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Speaker 7 (00:40):
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Speaker 8 (00:43):
Here we go, He'll add try it's the Allen Cox
Show on one hundred point seven double U m m.

Speaker 9 (01:00):
Oh oh, oh oh oh.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Thank about everybody?

Speaker 9 (01:09):
Hey, what's going on? Hey we're back live today. It
sounds weird in my ears, but maybe.

Speaker 10 (01:14):
That's just uh loud then maybe Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:18):
Well, I'm a bit on a microphones's little bow. Hey,
my name is Alan Cox. Welcome Happy New York. Rob
Anthony is right over there, man, how are you? And
Jessica Anne Hutchinson is in the room with us because
we are having problems with her studio.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah, I don't know. I get the fifteen minute.

Speaker 6 (01:37):
Well, you know the person that's looking into it's fantastic,
and I'm like, I.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Don't care, just is it fixed?

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Well.

Speaker 9 (01:42):
My favorite, and I find myself doing it all the time,
is when you go, well it should work. I do
that all the time, and it drives me crazy when
other people do it and I'm trying to excize it
from my I go, yeah, this, it's supposed to be
doing this.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Anything looks right, it should work? Yeah, great?

Speaker 9 (01:59):
Well, anyway, welcome Hoppy twenty twenty six and all that.
Would we go so far? Rob has to say that
we missed the audience. Absolutely, when we say we missed
the audience, I think so. Somebody a prized me the
fact that this year is the people who pay attention
to that stuff. This year is the year of the
fire horse. It's the rare you know, people go, oh,

(02:21):
what year is this the year of the rat or
the year of the whatever. Somebody said that it's the
rare year of the fire horse.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
What's that mean?

Speaker 9 (02:31):
It's one of the luckiest Chinese zodiac symbols. You care, Jess,
you pay attention to zodiac? Do you put any stock
in that whatsoever?

Speaker 10 (02:40):
No, okay, good, I thought it was Tarsu's I know.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
Taurus the Ford Tarsus.

Speaker 9 (02:46):
The fire Horse emphasizes independence, check bold, change, right, increased
social opportunities, Rob and creative self expression.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
Who came behind all the U So the Year of
the fire.

Speaker 6 (03:04):
Horse Social opportunities. I can't wait. Oh you listen.

Speaker 9 (03:09):
If you were at the Monsters game on Saturday night,
by the way, you might have had some social opportunities
with yours truly and little Rob Antony over there. We
were the hosts for Cleveland Rocks Night. It was so fun.
It was a good time. We danced, we did I
didn't realize, you know, because we do all these like

(03:30):
hits during the game. So we're doing games with people
and intermission and we're done in the ice for like
where the guy tries to get the puck into the
tiny tiny hole right he went way wide. It was
like that Ravens kicker. Oh yeah, and of course he
didn't get the car or whatever it is done there
on the ice. And then there was a karaoke hit
we were doing where everybody's I didn't realize A that

(03:52):
they were expecting us to sing, B that they were
going to start in the middle of the song. I
was thinking, you know, they were doing Don't Stop Believing
from Journey, of course, everybody's favorite Sopranos song, And I
didn't realize that they were starting in the middle of
the song.

Speaker 6 (04:06):
And you gotta look to see where, Like I know
every word to that song, but you got to like
look to see where in the song they're picking.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
It up for that's what right, I looked up there.

Speaker 9 (04:14):
Yeah, So anyway, ran into you know, they packed a
house for those monsters games, boy, monsters frigging draw So
when we go, we're no, we're gonna have a good time.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
A couple of.

Speaker 9 (04:25):
Costing me ghos and cokes later, that was nice and
we were feeling good. Am I the only one of
us of the three who didn't get sick over the
break I'm getting just said she.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
Had the plague. You had some kind of plague.

Speaker 9 (04:38):
Horrible and I when Rob and I were at the
game on Saturday night, I was like, God, damn, I
go if I get sick just in time to go
back to work, I'm gonna set a flamethrower to this place.
And so far nothing, you're feeling something.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
I got a little something. I did you're shaking hands
all that. That's why I fish bump. I fist bumped.
I did not on that.

Speaker 9 (05:00):
Yeah, because you're not grabbing somebody's sweaty hand. I fist
bumped people. Yeah, I should do that. People extend me
their hand and I offer them the fist rob I'm
always fisting this audience.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
It's such a nice thing to do, I think.

Speaker 9 (05:12):
So, I mean, it's for their health and it's for
my health, and I just do the finger guns. Well
that's fine too, that's completely you don't there's no contact
at all.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
But for me, when somebody's like, hey, you know.

Speaker 9 (05:23):
They extend their hand, there is that awkward couple of
seconds where they don't realize what's happening. And so but
then they figured out we do the fist bump and
everything's fine.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yeah. That one dude was like oh right, right, right.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (05:35):
It was like he just kind of stood there for
a couple of seconds and I'm like, dude, you can
see what he's doing.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
That's right. A little slow on the uptake. Have my
kid at the game.

Speaker 9 (05:42):
Yeah, she walks out with two shirts because they gave
her one and then she caught one. A big night
at the Monstrous Game on Saturday night and then right
into today. So how do you think that this are?
How like what degree of a tickle are you talking here?
You're gonna make it the week?

Speaker 6 (05:59):
Oh yeah, yeah yeah, I'll just I'll just load up
on medications, like right now, I'm on the on the
tail and all sinus and cold wall.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
You are you're you're guzzling that kind of stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 9 (06:11):
Remember when I od'ed on coftser at lime in my
that was incredible.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
You already go. That was one of my favorite moments
on The Boy.

Speaker 9 (06:18):
I was going to say that because it has a
lot of people upset at me over that and didn't
mean to do it.

Speaker 6 (06:22):
It was the closest I've been to doing a show
with someone intoxicated.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
Yeah, fully, like you were what did you drink? I
drank a.

Speaker 9 (06:28):
Bottle of del Sum over the court. Yeah it was bad.
It was bad. Well because it's like I've guzzled Cofts
a before and I have friends who like know those things.
They were very very upset with me over that, and
then I proceeded. We ended the show early and I
was like, I absolutely should not be driving, and so
I literally laid on the floor of this studio for
about an hour and fifteen minutes before I drove home

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and they got right into bed.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
I don't know what I.

Speaker 6 (06:53):
Was thinking, Rob, and I tried to be nice right
like you throughout the show, but you are right, dude,
Are you sure you're okay? Because I'm not sticking around
here if you don't want me to. You're like, no, no, no,
I'll be fine, and then you're like like glazed over
in the eyes, and I'm.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
Like, all right, I'm getting out of here. Yeah, like
plausible deniability, I'll see No, I know you don't want
to be in the room.

Speaker 9 (07:14):
Saturday morning, boardop walks in and here's Ac all cold
and blue.

Speaker 6 (07:18):
When I when I heard the thud in the trash
can of you throwing the thing away, I'm like, did
you just drink that whole thing? You're like yeah, why,
But you answered me so matter of fact like yeah, why.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
I'm like, because I don't think you're supposed to do that.

Speaker 10 (07:31):
You're well se colors, I did.

Speaker 9 (07:37):
I had full on synesthesia right, I was hearing I
was hearing colors, I was tasting words, role and I
was Yes, I took a lot of agree for that, frankly,
as I should have. That was not certainly wasn't anything
that I meant to do, but it was a really
dumb thing to do. Nonetheless for me to be so

(07:57):
kind of not focused on what was going on there?

Speaker 3 (08:01):
Right, But what are you gonna do?

Speaker 7 (08:03):
Rob?

Speaker 3 (08:03):
You know how I love mississorp. It was flavored.

Speaker 9 (08:08):
Yes, I'm looking to get straight folded sip and scissor.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
That's right, all right.

Speaker 9 (08:13):
Listen, We're gonna try to get just the studio set
up in the break and what percentage of succes I
think we'll have there?

Speaker 3 (08:20):
Rob, give me a number? Four? Are you on the
prediction markets? Do you have a cal per four? All right?

Speaker 10 (08:27):
I'm gonna say like a mid like thirteen maybe thirteen percent.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
I'll say two percent.

Speaker 9 (08:32):
Rob says four percent, and just as thirteen two, Yes,
thirteen percent?

Speaker 3 (08:38):
All right? Could the Allen.

Speaker 7 (08:40):
Carr Show on one hundred points of.

Speaker 5 (08:46):
New Year's Resolutions are just admitting that you were age
iron failure last year?

Speaker 7 (08:53):
Your failure.

Speaker 8 (08:56):
Fortunately you're among friends here at fail Year Central Show
on one.

Speaker 11 (09:02):
Hundred point seven WMMS.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
I think we have just a studio back up. I
think so? Do you hear us, We hear you, can
you hear us? Jess? Is your microphone on? It's on enough,
and it looks like nothing is working, which is what
a surprise? Oh, come on, hop those buttons up on
the topic? Is it in program one, two three four?

(09:30):
All that good stuff.

Speaker 9 (09:31):
I mean, she was in here with us for the
first part. And if I got to bring her back
in fine, this is but she's got to be back
there answering the phones on. Finally was able to pair
this studio to hers, which is part of the pull
the curtain back.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
This is part of the daily preparation that I have
to do in here. Every day. I have to pair
these two studios so they can talk to each other.

Speaker 6 (09:53):
Hey, Jess, try it. Make sure that all the like
the one, two, three, and four on both mics are
pressed down. That might be the only issue on the
top up at the on your microphone channel one, two, three,
and four are those days?

Speaker 3 (10:11):
All four of them are down, experience, All four of
them are down.

Speaker 6 (10:14):
And lit and lit up. And can you talk down Steven? Yeah,
all right, Well no, Jess, I'm not just come boring enough.
I'm not going to diagnose the issue on the air
Manchu program effect.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
Please stay tuned. Picking up where we left off. Ac Hey,
your Cavalier's uh boy.

Speaker 9 (10:35):
We thought they were going to get a little streak going,
but it was broken by those Detroit Pistons. That's a
good team, man, You are a very good basketball team.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
It's been a long time, so you could say that.
By the way.

Speaker 9 (10:45):
The Pistons usually stink, but they have only lost nine
games this season, so they're killing it. Calves though not
far behind, but one fourteen to one to ten was
the final. Last night, Calves will play the Indiana Pacers.
You want to talk about reversal of fortune. Indiana Pacers.
You know they've been killing it last couple of seasons too,
and they're at the bottom of the barrel now Cavs
Pacers tomorrow night. That's a seven o'clock tip, six point

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thirty pre game here on WMMS. You might recall a
couple of weeks ago, our friend, comedian Steve Byrne was
in town. He's a Pittsburgh native, of course, and he
brought his feature act with him, young guy named Josh Caderna,
who had turned out as I got to talking to him.
He was a guitarist in this metal band that I

(11:26):
ended up then playing on our metal show two hours
to midnight. So he and I will kind of chat
back and forth occasionally. Josh Caderna, as he lives in
the Baltimore, DC area, is a Ravens fan.

Speaker 3 (11:39):
Oh boy, and I texted him.

Speaker 9 (11:41):
I was like, bro, I'm like, the Steelers are my
Sea team, and I felt bad for that kid kicking
for the Baltimore Ravens.

Speaker 6 (11:51):
Yeah, the Sailors.

Speaker 7 (12:00):
To the North.

Speaker 9 (12:05):
This kid just walks off this Tyler Loop is that
his name? Yeah, And then you saw him walking back
to the tunnel and like Harbaugh's got his arm.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
Around, it's rushing right.

Speaker 9 (12:15):
Well, he basically the Steelers kicker who mixed the misty
extra point right, So we bailed him out and it
was basically back and forth, decided by the kickers choking
at the end of the game.

Speaker 6 (12:27):
Well, this kid's been good all year, I know, you
know it, just again, man, these pressure situations, they're kids,
I know.

Speaker 9 (12:35):
Well, that's why you're in the National Football League. So
this morning I got here as I normally do. I'm
usually here in the office eight fifteen, eight twenty, and boy, Rob,
it was a hive of activity around here down there
in the corner in WTAM. Oh, it's gonna happen. It's
going to happen. And I'm like, what the hell's going
on in here? And they're going to fire Stefanski. I'm like, oh,

(12:57):
are they really?

Speaker 12 (12:58):
Like?

Speaker 9 (12:58):
I'm just you know what, I hadn't really kept my
ear to the ground on the thing. Everybody's running around
because obviously they want to be you know, the first
ones on the air.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
I guess to go with it or something. They were like,
fire Kevis fans, are.

Speaker 9 (13:11):
They they got a fire Kevice fans?

Speaker 3 (13:13):
G okay, cool man? Did they fire him?

Speaker 7 (13:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (13:16):
They fired him? They fired him? Yeah, I mean that's
been I mean, this is not everybody saw Yeah. Yeah,
I mean I know I like the guy, but you
want the log line?

Speaker 3 (13:27):
Will you like him?

Speaker 9 (13:28):
Because it looks like you Now I understand now it's
my look. By the way, I really zeroed in on
how you do a Browns game, and that is by
tuning in in about the last two minutes of the.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
Game, which is what I did yesterday. I watched the
last two minutes.

Speaker 9 (13:45):
I think they were down by a point that shar
Sanders passed to Judy the Pontiac bandit to get him
in the in the field goal position, right. I like
where they cut to the crowd, there was a brown
Owns fan right there, the cut to him. He's wearing
a Louis Vatan Scully. Yeah, and I'm like, there you go,

(14:06):
there's Cleveland. That's a perfect representation of Cleveland.

Speaker 3 (14:08):
That's right.

Speaker 9 (14:10):
And uh the kick was good. It was the perfect
end to the game. And uh, you know, and then
this morning they go they were firing Kevin Sefanski and
who are they bringing in?

Speaker 3 (14:23):
Rob Still? No one, no what?

Speaker 10 (14:24):
No?

Speaker 3 (14:25):
Dion s Well? What well, Dion? That was one of
the rumors, Dion Sander.

Speaker 6 (14:30):
I'm reading all these names of people, and the one
most glaring obvious thing if you want to win is
to hire Bill Belichick away from North Carolina.

Speaker 3 (14:40):
I'm telling you what.

Speaker 9 (14:41):
Man, his triumphant return to the Cleveland Browns.

Speaker 10 (14:46):
Yeah, you get a good look at his girlfriend. Yeah,
she's twenty four, she's petite, man, she would look great
in Cleveland.

Speaker 9 (14:56):
I mean it worked for Chloe Kardashian. She loved her
time here.

Speaker 3 (15:01):
My house market boy, we can buy that and have
a place to live.

Speaker 9 (15:04):
When Nick Swisher was with the Cleveland I mean they
were still the Indians. I used to run into his
lovely wife, Joanna Garcia Swisher at the Avon Target all
the time.

Speaker 3 (15:14):
She was ingratiating herself with the local community.

Speaker 9 (15:18):
Bill Belichick, I don't know why they don't call this
guy immediately.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
Look for all we.

Speaker 6 (15:24):
Know, they may have the I think one of the
biggest rumors I've heard is Mike McCarthy, the guy who
was Dallas's coach.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
That was the one I've heard.

Speaker 6 (15:33):
But at the same time, Mike McCarthy or Mike McDaniels
is going to be available because.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
They said he's getting canned in Miami.

Speaker 6 (15:39):
M him and his coulottes would be a fantastic grab
here in Cleveland.

Speaker 3 (15:44):
He probably have to wear long pants more often. Who
was the guy that used to be here?

Speaker 9 (15:48):
He wasn't coaching, but he was a big get and
he was a big fan of mine. For the cup
of coffee that he was here and I was like,
he was Oh God, was it the guy they made
like the Mike McCarthy. Was it Mike the Packers guy?

Speaker 6 (16:03):
That's that Mike m Well, No, Mike McCarthy's the who's
the guy that looks like the Walrus. He looks like
Mike Holngren. Mike Holngren, Yes, Okay.

Speaker 9 (16:13):
He was with the Browns in like a front office capacity,
and he used to call into my show because he
thought I was funny.

Speaker 3 (16:23):
Trouble is uh And as a as a.

Speaker 9 (16:26):
Kid who grew up as a Bears fan, we hated
the Green Bay Packers almost called him the Green Day Packers,
the Green Bay Packers. But uh, listen, all you got
to do to win me, I'm like Trump Romp. All
you got to do win me over is tell me
that you like me or you think I'm funny. Now
that's your favorite coach of all time, all time. Yeah,

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but he came here and he's like, I'm not coaching.
They made him the general manager or something. I think
he preceded Andrew Berry in the GM spot. I think
I could be way off here. But when Mike Holmgren
was here literally for a couple of coffee because he
was like a big deal with the Packers, and then
he went to the Seahawks and then I think he
was just looking to kind of like stay in the mix.

Speaker 6 (17:10):
And I think the brown just wrote him a check.
He's like, all right, fine, well that's what they did
with Rabel. I still think they did the Patriots a
favor with Mike Rabel. I think that was like Parkham
for a year while the Patriots figure out what they're doing,
and then they hired him in New England, which has
worked out perfectly.

Speaker 3 (17:26):
What are you gonna do?

Speaker 9 (17:27):
So anyway, Brown's went, Miles Garrett break some record, got
a huge sack?

Speaker 3 (17:32):
He sure does, am I on, Now.

Speaker 7 (17:37):
What happened?

Speaker 3 (17:39):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (17:41):
Oh okay, what did you finally push? What did you
figure out? Kennedy went, How was your holiday? Jesss I
assume you had gigs? I assume you're mildly sarcastic.

Speaker 10 (17:59):
No, I had a gig out in Grand Rapids, Michigan,
and it was freezing. It was supposed to be in
a heated tent and it was not heated.

Speaker 9 (18:10):
I would imagine that that is probably something. Uh, once
you book the gig, they say to you it's going
to be outside, but you guys will be in a
heated tent. It seems like a pretty standard situation to
come up with.

Speaker 3 (18:24):
How do you get there and then there are no heaters?
There was one?

Speaker 10 (18:27):
I mean there was like a big It looked like
a glory hole. It was a big heater and if
you stood next to it would blow hot air on you.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
But that was about it. Yeah, it looked like a
glory it did. It reminded me of you guys. Was
it just a really low hole that was very.

Speaker 10 (18:42):
Like this big was really big going to I was
gonna say, glory holes traditionally are not.

Speaker 6 (18:51):
Yea.

Speaker 10 (18:52):
And then I had a gig out in Eerie, Pennsylvania
on New Year's I was filling in for a band
and that was an interesting New reve gig. Yeah. Where
was this Eerie Pennsylvania?

Speaker 3 (19:03):
Oh yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 10 (19:06):
The snow was like a million feet and you know,
we trudged the snow. We went to a couple of bars,
hung out, went to a little party. This was after
the gig. Yeah, our gig only ended at ten o'clock.

Speaker 3 (19:19):
Oh, this was hours. I see.

Speaker 9 (19:21):
This is an early situation. You guys weren't like playing
to Ring in the New Year. Well, would they do
the balloon drop?

Speaker 1 (19:28):
No?

Speaker 10 (19:29):
Yeah, we were just like the like the beginning band
because at the end that place turns into a like
a twenty ten nightclub. It's weird, like some of these songs,
I'm like, oh my god, I haven't heard since middle school.

Speaker 9 (19:40):
Yeah, but you got to remember rob middle school for
jazz was like ten years ago.

Speaker 3 (19:46):
Yeah, it was fifteen years twelve. There you go, twenty twelve.
Our girl was in middle school. Oh no, I was
in sixth grade twenty thirteen. Oh all right, AnyWho? God yeah.

Speaker 10 (19:58):
But then we went to a little house party and
everyone accidentally got high.

Speaker 9 (20:03):
Okay, laying on me because this has happened to me
a couple of years ago with my wife's extended family.

Speaker 10 (20:07):
Well, somebody brought a bottle of it was like Willie
Nelson's and obviously you would think this was like.

Speaker 3 (20:14):
A THHC beverage.

Speaker 10 (20:15):
Yeah, and everyone thought they were like, oh, if I
just take a.

Speaker 3 (20:18):
Couple of SIPs, it won't affect me. Uh huh.

Speaker 10 (20:21):
I was the only one that didn't drink it because
I was like, I know, my plays on rookies are
these are like, I'll take a couple of SIPs and
I'll be fine.

Speaker 6 (20:29):
Something stamped with Willie Nelson on it, You're surprised that
you got high.

Speaker 10 (20:34):
And then all of a sudden, I didn't know they
all drank it until it hit everybody, and I'm like,
what is going on? And you didn't have any funny No,
I did not, because I read the bottle, i know,
and I was like, m there's no way I'll be
trying to call the cops.

Speaker 6 (20:48):
On myself, right, Willie Nelson, this must be an energy drink, I'll.

Speaker 10 (20:53):
Oh yeah, they I guess they had like a bunch
of mixed drinks, like three shots worth, because like one
and a half shot or like one and a half
ounces is like five milligrams.

Speaker 9 (21:03):
Well, a buddy of mine started one of those THC
soda companies called Drippy, and each one of those cans
is like ten milligrams, So if you suck down a can,
you're gonna be feeling pretty good. So I don't know
what this drink was, the Willie Nelson thing, but yeah,
if it's got Willie's you know, chestnut gray braids on
the logo, you're gonna have a good time.

Speaker 10 (21:25):
Oh no, And it hit everybody like a truck and
and so.

Speaker 3 (21:27):
What did you have to talk?

Speaker 10 (21:29):
You had to babysit the party at that point or
what I was just I didn't know what was happening
until somebody's like dude, it hit everybody didn't hit me yet.
And then I'm like famous last words Everard's quiet. I'm like,
since you guys can't talk, I'm gonna say my comedy
special for you guys, but don't worry.

Speaker 3 (21:43):
You don't have to give me any feedback. And what
did that consists? Of my riddles? Riddles?

Speaker 10 (21:49):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (21:49):
Yeah, okay, you think.

Speaker 6 (21:51):
About being high and the absolute worst possible thing when
you're in like mute state. Yeah, I could possibly happen
as someone decides they're going to get up and give
you like a routine, like a stand up routine.

Speaker 3 (22:01):
What what's tent of your riddles? Riddles? What are you five? Yeah,
it's a riddle. What's the riddle?

Speaker 10 (22:06):
It's kind of embarrassing. Yeah, they're all embarrassing. If every
Italian is Catholic? Why Catholic Italian?

Speaker 9 (22:13):
Like just goes, I got this really good riddle. Hey,
so this chinaman walks? How do you feel about racism?

Speaker 3 (22:19):
Everybody? Hey, everybody? What's the Italian thing? Again?

Speaker 10 (22:22):
No, if every Italian is Catholic, why isn't every Catholic Italian?

Speaker 3 (22:26):
I don't know, think about it. Why is every Catholic Italian?
Because because the pope is Catholic. I don't even get this.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
You get me.

Speaker 9 (22:39):
The he'll just that way if every if every Catholic
is Italian. No, if every Italian is Catholic, if every
Italian is Catholic, Why isn't every Catholic Italian?

Speaker 3 (22:54):
Because the pope is Catholic? Correct? The hell does that mean?

Speaker 9 (22:58):
I feel like I drank a Willie Nelson beverage and
I can't figure this out.

Speaker 3 (23:02):
It's I don't get that riddle.

Speaker 9 (23:06):
It makes you think, So this is the perfect thing
to whip though on a room full of people who
are high on Willie Neilson te drink.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
And they're like, wait, what but we aren't.

Speaker 9 (23:17):
I'm not they the people in that room might have
chewed on it for a good half an hour.

Speaker 10 (23:23):
You know what, how about no one drinks a night
quill and then maybe you'll understand that.

Speaker 9 (23:27):
But it wasn't the only thing you whipped at. I'm
I can't. You didn't whip one riddle at them.

Speaker 10 (23:33):
Did you know that every are blueberries are the only
fruit that's named after a color.

Speaker 6 (23:40):
Okay, that's not a riddle though, that's like a fact.

Speaker 3 (23:44):
Yeah, let's go back to that again.

Speaker 9 (23:46):
This probably plays great in a room full of people
who are Tripping's great?

Speaker 3 (23:50):
Yeah, Okay, what am I missing?

Speaker 1 (23:54):
Now?

Speaker 3 (23:56):
If I knew, I would tell you. I don't. All right,
I don't. I don't, I don't. I don't get the riddle. Jess,
what am I missing? The Pope's not Italian. He's Catholic. No,
I know, but there's a lot of non Italian Catholics. Exactly.
But I give up.

Speaker 6 (24:15):
I'm alda wait, thirty six minutes into twenty twenty six
on this show, and I'm already checked out.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
If all.

Speaker 9 (24:24):
Italians are Catholic, Yeah, why aren't all Catholics Italian because
the Pope? Because the Pope is Catholic. Yeah, and he's
not Italian. Right, But that's one guy you go from
all to one.

Speaker 10 (24:39):
I guess it made more sense when but you were
an Armenian.

Speaker 3 (24:42):
But but now he's he wasn't Armenians, he was Argentinian.
Oh yeah, they go start with a yeah. Now he's
from Chicago, rep yep.

Speaker 10 (24:52):
Oh, so I think maybe that's what's throwing you off.

Speaker 3 (24:54):
Oh is that what it is? Yeah? Hey, what's this
bitch talking?

Speaker 10 (25:00):
I have.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
Where she's coming from?

Speaker 1 (25:04):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (25:05):
You know how I hate the B word, Rob.

Speaker 6 (25:07):
You know, the other thing that we need to consider
is that the most Catholic nation in the world is Brazil.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
But I feel it. Yeah, so wouldn't that also not
be Italians? See that we could add that in. I
don't know. There's a lot of did you make that? Yeah?

Speaker 9 (25:25):
I made it up myself, elderly Nazis down there. I
don't know about Italian world thing.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
So Jess made up the riddle, now I get it.

Speaker 10 (25:32):
Yeah, I've had it in my back pocket for years.
And that's when you decided to whip it out. I
was like, you know what, this is the perfect opportunity.
Everybody in the room's high yep, and you go, hey, guys, Also,
are oranges named after a color?

Speaker 3 (25:49):
Yeah? And did you know orange rhymes with door hinge? Wait?

Speaker 9 (25:51):
Wait, her other riddle was Her other riddle was blueberries?
The only fruit named after a color? I think oranges
are named after a color?

Speaker 10 (26:03):
Yeah, And that's when you say, did you know orange
rhymes with dor hinge?

Speaker 9 (26:09):
Wow, she's really going and she's sober rough I'm doesn't drink.

Speaker 10 (26:14):
Yeah, I just celebrated a year and a half sober.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
The other well, you really notice it.

Speaker 9 (26:19):
But congratulations, wow, how about that? So okay, so you're
you're gaslighting people a little bit with a blueberry because
you know they're going to come up with orange, and
then you go.

Speaker 3 (26:35):
But there's more blackberries. Yeah, that's all you say.

Speaker 10 (26:43):
Yeah, peach, peach is not, but there's red raspberries.

Speaker 9 (26:50):
I mean that's again, that's not in the name of
the fruit. I mean, you could call anything, you know,
a green.

Speaker 3 (26:55):
Apples, you know what a lime. That's just yeah, that's
kind of working backwards though. I mean, well, right, but
it's still the color.

Speaker 9 (27:04):
Well, they're all a color she's talking about in the
name of the fruit, you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
If somebody said hot lime didn't come first the color. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (27:13):
I was trying to explain to my daughter last night,
by the way, I said, because she's getting quite fluent
in Spanish, and I speak mostly French. I know conversational Spanish,
so when I've gone to Mexico or something like that,
I can speak enough to get around, but like when
we were in Corsica, in Paris, places like that, I'll
do much better with French. But I was trying to
explain to my daughter the difference between a conversational language

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as opposed to what a word will literally translate into.
I said, so there's a lot of words where you go,
here's what this word is, but it's not really the people,
the native speakers don't.

Speaker 3 (27:43):
Really use it that way.

Speaker 9 (27:45):
One of the examples I gave her is I said,
word technically for lime in French can be very similar
to the word for hot And so what that ended
up doing was I had a way to bring me
hot gin when I wanted gym with a lime. Because
I was trying to dial back into my brain what

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the word was. I got the word wrong and it
wasn't conversational, and he didn't know, and he had been
trying to h steer me at clear. No, no, no,
that's what I want, and he brought me hot gin
and uh but again, uh, I don't know, Rob, I
don't know what's going on. It's uh, it's fine blueberries.

Speaker 3 (28:28):
Uh, I don't know. Can you tell we've been gone
for a couple of weeks? Got him? I don't know
what just happened. Well, I don't know either.

Speaker 6 (28:37):
Don't still're still with the It's okay, we're gonna move
past it. Uh, we're gonna move past it, she whipped.

Speaker 9 (28:44):
She she told a room full of people who were high,
here's my stand stand up routine.

Speaker 6 (28:49):
Yeah right, here's an idea. I'm gonna give you five
good minutes. Well maybe not.

Speaker 10 (28:55):
Don't give him feedback, just you just they couldn't give
you a feedback.

Speaker 3 (28:58):
That was you had a captive.

Speaker 9 (29:00):
But also, but also, I bet even though they were high,
there wasn't a single person in that room who broke
out in laughter.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
No, even high scared. Huh. I think everyone was scared.
Would you I would? I would imagine, I.

Speaker 10 (29:14):
Don't know, being high, scared of being high. I don't
think they knew what they were drinking until it hit.

Speaker 3 (29:21):
Well, they had to. Jake C sent me a picture
of the bottle. Look at this, it's oh, Willy's Remedy. Yeah,
THC infused. There's no way that you don't know what
you're drinking. If you're taking a sip of that.

Speaker 6 (29:33):
First off, you see a picture of Willie Nelson that
says Willy's Remedy, you instantly assume you're gonna get banged up.

Speaker 3 (29:39):
You have to, right, I just drank kid wine.

Speaker 9 (29:43):
My my wife's extended family has this huge Christmas thing.

Speaker 10 (29:48):
We haven't gone in a number of years, just because
it's just we just haven't.

Speaker 9 (29:52):
But there was one year where her aunt somebody had
made pot cookies and put a sign on them said
adults only.

Speaker 3 (30:00):
Is there a lot of kids running around?

Speaker 9 (30:02):
Adults Only it turns out the I thought one of
the nieces or nephews home from college had made the
misgoo for something like that.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
Turned out it was like the oldest woman in the room.

Speaker 9 (30:13):
They're like ninety six year old aunt had made these
pot cookies and a couple of people ate them and
didn't realize. Fast forward to like one of her other
aunts out on the porch for like three hours, just
sitting there staring out at the lake and nobody knowing
what happened to her.

Speaker 3 (30:28):
This is the Polish Christmas. Yeah, so is that Valiah?
Is that what they call it? Oh, I don't know
about that. Valia is what they called it in my
family on the Polish side.

Speaker 9 (30:37):
Don't know about that. I don't know that I've ever
heard anybody like speaking.

Speaker 3 (30:41):
Got a fish.

Speaker 6 (30:43):
No, No, no, all right, maybe it's different. No, they
don't go too deep on the on that kind of stuff.
But Allen is Dave Happy to be back.

Speaker 7 (30:54):
The Ellen Carr Show on one hundreds call the Alan
Cox Show.

Speaker 13 (31:02):
Rotten programs and very bad announcements.

Speaker 12 (31:05):
Two one six, five seven eight one double oh seven
or one eight and three four eight one double oh seven.

Speaker 9 (31:17):
Caves lose last night to the Pistons by four one
fourteen one ten. The final there calves off tonight. They'll
be in Indianapolis play the Pacers tomorrow night, seven o'clock, tip,
six thirty pre game. As soon as we roll out,
head up to Minnesota play the Timberwolves on Thursday.

Speaker 6 (31:38):
Not the season we were thinking it was gonna be. No,
absolutely not.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
Man live.

Speaker 6 (31:42):
No, they're kind of firmly in the middle of the pack,
and the fact they only lost by four is pretty big.
I mean they were down ten and a half, they
were I think fifteen was the high of them being down.
They made a run at the end. But man, like,
I don't know what's up with this team.

Speaker 9 (31:59):
No, watching the Cleveland Cavaliers play right now is like
listening to Jess try to tell it joke.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
Yeah, riddle, sorry, sorry, riddle.

Speaker 9 (32:11):
Yes, the riddle of the sphinx easier to decipher.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
H That's what I'm like. Something looks wrong. Oh yeah,
So we're in the break.

Speaker 9 (32:20):
Not only did we get like the Jets studio situation
squared away, we're in here in the break and all.

Speaker 3 (32:25):
The lights go off everything.

Speaker 9 (32:27):
There's like backup power for the monitors and obviously the
station's not going to go off there, but all of
the lights and monitor and our screens went down like
there was a power outage or something.

Speaker 3 (32:38):
We're like, okay, added to the list.

Speaker 9 (32:42):
Uh no, sooner, Rob did we get back on the
air live for twenty twenty six, and our buddy Jeene
Simmons checked in on the iHeartRadio app. Everybody's coming out
of the woodwork immediately tell us.

Speaker 14 (32:57):
Myself, right the breaks, you were talking.

Speaker 3 (33:01):
About what color.

Speaker 14 (33:03):
You thought on the pilot might be. You thought it
was multiple colors from pieces patched together and row black.
That's actually what they called mystic blue. It looks but
it's got body damage. And on the side where I
took an insurance.

Speaker 9 (33:22):
Payout where I took an insurance payout on his Honda pilot.

Speaker 3 (33:26):
Wow, mistic blue. Yeah, didn't he just show up to
the Kennedy Center or something?

Speaker 15 (33:31):
Right?

Speaker 3 (33:31):
He sure did to get inducted.

Speaker 9 (33:34):
Like the end of Star Wars putting the necklaces or
metals over their heads or whatever. If any few mister Simmons,
I was like hearing from Gene.

Speaker 3 (33:43):
They were on a first name basis. He checks in enough.

Speaker 9 (33:45):
Why they call him mister Simmons, Maybe just out of yeah,
due respect? Right as Rock and Roll Royalty, you know
which Rolling Stones.

Speaker 3 (33:54):
Rock and Roll.

Speaker 9 (33:55):
Royalty canceled their entire twenty twenty six tour that's there
to go out. Were they coming here or am I
misremembering they came through last time around the stadium, And boy,
you gotta give him credit for finally acknowledging how old

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they are, because they were going to do a stadium tour.

Speaker 3 (34:19):
I don't think they were coming here. They were gonna
do the UK, they were gonna do Europe.

Speaker 9 (34:23):
They were gonna do a pretty extensive tour this year,
and they've canceled the whole thing stadium tour because Keith
Richards says, I just can't commit to an extended tour,
right because guys are eighty two years old.

Speaker 6 (34:40):
That doesn't it feel like there has to be more
like it's they can't just.

Speaker 3 (34:44):
Be that, Keith, Like, I don't want to go out.

Speaker 9 (34:46):
Well, he literally they said that he had been dealing
with a long battle with arthritis.

Speaker 3 (34:52):
Well yeah, look at his hands.

Speaker 9 (34:54):
Yeah, that's forced him to change his style of playing.
So you got to give him credit for staying out
there this long.

Speaker 6 (35:01):
Like I wouldn't be shocked if one of them dropped
dead tomorrow. Like it's like that kind of thing for
them to cancel a tour that big. It's not because
his hand's hurt, you know what I mean, Like.

Speaker 3 (35:10):
Really, I mean they don't need the money.

Speaker 9 (35:12):
They're not under like any kind of pressure to do
these I don't know.

Speaker 6 (35:15):
It just feels different for I know they're under pressure,
but I mean he's he's been a wreck for years
trying to play his memoirs.

Speaker 9 (35:25):
Great, yeah, Keith Richards memoir. I bought it a bookstore
in Dublin and devoured the thing. So they've canceled the
twenty twenty six tour. But I mean for them to
be like, yeah, it's exactly what you think it is.
It's arthritis. Keith Richards turns eighty two years old. Well,

(35:48):
he turned eighty two, I think right around Christmas, and
you know he's like, I'm good enough to get out there.
And do like a couple of songs here and there.
You know, if you do like a solo session or something.
But that's a lot different than going country to country
and again in Europe. You know, it's not like going

(36:08):
from New York to Los Angeles or from going from
Brazil Brail to Japan or anything like that. You know, Europe,
you can get everywhere in a couple of hours. Still,
he said he didn't think he could commit. Didn't want
to do a big stadium tour.

Speaker 6 (36:25):
These dudes are not going to sit stagnant either, Like
Mick Jagger's gonna want to go do something.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
Maybe they'll play the Spear. Well, they're getting ready to
drop a brand new album.

Speaker 9 (36:32):
I mean they've pretty much finished the new album and
they were going to tour in support of that. Obviously
they don't need to do that. You never want to
count the Stones out right. That album they put out
a couple of years ago. People were like, this is
their best album in twenty five years.

Speaker 3 (36:46):
Hackney Diamonds.

Speaker 9 (36:47):
Yeah, Hackney Diamonds. I've seen the Rolling Stones twice. I
didn't see them here. You've seen them, yeah I have, Yeah,
I saw them on steel Wheels. So micking Key for
a Spry forty six on that Steel Wheels tour. It's
funny those guys were in their mid forties. People were like,

(37:09):
what are they gonna give it up? Like, yeah, flash forward,
I mean they start thirty AARP jokes back then. Remember
it was a ORP goul disposed to this tour. And
then they did on you know, I.

Speaker 3 (37:19):
Do Last One. Yeah, sponsored by AARP, might as well
lean into it.

Speaker 9 (37:24):
I saw them on Steel Wheels because I wanted to
see Living Color because Mick Jagger had produced their first album,
and so they took them out in some dates and
that was where I began rob my long and checkered
history of going for the opener. I was gonna go
see Living Color and I was gonna dip, and my

(37:44):
friend was like, what are you insane? It's the Rolling
Stones that yeah, I know, but again I didn't grow
up digging that kind of stuff. I didn't have older
siblings to turn me out of the Rolling Stones or
anything like that. So I wanted to see Living Color
and I stayed for the Stones. And I'm very glad.

Speaker 6 (38:00):
There was the four year No Filter tour that was
the one that I saw. I saw that at Gillette
Stadium in twenty eight okay, nineteen, yeah, yeah. I saw
them in eighty nine.

Speaker 9 (38:14):
I think I think it was eighty nine because I
was like, it was like the tail end of high
school or the beginning of college or something.

Speaker 3 (38:20):
And Seal Wheels at the old Rosemont Horizon there. Great,
they were great. They're awesome there. Living Color was dynamite.
Living Color is the one that sings. Look in my ass,
what do you see? That's right? That is that the
cult of personality? You saw Living Color? Yeah? Where they
opened for Garosmith. Awesome?

Speaker 10 (38:42):
God, what was it like twenty fifteen? Beautiful at the
Hall of Fame. I've never seen them since, and I
really want to. They came through like MGM Northfield Park
a couple of years ago or something. Every time they
come through, I just can't get to see them again.
But I saw them, like, you know, eighty nine.

Speaker 9 (38:59):
And then I saw the Stones in Pittsburgh when Pearl
Jam opened for him at PNC Park.

Speaker 3 (39:05):
That was easily twenty years ago. I don't remember the tour.
They would have had to have been, right.

Speaker 6 (39:11):
I think it was oh five, oh so bigger bank,
bigger big. I was thinking nineties like in the peak
of it.

Speaker 3 (39:19):
No, because I was still living in Pittsburgh, so it
would have been.

Speaker 9 (39:21):
Five six okay, all right, yeah, bigger bang would have
been it. And then so yeah, the two times that
I saw Rolling Stones there with Dynamite.

Speaker 6 (39:28):
I'm just happy I got to see him with Charlie
because he died same not long after that tour that
I saw.

Speaker 3 (39:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (39:36):
So anyway, Rolling Stones've canceled their entire uh tour because
Keith Richards has arthritis. Of course he does. Of course,
his hands had been mangled. Remember that Rolling Stone cover
years and years ago. He was holding a cigarette. His
fingers are just narm. Yeah, they're always trying to run
away from each other or run toward each other or whatever.

(39:59):
He and Jagger there both eighty two years old. You know,
Ronnie Wood's the baby of the group. He's seventy eight.
I mean, they got a new guy behind the drums,
but he's you know, he's not gonna be there very long.
He's gonna starting to cancel full tours. Steve It's not
Steve Jordan, is it Steve Jordan?

Speaker 3 (40:14):
Yeah? Yeah, So no Rolling Stones overseas, but I'm calling
the sphere. I think they're going to do a residency
at the Sphere.

Speaker 6 (40:26):
I mean the Cleveland Sphere, rob No, sir, the Sphere Sphere,
the cosm that they're building across the street.

Speaker 9 (40:33):
You know we went we were walking into the Monsters
game on Saturday night. I had forgotten because I just
am not walking over there that often, even though it's
literally across the street from the radio station here that
they had torn up and started dug digging into the
parking lot there for that new Cleveland Sphere that they're building.

Speaker 3 (40:50):
Yep. I think it's one of only a few around
the country. Right, It's gonna be awesome.

Speaker 9 (40:55):
It's a Dan Gilbert joint, I think, right. The cosm, Yeah,
the Cleveland Cosm building a circle. What's that they're building
a circle? Well, it's gonna be a music venue. I
think it's supposed to look like I guess not not
an actual sphere like the one in Vegas because they

(41:17):
do have to fit it into a block. Yeah, relatively
small footprint there, but it's going to be like one
of those. It's an immersive entertainment venue. It's basically an
excuse to throw a lot of concerts up on an
Imax screen and then charge people to go see it.
I'm sure it'll be cool.

Speaker 6 (41:33):
Well, they showed the way you can watch football games
and stuff like it looks like you're sitting in the
end zone seats like that's awesome, that's right.

Speaker 10 (41:39):
Hey want to see the Browns lose Like you're there,
but you're not really there.

Speaker 6 (41:44):
It's all changing now, man, it's all changing. A new
coach coming in, Bill Belichick. Bill Belichick's going to be here.
You've got the quarterback situation all figured out, all figured out.
I mean that eighteen point nine quarterback rating a Shador
Sanders is going to carry you into the future. Look,

(42:04):
I make that joke, but I think I think they
have a better idea now of where they were after
watching him for six games. Granted it wasn't great, but
I think he can improve, right, I think he can.
He's not the solution, but I think he's the best
of what they have.

Speaker 9 (42:21):
I'm the four millionth person to say it, but it
doesn't make it any less true. As I'm watching the
last two minutes of the game, all I'm thinking is
what a colossal.

Speaker 3 (42:34):
Flop. The whole Deshaun Watson thing. Just at the.

Speaker 9 (42:38):
Colossal one for the ages, perfect team to do it.
Colossal colossal flop. Well, the monetarily performance, all of it,
all of it's relations take check every bad box you
got and that's what you ended up with there.

Speaker 3 (42:58):
Crazy, but they got it all figured out. Oh yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah.

Speaker 9 (43:03):
When I got in this morning, somebody asked me here
if traffic was really bad coming in and I said no,
why and they said because today I guess is uh
it's day zero day for the four thousand people who
now have to come into the Sherwin Williams HQ downtown.
Oh is it really all the people that Sherwin Williams like, Hey,
you know how you've really enjoyed working from home and

(43:24):
it hasn't a diminished productivity one iota.

Speaker 10 (43:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (43:28):
Yeah, I gotta come back downtown now because we spent
a ton of money on this brand new headquarters. Then
we had to redo it because we screwed up the
paint or something. Ironically, I know tons of people told
them to get bent and left and went and got
other jobs. No, we're not coming back to way.

Speaker 10 (43:45):
I knew one one guy I know who does sales
for them, and I don't think he's one of those people.

Speaker 3 (43:50):
Told him to get go scratch. But yeah, so he's
probably down in there, but I was I didn't notice
any difference.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
For me.

Speaker 3 (43:55):
I didn't either. I'm like no.

Speaker 9 (43:56):
When they asked me, I wasn't sure what they were
talking about, and they were like, yeah, today's the day
that everybody's on, Like okay, well, and.

Speaker 6 (44:00):
Plus where they are based on where we are, I
would assume they're not coming up Euclid that way, you know, coming.

Speaker 9 (44:07):
In ninety or whatever wherever they're coming from. And uh,
oh god, So Rob and I are talking about monsters game.
I didn't realize you had speaking of drive and I
didn't realize you had left town for the holiday.

Speaker 6 (44:19):
Yeah, yeah, I went back. What did I leave the
Tuesday or something before Christmas?

Speaker 9 (44:24):
So as I'm watching the news, going Jesus New England,
just getting hammered, I didn't realize that you were in
that and it wasn't in it.

Speaker 3 (44:31):
No, well sort of, so I tried to beat it.

Speaker 7 (44:38):
No matter what.

Speaker 6 (44:38):
I was sort of in a situation that when I left,
So if I left on the twenty sixth or the
twenty seventh, I was getting screwed one way or the other.
And it was that This was after Christmas. You were
going to go, right, it was the huge ice storm.
So I was coming back with my mother and her dog.
They're staying with us.

Speaker 9 (44:54):
She's up from Cocoa Beach, right, and so I rented
a car right up to Jimmy Buffett Memorial Higway.

Speaker 3 (44:59):
Shut up now.

Speaker 6 (45:01):
So I rented a car, and I'm I'm like, you
know what, We're gonna beat this thing out of here.
I was watching the because you can run those maps
that kind of tells you exactly when things are going
to start here there on the other yep. So I'm like,
all right, I'll get through Albany, get up to like Utica,
and then I can get ahead of this thing by
like an hour now, like an idiot, not thinking I'm
gonna have to stop for gas, people are gonna have

(45:22):
to eat, dogs are gonna have to.

Speaker 3 (45:23):
Pee, right.

Speaker 6 (45:24):
Who knew you were gonna have to do all that though,
But I didn't think of that when I was doing
my estimates.

Speaker 3 (45:29):
No, oh, you always had it. I did it all right,
so I thought, I.

Speaker 6 (45:33):
Mean, listen, I was technically ahead of it enough that
we didn't get stuck in the worst of it. But
it took me from Utica, New York to Rochester almost
three hours three and a half hours. That is an
hour and a half drive, and I just sat and
sat and sat, and then it would go and we

(45:55):
would go thirty miles an hour for an hour. It
was some of the worst driving conditions I've ever been in,
and it was the least of the issues once.

Speaker 3 (46:05):
I fell, like white knuckle in it or not because
you're going twenty miles an hour.

Speaker 6 (46:08):
No, I no, No, You're definitely still puckered because you
get you know, you're sitting in all the lanes are gone.

Speaker 3 (46:14):
What did you rent?

Speaker 6 (46:15):
I had a Tahoe. Yeah, okay, Chevy Tahoe. So thankfully
at least it was something like that. And I was
just you know, you're you're holding on, you know, and
then the trucks come by at ninety like thinking, oh,
it's no big deal, and then you see him jack
knife on the other side of you know. It was
just there was accidents everywhere. Got through Rochester and then
it kind of started to turn to rain. By the

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time I got to Buffalo, it was like sixty degrees
and I couldn't see because of all the fog. So
I'm like We drove through every possible crap element. I
was ready to pull off at one point and just
be like, you know what, we're just gonna call it.
We're gonna stay in Rochester for the night. We're gonna
get two hotel rooms and drive the rest of the morning.

Speaker 1 (46:53):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (46:55):
But because I couldn't go through Pennsylvania either, because that's
where the massive ice storm happened.

Speaker 3 (46:59):
Yeah, No matter what, I was stuck. But I mean
we got through it. We made it. It just took
what was supposed to be an eight and a half
hour drive was like eleven.

Speaker 9 (47:07):
I'll tell you what rob for my money when it
comes to an ice storm. If it doesn't involve Sigourney
Weaver and Kevin Klein, I want nothing to do with it.

Speaker 3 (47:13):
Thank you, Ellen Cox show on your social media accounts.
And my mother has a broken fush Is that a
the top of it?

Speaker 1 (47:20):
No?

Speaker 3 (47:20):
Oh no, she did.

Speaker 6 (47:22):
She break her foot here day one at my brother's house.
Her dog. She lives in a condo. Wait, where's your
brother live?

Speaker 3 (47:27):
My brother's in Belchertown, Massachusetts.

Speaker 9 (47:29):
So he's in Massachusetts. She goes up to see him,
and he's going to come out this way for ce
Robbie in the family, that's right. And she breaks her
foot at his house.

Speaker 3 (47:39):
No, at my brother's house. Yeah. Yeah, so she he
was with her for like a week. Is she is
a white woman? Is she petit? Is she tied? Is
she prone to falling?

Speaker 12 (47:47):
No?

Speaker 3 (47:47):
Okay, no, but she's got this dog. She's a condo dog,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 6 (47:51):
So the dog like he use his pads and stuff,
and he peas and poops now, and he doesn't really
know how to do stairs all that well because he's
always like elevator dog, you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (48:00):
So she picks him up and she carries him down
the stairs. She slips off what.

Speaker 6 (48:03):
Is like the third to the last step, and she
breaks her big toe in three spots. And she refuses
to go I'm fine, But it was like, Mom, you
have an eggplant.

Speaker 3 (48:13):
For a big hole. I was gonna say, I didn't
know a big toe had three spots, That's what I said. Yeah.
So the doctor's like, oh, you're lucky, you don't need surgery,
but you got to wear this boot for six weeks.
And my mother.

Speaker 6 (48:22):
You tell my mother to do something, she's gonna do
the opposite. It's just it's it's me right, like the
apple didn't fall far. So she's like, uh, oh, I'm
gonna take the boot off. Mom, keep the boot on
my you got ice. I don't want to do ice
because ice makes it numb.

Speaker 3 (48:34):
Right, foot left, So she's traveling with one key, one shoe,
and one boot.

Speaker 1 (48:40):
My mother.

Speaker 3 (48:41):
And now now the whole time I'm driving, I don't
like other people invading my space.

Speaker 6 (48:45):
You get your space right, Yeah, the foot, the foot's
right there the whole time. On the the army, she's
riding shotgun. Noither, she's got her foot. She got her
boot up on the armress on the arm right, where
are you supposed to put your arm I don't put
my arm anywhere. I lean into the door. I'm trying
to stay away from the foot. That's not my foot.

Speaker 9 (49:03):
This is because she's an older woman and needs to
kind of extend her leg as well, because.

Speaker 6 (49:07):
It's the broken foot with the ice supposed to be
up in the air, up in the air, so that
sort of foots up in the air.

Speaker 3 (49:12):
That's like eighty percent of my drive. I got the foot.
We stop. A sound like a foot in your face,
doesn't matter, it's still the foot. Still her foot's still there. Wow,
I don't like that. Yeah did it smell?

Speaker 6 (49:23):
I don't know, it's it's all in the boot. Yeah,
so she's got the now the boots. The boots are
still on. She's leaving tomorrow. She's going back to my
brothers for a week. So she's flying with the dog.
So yeah, I've had three shit suits, my mother and
a partridge in a para tree.

Speaker 7 (49:40):
Yeah. Wow, your mom?

Speaker 3 (49:43):
I love her?

Speaker 9 (49:44):
But is she somebody when she's hurt or infirmed? Is
she somebody who's always like loud sighing? No, okay, No,
she's keeping it to herself. And then I'm like, Mom,
you gotta ice it. I don't want to ice it, Mom,
you have to what ice in your goddamn foot.

Speaker 3 (49:58):
She's a proud, strong porch woman. Portuguese and Italian. Yeah,
if all.

Speaker 9 (50:03):
Portuguese are Italian, rob why aren't all Italians Portuguese?

Speaker 3 (50:10):
Because the pope is from Chicago's right?

Speaker 7 (50:13):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (50:14):
Well, no, he's from Armenia.

Speaker 6 (50:16):
He was an Armenia, Armenia according to Armenia from Armenia.

Speaker 3 (50:20):
Yep, he was always talking about the genocide. That what
doesn't make sense? No, she tells me, no, it does
not make sense. So your mom is with your brother
now where she's.

Speaker 6 (50:31):
En route, she's with me still, I'm sorry tomorrow wow,
And I love I love she's She's always I don't
want to inconvenience you.

Speaker 3 (50:41):
I'm like, I know, Mom, it's fine, right. So what
does she do? I don't want to inconvenience you. What
does she do?

Speaker 6 (50:46):
She books a flight tomorrow morning, five thirty am flight. Wow,
So you got to get her there like four in
the morning. There, four o'clock in the morning, and she's infirmed.
Why I gotta make sure there's someone there to get
her into a wheel to get.

Speaker 3 (51:00):
Her to the gate. Why did she want to go
that early?

Speaker 6 (51:03):
I think she just wanted to take the specific flight,
or not even that specific flight, just on that airline.
And that's when that flight is. Oh was that like
a ninety minute flight to here? No, because she's got
to fly to Baltimore and then to fly to my brother.

Speaker 3 (51:14):
Oh boy.

Speaker 6 (51:15):
So it's not crazy. I mean she's there by like
eleven o'clock in the morning. And she loves the airline
because they're always good with her with the you know,
travel stuff. My mother's loyal. When she find something she likes.
She stays with it forever. Okay, right, so that's now
that she'll she'll just fly this airline. And I'm like, Mom,
you can fly direct into Boston and my brother can
pick you up there. Now, No, that's an inconvenience. Well,

(51:38):
get I gotta get up a three o'clock in the morning.
That's not inconvenience. Oh, I feel so bad. I'll take
an uber.

Speaker 3 (51:44):
Mom. You know you're not going to take an uber.
You know I'm taking you. Imagine if I said, Mom,
you know what, take an Uber, I'd be gone. I'd
be out of the will. It'd be nothing.

Speaker 6 (51:51):
Yeah, she's testing you. You know what, Mom, you're right,
you should take an uber at four in the morning.
Four o'clock in the morning. Put her on an uber.

Speaker 3 (52:00):
John, want to think her silver circle flowers.

Speaker 10 (52:04):
If you were headed to Baltimore, if you're in an
aisle seat, please give the old lady in the boot
wide birth.

Speaker 3 (52:13):
She doesn't want to be an inconvenience.

Speaker 6 (52:15):
Oh and then and then, So that's then, But that's
my biggest concern now right, I was already reading about
the Cleveland Airport.

Speaker 3 (52:22):
Now I can't ever get a good flight there.

Speaker 6 (52:24):
But I looked and some of the gates don't even
open until four, So I don't know if I can
get her the wheelchair that she needs to get to
the gates.

Speaker 3 (52:33):
She's got the dog, all these things. I mean, they
are conducting business.

Speaker 6 (52:37):
There are flights going well, yeah, I mean sometimes those
gates aren't open though, so then what And I can't
just drop her at the curb if there's.

Speaker 9 (52:44):
Darker at Sammy Hagar's Caboo cafe.

Speaker 3 (52:49):
Some ting Wong we Too Low Ho Lee Fuk and
Bang dang Ao.

Speaker 9 (52:56):
Are those are pilots? I hope my brother and I
taught about that day Christmas. Yeah, that they are not inebriated.
There's always drunk pilots.

Speaker 6 (53:07):
Boil that you're getting on there at four o'clock in
the morning, they'd just be hung over, I guess maybe so,
or maybe just still drunk.

Speaker 7 (53:14):
The Car Show on one hundred points of MS. Okay,
so being.

Speaker 5 (53:22):
Called an audio eid crime by Ohio Quiltre Magazine wasn't
our proudest moment to the Alan Got.

Speaker 3 (53:30):
Show on one hundred WMMS. Well you got a Brown's win?
Did you get a Cav's loss?

Speaker 9 (53:50):
Yesterday one fourteen to one ten here at home. Browns
weren't in Cincinnati, right, they weren't here, correct? Okay, well,
the Cleveland Cavaliers were here, but not walking out victorious one,
fourteen oh one ten the final against the Detroit Pistons.

Speaker 3 (54:06):
We're very good this season. Last night.

Speaker 9 (54:09):
The Calves off tonight, but tomorrow and Thursday they will
be on the wood there in Indianapolis and Minneapolis, respectively.
Seven o'clock Tomorrow night tip off against the Pacers, six
thirty pregame here on w mm assid on the iHeartRadio app.
You can listen there as well. If you are someone

(54:31):
who listens to this program on the aforementioned app, tell
me where you are. I want to make sure that
my map is up to date. Ron listens to the
show in Corning, New York. Probably a lot of flatware
being manufactured up there. Rob Chris is in Arlington Heights, Illinois.
That is suburban Chicago. That is where they keep dangling

(54:52):
the relocation of Soldier Field Arlington Heights. Chris just moved
out there because he said he got his dream job
with United Airlines, and so he's living out near O'Hare
as that's a hub. Travis listens to the show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Wild Willie is in Windsor, Colorado, and Bill I think,

(55:17):
watches the show. He's in Rockville, Queensland, Australia. I've got
an Australian porn star. I'm gonna play for you later.

Speaker 3 (55:27):
On right right, all right?

Speaker 8 (55:34):
Wrong?

Speaker 3 (55:35):
Hold she got something stuck on a first date. Alan.

Speaker 9 (55:42):
Not to put a damper on mom's robs. Sorry, take
two seventeen seventeen, thank you, okay you ready?

Speaker 3 (55:51):
Yep?

Speaker 6 (55:52):
Three two oh, hold on, I got to push this
button over here and three two one Ellen.

Speaker 9 (55:58):
Not to put a damper on Rob's mom's situation. But
I broke my ankle a couple of years ago. Doctor
told me it heal in six weeks, and I had
the damn boot on for four months.

Speaker 3 (56:08):
It was awful.

Speaker 6 (56:09):
And your mom broke her big toe in three places
three places big toe, And they're like, thank God, you
don't need surgery. I know, could you imagine? I said no, no,
I can't. But then she doesn't want to wear the
boot and doesn't want to put the ice. I said, man,
you want the surgery.

Speaker 3 (56:24):
Wait, so what does she want if she doesn't want
to wear the boot and doesn't want to ice it.

Speaker 10 (56:28):
Well, it just go away. Well that's not real. I
can't have it on for a little bit, and then
she can declare it not broken anymore. That's what I did,
declare it.

Speaker 3 (56:37):
Yeah, she's not going to do that. You broke in
a bone, jass, Yeah my foot. You broke your foot?

Speaker 12 (56:41):
Yep?

Speaker 3 (56:42):
Now how did you do it? Were you driving a
bar walk? All right? Remember that guy got handsy? Yeah,
this is when you're up on.

Speaker 1 (56:47):
Oh is that what it was?

Speaker 15 (56:48):
The guy?

Speaker 3 (56:49):
Right?

Speaker 10 (56:50):
And then I wore it for I don't know how
long I was supposed to wear it, but then I
just decided that it's not broken anymore.

Speaker 3 (56:56):
And how did that go for you? It hurts sometimes?
Was because it just got to be too big of
a pain in the ass. You'll like, screw it out.

Speaker 10 (57:03):
Well, the boot that I was wearing, I was still
playing shows in it and running around. So I ripped
that boot to shreds. But don't I always envision I've
never had anything like that on.

Speaker 9 (57:12):
But when I see people in the hard boot, they're
walking around like RoboCop. I can't imagine that you're able
to have like a full range of motion to run
around on stage.

Speaker 10 (57:23):
Well, it was like a little black boot, but it
was like around the ankle.

Speaker 9 (57:26):
Adjust around the ankle. Oh yeah, should have dazzled it right. Well,
because some people don't say people have the soft boot.
It's like an inflatable boot or something.

Speaker 3 (57:37):
Dost boot, the dost boot us bleating dust boot. Y'all
can buy that for a dollar night hmm, all right,
Dost boots.

Speaker 10 (57:49):
I think I still have it. I'll sell it to
someone for five bucks.

Speaker 3 (57:54):
Oh god, for you.

Speaker 9 (57:58):
All, it's like Michael Scott declaring banker, I declare bankruptcy.
They're like, yeah, that's not how that how that works. Well, listen,
it's your foot and you should do what you want
to with it. And uh, what you were driving around?
Let me pivot Rob on the subject of automobiles, doger,

(58:19):
where is grandfather's automobile?

Speaker 10 (58:22):
H Jess's car? Now, I don't know what Jess was driving.
Is this what you were driving before?

Speaker 3 (58:31):
She's on the phone?

Speaker 6 (58:32):
Is she yeah, she's talking to somebody. I didn't look
before I leapt doer need food?

Speaker 10 (58:39):
Hey? Alan, Rob, listen to the podcast.

Speaker 13 (58:42):
You guys were talking about putting a dog to sleep.

Speaker 7 (58:45):
I was wondering why is.

Speaker 3 (58:46):
That the only acceptable time to refer to it as that.

Speaker 16 (58:50):
Why can't we say when somebody is murdered that they
were put to sleep or vice versa.

Speaker 4 (58:57):
Oh, my dog got sick and I had to have
him murder. I think it had a little bit of.

Speaker 10 (59:02):
A fun this whole situation.

Speaker 3 (59:07):
Question fun to this situation.

Speaker 9 (59:08):
Well, isn't there maybe legally if nothing else, isn't there
an inherent violence in murder?

Speaker 3 (59:14):
I mean, you're not violent. We put our dog down.

Speaker 9 (59:16):
I assume he's referring to the fact that we put
our dog to sleep the week before Thanksgiving because we
were going to be out of town for Thanksgiving, and
so we scheduled it so, you know, we didn't want
to board her and then come back and do it.
That seemed weird, and so we did it the week
before Thanksgiving. And she had lived a nice long life.
She would have been fifteen in a couple of weeks.

(59:38):
But you don't murder your animal when you put them
to sleep. I mean, he's having some fun and doing
a thought experiment there. But I think the reason nobody
does that is because I think that there's the implication
of murder is that.

Speaker 6 (59:54):
It's but it does raise the question assisted suicide. Right,
you go to the Kavorkian Road.

Speaker 3 (01:00:01):
Well, that's illegal in a lot of places.

Speaker 6 (01:00:03):
No, I know, But would that be putting someone to
sleep technically, right, that's what that would be.

Speaker 3 (01:00:07):
You'd be euthanizing.

Speaker 10 (01:00:09):
Yeah, they give you like a cocktail of drugs. Yes,
it's like a lethal injection. Yeah, you're not being punished.
You're doing it with your consent.

Speaker 3 (01:00:20):
Correct. My understanding is that murder is rarely consensual. Correct.

Speaker 9 (01:00:26):
I've never heard of. You know, there are all kinds
of legalities in different terms. People who've ever been in
the system for a capital crime. There's you know, manslaughter,
attempted man, there's all these things. You know, I don't
know who the manslaughter and homicide.

Speaker 3 (01:00:41):
Well, it is homicide.

Speaker 9 (01:00:42):
But what I'm saying is that they're the difference charge, right,
the charge, Yeah, manslaughter, there's something called malice of forethought,
which means it was premeditated, I went to kill this person.
Manslaughter is a less as I understand, it is a
lesser charge, like I killed this person, didn't mean to
Like they hit killer, manslaughter, drunk driver, I didn't mean

(01:01:04):
to kill that other person.

Speaker 3 (01:01:05):
But they are dead and it's my fault. It's still
an unlawful killing. Homicide is killing another person, right, But.

Speaker 9 (01:01:14):
According to Tom, he's like, oh, it might make the
whole thing a bit more in his word, fun if
you said, oh, I had to murder my dog, I
don't know. Uh, I could be way off with the
legality of it. But I think that maybe there's an
murder is considered to be like a violent thing.

Speaker 6 (01:01:32):
And I think manslaughter requires malice to write, like, if
there's no malice.

Speaker 3 (01:01:36):
That usually will lead to manslaughter.

Speaker 6 (01:01:38):
Like if you it's a crime of passion or something
happens in that way, Well, yeah, manslaughter wrote.

Speaker 9 (01:01:44):
Yes, you kill somebody, you get that, that would be
your voluntary manslaughter, right, But like drunk drivers, I think
that's involuntary manslaughter.

Speaker 3 (01:01:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:01:55):
And again Rob, as people have said so many times,
you can't spell h manslaughter without laughter, man's laughter, man's laughter.

Speaker 3 (01:02:05):
Speaking of witch, Hi.

Speaker 1 (01:02:08):
Dick, Hey, Hey, hey Rob? Happy do yet?

Speaker 3 (01:02:13):
Hi Dick, Dick? How did you ring in your New Year?

Speaker 9 (01:02:16):
I picture you wearing a hat, maybe playing the banjo,
as some balloons drop and perhaps some sparkling white grape
juice was consumed.

Speaker 4 (01:02:27):
Away. We had a little show.

Speaker 1 (01:02:30):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:02:30):
But Christmas Uh it was last uh at the stringing
Beggers and we had four or five people, had two ukes,
the guitar.

Speaker 1 (01:02:39):
And we had our little hats.

Speaker 4 (01:02:40):
I had a little straw hat on did you did you?

Speaker 3 (01:02:44):
Did you imbibe at all? Did you enjoy any alcoholic
beverages to ring in the New Year?

Speaker 14 (01:02:50):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:02:51):
Okay, all right, that's something.

Speaker 4 (01:02:53):
They brought this. Don't going. I've never had I Wished
coffee before. It was pretty good Irish coffee.

Speaker 3 (01:03:01):
You know what's in that? Like, you're almost eighty years old,
you've never had your coffee Irish up?

Speaker 4 (01:03:06):
No, wow, I know I saw it stud Bucks. It's
so strong. I have to drink of the McDonald's. But
it was good coffee though. You know it was pretty
good coffee?

Speaker 6 (01:03:17):
Well did it? Was it truly an Irish coffee? Like
his Irish coffee has alcohol in it?

Speaker 4 (01:03:24):
Well? They put a little green click. I don't know,
some tree with green?

Speaker 1 (01:03:29):
Wait?

Speaker 12 (01:03:29):
Is that?

Speaker 1 (01:03:29):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (01:03:29):
What did you guys have Irish cream?

Speaker 1 (01:03:31):
No?

Speaker 9 (01:03:32):
Dick is describing Irish coffee the way you talk about
when they die the Chicago River.

Speaker 3 (01:03:37):
He's like, oh, they just put some green food coloring
in it. That sounds like what you're saying.

Speaker 9 (01:03:42):
They put some green food coloring in it, and that
was irishing up your coffee. You know, Rob, our friend,
our buddy, Dick is going to be like seventy eight
years old in a couple of months. Am I correct
on that? You're the same age as my mom? Right,
he's a Dick's a few.

Speaker 3 (01:03:56):
Months older than my mother.

Speaker 4 (01:03:57):
They put fourteenth.

Speaker 9 (01:03:59):
April fourteenth, nineteen forty eight would be when Dick's mother
squaws him out into the world, and he'll be seventy
eight and he's never had Irish coffee before.

Speaker 3 (01:04:12):
Rob, how about that?

Speaker 12 (01:04:13):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:04:15):
How about that?

Speaker 10 (01:04:16):
Hey?

Speaker 4 (01:04:17):
I knew this was going to happen, but it kind
of was nice to see the Browns when and Miles
Garrett get that sack. But I thought Stefanski should be gone,
and I'm hoping that that the other guy goes too,
Andrew Barrett. But yeah, right, but I don't know. Do

(01:04:37):
you guys have any idea.

Speaker 3 (01:04:38):
Of what they're going to get Bill Belichick? Bill Belichick,
I say the Belichick.

Speaker 4 (01:04:44):
I say Bill Belichick should come back.

Speaker 3 (01:04:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:04:47):
Nice, Well, his legal name is William Belli Charles, But right,
well he could. You could be onto something there, Dick.
They may very well bring him back right, come full circle.

Speaker 3 (01:04:58):
As it were.

Speaker 4 (01:05:00):
Yeah, girlfriend, I'm sorry about Ohio State, but w okay,
that's okay. I want him to get that quarterback you're
think of, Mad? What's his team for Indianazz?

Speaker 6 (01:05:15):
Oh you're saying, are you saying here here in Cleveland
for the Browns?

Speaker 1 (01:05:19):
Dick? Yeah, I hope they.

Speaker 4 (01:05:23):
I hope they would get him.

Speaker 3 (01:05:24):
You don't want to see them. You don't want to
see them go for the hometown kid and Drew Aller
out of Penn State. Oh, Yill, that might be good,
wouldn't that be great?

Speaker 1 (01:05:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:05:34):
Madnah's all oh yeah, yeah, yeah, So.

Speaker 4 (01:05:40):
Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna register taking the class in school,
this political science of the twentieth century. I should do good.
One of the teachers knows me. We're we're kind of
I'm going to help her teach the class. So I
thought that check in, have a good dad.

Speaker 3 (01:06:08):
I haven't pulled the old Dead Air on Dick in
a minute, remember the band Dead Air Dick Ron She
don't eat meat, so Dick is boy.

Speaker 9 (01:06:20):
I did not want to prolong that conversation because I
did want to move on, but I had to fight
against every fiber in my being to ask a follow
up question. Did Dick just say that he is teaching
a political science question?

Speaker 6 (01:06:36):
Wow?

Speaker 9 (01:06:37):
Well, of course that must be really easy now, since
the three branches of government are basically obliterated. But Dick
is out there, he's just had his first Oirish coffee,
and he's now going to be teaching.

Speaker 3 (01:06:52):
I have to assume it's some kind of learning annex.

Speaker 1 (01:06:56):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:06:58):
All right, Ellen, wasn't there a best of recently? Over
the break?

Speaker 9 (01:07:03):
You said you'd get a cat if your dog passed away.
I don't remember chapter and verse of every sum of show.
You know, some of those shows are fifteen years old,
but I don't recall that. Although I think that my
wife and my child are driving pretty hard to the hoop.

Speaker 6 (01:07:24):
On getting a new dog, I was gonna say there
has there been any movement on that because I used to.

Speaker 9 (01:07:28):
They're spending a lot of time keeping their eyes on
like rescue dogs that are posted online, you know, And
so there's I think there's probably some.

Speaker 3 (01:07:39):
Candidates in the running. Yeah, so this is eminent. I
don't know about that.

Speaker 9 (01:07:45):
I just know that I think if it came time
to pull the trigger, I think it might still be
very difficult for my wife to do, because she does
miss our.

Speaker 3 (01:07:52):
Dog quite a bit. We went out and.

Speaker 9 (01:07:56):
Through a biscuit on her grave, you know, I buried
her in our guard And so New Year's Eve night,
when it everybody, you know, the clock strikes twelve or whatever,
we were having some pops and we went out back
and put a biscuit there on the snow that was
covering our dead dog's grave, Our late dog.

Speaker 3 (01:08:17):
Even creepier if you go out in the morning and
half is gone. Well, we do have a lot of
rabbits running around too. Still, well, it would be uh
going on.

Speaker 9 (01:08:26):
I know, visually it would be very very sharish jarring
to see that. Alan, If Dick is the same age
as your mom, why don't they hook up? Oh boy,
I think you've answered your own questions. My mom was
dating somebody a few years older than me, so I

(01:08:47):
think Dick is probably a little too old for my mom.
I come from a long line of cradle robbers, rob
on both sides of my family, and I make no
apologies for that. Other than my first wife, who was
five years older than I every other person I've ever
dated or married has been considerably younger than me. And

(01:09:11):
that come from a long line of cradle robbers, those
cradle robin coxs. Hey, listen, what do you want?

Speaker 10 (01:09:20):
Eh?

Speaker 3 (01:09:21):
We like what we like?

Speaker 9 (01:09:22):
The heart wants what the heart wants? Right, Alan's speaking
of attempted manslaughter Miles Garrett?

Speaker 3 (01:09:29):
What does that mean? Manslaughter?

Speaker 9 (01:09:32):
Was he trying to get somebody? Or I saw that
they were holding him aloft. I saw them putting Miles
Garrett on their shoulders.

Speaker 2 (01:09:39):
You know, I think this is how his teammates feel
about him. They're carrying him on the sidelines. That is
a massive human that they're carrying. Damn will have a
hubungous human.

Speaker 1 (01:09:51):
Ow.

Speaker 3 (01:09:53):
How about some Brian to ring in the New Year?

Speaker 1 (01:09:55):
Rights? Please?

Speaker 3 (01:09:56):
I don't know if you'll know the song, you'll know
the artist.

Speaker 1 (01:10:00):
To say you've read me, just because you can't you
have to stay forever.

Speaker 17 (01:10:09):
I do understand.

Speaker 1 (01:10:12):
Me.

Speaker 3 (01:10:15):
Remember that song is a ring a bell. He's not
really doing a justice. No, I don't. I don't think
I know that one.

Speaker 9 (01:10:21):
You don't have to say you love me, Dusty Springfield.
This is going way back. Yeah, No, I gotta know
Dusty Springfield. The only song I know from from her
was what the hell's the song?

Speaker 6 (01:10:33):
She had a lot of them, No, the big, big
Dusty Springfield song, Son of a Preacher Man, Oh, Son
of a Preacher Man.

Speaker 3 (01:10:40):
Yeah, that's the only song I could think of her.

Speaker 9 (01:10:42):
I mean, they're all covers too, right. You don't have
to say you love Me was like an old Italian
song or something. I think the Pope sang it right,
jess yep anyhoy ah. And she was British, of course,
and she was very quietly gay back then. Right, you
didn't make a big public show of it. But Dusty
Springfield was a lesbian and I think and she liked
to drink rob and she liked to do drugs. And

(01:11:05):
she was considered one of the pre eminent female artists
of her time. She's in the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame.

Speaker 3 (01:11:12):
So she died so young. I don't know if she
was young. Did she die young?

Speaker 7 (01:11:17):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:11:17):
Okay, Well, there you go, Dusty Springfield. Some of a
Preacher Man is a bob. That is a good song.
It is a bob.

Speaker 1 (01:11:24):
You don't have to say you love me just because
you can't. You have to stay forever, I will understand.

Speaker 3 (01:11:37):
Yeah, ah, Dusty right. Elton John inducted her into the
Rock and Roll Hall. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:11:46):
She died of breast cancer action. But she had a
very very violent relationship. She was dating an American actress
in the early eighties and her girlfriend hit her in
the mouth with a saucepan. Wow, And she had to
get plastic dental surgery on her teeth and they broke up.

Speaker 3 (01:12:05):
Wow. Is the third pan the tall one? What is
a saucepan that?

Speaker 9 (01:12:12):
You mean like a deep one, like a little yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's got like straight sides and right, huh, it's what.

Speaker 3 (01:12:19):
Es You wrote? A cook a lot? Right, No, I
cook a lot?

Speaker 7 (01:12:21):
Oh you do well.

Speaker 9 (01:12:21):
Then you go to sauce pan like, yeah, you're making sauce.
You're boiling liquids, right, you're kind of like a boiling pan. Yes,
the boiling saucepan.

Speaker 7 (01:12:31):
The Allen Cock Show on one.

Speaker 4 (01:12:37):
Called the Alan Cox Show.

Speaker 3 (01:12:39):
You met Alan? Oh my god, I forgot about Allan. Okay,
you have a whiteboard two.

Speaker 12 (01:12:44):
One, six, five seven eight one double oh seven or
four eight one.

Speaker 7 (01:12:48):
Double o seven?

Speaker 3 (01:13:15):
Remember this band rock I do Grub's a d light
in the heart night.

Speaker 1 (01:13:23):
It was.

Speaker 3 (01:13:25):
I think, I don't know if.

Speaker 9 (01:13:25):
It's a manufactured band. This would have been late eighties,
early nineties. The front woman was that She called herself
Lady Miss Keir and Kir was short for something in
her name.

Speaker 6 (01:13:38):
Do you think she's doing like a headshake to make
that noise or as she goes with her tongue it's
all tongue.

Speaker 3 (01:13:46):
She shook her head back and forth.

Speaker 9 (01:13:47):
Really stopping ish my scotash where it was a bunch
of gibberish, but it was right place, right time.

Speaker 3 (01:13:54):
I'm here for it.

Speaker 9 (01:13:54):
Kind of more like a psychedelic Remember the Og Black
Eyed Peas before Fergie was in the mix. No, they
were kind of more of a funk band, and they
had their biggest hits with her because she was foxy
and they got super kind of glossy. But the Og
Black Eyed Peas were like kind of a funk band. Okay, yeah,
I don't think I ever heard that way, but lady

(01:14:16):
miss care Anyway, I went down this rabbit hole over
the break.

Speaker 3 (01:14:19):
A lot of my break rob was just mind numbing ornum.

Speaker 9 (01:14:25):
And I need projects, I need things on which I
can point my attention, and I was clicking around and
somebody was doing I don't know if it was a
full blown documentary, but they were talking about a certain
period of time in popular music, late eighties, early nineties,
and d Light came up. When it's her and like
some Korean DJ and another guy. They threw in and

(01:14:46):
they had a huge hit with Grooves in the Heart.
The album was called World Click. It was just the
right place, right time, and I think they checked the
usual boxes. They probably won like Best New Artists for
the and blah blah blah. But they went away as
quickly as they showed up. But the thing that jumped
out at me was and this shows you how different

(01:15:08):
things are now. In nineteen ninety one, based on a
couple of live appearances that they had done, I think
in New York whatever, Elektra Records signed them to a
seven album deal.

Speaker 7 (01:15:25):
WHOA.

Speaker 9 (01:15:27):
They ended up making the one after this one went nowhere,
and I don't think they even had a follow up
hit because he just cut bait.

Speaker 1 (01:15:38):
Well.

Speaker 9 (01:15:39):
They kind of made that classic sophomore mistake of going
everybody loves us, we can do whatever we want, rather
than really paying attention to what people like. So the
follow up album from them was really political, and people
were like, yeah, no, we just want you in last

(01:16:00):
in leggings and dumb beehive hairdo and uh, you know,
making up songs. But I just thought it was so
funny to dump the like the recipients of a seven
album deal, like Jesus they got they only made a
couple more and then they quit and got dropped and
the whole bit.

Speaker 3 (01:16:18):
Did they ever have another hit?

Speaker 1 (01:16:19):
This was it?

Speaker 3 (01:16:20):
Right?

Speaker 9 (01:16:20):
I don't They had a follow up song, but there
was nothing that was every rotted like its it. No,
they put out the greatest hits record. I'm like, guys,
the quality, yeah, won and done. Come I ride the train.
But it's like you get signed to a seven album
deal and you crank out two or three and then
you break up.

Speaker 3 (01:16:40):
I don't even know what that looks like. I don't
know what you do. You get sued? I don't know.

Speaker 10 (01:16:45):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:16:46):
I think they just felt like the label is.

Speaker 6 (01:16:47):
Going to make their money. But still I thought it
was crazy. It was probably one of those three sixty deals.
These probably they probably didn't make it. They weren't doing
him back then, though. Ninety one you don't think so.
Oh those three sixty deals, those are only maybe ten
years old. No, yes, lady, good god, Britney Spears had
to be before that. Maybe they didn't call them that,

(01:17:07):
but I mean, I feel like they own everything.

Speaker 3 (01:17:10):
I guarantee.

Speaker 6 (01:17:11):
I mean, to sign d Light to a seven year deal,
they had to look and say, Okay, we're gonna make
our money back something.

Speaker 3 (01:17:17):
What I mean, like you, I don't know. That was
the kind of weight that MTV had back then.

Speaker 9 (01:17:22):
You know, MTV was shuddered over the break taken off
the air, although there are still promos for shows that,
Oh I know what it was. I saw a promo
for Rup Paul's Drag Race and they're like, watch it
now on MTV.

Speaker 3 (01:17:35):
I'm like, no, you can't.

Speaker 6 (01:17:36):
Well yeah, because I think MTV still exists. They just
shuddered the music channels because they had MTV two. They
had like MTV hits in seventy all that crap. I
thought MTV went away, No as a channel. No, MTV
the network still exists, and it's all the crap like
you'll get, sure, you'll get they closed down all their

(01:17:58):
music channels.

Speaker 3 (01:17:59):
Here's an article.

Speaker 9 (01:18:00):
MTV is still alive, so why does everybody think gets
shut down? Last week they were making a big deal
of it. They were making a huge you know, the
guy who runs this company, Dave iHeartMedia. Yep, he was
one of the creators of MTV. You know, there's a
lot of companies where they're CEO has never really done anything.
They've taken credit for a lot of other ideas. Elon

(01:18:21):
Musk comes to mind, right, but Bob Pittman, he and
a guy named Tom Freston were really the guys who
created MTV right back in the day. Oh, I thought
the whole thing was Yeah, but they haven't been playing
music videos in one hundred years.

Speaker 6 (01:18:37):
They still had secondary channels, so like if you have MTV,
you have MTV, two, MTV now MTV. There's like ten
different mtvs. And they would show the eighties, move the
MTV hair like, they would show all that crap. That's
all gone. They shut all those down and now they're
just a reality reality TV.

Speaker 9 (01:18:59):
No nobody even knew those existed. So why were they
making a big deal just for clickbait?

Speaker 3 (01:19:04):
I think that was it. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:19:07):
A few months ago, Paramount that's a parent company, they
made the decisions shut down the suite of supplemental music
only channels that MTV had introduced in the UK and
Australia and the late auts in the early twenty tens,
MTV Music, MTV eighties, MTV Now, who has ever heard
of these?

Speaker 3 (01:19:23):
Why was this a big story?

Speaker 1 (01:19:24):
Then?

Speaker 3 (01:19:24):
I thought they were saying MTV is.

Speaker 6 (01:19:27):
Gone because I think they were saying MTV in the
music sense is it's abandoned music completely now, like it's gone.
They don't even have secondary networks that care about music now.
MTV is what you know, just a reality TV outlet.

Speaker 10 (01:19:44):
Okay, because I thought the last video that they played
was the first video that they played.

Speaker 9 (01:19:49):
The Buggles, you know, well, yeah, but that was again,
that was like MTV two or something that was I
thought MTV two went away twenty years ago.

Speaker 1 (01:19:57):
I don't know. I know that.

Speaker 6 (01:19:59):
I I read the article the same as you, and
that's why I was like, Oh, it's not gone, They're
just going to focus on bad television Jersey Shore reunions.

Speaker 3 (01:20:07):
Well, because this article I'm reading is real snarky where
they're like, oh, people weren't bid everybody throwing into you?
And I went yeah, because that's what they were talking about. Yeah,
there was going to online.

Speaker 9 (01:20:17):
I'm not going to do a deep dive on if
MTV Australia is going away right, all right, well that's
somewhat anti climactic.

Speaker 3 (01:20:27):
Then well yeah it was. It was it was a
non story, but they made this huge deal out of it.

Speaker 9 (01:20:35):
I mean, I can probably stream Celebrity Deathmatch somewhere or
Beavis and or butt Heead.

Speaker 3 (01:20:42):
I watch it all the time, still on Paramount. Plus.
The new ones are good.

Speaker 9 (01:20:46):
I can't figure out why I can't get into And
it's got to be about me and not about the show,
because the show is really not that different.

Speaker 3 (01:20:53):
But I just can't get into the new Beavis and butthead.
I think a lot of it was time. I loved
it back in the day.

Speaker 6 (01:20:58):
I think it was time right like the night these
Beavis and butt Head stuff. It was so funny. You
were a different person, you know what I mean?

Speaker 9 (01:21:04):
Yeah, But I also wasn't like if you were thirteen
and you loved Beavis and butt Heead, I get it.
I was way too old for Beavis and butt Heead,
and I still loved it. I was like twenty one
years old. I still loved it. But I'm just not, Yeah,
I like it.

Speaker 6 (01:21:18):
I I've watched all the New ones, and I like
that they when they're watching TV now, I do like that.

Speaker 3 (01:21:24):
It's like Jersey Shore stuff. Right Alan, I'm watching Big
Bang Theory on MTV right now. Oh God for you
already hear that me too? Is there nothing else on there? Yeah?

Speaker 9 (01:21:37):
I mean, you know, since there are increasingly two or
three companies now in every sector of the economy there,
I mean, the whole economy is propped up by AI companies,
but media there's like two companies left right, two or
three left. So paramount owns so many things. Big Bang
Theory is got to be on half a dozen Paramount

(01:21:57):
properties at any given Sure you click, it's all goddamn
Big Bang Theory reruns.

Speaker 3 (01:22:03):
Jesus.

Speaker 9 (01:22:05):
Like, my kids like that show when they were younger,
Like you know, when I'd have them for the weekend
or somebody in the hotel, they'd want to watch Big
Bang Theory.

Speaker 3 (01:22:12):
Fine.

Speaker 9 (01:22:12):
Great, Those are literally the only episodes of that show
I've ever seen are the ones that my kids were
watching fifteen years ago.

Speaker 3 (01:22:21):
Okay, so MTV still on, yes, well, the main network,
I guess well you were. Okay, I got on a
Jessice car and then somehow I got off of Jess's car.
How did I do that? What did we start talking
about bands?

Speaker 1 (01:22:43):
No?

Speaker 9 (01:22:43):
No, no, I know you were in a car. She
was on the phone, that's right. She was answering a
call as I went to you about your car.

Speaker 1 (01:22:51):
Ess.

Speaker 9 (01:22:52):
I don't you told me, but I don't quite follow. Oh, Mike,
oh yeah, I sold my car over the break. You
sold your car.

Speaker 10 (01:22:59):
I sold car back in November. Okay, then I was
dying of plague.

Speaker 3 (01:23:03):
What was the car?

Speaker 10 (01:23:05):
H oh?

Speaker 3 (01:23:06):
A Mitchebishi Outlander, A Mitsubish meat beat. I hate that
that car. Yeah, that's like an SUV kind of Okay,
I don't know.

Speaker 10 (01:23:19):
I hated that car. It was the worst investment in
my life. Twenty two point one percent interest rate A
Mitsubishi Outlanders sport Yep, all right. I mean I think
results vary with Mitsubishi vehicles. But I didn't know what
I was buying when I bought. I was twenty one
years old.

Speaker 3 (01:23:38):
No, I understand.

Speaker 10 (01:23:39):
I'm that car was falling apart when you bought it
or no. Yeah, as soon as I took it off
the lot, the exhaust pipe fell off. Do you get
it from like Gym's Auto or something like that. No,
I got it from a highly ranked Oh you did?

Speaker 3 (01:23:53):
Yeah? All right, Well okay, so you're how long did
you have the car? I think five years?

Speaker 9 (01:23:59):
Because they still make them. Yeah, it sound like they're discontinued.
They still make these cars.

Speaker 10 (01:24:03):
I fare to this guy for a thousand bucks because Carvana.

Speaker 3 (01:24:07):
Wait, wait, how many miles on the car?

Speaker 10 (01:24:09):
I think one hundred and sixty nine thousand.

Speaker 3 (01:24:14):
You sold your car to a dude for a flat grand.

Speaker 10 (01:24:18):
Yeah, because it was only worth six hundred dollars and
then the work that needed to be put into it
was like seventeen hundred dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:24:23):
A twenty twenty two vehicle was only worth one thousand dollars.
Oh no, this was a twenty thirteen. Oh okay, So
you bought it in twenty twenty two.

Speaker 10 (01:24:31):
No, I bought it in twenty twenty, twenty twenty one.

Speaker 9 (01:24:34):
You bought a seven year old car in twenty Okay,
I bought a piece of crap car.

Speaker 3 (01:24:38):
No, I act it and we've all been there. Yeah,
got it. I had to buy a divorced car back
in the day. On the whole thing. Yep.

Speaker 10 (01:24:43):
I just named it car too because I was scared
if I named it Jerry again, it was going to explode.
Uh huh, So I just named it car so over
the break, over the break, sell this car. Yeah, so
a guy.

Speaker 3 (01:24:55):
How do you connect with this guy? How do you
get him on the hook? He was a friend of
my mechanics. Okay.

Speaker 9 (01:25:00):
The mechanic goes, hey, I got a guy who will
take this off your hands right now.

Speaker 3 (01:25:03):
It's worth six hundred. He'll give you a grant yep. Yep,
cash yep, count the door yep. Titles and savings yep.

Speaker 10 (01:25:09):
Title all done beautiful, so that I'm dying.

Speaker 3 (01:25:11):
Of pipe replaced at some point yep. Well.

Speaker 10 (01:25:15):
Also in the car, it would smell like gasoline.

Speaker 9 (01:25:19):
Okay, well yeah, I mean then I was like that
probably a filter issue or fumes or something.

Speaker 3 (01:25:23):
I think it was like a but my baby was
breathing that in. It was scary, I understood. Yeah, tried
to get something else and that I don't know.

Speaker 10 (01:25:31):
There's a million things wrong with it. All these lights
turned on, and then I was like, if I get
annoyed and.

Speaker 9 (01:25:35):
You smoke, So you were probably worried about that too,
the fumes, right, were you worried about the fumes of
the Oh?

Speaker 10 (01:25:42):
Yeah, but I'm also have a fear even in the winter, like,
no matter what, my window is always cracked open because
I'm scared I'm going to die carbon monoxide poisoning.

Speaker 9 (01:25:52):
Why I don't know, but when you're driving your car outside,
you're not going to die of carbon monos.

Speaker 10 (01:25:59):
But is keep my window cracked?

Speaker 3 (01:26:01):
Okay? That's so you sell this car? Yes, it's it,
rob Have we gone too far afield here?

Speaker 1 (01:26:07):
No? No?

Speaker 3 (01:26:07):
No, no, no no no no back.

Speaker 10 (01:26:10):
Plot yep, but apparently plot twist. I got a call
from the cops and they were like, hey, did you
sell your car or was it stolen?

Speaker 3 (01:26:21):
And I was like, no, I sold it.

Speaker 10 (01:26:25):
Yeah, And they said, you know you're supposed to take
your plates off your car when you sell it. I
was like, yeah, you didn't take your license plate off? No,
I didn't think of that. I've never sold the car before.

Speaker 3 (01:26:36):
Okay.

Speaker 9 (01:26:36):
And so I guess you had no one who could
advise you or guide you in this endeavor.

Speaker 3 (01:26:41):
Well, I was trying to get it back. But I mean, like,
we're trying to get the car back back my plate. Yeah,
but like your dad wouldn't be like, hey take the
plates off.

Speaker 10 (01:26:51):
No. My dad's like He just just like how you
figure it out on your own, You'll figure it out.

Speaker 3 (01:26:56):
Okay, Well I guess you did in a way.

Speaker 1 (01:26:58):
I did.

Speaker 3 (01:26:59):
You sold the car with the license plate on it
which is registered to you.

Speaker 1 (01:27:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (01:27:04):
Yeah, Oh and then they were super expired. I mean
my birthday was in May, so they were driving around
with expired plates.

Speaker 3 (01:27:11):
So what did they do?

Speaker 10 (01:27:12):
They took they took someone else's car, put it on
my plate, and then I guess they were driving around
doing a legal activity in the car.

Speaker 9 (01:27:20):
Wait, but this is a guy that your mechanic knows. Yeah,
did he know he was a scumbag?

Speaker 3 (01:27:27):
I guess not? Or he did. And he's like, hey,
either way, you're looking for a new mechanic, right, No,
the mechanic guy is really great. Oh yeah like that guy.

Speaker 10 (01:27:37):
Yeah, but he the guy that I sold the car to, uh,
you know, don't know him. So the police come to you, No,
they just called me and they were like, yeah, so
we just want to make sure you know, YadA YadA,
that they were doing a highly illegal activity in your car.
But you were supposed to take the plates off.

Speaker 7 (01:27:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:27:54):
I was trying to get them back. But anyway, I
was like, am I going to trouble. What was the
highly illegal activity?

Speaker 6 (01:28:02):
No idea.

Speaker 3 (01:28:03):
Was it a bang boss or were they smoking rocking there?
What were they doing? No idea? But the cars impounded,
So so what you had to do was like show
them a bill of sale or something like that that
you sold the.

Speaker 10 (01:28:14):
Car, because they were like, did you sell it a
week ago then? And I was like, no, I sold
it over a month ago. And they're like that's another
thing they lied about.

Speaker 3 (01:28:21):
But did you like did you get did you do
a bill of sale? And was there a transfer of
title and all that stuff?

Speaker 10 (01:28:27):
I did the transfer of title, yeah, but he just
gave me cash with the car.

Speaker 3 (01:28:32):
But this was like no receipt, no nothing. He gave
you a thousand bucks. You did a title thing?

Speaker 12 (01:28:35):
That was it? Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:28:37):
I think you have to do more than that.

Speaker 10 (01:28:40):
I'm not in trouble though, So whatever hot.

Speaker 3 (01:28:42):
So where's the car? No idea? But you got your
plate back?

Speaker 7 (01:28:46):
I did?

Speaker 10 (01:28:48):
There was a dude, how did you get it away?
Or you got to pick it up at the police station.

Speaker 3 (01:28:52):
Oh, they confiscated the license plate? Gotcha? What happened to
the car? It was impounded?

Speaker 12 (01:28:59):
No clue.

Speaker 3 (01:29:00):
So the guy is out a grand and a car
and a car.

Speaker 10 (01:29:04):
Yeah, think about it. If you would have just switched
the plates, he would have saved a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:29:08):
Of money, right, but he'd still probably be out of
a car. Yeah, oh yeah, I guess. And what are
you driving now?

Speaker 10 (01:29:16):
My dad's car is extra car?

Speaker 3 (01:29:18):
Oh good, Well that's good. And what is your dad's
sound like?

Speaker 12 (01:29:20):
Again?

Speaker 3 (01:29:23):
I need my car back? Uh huh? What is your
dad drive that you're currently driving?

Speaker 10 (01:29:28):
Well, he drives a Tahoe and then I'm driving a
Toyota camera.

Speaker 3 (01:29:31):
I mean that's much bigger than a Mitsubishi Outlander. Well
she has she has a camera. Well, I'm driving the camera.

Speaker 10 (01:29:37):
Oh I see I see a camera. Yeah okay, Yeah,
he's kind of mad at me. He wants to put
brakes on the car. But wait, the car doesn't have breaks,
it does he just wants to replace them.

Speaker 3 (01:29:47):
Oh I was robbed. Holy cow.

Speaker 9 (01:29:48):
I was gonna say, can you imagine before you take
that out? I need you to swap off the license
plate and I need to put brakes on the car.

Speaker 3 (01:29:55):
So wait, so why is he mad at you?

Speaker 1 (01:29:57):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:29:58):
He just wants this car back. But now you need
that car?

Speaker 10 (01:30:01):
Yeah for now until I buy a new one.

Speaker 6 (01:30:04):
Ah, okay, and he wants to put brakes in it,
and you don't want it to do that.

Speaker 10 (01:30:10):
I just don't have time to have him take it
to the mechanic because I'm like, what am I supposed
to drive? Take thee Oh you would never allow it.

Speaker 3 (01:30:19):
I can't drive.

Speaker 10 (01:30:20):
I'm not good at driving driving a tahoe that's like
a tank.

Speaker 3 (01:30:25):
It really is.

Speaker 9 (01:30:26):
That's what that was your rental. My brother drives them. Yeah,
they're great when you're in them, but it's a lot
to navigate. And if you at least our self aware
to know that you're not a good driver, you don't
want to buy. Well, you're probably a good driver. There's
some people who some people who think that like if
it's a big, safe car, they don't have to know

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how to drive.

Speaker 3 (01:30:48):
You really do. You're in traffic and around smaller vehicles
and very good driver. Right, she's on the phone again.

Speaker 9 (01:30:57):
That's okay, boy, I'm trying to be I know people
say pound cake two point oh, and I'm fighting so
hard against that.

Speaker 3 (01:31:05):
But she ain't making it easy. Oh she doesn't. She's
not making it easy for me. I love it so much. No, No,
what I meant to say, was imagine she opens up
the envelope and it's like, uh, it's like chucky cheese bucks.

Speaker 9 (01:31:21):
The guy didn't even give her real money. Wait a second,
who is Charles Entertainment cheese? I don't care for this
one thousand dollars and it's real money, right, it's a
Grand American.

Speaker 10 (01:31:34):
Huh m, it's in an envelope. It's cash, yeah, cash money. Yeah,
it's crisp all right, hopefully it's real. It's like that
fake Uh what is it called?

Speaker 9 (01:31:45):
Well, that's why I said, chuck e cheese money. You
want to make sure that you didn't get like, you know,
funny money.

Speaker 3 (01:31:50):
Yeah, I don't know. Were you calling me pound cake?

Speaker 9 (01:31:54):
I said, the audience is referring to you as pound
cake two point oh. And I really do fight against that,
but you're not making it easy for me.

Speaker 1 (01:32:01):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:32:03):
No, I like pound Cake. I love pound k Yeah,
he's one of my favorite people. It's no shade. It's
not a judgment at all. I'm saying that the the.

Speaker 10 (01:32:13):
Just imagine us together, the icon content.

Speaker 9 (01:32:17):
I'm saying that the tapestry of explanations runs concurrent with
something that might have come out of that young man's mouth.

Speaker 3 (01:32:26):
I talked to him over the break. I like to
just check in every once in a while.

Speaker 1 (01:32:30):
Oh, good for you.

Speaker 3 (01:32:32):
That was good for me. Alan. How's he doing?

Speaker 9 (01:32:34):
I saw some of his Christmas poststasic. I haven't talked
to him in a while, but he's fan. I like
to keep their relationship professional. Oh good, he's doing it right.

Speaker 3 (01:32:43):
Oh yeah, good? Hey Dean, Hey Alan, how are you Dean?
What's up? Well?

Speaker 7 (01:32:52):
Two things?

Speaker 3 (01:32:52):
One, I uh, A friend of mine had a right.

Speaker 18 (01:32:55):
Yellow Element yeah, and took it to the dealership to
get some more on it.

Speaker 3 (01:33:00):
They came back the dealership said, sorry, someone stole it.

Speaker 9 (01:33:03):
That's a Honda Element. I don't think Lea makes the
element right, it's a box whatever the box? Yeah yeah,
kiyosol hond Element. I got you that soul there it is.
And the police contacted them and said, hey, we found
your car. Someone robbed the bank.

Speaker 3 (01:33:19):
Using a brake yellow stolen so or was Kia? Boys
got out there stealing them cars, lifting them right off
the street apparently to get away from that bank. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:33:31):
Also, also, how how are you going to slip the
long arm of John Q Law in a yellow car?

Speaker 3 (01:33:40):
Exactly? Wow? We were in a chase high speed.

Speaker 1 (01:33:48):
See where he was.

Speaker 3 (01:33:50):
Yeah, so yeah, talk about brilliant thieves.

Speaker 9 (01:33:52):
Pedal to the medal and he was topping out at
fifty two miles per hour.

Speaker 3 (01:33:56):
Into the screen. Yeah yep, Brelli people, thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:34:01):
Nice job at the Monsters game too.

Speaker 3 (01:34:03):
The Elan Cork Show.

Speaker 7 (01:34:05):
On one hundred seven New Year's Resolutions.

Speaker 5 (01:34:12):
Are just admitting that you were a giant failure last year.

Speaker 1 (01:34:16):
Your failure.

Speaker 7 (01:34:20):
Fortunately you're among friends here at Failure.

Speaker 11 (01:34:24):
Central Show on one hundred point seven. WMMA, Well, one up,
one down with your Cleveland sports teams.

Speaker 9 (01:34:42):
Browns pull of win, but the Calves lose. You're at
home last night against the Detroit Pistons one four. Cavs
have been really wobbly lately, you know, get a couple
of two or three game win streak and then the
two or three game losing streak.

Speaker 3 (01:34:57):
Whatever.

Speaker 9 (01:34:58):
See what happens tomorrow night there Indianapolis against the Pacers
at seven o'clock. That's your tip off there. Six point
thirty is going to be your pregame coverage here on
the Buzzard. You can also listen on the iHeartRadio app
and then they will go to Minneapolis play the timber
Wolves on Thursday night. That is an eight o'clock game.
Calves timber Wolves on the buzzard. If you listen to

(01:35:21):
us on the iHeartRadio app, tell me where you do
it so I can make sure that you are repped
on our map.

Speaker 3 (01:35:30):
We went to Toronto right after. We have bureau chiefs
in Toronto.

Speaker 9 (01:35:32):
We've got Robin and Carla, a couple of other people
whose names might escape me. And we went there the
day after we went on break. Went up to Toronto
for a few days, and god damn was it cold.
It was bone dry. You know, you describe your trip
after Christmas blizzard conditions, all that stuff that was going

(01:35:55):
up through New England, when you're going through Utica and
Rochester and all that. Our trip to Buffalo or through Buffalo, obviously,
but it's the Toronto was bone dry.

Speaker 3 (01:36:04):
We got really lucky.

Speaker 15 (01:36:05):
It was just.

Speaker 9 (01:36:07):
Like earth shatteringly cold up there and windy as balls,
and a lot of the places that we were going
were close enough where it was silly to take an uber.
It took a couple of ubers, but there were a
couple of places where it was just as easy to walk.
And but I hadn't been up there in a minute.

(01:36:29):
Loved going up there. Our hotel. I think it's new ish,
the hotel we were in, And a lot of times
we'll stay closer to the water. This time we were
kind of further into downtown, a little closer to the university,
and our hotel was very quiet like that, quiet like that, yeah,

(01:36:52):
I guess.

Speaker 1 (01:36:53):
But then like.

Speaker 9 (01:36:54):
Early in the morning, somebody, Like the entire time we
were there, I didn't see one other person in the
hallway on our floor, but sure enough, boy, five thirty
in the morning, whoever was in the room next to
us sounded like they had nine muling infants at the
crack of ass.

Speaker 3 (01:37:14):
Oh, I don't like that.

Speaker 9 (01:37:17):
Went to the Tronio Aquarium, which is easily one of
the best and probably North America. That was it, just
the three that went yeah. Yeah, And we went to
this tie place. It was in the basement of this building,
and I got wrecked on plumb wine. I was glad

(01:37:38):
that we walked because right after that, when a couple
of blocks up to this gelato joint, I'm like.

Speaker 3 (01:37:44):
Ah, some of that, Hey, give me some of that.

Speaker 1 (01:37:46):
I don't have. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:37:47):
I walked out with like a cup full of thirty
five dollars worth of gelato.

Speaker 6 (01:37:51):
I got saki bombed the first night my mother was here.
Oh hot saki, man, I'll just keep going. It's pretty good.
This was after your mom had broken her toe. Yeah yeah, yeah,
so she broke it with my brother.

Speaker 1 (01:38:07):
I know.

Speaker 3 (01:38:08):
So it was probably a bit of a medicinal purpose
for your purpose. She just sipped. I just got rocked.
Who's got the saki or did you have sake? We
got at the sushi place? We went to it.

Speaker 9 (01:38:20):
Oh you went to a place of ordered sake. I
was thinking you guys were like sitting at home as
a local saki joint place.

Speaker 3 (01:38:28):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and Wadsworth it's great. Yeah, food was
terrific and the saki was nice. See I like sake too.

Speaker 9 (01:38:36):
But plumb Wine lulls you into this false sense of securities.
You're not careful, right because it goes down so easy,
Like I'm not gonna suck down soak noak like it?

Speaker 3 (01:38:48):
Yes, I like it. Uh, but plumb wine You're like, yes, garsone,
I'll have another.

Speaker 6 (01:38:54):
Well you can get those like the unfiltered sakis too,
like the real cloudy sakes. Oh sweet, those can sneak
up on you sometimes.

Speaker 9 (01:39:01):
I like my like a dirty sake with a blue
cheese olive roth saki it to me baby.

Speaker 3 (01:39:08):
Yeah. No, we were at this long table and we
were at the end, but we were sharing it with
other people. Oh, I don't like that. I don't mind it.

Speaker 9 (01:39:15):
Yeah, you meet different people. I don't mind it. You know,
if I'm having a drink, I'm taking the edge off.
We're all we weren't sharing food. It was it was
a long table and so there were different parties, three
of us on the end. There was a younger couple
across from us that were engaging in very heavy PDA,
which I don't have a problem with. But you're just like, no,

(01:39:38):
I'm I good for you. Oh really, I'm a big
fan of PDA. Really, I think you liked to watch
Huh could you like to watch? No, no, no, I'm
saying for me for other people because I think it's Listen,
you know, I'm not talking about people going under the
table and lifting the skirt up. I'm not talking about
anything like untoward. I think PDA is very sweet.

Speaker 10 (01:40:00):
Really like extra handholding and well whatever. The two people
that were across from me were just kind of a
younger couple and she would.

Speaker 9 (01:40:13):
They were like, this is one of these places where
you have to scan the QR code to look at
the menu. No paper menus scan the code, so you're
reading the menu on your phone. So they got there
a little bit after we did, and this restaurant were
for whatever reason, we're like a lot of like families
with little kids, even though it wasn't that kind of restaurant,
but there were a lot of other like couples that

(01:40:34):
were clearly on a date or whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:40:36):
A nice mix of people.

Speaker 9 (01:40:37):
And it's it's Toronto, so like everybody looks different, right,
It's such a diverse city, and you know, it's great.
And a couple across from us, young couple, and she's
kind of got there, kind of looking at his phone,
and so she's got her arm around him and he's
like stroking her hand, and she's got her hand on

(01:40:58):
the back of his head and she's kind of petting
his head. So nothing crazy, but I was like, that's sweet.
They're having a good time. I don't have a problem
with PDA. I know a lot of people don't like
it exists.

Speaker 3 (01:41:09):
I don't like it. Save it from when you get home.

Speaker 9 (01:41:11):
Yeah, but again, I'm not talking about like wearing her
like a feed bag in the checkout aisle, a giant eagle.

Speaker 3 (01:41:17):
I don't mean that. I don't need to see her
scratching his head. Just not stop it. But like if
you're in line with your wife, you don't kiss her.
I mean you have, but I wouldn't. No, not really.
I thought you were like going to say they were
like full on making out. I don't know that well
that you do what you want to do.

Speaker 10 (01:41:37):
I can.

Speaker 3 (01:41:38):
It's none of my business, so it's not even a
matter of me being able to handle it. I can
handle anything. Sure. I'm just saying it wasn't like that.

Speaker 4 (01:41:45):
You know.

Speaker 9 (01:41:46):
I think people who are who are moderate in their PDA.
I think it's fine because you're in a restaurant, it's
really busy. You're waiting, right, what are you gonna do?
He's standing here and wait talk he was talking to Yeah,
they weren't playing tonsil hockey.

Speaker 3 (01:42:06):
I'm just saying, you know, I don't have a problem.
I think it's sweet. I guess that's sort of sweet. Yeah,
but very very cold up there.

Speaker 9 (01:42:16):
But on the way back it took an hour. We
sat on the Peace Bridge for an hour. Oh boy,
to come back into the United States. And I've been
to Toronto a lot of times at pretty much that
exact time of the year, and I'd never been in
a situation like this. And we finally get up to
the booth and I said to the guy, go, what's

(01:42:39):
going on? This guy was at his wits end.

Speaker 3 (01:42:42):
This dude.

Speaker 9 (01:42:43):
You know where the guy starts telling you how many
months he has until retirement. I was like, I was
talking to Danny Glover and lethal weapon. He goes all
these people because he's the American guy. We're crossing back over.
He goes all these people have family in the States.
I'm like, really, everybody goes over the week before Christmas

(01:43:03):
to shop and there's a Sabers game and I'm like, okay,
like I understand all that. I didn't realize everybody was
going over. Imagine that you're going over to the United
States to your shopping in Buffalo. He's like, everybody's going
to see their family. I'm like, yeah, but it's a
week before Christmas. You know, we left right if we

(01:43:24):
went on break. I had just never been in that
situation before. Literally we sat on the bridge for an hour,
which no skin off my ass.

Speaker 3 (01:43:30):
Whatever. You know, there's nothing you can do about it.
What was taking so long? All that?

Speaker 9 (01:43:36):
He goes everybody's going across the border to shop, and
there's a Sabers game, and I'm like, I've never been
in that situation before. And I've been, you know, second
or third week of December. I've been on that bridge
many many times and never dealt with that. I remember
to take my bug out bag out of my trunk
this time. Usually I forget, and on the rare occasion

(01:43:58):
on your way in when they want to check your trunk,
I forget. I got a thing in there with a machete,
and you know, yeah, yeah, So I took it out
this time, just in case. But of course after I
took it out, nobody wanted to look at my trunk.

Speaker 3 (01:44:10):
How long is that drives? Four and a half five hours.
It's not bad, No, it's not bad at all.

Speaker 9 (01:44:16):
You just go up through Eurie and Buffalo and you know,
piece of cake, through Mississauga and Hamilton. Of course, then
there was another hour on the highway on the way
to Toronto because there was like a five car pile up,
which clearly just people not paying attention because, like I said,

(01:44:36):
it was bone dry. There was like maybe a little
bit of rain, but nothing. I mean, we've been up
there before when it was blizzard conditions.

Speaker 3 (01:44:45):
It was nothing like that. Just cold, just cold and windy.
Af Man. Then that came down here, that blew into here.

Speaker 1 (01:44:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:44:54):
But this dude in the booth coming back to the
American side, he was like, one more year and I'm retiring,
and he just kind of looked like he was thirty eight. Like, wow,
you're gonna retire from the border. That's what I want,
retire from the border. Oh, just to retire really.

Speaker 3 (01:45:13):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:45:14):
We talked quickly at the game about being away and
You're like, I can't wait to get back, and I'm like, yeah,
you know, it'd be nice to get And I thought
about it and.

Speaker 3 (01:45:21):
I'm like, boy, I'm built for retirement.

Speaker 1 (01:45:24):
I'm not.

Speaker 3 (01:45:25):
Oh I cannot. I was, Oh, you'll get bored. I'm
like bored.

Speaker 9 (01:45:29):
I need projects, man, I need projects. There were so
many days, you know, like we went to go see
the SpongeBob movie and little things like that. Yeah, which,
by the way, Chef's kiss ten out of ten. Really,
SpongeBob is so funny and absurd. They never it's never
a swing and a.

Speaker 3 (01:45:46):
Miss with those movies. They're always great, and so this
one's no different. Did you end up doing Zootopia too?

Speaker 12 (01:45:53):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:45:53):
I didn't do that.

Speaker 16 (01:45:54):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:45:55):
My kid's kind of an indoor cat. So I'm kind
of like, oh, we should go do this.

Speaker 1 (01:45:58):
You go do that, eh. I.

Speaker 9 (01:45:59):
So she goes see SpongeBob. She goes, okay, SpongeBob. Yeah,
And it was dynamite. She seemed to dig the game,
the hockey game, Monsters game.

Speaker 3 (01:46:09):
Yeah. Once I get her out, she's all in. Yeah,
she's good. But there.

Speaker 9 (01:46:15):
You know, we were gone for two and a half weeks,
and other than Toronto, we were only there three or
four days. We come back, had a little bit of
family in for Christmas, but other than that, I usually
I'm in here a lot overbreak, just to catch up
on things, to kind of get myself ordered for the
coming year and the new live shows or whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:46:35):
I didn't come in here until Friday. It was the
one time they came in. Wow, it was Friday.

Speaker 1 (01:46:42):
You know this.

Speaker 9 (01:46:43):
I'm usually in a lot, yeah, because I'm like, well,
I'll go into the station and I'll get some work
done and blah blah blah.

Speaker 3 (01:46:48):
I need stuff to do.

Speaker 7 (01:46:50):
I cannot.

Speaker 9 (01:46:52):
There were a couple of days and all I'm thinking is, boy,
Rob would be so proud of me. There were a
couple of days where I did nothing but watch TV
and watch How do people do this all the time?

Speaker 3 (01:47:06):
How oh I could do it? How I need stuff
to do? What did you watch? Watch some larinata? Larinata?

Speaker 9 (01:47:14):
Actually, lately mad Men has been my go to because
I never watched mad Men, so I just watch that.
Veep is kind of a comfort show too, Love Veep.
I'll watch that one hundred times over.

Speaker 3 (01:47:24):
Are you caught up on pluribis?

Speaker 1 (01:47:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:47:27):
Still not there with that, huh. I mean it's fine.
We watched the whole season.

Speaker 9 (01:47:31):
But I was reading a thing with Vince Gilligan this
morning and he goes, just let everybody know, we go
at a pretty glacial pace. So the second season will
be done when it's done. So he's like telling people
it's gonna be two or three years before the second
season of Pluribus. I'm like, I don't care that much.
I got through the first season, but I'm not gonna

(01:47:53):
remember what the hell was going. Obviously, they do recaps
for that kind of stuff. I got to love a
show boy to go back two or three years later
for season two. I still haven't gone back to finish severings.
I got so bored with that second season. Yeah, I
just I guess I don't care. People get into this
sunk cost fallacy where they're like, well, I put all
this time in, I should finish.

Speaker 3 (01:48:13):
No, you didn't watch The Stranger Things, did you? Nope?

Speaker 9 (01:48:15):
No, I watched the first episode of the very last
season and I said, I'm out, Yeah, I don't care,
do not care. And then today they're like, turns out,
but they might not be done. They're talking about special
I'm like, Jesus Christ, just kill these kids.

Speaker 3 (01:48:30):
Al out of your soney makers now something moneymakers.

Speaker 9 (01:48:33):
These kids are like even the first episode of the
last season, I'm like, these kids are like twenty five
years old. Now, you can't ever be there zipping around
in their dirt bikes. I'm like, oh my god, I
do not care.

Speaker 3 (01:48:45):
What ten years? Ten years? Yeah, I don't care. And
I dipped in.

Speaker 9 (01:48:48):
I'm like, I'll watch the first one. Maybe they'll lure
me back in, maybe they'll hook me.

Speaker 3 (01:48:52):
Did not.

Speaker 6 (01:48:53):
I was talking to some friends. Over the break, they
went to a movie theater to see the finale. Was
it Christmas Day or the day after?

Speaker 1 (01:48:59):
Dad? Yeah? Ye.

Speaker 3 (01:49:00):
And I'm like why, Like you could watch it on
your TV. Well, it's the experience of going to a
theater room.

Speaker 9 (01:49:07):
Look, I like going to movie theaters, but it's like
if the episodes of your TV show are ninety minutes long, Like, bro,
you don't have that much story.

Speaker 3 (01:49:17):
These guys have, I think way outstayed. They're welcome. Yeah,
people still love the show.

Speaker 9 (01:49:22):
I mean, but we were in this one of the
things that first night we were in Toronto, we went
to like this outdoor winter market. You know, every big
city's got these. Cleveland's got one, I think, yeah, winter
market whatever. And in the middle of it all these
like stands and people selling very Canadians. So it's a
lot of poutine and things like that little stores. At

(01:49:43):
the end of this one alley they had this massive
stranger things like living rooms set up where people were
lining up to take a photo on the couch. Really
and I'm like, hey, good for you. I mean, you know,
whatever trips your trigger. But I'm like, I don't care,
do not care?

Speaker 3 (01:50:03):
So the whole like full days of doing nothing. Oh
I love it. Oh my god. And I probably only
had one of those days my entire break. Well, that's
love it. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:50:13):
We were so busy with everything going on, Like I said,
many showings of the house.

Speaker 3 (01:50:19):
Yeah, like I might put my house on the market,
and it's you know, you get the text.

Speaker 6 (01:50:22):
Now everything's text and you have to reply right away,
and you got to be out of the house for
a half an hour.

Speaker 3 (01:50:27):
And then another one stacks up right against it. Yeah,
I hate that that I get.

Speaker 9 (01:50:31):
I mean, you had a lot of stuff going on,
You're spending a lot of plates. Yeah that I hated it,
but it but it was I mean, it's it's good
to get back, like I joke.

Speaker 3 (01:50:39):
Right, but man, I did.

Speaker 6 (01:50:41):
I do feel like I'm built for retirement because I
don't like doing much, you know what I mean. Like
when I got you mentioned like you get your daughter
out of the house, she's fine, right, like I was.
You would think I just found out my best friend died,
having to leave the house to go to the monster.

Speaker 3 (01:51:00):
I was sitting on the couch.

Speaker 6 (01:51:02):
I'm like, God, damn it, I don't want to call out.
I would have I would have never in a million
years done that. Well, I know, I'm just starting to
get the sniffles. I'm like, I don't want to go
and get it. And then I get there and I
had a blast. It was like, that was one of
the most fun nights I've had. Watch you get there,
you get yeah, you know, I get that second wind.
I gotta had a little little tequila running through to veins.
I was having a great time.

Speaker 7 (01:51:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:51:24):
No.

Speaker 9 (01:51:24):
You know, so many people in our business, uh are
forced into retirement right right, you get the tap on
the shoulder, they go, You're done, thank you for your service.

Speaker 3 (01:51:37):
Terrifying, terrifying.

Speaker 6 (01:51:39):
Well, yeah, I'm not. I'm not in a in a
in a situation where that it can be can happen
like that. That's not retirement. I just mean in general,
like you know, if they if they came tapping tomorrow,
I'm like, okay, cool, well I got a good severance.
I'll let that run out and then I gotta figure
out what I'm gonna do next. Right, Like, I'm not
retirement ready, but if it happened where I was close,

(01:52:00):
oh dude, I'd be celebrated to take that severance right
across the bridge and be like up yours.

Speaker 3 (01:52:05):
See thanks for the early exit. That's it gone. Yeah, No,
I can't you buy a boat. I can't even fathom it.
Would I buy a boat? Yeah? Absolutely not No really No,
you got friend? You can? You get a friend that
has a brand with a boat. You don't want to
ever buy a boat.

Speaker 10 (01:52:22):
You look like you own a boat, but you don't
use it. But you tell everyone that you have a boat.

Speaker 3 (01:52:26):
Well, who does I do you? I look like I
have a boat, yeah, but you don't use it. Me
I look like I own a boat.

Speaker 9 (01:52:33):
What does somebody who owns a boat look like like
if he had a captain's hat on?

Speaker 3 (01:52:36):
I mean, anybody looks like they at it's like he
owns a boat.

Speaker 6 (01:52:40):
Huh.

Speaker 3 (01:52:42):
You looks like you own a scooter? Allan, I do
own a scooter? See no I don't.

Speaker 9 (01:52:48):
I'm sure there's probably a Razor scooter somewhere in the garage. Yeah, cobwebs.

Speaker 7 (01:52:52):
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And then the radio start playing, which made it even worse.
The native marpezan R.

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Speaker 9 (01:53:50):
And the Cavaliers lose last night here at home to
the Pistons by four one, fourteen oh one ten in
the final. There'll be in Indianapolis tomorrow night play the Pacers.
Then they will scoot up to Minneapolis to play the
timber Wolves on Thursday night, seven o'clock. Tip tomorrow pregame
at six thirty here on your FM home for Cleveland

(01:54:13):
Cavaliers basketball.

Speaker 3 (01:54:14):
One hundred points off of Apple. You have a best
the buzzer.

Speaker 9 (01:54:19):
Kenny Atkinson blames Cavalier's bench for loss against Pistons.

Speaker 3 (01:54:25):
That's no good when the coach is like a stink.

Speaker 9 (01:54:33):
And then they look at the coach and they go,
what do you do? We're out there playing, what do
you do. We're professionals, we know what we're doing.

Speaker 3 (01:54:41):
What are you doing? It stinks? It stinks?

Speaker 9 (01:54:47):
Yeah, So yeah, the Caps two steps forward and one
step back, kind of would those guys all opposites of
with DJ Scatcat right, wasn't that the cartoon cat? Oh yeah,

(01:55:07):
back when MTV was showing music videos rob but now
they're still on the air and showing reality television. There
you go, but they have to keep the MTV branding
even though there's no AM anymore. And the people who
would normally be the target audience don't watch TV right.
They're watching it on their tablets or on their laptops

(01:55:29):
or whatever. By the way, speaking of TV quick aside,
you know what changed the game for me as I
was looking for things to do over break television backlighting.

Speaker 3 (01:55:40):
It's an esthetic choice.

Speaker 9 (01:55:42):
I never really paid much attention to it, but I
went down some rabbit hole and I go, that looks pretty.

Speaker 3 (01:55:48):
Cool, you know what I'm talking about? You talking about
like the LED lights TV lights.

Speaker 9 (01:55:52):
On the back of your television, and then there's like
a camera that hangs over the front of your television
and you calibrate it so that it renders the light
palette that's on your television. And it's just kind of
a weirdo esthetic thing, but it's pretty rad, man. I mean,

(01:56:12):
there's an app and you can do all kinds of
weird crap on it.

Speaker 3 (01:56:15):
I don't need that.

Speaker 9 (01:56:16):
I don't need like ambient mood lighting behind my television
when you're watching TV and the lights are down and
it's the light.

Speaker 3 (01:56:24):
It's almost imperceptible. But I think it's pretty cool. Just
one more thing to distract me, I understand.

Speaker 9 (01:56:29):
But it's for I'm not usually prone to that kind
of stuff, and it's a nice litt upgrade. I have
shiny object syndrome. You know, something happens, oh sos. Anyway,
all this week around five o'clock, about six seven minutes.

Speaker 3 (01:56:43):
From now, I will six seven Okay, So Christmas Eve
in laws are in town.

Speaker 9 (01:56:50):
Usually we go to dinner on Christmas Eve and there's
this old tiny restaurant in Westlake called White Oaks and
de better of White Oaks. Okay, it's kind of I
know that there's for you know, like teenage kids. They
probably go to prom a lot there. The things has
been around since the twenties, and so we went there

(01:57:12):
for Christmas Eve dinner, very very dim. I like a
nice dim restaurant. We were next to the fireplace. The
room that we were in there was all these little
different rooms. And the room that we were in there
were only two tables. We were next to the fireplace,
and then on the other side was this big like
eight top of kids who were clearly home from college

(01:57:33):
with their parents. And again I like a dim room,
but I mean it got to the point where, like,
you know, we needed a light from our phones to
read the menu. But the table of these college kids,
they were having a conversation or something, and one of
them said six seven, and my daughter whipped her head

(01:57:53):
around and the entire table of kids looked at her
and they go, she knows. And then my daughter and
these college kids start juggling their hands doing six to seven.

Speaker 10 (01:58:01):
I did it.

Speaker 3 (01:58:02):
It was high hilarious. I did it trying to.

Speaker 6 (01:58:04):
Make my daughter laugh at the US game. Oh and
they they cut away from me right as they started
to do it. But oh really, yeah, it's during our
karaoke segment.

Speaker 3 (01:58:14):
I was like six seven.

Speaker 9 (01:58:15):
Yeah, yeah, they all go, she knows. They're like point
at her. Oh god, it was a hoot. And then
a wine cabinet collapsed. I don't know if this place
is haunted or what. You know, those lattice cabinets like
the cross, the cross. Uh, you've seen a wine cabinet
where the shelves look like X's you know. Yeah, I

(01:58:38):
don't know what happened. It was right around the corner
from our table.

Speaker 3 (01:58:42):
There was no one there.

Speaker 9 (01:58:43):
It wasn't like somebody had opened the cabinet and they
were going for a bottle of wine. I just heard
all of these bottles fall and tumble. Jesus, not like
they were shattering. I think maybe only a couple of
them might have actually broken. But this entire wine cabinet,
for whatever reason, the slightest vibration or I don't know what,

(01:59:03):
this entire wine cabinet collapsed. And so these you know
kids that are waiting tables, they are like rushing over
trying to figure out what's going on, and I'm nosy.
Oh yeah, So I get up and I go over
to look like I don't want to be in anybody's way,
but I kind of slide off to the side over here.

Speaker 1 (01:59:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:59:22):
It gave me an opportunity to find my waitress back
in the wait station and slipper my card. Right, I
got the father in law there, So I'm flexing. I'm
picking up dinner, picking pick up the tab. I like
that unbeknownst. Usually what I like to do is call
ahead and give them the information. I didn't have an

(01:59:43):
opportunity to do that this time. And he's sitting there
at the end of the night.

Speaker 3 (01:59:46):
Where's the check? Where's the check? I already picked it up. Jesus, guy,
you didn't.

Speaker 1 (01:59:51):
Have to do that.

Speaker 3 (01:59:52):
I've already taken care of Alan all ready. You didn't
have to do that. This was my tree. I don't
eat and like them.

Speaker 9 (02:00:01):
Bringing the bill to the table, I said to the girl,
under the auspices of me, go, oh.

Speaker 3 (02:00:05):
What happened with this wine cabinet? And then I screwed
around the corner and I find the girl. She happened
to be there.

Speaker 9 (02:00:12):
I certainly didn't want to track her down, but I
wanted to do it surreptitiously, right. I didn't want to
call attention to myself, and so I went over to.

Speaker 3 (02:00:19):
Her and I go, hey, world, done you run this?

Speaker 6 (02:00:23):
I mean, you didn't have to go as far as
to knock the wine cabinet over to do it, But
I mean it's you know, listen that the thought is
very nice.

Speaker 9 (02:00:29):
I needed a diversion, is what I needed. Hey, where's
our waitress?

Speaker 3 (02:00:34):
I don't know. All right, I'm over here, an listen,
I'm right around the corner here.

Speaker 6 (02:00:39):
All right.

Speaker 1 (02:00:39):
You see that again? This is this is my car
right here.

Speaker 3 (02:00:43):
I'm gonna need what and I'll pay for those forty
three bottles of wine. I do this brill too. Yeah,
what do you mean you don't have a reasling AnyWho?
Uh yeah, I'm like, don't even bring me a bill.
You bring me something to sign. You ring the card.

(02:01:04):
You ring it, and that's all I need.

Speaker 9 (02:01:06):
Bring it back to me. I'll sign it while you're
standing there. I'll give it right back to it. I
don't need nothing else.

Speaker 3 (02:01:12):
Ring the card.

Speaker 10 (02:01:13):
Well, it's so much better because when I would serve
in bar ten people would try to like hand me
two of the cards at the same time and fight
over it who's going to pay the bill? So I
would just close my eyes and just grab one and
run and that would always make him laugh. And I'm like,
I'm not watching you guys fight over a bill. Rule
has to be first card out. If I got my
car out, I want you to take my card first.

(02:01:35):
I don't argue with you to fist fight over the
other guy paying the bill.

Speaker 9 (02:01:39):
If they give you two cards, just split it down
the middle.

Speaker 3 (02:01:42):
Oh no, I just take one and run.

Speaker 10 (02:01:44):
Wow. And I'm like, oh oops, I got your card. Okay, uh,
this is the winner and I just brought off. And
this is old school every time. This is old school too,
because you don't always get the folio anymore. Like when
I was waiting tables in the eighteen hundreds, we had
the folio. You have the little thing with a paper
bill in it. A lot of places now this is
a classic joint. So they're not going to bring up
a square terminal to you, but a lot of places

(02:02:07):
do that now. I like that a lot where they
just come to your table. They got the little scanner
that you tap it and you're on your way. The
only thing is you do have the pressure to tip well.
I mean I always tip well.

Speaker 3 (02:02:20):
I tip well.

Speaker 6 (02:02:21):
I do too, but I feel like I have to
hit the twenty five percent when someone's standing there staring
at me. Even if it wasn't exceptional, you know what
I mean, I still am like it's so odd looking,
so I feel like I have to like over the
top do well.

Speaker 10 (02:02:34):
They do they do look away, but they do that
fake head turn yep. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, where did
Jenny go?

Speaker 3 (02:02:41):
A couple of questions on that screen there before you
fill it out.

Speaker 10 (02:02:45):
I'm always like, fill out the prompts and you know whatever.
I like the places.

Speaker 9 (02:02:50):
There's retail establishments where they're pos uh or you scan
your card or whatever has a question if you want
to donate to charity. Yeah, and there are places that
are I don't know if they're like independently owned or
what it is. But I have been in a situation
where the guy reaches across and hits no, like he's

(02:03:12):
he thinks that it's obtrusive or something, and I'm like, well,
what if I wanted to donate. I don't say that,
but I'm like, what if I wanted to donate?

Speaker 3 (02:03:23):
It happens a lot. I reach around, just hit on that.

Speaker 6 (02:03:27):
I'm like, well, hey, whoa, but if I wanted to
donate a dollar to charity, you don't know what I
do know. I don't want to make get one of
those little balloons, huh make that decision for me.

Speaker 9 (02:03:38):
I don't need the party favor when I donate and
they hand me the paper heart No, no, no, not
write your name on that.

Speaker 3 (02:03:45):
No, I don't need you write your name there I
don't need that write my name. I know how to
write my name. You write your name.

Speaker 9 (02:03:54):
I feel you know you're talking about pressure to tip.
I think there's more pressure when you're in line. And
I've heard it happen, and again, no responsibility on the
part of the person. But I think it's weirder when
the lady goes, let's say you're a ginty eagle or
wherever you shot me or whatever, and you're checking out
and the lady goes, would you like.

Speaker 3 (02:04:12):
To donate sixty nine cents to the food bank? And
the lady goes, no, thank you, Oh yeah, you can't.
You know they do plenty of people do.

Speaker 9 (02:04:22):
Would you like to like, would you like to round
up for the you know, so you're not talking, you're
talking maximum. I will always say a dollar, of course,
always you're talking quarters or pennies. People say no, no,
thank you, I can't do that now. They might be
doing it at home. I don't know their business, but
that to me is weirder than.

Speaker 6 (02:04:41):
But yeah, because everybody that's always somebody's behind you. And
then you think I don't want to be judged by
the person standing there. They go, oh, you couldn't round
up thirty two cents, you cheap bastard.

Speaker 3 (02:04:51):
I'm like, yeah, you know what. Plus I like even numbers,
so yeah, round up. It's thirty thirty thirty seven dollars. Great, perfect,
thank you.

Speaker 9 (02:04:58):
I don't even think about people judging. I just think
that a lot of people, oh, I always doesn't occur
to them that somebody might be I mean, you shouldn't
do anything because you think somebody's judging you. But it's
just if somebody was like, yes, of course, fifty six cents.

Speaker 3 (02:05:12):
Yes.

Speaker 6 (02:05:13):
If I could live my life thinking people weren't judging me,
you would hate this version.

Speaker 3 (02:05:16):
You would hate that version of me so much.

Speaker 6 (02:05:18):
Why Oh, because I wouldn't do anything. Well, what's that
got to doing? I'm not doing anything because, like I'm good.
You think people are judging you all the time, all
the time. Why yeah, dude, because I I think if
I was working at Meyer and I said to that person, hey, uh,
you want to round up thirty one cents for kids
with cancer?

Speaker 3 (02:05:38):
I would think what an a hole? The person that
said no? What was so?

Speaker 6 (02:05:41):
I think that persons I care what everyone thinks.

Speaker 3 (02:05:45):
I can't eat that.

Speaker 6 (02:05:46):
That's part of my mentalness. We've talked about this. I'm
a wreck. I care what everybody thinks.

Speaker 9 (02:05:51):
I mean, I got my own problems too, but I
ain't want of them. Why do I care to ninety
nine problems bitche one right?

Speaker 1 (02:06:00):
Yeah? Hit me?

Speaker 3 (02:06:01):
Well, that's why you always got to say yes every
time sixty nine cents. That's what I would have done first.
You got problems.

Speaker 6 (02:06:11):
If your son I got ninety nine problems on the
bit chain, won't.

Speaker 3 (02:06:16):
You would have said what? I don't know. I would
have laughed first.

Speaker 6 (02:06:19):
As soon as they said you want to run the
sixty I do, yes, I want to get around the
seven cents.

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Speaker 7 (02:06:35):
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Speaker 10 (02:06:40):
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on a bit change won problems.

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Speaker 7 (02:07:45):
Hey rob hey hey quack success, Hey row hey hey
quack success.

Speaker 17 (02:07:57):
He said, yom, neighbors, dot dogs say, we plucking all day,
but one thing I had enough.

Speaker 3 (02:08:02):
Never tell a sleep, maybe quacking up a storm. Every
time I leave, I hear the ducks going off. All
I hear is quack quack quiet.

Speaker 6 (02:08:10):
Let the douttle dust live quack quack, while this quat
season bitch on qui duct dynasye my bid.

Speaker 1 (02:08:18):
That's a fact. The the the.

Speaker 3 (02:08:22):
Quack quack quick move Wait Texas, why is Rob moving?
Did the ducks break him?

Speaker 1 (02:08:27):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (02:08:28):
Yeah, yeah they did, But didn't you also have some
climate There was a lot of stuff, uh that have
sort of helped in my wanting to move.

Speaker 3 (02:08:37):
But the uh, I'm not sure the ducks still live there.

Speaker 6 (02:08:42):
I'm serious that that storm that we had with like
the crazy high winds here, like sixty mile an hour gusts,
wouldn't that be ironic in the market I'm moving. The
goddamn ducks are gone.

Speaker 3 (02:08:51):
Massive storms and the ducks all get.

Speaker 6 (02:08:54):
But the type of people that did get to get
the ducks in the cul de Sac neighborhood are gonna
place the ducks with more ducks or something more annoying,
like that's just what they're gonna do. That's just who
these people are. Inconsiderate, you know what I mean. So
whether it's these ducks are more ducks, so you haven't
seen the ducks. No, And the big gigantic igloo looking

(02:09:14):
structure that they had is gone. They could be the
whole top of it's gone. So I'm where it blew
off and ended up. You know who knows where. So,
I don't know if the ducks. I hope nothing happened
to the ducks. I don't want to see anything happen
to animals. That's always been my thing. People just go
kill them, like I can't.

Speaker 3 (02:09:27):
Go kill the ducks. No, they're just annoying.

Speaker 6 (02:09:29):
Annoying to kill them, and I don't want anything to
happen to them. But I'm not sure that they made
it through the storm. They might be in the next county.

Speaker 3 (02:09:36):
They might be.

Speaker 6 (02:09:38):
In a nice pod somewhere. Yeah, that's the way I
like to think about it. Nothing happened to them. They
went to a farm.

Speaker 9 (02:09:42):
They're living on a farm, not not slammed against tree
trunks correct in high winds.

Speaker 3 (02:09:49):
Correct. Yeah, So I don't know.

Speaker 1 (02:09:51):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (02:09:52):
I don't know if the ducks still exist. I know
the chickens they have are still there, but I don't
know about the ducks.

Speaker 9 (02:09:58):
Yeah, well, I guess for what time remaining in that home.
It'd be nice if the ducks weren't there, right.

Speaker 3 (02:10:08):
It would be that's very much.

Speaker 1 (02:10:10):
So.

Speaker 3 (02:10:10):
Yeah, it's great for me with the showings, but.

Speaker 10 (02:10:28):
They quack old day.

Speaker 2 (02:10:32):
That sucks.

Speaker 1 (02:10:33):
He rob he sucks. Ain't quack can tell you that sucks.

Speaker 3 (02:10:39):
He said, Yo, my neighbors got ducks, they'd be quacking
O day. Don't think I had enough?

Speaker 1 (02:10:48):
And every time I see they.

Speaker 3 (02:10:50):
Be quacking out storm. Every time I leaves, I hear
the ducks going off.

Speaker 6 (02:10:58):
Okay, hey, hey, hold, I hear like a Donald duck
and live quack quack season, bitch.

Speaker 3 (02:11:04):
I mock dunc dynasy dunk dunk dunk goose move dunk
goosequ move.

Speaker 6 (02:11:21):
I have said this song to so many people, saying,
and people have planted their flag.

Speaker 9 (02:11:28):
Some people want nothing to do with the rap one.
Some people want nothing to do with the metal one.
They're both something funny. Hey Joshua, Hey.

Speaker 3 (02:11:36):
How's it going on with their represent Yeah? What's up?

Speaker 1 (02:11:42):
All right?

Speaker 18 (02:11:42):
So I actually used to work at a Nome grocery store.

Speaker 1 (02:11:45):
It's kind of a start for the charity thing they
give you.

Speaker 18 (02:11:48):
They give they give money already to the charities and
they're trying to make their money back.

Speaker 9 (02:11:53):
Yeah, they write it off. It's all for Texas. Oh,
I didn't realize that. Okay, Yeah, I don't know how
that works.

Speaker 18 (02:11:58):
It's been like at McDonald's and Burger they already paid
that they already gave them money to the cancer kid.
They just want their money back.

Speaker 9 (02:12:04):
Well wait, are you are you being charitable? And if
you're part of the punt, are you being generous and
saying that? The people who turn it down know that.
But because I've met a lot of people, don't people.

Speaker 18 (02:12:14):
Like metally they could just they could just be like, no,
screw those people.

Speaker 13 (02:12:18):
I have, you know, I have to save my two cents.

Speaker 18 (02:12:20):
But in reality, the story is just trying to make
their money back and that and and it's a psychological
thing too, because I h they're like, oh, yeah, you know,
donate to this kid he has one leg.

Speaker 10 (02:12:30):
You know, or you know, something like that.

Speaker 18 (02:12:32):
But they're just already donated to the kids.

Speaker 3 (02:12:34):
The kid's fine.

Speaker 18 (02:12:35):
I got just trying to make their money back. Like
what Rob said, they write it off. It's kind of
messed up.

Speaker 3 (02:12:38):
But welcome.

Speaker 9 (02:12:39):
Well, no, I listen, I would rather. I got no
problem with that. I mean, they've they've donated the money.
I mean, I don't blame them for trying to make
it back. That's better than yeah, okay, all right, good,
thank you, Josh.

Speaker 3 (02:12:49):
I didn't know that.

Speaker 6 (02:12:49):
What's your charity of choice? I donate the kids with
one leg, very very small, very niche charity.

Speaker 3 (02:12:56):
There you go, Terry, and.

Speaker 1 (02:13:01):
Hey, Hey, yeah, what's up?

Speaker 13 (02:13:04):
Hey, so you guys were you guys was talking about
that donating through the like the grocery stores and convenience stores. Yes, sir,
I don't do that, because you know, it would be
all right if they would put my name into a
list that you know, that shows where they got their
donations from.

Speaker 1 (02:13:22):
But they don't do that.

Speaker 13 (02:13:23):
They take all the credit for the donations, like they
saved that money, not they got it from people.

Speaker 3 (02:13:30):
Yeah, but I don't know that. I don't know that
one well, I don't know that. The point of charitable
donations is recognition. Terry, who cares?

Speaker 13 (02:13:39):
Well, I okay, for one I give. I have certain
donations I give to.

Speaker 3 (02:13:44):
Yeah, I don't give to every donation I find. Sure.

Speaker 13 (02:13:47):
And it's like I bought some jewelry for my girlfriend
for Christmas and through K's and I and and my
donation was part of what I bought. And they gave
a bunch of bears to I think.

Speaker 10 (02:14:00):
It was.

Speaker 13 (02:14:02):
The Shriners or something like a bunch of Teddy Bears.
I thought that was really cool. That was the second
time I did it. The one time I bought her
a ring through uh K's and I took a whole
big box of Teddy Bears down to Children's and Acron
and turned it into them. It was around Christmas time.

Speaker 1 (02:14:23):
But I mean it's it's not as much.

Speaker 13 (02:14:25):
I mean it's not recognition. But for one, you get
a tax break, so I need a receipt because I
want to show it on my taxes, you know. For
one and two, I don't.

Speaker 1 (02:14:36):
Like it recognition.

Speaker 3 (02:14:41):
No, I understand that. Thank you, Terry.

Speaker 9 (02:14:42):
I gotta move on, but I take your point there.
He doesn't want anybody else rob getting the recognition.

Speaker 4 (02:14:48):
He like this, Do.

Speaker 3 (02:14:50):
What names should we put on this donation? Is anonymous? Okay?
Absolutely not.

Speaker 1 (02:14:55):
My name.

Speaker 3 (02:14:56):
My name is Terry and I am from Akron and
these are from me. My name is Adam nonymous. If
you could just use my first initial there, that would
be dynamite. Well, thank you for the donations of Children's too.
That was nice of you, Terry. There you go, Thank you,
Terry Ellen Cox Show on one.

Speaker 5 (02:15:18):
Fun fact, celebrity deaths like testicles sometimes come in threes.

Speaker 7 (02:15:25):
The Allen Cock Show on one seven WMMS.

Speaker 9 (02:15:35):
Remember a handful of celebrity deaths while we were gone. Yeah,
Jude Lockhart died Or did I miss read that? She
was one to like the oldest people in Hollywood, right
Jude Lockhart?

Speaker 12 (02:15:49):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (02:15:49):
No, she died in October. Who am I thinking of?
I know, Isaiah Whitlock just died. Remember Isaiah Whitlock. He
was on the Wire. He's a guy to be like.

Speaker 3 (02:15:58):
Yes, he was that guy I mentioned before.

Speaker 9 (02:16:01):
One of my comfort food shows is Veep with Julia
Louis Dreyfuss, and he was on a couple of seasons
so that he played this really dopey I think he
was Secretary of Defense, you know, or a life imitates
aren't a really really dopey secretary of Defense? So most
famous for those, but he was also in for anybody

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who watched that show Your Honor with Brian Cranston. He
was a friend of his on that seventy one. I
think they found him dead in his apartment or died
in his sleep or something. But he played Clay Davis
on the Wire back in the day, and I think
that was the role that he was most associated with,

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was that one played the hell out of it too.
But his manager had posted that he had died. He
was in a lot of the Spike Lee movies. He
collaborated with Spike Lee a lot a Spike Lee joint,
A Spike Lee joint. Isaiah Whitlock Jr. From South Bend, Indiana?
Is that Purdue or Notre Dame?

Speaker 3 (02:17:04):
South Bend is Notre Dame? Okay?

Speaker 9 (02:17:06):
Where's Purdue? My wife went to IU, so I know
where that is. But Purdue is That's a good question.
I don't know, more like per don't Indiana University? Of
course Rose Bowl champions. Purdue is in West Lafayette, Indiana.
I should know these things since I grew up one

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state over. But then I think about it, rob and
I go, who gives a fat frog's ass? Yeah, I
couldn't care less. I didn't go to any of those schools.
So Isaiah Whitlock Junior passed away. He was in Good
Fellas is in Chappelle's show. I mean he was a
guy that even if he didn't know his name, people
immediately recognized the faith. Tommy Lee Jones' daughter died of

(02:17:53):
an overdose.

Speaker 3 (02:17:55):
She died. I didn't know what it was.

Speaker 9 (02:17:56):
Well, they she had a history of substance abuse, they
found her dead in the hallway of a hotel or something.
So yeah, but he only had two kids. He had
a son and a daughter. His daughter's gone, she's young.
And then a guy that maybe people might not remember.

(02:18:18):
First of all, our condolences to our buddy Charlie Yeah
at RMG, whose father passed away over the break.

Speaker 3 (02:18:24):
Yep.

Speaker 9 (02:18:26):
He joins Rob and I and Mary Santora in the
Dead Dad Club club anybody wants to be part of.
I was kind of chatting with him briefly this morning,
So very very sad for him. But a guy named
John mulrooney died. This guy was a comedian from Albany

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and he had done the rounds on some television shows.
In a very short lived he filled in for Joan Rivers.
Remember when Joan Rivers did a show. Fox was trying
to get late night television going in the eighties. Johnny
Carson ruled everything. Everyone watched Johnny Carson. But all these

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other networks for trying to get late night going. For
a while they wanted nothing to do with it because
they're like, why the hell are we gonna try to
go up against Johnny Carson. But late eighties, early nineties,
kind of shortly before he retired, they started to see
some cracks in the armor and they're like, well, that
might be a good time. ABC had Nightline, NBC had

(02:19:32):
Letterman at twelve thirty, and Joan Rivers, who had filled
in for Johnny Carson on a number of occasions. Fox
comes to her and goes, we'd like you to give
you your own late night show, and Johnny Carson never
talked to her again because he thought that.

Speaker 3 (02:19:50):
It was a betrayal.

Speaker 9 (02:19:52):
These are all like well known stories among you know,
if you're a talk show nerd like I am or whatever,
you know this stuff, right. So this guy, John mulrooney,
filled in after Joan Rivers was fired over at Fox.
And then people might remember that Pat Say Jack had

(02:20:14):
a talk show when CBS was trying to figure out
what to do in late night, and John mulrooney filled
in on that show. And he made the rounds of
a lot of television shows in the eighties. But he
was also in radio and he was part of a
very short lived morning show here at WMMS.

Speaker 6 (02:20:36):
It was called Wolf and Mulroney. Anybody you remember this,
I think they all were at that point.

Speaker 9 (02:20:40):
I was going to say in the early two thousands,
WMMS was in a very fallow period, right, They really
weren't quite sure what to do with the station. With
the morning show, it was all pre Rover obviously really
didn't know. Like so like post Brian and Joe post
Ed and Lash pre Rover, a friend of mine, did

(02:21:04):
mornings here for like nine months.

Speaker 3 (02:21:08):
I feel like they had Liz Wild on here doing more.

Speaker 9 (02:21:11):
Ever, Liz Wild, Jesus and all the My buddy Tom
mcgalis in Pittsburgh. He had a short lived morning show
here at MMS. All these shows literally if one of
them lasted a year, they were killing it.

Speaker 3 (02:21:23):
I think they ended up just plugging in Bob and
Tom and saying screw it. Yeah, nothing was work. Who
nothing was working.

Speaker 9 (02:21:29):
But they did Waking Up with the Wolf for Wolf
and mulroney or something like that. And these were two
guys that were like, well, we're we're in Albany and
we're gonna stay in Albany. We're going to beam the
show to Cleveland. But somebody was like, that ain't gonna work,
so they came to Cleveland. They moved the show to Cleveland,

(02:21:52):
but those two guys hated each other's guts, and so
it didn't last very long. And months after they came
to Cleveland, and I don't think anybody was paying attention
to that show anyway. They weren't on long enough to
like really get their sea legs. And so that's what
I remember John mulroney from I vaguely remember him as
a comedian. I remember the face, and he was from

(02:22:17):
New York, but he wasn't old. He was sixty seven.
They said he died died six six seven. He died
suddenly in his home, jeez, outside Albany, in a town
called Cocksacky, Cocksacky, New York, Kaksiki.

Speaker 3 (02:22:38):
So when I saw that, I was like, oh my god.

Speaker 9 (02:22:40):
John mulroney was on the buzzard back in the day
for literally a couple of months, a few months.

Speaker 3 (02:22:48):
Everybody that ever did a morning show had this morning show.

Speaker 15 (02:22:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:22:51):
Oh, it was that they went through a ton.

Speaker 9 (02:22:55):
Because back that you like, late nineties, early aughts, even
late eight the thought was, hey, we'll get a guy
who knows radio and we'll just throw a comedian on
with him. Yep, that's what every morning show was. And
that's what this was too, except people forget comedian stando
comedian is a late night job. They don't want to
be getting up in the morning to do this, but

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a lot of them did it, you know, because the
radio station would throw them a bag of money or
something say we need somebody funny, which says more about
the radio hosts themselves. There were a lot of unfunny
radio hosts, so they're like, well, you need to have
a funny guy in there with you. But yeah, job
for anybody who goes far enough back with WMMS and

(02:23:40):
might remember that show John mulroney, I don't remember what
the other guy's name was.

Speaker 3 (02:23:45):
It was Wolf and mulroney and they were on.

Speaker 9 (02:23:50):
WMMS probably ninety nine two thousand Morning Zoo. I don't
even know what the show sounded like.

Speaker 3 (02:23:57):
I don't know what it was.

Speaker 9 (02:23:58):
I just remember that being part of that revolving door
of morning shows here twenty five years now.

Speaker 6 (02:24:05):
That seemed to be the theme of what they were
trying to do though, like guys that weren't going to
make a lot of noise. They were just gonna be
funny and have some you know, like big goofy. That
was sort of what I would imagine that show was.

Speaker 9 (02:24:17):
I guess, so John mulroney he was. He became a
police officer for his local department. At fifty two, he
joined the Cocksacky Police Department Rob the CPD.

Speaker 3 (02:24:36):
So rip.

Speaker 9 (02:24:37):
John mulroney never a man that I met, but one
of a number of people who you know, kind of
had a couple of career pivots.

Speaker 3 (02:24:45):
But a buzzard nonetheless. But that's what I'm saying. He
is part of the history of this radio stage. We
are all buzzy.

Speaker 9 (02:24:52):
I'll be a short lift right when they have like
their mount Rushmore of buzzard ra radio shows, they'll have
Jeff and Flash, they'll have Rover.

Speaker 3 (02:25:07):
And the rest of us will be footnotes. They'll have
Brian and Joe. And for this day, hey listen, I
ran into it once a year.

Speaker 9 (02:25:17):
I am sure to see Brian Fowler because he is
part of like a Bay Village Halloween thing that my
kid walks through. And I'll chat with him and Brian
Fowler to this day. And I know that those guys
very very popular. So it's nothing that's all that earth shattering.
But I've said it before, Brian Fowler remains the most
underrated radio personality that's ever been on the air in Cleveland, Ohio.

(02:25:42):
And there's a lot of good people who've come through,
and those guys were wildly popular. So it might sound
silly for me to say that he was underrated. I'm
saying that whatever accolades Brian Fowler got, he did not
get enough wow because he was and I don't even
their show was kind of wacky because that was just.

Speaker 3 (02:26:01):
The nature of the day, Brian and Joe. But well,
how long were they on here? They were on a
long time, but they bounced around.

Speaker 9 (02:26:09):
They were on the old alternative station back in the day,
and I think MMS brought him over from that and
they were a big.

Speaker 3 (02:26:13):
Big deal. And then they were on what is the
Lake now?

Speaker 1 (02:26:15):
Right?

Speaker 3 (02:26:15):
They were when I first came to Cleveland.

Speaker 9 (02:26:17):
It was Mix one oh six five, And then Brian
and our friendly Anne yep did a morning show at
gar and so you know, I think Joe Cronawer does television.
But and again, I don't know what Brian Fowler does
in retirement, but I will see him once a year
and we'll catch up quickly and then, you know, but
Brian Fowler remains one of the funniest people I've met.

Speaker 6 (02:26:38):
In this business, and I was in no way saying
he's not funny. I was just saying, I don't know
that you put them on that mount rushmore of mms.

Speaker 9 (02:26:47):
I mean, I think I think they're really closely associated.
There's like eras Jeff and Flash obviously for the old timers. Yeah,
I think that that. You know, people are saying the
day Roth was on, I don't think so. David ly
Roth was on some of those CBS stations. I think
because I was on opposite him in Pittsburgh. David Lee

(02:27:10):
Roth on the air, never met the man in person,
but he would go on the air because I guess
you had to. He thought you had to make fun
of the competition, even though he didn't know what he
was doing.

Speaker 3 (02:27:20):
And I did.

Speaker 9 (02:27:22):
And they were scrambling for Howard Stern replacements. And so
David Lee Roth was on opposite me for a little
bit in Pittsburgh when I transition to mornings, and he
was like given a guy a hard time he'd never met,
which was me. And I didn't say anything about it
because I was like, this isn't gonna last long.

Speaker 3 (02:27:42):
Anyway for him. And it didn't. Well, you knew, I mean,
and then.

Speaker 9 (02:27:45):
His manager hit me up like three months later. I
was like, can Dave come on and promote his book?

Speaker 3 (02:27:49):
Did you leave him on? Of course is David Lee Roth.
I had him on the phone. I'm like, this guy
doesn't know.

Speaker 9 (02:27:55):
They're putting a piece of paper in front of him
and go here are the other morning shows.

Speaker 3 (02:27:59):
You're up again.

Speaker 9 (02:28:00):
It's a Bitsburgh, Alan Cox, h Randy and Jim Crann
at the time.

Speaker 3 (02:28:07):
You know who else?

Speaker 9 (02:28:10):
I don't know, Bubba And he's like, okay, yeah, Allan
Cox sucks. Yeah, but Dave, you're a fan of me
now right. See he's come around. Bro.

Speaker 10 (02:28:25):
It feels terrible about it. Oh, I'm glad you guys
are friends. I'm sorry, I'm glad you guys are friends now.

Speaker 3 (02:28:40):
Yeah, me and Diamond Dave anyway.

Speaker 9 (02:28:46):
Mulroney, John mulroney dead at sixty seven. For people who
might remember that guy, I got more Brian.

Speaker 3 (02:28:54):
I'm always happy for Brian.

Speaker 9 (02:28:56):
You're gonna know the song. This is just an excuse
for me to actually play part of the real song.

Speaker 1 (02:29:01):
But you'll know the song alone has this thing goal
And I said, long has this thing goal.

Speaker 3 (02:29:11):
And you know that song and everybody knows that song Ace. Yes,
I bet Jess knows that song.

Speaker 9 (02:29:18):
I know a band called Ace. They had one big hit.
It was called how Long You'll Find? It in a
lot of your like yacht rock playlists and stuff, even
though I don't think it's yacht rock, but it was.

Speaker 3 (02:29:28):
Very indicative of like that time.

Speaker 9 (02:29:30):
But Paul Carrick is the guy who sang that song,
and he's got an amazing voice.

Speaker 3 (02:29:36):
He was with Squeeze for a while. He was with
remember Mike and the Mechanics yep.

Speaker 9 (02:29:42):
In the eighties, one of the guys from Genesis did
a side project called Mike and the Mechanics and Paul
Carrick was the singer. They had a couple of big hits,
but just an amazing singer. Love Paul Carroll living years
pressing song yep. But he's the guy that sang Tempted
with Squeeze. He sang, what was the other big mic

(02:30:03):
in the Mechanics say they had a silent running.

Speaker 3 (02:30:05):
The big it was?

Speaker 1 (02:30:06):
It was?

Speaker 6 (02:30:07):
And uh oh that where was the other big one?
Silent running on christ No, no, no, no, it's over
my shoulder, hold on, I gotta look it up. He
also sang when Roger Waters did Radio Chaos. He sang
on that anyway, got a great voice. Brian is not
doing it justice a long.

Speaker 1 (02:30:29):
Tongue though, and said long has this same.

Speaker 6 (02:30:38):
Friends with Fancy was so god damn going man rock baby.

Speaker 3 (02:30:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (02:30:49):
Paul Carrick from Sheffie Old England seventy four, that's he's
still second big and he's written a lot of songs

(02:31:09):
for other people he's toured with, like Roxy Music and
Ring a Star and nineteen solo.

Speaker 3 (02:31:17):
Albums Jesus Christ. But I love Paul Carrott.

Speaker 9 (02:31:22):
The BBC was like, if if vocal talent equal to
financial success, Paul Carrick would be bigger than Phil Collins
or Elton John love that voice.

Speaker 3 (02:31:30):
All I need is a miracle is the other Michael.
That was the other big big.

Speaker 9 (02:31:35):
All I need is a miracle, All I need is
you is right. It was Mike Rutherford from Genesis yep.
And it was when Genesis would go on hiatus or
when Phil Collins would do you know his stuff, it
would be Mike Rutherford.

Speaker 3 (02:31:53):
And uh yeah, Paul Carrick, Burt do it. He did.
He did. That's the that's the burpre That was like
a he can't burp.

Speaker 4 (02:32:06):
No, we did.

Speaker 6 (02:32:07):
We did the sprite challenge on this show and he
did not burp. No, I'm having huge farce.

Speaker 3 (02:32:12):
The spike challenge made me far interesting came out.

Speaker 10 (02:32:16):
Wait was it the challenge where you eat the banana
and then you chugged the sprite.

Speaker 3 (02:32:19):
It was justice, No, just the sprite. You chug a sprite.

Speaker 9 (02:32:21):
We were like a two years late on it, but
we have never done it, and I was it was
to underscore the fact that I cannot burp, and so
even under those high pressure literally conditions came out the back.

Speaker 3 (02:32:33):
I couldn't believe you didn't burn. That was just hurt.

Speaker 10 (02:32:39):
So I did the challenge. I mean when I was
like twelve, we ate a bunch of bananas and then
you're supposed to chug a sprite.

Speaker 3 (02:32:45):
Why the bananas?

Speaker 10 (02:32:46):
I don't remember. Oh, I think you were supposed to
throw up or burp or something. But it's just really bad.
The banana sprite challenge.

Speaker 9 (02:32:56):
Yeah, a trend where people eat bananas and drink sprite,
often resulting in vomiting due to the stomach overfilling a
pressure of carbonation. Well that the same of the people
are like chugging milk. There's only so much milk you
can drink, right, Milk is so gross?

Speaker 3 (02:33:08):
I love milk.

Speaker 9 (02:33:09):
I only have it with cereal, so I had I
probably had more milk over our vacation than I've had
the remainder of the year because I only have milk
with ceap.

Speaker 3 (02:33:18):
So can you just physically not consume that much milk
or do you just get sick? I don't think that
the human body. I think that's what I mean. Yeah,
you're supposed to.

Speaker 6 (02:33:25):
I know you're not supposed to. But like, I like milk,
so I could I could drink a gallon of water
in a day, like I would assume you could drink a.

Speaker 3 (02:33:34):
Gallon of milk. Just drink a straight up glass of
milk right now? Yeah? I love milk, oh a glass?

Speaker 9 (02:33:39):
Yeah, I'm talking about Like, I don't think you can
straight drink a gallon of milk?

Speaker 10 (02:33:44):
Well do?

Speaker 6 (02:33:44):
I guess it would come down like the rules that
the rules, I think is what it is like if
you have to drink it in a certain amount of time.

Speaker 3 (02:33:51):
And I think that that's where the problem.

Speaker 9 (02:33:53):
Leads to vomiting, because it overloads the stomach and causes
severe digestive issues like gas floating in diarrhea.

Speaker 10 (02:33:59):
Yeah, none of us threw up. We're just I remember,
our stomach's hurting so bad.

Speaker 9 (02:34:04):
Oh so, then it's basically just because you're drinking a
gallon of not necessarily so it's.

Speaker 6 (02:34:09):
Not even necessarily what you're drinking, it's just that you're
drinking a gallon of something.

Speaker 9 (02:34:13):
There's a lot of lactose and fat info too, so
that probably contributes to that.

Speaker 3 (02:34:18):
Well, you know.

Speaker 9 (02:34:20):
How we like to ratchet it up here at the
Allan Cox Show. Rob so, Rob and I next week
will be butt chugging gallons of milk.

Speaker 10 (02:34:26):
That's right, perfect, I'll stop them deep and get the
funnels and some cowpas. Oh no, no funnels needed. Oh yeah,
that's right. Headstand baby, The Allen Cox Show. One call

(02:34:48):
the Allan Cox Show. Everybody chat with me. No one
be weird to Alan.

Speaker 3 (02:34:53):
No one weird.

Speaker 12 (02:34:58):
One Double O seven hundred three four eighty one Double
O seven.

Speaker 9 (02:35:14):
Cavaliers lose last night to Detroit. Pistons are Real Good
one fourteen one ten is the final calves off tonight,
but tomorrow night they will be in Indianapolis playing the
Pacers at seven o'clock six thirty pre game coverage after
we roll out, and then Calves timber Wolves in Minnesota,

(02:35:35):
Kevin Love the Middlisola Timberwolves Thursday night, eight o'clock on
w MMS, and then the timber.

Speaker 3 (02:35:44):
Wolves come here.

Speaker 9 (02:35:44):
They take a night off, but basically back to back
games of those two teams, UH Saturday afternoon t Wolves
and Calves.

Speaker 3 (02:35:54):
And plenty of basketball still to be played.

Speaker 10 (02:35:59):
In the the.

Speaker 9 (02:36:02):
Iracket Arena. So Tomorrow night, seven o'clock is going to
be your tip off on MMS and on the iHeartRadio app.
You can listen there as well. Somebody sent me in
an article you know, I've talked about this years ago
that I had sent. I had a comic book collection,

(02:36:22):
and I sold off the bulk of it, but I
had removed the high ticket items what I knew were
going to be high value comics. There were thirteen of them.
Now I only sent thirteen. That wasn't the entirety of
the high value issues that I had. But this collection

(02:36:45):
that I had amassed, it was an entire collection of
first issues. Now, the bulk of them were not really
worth that much, so I sold them to one individual.
I think he paid me a grand for my comic
book collection. But I held back probably about thirty titles

(02:37:06):
that I knew were going to be high value, and
thirteen of them I had sent off to be graded
by this company in Tampa and then a hurricane went
through and they blamed the hurricane. When I followed up
with them and they told me that they could not
find those thirteen.

Speaker 3 (02:37:25):
What kind of comic books there were?

Speaker 9 (02:37:27):
Some from the sixties, There were some black of whites
like Spider Man, There was a Hulk in there, there
was an original Eastman and laired teenage mutant Ninja Turtle, which,
if you know your comic books, you just puckered. Yeah,
because there were about a baker's dozen of them that
this company lost and they are basically the main company

(02:37:50):
down there in Tampa that grades comics. And they try
to tell me, oh, we never got them, and I said, well,
unfortunately for you, I have an email receipt saying that
you did, that they were scanned and they're in your warehouse.
They blamed the hurricane. Nothing ever came of it. I
was never able to get a straight answer from them.

(02:38:10):
They were just like, well, we can't find them. Sorry,
get back to us. After we were doing a lot
of hurricane clean up down here this three or four
years ago. So wherever those are, they're not in my possession.
So you still have some I have, Yeah, I probably
have about twenty five. But again it comes down to

(02:38:33):
this thing where I'm like, well, I'm not going to
send these off to get graded by these guys. Because
even if you get your comics graded, and again there's
a company that tells you what. They give it a
grade between one and ten based on the condition it's in,
to say it's worth the conditions in. Yeah, So like

(02:38:53):
if you have like a rare issue of something and
it's graded at like a nine point six, theoretically it
would be worth thousands of dollars. Right now, I say theoretically,
because it doesn't matter how much something's worth if nobody's buying,
it doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 (02:39:08):
Right, things are only worth what somebody's willing to pay
for them.

Speaker 10 (02:39:10):
But I'm guessing you keep yours in the plastic.

Speaker 9 (02:39:13):
Mine have been backed and bagged and boxed for forty
plus years. Interesting, and so when I took these out,
I mean they were you know, there were a comics
that had probably never been read.

Speaker 3 (02:39:26):
So no cracking on the spine, no nothing.

Speaker 9 (02:39:28):
They had been sitting in a box, moisture free for decades,
and I finally pulled them out a few years ago.
I'm like, well, I may get somebody's great blah blah blah.
We'll see and then you put them on eBay or whatever.
You can do that without the grade, but it's you
get what you get. So I was unable to find

(02:39:50):
a small claims attorney that would take it on because
I was like, I'd really like to sue these guys
or something.

Speaker 3 (02:39:57):
Blah blah blah, nothing. Nobody was interested in it.

Speaker 9 (02:40:00):
I could never get any kind of explanation from the
company down there in Tampa. Anyway, long winded a way
to get to somebody sending me what we all kind
of know for people, irrespective of what you collect, that
this guy wrote this big, long thing about how his
comic book collection was worthless, comic books that he had

(02:40:24):
held on to for a long time, And everybody has
something along those lines, like your mom or older generations
would hold on to things and go, these are gonna
be worth something someday.

Speaker 10 (02:40:37):
Beanie baby collection, Well a lot of those were worth
you know what I mean, Like, I think that was
worth something, and me and my sisters we got into
the box and like ripped all the tags off and
played with them.

Speaker 3 (02:40:49):
She was not happy.

Speaker 9 (02:40:50):
I mean, the only person who ever got really rich
off beanie babies was really the guy who invented beanie babies.
But it kind of this article this person's me really
kind of echoed my thoughts on the subject, because I
started collecting comic books when I was, you know, ten
years old, and this person was like, yeah, I've I've

(02:41:13):
kept them just as I described mine. I've kept them
in bags and boards and boxes and you know, a
couple hundred pounds of comics, thinking that if you waited
decades down the line, this already thinks, Oh you get
this forty or fifty years, they're going to be worth
tens of thousands of dollars. Now, if you get them graded,

(02:41:35):
they might underside, who knows. The person who was writing
about this was like, yeah, my entire collection is worth
about three thousand dollars.

Speaker 3 (02:41:43):
That ain't much.

Speaker 9 (02:41:45):
And so you know, my generation jen X were very
much the last people to care about paper comic books,
right but back in the day, if you were taking
care of them, and then you'll hear about somebody who
found some comics in their basement.

Speaker 3 (02:42:05):
And they're worth, you know, fifty thousand dollars. Right, You'll
always hear a story like that.

Speaker 9 (02:42:08):
Oh, this woman in Wisconsin was cleaning out her garage
and she had an original.

Speaker 3 (02:42:13):
Superman from nineteen thirty six. Oh, i'd i'd just been
in a box there there was ever a dirty Riki cards?

Speaker 10 (02:42:20):
Right?

Speaker 3 (02:42:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (02:42:23):
Now do you have you just basically given into the
fact that they're gone, like you're not gonna do anything
about it.

Speaker 3 (02:42:28):
You're just what am I gonna do? I don't know, man,
they told me that, aren't that goddamn place to the same.
I mean, it is not A day goes by and
I don't think about it.

Speaker 6 (02:42:37):
But what am I gonna do? And they just say
we never got it? And you say, here's a receipt
that says you did, and they say, no, we.

Speaker 3 (02:42:44):
Didn't get can't find it in our warehouse. Well, then
they should replace the comics. You can't. How are you
going to replace the comics I sent them?

Speaker 6 (02:42:51):
Because it does it list? Well, here's here's their Yeah,
of course here should be an insured value.

Speaker 9 (02:42:57):
But here's the circular logic, because what they said to me, was,
we'd be happy to reimburse you if you could give
us the value of the comics. I said, that's why
I sent them to you to get graded. Oh my god,
I'll tell you what I think. I think they're worth
thirteen thousand dollars. How about that come in check for
thirty Each one of those is probably worth a grand apiece.

Speaker 6 (02:43:18):
But they could probably give you an estimated value. Even
if they went on the low side. If they gave
you a third of it, it's still better than nothing.

Speaker 9 (02:43:25):
Yeah, but I could find And again, if you're looking
at screen grabs on comic book pricing sites, you can
see five that look the same, but their value varies
wildly because you know what the condition they're in.

Speaker 3 (02:43:38):
So what am I going to do? I don't know, man,
some kind of closure.

Speaker 10 (02:43:45):
Sometimes there just isn't. Sometimes he has them in his
possession of their laughing.

Speaker 9 (02:43:49):
They have them, or yeah, oh that who has them,
or they were ruined in the hurricane, but the fact
still remains they had them.

Speaker 1 (02:43:58):
And so.

Speaker 3 (02:44:00):
I'm slightly.

Speaker 9 (02:44:04):
Heartened when I was reading this thing where the guy's like, yeah,
they're not worth anything now mine.

Speaker 3 (02:44:10):
Knowing what I know about the ones I sent them.

Speaker 9 (02:44:12):
I'm almost certain that the one that the thirteen issues
I sent them would be worth a few thousand dollars.

Speaker 3 (02:44:19):
But yeah, sometimes there's no resolution to something.

Speaker 9 (02:44:22):
Bad luck a hurricane went through and they use that
as who knows how many people they use that as
an excuse for I don't know, And it wasn't like
I was, you know.

Speaker 3 (02:44:33):
Combing the websites to see if they popped up, because
I don't know what's mine. I don't know. I have boxes,
boxes of crap.

Speaker 6 (02:44:41):
When you talk about like that, yeah, we'll hang on
to this, right, just like signed baseballs and things that
I collected on a baseball cards And I look and
I'm like, well, what's this worth?

Speaker 3 (02:44:51):
It's worth what someone's gonna pay for it? Like you said, right,
got hockey sticks, audigre?

Speaker 1 (02:44:57):
What am I?

Speaker 6 (02:44:59):
What do I do with this stuff? I don't want
to move it again. I can't get rid of it.
No one wants it, no one's gonna buy it.

Speaker 9 (02:45:05):
I could walk these remaining issues into a comic book store,
but it would be like less value.

Speaker 3 (02:45:12):
Well, they're not gonna give you what they think they're worth.
They're going to give you what they.

Speaker 9 (02:45:15):
Want to give you what's the meme about pawn stars?
This is worth sixty five thousand dollars. The best I
can do is five hundred bucks. I gotta make money too,
Rick Harrison. So you know, take your pick over what
you or your parents when you were, Oh, this is
an investment.

Speaker 3 (02:45:34):
These beautie babies are gonna pay for college.

Speaker 9 (02:45:37):
There was a part of me because I obviously I
read comics before I started officially collecting comics, and once
I started collecting them, I decided my entire collection was
going to be first issues.

Speaker 3 (02:45:48):
Now, there are a ton of first issue.

Speaker 9 (02:45:50):
Comics that aren't worth anything, and there are a lot
based on the subject matter or the comic or the
character or whatever. It gets really really nerdy. I'm not
going to delve into that, but you know what I'm saying.
You know, the issue one thirty six of a particular
title might be worth more than any of them because
it's the first appearance of fill in the blank.

Speaker 3 (02:46:09):
Sure, right, here's the first Deadpool, here's.

Speaker 9 (02:46:11):
The first you know, Batman showed up in Detective comics
before it ever showed up in his own title.

Speaker 3 (02:46:17):
That kind of thing.

Speaker 9 (02:46:20):
But yeah, this person was lamenting the fact that their
long time, you know, this collection they had held on
to was virtually worthless.

Speaker 3 (02:46:30):
Go outside, nerve, get out, Go hey, Brian, what's up
are you?

Speaker 1 (02:46:37):
Hey?

Speaker 3 (02:46:38):
I'm all right. You know, I'm just listening to your stories.

Speaker 16 (02:46:41):
I'm driving around. Well I shouldn't do that, but look,
you know, I've just gotten into collecting points and so
as you know you're making that point about you know,
as all subjective and everything, but I also today just
got out of court and realized how important paper trails are.

Speaker 3 (02:46:56):
So since you said that you can trace that back
if you can find something that would like.

Speaker 16 (02:47:02):
Validate that through the mail, either insurance or whatever, that
they would accept the value of the insurance amount. That
would then indicate not only possession, but the willingness.

Speaker 10 (02:47:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (02:47:16):
Now, listen, Brian, I went down these paths four years
ago at the time at the time I have.

Speaker 3 (02:47:23):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (02:47:24):
I listen.

Speaker 3 (02:47:24):
I appreciate the thought.

Speaker 9 (02:47:25):
I'm always open to people's ideas, but it's kind of
like it it's on a side out of mind. At
this point, four years later, all I have is an
email that says they were received. That should be enough, Well,
it should be provided provided that the people at the
other end, recognize it. If somebody sent me an email

(02:47:45):
said hey, here's a receipt from something I sent to you,
and I just wrote them back and go, I don't
have it.

Speaker 3 (02:47:53):
Well it says you scanned it in Yeah, but I
don't have it. I can't find it.

Speaker 6 (02:47:56):
Yeah, but that's but again, the email confirms they had it.
Whether they currently have it or they don't is irrelevant.
Well you should be able to take that email into
there and be like, look, bitch.

Speaker 9 (02:48:05):
But it's really right. But it's relevant. But they already
had that. They saw the email. I go, well, what's
this then, and they said nothing. Well they go, oh,
we had a hurricane come through. It must get cool,
So then let their insurance pay for it. Like there's
got to be something about that. I mean, man, that's
why I was trying to find lawyers. Had a couple
of listeners at the time, and the initial explanation of

(02:48:29):
this whole thing a couple of listeners at the time, Hey,
I work for a lawyer.

Speaker 3 (02:48:33):
The small claims.

Speaker 9 (02:48:34):
I mean, you got to find somebody who's licensed to
practice in Ohio and Florida.

Speaker 3 (02:48:37):
But you know, and I would wrote a couple of
these people. Hey, here's my situation.

Speaker 9 (02:48:41):
I don't think I'm too far afield to think that
there's something that could be done here.

Speaker 3 (02:48:45):
To remedy this.

Speaker 9 (02:48:46):
Nothing that's crazy, So, you know whatever, I've resigned myself
to the.

Speaker 3 (02:48:52):
Fact that it's just gone. It's just gone.

Speaker 10 (02:48:54):
There's no resolution for maybe one not everything on your porch,
not everything.

Speaker 3 (02:48:59):
I mean, listen, nobody thinks slice fair. It sucks, really sucks.

Speaker 9 (02:49:05):
But this person who wrote this thing up like, yeah,
I've been hanging on things.

Speaker 10 (02:49:14):
You know.

Speaker 9 (02:49:14):
When that dude talks about coins, coins are already money,
you know what I mean, right, Coins have an intrinsic
store of value. I'm talking about bitcoin and Ponzi schemes.
Online coins, you know, have an inherent store of value.
Comic books, things like that Beanie Babies. They're only worth
what somebody's willing to pay for art, art, real estate.

(02:49:39):
Those are great ways to launder money, you know. The
art world is basically your main mechanism of laundering money
in real estate too. But you know, all of my kids,
at some point or another had binders full of Pokemon cards,
except so did every other kid on the planet.

Speaker 3 (02:50:01):
So it's not like those are rich some of those
are worth a fortune though. Yeah, you know when.

Speaker 9 (02:50:05):
People are like, oh, you get them graded next time
the comic con comes through, I'm like, I could, but
I'm not going to stand there in line with a
bunch of dudes dressed like Wolverine, you know, for a
guy to table to tell me that I'm worth it.

Speaker 6 (02:50:21):
And you're standing there and a hurricane comes through, it
takes all the list of comics away.

Speaker 10 (02:50:26):
Yeah, better safe in that box.

Speaker 9 (02:50:29):
Yeah, gotten ball says I single handedly got him back
into comics. I don't know, maybe because of I'm still
waiting for the next season of Moonnight. I wonder if
they're gonna do another Moonnight season with Oscar Isaac.

Speaker 3 (02:50:42):
That was great Disney.

Speaker 9 (02:50:43):
That was one of my favorite characters that most people
didn't remember or know it all was Moonnight Love Moonnight.
Ethan hit us up, I have a receipt from you
saying that you guys got my rolex last week.

Speaker 3 (02:51:00):
Don't have it?

Speaker 9 (02:51:00):
No, I haven't seen it, have not seen it, he said,
I'm sorry, pell sorry Tim Disney again, that's not his thing,
you know what I mean? Like, Misney's not gonna be Yeah,
let me chase down a comic book grading company.

Speaker 3 (02:51:20):
I wouldn't. I wouldn't waste the guy's time on that.
I I had been at the time.

Speaker 9 (02:51:26):
I had followed up with a couple of people who
had pointed me in the direction of somebody who dealt
with that kind of thing, because that basically most of
small claims.

Speaker 10 (02:51:35):
And they're like, no, they didn't even say no, I
didn't hear anything. Hey, Willy, where's it going?

Speaker 3 (02:51:43):
Man?

Speaker 17 (02:51:44):
Hey, I just wanted to call it because I was
confusing what you said about. I mean, I know you
kind of avoided saying the company's name. Can I just
say the company's name?

Speaker 9 (02:51:52):
Well, they're the only company, the Comics Grading Company or CGC,
I think is the company?

Speaker 17 (02:51:57):
Yeah, CGC. Well there's another one that's a lesser no one.
They're not as highly regarded. So if you haven't graded
by them, it's still worth something, but not as much
as CGC. But yeah, by me and my coworker. We
both collect comics, and there was that happened to it.
I believe it happened to him or somebody knows as well.
That they sent it into Florida and they just said tough,
they weren't going to give you your money back. But

(02:52:18):
there was another scam that was going on with them
as well, where they were sending in people were sending
in comics and they were receiving lower grades than what
they thought. Like, say, for instance, they had a comic
that they thought was at least like a nine point
six and they ended up getting like a nine grade,
and they're like, wait a minute, this doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 3 (02:52:35):
It's in pristine order.

Speaker 17 (02:52:37):
Sorry, everyone who doesn't understand is listening. But they what
was happening was there were people who worked for them
were taking the comics and switching of around and taking
the ones that were worth more and bringing back the
graded ones that were that weren't.

Speaker 9 (02:52:51):
As of course, that's why I'm not going to spend,
you know, five years tracking this stuff down, because there's
all kinds of scams and sticky fingers that are at
the very least, if not probable, they're possible.

Speaker 3 (02:53:06):
And so I just got to go, hey, man, you
win semmy loose. I lost that one.

Speaker 17 (02:53:12):
Can I give a suggestion to to anybody listening who's
thinking about doing this, If you're going to create something
and you're worried about this happening, find the local comic
book shop near you or somewhere in the area who
has somebody who can do somewhat grating and they can
send them in, so at least you have a go between.
They might charge a little bit just to send them in,

(02:53:33):
but at least you can have some kind of assurance
that you'll get something back or somebody's going to be
responsible for it, for it.

Speaker 3 (02:53:39):
Excuse me, Yeah, but thank you.

Speaker 17 (02:53:41):
Will, Oh, no problem, you have a god.

Speaker 3 (02:53:43):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (02:53:44):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (02:53:44):
I already have a good one. Thank you all. Will
in harm get out, go go outside, Nerve, get out go.
That's for me and Will. Yeah, we're in the same boat.

Speaker 6 (02:53:57):
He's like sorry if you you all aren't getting that,
I'm like, ah, he's glazed.

Speaker 9 (02:54:01):
Over, but wow side nerve, get out, go cough medicines
kicking in. The timing's impeccable, right, Yeah, Okay, thanks guys,
good to be back. We'll talk to again tomorrow. Our
buddy Greg Fitzsimmons is going to be back in the
room on Thursday. We're big fans of him and he's

(02:54:22):
a big fan of doing this show. So it's kismet
as there were. He's doing the weekend at hilarities, Rob,
how can people.

Speaker 1 (02:54:30):
Hit you up?

Speaker 6 (02:54:30):
Wmms Rob on Instagram, Jess w mms just Jess on Instagram.

Speaker 9 (02:54:37):
All righty, hi Alan Cox show on your socials. By
the way, just a quick aside, thank you to everyone
this year who ordered cameos from me. I heard Stansbury
talking about cameo. I don't know something's going on with them,
or Rick Flair did a cameo that I think that
went viral because he was hammered or something. But I

(02:55:00):
had a lot of people order cameos from me in
twenty twenty five, and I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (02:55:04):
They're fun to do. They're just fun to do.

Speaker 6 (02:55:08):
So anyway, thank you if I ordered one over the
break just so I could see your face, did you Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:55:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:55:15):
And you know what I said to Rob when he
did happy chanukah, I was like, oh, he's bad. Happy
chanooka missed happy chanuokah.

Speaker 8 (02:55:23):
And now I must leave you as the Brady Bunch
is on and I find four of those children incredibly arousing.

Speaker 1 (02:55:30):
Get at it.

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Be careful of what you do. Big brother is watching you.
Be circumspect and discreet, stay light on your mental feet.

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