November 18, 2025 • 34 mins
Ep. 310 - 49 Days, Zero Change, and a Burger That Won't Die
Congress shuts down for 49 days, changes absolutely nothing, then votes to reopen like it was all a big joke. Meanwhile, a McDonald's Quarter Pounder purchased in the 90’s celebrates its 30th birthday looking better than most senators. David and Brad connect the dots between government dysfunction and food that refuses to die, propose a jury-duty system for Congress, and are confused as to why social media influencers keep trying to kill themselves for likes. In other news, Dick Cheney's gone, but his Halliburton contracts are forever—much like that burger.
Congress shuts down for 49 days, changes absolutely nothing, then votes to reopen like it was all a big joke. Meanwhile, a McDonald's Quarter Pounder purchased in the 90’s celebrates its 30th birthday looking better than most senators. David and Brad connect the dots between government dysfunction and food that refuses to die, propose a jury-duty system for Congress, and are confused as to why social media influencers keep trying to kill themselves for likes. In other news, Dick Cheney's gone, but his Halliburton contracts are forever—much like that burger.
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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 (00:43):
A congrigation. What happened?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
She's the IMPASSI, brad, I just started Tempest. As you know,
all of our decision making on this program is in
and out of Tempest keeps our time all that, and I.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Want to start the time.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
But now that they're automating Tempest with AI, it literally responded,
what for so?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
And I took the podcast.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
And you should have just looked at it and said,
what are you a cop?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
I just want to keep track of time. Don't ask
me questions.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
And then that song by the late great Jimmy Buffett,
one of my favorites. There's nothing like a cheeseburger in paradise.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Have you ever had one.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Well, I know, because I would not say I've ever
been in Paradise. I've been places that I've really enjoyed,
but I don't know that I've ever had a cheeseburger
in Probably the closest I've come, quite frankly, buddy, and
not to blow, you know, sunshine up your skirt, but
you make a fine cheeseburger. I do, and I like
your house and its location, and so probably the closest
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I've come to having a cheeseburger in Paradise would have
been at the Pridam Residence.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Time I had a cheeseburger in Paradise was my fiftieth.
When we were I think we were waiting for you
and Christa to fly in or you had left.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
We went to Jimmy Buffett's Margueriteville in the Bahamas, I
think in Nassau, and because they do they have a
nice cheeseburger, and you're in the tropics, so you're in Paradise. Well,
lots to talk about this week. The government is back.
That's a good thing there now, folks. They came back
like this is what drives me up a wall. Right,
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we have the air traffic Control in this country grinding
to a halt. Military not being paid, law enforcement, federal
law enforcement not being paid.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
The one thing the government.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Does do is feed people that are starving who can't
feed themselves, or you know, there's fraud.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
But those payments stopped. All this other stuff stopped.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
And the whole time they kept on putting up these
resolutions to fund the government. And after what sixty days
or forty nine whatever it was, Uh, they've the Congress
voted for a resolution to fund the government.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Right, there's no nothing else changed.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Yeah, nothing. They just decided they were going to it.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Was time to vote for the thing that has been
voted on now like twenty times and it couldn't get
the sixty votes.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
It got the sixty votes.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Yeah, I mean all those people should just be fired.
But I mean every single one of them, and I
mean left right center, Republican, Democrat, Independent, I don't care.
Every single one of those big Tory whatever whatever what
a tea cup tea.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Party, Well, you know, the squad, the creependent, independent whatever,
two live crew, the jackal.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Single one of them out on their ass immediately. First
of all, they were getting paid while the government was closed. Yeah,
which is just remarkable. I a notice from the IRS
that apparently you know, and I don't do this myself.
I have an accountant, so he's on the job at
this point. But we got to notice, you know, while
the government was closed, that we didn't file some form
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we were supposed to file with our taxes in twenty
twenty three, and so I owe four thousand additional dollars
in a penalty. And I'm like, well, do I get
to deduct forty days of government services? Ye? People know.
I mean that. Then when my accountant tried to deal
with it, they were like, well, sorry, we're closed. We
can't And he's like, well you set the freaking notice
while you were closed. They were like, well, yeah, your
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penalties will continue to accrue while the government's closed, but
we can't responds okay. I mean that's the kind of
crap in. Every single one of those people should be fired. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
It is.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Uh, it is disgusting, it is, I mean, and now
they're back talking about the Epstein files.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
That's just no. No one wants to and in fairness
to Trump and then again, you know, we've said it
a thousand times. It's unfortunate. I feel like I have
to cavet out this every time immediate. Neither you nor
I are Trumper's I am happy to admit in a
public forum all of the things of which I am
aware that I think, you know, Trump is lacking in,
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starting with humility, right, Manchester, There's a lot wrong with
Donald Trump, But that dude does seem to want to
govern the country. He seems to want to put the
citizenry of the country first, and he seems to be
fairly effective in so doing, right, And you can certainly
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argue with his approach, right, I mean, you certainly argue
with you know, sort of the you know, what would
be referred to in computer terms, is the user interface
between the United States and Donald Trump is not great.
And you can argue with his approach arguing policy is
a time hon or tradition and we should continue to
do it. But he seems to be focused on actually
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doing that. And there is no one else in the
government who is right. I mean, certainly Congress is not.
I mean, you close the government down for fifty days,
nothing changes, and you just kind of look at each
other one day and go, eh, what the hell, let's
open it? Right? Then you do, and then you go
right back to the Epstein files. I mean that that
is gross misconduct and there should be a penalty for it.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Yeah, it's I mean, it's you can't even make it up.
You can't even like it is so transparent. Why this
was I mean, it was just like literally some partisan
fight over nothing because nothing changed nothing. You're in the
same place you are now. You know, supposedly the Democrats
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are worth holding votes based on healthcare, and some of
these morons actually said, you know this, it was worth
it because we highlighted the importance of healthcare as an issue.
And it's like, it's just the dumbest thing. And then
they and then they're gonna they'renna vote to extend these
Obamacare subsidies, which are crippling the healthcare industry. They're sending
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costs to the moon because the government is subsidizing all
this crap, and it's no one wants to fix the problem,
so we have another you know, the Obamacare is another
boondoggle like Social Security and Medicare and you know all
these other programs that are just not they're they're not
programs that are here for the long term unless you're
gonna deficit spend until the end of time, which I
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guess we are, but it's it's just unfreaking believable. And
and they and they, We're gonna have the same fight
again in January because the the the Continuing Resolution that
they voted for to fund the government runs out of
the end of January, so the government will probably be
shut down again.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Why don't they just pass a gd budget?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I mean, I agree they've been doing this. It's a job.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
That's the freaking job. Draft a budget, that's the executive
branch past the budget, that's Congress's job.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Just do it, you know what I should do. You
ever seen the movie The Purge?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
No, but I know what it's about. I never saw
the movie, but I know it's about like trum.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Remember when Trump was talking about the potential for the
Purge being an acted.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
I don't understand. Did you see the movie because I don't.
Here's what I know about it.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
The plot is that there's like a twenty four hour
moratorium on crime, Like you can just go commit crime, correct,
for twenty four hours. Now, I'm a little confused at
the outset because you can commit crime whenever you want, now, right,
I mean, there are penalties for it. But I mean,
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there's nothing stopping you from committing a crime other than
theoretically the fear of the circumstance. So they remove the circumstances.
Why is that beneficial for anyone? Like it doesn't every
business on the planet get looted, doesn't everyone's car get stolen?
I mean, doesn't everyone get their ass kicked? I mean, what,
what's the benefit?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Well, I mean the benefit is the survival of the fittest, right, is.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
That what it is? That's the point is it's survival
of the fittest. I guess, okay, but what I do think, Buty,
I was going to ask you this again. You're you're
much more politically stude and connected and plugged in. You
have social media. I mean, you're plugged in. That what
in other countries, I am under the impression that when
the government sucks that they can do like a recall
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vote or a vote of no confidence. I mean, there's
some mechanism for looking at your current government, you know,
the one hundred and ninety second Congress or you know,
whatever it is. And in other countries, the citizenry thereof
just going these people blow let's vote again. Is there
a mechanism for that in the United States, or are
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we just stuck with what we got?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Well, they can people can be you know, basically impeached.
You know, federal office holders.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Can be impeached. Members of the House.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Can be I don't know what the word was, banished
or whatever whatever they did to George Santos, Right, they
basically kicked them out of the House by a majority vote.
But in terms of your being recalled, I'm not sure
how that even recall Governor nor A. Gray Davis, the
governor California, is recalled.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
That's how we got Shortzinger, right, Yeah, there should be.
I would love and I realize, you know, there are
a litt law of unintended consequences applies, and you wind
up like Italy that's had you know, nine hundred governments
since World War Two or whatever it is. But I
mean it would be wondrous. I would just feel better
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if I could march into a voting booth and press
fired yeah, and have literally every single member of Congress removed,
just say nope, none of you have a job. We're
going to revote for everybody. I realize that many of
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those saying people would likely wind up being reelected by
the absolute you know, vacuous morons who put them there
in the first place. But it would be nice to
be able to say, no, you're not doing your job.
Get out. We're going to start from scratch. We're going
to put you know, four hundred and thirty five new
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representatives in there, or we're going to revote for all
four hundred and thirty five of you.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
You know the problem with that.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
I'm sure there are many, but I still like the
idea of it.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Whoever you got would be probably worse than what you
have now.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
I you know what, but here's here's how you solve
that problem, right, And you might be right, but I
think the way you solve that problem is you remove
everybody from office, and there's a period during which they
can't they're not eligible. You gotta go find somebody else, right,
and then you like you put up your neighbor, right, like,
you pick some reasonable human being. And you just got
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this guy right here. This this is that he's just
the average guy. He works an average job, he's got
an average family, he's you know, at least of average intelligence.
He's not trying to milk the system. I've said this before,
probably on the podcast. I think that being a a
federal congressional person, either of either House Center or congressman,
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should be like Jerry duty. You just you just get
sent for a period of time and that's and you're
just randomly selected out of the eligible pool. You can
argue about what the eligibility requirements would be, but you know, you,
David Prittam would just be marching out here mailbox one day,
you reach in there and you just go, oh shit,
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and him really would say what and you would say, see,
I got to be the congressman for the you know,
sixth district of Rhode Island. That would be the best
possible system. But absolutely how we should be able to
kick people out?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
I mean, basically what you're saying is similar to the
way they dealt with who was it Nicholas the Second
in Russia.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Really no, it's a little different what happened to the
czar and Tzarina.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
But he was out of power for a period of time.
In fact, that.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Period continues to go. But buddy, I am enamored of
the jury duty idea. And for those of you saying, well,
what would you know, you'd lose your job? No, no, no,
we already have a law in the books for that right.
So if you are a US military guardsman or reservist
and you are called to active duty, then your employer,
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by law must hold your position or a position of
equal responsibility and pay for you until you get back, right,
And so that's just the deal if you if as
a company are not required to employ reservists or guardsmen,
but if you do, then that's the deal, right, And
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so that would be the deal if you if someone
got called up and you know they're the congressional representative
for the sixth District of Rhode Island, and that person
has a job, well that's fine, right, they have to
go serve. You don't get out of the service just
because you have a job, but your employer has to
hold that job or a job of equal authority and
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pay until you get back. And then there's a stipend
you just get. There's a there's a congressional Frickin' we
build a dorm. There's a congressional dorm where everybody stays
while they do their job. And it's yeah, it's nice enough.
It's like a hotel. You know, you got your own bathroom,
et cetera. Et cetera. That's where you freaking stay. The
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government covers costs, and then you get a stipend or
you know, food and whatever else. Government covers your travel costs.
It's just like being a guardsman or reservist. You do
your job. There's no way to make money on it
because you cannot be re elected and you know the
government's covering all your expenses. All you want to do
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is go back to wherever it is you came from
and do the job that you've been doing, which you're
going to get to do, and that will make you
a good representative because you know you're going to go
right back into your neighborhood and people are going to
be giving you the eyeball going, how the hell did
you vote for that?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
But how do you keep the gets out?
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Well? That's it, that's it. I mean, that is the
tricky part, right. You got to create your eligibility requirements
such that you try to get as get free as
you possibly came out. Nothing is one hundred percent right,
nothing is foolproof. There will be some gets in there.
I like to refer to it. I'm on record. People
who I work with and know know the brad Chief
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ten percent rule because three times in my life I
have thought to myself, well, this environment is just going
to be full of amazing people. Right, I'm going to
be the dumbest, slowest, least qualified person in this environment.
The first time was when I went to the Air
Force Academy, right as I just thought, I can't believe
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I made it in here. I am going to be
the dumbest, you, slowest, least qualified cadet there's ever been.
I got there. Nope, ten percent of those people you're
just looking at him, going, how in the hell did
you get in here? Right? The vast majority of people
there were as I expected. They were smarter than me,
better than me in every respect, but there was ten percent.
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I was like, how I know the process for getting
in here? How did you get here? So that was
number one. Number two was when I got into the
Special Operations Community and went through that selection process. I
thought of myself, cheese, I can't believe they took me.
I'm going to be the dumbest I'm gonna be. Nope,
ten percent of those people. You just look at that
going what how are you here? And then the last
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time was when I got in the FBI. I thought, well, certainly,
I'll be the dumbest age that there's ever been. Nope,
ten percent of those people you're just looking at him,
going how did you get here? So that's the brad
Chief ten percent rule. No matter what the selection criteria is,
no matter how difficult or challenging it is to get
yourself into a certain position, ten percent of the people
you find there you're just gonna look at and go,
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how the hell did you get here? And that will
be true under the jury duty congressional staffing model. But
we got to live with it, buddy, because ninety percent
of the people you're going to look at it and go,
you know what, you're a reasonable, rational American citizen. I'm
glad you're here to craft and vote on legislation. So
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to put a bow on it, we would have ten
percent of the people that snuck in through our jury
process that shouldn't have been there. But I think otherwise
it's a good call.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Anyway. Look, I think it's a good idea.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I think if you combine that with my shot collar
for members of Congress every time they lie thesis.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
And with the that would be awesome.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
So you combine those two things, yes, with the every
major league piece baseball team gets one at bat with
one of those.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Oh, I got one.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
I can't believe that. I thought of this week's ago,
and I've been meaning to run by you and I've
just forgotten and every opportunity I had, I've got one
in that vein for you. So but it's in football.
Once a half, okay, once a half, you get a
play where everyone is eligible, everyone coaches everyone, So you
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can choose to you know, go crazy and put like
ten receivers on the field, and the defense can choose
to match that. Right, they can put ten dbs on
the field, right, Or you can put ten receivers on
the field and they can put ten giant, you know,
defensive linemen in there. They're just going to crush your quarterback,
just going to smash him into the turf. Right, So
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there's this. How do I defend this? Do I want
to take advantage of their weaknesses? Do I want to
play to the strengths? How do I want to do
about once a half? Anywhere on the field. You could
decide to do it when it's you know, first and
goal from the two. You could decide to do it
when you're on your own seven yard line and putting
kickoff there, opening kickoff, everybody is eligible consort of like
the purge for football, sort of sort of.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Would all the rules be for that one play? Would
all the rules be waived?
Speaker 4 (19:17):
No, no, no no, you don't want to have like
people taking off their helmets and you know, smashing someone.
But the everybody's eligible rule from your center.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
On out but eligible for what to catch your pass? Oh,
so the rules would be waived, The rules would be waived.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Well, that rule, right, but I mean, you know unsportsmanlike conduct, holding,
you know all of those things.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
The pass you can the passer.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Yeah, but I mean you could play that anyway you want.
You got to declare it, right, You got to go
to the referee and to okay, this is my play
this half everybody's eligible.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Well, I mean I think that's okay.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
I mean it's not as great as my aluminum bat
once in a game thing, but again that's just.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
Well, they both have the disadvantage of someone's going to
get killed if you rules, you give an alumit a
bat to like Aaron mentioned Aaron Judge with an aluminum bat, O,
Someone's gonna get killed. So no one would want to
pitch to the guest would and I'd pitch from the outfield.
I try to lob.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
One in the other.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
The other one that I've I'm still working on. We've
talked about this before, is just releasing some wild animal
onto a soccer field, you know, during the zero zero
tie in the eightieth minute, and just there you go,
that's it. Let the animal decide do you want to
kill everyone? And you have basically you can't like go
scurrying away. But are the coaches on the field in soccer?
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Yeah, yeah, so the coaches will because yeah, so it would.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Be a be an interesting interesting call.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Dick Cheney died. See that I did not. Dick Cheney
passed away eighty four. He had a he had a
good run. I mean he had a bunch of heart attacks.
He had a heart attack. So this guy was the
chief of staff for Ford. He was like a whiz kid.
He went into the house and he was like the
the second ranking House Republican in the eighties. UH served
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as Secretary of Defense for Bush one ran Halliburton, and
then UH Vice president for Bush two. He headed the
remember that he headed the UH search party for the
for the vice president Bush chose him, and then yeah,
I thought the guy, uh, very very sharp, incredibly well
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put together, serious misgivings about his foreign policy takes with
respect to the Middle East. But you know, a guy
who gave his life for the government service and and
and all that stuff, and yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
He got led astray. I mean, I think he started
off super well and then took over Halliburton, became involved
with Halliburton, and then eventually took it over, and then
had all these perverse motivations in his public roles, right,
the collops in the Middle East doing what I used
to do. Everything that showed up there was stamped Halliburton, right,
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like just stuff that. I mean, Haliburton was like a
gas and oil company, right, but stuff would just show.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Up T shirts.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Yeah, I mean he would be issued things and they
had a Halliburton brand on him. And you're like, Halliburton
makes this, and you know, someone just kind of gives
you a smirk and goes, well, no, but we're paying
them for it. I'm like, well, okay, you know, how
did that happen? Gee? I wonder, I wonder how you
know we wound up with this Halliburton chain link fence. Yeah,
Halliburton Spare Tire, you know, I mean he was he
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was just making money hand over fist on government contracting
while in public service. And so that's, you know, not
what you're looking for. And his daughter's an idiot. But
you know, I think, I certainly think he started off
on the right foot. Bright guy, had some good ideas,
and then, you know, as unfortunately happens to many of us,
he got older, and wasn't.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
He in those debates? See the two things I remember
about his debating. He debated Lieberman in two thousand and
Lieberman said to him he was brought out the he
Aliburton thing, and he said, you know, he said, you've
been doing We were very well at Haliburton.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
You became a millionaire.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
And Lieberman said, I wish, you know, I could do
something like that in the private sector. And Chaney looked
at him and said, well, in twenty days, we're going
to see if we can make that happen for you.
And everyone started laughing. And then with the People's Choice
John Edwards, he debated him.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Remember that that that I think, like I did jail time.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
He he's he's debating him, and he went on this
long litany of all the mis votes that I mean,
Edwards was missingly eighty five percent of the votes.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
And then Chaney said, and you know, I'm the president
of the Senate as the vice president, and I'm there
most Tuesdays when they're in session, if not every Tuesday
when they're in session. And the first time I met
you was here tonight, and that debate was over at
that point. Really really sharp sharp dude. Anyway, brat a
few minutes left. I've got a couple of interesting stories
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that sort of blend in with our theme here.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
First, did do you ever go to the McDonald's.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
No, Well, on rare occasions when the lovely and talented
Miss Kristashief and I are on the road, early will
swing in there for like an egg, a muffin or
a cup of coffee or something, but I have not
had like McDonald's hamburger or chicken sandwich or you know,
any sort of non breakfast meal.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
In a couple of weeks. Well, the world's oldest quarter
pounder is celebrating its thirtieth birthday.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
You mean the idea of the quarter pounder, like making
a quarter pounder is thirty years old. Are you telling
me there's a physical quarter pounder that has been around
for thirty years.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Well, I'm telling you that Casey Dean and Edward's Knits
of Australia purchased the quarter pounder in in October of
nineteen ninety five, and it's turning thirty this year.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
It has turned I guess thirty. They've kept the burger.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Wrapped in its original cart and it's actually in a
styrofoam cart in which they used to have at the McDonald's,
and they apparently the only thing that's happened to it
is it. You know, usually these things, you know, food
turns green, right, it's moldy and spoils.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
You gotta get rid of it. This thing, this thing
is not doing.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
That, not so much, huh it is.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
It's like Lennon just lying in its tomb.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Here's a picture of it. You can take a look
at it. It's it's shrunk a little bit from its
normal size. Does that look like a thirty year old
burger to you?
Speaker 4 (25:43):
No, I mean there's some there's some you know, oldish
things going on there.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
But would you eat that burger? Hell?
Speaker 4 (25:52):
No, I wouldn't eat this burger when it came off
the grill, I mean, let's just start there, but here
oddly and in fair if you were to hand that
burger to somebody and you know, not let them in
on the fact that it was thirty years old, I
could see somebody taking a bite of that.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
They apparently McDonald's was asked why why the burger hasn't
seemed to age at all, and they said that that's
a myth. And they said that the burger's longevity is
likely due to the being stored in a dry environment
that inhibits growth of mold and bacteria.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
Let me tell you a short story. I don't give
a you know what. Where you store something, if it's
been thirty years, okay, then it shouldn't. I don't care
if you created a magic quarter pounder storage box. Food
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should look worse than that when it is thirty years old.
Real food, like things that the planet produced, is for
human consumption, should not look like that thirty years after
the date of its production. Should not. So if that's
McDonald's best shot at trying to convince the rest of
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the world that you know their food is not a
artificial and be soaked in preservatives, then you know, to
just say, oh, they must kept it in a cool,
dry place. They just freaking stop it.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Well, you know, you know it's interesting. The story behind
this thing is pretty cool too. Back in ninety five,
Dean and Knits friends won a local Battle of the
Band's contest and as a prize, they got a recording session,
which obviously turned into nothing because we've never heard of them.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
But after being at the studio all day, Dean, Knits.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
And a third friend went to the McDonald's drive through
and bought a bunch of food, and the friend could
not finish eating their burger.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
They I guess they ate a burger, couldn't.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Finish, couldn't eat this one, So they asked Nits and
Dean to hold on to it until the next time
they came to visit, and the friend never came back.
But apparently Nits kept his promise and he put it
in the.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Back of his mom's cupboard and it stayed this. I
guess it wasn't even refrigerated, right. The cupboard is just
a closet.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
Yeah, well, I mean it's my guess is, having never
seen the actual cabinet in question, that it is dark
and you know, depending on where you are in Australia,
it's entirely possible. It's dry, okay, but it's it's it's
not a hermetically sealed, you know container, it's a cupboard
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into which you put theoretically food designed for human consumption,
and thirty years later you pull that rascal out and
I'm sure you're thinking to yourself, oh my, yeah, this
is going to be a I don't even want to
look a fire. Looks like your body yesterday.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Yeah, And I guess the problem is they're trying to
get the thing inducted into the Guinness Book of World Records,
and they don't have proof of the age. They have
this cardboard box that they can date back to the nineties,
but the styrophone box.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
But they and so they went to a couple.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Of universities to see if it could be carbon dated,
and they were told that not until it's at least
five thousand years old.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
So they have some time on their hands here, they do.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Yeah, well, I mean the thing you do there is
you create a trust, right, and you put this burger
in trust, with the instructions that five thousand years from now,
somebody carbon dates it and you just you know, you
pass on to your kids. They pass on to their kids,
and you know, before you know it, five thousand years
has gone by. You get this thing figured out, and
then you know, we'll get it into the Guinness Book
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of at that point, probably the Guinness Book of Galactic Records.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Yeah, let's see, finally, Brad, we have it. You know
all these things that are going on on social media.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Well no, because I don't have social media.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Like the tide pod challenge.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
We've talked about that, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Yeah, and then there were the other the ring, the
people doing the kool aid thing through the fence.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
It's just stupid idiot's toast.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
But apparently a social influencer, I mean, can you imagine
that being your deal? A twenty two year old social
influencer in Greece is fighting for his life after trying
to complete a challenge, and that challenge was the burger challenge.
He tried to swallow a the equivalent of a big
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mac hole without chewing it.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
How would you, I mean, how would you even begin
to do that?
Speaker 3 (30:37):
I don't know, I don't know how you would do it.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
I guess you shove it down your mac into his
mouth yep, and then tried to engage in the act
of swallowing before chewing it.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
That's apparently right. And then he had a he choked,
and now he's near death.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
I see, And this is what you know. God bless
emergency room doctors, because you know, you know, I did
the emergency medicine thing for a long time in some
really weird places. I've seen some really weird things. But
if you brought me a twenty two year old quote
unquote social influencer, try explaining that, just by the way,
as an aside, Try explaining that to grandpa, okay, that
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that's a job.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
What does he do for a living?
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Well, he try to explain. Try explaining that to your
grandfather fought in World War two, save this country. Try
explaining that I and you brought this guy in and
you said, doctor, my patient is choking. And I would say, okay, well,
you know, let you know, let's get him in this position,
hand me these tools, and as I'm doing taking a history, right,
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because it's part of my job, I'm okay, what happened?
Where we find him? How long has he been in
this kind above blind? You say, well, he took an
entire big mac and he shoved it in his mouth
and did not chew it and tried to swallow it.
So I've stopped doing what I'm doing, not intentionally, but
I mean at this point after that, I just go,
how did that? I had someone force in his mouth
and you say it? I mean no, no, no, Doc. He's
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a social influencer and he was doing this to, you know,
influence people. So I just tad get him out of
my e merchant and get him out, Get him out. Well,
doctor's gonna do you get that? Did anybody do this
to him?
Speaker 2 (32:16):
No?
Speaker 4 (32:16):
He did it of his own free will? Yes, did
you do it for a good reason? No? He just
did it. And there's the potential that some twelve year
old is going to try it because this jack hole
did it?
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Yes, get him out? Yeah, how do you even get that?
Like what I mean, you're clearly going to just clog
the wind windpipe? But how do you even get that
in your you'd like literally take your fingers and just
shove it into your throat.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
I told you, buddy, I don't. I mean, again, I've
seen some weird things. But if you brought somebody in
and said they put a whole big mac in their
mouth and are trying to swallow it and they're now choking.
We're like, well, yes, I imagine they are. Okay, so yeah,
I know that's beyond me, buddy, And we should you
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know what we should We should stopt, but we should
give a public service announcement that we should put it in.
Him said, Listen, I'm sure social media has some meritorious aspects.
I don't know what they are, but I'm sure there
are some. So to the extent that those things exist,
feel free to use your social media for those purposes.
But don't be an idiot. Okay, don't be an idiot.
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Do not be a dope and do any of these challenges. Okay,
just don't do it. Okay, no matter where you are,
no matter where you came from, no matter what your age,
if you are listening to this very fine program here,
Dave and I tell you, just don't be a dope. Okay,
don't do stuff like that. And if you do, then
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you deserve what happens to you. Okay, that's the deal.
We've covered that now. We did it. On our program.
We talked about thirty year old burgers, which is funny
and for which obviously McDonald's has no excuse right, McDonald's
is having to go. Well, looks like our food isn't
really you know, food, it's sols. You need it if
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you want. That's also funny. And you know what we did.
We solved the congress problem. We know how to get
representatives in. And where else you gonna find content like that?
Speaker 2 (34:12):
You're not nowhere, literally not now nowhere.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
But but while you won't find it any other place,
you will consistently find it here. And we'll be back
to do it all again next week, when this burger
will be thirty years and one week old right here,
and I be frequently.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
This has been IP frequently, once again clearing a forest
of lies with the machete of truth.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
You're welcome
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Speaker 3 (00:47):
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Speaker 2 (01:04):
Want to start the time.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
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Speaker 2 (01:14):
And I took the podcast.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
And you should have just looked at it and said,
what are you a cop?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
I just want to keep track of time. Don't ask
me questions.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
And then that song by the late great Jimmy Buffett,
one of my favorites. There's nothing like a cheeseburger in paradise.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Have you ever had one.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Well, I know, because I would not say I've ever
been in Paradise. I've been places that I've really enjoyed,
but I don't know that I've ever had a cheeseburger
in Probably the closest I've come, quite frankly, buddy, and
not to blow, you know, sunshine up your skirt, but
you make a fine cheeseburger. I do, and I like
your house and its location, and so probably the closest
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I've come to having a cheeseburger in Paradise would have
been at the Pridam Residence.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Time I had a cheeseburger in Paradise was my fiftieth.
When we were I think we were waiting for you
and Christa to fly in or you had left.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
We went to Jimmy Buffett's Margueriteville in the Bahamas, I
think in Nassau, and because they do they have a
nice cheeseburger, and you're in the tropics, so you're in Paradise. Well,
lots to talk about this week. The government is back.
That's a good thing there now, folks. They came back
like this is what drives me up a wall. Right,
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we have the air traffic Control in this country grinding
to a halt. Military not being paid, law enforcement, federal
law enforcement not being paid.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
The one thing the government.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Does do is feed people that are starving who can't
feed themselves, or you know, there's fraud.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
But those payments stopped. All this other stuff stopped.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
And the whole time they kept on putting up these
resolutions to fund the government. And after what sixty days
or forty nine whatever it was, Uh, they've the Congress
voted for a resolution to fund the government.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Right, there's no nothing else changed.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Yeah, nothing. They just decided they were going to it.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Was time to vote for the thing that has been
voted on now like twenty times and it couldn't get
the sixty votes.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
It got the sixty votes.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Yeah, I mean all those people should just be fired.
But I mean every single one of them, and I
mean left right center, Republican, Democrat, Independent, I don't care.
Every single one of those big Tory whatever whatever what
a tea cup tea.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Party, Well, you know, the squad, the creependent, independent whatever,
two live crew, the jackal.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Single one of them out on their ass immediately. First
of all, they were getting paid while the government was closed. Yeah,
which is just remarkable. I a notice from the IRS
that apparently you know, and I don't do this myself.
I have an accountant, so he's on the job at
this point. But we got to notice, you know, while
the government was closed, that we didn't file some form
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we were supposed to file with our taxes in twenty
twenty three, and so I owe four thousand additional dollars
in a penalty. And I'm like, well, do I get
to deduct forty days of government services? Ye? People know.
I mean that. Then when my accountant tried to deal
with it, they were like, well, sorry, we're closed. We
can't And he's like, well you set the freaking notice
while you were closed. They were like, well, yeah, your
(04:33):
penalties will continue to accrue while the government's closed, but
we can't responds okay. I mean that's the kind of
crap in. Every single one of those people should be fired. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
It is.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Uh, it is disgusting, it is, I mean, and now
they're back talking about the Epstein files.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
That's just no. No one wants to and in fairness
to Trump and then again, you know, we've said it
a thousand times. It's unfortunate. I feel like I have
to cavet out this every time immediate. Neither you nor
I are Trumper's I am happy to admit in a
public forum all of the things of which I am
aware that I think, you know, Trump is lacking in,
(05:19):
starting with humility, right, Manchester, There's a lot wrong with
Donald Trump, But that dude does seem to want to
govern the country. He seems to want to put the
citizenry of the country first, and he seems to be
fairly effective in so doing, right, And you can certainly
(05:40):
argue with his approach, right, I mean, you certainly argue
with you know, sort of the you know, what would
be referred to in computer terms, is the user interface
between the United States and Donald Trump is not great.
And you can argue with his approach arguing policy is
a time hon or tradition and we should continue to
do it. But he seems to be focused on actually
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doing that. And there is no one else in the
government who is right. I mean, certainly Congress is not.
I mean, you close the government down for fifty days,
nothing changes, and you just kind of look at each
other one day and go, eh, what the hell, let's
open it? Right? Then you do, and then you go
right back to the Epstein files. I mean that that
is gross misconduct and there should be a penalty for it.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Yeah, it's I mean, it's you can't even make it up.
You can't even like it is so transparent. Why this
was I mean, it was just like literally some partisan
fight over nothing because nothing changed nothing. You're in the
same place you are now. You know, supposedly the Democrats
(06:50):
are worth holding votes based on healthcare, and some of
these morons actually said, you know this, it was worth
it because we highlighted the importance of healthcare as an issue.
And it's like, it's just the dumbest thing. And then
they and then they're gonna they'renna vote to extend these
Obamacare subsidies, which are crippling the healthcare industry. They're sending
(07:13):
costs to the moon because the government is subsidizing all
this crap, and it's no one wants to fix the problem,
so we have another you know, the Obamacare is another
boondoggle like Social Security and Medicare and you know all
these other programs that are just not they're they're not
programs that are here for the long term unless you're
gonna deficit spend until the end of time, which I
(07:35):
guess we are, but it's it's just unfreaking believable. And
and they and they, We're gonna have the same fight
again in January because the the the Continuing Resolution that
they voted for to fund the government runs out of
the end of January, so the government will probably be
shut down again.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Why don't they just pass a gd budget?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I mean, I agree they've been doing this. It's a job.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
That's the freaking job. Draft a budget, that's the executive
branch past the budget, that's Congress's job.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Just do it, you know what I should do. You
ever seen the movie The Purge?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
No, but I know what it's about. I never saw
the movie, but I know it's about like trum.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Remember when Trump was talking about the potential for the
Purge being an acted.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
I don't understand. Did you see the movie because I don't.
Here's what I know about it.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
The plot is that there's like a twenty four hour
moratorium on crime, Like you can just go commit crime, correct,
for twenty four hours. Now, I'm a little confused at
the outset because you can commit crime whenever you want, now, right,
I mean, there are penalties for it. But I mean,
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there's nothing stopping you from committing a crime other than
theoretically the fear of the circumstance. So they remove the circumstances.
Why is that beneficial for anyone? Like it doesn't every
business on the planet get looted, doesn't everyone's car get stolen?
I mean, doesn't everyone get their ass kicked? I mean, what,
what's the benefit?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Well, I mean the benefit is the survival of the fittest, right, is.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
That what it is? That's the point is it's survival
of the fittest. I guess, okay, but what I do think, Buty,
I was going to ask you this again. You're you're
much more politically stude and connected and plugged in. You
have social media. I mean, you're plugged in. That what
in other countries, I am under the impression that when
the government sucks that they can do like a recall
(09:31):
vote or a vote of no confidence. I mean, there's
some mechanism for looking at your current government, you know,
the one hundred and ninety second Congress or you know,
whatever it is. And in other countries, the citizenry thereof
just going these people blow let's vote again. Is there
a mechanism for that in the United States, or are
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we just stuck with what we got?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Well, they can people can be you know, basically impeached.
You know, federal office holders.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Can be impeached. Members of the House.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Can be I don't know what the word was, banished
or whatever whatever they did to George Santos, Right, they
basically kicked them out of the House by a majority vote.
But in terms of your being recalled, I'm not sure
how that even recall Governor nor A. Gray Davis, the
governor California, is recalled.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
That's how we got Shortzinger, right, Yeah, there should be.
I would love and I realize, you know, there are
a litt law of unintended consequences applies, and you wind
up like Italy that's had you know, nine hundred governments
since World War Two or whatever it is. But I
mean it would be wondrous. I would just feel better
(10:40):
if I could march into a voting booth and press
fired yeah, and have literally every single member of Congress removed,
just say nope, none of you have a job. We're
going to revote for everybody. I realize that many of
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those saying people would likely wind up being reelected by
the absolute you know, vacuous morons who put them there
in the first place. But it would be nice to
be able to say, no, you're not doing your job.
Get out. We're going to start from scratch. We're going
to put you know, four hundred and thirty five new
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representatives in there, or we're going to revote for all
four hundred and thirty five of you.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
You know the problem with that.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
I'm sure there are many, but I still like the
idea of it.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Whoever you got would be probably worse than what you
have now.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
I you know what, but here's here's how you solve
that problem, right, And you might be right, but I
think the way you solve that problem is you remove
everybody from office, and there's a period during which they
can't they're not eligible. You gotta go find somebody else, right,
and then you like you put up your neighbor, right, like,
you pick some reasonable human being. And you just got
(11:59):
this guy right here. This this is that he's just
the average guy. He works an average job, he's got
an average family, he's you know, at least of average intelligence.
He's not trying to milk the system. I've said this before,
probably on the podcast. I think that being a a
federal congressional person, either of either House Center or congressman,
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should be like Jerry duty. You just you just get
sent for a period of time and that's and you're
just randomly selected out of the eligible pool. You can
argue about what the eligibility requirements would be, but you know, you,
David Prittam would just be marching out here mailbox one day,
you reach in there and you just go, oh shit,
(12:44):
and him really would say what and you would say, see,
I got to be the congressman for the you know,
sixth district of Rhode Island. That would be the best
possible system. But absolutely how we should be able to
kick people out?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
I mean, basically what you're saying is similar to the
way they dealt with who was it Nicholas the Second
in Russia.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Really no, it's a little different what happened to the
czar and Tzarina.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
But he was out of power for a period of time.
In fact, that.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Period continues to go. But buddy, I am enamored of
the jury duty idea. And for those of you saying, well,
what would you know, you'd lose your job? No, no, no,
we already have a law in the books for that right.
So if you are a US military guardsman or reservist
and you are called to active duty, then your employer,
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by law must hold your position or a position of
equal responsibility and pay for you until you get back, right,
And so that's just the deal if you if as
a company are not required to employ reservists or guardsmen,
but if you do, then that's the deal, right, And
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so that would be the deal if you if someone
got called up and you know they're the congressional representative
for the sixth District of Rhode Island, and that person
has a job, well that's fine, right, they have to
go serve. You don't get out of the service just
because you have a job, but your employer has to
hold that job or a job of equal authority and
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pay until you get back. And then there's a stipend
you just get. There's a there's a congressional Frickin' we
build a dorm. There's a congressional dorm where everybody stays
while they do their job. And it's yeah, it's nice enough.
It's like a hotel. You know, you got your own bathroom,
et cetera. Et cetera. That's where you freaking stay. The
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government covers costs, and then you get a stipend or
you know, food and whatever else. Government covers your travel costs.
It's just like being a guardsman or reservist. You do
your job. There's no way to make money on it
because you cannot be re elected and you know the
government's covering all your expenses. All you want to do
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is go back to wherever it is you came from
and do the job that you've been doing, which you're
going to get to do, and that will make you
a good representative because you know you're going to go
right back into your neighborhood and people are going to
be giving you the eyeball going, how the hell did
you vote for that?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
But how do you keep the gets out?
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Well? That's it, that's it. I mean, that is the
tricky part, right. You got to create your eligibility requirements
such that you try to get as get free as
you possibly came out. Nothing is one hundred percent right,
nothing is foolproof. There will be some gets in there.
I like to refer to it. I'm on record. People
who I work with and know know the brad Chief
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ten percent rule because three times in my life I
have thought to myself, well, this environment is just going
to be full of amazing people. Right, I'm going to
be the dumbest, slowest, least qualified person in this environment.
The first time was when I went to the Air
Force Academy, right as I just thought, I can't believe
(16:06):
I made it in here. I am going to be
the dumbest, you, slowest, least qualified cadet there's ever been.
I got there. Nope, ten percent of those people you're
just looking at him, going, how in the hell did
you get in here? Right? The vast majority of people
there were as I expected. They were smarter than me,
better than me in every respect, but there was ten percent.
(16:28):
I was like, how I know the process for getting
in here? How did you get here? So that was
number one. Number two was when I got into the
Special Operations Community and went through that selection process. I
thought of myself, cheese, I can't believe they took me.
I'm going to be the dumbest I'm gonna be. Nope,
ten percent of those people. You just look at that
going what how are you here? And then the last
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time was when I got in the FBI. I thought, well, certainly,
I'll be the dumbest age that there's ever been. Nope,
ten percent of those people you're just looking at him,
going how did you get here? So that's the brad
Chief ten percent rule. No matter what the selection criteria is,
no matter how difficult or challenging it is to get
yourself into a certain position, ten percent of the people
you find there you're just gonna look at and go,
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how the hell did you get here? And that will
be true under the jury duty congressional staffing model. But
we got to live with it, buddy, because ninety percent
of the people you're going to look at it and go,
you know what, you're a reasonable, rational American citizen. I'm
glad you're here to craft and vote on legislation. So
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to put a bow on it, we would have ten
percent of the people that snuck in through our jury
process that shouldn't have been there. But I think otherwise
it's a good call.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Anyway. Look, I think it's a good idea.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I think if you combine that with my shot collar
for members of Congress every time they lie thesis.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
And with the that would be awesome.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
So you combine those two things, yes, with the every
major league piece baseball team gets one at bat with
one of those.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Oh, I got one.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
I can't believe that. I thought of this week's ago,
and I've been meaning to run by you and I've
just forgotten and every opportunity I had, I've got one
in that vein for you. So but it's in football.
Once a half, okay, once a half, you get a
play where everyone is eligible, everyone coaches everyone, So you
(18:28):
can choose to you know, go crazy and put like
ten receivers on the field, and the defense can choose
to match that. Right, they can put ten dbs on
the field, right, Or you can put ten receivers on
the field and they can put ten giant, you know,
defensive linemen in there. They're just going to crush your quarterback,
just going to smash him into the turf. Right, So
(18:50):
there's this. How do I defend this? Do I want
to take advantage of their weaknesses? Do I want to
play to the strengths? How do I want to do
about once a half? Anywhere on the field. You could
decide to do it when it's you know, first and
goal from the two. You could decide to do it
when you're on your own seven yard line and putting
kickoff there, opening kickoff, everybody is eligible consort of like
the purge for football, sort of sort of.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Would all the rules be for that one play? Would
all the rules be waived?
Speaker 4 (19:17):
No, no, no no, you don't want to have like
people taking off their helmets and you know, smashing someone.
But the everybody's eligible rule from your center.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
On out but eligible for what to catch your pass? Oh,
so the rules would be waived, The rules would be waived.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Well, that rule, right, but I mean, you know unsportsmanlike conduct, holding,
you know all of those things.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
The pass you can the passer.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Yeah, but I mean you could play that anyway you want.
You got to declare it, right, You got to go
to the referee and to okay, this is my play
this half everybody's eligible.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Well, I mean I think that's okay.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
I mean it's not as great as my aluminum bat
once in a game thing, but again that's just.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
Well, they both have the disadvantage of someone's going to
get killed if you rules, you give an alumit a
bat to like Aaron mentioned Aaron Judge with an aluminum bat, O,
Someone's gonna get killed. So no one would want to
pitch to the guest would and I'd pitch from the outfield.
I try to lob.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
One in the other.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
The other one that I've I'm still working on. We've
talked about this before, is just releasing some wild animal
onto a soccer field, you know, during the zero zero
tie in the eightieth minute, and just there you go,
that's it. Let the animal decide do you want to
kill everyone? And you have basically you can't like go
scurrying away. But are the coaches on the field in soccer?
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Yeah, yeah, so the coaches will because yeah, so it would.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Be a be an interesting interesting call.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Dick Cheney died. See that I did not. Dick Cheney
passed away eighty four. He had a he had a
good run. I mean he had a bunch of heart attacks.
He had a heart attack. So this guy was the
chief of staff for Ford. He was like a whiz kid.
He went into the house and he was like the
the second ranking House Republican in the eighties. UH served
(21:04):
as Secretary of Defense for Bush one ran Halliburton, and
then UH Vice president for Bush two. He headed the
remember that he headed the UH search party for the
for the vice president Bush chose him, and then yeah,
I thought the guy, uh, very very sharp, incredibly well
(21:24):
put together, serious misgivings about his foreign policy takes with
respect to the Middle East. But you know, a guy
who gave his life for the government service and and
and all that stuff, and yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
He got led astray. I mean, I think he started
off super well and then took over Halliburton, became involved
with Halliburton, and then eventually took it over, and then
had all these perverse motivations in his public roles, right,
the collops in the Middle East doing what I used
to do. Everything that showed up there was stamped Halliburton, right,
(22:00):
like just stuff that. I mean, Haliburton was like a
gas and oil company, right, but stuff would just show.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Up T shirts.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Yeah, I mean he would be issued things and they
had a Halliburton brand on him. And you're like, Halliburton
makes this, and you know, someone just kind of gives
you a smirk and goes, well, no, but we're paying
them for it. I'm like, well, okay, you know, how
did that happen? Gee? I wonder, I wonder how you
know we wound up with this Halliburton chain link fence. Yeah,
Halliburton Spare Tire, you know, I mean he was he
(22:29):
was just making money hand over fist on government contracting
while in public service. And so that's, you know, not
what you're looking for. And his daughter's an idiot. But
you know, I think, I certainly think he started off
on the right foot. Bright guy, had some good ideas,
and then, you know, as unfortunately happens to many of us,
he got older, and wasn't.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
He in those debates? See the two things I remember
about his debating. He debated Lieberman in two thousand and
Lieberman said to him he was brought out the he
Aliburton thing, and he said, you know, he said, you've
been doing We were very well at Haliburton.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
You became a millionaire.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
And Lieberman said, I wish, you know, I could do
something like that in the private sector. And Chaney looked
at him and said, well, in twenty days, we're going
to see if we can make that happen for you.
And everyone started laughing. And then with the People's Choice
John Edwards, he debated him.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Remember that that that I think, like I did jail time.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
He he's he's debating him, and he went on this
long litany of all the mis votes that I mean,
Edwards was missingly eighty five percent of the votes.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
And then Chaney said, and you know, I'm the president
of the Senate as the vice president, and I'm there
most Tuesdays when they're in session, if not every Tuesday
when they're in session. And the first time I met
you was here tonight, and that debate was over at
that point. Really really sharp sharp dude. Anyway, brat a
few minutes left. I've got a couple of interesting stories
(23:57):
that sort of blend in with our theme here.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
First, did do you ever go to the McDonald's.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
No, Well, on rare occasions when the lovely and talented
Miss Kristashief and I are on the road, early will
swing in there for like an egg, a muffin or
a cup of coffee or something, but I have not
had like McDonald's hamburger or chicken sandwich or you know,
any sort of non breakfast meal.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
In a couple of weeks. Well, the world's oldest quarter
pounder is celebrating its thirtieth birthday.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
You mean the idea of the quarter pounder, like making
a quarter pounder is thirty years old. Are you telling
me there's a physical quarter pounder that has been around
for thirty years.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Well, I'm telling you that Casey Dean and Edward's Knits
of Australia purchased the quarter pounder in in October of
nineteen ninety five, and it's turning thirty this year.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
It has turned I guess thirty. They've kept the burger.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Wrapped in its original cart and it's actually in a
styrofoam cart in which they used to have at the McDonald's,
and they apparently the only thing that's happened to it
is it. You know, usually these things, you know, food
turns green, right, it's moldy and spoils.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
You gotta get rid of it. This thing, this thing
is not doing.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
That, not so much, huh it is.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
It's like Lennon just lying in its tomb.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Here's a picture of it. You can take a look
at it. It's it's shrunk a little bit from its
normal size. Does that look like a thirty year old
burger to you?
Speaker 4 (25:43):
No, I mean there's some there's some you know, oldish
things going on there.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
But would you eat that burger? Hell?
Speaker 4 (25:52):
No, I wouldn't eat this burger when it came off
the grill, I mean, let's just start there, but here
oddly and in fair if you were to hand that
burger to somebody and you know, not let them in
on the fact that it was thirty years old, I
could see somebody taking a bite of that.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
They apparently McDonald's was asked why why the burger hasn't
seemed to age at all, and they said that that's
a myth. And they said that the burger's longevity is
likely due to the being stored in a dry environment
that inhibits growth of mold and bacteria.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
Let me tell you a short story. I don't give
a you know what. Where you store something, if it's
been thirty years, okay, then it shouldn't. I don't care
if you created a magic quarter pounder storage box. Food
(26:51):
should look worse than that when it is thirty years old.
Real food, like things that the planet produced, is for
human consumption, should not look like that thirty years after
the date of its production. Should not. So if that's
McDonald's best shot at trying to convince the rest of
(27:12):
the world that you know their food is not a
artificial and be soaked in preservatives, then you know, to
just say, oh, they must kept it in a cool,
dry place. They just freaking stop it.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Well, you know, you know it's interesting. The story behind
this thing is pretty cool too. Back in ninety five,
Dean and Knits friends won a local Battle of the
Band's contest and as a prize, they got a recording session,
which obviously turned into nothing because we've never heard of them.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
But after being at the studio all day, Dean, Knits.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
And a third friend went to the McDonald's drive through
and bought a bunch of food, and the friend could
not finish eating their burger.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
They I guess they ate a burger, couldn't.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Finish, couldn't eat this one, So they asked Nits and
Dean to hold on to it until the next time
they came to visit, and the friend never came back.
But apparently Nits kept his promise and he put it
in the.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Back of his mom's cupboard and it stayed this. I
guess it wasn't even refrigerated, right. The cupboard is just
a closet.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
Yeah, well, I mean it's my guess is, having never
seen the actual cabinet in question, that it is dark
and you know, depending on where you are in Australia,
it's entirely possible. It's dry, okay, but it's it's it's
not a hermetically sealed, you know container, it's a cupboard
(28:40):
into which you put theoretically food designed for human consumption,
and thirty years later you pull that rascal out and
I'm sure you're thinking to yourself, oh my, yeah, this
is going to be a I don't even want to
look a fire. Looks like your body yesterday.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Yeah, And I guess the problem is they're trying to
get the thing inducted into the Guinness Book of World Records,
and they don't have proof of the age. They have
this cardboard box that they can date back to the nineties,
but the styrophone box.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
But they and so they went to a couple.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Of universities to see if it could be carbon dated,
and they were told that not until it's at least
five thousand years old.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
So they have some time on their hands here, they do.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Yeah, well, I mean the thing you do there is
you create a trust, right, and you put this burger
in trust, with the instructions that five thousand years from now,
somebody carbon dates it and you just you know, you
pass on to your kids. They pass on to their kids,
and you know, before you know it, five thousand years
has gone by. You get this thing figured out, and
then you know, we'll get it into the Guinness Book
(29:42):
of at that point, probably the Guinness Book of Galactic Records.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Yeah, let's see, finally, Brad, we have it. You know
all these things that are going on on social media.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Well no, because I don't have social media.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Like the tide pod challenge.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
We've talked about that, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Yeah, and then there were the other the ring, the
people doing the kool aid thing through the fence.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
It's just stupid idiot's toast.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
But apparently a social influencer, I mean, can you imagine
that being your deal? A twenty two year old social
influencer in Greece is fighting for his life after trying
to complete a challenge, and that challenge was the burger challenge.
He tried to swallow a the equivalent of a big
(30:27):
mac hole without chewing it.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
How would you, I mean, how would you even begin
to do that?
Speaker 3 (30:37):
I don't know, I don't know how you would do it.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
I guess you shove it down your mac into his
mouth yep, and then tried to engage in the act
of swallowing before chewing it.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
That's apparently right. And then he had a he choked,
and now he's near death.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
I see, And this is what you know. God bless
emergency room doctors, because you know, you know, I did
the emergency medicine thing for a long time in some
really weird places. I've seen some really weird things. But
if you brought me a twenty two year old quote
unquote social influencer, try explaining that, just by the way,
as an aside, Try explaining that to grandpa, okay, that
(31:19):
that's a job.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
What does he do for a living?
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Well, he try to explain. Try explaining that to your
grandfather fought in World War two, save this country. Try
explaining that I and you brought this guy in and
you said, doctor, my patient is choking. And I would say, okay, well,
you know, let you know, let's get him in this position,
hand me these tools, and as I'm doing taking a history, right,
(31:43):
because it's part of my job, I'm okay, what happened?
Where we find him? How long has he been in
this kind above blind? You say, well, he took an
entire big mac and he shoved it in his mouth
and did not chew it and tried to swallow it.
So I've stopped doing what I'm doing, not intentionally, but
I mean at this point after that, I just go,
how did that? I had someone force in his mouth
and you say it? I mean no, no, no, Doc. He's
(32:04):
a social influencer and he was doing this to, you know,
influence people. So I just tad get him out of
my e merchant and get him out, Get him out. Well,
doctor's gonna do you get that? Did anybody do this
to him?
Speaker 2 (32:16):
No?
Speaker 4 (32:16):
He did it of his own free will? Yes, did
you do it for a good reason? No? He just
did it. And there's the potential that some twelve year
old is going to try it because this jack hole
did it?
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Yes, get him out? Yeah, how do you even get that?
Like what I mean, you're clearly going to just clog
the wind windpipe? But how do you even get that
in your you'd like literally take your fingers and just
shove it into your throat.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
I told you, buddy, I don't. I mean, again, I've
seen some weird things. But if you brought somebody in
and said they put a whole big mac in their
mouth and are trying to swallow it and they're now choking.
We're like, well, yes, I imagine they are. Okay, so yeah,
I know that's beyond me, buddy, And we should you
(32:56):
know what we should We should stopt, but we should
give a public service announcement that we should put it in.
Him said, Listen, I'm sure social media has some meritorious aspects.
I don't know what they are, but I'm sure there
are some. So to the extent that those things exist,
feel free to use your social media for those purposes.
But don't be an idiot. Okay, don't be an idiot.
(33:18):
Do not be a dope and do any of these challenges. Okay,
just don't do it. Okay, no matter where you are,
no matter where you came from, no matter what your age,
if you are listening to this very fine program here,
Dave and I tell you, just don't be a dope. Okay,
don't do stuff like that. And if you do, then
(33:39):
you deserve what happens to you. Okay, that's the deal.
We've covered that now. We did it. On our program.
We talked about thirty year old burgers, which is funny
and for which obviously McDonald's has no excuse right, McDonald's
is having to go. Well, looks like our food isn't
really you know, food, it's sols. You need it if
(34:00):
you want. That's also funny. And you know what we did.
We solved the congress problem. We know how to get
representatives in. And where else you gonna find content like that?
Speaker 2 (34:12):
You're not nowhere, literally not now nowhere.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
But but while you won't find it any other place,
you will consistently find it here. And we'll be back
to do it all again next week, when this burger
will be thirty years and one week old right here,
and I be frequently.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
This has been IP frequently, once again clearing a forest
of lies with the machete of truth.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
You're welcome
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