. They
might have, they probably do do that. And then we
get there and there's no one in there except the
people working. Right there are a few people working, And
we get into the thing, drive up the hill and
find the place where I think we're supposed to go
to check in, and there's a white Cadillac suv in
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front of it, and there's one guy who's like ninety
years old, and then there's another guy who's like maybe seventy,
but he's got a purple coat on like the Joker
used to wear, you know, Caesar Romero, I do Joker.
So this guy's got this purple coat on, and so
I just pull up right behind them, and no one
else inside except the rams, and I pull right up
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behind this guy. I get out and I say, how
you doing? I said, is this the where you check
in for the Hilltop Lodge? And he literally looks at
me and he goes, well, yes, it is, like you know,
the type of thing would make you very uncomfortable, like
hind the purple coco. The other guy's not talking. The
other guy's just like looking around, and it's almost like
you just get dropped into like good Fellow meets petticoat
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junction at this point, it meets the Joker sort of
like a combination of that stuff. And he's like, oh,
yes it is, and this is welcome to the Preserve.
And I'm like, well, okay, and I just assumed this
guy was pulling up to check in himself. He was
welcome to the preserve. My name is so and so,
and he said I built this place, and I said, oh,
really okay, And yeah, so he's the he's the owner
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slash builder. He's the guy who you know, he did
the building on the Ocean House. He redid the Ocean
House years ago. Okay. Come to find out after the fact,
little we had we had our friend Silas Moody with us. Indeed,
and uh after he did a little research into the guy,
and the guy was involved with the Ocean House. But
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he had to leave. He was asked to leave.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Under questionable circumstances.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I love, there are many questions about it. I think
it was just a lot of a lot of interactions
with some of the masseuses over there that were not
admitted and not wanted by.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
The that's a big thing in New England. I mean
you got Bob Craft doing the same craft.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Yeah, yeah, soon to be Hall of Fame owner. Maybe.
So the guys, I go ahead in, you know, this
is we check inn. He talked to me for like
twenty minutes, to the point where he made me feel uncomfortable.
He said, are you going to park your car? And
I said I could. He said, yeah, park your car
and then come on in and welcome to the preserve.
Kept saying welcome to the Okay. So I parked the
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car and Silas is in the car with my wife.
So we all get out. We walk in and did
you ever see the movie The Burbs, the.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Tom Hanks vehicle of course?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Yeah, remember the son of the brother and the doctor. Yes,
my brother remember the son? Hey Pinocchio, where do you
think you're going? Remember that guy? Well he's he's standing
behind the desk. Okay, there's no one else in there.
He's standing at the desk. Yeah, yeah, he said, he said, hello,
welcome to the preserve. How are you? And he's like, well,
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you know you're gonna check in here and then you
can go up to your you know, your your your room,
and it's just this very bizarre right, it's a very
bizarre set of interactions. I was like, well, I could
just drive up to the hill.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Because there's three of you checking in for one hotel rooms.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Now there we got four hotel rooms and dinner for eight.
So I had four hotel rooms. Now the other the
other two chose not to avail themselves in the hotel room.
The Kilmers and then von Gunning came and met us,
and they did not want to stay in the hotel.
They said they were finding. In fact, the Kilmers told
me at dinner that they had booked this in down
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the street, that it was like the where they rent
their rooms by the hour, but they had booked the
honeymoon suite. So they're very excited. They she may be
with child Brad.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
That would be, you know, a borderline miraculous given the
seasoning that she has at this point.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Well especially the yeah, the other one too. But so
he's like, okay, and can you just give me the
key and I'll drive up and we'll figure it out.
He goes, no, no, no, no, no no no. He's like,
here at the preserve, we do things a little differently.
We escort you to your room. Oh perfect. And I
was like, you're gonna You're gonna take us to the room,
and he goes, oh, no, I can't leave the desk.
Ethan's going to take you. Ethan's going to take you
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to the room. And I said what And so the
next thing you know, this kid comes around the corner.
He looks like he's maybe one hundred pounds, soaking wet,
he's got to suit on with a tie. Okay, he's
he's maybe twenty two years old. This is clearly his
first job, or he's being blackmailed to do it, I
don't know. But he's like, Hi, my name is Ethan.
I'm gonna you can follow me. And he gets into
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one of those ATV vehicles ATVs all terrain V. I
should say all terrain, not ATV vehicles, because that's where
ATV it's.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Like ATM machine. You don't want to say that either.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Yeah, So he's like, follow me up. The will follow
him up the hill. He takes us into the in
that it kind of looked like a like a Best
Western type deal only picture of Best Western where there
are no people, there's nobody like you walk in there
is a desk. It's like the type of thing you
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would see after a zombie apocalypse, right where the zombies
have already killed everyone and they moved on. You go in,
there's a desk, but there's no one behind it, right,
and then they He's like, well, this is the there's
the yoga thing, here's the spa, but there's no one
in the building, no one. The workers are down the
bottom of the hill. That's where the rams are. And
then then the Pinocchio is down there too. Ethan shows
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us to our room. We go into the room and
it's it smelled like a chiloopa or something in there,
but it was fine, it was nice, and and then
he's there could have been We didn't. I didn't stay
long enough to find out. But then he explained to us.
He said, you can. You can get changed for dinner
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and then I'll come back. I'll get you and take
you to dinner. And I said, we can just walk
down there. He goes, oh, no, no, no, no, no,
we'll escort you. And he's like, well, you're going to
go to the.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Habit appropriately retired. What led him to state that you
needed to change for dinner?
Speaker 3 (20:11):
I don't know. I don't know, but he he's like,
we'll take you to the Hobbit house and you can
have a glass of wine and some charcuterie, and then
we'll take you to the restaurant where we're okay, you know.
And then so he says all this, So we we
get ready for dinner. An hour later, he's back out
front waiting for us to go to the Hobbit house.
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We load into the ATV. He takes us down to
the bottom of the hill where the Hobbit houses are.
But now there are three Hobbit houses, right, and the
first two they have us in one of the first
two out on the deck with the charcuterie board, and
these two people behind standing behind a bar, who look
like they're in a hostage film. Right, this guy and
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this girl who were waiting I supposedly waiting on us,
but they literally look like somebody is holding like their
dearest loved one hostage for them to be here and
get a glass of wine. But then my wife says, look,
I want to take a picture in front of the
Hobbit house, but not this Hobbit house. I want to
take a picture in front of the real Hobbit house,
and I said, well, this isn't the real Hobbit house.
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She said no, there's one that's built into the side
of the hill and it's got pumpkins. So I go
over to Ethan and I said, so can we go
to the The whole time, Ethan's going a walkie talkie
on him, okay, and every once in a while you
hear like squawks of that walkie talkie. He's also got
a phone on them okay, and he's carrying them both
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like they're you know, he's got I don't know what.
And he he's like, well, this is the Hobbit house.
And my wife's like, no, no, no, I want to
take a picture in front of that. And there's one
down the hill you can see it. And he like
looks at her and he's like blushes. He likes everything
he says. He's like turns beat red and he goes, well,
I don't think you can go to that hobbit. That's
not part of the itinerary. And I was like, well,
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let's make this very easy. She's not going to walk
down there and take a picture, and do you mind
taking it? And he's like, oh, oh, that's that's fine,
and so he drives. We get in the ATV, drives
us down. It's like a couple of minute drive, and
I'm like, here, the just take the picture so we
can get this over with. Suddenly the phone starts ringing
and the thing starts chirping, and then another guy shows
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up in an ATV and he is he's an older guy.
He is pissed. He is pissed. He's like, this was
not part of the promotion. And there's no one. Keep
in mind, there's no one here. There's no one here.
Our guests haven't even arrived, not even the Hobbits. There's
nobody there except for the two people that are being
held hostagen Pinocchio, who seem to want to be there.
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There's no one there. And I'm like, can we just
take the pic? And then the other guy's standing off
to the side now, and so Ethan takes a bunch
of pictures of us. My wife looks at them. He
takes more pictures because she didn't like him. And then
the other guy comes over and he's like, look, are
supposed to be at the Hobbit house on the deck
for sure, this is what's scheduled at this time from.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Seven prison, I mean there's a schedule here and you're
supposed to be on it.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
You can exercise in the yard. So I'm like, okay, well,
we got our picture. We'll go back to the to
the it brings us back to the two people who
are in the hostage film. We go back and we're
you know, standing there. The Kilmers show up, and Yvonne
Gunning shows up, and then my and we're in the
middle of this air quotes happy Hour and the the
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girls start talking right and they decide that they want
to go down to the Hobbit house now and take
a picture. Oh boy, but right Nathan steading off to
the side right like he is. He looks like he's
about to be because of because of the earlier escapade.
He looks like he's about to be killed, Like he's
the guy's going to drag him in the wood, shoot
him and bury him. And then when the women start
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walking down to the to the Hobbit house, it's like
a two minute walk, he starts losing it. He's just
looking around. He's like, where are they going, and said
they're just gonna go down the Hobbit house before it
gets start to take a quick picture that the girls
want to see it, right, that's why they were coming here.
And he goes, yeah, that's that's not part of the
same thing as if he and I hadn't talked already
about this. He goes, but that's not part of the promotion.
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And I'm like, yeah, but there's no one down there.
I mean, what's the what's the harm? There's literally no
one here, and he's like, oh, okay, and then the
next thing, you know, his phone starts ringing again. Is
if someone's watching this on a camera and the other
guy shows up, it seems like a federal and and
then the other guy shows up again. But at this point,
the women are taking there. They don't care. They're taking
the pictures they're willing for if they don't care if
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I get killed, Silas gets killed, Ethan's definitely was killed.
But so then they come back. They've taken probably two
dozen pictures. Then the chef shows up, David Burke. Oh,
so he comes over and he's he's he's apparently a
(25:04):
famous chef because if you look at his he's got
like he is not that. That was the exact question
my wife asked me. She said, he must be. He
must be related to Bob Burke, and I said, I
don't think so, but maybe but I don't think so.
But he's got restaurants all over the country and he's
in his chef coat and he's clearly had a few, right,
It's like this point at six thirties, had a few
(25:24):
Friday night. He's a chef. So he comes over and
he starts talking to us, and it's it's it, it
was almost surreal because it's it's like they're acting like
chef's here. You know that Ethan is just like standing
in attention and chef's over there. And chef comes over.
He talks to me in Silas for a few minutes.
The girls don't want to even say they don't don't
have anything to say to him. So he talks to
(25:45):
me in Silas, and at one point this bug comes
and lands on the middle of his forehead, like the
type of thing where you'd swatted away after you but
he just keeps going. I mean, it was a good
minute that bug was on his forehead and he got
no yeah, he's just yeah. Usually what it's disconcerting.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
And so.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
The chef is sitting there, he's talking, and then finally
I'm like looking and I'm like, okay, I can stay
in this conversation or I can go over to Carl right,
who's by himself just drinking wine. So I'm going to
go to go talk to Carl. And I left Silas
to talk to the chef for like another twenty minutes
before seven thirty comes. Seven thirty comes, the chef leaves.
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He says, I'll see in the restaurant. Ethan comes back
and he's like, okay, now we have to we have
to go to the restaurant. But and it's on property.
It's like a five minute walk. But he's like, we
have to take you there. And at this point they've
ditched the ATVs and they show up in two Bentley's, right,
and they load us into two bentley Yeah, they load
us into two Bentley's to drive us. You know, the
(26:52):
two minute drive to the to the restaurant. Where we
get to the restaurant, this big. It's a big restaurant.
No one is there, like there's like one family at
a table having dinner, and then there are two people
at the bar drinking shots and there is no one
else there except the waite staff. No one.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Okay, And so tell me that preserve is not really
caught on yet in Rhode Island.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
I mean, I just assumed they were going to try
to kill us. At some point. We go into this room.
They said, well, you're going to be in the VIP room,
and they put us in this room. Wear the floor.
There was no plastic. The first thing I looked forwards
that before. The first thing I looked for was the plaster.
But they have they have this big long conference table
in the middle of the room, and the conference table
is maybe about eight feet wide. The room is eight
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and a half feet wide, right, so you are like
getting in these chairs, and anytime anyone went there's one door,
and I made sure to sit right near the door
because I'm not my back to the wall. You taught
me that back to the wall. Yeah, it's uh. And
then the chef comes in mm hmm. He's like, we
got some great things planned for you. It's gonna be
you know this and that he's had a couple more.
He's like slurring a little bit more, you know, and
(28:09):
then they start bringing us the food. And it was good.
I mean, it was fine, it was fine. It was
just at this point I'm kind of alarmed because there's
no one in this place. I don't really understand it.
I get up to go to the bathroom, and I
see the chef sitting by himself by the bar, drinking
like what appeared to be like scotch. And every time
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I went to the bathroom couple times, every time I
went by him, it was like the shirt was getting
undone and his hair was standing up straight. The glasses
came up. It just got he got, he got a little.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
It's like Lloyd Bridges an airplane.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
It's very Yeah, you know, I picked the wrong day
to stop sniffing glues. But he was sniffing the glue.
And then he just stopped coming to the table. He
just stopped all together. I mean he just stopped. And
then Carl looks at me at the end of the meal,
and Carl's been all over the world, right, and he's
he was telling me he was going to the Galapagos
Islands in the I don't know, but he said, he said,
(29:02):
you know what, and he had Carl had had maybe
a glass or two of wine, and he also had
like a big pat of butter on his lip for
the majority of the meal. And he said to me,
he said this is the this is the best meal
I've ever had, And I said, really, it was very
very strange.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Well, it sounds kind of like a dream, you know,
one of those dreams that's like a borderline nightmare.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
You're in it and you're always you know, you're waiting
for the.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Next shoot to drop because you're pretty sure you're in
a nightmare, but you're not really sure because nothing terrible has.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Happened yet yet yet.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Yeah, it sounds it sounds kind of like did you
spend the night there?
Speaker 3 (29:38):
We spent the night there? And when we get Ethan
takes us back to the room, right, and then he's like,
I just want to show you a couple of things
in the room. And he takes us over to the
fridge and he opens the fridge and the fridge has
like two diet cokes, two cokes, two ip as, and
a log of goat cheese. Yeah, and so he's like,
(30:00):
I want to just show you. And then there was
one water and I was like, okay, we got to
get more water. First of all. The second of all,
he's like, these are yours. You can there's no charge
for this stuff. And of course Silas at that point,
you know, was thrilled. Yeah, he had his whole room.
He had his own room, and he was he was,
(30:21):
I mean the next day, so we stayed. I'd locked
I latched the door double and then put the moved
a dresser in front of it. And then the next
morning I was up at six where they go, and
then Silas comes down and his bag is like twice
because he travels everywhere with that Duffel bag, you know,
you know the douffle back. His Duffle bag is like extra.
It's like there's more in it than was in it
(30:41):
when he arrived. And when he arrived his suit was
in it like balled up, and his shoes. And I said,
what what's in there? It looks a little heavier. He said, Oh,
I cleaned out the mini fridge, so my two I
p as the coke, the diet cokes there, all of it.
I took all the goldfish crackers, he dumped them in there. Yeah,
he took everything. Everything that wasn't nailed down took. So
we got out of there and we survived. But cautionary
(31:04):
table tail. Cautionary tail. It's a I don't know, I
don't know what's going on there.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
The preserve it doesn't sound good, like I said, it
just sounds, you know, it sounds like one of those
like eerie borderline nightmare.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Yeah, did it happen. I don't even know if it
happened at this point. At one point I had this
thought that maybe there was this huge mushroom of blue
cotton candy that was brought to the table with cake pops,
and then the women started wrapping their cake pops in
the cotton candy and eating it. I was told that
actually happened.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
It did happen. That happened in Nick and Sam's.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Yeah, but it happened apparently at the Burt David Burke's
restaurant too, apparently. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Well, it is odd to me.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
The most odd thing about that is that there's a
David Burke who's a chef, and a Bob Burke who's
a chef, and they're both in Rhode Island, which is
the size of you know, post.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Stamp, but they're not related.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
One has set himself on fire, the other one hasn't
as far as yet, right, and all that happens within
you know, shouting distance of each other.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
I mean, when you come down here, up here, up here,
down out when you come out here and we'll go
to the We'll go to the preserve.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
I was just going to say, the next time we're
in town, I'll be disappointed if we don't go to
the preserve.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Yeah. I mean it's an hour and a half drive
and to go strapped, you have to. They guess they
hunt out there. They do fly fishing.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
They have.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
The guy told me, the guy in the purple coat
when he was talking to me at the beginning, told
me they had a grass tennis court. And I was like,
there's no, there's no way you have grassed. How's that power?
Why why do you have a grass tennis court for what?
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
And then he told me the new I think he
may have been making a lot of because he told
me the New York Rangers. First of all, he said,
the Rangers are here, and my wife would makes sense
if my wife ord Then she said the Texas Rangers
are here, and he looked at her like she three heads.
He goes, no, the New York Rangers.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Why would they be there? They play hockey. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Maybe they wanted to. I mean it's clearly a place
where it's just a they have skeet shooting they have
an underground shooting range. Why would you have an underground
shooting range?
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Well, I mean, I guess the problem with above ground
shooting ranges anymore is that the EPA is all over that, right,
because you're you're literally filling the earth with lead and whatnot.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
So my guess is that in order to be approved
for a shooting range at all, they had to build one.
You know, that's ben fans, and they trapped the spent
rounds and have to get rid of it. That would
be my guess. But the whole thing seems odd, right.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
What is the call in the state of Rhode Island
for a preserve upon which one can hunt shoot underground?
See the New York Rangers fly fish, which doesn't make
any sense because why would you fish for flies? Most
people are trying to get rid of them? Why fish
for him? None of it makes any sense, And you're
(34:07):
telling me that no one comes. So my guess is
that the same guy who got bounced from the Ocean
House is eventually going to go bankrupt because he built
this preserve. I mean, majors continue to stay there, which
I don't think they can because the hockey season opens
in a couple of days.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Well, that's the funniest part because we looked at Ethan
and we said, so, the Rangers are here, the New
York Rangers here, that's cool, and he literally looked at
us like, one, we were crazy, and then two he
didn't have any idea what we were talking about.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Correct, So I don't even go out to fill Ethan
in on.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
The Yeah, the narrative, Yeah, the narrative, it's but that
was it. So you know, that was that was something
that was highly highly And isn't that much much nicer
to talk about that than the government shut down?
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Yeah, I don't want to tell you about the government
shut down, but you made the only point that needs
to be made about the government shutdown is that you
and you live on the East Coast, and I and
I live in the Mountain West. Neither of us have
noticed that the government is shut down, right has almost
no impact on the vast majority of average Americans right now.
(35:20):
If you're a government employee and you're not getting your paycheck,
well then obviously it has an impact, and you should
be doubly worried because one, you're not getting your paycheck,
that's not good. And two, if all of America hasn't
noticed that you're not working. Then the guy who's in charge,
who again, right wrong or in different We talked about
this last week, right wrong or indifferent. It's absolutely convinced
(35:42):
that most government employees are just leeching off of the
government TEP. He thinks that, he for sure thinks that.
And again I'm not saying he's right. I'm just saying
that the guy in charge of your job is pretty
sure he doesn't need you, and he's happy to find
out out, and he's finding out right now. And so yeah,
(36:03):
it's a tough time to be in, you know, some
backwater sub office of the executive branch the United States government.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
It's not good for you, but for the rest of us.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Buddy, I had you not mentioned it, I would not
have known that the federal government was shut down.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
So there you go. Yeah, I mean, I liked this
very fine program. If this program shut down.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Many people, most of them above the Arctic circle, would notice,
right there would be there would be a hue and
a cry. Not just a hue or a cry, but
a hue and a cry about the demise of this
very fine program.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
Unlike the demise of the federal government.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Yeah, they don't care about the government. And then what
do you what do you think about this Taco Bell
Ultra Marathon? Are you so this is in Colorado?
Speaker 4 (36:51):
Now, I know you're Colorado.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
It's very odd your oldest daughter is getting married on Sunday,
but you're sitting aside the time to running this ultra marathon.
I guess you'd be walking at some points. But the
Taco Bell Ultra Marathon, this can't be true. The runners
cannot take pepto or alka seltzer, is that right.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
I looked at this when our producer sent it out
for our consumption, and so I almost didn't read it because,
you know, the headline says Taco Bell Ultra Marathon. And
so my presumption is that it is an ultra marathon,
which typically is you know, fifty or more miles, and
it's sponsored by Taco Bell, which seems ironic. But I thought, well, okay,
(37:35):
I mean, you know, here again in the Mountain West,
people are really into stuff like that, right, you know,
ultra marathons and long bike rides, you know, ski touring
and stuff like that. So that's my presumption is that
for whatever reason, Taco.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
Bell is sponsoring.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
But then I decided, you know what, our very fine
producer you, when he sends us something, it is usually
worth reading.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
So I do.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
I read it. But here's what I got out of it.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
You got it's thirty one I have no idea why
it's thirty one miles. It's a Moost thirty or thirty
five or whatever, but.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
It's thirty one miles.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
And you got to run this course, and over the
course of the course, you have to eat at a
minimum of nine taco bells. And I will admit that
I have eaten at the occasional taco bell and I
will go so far as to admit that I have
had some burritos there that I actually enjoyed. But let
me tell you what I ain't doing. After I consume
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one of those burritos. I'm not taking one running step.
You know why, because I'm not sure what would happen.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
Okay, but it wouldn't be good. Okay, it wouldn't be good.
That burrito is going to look for an exit and
it's not going to be good.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
So unless I look to my rear and I see
a saber toothed tiger ready to pounce. Other than that,
I'm not taking a single running step after eating at
a Taco Bell, and yet somehow people are going to
run thirty one miles while almost constantly consuming Aco Bell
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food and I'm not doing it.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
I mean, do you think I'm doing it? You have
to eat a Chilupus Supreme, I don't even know what
that is, or a crunch Wrap Supreme by the fourth stop.
By the eighth you have to have a Burrito Supreme
and a Nacho's Bell Grande. Drinks don't count as food.
You could do the Diablo challenge where you lather all
(39:32):
eating items with Diablo sauce and do a Diablo shooter
at the end, and then the Baja Blast Challenge drink
and aggregate of two leaders of Baja Blast during their
run without vomiting. I mean, that's like, that is hardcore.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
That is a horror movie. See that right there, buddy,
That is a nightmare.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
And our substitute producer, you have a subseup producer day
because our primary producer is I'm otherwise engaged, but our
substitute producer just reminded me that thirty one miles is
fifty kilometers.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
So there you go. There's the answer to that question.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
You're going to run fifty k, which I'm not doing anyway,
But you're going to run fifty k and do all
the things that you just mentioned. I'm not only am
I not doing that, I'm keeping all my loved ones
from doing that.
Speaker 4 (40:22):
I will stand between them and harm's way.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
I'm not allowing it, and I don't want to be
anywhere near it because the amount of explosive discharge from
the human digestive is going to take place during this
fifty kilometer nightmare is not something you even want to
contemplate a loan participate in. So I'm not doing it,
(40:46):
and somebody, I think at this point we have to.
We touched on the government shutdown because we had to.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
That's you got to do it.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
We did to.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
Yeah, good at it. We did it. We know all
we need to know about the preserve and Rhode Island.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
If you're going to Rhode Island, if you're leaving the
Arctic Circle, which is the only place where people listen
to this very fine program, and you're going to Rhode Island,
which many many people do.
Speaker 4 (41:05):
Many people look around, they go it's cold here. I'm
going to head for Rhode Island and if you're going
for the Preserve Rams, you know, first of all, bring
a group so that you can.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
Be looking in all directions at once, because if you're not,
they're going to get you, and good luck with that.
Speaker 4 (41:22):
And then listen.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
If you're planning on running this Taco Bell Ultra Marathon,
A reconsider, be reconsider, and then c. After you've done
that twice, reconsider again. Be glad that you did, so
that you're still alive and well to tune in next
week when we'll be back right here on IP frequently.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
This has been IP frequently, once again, clearing a forest
of lies with the machete of truth.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
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the mail, not that I even care because it's all junk.
There's nothing in the mail. I don't even understand the
mail anymore. You get the mail, we.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Do, and you know, here in the Mountain West, they
do not deliver to your house.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
So despite what the Postal Service likes to say.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
About rain and hail and dark of night and blah
blah blah, they can't get their sorry butts up here.
And so you have to have a post office box,
which you can either get at the post office and
that's a mistake here in our particular town because the
post office sucks here. So what everybody does is you
have your your mail delivered to the UPS store and
(04:09):
then those people are locked in, I mean they have
their crap together. And the beauty of that additionally is
that if something has to be signed for while, they're
always there, right so you don't have to worry about
being home. If you have something that's you know, being
fedaxed or ups'd or whatever and you have to sign
for it, don't worry about that because they're going to do.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
It for you. So we do.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
And so we have a little mailbox and you open
it up and inside are all the slips for the
things you have to go to the counter to get
like all your boxes and your Amazon crap and whatever.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
And then junk mail. That's it.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
And so very wisely at the UPS store they have
a huge garbage can.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
And so the process is this.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
You walk in to the UPS store, you go to
your box, you get out your little key, you open
it up, you.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Take out all the stuff, and again the stuff falls.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Into two categories, the slips that you need to go
to the counter to pick up your boxes and garbage.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
You just walk down to the garbage. Can you throw
all that stuff away?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
And I have to believe and maybe it's because like
our parents' generation is still around, that there's someone who
looks at that stuff, because otherwise it would be completely
cost and effective to produce it. And everyone producing that
stuff cannot be an idiot. I mean, let's just assume
that fifty percent of the people producing the stuff are
(05:25):
idiots that just think someone's looking at this, when in
reality they're not. The other fifty percent must have their
eye on the ball, and so there must be someone
who is looking at their junk mail. But that's someone
is not in our generation and certainly not in our
kids generation, So it must be the generation above us
that still reach junk mail. But Christ and I just
(05:46):
march over to the giant garbage, can throw that stuff
in there, pick up our boxes and leave.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
That's how you do it. Yeah, you got We just
we go. I don't even know why we check the mail,
but we go and we check the mail in the
mailbox and it's just all junk. And then the other
day a thing and I'm sure you've seen these before
where you get the big envelope that looks like someone
took the time to write on it, and it says
it's an evaluation of our windows, and it basically says,
(06:13):
you know, you can upgrade to renewal windows by Anderson.
And what's good about that is you don't have to
tear the whole house down. They'll just come in and
bust out all your windows and put these new vinyl
windows in. And so my wife, god bless her, looks
at this thing and she's like, oh, somebody must maybe
this is you know, for you, somebody must have done
an evaluation, and maybe we need these new windows. And
(06:35):
I looked at her. I said, well, we just built
the house in this building in the last.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Year, five minutes ago.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Yeah, yeah, with hurricane grade windows on this house, right,
and uh. And then I'm like, but these, these these
vinyl windows do look good. And the sarcasm, by the way,
is being completely missed at this point, and I'm like,
maybe we should do this. What do you what do
you think? And she said, whatever you want to do,
that's fine. Said okay, well let me just take that
(07:01):
and throw that into the pile of trash. But anyway, yeah,
that's uh. I don't get I don't. I don't understand
the budgets that people have for that, but then it's
better than the junk man. I don't know, I don't know.
I'm just it's annoying.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
But let me take us on just a slight rabbit
trail here, because you reminded me of this when you
said junk mail has got me thinking about the fact
that my phone rings five hundred times a day, okay,
and exactly six of those five hundred times it is
a call that has value and is important to me
and that I want to take right from one of
(07:35):
my family members, or it's a business call, you know,
some of that nature. Six out of five hundred. Now,
the other four hundred and ninety four times my phone rings,
it's it's just some auto dialer with some jack hole
that's created and AI produced message that you get on
your voicemail that says, you know, this is Rachel or
(07:57):
this is Meredith, or this is Bob from myther the
tax resolution department or the business loan department, And it's
just bullshit and it's annoying, and there's nothing you can
do about it. There's nothing you can do to prevent
that from happening. And so my question is why is
there not Why does vers so in my case, we're
on the Verizon network, why does Verizon not employ an AI.
(08:20):
It would take an AI thirty seconds to figure out
which of these, you know, phone calls that are coming
through the Verizon network are being produced by some auto dialer.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
And you know it's so Christa and I's phone.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Numbers are we got them at the same time one
hundred years ago. And somehow, even though we got them
at the same time, they're like three numbers apart, right,
And so my phone rings. My my number is three
sequentially three numbers before hers.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
So my phone rings a split second later.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Christa's phone rings, right, like not even a second, like
a fraction of a second later. Christa's phone happens every time,
And so why can you not use an AI to go, oh,
wait a minute, this particular phone number is calling out,
you know, ten times a second to various numbers throughout
(09:12):
the Verizon network. This must be an auto dialer. No
one wants to get these calls. I'm just going to
shut that down. Why can we not do that?
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
I am constantly I get the same calls about the
business loan. The texts thing they're now fishing with. I
now get these things where I get texts from people,
and it will be a text I've never interacted with before,
saying hey, I just found your number in my book.
What can you you know? Just remind me your name?
(09:43):
Clearly a scam. And I've received that text about thirty times, yes,
in the last month. It's a new thing. I just
delete it and report junk. But they don't know, and
I don't know who you're reporting junk to because nobody
is doing anything with the information, because you get the
next text from the next number, and then the next number,
then and it just keeps, it just keeps, it keeps.
(10:03):
It never ends, It never ends.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Yeah, And so if you're you know again, we're for
some reason, we're very popular in Scandinavia. If you're in
Scandinavia and you work for a major mobile phone network,
ask that question for on our behalf police, call up
your boss and say why in the hell can we
not fire up an AI that will immediately determine that
(10:30):
certain numbers are just auto dialers pestering our customers and
shut that down.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Do that on our behalf please?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Yeah, I don't disagree. Maybe we can talk to somebody
over there.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
That would be nice.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Anyway, the government shutdown week two of then you have shutdowns.
Speaking of show, Speaking of that Korean reminds me of
that North Korean girls group Calypso or whatever it's called.
Speaking of which I did? I did? I don't think
I told you my Hobbit House story. Did I tell
you my Hobbit House story?
Speaker 2 (11:03):
No?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
You did? Yeah, No, you told me. Did you tell
me on Friday?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Or did you tell me on last week's podcast where
you went to some new place owned by the Ocean
House and you went to the Hobbit House but they
wouldn't feed you there because you have to have the
Hobbit House menu.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Yeah, but that was before now I've gone, Oh you've
been there? That we did. We went on Friday night.
We had oh no, you've done this thing? Yeah, at
the Hasbro Children's Hospital auction last year, and so we
went because my wife wanted to go on because they
decorate thet the Hobbit House for Halloween, so it's got
all sorts of pumpkins around it and stuff, and then
they got other Hobbit houses, which apparently I asked the guy.
(11:40):
We get it. We go out to this place, right,
it's called the Preserve, and it's in the middle of Richmond,
Rhode Island. And for people who don't know much about
Rhode Island, Richmond, Hode Island is literally in the middle
of the woods in southern RhoD Island. It's actually we're
a friend of mine, Jim Vickers. I don't know if
I've ever mentioned him before, but he had a compound
there years ago. It was called the Vickers Compound. He since,
(12:02):
of course, moved to North Carolina, where he lives on
an island that is frequented by wild horses.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Oh well, there you go. That's an upgrade.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Yeah, And I mean what's interesting about him is he's
named all his kids after Oakland writers.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Yeah that I knew is.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Conrad Dolber Vickers, Art Shell Vickers, Howie Long Vicars, what's
his name, the tight end, Todd Christensen Vickers. But there
are a couple of those Vicars kids that's still roam
the woods in Richmond. I explained that to everyone the
other night, and again that no one get the sarcasm there.
(12:40):
But we go to this place and it's like Richmond
Rhode Island is a very it's not a it's not
a wealthy community.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Right.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
So we show up to this place. I've never been
here before, and my wife has.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
I have not.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
She went took the kids there a couple of years
ago to take pictures in front of the Cobbit House
and we uh we we pull up and this huge,
huge entrance it's Preserve and you go to this guard
shack and it's it's like the guy in the guard
shack is like one of the vicar's cousins, right, and
he he's like one hundred and twenty years old. It
looks like he could hit him with a bat and
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he wouldn't move. And the guy's like he digs our
name and everything. He's like, well, welcome. You got to
go to the main lodge first to check in. Then
they'll take you to the Hilltop Lodge, which is where
the hotel is, because we got a night's stay in
the hotel too. And so we pull in. The first
thing you notice is on both sides of the road
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there are rams running free. Well not free, I mean
they're in a gated area, but they're rams, so actual,
actual sheep, not not not Vince Ferragamo, but right like male.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Sheep okay, running battering rams per se.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
But the animal I don't know. They might have. They
might have, they probably do do that. And then we
get there and there's no one in there except the
people working. Right there are a few people working, And
we get into the thing, drive up the hill and
find the place where I think we're supposed to go
to check in, and there's a white Cadillac suv in
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front of it, and there's one guy who's like ninety
years old, and then there's another guy who's like maybe seventy,
but he's got a purple coat on like the Joker
used to wear, you know, Caesar Romero, I do Joker.
So this guy's got this purple coat on, and so
I just pull up right behind them, and no one
else inside except the rams, and I pull right up
(14:37):
behind this guy. I get out and I say, how
you doing? I said, is this the where you check
in for the Hilltop Lodge? And he literally looks at
me and he goes, well, yes, it is, like you know,
the type of thing would make you very uncomfortable, like
hind the purple coco. The other guy's not talking. The
other guy's just like looking around, and it's almost like
you just get dropped into like good Fellow meets petticoat
(15:02):
junction at this point, it meets the Joker sort of
like a combination of that stuff. And he's like, oh,
yes it is, and this is welcome to the Preserve.
And I'm like, well, okay, and I just assumed this
guy was pulling up to check in himself. He was
welcome to the preserve. My name is so and so,
and he said I built this place, and I said, oh,
really okay, And yeah, so he's the he's the owner
(15:26):
slash builder. He's the guy who you know, he did
the building on the Ocean House. He redid the Ocean
House years ago. Okay. Come to find out after the fact,
little we had we had our friend Silas Moody with us. Indeed,
and uh after he did a little research into the guy,
and the guy was involved with the Ocean House. But
(15:46):
he had to leave. He was asked to leave.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Under questionable circumstances.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I love, there are many questions about it. I think
it was just a lot of a lot of interactions
with some of the masseuses over there that were not
admitted and not wanted by.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
The that's a big thing in New England. I mean
you got Bob Craft doing the same craft.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Yeah, yeah, soon to be Hall of Fame owner. Maybe.
So the guys, I go ahead in, you know, this
is we check inn. He talked to me for like
twenty minutes, to the point where he made me feel uncomfortable.
He said, are you going to park your car? And
I said I could. He said, yeah, park your car
and then come on in and welcome to the preserve.
Kept saying welcome to the Okay. So I parked the
(16:28):
car and Silas is in the car with my wife.
So we all get out. We walk in and did
you ever see the movie The Burbs, the.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Tom Hanks vehicle of course?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Yeah, remember the son of the brother and the doctor. Yes,
my brother remember the son? Hey Pinocchio, where do you
think you're going? Remember that guy? Well he's he's standing
behind the desk. Okay, there's no one else in there.
He's standing at the desk. Yeah, yeah, he said, he said, hello,
welcome to the preserve. How are you? And he's like, well,
(17:01):
you know you're gonna check in here and then you
can go up to your you know, your your your room,
and it's just this very bizarre right, it's a very
bizarre set of interactions. I was like, well, I could
just drive up to the hill.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Because there's three of you checking in for one hotel rooms.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Now there we got four hotel rooms and dinner for eight.
So I had four hotel rooms. Now the other the
other two chose not to avail themselves in the hotel room.
The Kilmers and then von Gunning came and met us,
and they did not want to stay in the hotel.
They said they were finding. In fact, the Kilmers told
me at dinner that they had booked this in down
(17:42):
the street, that it was like the where they rent
their rooms by the hour, but they had booked the
honeymoon suite. So they're very excited. They she may be
with child Brad.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
That would be, you know, a borderline miraculous given the
seasoning that she has at this point.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Well especially the yeah, the other one too. But so
he's like, okay, and can you just give me the
key and I'll drive up and we'll figure it out.
He goes, no, no, no, no, no no no. He's like,
here at the preserve, we do things a little differently.
We escort you to your room. Oh perfect. And I
was like, you're gonna You're gonna take us to the room,
and he goes, oh, no, I can't leave the desk.
Ethan's going to take you. Ethan's going to take you
(18:22):
to the room. And I said what And so the
next thing you know, this kid comes around the corner.
He looks like he's maybe one hundred pounds, soaking wet,
he's got to suit on with a tie. Okay, he's
he's maybe twenty two years old. This is clearly his
first job, or he's being blackmailed to do it, I
don't know. But he's like, Hi, my name is Ethan.
I'm gonna you can follow me. And he gets into
(18:42):
one of those ATV vehicles ATVs all terrain V. I
should say all terrain, not ATV vehicles, because that's where
ATV it's.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Like ATM machine. You don't want to say that either.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Yeah, So he's like, follow me up. The will follow
him up the hill. He takes us into the in
that it kind of looked like a like a Best
Western type deal only picture of Best Western where there
are no people, there's nobody like you walk in there
is a desk. It's like the type of thing you
(19:14):
would see after a zombie apocalypse, right where the zombies
have already killed everyone and they moved on. You go in,
there's a desk, but there's no one behind it, right,
and then they He's like, well, this is the there's
the yoga thing, here's the spa, but there's no one
in the building, no one. The workers are down the
bottom of the hill. That's where the rams are. And
then then the Pinocchio is down there too. Ethan shows
(19:34):
us to our room. We go into the room and
it's it smelled like a chiloopa or something in there,
but it was fine, it was nice, and and then
he's there could have been We didn't. I didn't stay
long enough to find out. But then he explained to us.
He said, you can. You can get changed for dinner
(19:58):
and then I'll come back. I'll get you and take
you to dinner. And I said, we can just walk
down there. He goes, oh, no, no, no, no, no,
we'll escort you. And he's like, well, you're going to
go to the.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Habit appropriately retired. What led him to state that you
needed to change for dinner?
Speaker 3 (20:11):
I don't know. I don't know, but he he's like,
we'll take you to the Hobbit house and you can
have a glass of wine and some charcuterie, and then
we'll take you to the restaurant where we're okay, you know.
And then so he says all this, So we we
get ready for dinner. An hour later, he's back out
front waiting for us to go to the Hobbit house.
(20:34):
We load into the ATV. He takes us down to
the bottom of the hill where the Hobbit houses are.
But now there are three Hobbit houses, right, and the
first two they have us in one of the first
two out on the deck with the charcuterie board, and
these two people behind standing behind a bar, who look
like they're in a hostage film. Right, this guy and
(20:55):
this girl who were waiting I supposedly waiting on us,
but they literally look like somebody is holding like their
dearest loved one hostage for them to be here and
get a glass of wine. But then my wife says, look,
I want to take a picture in front of the
Hobbit house, but not this Hobbit house. I want to
take a picture in front of the real Hobbit house,
and I said, well, this isn't the real Hobbit house.
(21:17):
She said no, there's one that's built into the side
of the hill and it's got pumpkins. So I go
over to Ethan and I said, so can we go
to the The whole time, Ethan's going a walkie talkie
on him, okay, and every once in a while you
hear like squawks of that walkie talkie. He's also got
a phone on them okay, and he's carrying them both
(21:40):
like they're you know, he's got I don't know what.
And he he's like, well, this is the Hobbit house.
And my wife's like, no, no, no, I want to
take a picture in front of that. And there's one
down the hill you can see it. And he like
looks at her and he's like blushes. He likes everything
he says. He's like turns beat red and he goes, well,
I don't think you can go to that hobbit. That's
not part of the itinerary. And I was like, well,
(22:03):
let's make this very easy. She's not going to walk
down there and take a picture, and do you mind
taking it? And he's like, oh, oh, that's that's fine,
and so he drives. We get in the ATV, drives
us down. It's like a couple of minute drive, and
I'm like, here, the just take the picture so we
can get this over with. Suddenly the phone starts ringing
and the thing starts chirping, and then another guy shows
(22:24):
up in an ATV and he is he's an older guy.
He is pissed. He is pissed. He's like, this was
not part of the promotion. And there's no one. Keep
in mind, there's no one here. There's no one here.
Our guests haven't even arrived, not even the Hobbits. There's
nobody there except for the two people that are being
held hostagen Pinocchio, who seem to want to be there.
(22:46):
There's no one there. And I'm like, can we just
take the pic? And then the other guy's standing off
to the side now, and so Ethan takes a bunch
of pictures of us. My wife looks at them. He
takes more pictures because she didn't like him. And then
the other guy comes over and he's like, look, are
supposed to be at the Hobbit house on the deck
for sure, this is what's scheduled at this time from.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Seven prison, I mean there's a schedule here and you're
supposed to be on it.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
You can exercise in the yard. So I'm like, okay, well,
we got our picture. We'll go back to the to
the it brings us back to the two people who
are in the hostage film. We go back and we're
you know, standing there. The Kilmers show up, and Yvonne
Gunning shows up, and then my and we're in the
middle of this air quotes happy Hour and the the
(23:38):
girls start talking right and they decide that they want
to go down to the Hobbit house now and take
a picture. Oh boy, but right Nathan steading off to
the side right like he is. He looks like he's
about to be because of because of the earlier escapade.
He looks like he's about to be killed, Like he's
the guy's going to drag him in the wood, shoot
him and bury him. And then when the women start
(23:59):
walking down to the to the Hobbit house, it's like
a two minute walk, he starts losing it. He's just
looking around. He's like, where are they going, and said
they're just gonna go down the Hobbit house before it
gets start to take a quick picture that the girls
want to see it, right, that's why they were coming here.
And he goes, yeah, that's that's not part of the
same thing as if he and I hadn't talked already
about this. He goes, but that's not part of the promotion.
(24:21):
And I'm like, yeah, but there's no one down there.
I mean, what's the what's the harm? There's literally no
one here, and he's like, oh, okay, and then the
next thing, you know, his phone starts ringing again. Is
if someone's watching this on a camera and the other
guy shows up, it seems like a federal and and
then the other guy shows up again. But at this point,
the women are taking there. They don't care. They're taking
the pictures they're willing for if they don't care if
(24:43):
I get killed, Silas gets killed, Ethan's definitely was killed.
But so then they come back. They've taken probably two
dozen pictures. Then the chef shows up, David Burke. Oh,
so he comes over and he's he's he's apparently a
(25:04):
famous chef because if you look at his he's got
like he is not that. That was the exact question
my wife asked me. She said, he must be. He
must be related to Bob Burke, and I said, I
don't think so, but maybe but I don't think so.
But he's got restaurants all over the country and he's
in his chef coat and he's clearly had a few, right,
It's like this point at six thirties, had a few
(25:24):
Friday night. He's a chef. So he comes over and
he starts talking to us, and it's it's it, it
was almost surreal because it's it's like they're acting like
chef's here. You know that Ethan is just like standing
in attention and chef's over there. And chef comes over.
He talks to me in Silas for a few minutes.
The girls don't want to even say they don't don't
have anything to say to him. So he talks to
(25:45):
me in Silas, and at one point this bug comes
and lands on the middle of his forehead, like the
type of thing where you'd swatted away after you but
he just keeps going. I mean, it was a good
minute that bug was on his forehead and he got
no yeah, he's just yeah. Usually what it's disconcerting.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
And so.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
The chef is sitting there, he's talking, and then finally
I'm like looking and I'm like, okay, I can stay
in this conversation or I can go over to Carl right,
who's by himself just drinking wine. So I'm going to
go to go talk to Carl. And I left Silas
to talk to the chef for like another twenty minutes
before seven thirty comes. Seven thirty comes, the chef leaves.
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He says, I'll see in the restaurant. Ethan comes back
and he's like, okay, now we have to we have
to go to the restaurant. But and it's on property.
It's like a five minute walk. But he's like, we
have to take you there. And at this point they've
ditched the ATVs and they show up in two Bentley's, right,
and they load us into two bentley Yeah, they load
us into two Bentley's to drive us. You know, the
(26:52):
two minute drive to the to the restaurant. Where we
get to the restaurant, this big. It's a big restaurant.
No one is there, like there's like one family at
a table having dinner, and then there are two people
at the bar drinking shots and there is no one
else there except the waite staff. No one.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Okay, And so tell me that preserve is not really
caught on yet in Rhode Island.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
I mean, I just assumed they were going to try
to kill us. At some point. We go into this room.
They said, well, you're going to be in the VIP room,
and they put us in this room. Wear the floor.
There was no plastic. The first thing I looked forwards
that before. The first thing I looked for was the plaster.
But they have they have this big long conference table
in the middle of the room, and the conference table
is maybe about eight feet wide. The room is eight
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and a half feet wide, right, so you are like
getting in these chairs, and anytime anyone went there's one door,
and I made sure to sit right near the door
because I'm not my back to the wall. You taught
me that back to the wall. Yeah, it's uh. And
then the chef comes in mm hmm. He's like, we
got some great things planned for you. It's gonna be
you know this and that he's had a couple more.
He's like slurring a little bit more, you know, and
(28:09):
then they start bringing us the food. And it was good.
I mean, it was fine, it was fine. It was
just at this point I'm kind of alarmed because there's
no one in this place. I don't really understand it.
I get up to go to the bathroom, and I
see the chef sitting by himself by the bar, drinking
like what appeared to be like scotch. And every time
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I went to the bathroom couple times, every time I
went by him, it was like the shirt was getting
undone and his hair was standing up straight. The glasses
came up. It just got he got, he got a little.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
It's like Lloyd Bridges an airplane.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
It's very Yeah, you know, I picked the wrong day
to stop sniffing glues. But he was sniffing the glue.
And then he just stopped coming to the table. He
just stopped all together. I mean he just stopped. And
then Carl looks at me at the end of the meal,
and Carl's been all over the world, right, and he's
he was telling me he was going to the Galapagos
Islands in the I don't know, but he said, he said,
(29:02):
you know what, and he had Carl had had maybe
a glass or two of wine, and he also had
like a big pat of butter on his lip for
the majority of the meal. And he said to me,
he said this is the this is the best meal
I've ever had, And I said, really, it was very
very strange.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Well, it sounds kind of like a dream, you know,
one of those dreams that's like a borderline nightmare.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
You're in it and you're always you know, you're waiting
for the.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Next shoot to drop because you're pretty sure you're in
a nightmare, but you're not really sure because nothing terrible has.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Happened yet yet yet.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Yeah, it sounds it sounds kind of like did you
spend the night there?
Speaker 3 (29:38):
We spent the night there? And when we get Ethan
takes us back to the room, right, and then he's like,
I just want to show you a couple of things
in the room. And he takes us over to the
fridge and he opens the fridge and the fridge has
like two diet cokes, two cokes, two ip as, and
a log of goat cheese. Yeah, and so he's like,
(30:00):
I want to just show you. And then there was
one water and I was like, okay, we got to
get more water. First of all. The second of all,
he's like, these are yours. You can there's no charge
for this stuff. And of course Silas at that point,
you know, was thrilled. Yeah, he had his whole room.
He had his own room, and he was he was,
(30:21):
I mean the next day, so we stayed. I'd locked
I latched the door double and then put the moved
a dresser in front of it. And then the next
morning I was up at six where they go, and
then Silas comes down and his bag is like twice
because he travels everywhere with that Duffel bag, you know,
you know the douffle back. His Duffle bag is like extra.
It's like there's more in it than was in it
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when he arrived. And when he arrived his suit was
in it like balled up, and his shoes. And I said,
what what's in there? It looks a little heavier. He said, Oh,
I cleaned out the mini fridge, so my two I
p as the coke, the diet cokes there, all of it.
I took all the goldfish crackers, he dumped them in there. Yeah,
he took everything. Everything that wasn't nailed down took. So
we got out of there and we survived. But cautionary
(31:04):
table tail. Cautionary tail. It's a I don't know, I
don't know what's going on there.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
The preserve it doesn't sound good, like I said, it
just sounds, you know, it sounds like one of those
like eerie borderline nightmare.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Yeah, did it happen. I don't even know if it
happened at this point. At one point I had this
thought that maybe there was this huge mushroom of blue
cotton candy that was brought to the table with cake pops,
and then the women started wrapping their cake pops in
the cotton candy and eating it. I was told that
actually happened.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
It did happen. That happened in Nick and Sam's.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Yeah, but it happened apparently at the Burt David Burke's
restaurant too, apparently. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Well, it is odd to me.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
The most odd thing about that is that there's a
David Burke who's a chef, and a Bob Burke who's
a chef, and they're both in Rhode Island, which is
the size of you know, post.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Stamp, but they're not related.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
One has set himself on fire, the other one hasn't
as far as yet, right, and all that happens within
you know, shouting distance of each other.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
I mean, when you come down here, up here, up here,
down out when you come out here and we'll go
to the We'll go to the preserve.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
I was just going to say, the next time we're
in town, I'll be disappointed if we don't go to
the preserve.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Yeah. I mean it's an hour and a half drive
and to go strapped, you have to. They guess they
hunt out there. They do fly fishing.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
They have.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
The guy told me, the guy in the purple coat
when he was talking to me at the beginning, told
me they had a grass tennis court. And I was like,
there's no, there's no way you have grassed. How's that power?
Why why do you have a grass tennis court for what?
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
And then he told me the new I think he
may have been making a lot of because he told
me the New York Rangers. First of all, he said,
the Rangers are here, and my wife would makes sense
if my wife ord Then she said the Texas Rangers
are here, and he looked at her like she three heads.
He goes, no, the New York Rangers.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Why would they be there? They play hockey. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Maybe they wanted to. I mean it's clearly a place
where it's just a they have skeet shooting they have
an underground shooting range. Why would you have an underground
shooting range?
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Well, I mean, I guess the problem with above ground
shooting ranges anymore is that the EPA is all over that, right,
because you're you're literally filling the earth with lead and whatnot.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
So my guess is that in order to be approved
for a shooting range at all, they had to build one.
You know, that's ben fans, and they trapped the spent
rounds and have to get rid of it. That would
be my guess. But the whole thing seems odd, right.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
What is the call in the state of Rhode Island
for a preserve upon which one can hunt shoot underground?
See the New York Rangers fly fish, which doesn't make
any sense because why would you fish for flies? Most
people are trying to get rid of them? Why fish
for him? None of it makes any sense, And you're
(34:07):
telling me that no one comes. So my guess is
that the same guy who got bounced from the Ocean
House is eventually going to go bankrupt because he built
this preserve. I mean, majors continue to stay there, which
I don't think they can because the hockey season opens
in a couple of days.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Well, that's the funniest part because we looked at Ethan
and we said, so, the Rangers are here, the New
York Rangers here, that's cool, and he literally looked at
us like, one, we were crazy, and then two he
didn't have any idea what we were talking about.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Correct, So I don't even go out to fill Ethan
in on.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
The Yeah, the narrative, Yeah, the narrative, it's but that
was it. So you know, that was that was something
that was highly highly And isn't that much much nicer
to talk about that than the government shut down?
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Yeah, I don't want to tell you about the government
shut down, but you made the only point that needs
to be made about the government shutdown is that you
and you live on the East Coast, and I and
I live in the Mountain West. Neither of us have
noticed that the government is shut down, right has almost
no impact on the vast majority of average Americans right now.
(35:20):
If you're a government employee and you're not getting your paycheck,
well then obviously it has an impact, and you should
be doubly worried because one, you're not getting your paycheck,
that's not good. And two, if all of America hasn't
noticed that you're not working. Then the guy who's in charge,
who again, right wrong or in different We talked about
this last week, right wrong or indifferent. It's absolutely convinced
(35:42):
that most government employees are just leeching off of the
government TEP. He thinks that, he for sure thinks that.
And again I'm not saying he's right. I'm just saying
that the guy in charge of your job is pretty
sure he doesn't need you, and he's happy to find
out out, and he's finding out right now. And so yeah,
(36:03):
it's a tough time to be in, you know, some
backwater sub office of the executive branch the United States government.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
It's not good for you, but for the rest of us.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Buddy, I had you not mentioned it, I would not
have known that the federal government was shut down.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
So there you go. Yeah, I mean, I liked this
very fine program. If this program shut down.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Many people, most of them above the Arctic circle, would notice,
right there would be there would be a hue and
a cry. Not just a hue or a cry, but
a hue and a cry about the demise of this
very fine program.
Speaker 4 (36:41):
Unlike the demise of the federal government.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Yeah, they don't care about the government. And then what
do you what do you think about this Taco Bell
Ultra Marathon? Are you so this is in Colorado?
Speaker 4 (36:51):
Now, I know you're Colorado.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
It's very odd your oldest daughter is getting married on Sunday,
but you're sitting aside the time to running this ultra marathon.
I guess you'd be walking at some points. But the
Taco Bell Ultra Marathon, this can't be true. The runners
cannot take pepto or alka seltzer, is that right.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
I looked at this when our producer sent it out
for our consumption, and so I almost didn't read it because,
you know, the headline says Taco Bell Ultra Marathon. And
so my presumption is that it is an ultra marathon,
which typically is you know, fifty or more miles, and
it's sponsored by Taco Bell, which seems ironic. But I thought, well, okay,
(37:35):
I mean, you know, here again in the Mountain West,
people are really into stuff like that, right, you know,
ultra marathons and long bike rides, you know, ski touring
and stuff like that. So that's my presumption is that
for whatever reason, Taco.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
Bell is sponsoring.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
But then I decided, you know what, our very fine
producer you, when he sends us something, it is usually
worth reading.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
So I do.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
I read it. But here's what I got out of it.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
You got it's thirty one I have no idea why
it's thirty one miles. It's a Moost thirty or thirty
five or whatever, but.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
It's thirty one miles.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
And you got to run this course, and over the
course of the course, you have to eat at a
minimum of nine taco bells. And I will admit that
I have eaten at the occasional taco bell and I
will go so far as to admit that I have
had some burritos there that I actually enjoyed. But let
me tell you what I ain't doing. After I consume
(38:30):
one of those burritos. I'm not taking one running step.
You know why, because I'm not sure what would happen.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
Okay, but it wouldn't be good. Okay, it wouldn't be good.
That burrito is going to look for an exit and
it's not going to be good.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
So unless I look to my rear and I see
a saber toothed tiger ready to pounce. Other than that,
I'm not taking a single running step after eating at
a Taco Bell, and yet somehow people are going to
run thirty one miles while almost constantly consuming Aco Bell
(39:08):
food and I'm not doing it.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
I mean, do you think I'm doing it? You have
to eat a Chilupus Supreme, I don't even know what
that is, or a crunch Wrap Supreme by the fourth stop.
By the eighth you have to have a Burrito Supreme
and a Nacho's Bell Grande. Drinks don't count as food.
You could do the Diablo challenge where you lather all
(39:32):
eating items with Diablo sauce and do a Diablo shooter
at the end, and then the Baja Blast Challenge drink
and aggregate of two leaders of Baja Blast during their
run without vomiting. I mean, that's like, that is hardcore.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
That is a horror movie. See that right there, buddy,
That is a nightmare.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
And our substitute producer, you have a subseup producer day
because our primary producer is I'm otherwise engaged, but our
substitute producer just reminded me that thirty one miles is
fifty kilometers.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
So there you go. There's the answer to that question.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
You're going to run fifty k, which I'm not doing anyway,
But you're going to run fifty k and do all
the things that you just mentioned. I'm not only am
I not doing that, I'm keeping all my loved ones
from doing that.
Speaker 4 (40:22):
I will stand between them and harm's way.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
I'm not allowing it, and I don't want to be
anywhere near it because the amount of explosive discharge from
the human digestive is going to take place during this
fifty kilometer nightmare is not something you even want to
contemplate a loan participate in. So I'm not doing it,
(40:46):
and somebody, I think at this point we have to.
We touched on the government shutdown because we had to.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
That's you got to do it.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
We did to.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
Yeah, good at it. We did it. We know all
we need to know about the preserve and Rhode Island.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
If you're going to Rhode Island, if you're leaving the
Arctic Circle, which is the only place where people listen
to this very fine program, and you're going to Rhode Island,
which many many people do.
Speaker 4 (41:05):
Many people look around, they go it's cold here. I'm
going to head for Rhode Island and if you're going
for the Preserve Rams, you know, first of all, bring
a group so that you can.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
Be looking in all directions at once, because if you're not,
they're going to get you, and good luck with that.
Speaker 4 (41:22):
And then listen.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
If you're planning on running this Taco Bell Ultra Marathon,
A reconsider, be reconsider, and then c. After you've done
that twice, reconsider again. Be glad that you did, so
that you're still alive and well to tune in next
week when we'll be back right here on IP frequently.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
This has been IP frequently, once again, clearing a forest
of lies with the machete of truth.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
You're welcome
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