October 28, 2025 • 36 mins
Ep. 307 - Curb Your Enthusiasm
The Sidewall Incident - A rogue curb has assassinated a Mercedes tire. Meanwhile, Trump brokers the impossible while the Nobel Prize goes to people who accomplished nothing but good vibes. RIP to Ace Frehley and Diane Keaton—actual legends who earned their laurels. And to everyone who marched for "No Kings": you're 249 years late and several brain cells short.
The Sidewall Incident - A rogue curb has assassinated a Mercedes tire. Meanwhile, Trump brokers the impossible while the Nobel Prize goes to people who accomplished nothing but good vibes. RIP to Ace Frehley and Diane Keaton—actual legends who earned their laurels. And to everyone who marched for "No Kings": you're 249 years late and several brain cells short.
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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 (00:50):
So Brat the last time I heard God of Thunder,
I believe I was serving as an altar boy at
the Saint Pius the V familiar with the Saint Pie.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Is the V. My guess is, if you heard God
of Thunder, you would have been having to serve as
an altar boy at the Temple of Mars.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Oh, there's no none of that.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Or maybe or maybe some Norse god like Thor, But
I doubt you heard God of Thunder in the Catholic
Church of God of that's God of wonders.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
God of Thunder. Well, whatever it is, I listen, I was,
as you know, I was an altar boy. Sampi is
the V and the best of the best were often
chosen to.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Everybody have to be an altar boy if they went
to Catholic school.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
No, you chose to sign up for the program. In
my case, it was the choice was made by my
grandmother who said, you're going to do it. But the
best of the best. Typically, you know how they have
the Pro Bawl and then but then they have the
All Pros, right your Pro Bowl, which you know everyone
gets picked at some point, although there's no game anymore.
They play a flag football deal and then slapping tickle
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and it's over. But All Pros are the best of
the best, and the best of the best of the
altar boy pool at Saint Pie as the v were
chosen to do the midnight Mass on Christmas Eve Christmas
Day really right Christmas Day. So I was chosen to
do that once.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
M My guess is that there's a reason you were
only chosen to do it once.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
It involved involved a couple of things. You know, they
had the big candles and you get the wax and
you create balls and you throw them at the other
altar boys.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Well, I don't because I wasn't raised Catholic, but I
can sort of imagine it. It sounds unauthorized. You know,
I don't know a lot about being an altar boy,
but my guess is that's not part of the actual
process or sacrament thereof.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
It's not part of the mass. No, And so that
was that was one of the reasons I was admonished.
The other was that a couple of the altar boys. Again,
this did not this did not involve me, but I
was somehow somewhat in cahoots. They stole a carton of
Father Patten's Marlboro cigarettes. That wasn't me because I was
not smoker. But really, the whole group of go that's.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
A lot of money. I don't know how much money
priests make, but my guess is I was, you know,
a meaningful investment on his part.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Oh hope, Father Baton did quite well, quite well, if
you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Good for him.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
It's neither here. But that's the last time I heard
of this, this great song. But listen, here's where my
head is at right now. I am as we know,
we're in the middle of this. You know, the government's
shut down, this whole big no King's Day thing.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
What is the motivation for no? Because this is not
the first time that this no king's nonsense has been
foisted upon the country. What is the motivation for this?
They don't want a king, Okay, well they don't have one,
so I don't know what's the point.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Well, I suppose they'll also go into some of their
ancillary subjects, right, for example, the whole Palestinian thing. They
want to resolve that and stop the genocide and Gaza.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Which we've done. I mean, the United States has played
a key role in making that happen.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
So really the key role.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Well, yeah, as as usually as has been the case
for you know, at least the last thirty years. And
so we don't have a king, so there's no worries there.
Mission accomplished. There's peace in Gaza. Mission accomplished, where home
of some of the most well fed, starving people the
world's ever seen, big people. And uh so what else?
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What else we got?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Well, I don't know. I can't get The Gaza thing
seems to be a big deal because there are a
bunch of pro Palestinian pro Hamas protesters that apparently are
converging on Washington, d C. And New York City.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
They'll be welcome in New York City. They will, Yeah,
they will want to hear. You want to hear a
funny yet tragic story. Certain, I assume you're talking about
mister Montdami, the future mayor of New York. I believe
that's correct.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yes, So I am on a ferry. I was on
a ferry the other day because we had to go
to the Hampton's for a photo shoot for our third child, Graham,
g Max Graham Maxwell Perdam also known as Messy to
his soccer cohorts. So we had to had to get
up at This was scheduled originally for Monday, which was
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Columbus Day up here and celebrated as such, not not
native none, that bullshit Columbus Day, right and after the
great investigator from the seventies who sold all those crimes.
And in any way, there is a literally a nor'easter
that comes in Sunday night into Monday, and we were
gonna go Monday midday and stay overnight with Graham and
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his sister Brooke, and and then he was gonna do
the photo shoot. We're going to come back the next
day because it's to ask someone to drive to the
boat in Connecticut. Get on the boat, take the boat,
drive two hours from the boat to the thing and
then drive back. It's inhuman right to have someone do that.
So we were going to do that to break it up.
But unfortunately all the ferries get canceled on Monday, and
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so my wife said. My wife said, listen, we'll just
go Tuesday. And I said, well, the problem with that
is that the Wednesdays was being about forty to fifty
miles an hour on Tuesday. They were thirty to forty
on Monday. So if they cancel the boat for Monday,
they're going to cancel for Tuesday too. No, no, it's
gonna be fine. So we rebook the ferry for Tuesday,
and sure enough, everything is canceled for Tuesday. So then
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Wednesday comes along and then I am once again asked
to arrange this thing which I want nothing to do with,
you know what I mean, And so of course I
arrange it. I figure out, okay, we got to get
on this ferry to get to this point. I have
to get on the ten o'clock ferry in New London, Connecticut,
all right, where they make the summary It is to
take the ferry over to Orient Point, the tips of
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the tip of Long Island on the northern side, and
then you got to get in the car and you've
got to drive all the way around this little inlet.
That takes about two and a half hours in the
winter right fall. In the summer it takes about four
and a half because of the traffic. So we do this.
I get up, drive everyone to the to the.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
There's no better way to get to the and I
honestly don't know. There's no better way to get to
where you're going in Long Island than the way you're going.
Or you're just doing that because it's scenic.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
No, no, no, I love the scenery. And also you
could certainly go through New York City and drive all
the way down ninety five to New York and then
back all the way up Long Island.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
That takes about five and a half hours. There's not
a train or something.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I mean, you could take a train, but it would
probably plumb it into the bottom of the sea as
soon as it hit the coast, because Long Island's an island.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I understand that.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
But you're telling me, then where's the train gonna go?
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Bridge is over to Long Island.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
There was a bridge, I would just take the bridge.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Well, that's what I'm asking there's no bridge.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
It's only to be a long bridge. It's an hour
and a half ferry ride. For crying out.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Loud, Okay, I mean you started this.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
So I get on the boat, and I am at
this point, I mean, I'm already tired. I'm already you know,
the whole hour and a half to the ferry, get
on the ferry, or on the ferry. Then they want
to eat something. Even though I stopped on the way,
I allotted time to get them something to eat. So
I got to eat, like a croissant or a bagel
or something. We get on the boat and the poo
poo man wants to eat, so like, okay, okay, so
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we'll go to the You go up to the little
they have like a little food counter on the ferry. Right,
So you go to the food counter and there's a
guy in front of us who reminded me of Mandami.
This's how I got on this right, and this is listen.
All I'm doing is repeating things here. Okay. I'm not
saying that I advocate any of this stuff.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Was he asking you? Why was he asking for the
food to be freeze?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
That?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
How you he reminded you.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Of, that's a good question. I'm not sure if he
paid for his meal, okay, but he ordered himself like
a plate of eggs. And then he goes over to
the counter and this is this is literally they had
they had the Yeah, the poopol man had eggs on
a bagel. But we weren't lining behind this vandami gentleman,
so we had to wait to wait. So the poopul
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man goes up and he's watching the looking at the
case with the muffins and stuff, and the mandami guy
goes and I would also take a piece of this
banana bread, just like that, Just like that, It's pretty
much a quote. And so the poopul man looks at him,
looks at me, looks at the ten people in the
line behind us, and goes, ah, banana banana, like really loud,
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mimicking the guy over and over again. Because he doesn't
know any better. He just sure, yeah. So everyone then
everyone is giving me the death stare, and I'm like, well,
what do you want me to do? The kid's six
six years old, like, shut up, take your banana bread
or bandana, whatever you want to call it, and move on.
But then the poopul man realized, you know, you know,
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when you're a fighter, like when Holmes Falcunin, he realized
that jab was really hurting Cooney, and like, that's how
he's gonna win the fight. He's just gonna jab him
to death. And he ended up doing that. And then
he just so the poopul man realizes that this is
this has struck a nerve with me, and so he
continues to do it, continues.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Of course he does.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
He goes, oh, no, no, I don't want a bagel, I
want the banana, Brad, the banana banana. Keeps doing it,
keeps doing it to the point where I have to
say you need to stop. And then everyone then then
then the tide turns to me being a child abuser
when I raise my voice a little bit to the kid.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Yeah, well see, parenting is hard, buddy. You can't win,
especially in this modern culture where everybody's judging about everything.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
So yeah, it's just like a bunch of damn judgmental fools.
But anyway, yeah, so that's the And then the rest
of the thing was like, you know, we get on
the island, we drive a little two and a half
hours to this place where I have to drop my
wife and the poop poo man obviously do the photo shoot,
and I take my daughter to go find a restroom
on Long Island and good luck with that. That took
That took a while. And then I come just just
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in time to get back to pick them up, and
then do the two and a half hour drive back
where we stopped at a corn maze, which is actually fun.
Was there someone me? I think I love my soul
in there. I'm still part of me is still there?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Well it's not good.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yeah. And then I'm just parked. I'm like parked along
the curb, and this car is up behind me. This
woman is just like she's like not beeping, but you
can just tell she's pissed that I'm stopped there. So
I'm like, okay, I'll go. And I start turning around
the corner and I nick the curb with my car
and suddenly, and I have never seen this before. We've
got a Mercedes. I don't want again. I don't want
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to say that they're wrong with anything. I just got
a Mercedes. Okay. We don't support what they stand for historically, okay,
but they have their run flat tires, so I like.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Fun of the way that guy was talking. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I was not making fun of him. I was just
telling you exactly what happened. And I, once again I
had to be dragged through it on that. So I
tap the curb when I say a typically I've hit
curbs before, believe me, in the car, in the car,
watch me, hre. So I tapped the curb. Suddenly the
tire pressure thing comes on and it goes from forty
to a zero. Dude, look at it like you wouldn't believe.
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And so I'm like, what.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
The what the hell knocked the tire off the rim?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
No I And so I'm like zero, what is it?
And so I try to drive it a little bit
like just a couple of it's the tire's gone. So
I pull over into a parking spot. I get out
and it literally looks like someone has taken a you know,
jackknife or something just put it in the thing, and
you know, just just just ripped across the whole side
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of the like a switchblade, a switchblade, and just ripped
across the whole side of the tire, not the not
the the tread, just the inside of the side wall,
the sidewall, the sidewall and I'm like, you've got to
be kidding, man, And so I go in the back.
I got I got a spare but the problem is
the the jack won't support the weight of the car.
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Jackus get a little button on, it's gonna go. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
And they gave you a jack, they wouldn't support the
way to the car.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
One hundred percent. So then I have to Then I
have to Then I have Then what I have to
do is go I'm just sitting.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
There, have a spare tire, because I remember the one other.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Car we had the spare tire. But we so I'm like, okay,
I'm just gonna want to just lock this car, go
go go back home because we had to get him home,
get his sister with the other car. They don't come back,
and I'll get the get the people out here, you
know the people you call for things like this.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Well where's the car now?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
The car is now at VD Mercedes where they just
quoted me twenty three hundred bucks because I have to
get four new tires.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Well, how old are the tires?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
I don't know how old is just passed inspection, it
was just sunk.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
I know how old your own tires are?
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Well, I think the family in that car. The car
is four years old, but the tires have been replaced
once I got the tire packages. You know, I pride
myself on that. I always get that. I don't care
what it costs to costs more than the car. I
get the tire package. And now they figure out ways
to squirm of it. I'm sure I'm not going to
be getting any coverage on this.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Well, how could they possibly squirm out of it? If
you got the tire party, you got it, you got it.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
I'm just telling you it looks like someone took a
switch blade put it in the tire. If I weren't driving.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
The did you look at the curb that you hit?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
This just a curb And I didn't hit the curb.
I brushed against it. I was not I was not
even moved. I was barely moving. Well, but I mean
we have there's there's this is this is not the
incident from Dallas that was a different time in place.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
In this story, right, So you've barely strip against this, yeah,
this normal curb, and suddenly your tire is shredded as
though Jack the Ripper has salted it.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
But what do you say? It's like a metal curb
with like jagget edges or something.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I'm just saying there's some dissonance there, that's.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
What you're saying. I'm somehow not telling the truth in this.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Story, is that what you're saying there, there could be
some you know, either mitigation of certain aspects or perhaps
over inflation of others.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
That's well, the tires were not over inflated. I can
tell you that, because that tire was deflated by the
time luckily I got into the parking spot. But no,
it was a regular curve. Might be a little higher
than a regular curb, but it's not much higher. It
was a curb. And when you tap a curb like
it was barely I was literally I was stopped because
I left them out of the car, and I just
slowly went up around the curve and it just the
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thing popped. It was like a damn balloon. I'm not
even kidding, like I don't even know what car. And
then I looked at the tire when I pulled it
into the parking spot. It literally was the sidewall of
the tire, wasn't It wasn't anything that was in contact
with the road. Could it have brushed against the curb yet.
But I've never seen a tire pop like that when
you hit a curb. And I've hit curbs before, and
I've popped tires before, as you know.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Yes, well, buddy, that is unfortunate. It is unfortunate when
an expensive piece of machinery fails to perform at the
level that you would expected to perform.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I will grant you that anyway. Was so the reason
I was even bringing up on and then we got
into the banana bread story which led to my car situation,
was this. So here's what I don't get about the
whole Gaza thing. Right, They're going to go march for Gaza,
even though it seems to be in a good place.
So it seems like a lot of people should be saying,
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great job. How do we effectuate this piece and make
it long term? And can we get behind something like
this that seems to have done a lot of good
and brought the Israelis to heal and brought Hamas to
the table, and they're getting disarmed and all this stuff,
and so I want, I don't understand why they're protesting that,
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And that's going to be a big part of the
stupid note Kings thing. Well, it is stupid. Let's just
let's just call it what it is.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
It's stupid.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
But the other thing I didn't understand is this whole
Nobel Peace Prize thing, right, because I've never won one
of you won one of those.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
A Nobel piece, not yet? I mean, I you know,
it's on my bucket list, but I haven't won one yet.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Yeah, And so it seems to me that the President
of the United States, who's like been spending a lot
of time on these conflicts, right, there's a list of
those conflicts that he's resolved, the small ones, and it
seems like this is a watershed deal in the Middle
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East because he's got all these these uh you know,
Muslim company, got countries behind him in the peace deals.
He's sort of really worked this well. And it seems
like they're going to rebuild Gaza, And it seemed, I mean,
the very least, they get these hostages all back, and
they've got Israel out of there for the time being,
and there's a cooling off period. They're going to get
some aid in there, and then you know, phase two
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is rebuilding, which would be amazing. But that's a pretty
big fricking accomplishment, right something the last person.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Yeah, I mean if it's if that sticks, then it's
easily the biggest peace deal since the Marshall Plan in
World War Two. I mean the the what was the
accords that Carter broker between Egypt.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
And yeah, the Bacon and the guy from Egypt ye.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Saad and Monoch and began said, I was murdered by
his own security guys as a result of those accords.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
And then Josimo Bark took over it. He was he
was a warlord.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
His work. But I mean that THATDS. Yes, I knew
you would come up with it, So I mean, and
that has stuck. I mean, to this day there has
not been combat between Egypt and Israel, despite all of
the shenanigans over there, and that's a big deal. And
so you know, arguably you could throw that in there.
But I would say that if Trump and his administration
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are capable of establishing a lasting piece between Israel and
the Palestinians wherein Gaza gets rebuilt and turned into a
place that is actually run like a legitimate modern country,
then that's the biggest thing since the Marshall Plan. No,
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I don't know whether or not that's going to happen.
I mean, you know, it's not like a few people
haven't tried. But if it does, that's a big deal.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I mean it would be I mean already is historic,
but it would be You're right amazing if they if
they do that. And so I'm like trying to reconcile
that whole thing. And then also you know they there
is it is a big priority of this administration to
resolve the whole Ukraine Russia thing. And I mean, this
president's been already met with all of them. I think
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he's a meeting today with the Ukrainian leader again, but
he's already met with Russia once. He's gonna meet with
the Russian dude again, Putin Putin. But they announced the
Nobel Peace Prize like a few days after this whole
deal in the Middle East, and he's that he doesn't
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get it, and I'm like, Okay, well, that means there's
something I missed right and in the world, and somebody
really amazing must have got this thing right. And so
then I look and it's Maria Carina Machado. Okay, for
her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela,
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which hasn't worked very well for the people of Venezuela.
By the way, in kiss you look at what's.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Going on, Well, hang on a second before you go
any further. So, I like the Nobel Prize for Physics
or the Nobel Prize for chemistry or biology, et cetera.
The hard science Nobel Prizes are given literally decades after
the invention or discovery that they are awarded for. Right. So,
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I was not long ago reading about this year's Nobel
Prize in physics, and it was awarded to a group
of three people for you know, I won't bore the audience.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
For what that would be, John Clark, Michael Devera, and
John M. Martinez.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Okay, but but they had what they had done. They
had done, you know, decades ago. That's always the way
it is.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
So is there for the discovery of macroscopic quantum, mechanical
tunneling and energy correct? Yeah, quantization quantization.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
In an electric circuitization?
Speaker 2 (21:24):
No? No, quantization quantization quantization Yeah say that five times quick, jeez.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
So anyway, point being is the Nobel Peace Prize awarded
in a like fashion? Right, So it's awarded years after
you have accomplished the fact or is the Nobel Peace
Prize given for something that occurs in the preceding twelve months.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Well, let me let me give you this one, and
you tell me you can hear. Here's what you can
answer your own question. Nobel Peace Prize, two thousand and nine. Right,
Barack age Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international
plumbacy and cooperation between people's. Keep in mind, two thousand
and nine is the year he took office, so he's
six months in has accomplished literally nothing. Barack Obama got
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the Nobel Peace Prize in two thousand and nine.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Well, and so now you're right. Now you've answered a
couple of my questions. So now you know all that
you need to know. Right, it's a beauty contest and
you have to be a lefty to win it.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Right.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
And so Donald Trump is many things, but beautiful in
that sense and quite frankly most other senses, is not
one of the things he is. And he's clearly no
darling of the left. So I would say, if Donald
Trump got on a mule and at his own expense,
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wrote it around the world, stopping every place there was
conflict from a domestic between a married couple to two
nuclear superpowers, and got offset mule and solved each and
every one of those conflicts in a lasting and meaningful
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and beneficial way. He would still never win the Nobel
Peace Prize.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
I mean, you're probably right. I mean, first of all,
if he were on said mule, he wouldn't be able
to make it to the Hampton's without being on the ferry.
So that's one thing to be very clear about. Let's see,
went all the way down to Manhattan back up, and
he's just not going to take that time. But yeah,
you're right. So I started thinking about that, and I
started looking at the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize
because I thought it was interesting. You know, one of
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the things I found out I did not realize. I
know I'd heard it before, but I didn't realize that
Teddy Roosevelt got a Nobel Peace Prize in like nineteen
oh five or six for being the mediator in that
war between Russia and Japan. And that peace prize, I guess,
is in the White House, I think, or the I
think it's in the White House. And that's one of
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the things that Trump's always talking about. So but then
I just started going through the list, okay, and the
Obama thing really gets me. You got a woman a
couple of years ago who got the Nobel Peace Prize
for her fight to win equal rights for women in Iran,
and I mean that's not going very well. Again, I guess,
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I guess maybe the the the criteria is not that
you be successful at the peace initiative that you're supporting.
But I mean, you know, between the the the gallon
uh in in Venezuela and the one in Iran, not
not not great.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
I don't have to You clearly have to have all
the best of intentions, but you don't have to be successful.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
The World the World Food Program, the International Camp and
the World Food Program one one one year, the international
campaign to abolish the program, the program, and.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Well, I guess if the program is intended to provide
the world with food. There you know, again, all the
best of intentions but not working out well, demonstrably successful. No.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
In twenty twelve, the Europeanion, the European Union got the award,
and it's kind of like the Stanley Cup, where I
guess they each get to take it home for a weekend,
and you know, fill it.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
With beer in it. Yeah, drink in the hot tub
with it.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Drink it.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
How does the European Union win a peace prize for
over six is a conglomeration of independent nations for.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation,
democracy and human rights in Europe. Good freaking luck with
that one. That's nuts.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
That's not even true. One hundred percent not true. It's
one hundred percent not true. Some dude who's trying to
get fundamental human rights in China. Before then there's Obama.
I mean, I'm just going through here and I.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Have to go back.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Well, who gives out the prize?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
The Nobel Commission, which was funded by it's just a
group of people in the Netherlands or in Denmark or
Latvier or something new.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
I mean, just like you know, just random folks off
the street or no, that's a com it's.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
A blue blue metal commission, blue ribbon commission. There, they're
they're top, top of the line, I mean. And this
is all funded by the Nobel not No Bell had
the patent on dynamite I think, and that this is
all for gunpowder or something, And this is all funded
by that, but you just go through it. No, no one,
I'm not recognizing that. Jimmy Carter got it in two
(26:34):
thousand and two, which just deserved it, which is fine.
I'm fine with that. Then you keep going back, you
keep going back and the Nelson Mandela.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Let me ask you this, Let me ask you this.
So it was in the seventies at some point I
was I was a wee lad. So I'm going to
say it was, you know, seventy six, seventy seven, something
like that, where those Camp David Accords were signed.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
To seventy eight enwarsed and began gotam got it seventy right,
that's fair enough, mother Teresa in seventy nine. I mean,
this is where you can look at it and say, okay,
I get it, I get it. But then you scroll
up a little bit and like I did not Desmond
too too, I can. I'm fine with that, Elie Wizzel.
I'm fine with that. But then you go to the
(27:17):
Dalai Lama Gorbachev in nineteen ninety Yu. Fine, of course,
makes sense, Mandela and de Clerk, as I said, makes sense,
But you go to this just doesn't make sense to me.
Two thousand and seven al Gore for what for his
efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man
(27:38):
made climate change and lay the foundation for the measures
that are needed to counteract such change in a new
global environment.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Well, that's just that's that's something like Kamala Harris would
say exactly.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
And that's the problem I have with this, And my
theory is that if you won one of these things, look,
if you win like the Tour de frent France France,
or if you win like the World Cup, right, or
or the Masters or or whatever. You know, you look
on that trophy and you've got. If it's the golf thing,
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you got Tiger Woods and Nicholas and Arnold Paul, all
the greats. The same with the same with the World Cup.
You can point to those Diego Maradona teams or the
Tour de France, Greg LeMond and all that stuff. Probably
not Armstrong because he was doped up. Although I was
told the other day by Silas Moody that they're all
did they all did it, that what what what Armstrong
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did was no different than what anyone else has ever
done in the in the Tour de France.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Oh well, I mean during that period.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
That's probably true, Pete says overtime.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
He said, over time, Yeah, well, I mean, Silas is amazing,
who speaks confidently about many things.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Yes, we've we've heard the last of him on our
group too, by the way he's been His plan is
about to be hatched tomorrow evening. But yeah, so I
I that's the thing. If you if you get the
if you get the the Master's Trophy and you looked
at it and like I was on there, or the
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equivalent of my level of a golf game was on there,
You'd be like, well, what the heck is this? This
doesn't make any sense, you know, And so that's what
I'm I'm wondering if he should even care about the
the Nobel piece pro.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
I mean, that's one of the that's one of Trump's
you know, many failings. Right, He is very good at
certain things. And you know, whether or not you want
to give him most of the credit or his people
most of the credit, or some combination there over whatever,
it doesn't matter, you know. And I don't even know
(29:44):
why I'm raising this because the people who hate him again,
if he advocated for breathing oxygen on a regular basis,
the people hate him would just stop breathing. They would
just drop over dead, and they'd be happy they did,
because they have this incredibly immature and idiotic approach to
everything the guy does just say, well, if Trump did it,
it's bad. Okay. Let me tell you something. If Trump
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creates a piece in between Israel and Gaza that is
lasting and grows into a couple of nations that can
you know, coexist at least as well as Egypt and
Israel have, then, like I said, he's accomplished something that
no one has accomplished since the Marshall Plan, and you
have to give it to him. Okay, that's that's a fact. Okay.
(30:26):
Now why he cares about it is one of his failings. Okay,
I mean he should just not who Especially when we
started this call, if you had just said, hey, would
you consider it an honor to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
I would have said yes. I would have said, you know,
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whatever else you have to say about it, would certainly
be an honor to have the Nobel Peace Prize bestowed
upon you. But now that you've explained it and listed
some of the people wanted, I would have just destructed
and said No, not really. I mean, it's really, it's
really not an honor. It's truly kind of a joke.
It's a joke, and so Trump must understand that. I'm
(31:08):
sure he understands it better than you and I do.
At least has had someone explain to him, Hey, mister president,
you know this is kind of a joke. Why he
just doesn't move on he does with so many other
things right where he just blows it off and says,
you know, screw your people, I don't care, or makes
fun of them or whatever. Why he doesn't do that?
Who cares? If you would, I don't. I wouldn't even
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want it with the list of names that you've just provided.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
No, it wouldn't make any sense so that you would
be you'd be justified in winning it compared to some
of these other jack holes. But anyway, I mean to
sidetrack everything, but I expected to see a lot more
gravitas on that list. You should, and I didn't see it.
I didn't. I just didn't see it.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
So we only have away with the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
I'm all for it. We only have a few minutes left.
But the thing I wanted to touch on, we had
two big deaths. It seems every week someone's dying who
you know was a was a someone on a on
a star, or on a big rock group, or a
movie in our in our ute. And so it is
(32:14):
Ace Freely from Kiss, who's a legendary guitar player. Again,
I could not I was not a Kiss fan. My
friend Jed Driscoll used to love Kiss, and I always
thought it was kind of I didn't get the men
with the face paint. I used to mock it in
ways that you really can't do anymore with the old
(32:35):
woke thing. But he passed away. In then the Lovely,
lovely and talented Diane Keaton, who was only seventy nine,
passed away as well. Diane Keaton, of course from Godfather Fame,
played k and also was the wife and father of
the bride with the great, late great Steve Steve Martin.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Still alive, right, So yeah, he's in commercials.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Yeah so so two more, two more great, both in
their seventies, left us too soon. I used to love
Diane Keaton. I just thought was absolutely absolutely terrific, and
she was in a lot of great movies. But she
was so so good in the so good in the
Godfather and that probably the best. The Godfather Part three
not as much, but she was still in that. I
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never understood how they didn't bring Robert Duvall back for
part three. I think they didn't want to pay him,
but they should have.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Yeah, yeah, probably now that I think about that. He
was in a lot of good movies too. Is he
still around.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
He's alive, but he's like ninety something. But back then
it was like the late eighties. He could have done.
He was in his fifties. I think back then he
could he could have easily. Yeah, but they pay and
then they picked up that weird George Hamilton, who was
in the film, didn't make any sense.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
No, I thought he was killed by Aaron Burr.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
That's a different one. It's a different George. Different George
one of the great traders of our time or hero
depending on who you listen to. That's another podcast. But
anything you care to say, Brad about Ace Freely or
the late Great.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Diet Surprisingly, because you're normally not on the eighties rock
like I am, you advised me today I had I
did not know Ace Freely I died and that is
a bummer because kiss and they just wrapped up their
final tour, which obviously at this point will be their
final tour, and they were still great. I mean that
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that was a great band. I'm sort of in agreement
with you with the costumes and face paint stuff. I
always looked at that and I was like, ah, I
don't get it. I mean, nobody else did that, and
there were a lot of great band They would have
been great without it, but it was their stick and
good for them. And so that does bum me out
to your point. I mean, we're losing all the great ones, buddy,
(34:49):
You and I must be getting long in the tooth
because all that.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
I wouldn't say that. It's not like we're marrying off
our daughters or anything. I mean, my God, would that.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
I am. I'm rapidly marrying off daughters. I got two
down and two to go. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Well, you know what's interesting. Ace Freely he died. Diane
Keaton I think had had I don't want to say,
I'm not sure exactly what it was, but she had
some condition, terminal condition. But Ace Freely was fine. He
was on tour recently and then he fell in his
studio and he had brain bleed and was dead within
a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Oh my gosh, this is just awful, awful, and losing
Diane Keaton is a bummer. I mean. But like said, buddy,
all the all the greats.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Except of course, a lot of these people on the
Nobel Peace Prize. There there's Maria Carina Machado is still
running strong. I think she lets you.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Still really making making a big difference there in Venezuela.
What a paradise that is.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Yep, yeah, well there it is. I don't didn't mean
to turn this into a rant about tires and Peace
Prize and Venezuela and all that stuff, but uh, you know,
it is what it is.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
It is what it is, buddy. And and with that,
with that sort of truism, I think we'll wrap it up.
We I had no idea that we were going to
discuss ace freely, tires, vicious tire eating curbs, banana bread,
ludicrousness of the Nobel Peace Prize process, banana bread being
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ordered not just banana breadbody, banana bread being ordered on
a ferry en route to Long Island. We talked about
all this seing no one who is listening to this
podcast right now can take the position I predicted all
of that, else they won't be ever able to predict
what we talk about next week, because we'll be back here, buddy,
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like we always are next week. On IP frequently.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
This has been IP frequently, once again clearing a forest
of lies with the machete of truth.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
You're welcome.
In these bleak days, humanity is at a breaking point.
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the little guy who's just trying to run a small
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Speaker 2 (00:50):
So Brat the last time I heard God of Thunder,
I believe I was serving as an altar boy at
the Saint Pius the V familiar with the Saint Pie.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Is the V. My guess is, if you heard God
of Thunder, you would have been having to serve as
an altar boy at the Temple of Mars.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Oh, there's no none of that.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Or maybe or maybe some Norse god like Thor, But
I doubt you heard God of Thunder in the Catholic
Church of God of that's God of wonders.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
God of Thunder. Well, whatever it is, I listen, I was,
as you know, I was an altar boy. Sampi is
the V and the best of the best were often
chosen to.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Everybody have to be an altar boy if they went
to Catholic school.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
No, you chose to sign up for the program. In
my case, it was the choice was made by my
grandmother who said, you're going to do it. But the
best of the best. Typically, you know how they have
the Pro Bawl and then but then they have the
All Pros, right your Pro Bowl, which you know everyone
gets picked at some point, although there's no game anymore.
They play a flag football deal and then slapping tickle
(01:54):
and it's over. But All Pros are the best of
the best, and the best of the best of the
altar boy pool at Saint Pie as the v were
chosen to do the midnight Mass on Christmas Eve Christmas
Day really right Christmas Day. So I was chosen to
do that once.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
M My guess is that there's a reason you were
only chosen to do it once.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
It involved involved a couple of things. You know, they
had the big candles and you get the wax and
you create balls and you throw them at the other
altar boys.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Well, I don't because I wasn't raised Catholic, but I
can sort of imagine it. It sounds unauthorized. You know,
I don't know a lot about being an altar boy,
but my guess is that's not part of the actual
process or sacrament thereof.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
It's not part of the mass. No, And so that
was that was one of the reasons I was admonished.
The other was that a couple of the altar boys. Again,
this did not this did not involve me, but I
was somehow somewhat in cahoots. They stole a carton of
Father Patten's Marlboro cigarettes. That wasn't me because I was
not smoker. But really, the whole group of go that's.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
A lot of money. I don't know how much money
priests make, but my guess is I was, you know,
a meaningful investment on his part.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Oh hope, Father Baton did quite well, quite well, if
you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Good for him.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
It's neither here. But that's the last time I heard
of this, this great song. But listen, here's where my
head is at right now. I am as we know,
we're in the middle of this. You know, the government's
shut down, this whole big no King's Day thing.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
What is the motivation for no? Because this is not
the first time that this no king's nonsense has been
foisted upon the country. What is the motivation for this?
They don't want a king, Okay, well they don't have one,
so I don't know what's the point.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Well, I suppose they'll also go into some of their
ancillary subjects, right, for example, the whole Palestinian thing. They
want to resolve that and stop the genocide and Gaza.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Which we've done. I mean, the United States has played
a key role in making that happen.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
So really the key role.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Well, yeah, as as usually as has been the case
for you know, at least the last thirty years. And
so we don't have a king, so there's no worries there.
Mission accomplished. There's peace in Gaza. Mission accomplished, where home
of some of the most well fed, starving people the
world's ever seen, big people. And uh so what else?
(04:32):
What else we got?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Well, I don't know. I can't get The Gaza thing
seems to be a big deal because there are a
bunch of pro Palestinian pro Hamas protesters that apparently are
converging on Washington, d C. And New York City.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
They'll be welcome in New York City. They will, Yeah,
they will want to hear. You want to hear a
funny yet tragic story. Certain, I assume you're talking about
mister Montdami, the future mayor of New York. I believe
that's correct.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yes, So I am on a ferry. I was on
a ferry the other day because we had to go
to the Hampton's for a photo shoot for our third child, Graham,
g Max Graham Maxwell Perdam also known as Messy to
his soccer cohorts. So we had to had to get
up at This was scheduled originally for Monday, which was
(05:27):
Columbus Day up here and celebrated as such, not not
native none, that bullshit Columbus Day, right and after the
great investigator from the seventies who sold all those crimes.
And in any way, there is a literally a nor'easter
that comes in Sunday night into Monday, and we were
gonna go Monday midday and stay overnight with Graham and
(05:49):
his sister Brooke, and and then he was gonna do
the photo shoot. We're going to come back the next
day because it's to ask someone to drive to the
boat in Connecticut. Get on the boat, take the boat,
drive two hours from the boat to the thing and
then drive back. It's inhuman right to have someone do that.
So we were going to do that to break it up.
But unfortunately all the ferries get canceled on Monday, and
(06:12):
so my wife said. My wife said, listen, we'll just
go Tuesday. And I said, well, the problem with that
is that the Wednesdays was being about forty to fifty
miles an hour on Tuesday. They were thirty to forty
on Monday. So if they cancel the boat for Monday,
they're going to cancel for Tuesday too. No, no, it's
gonna be fine. So we rebook the ferry for Tuesday,
and sure enough, everything is canceled for Tuesday. So then
(06:34):
Wednesday comes along and then I am once again asked
to arrange this thing which I want nothing to do with,
you know what I mean, And so of course I
arrange it. I figure out, okay, we got to get
on this ferry to get to this point. I have
to get on the ten o'clock ferry in New London, Connecticut,
all right, where they make the summary It is to
take the ferry over to Orient Point, the tips of
(06:58):
the tip of Long Island on the northern side, and
then you got to get in the car and you've
got to drive all the way around this little inlet.
That takes about two and a half hours in the
winter right fall. In the summer it takes about four
and a half because of the traffic. So we do this.
I get up, drive everyone to the to the.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
There's no better way to get to the and I
honestly don't know. There's no better way to get to
where you're going in Long Island than the way you're going.
Or you're just doing that because it's scenic.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
No, no, no, I love the scenery. And also you
could certainly go through New York City and drive all
the way down ninety five to New York and then
back all the way up Long Island.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
That takes about five and a half hours. There's not
a train or something.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I mean, you could take a train, but it would
probably plumb it into the bottom of the sea as
soon as it hit the coast, because Long Island's an island.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I understand that.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
But you're telling me, then where's the train gonna go?
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Bridge is over to Long Island.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
There was a bridge, I would just take the bridge.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Well, that's what I'm asking there's no bridge.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
It's only to be a long bridge. It's an hour
and a half ferry ride. For crying out.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Loud, Okay, I mean you started this.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
So I get on the boat, and I am at
this point, I mean, I'm already tired. I'm already you know,
the whole hour and a half to the ferry, get
on the ferry, or on the ferry. Then they want
to eat something. Even though I stopped on the way,
I allotted time to get them something to eat. So
I got to eat, like a croissant or a bagel
or something. We get on the boat and the poo
poo man wants to eat, so like, okay, okay, so
(08:28):
we'll go to the You go up to the little
they have like a little food counter on the ferry. Right,
So you go to the food counter and there's a
guy in front of us who reminded me of Mandami.
This's how I got on this right, and this is listen.
All I'm doing is repeating things here. Okay. I'm not
saying that I advocate any of this stuff.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Was he asking you? Why was he asking for the
food to be freeze?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
That?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
How you he reminded you.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Of, that's a good question. I'm not sure if he
paid for his meal, okay, but he ordered himself like
a plate of eggs. And then he goes over to
the counter and this is this is literally they had
they had the Yeah, the poopol man had eggs on
a bagel. But we weren't lining behind this vandami gentleman,
so we had to wait to wait. So the poopul
(09:12):
man goes up and he's watching the looking at the
case with the muffins and stuff, and the mandami guy
goes and I would also take a piece of this
banana bread, just like that, Just like that, It's pretty
much a quote. And so the poopul man looks at him,
looks at me, looks at the ten people in the
line behind us, and goes, ah, banana banana, like really loud,
(09:34):
mimicking the guy over and over again. Because he doesn't
know any better. He just sure, yeah. So everyone then
everyone is giving me the death stare, and I'm like, well,
what do you want me to do? The kid's six
six years old, like, shut up, take your banana bread
or bandana, whatever you want to call it, and move on.
But then the poopul man realized, you know, you know,
(09:55):
when you're a fighter, like when Holmes Falcunin, he realized
that jab was really hurting Cooney, and like, that's how
he's gonna win the fight. He's just gonna jab him
to death. And he ended up doing that. And then
he just so the poopul man realizes that this is
this has struck a nerve with me, and so he
continues to do it, continues.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Of course he does.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
He goes, oh, no, no, I don't want a bagel, I
want the banana, Brad, the banana banana. Keeps doing it,
keeps doing it to the point where I have to
say you need to stop. And then everyone then then
then the tide turns to me being a child abuser
when I raise my voice a little bit to the kid.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Yeah, well see, parenting is hard, buddy. You can't win,
especially in this modern culture where everybody's judging about everything.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
So yeah, it's just like a bunch of damn judgmental fools.
But anyway, yeah, so that's the And then the rest
of the thing was like, you know, we get on
the island, we drive a little two and a half
hours to this place where I have to drop my
wife and the poop poo man obviously do the photo shoot,
and I take my daughter to go find a restroom
on Long Island and good luck with that. That took
That took a while. And then I come just just
(10:59):
in time to get back to pick them up, and
then do the two and a half hour drive back
where we stopped at a corn maze, which is actually fun.
Was there someone me? I think I love my soul
in there. I'm still part of me is still there?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Well it's not good.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yeah. And then I'm just parked. I'm like parked along
the curb, and this car is up behind me. This
woman is just like she's like not beeping, but you
can just tell she's pissed that I'm stopped there. So
I'm like, okay, I'll go. And I start turning around
the corner and I nick the curb with my car
and suddenly, and I have never seen this before. We've
got a Mercedes. I don't want again. I don't want
(11:36):
to say that they're wrong with anything. I just got
a Mercedes. Okay. We don't support what they stand for historically, okay,
but they have their run flat tires, so I like.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Fun of the way that guy was talking. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I was not making fun of him. I was just
telling you exactly what happened. And I, once again I
had to be dragged through it on that. So I
tap the curb when I say a typically I've hit
curbs before, believe me, in the car, in the car,
watch me, hre. So I tapped the curb. Suddenly the
tire pressure thing comes on and it goes from forty
to a zero. Dude, look at it like you wouldn't believe.
(12:09):
And so I'm like, what.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
The what the hell knocked the tire off the rim?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
No I And so I'm like zero, what is it?
And so I try to drive it a little bit
like just a couple of it's the tire's gone. So
I pull over into a parking spot. I get out
and it literally looks like someone has taken a you know,
jackknife or something just put it in the thing, and
you know, just just just ripped across the whole side
(12:36):
of the like a switchblade, a switchblade, and just ripped
across the whole side of the tire, not the not
the the tread, just the inside of the side wall,
the sidewall, the sidewall and I'm like, you've got to
be kidding, man, And so I go in the back.
I got I got a spare but the problem is
the the jack won't support the weight of the car.
(12:57):
Jackus get a little button on, it's gonna go. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
And they gave you a jack, they wouldn't support the
way to the car.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
One hundred percent. So then I have to Then I
have to Then I have Then what I have to
do is go I'm just sitting.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
There, have a spare tire, because I remember the one other.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Car we had the spare tire. But we so I'm like, okay,
I'm just gonna want to just lock this car, go
go go back home because we had to get him home,
get his sister with the other car. They don't come back,
and I'll get the get the people out here, you
know the people you call for things like this.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Well where's the car now?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
The car is now at VD Mercedes where they just
quoted me twenty three hundred bucks because I have to
get four new tires.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Well, how old are the tires?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
I don't know how old is just passed inspection, it
was just sunk.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
I know how old your own tires are?
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Well, I think the family in that car. The car
is four years old, but the tires have been replaced
once I got the tire packages. You know, I pride
myself on that. I always get that. I don't care
what it costs to costs more than the car. I
get the tire package. And now they figure out ways
to squirm of it. I'm sure I'm not going to
be getting any coverage on this.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Well, how could they possibly squirm out of it? If
you got the tire party, you got it, you got it.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
I'm just telling you it looks like someone took a
switch blade put it in the tire. If I weren't driving.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
The did you look at the curb that you hit?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
This just a curb And I didn't hit the curb.
I brushed against it. I was not I was not
even moved. I was barely moving. Well, but I mean
we have there's there's this is this is not the
incident from Dallas that was a different time in place.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
In this story, right, So you've barely strip against this, yeah,
this normal curb, and suddenly your tire is shredded as
though Jack the Ripper has salted it.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
But what do you say? It's like a metal curb
with like jagget edges or something.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I'm just saying there's some dissonance there, that's.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
What you're saying. I'm somehow not telling the truth in this.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Story, is that what you're saying there, there could be
some you know, either mitigation of certain aspects or perhaps
over inflation of others.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
That's well, the tires were not over inflated. I can
tell you that, because that tire was deflated by the
time luckily I got into the parking spot. But no,
it was a regular curve. Might be a little higher
than a regular curb, but it's not much higher. It
was a curb. And when you tap a curb like
it was barely I was literally I was stopped because
I left them out of the car, and I just
slowly went up around the curve and it just the
(15:22):
thing popped. It was like a damn balloon. I'm not
even kidding, like I don't even know what car. And
then I looked at the tire when I pulled it
into the parking spot. It literally was the sidewall of
the tire, wasn't It wasn't anything that was in contact
with the road. Could it have brushed against the curb yet.
But I've never seen a tire pop like that when
you hit a curb. And I've hit curbs before, and
I've popped tires before, as you know.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Yes, well, buddy, that is unfortunate. It is unfortunate when
an expensive piece of machinery fails to perform at the
level that you would expected to perform.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I will grant you that anyway. Was so the reason
I was even bringing up on and then we got
into the banana bread story which led to my car situation,
was this. So here's what I don't get about the
whole Gaza thing. Right, They're going to go march for Gaza,
even though it seems to be in a good place.
So it seems like a lot of people should be saying,
(16:16):
great job. How do we effectuate this piece and make
it long term? And can we get behind something like
this that seems to have done a lot of good
and brought the Israelis to heal and brought Hamas to
the table, and they're getting disarmed and all this stuff,
and so I want, I don't understand why they're protesting that,
(16:37):
And that's going to be a big part of the
stupid note Kings thing. Well, it is stupid. Let's just
let's just call it what it is.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
It's stupid.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
But the other thing I didn't understand is this whole
Nobel Peace Prize thing, right, because I've never won one
of you won one of those.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
A Nobel piece, not yet? I mean, I you know,
it's on my bucket list, but I haven't won one yet.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Yeah, And so it seems to me that the President
of the United States, who's like been spending a lot
of time on these conflicts, right, there's a list of
those conflicts that he's resolved, the small ones, and it
seems like this is a watershed deal in the Middle
(17:16):
East because he's got all these these uh you know,
Muslim company, got countries behind him in the peace deals.
He's sort of really worked this well. And it seems
like they're going to rebuild Gaza, And it seemed, I mean,
the very least, they get these hostages all back, and
they've got Israel out of there for the time being,
and there's a cooling off period. They're going to get
some aid in there, and then you know, phase two
(17:37):
is rebuilding, which would be amazing. But that's a pretty
big fricking accomplishment, right something the last person.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Yeah, I mean if it's if that sticks, then it's
easily the biggest peace deal since the Marshall Plan in
World War Two. I mean the the what was the
accords that Carter broker between Egypt.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
And yeah, the Bacon and the guy from Egypt ye.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Saad and Monoch and began said, I was murdered by
his own security guys as a result of those accords.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
And then Josimo Bark took over it. He was he
was a warlord.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
His work. But I mean that THATDS. Yes, I knew
you would come up with it, So I mean, and
that has stuck. I mean, to this day there has
not been combat between Egypt and Israel, despite all of
the shenanigans over there, and that's a big deal. And
so you know, arguably you could throw that in there.
But I would say that if Trump and his administration
(18:43):
are capable of establishing a lasting piece between Israel and
the Palestinians wherein Gaza gets rebuilt and turned into a
place that is actually run like a legitimate modern country,
then that's the biggest thing since the Marshall Plan. No,
(19:04):
I don't know whether or not that's going to happen.
I mean, you know, it's not like a few people
haven't tried. But if it does, that's a big deal.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I mean it would be I mean already is historic,
but it would be You're right amazing if they if
they do that. And so I'm like trying to reconcile
that whole thing. And then also you know they there
is it is a big priority of this administration to
resolve the whole Ukraine Russia thing. And I mean, this
president's been already met with all of them. I think
(19:35):
he's a meeting today with the Ukrainian leader again, but
he's already met with Russia once. He's gonna meet with
the Russian dude again, Putin Putin. But they announced the
Nobel Peace Prize like a few days after this whole
deal in the Middle East, and he's that he doesn't
(19:55):
get it, and I'm like, Okay, well, that means there's
something I missed right and in the world, and somebody
really amazing must have got this thing right. And so
then I look and it's Maria Carina Machado. Okay, for
her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela,
(20:17):
which hasn't worked very well for the people of Venezuela.
By the way, in kiss you look at what's.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Going on, Well, hang on a second before you go
any further. So, I like the Nobel Prize for Physics
or the Nobel Prize for chemistry or biology, et cetera.
The hard science Nobel Prizes are given literally decades after
the invention or discovery that they are awarded for. Right. So,
(20:46):
I was not long ago reading about this year's Nobel
Prize in physics, and it was awarded to a group
of three people for you know, I won't bore the audience.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
For what that would be, John Clark, Michael Devera, and
John M. Martinez.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Okay, but but they had what they had done. They
had done, you know, decades ago. That's always the way
it is.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
So is there for the discovery of macroscopic quantum, mechanical
tunneling and energy correct? Yeah, quantization quantization.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
In an electric circuitization?
Speaker 2 (21:24):
No? No, quantization quantization quantization Yeah say that five times quick, jeez.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
So anyway, point being is the Nobel Peace Prize awarded
in a like fashion? Right, So it's awarded years after
you have accomplished the fact or is the Nobel Peace
Prize given for something that occurs in the preceding twelve months.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Well, let me let me give you this one, and
you tell me you can hear. Here's what you can
answer your own question. Nobel Peace Prize, two thousand and nine. Right,
Barack age Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international
plumbacy and cooperation between people's. Keep in mind, two thousand
and nine is the year he took office, so he's
six months in has accomplished literally nothing. Barack Obama got
(22:11):
the Nobel Peace Prize in two thousand and nine.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Well, and so now you're right. Now you've answered a
couple of my questions. So now you know all that
you need to know. Right, it's a beauty contest and
you have to be a lefty to win it.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Right.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
And so Donald Trump is many things, but beautiful in
that sense and quite frankly most other senses, is not
one of the things he is. And he's clearly no
darling of the left. So I would say, if Donald
Trump got on a mule and at his own expense,
(22:50):
wrote it around the world, stopping every place there was
conflict from a domestic between a married couple to two
nuclear superpowers, and got offset mule and solved each and
every one of those conflicts in a lasting and meaningful
(23:11):
and beneficial way. He would still never win the Nobel
Peace Prize.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
I mean, you're probably right. I mean, first of all,
if he were on said mule, he wouldn't be able
to make it to the Hampton's without being on the ferry.
So that's one thing to be very clear about. Let's see,
went all the way down to Manhattan back up, and
he's just not going to take that time. But yeah,
you're right. So I started thinking about that, and I
started looking at the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize
because I thought it was interesting. You know, one of
(23:40):
the things I found out I did not realize. I
know I'd heard it before, but I didn't realize that
Teddy Roosevelt got a Nobel Peace Prize in like nineteen
oh five or six for being the mediator in that
war between Russia and Japan. And that peace prize, I guess,
is in the White House, I think, or the I
think it's in the White House. And that's one of
(24:02):
the things that Trump's always talking about. So but then
I just started going through the list, okay, and the
Obama thing really gets me. You got a woman a
couple of years ago who got the Nobel Peace Prize
for her fight to win equal rights for women in Iran,
and I mean that's not going very well. Again, I guess,
(24:22):
I guess maybe the the the criteria is not that
you be successful at the peace initiative that you're supporting.
But I mean, you know, between the the the gallon
uh in in Venezuela and the one in Iran, not
not not great.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
I don't have to You clearly have to have all
the best of intentions, but you don't have to be successful.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
The World the World Food Program, the International Camp and
the World Food Program one one one year, the international
campaign to abolish the program, the program, and.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Well, I guess if the program is intended to provide
the world with food. There you know, again, all the
best of intentions but not working out well, demonstrably successful. No.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
In twenty twelve, the Europeanion, the European Union got the award,
and it's kind of like the Stanley Cup, where I
guess they each get to take it home for a weekend,
and you know, fill it.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
With beer in it. Yeah, drink in the hot tub
with it.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Drink it.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
How does the European Union win a peace prize for
over six is a conglomeration of independent nations for.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation,
democracy and human rights in Europe. Good freaking luck with
that one. That's nuts.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
That's not even true. One hundred percent not true. It's
one hundred percent not true. Some dude who's trying to
get fundamental human rights in China. Before then there's Obama.
I mean, I'm just going through here and I.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Have to go back.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Well, who gives out the prize?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
The Nobel Commission, which was funded by it's just a
group of people in the Netherlands or in Denmark or
Latvier or something new.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
I mean, just like you know, just random folks off
the street or no, that's a com it's.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
A blue blue metal commission, blue ribbon commission. There, they're
they're top, top of the line, I mean. And this
is all funded by the Nobel not No Bell had
the patent on dynamite I think, and that this is
all for gunpowder or something, And this is all funded
by that, but you just go through it. No, no one,
I'm not recognizing that. Jimmy Carter got it in two
(26:34):
thousand and two, which just deserved it, which is fine.
I'm fine with that. Then you keep going back, you
keep going back and the Nelson Mandela.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Let me ask you this, Let me ask you this.
So it was in the seventies at some point I
was I was a wee lad. So I'm going to
say it was, you know, seventy six, seventy seven, something
like that, where those Camp David Accords were signed.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
To seventy eight enwarsed and began gotam got it seventy right,
that's fair enough, mother Teresa in seventy nine. I mean,
this is where you can look at it and say, okay,
I get it, I get it. But then you scroll
up a little bit and like I did not Desmond
too too, I can. I'm fine with that, Elie Wizzel.
I'm fine with that. But then you go to the
(27:17):
Dalai Lama Gorbachev in nineteen ninety Yu. Fine, of course,
makes sense, Mandela and de Clerk, as I said, makes sense,
But you go to this just doesn't make sense to me.
Two thousand and seven al Gore for what for his
efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man
(27:38):
made climate change and lay the foundation for the measures
that are needed to counteract such change in a new
global environment.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Well, that's just that's that's something like Kamala Harris would
say exactly.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
And that's the problem I have with this, And my
theory is that if you won one of these things, look,
if you win like the Tour de frent France France,
or if you win like the World Cup, right, or
or the Masters or or whatever. You know, you look
on that trophy and you've got. If it's the golf thing,
(28:11):
you got Tiger Woods and Nicholas and Arnold Paul, all
the greats. The same with the same with the World Cup.
You can point to those Diego Maradona teams or the
Tour de France, Greg LeMond and all that stuff. Probably
not Armstrong because he was doped up. Although I was
told the other day by Silas Moody that they're all
did they all did it, that what what what Armstrong
(28:31):
did was no different than what anyone else has ever
done in the in the Tour de France.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Oh well, I mean during that period.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
That's probably true, Pete says overtime.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
He said, over time, Yeah, well, I mean, Silas is amazing,
who speaks confidently about many things.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Yes, we've we've heard the last of him on our
group too, by the way he's been His plan is
about to be hatched tomorrow evening. But yeah, so I
I that's the thing. If you if you get the
if you get the the Master's Trophy and you looked
at it and like I was on there, or the
(29:09):
equivalent of my level of a golf game was on there,
You'd be like, well, what the heck is this? This
doesn't make any sense, you know, And so that's what
I'm I'm wondering if he should even care about the
the Nobel piece pro.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
I mean, that's one of the that's one of Trump's
you know, many failings. Right, He is very good at
certain things. And you know, whether or not you want
to give him most of the credit or his people
most of the credit, or some combination there over whatever,
it doesn't matter, you know. And I don't even know
(29:44):
why I'm raising this because the people who hate him again,
if he advocated for breathing oxygen on a regular basis,
the people hate him would just stop breathing. They would
just drop over dead, and they'd be happy they did,
because they have this incredibly immature and idiotic approach to
everything the guy does just say, well, if Trump did it,
it's bad. Okay. Let me tell you something. If Trump
(30:05):
creates a piece in between Israel and Gaza that is
lasting and grows into a couple of nations that can
you know, coexist at least as well as Egypt and
Israel have, then, like I said, he's accomplished something that
no one has accomplished since the Marshall Plan, and you
have to give it to him. Okay, that's that's a fact. Okay.
(30:26):
Now why he cares about it is one of his failings. Okay,
I mean he should just not who Especially when we
started this call, if you had just said, hey, would
you consider it an honor to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
I would have said yes. I would have said, you know,
(30:48):
whatever else you have to say about it, would certainly
be an honor to have the Nobel Peace Prize bestowed
upon you. But now that you've explained it and listed
some of the people wanted, I would have just destructed
and said No, not really. I mean, it's really, it's
really not an honor. It's truly kind of a joke.
It's a joke, and so Trump must understand that. I'm
(31:08):
sure he understands it better than you and I do.
At least has had someone explain to him, Hey, mister president,
you know this is kind of a joke. Why he
just doesn't move on he does with so many other
things right where he just blows it off and says,
you know, screw your people, I don't care, or makes
fun of them or whatever. Why he doesn't do that?
Who cares? If you would, I don't. I wouldn't even
(31:30):
want it with the list of names that you've just provided.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
No, it wouldn't make any sense so that you would
be you'd be justified in winning it compared to some
of these other jack holes. But anyway, I mean to
sidetrack everything, but I expected to see a lot more
gravitas on that list. You should, and I didn't see it.
I didn't. I just didn't see it.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
So we only have away with the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
I'm all for it. We only have a few minutes left.
But the thing I wanted to touch on, we had
two big deaths. It seems every week someone's dying who
you know was a was a someone on a on
a star, or on a big rock group, or a
movie in our in our ute. And so it is
(32:14):
Ace Freely from Kiss, who's a legendary guitar player. Again,
I could not I was not a Kiss fan. My
friend Jed Driscoll used to love Kiss, and I always
thought it was kind of I didn't get the men
with the face paint. I used to mock it in
ways that you really can't do anymore with the old
(32:35):
woke thing. But he passed away. In then the Lovely,
lovely and talented Diane Keaton, who was only seventy nine,
passed away as well. Diane Keaton, of course from Godfather Fame,
played k and also was the wife and father of
the bride with the great, late great Steve Steve Martin.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Still alive, right, So yeah, he's in commercials.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Yeah so so two more, two more great, both in
their seventies, left us too soon. I used to love
Diane Keaton. I just thought was absolutely absolutely terrific, and
she was in a lot of great movies. But she
was so so good in the so good in the
Godfather and that probably the best. The Godfather Part three
not as much, but she was still in that. I
(33:18):
never understood how they didn't bring Robert Duvall back for
part three. I think they didn't want to pay him,
but they should have.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Yeah, yeah, probably now that I think about that. He
was in a lot of good movies too. Is he
still around.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
He's alive, but he's like ninety something. But back then
it was like the late eighties. He could have done.
He was in his fifties. I think back then he
could he could have easily. Yeah, but they pay and
then they picked up that weird George Hamilton, who was
in the film, didn't make any sense.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
No, I thought he was killed by Aaron Burr.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
That's a different one. It's a different George. Different George
one of the great traders of our time or hero
depending on who you listen to. That's another podcast. But
anything you care to say, Brad about Ace Freely or
the late Great.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Diet Surprisingly, because you're normally not on the eighties rock
like I am, you advised me today I had I
did not know Ace Freely I died and that is
a bummer because kiss and they just wrapped up their
final tour, which obviously at this point will be their
final tour, and they were still great. I mean that
(34:28):
that was a great band. I'm sort of in agreement
with you with the costumes and face paint stuff. I
always looked at that and I was like, ah, I
don't get it. I mean, nobody else did that, and
there were a lot of great band They would have
been great without it, but it was their stick and
good for them. And so that does bum me out
to your point. I mean, we're losing all the great ones, buddy,
(34:49):
You and I must be getting long in the tooth
because all that.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
I wouldn't say that. It's not like we're marrying off
our daughters or anything. I mean, my God, would that.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
I am. I'm rapidly marrying off daughters. I got two
down and two to go. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Well, you know what's interesting. Ace Freely he died. Diane
Keaton I think had had I don't want to say,
I'm not sure exactly what it was, but she had
some condition, terminal condition. But Ace Freely was fine. He
was on tour recently and then he fell in his
studio and he had brain bleed and was dead within
a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Oh my gosh, this is just awful, awful, and losing
Diane Keaton is a bummer. I mean. But like said, buddy,
all the all the greats.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Except of course, a lot of these people on the
Nobel Peace Prize. There there's Maria Carina Machado is still
running strong. I think she lets you.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Still really making making a big difference there in Venezuela.
What a paradise that is.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Yep, yeah, well there it is. I don't didn't mean
to turn this into a rant about tires and Peace
Prize and Venezuela and all that stuff, but uh, you know,
it is what it is.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
It is what it is, buddy. And and with that,
with that sort of truism, I think we'll wrap it up.
We I had no idea that we were going to
discuss ace freely, tires, vicious tire eating curbs, banana bread,
ludicrousness of the Nobel Peace Prize process, banana bread being
(36:14):
ordered not just banana breadbody, banana bread being ordered on
a ferry en route to Long Island. We talked about
all this seing no one who is listening to this
podcast right now can take the position I predicted all
of that, else they won't be ever able to predict
what we talk about next week, because we'll be back here, buddy,
(36:35):
like we always are next week. On IP frequently.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
This has been IP frequently, once again clearing a forest
of lies with the machete of truth.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
You're welcome.
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