Lithuania Fun Facts And Flatulence At RFK Event

There are a couple of fun facts about Lithuania that are need to know information. Then the guys went straight into the story about intense flatulence at a Robert F. Kennedy Jr. press dinner. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I promised, and I will deliver now the hilarious Robert F.
Kennedy story in a moment. So the NATO summit's been
in Vilniel, Lithuania. Here are two fascinating Lithuania facts for you.
Number one, Lithuania is one of the world's leading exporters

(00:20):
of mackerel. It is also one of the world's leading
importers of mackerel. My question to Lithuania is why don't
you just keep your mackerel and save on the shipping.
I don't get that right. Your second fascinating Lithuania facts,

(00:42):
they're coming hot and heavy. One of the top tourist
attractions in Lithuania is a giant mackerel statue. No, but
it is a giant statue. It's a fifteen foot tall
statue of Tony Soprano in his robe. It's at a
train station in southeastern Lithuania. Because it was why famous

(01:07):
Lithuanian artist melds pop culture with historical something or other
and built a fifteen foot Tony Soprano wearing boxers and
a tank top in his white bathrobe. Right, he'd go
down together and he sits at the plane station, the
train station rather fascinating. I told you, when I promised
you fascinating Lithuania facts, I deliver all right, fantastic, all

(01:33):
right tomorrow Kurzikstan. As longtime listeners know, Jack refuses to
utter the F word, Not that F word, no other one.
I'll say that the other F word all day long
in a number of usages. Yeah, probably too much. But

(01:54):
the word is and I apologize in advance to those
of you of more delicate sensibilities. The word is fart.
I hate hearing the word. Wow, look at him, cringe, cringing.
It's the house flowers, a disgusting word. Hard part primary.
So from the New York Post, Robert F. Kennedy Junior
Press dinner explodes in war of words and farting Camelot

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it ain't they say, By the way, we got a
good chunk of listeners, and there's a good chunk of
your conservative friends who are really into Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Yeah,
I'm I'm aware of that. Actually, it's the anti vax
thing that he's super hot to tront on. But anyway,
so he was. He was on the Upper East Side

(02:39):
of New York having a big press available ability, press
availability thing, but a shouting match. I'm going to quote
the New York Post now because they're very good at
this sort of thing. But a shouting match over climate
change broke out between two boisterous old men, sending the
evening down an extremely unfortunate path. The exchange began after

(03:02):
a guest asked Kennedy about the environment, and it seems
that the mere inquiry was enough to set off apparently
drunk gossip Gossip columnists turned flack Dug de Schert, host
of the event, who became enraged and screamed at the
top of his lungs the climate hawks climate hawkes. Meanwhile,
octogenarian art critic Anthony Hayden guest, who had appeared to

(03:24):
have been sleeping happily for most of the dinner, was
aroused by the abrupt rumpus. Hayden Guest suddenly opened his
eyes and denounced his longtime pal Decker, calling him a
miserable blob. Shut up, implored the old man. It's an
interesting and unique insult, you blong. You are a miserable
blob deshert or however you pronounced it, and then continued to

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scream wildly about the climate change scam. While Hayden guests
peppered him with verbal volleys from across the table, calling
him variously blanking, insane, and insignificant. Okay, so far, I've
heard no flatulence in this Oh stay tuned here, it seems,
Deshert sends the need for a new rhetorical tack and
let rip a loud, prolonged fart while yelling, as if

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to underscore his point, I'm farting. What he said that, yes,
doing a play by play on his own body noises.
Apparently what he let rip a loud, prolonged bit of
flatulence while yelling, is if to underscore his point, I'm farting.

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The room, which included a handful of journalists as well
as Kennedy's campaign manager former Representative Dennis Kucinich, the room
was stunned, seemingly unsure about whether Deshert was farting at
Hayden guests personally, or at the very notion of global warming. Regrettably,
we may assure readers that there was no room for
doubt that the climate changed in the immediate environs of
the dinner table. You want climate change, here you go.

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Oh my, if you're in New York Post reporter, and
you're at this event. You just can't wait to get
to your typewriter. Can you to write this out and
use your funny phrases? Change? Oh boy? The candidate maintained
a steady composure in the face of the crisis. Another

(05:16):
attendee attempted optimistically to change the subject, telling Kennedy how
much he admired his father, the tragic Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.
Sadly and somewhat inexplicably, another guest brought things back to
climate change, leading to another round of yelling, and we're
told that he was there to talk about No. No,

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We're told that both Deshert and Hayden guest have known
each other for three decades. When asked to come about
a comment about his outburst the next day, Deshert told
this quote, I apologize for using my flatulence as a
medium of public commentary in your presence. He actually said that,
So it was on purpose, and it was like a uh, well,

(05:59):
my fart in your general direction. It was both John
Clays and uh Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It
was a flourish, if you will, a rhetorical flourish, an
aggressive scent. What a weird thing to do, you weird
old man. A rhetorical flourish. Donald Trump waves his arms.

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This guy lets loose a flatulence, and then do you
late his apology again? There that little statement. I really
like that, I apologize for using my flatulence as a
medium of public commentary in your presence, a medium of
public commentary. That's correct. Wow, at least he's elegant in
his apologies.