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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Have you ever had the Coca Cola with the real
sugar in it? You go to Mexico all the time?
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Oh yeah, that's it is like that down there. It
tastes different. But we had that in the seventies, did
we Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
But up until I don't know what year or decade
it was. I thought it was the eighties, they went
Americans or the American Coca Cola division went to high
fruitose corn syrup, which again is I don't think as
good as for you as actual real sugar.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I like a lower a lower fruitos corn syrup. Hi,
you all, I like it. I like a nice medium
fruit toast corn syrup.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Well, good news, the Coca Cola company has agreed to
use real cane sugar in coke in the United States.
They've been using it in Mexico, just like we discussed.
So at some point, and I don't know when they're
gonna flip over, because they make so much of Coca
cola every single day, would have to be a while
before they switch over. But it's actually the same amount
(01:01):
of calories in the cane sugar as the high fruit
toast corn syrup.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
For Coca Cola, it was just it was cheaper.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
And if you think the high fruit toast corn syrup,
big high corn syrup cares about you, yeah, they don't.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Do you even drink Coca Cola's anymore?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I drink three things and I'm not this not a bit.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I drink water, black coffee, and tequila. That's the only
thing I drink, right, Okay, But I will tell you this,
it's different in Mexico. I have tasted their cokes down
there and their pepsis whatever. But the big difference is
if you get a piece of chocolate in Mexico, unless
except our resort, because we're better tastes like pepto bismo.
(01:46):
I don't know chocolate didn't taste is good.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I do know that my wife cannot hide her face
when we're at the restaurant and the waitress says when
she says, I want to dye coke, and she goes,
we have pepsi products, and I just like, you know
that that's coming, Jackie.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Why are you?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Because she does the U and the waitress always goes,
we get that a lot. I apologize. What else can
I get you?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I'd rather have pepsi if I was going to drink
a soft drink.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
You're very in the minority.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
As a matter of fact, you remember, and that was
so difficult to guit It became so difficult to get this.
I liked drinking a caffeine free diet pepsi.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yes, it's like the one day I just I don't
even understand. First of all, you drink it partly because
it has caffeine in it.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
No, no, no, because I would drink I would drink it
at a night. I would just sip my caffeine free diet pepsi.
I would watch Jessica Fletcher on Murdercy Road solve a
mystery that Jessica Fletcher or something else, and that would
go drifting off to sleep because there was no caffeine.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I would almost I cannot drink an actual Coca cola.
The diet coke is just something I'm used to Austin,
are you a diet coke?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
And then order a triple cheeseburger.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Of course, it's always a bunch of appetite. There is
then to make myself feel better. It's diet coke, but
recently it's been coke.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Here.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Let me ask you this question, which camp do you
belong in? Skinny pop or pop corners.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Hate to do it to you, Dwight, but I'm a popcorn.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Thank you, just data bag.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
I'm starting to get to the kettle corn one.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yeahtastic, that's the best question.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Sea salt.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, so Coca Cola switching to real cane sugar.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
It's it's healthier for you. Also, that's part of the
reason that they're switching back. And uh and there will
be I think a slight taste better situation.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
So will PEPSI do this? You think, I mean, got
it right?
Speaker 5 (03:36):
I guess so.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I would think so they do have the throwback in
the bottle. My daughter buys those Fanta or something like that.
It's Fanta. Is that the German Coca Cola?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I think Fanta was made by Kenny Fanta. No, it's
not true in Connecticut. Yeah, yes, Austin, I.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Have a quick chase the squirrel.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Since we're talking about throwbacks of drinks, at what point
did they start taking the the the worm out of
the tequila?
Speaker 5 (04:03):
I always heard that that.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Was that's not tequila, that's mescal.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Mescal. Okay, why did I think.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
It became famous because of one movie and everybody wanted
to do it? It actually is the cheapest type of
that a.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Rip off because supposedly, you know, if you take the saw,
drink the mescal and not saw it, it's like a
packet that comes with it. Eat the worm. I always
heard you can hallucinate.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
That's not true.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
What nothing happened? Man.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
It was a big thing in the eighties because the
nineteen seventy nine movie called Urban Cowboy the terrible person
in the movie.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Uh, he does that.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
He's he's an idiot, but he's in his trailer and
he holds his tongue on the bottle till the worm
floats down, and then he gets it between his teeth
and he shows it to her and then he swallows it.
It became no one knew about the worm in the
bottle until that movie.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Oh, I see, I thought that that was a thing.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
No, there's there's a one of our favorite little bars.
And when I say little bar, it may be seats eight.
It's a small, little, tiny place in Mexico.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
We go to.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
It's called people.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Yeah, it's called Omar Greta. You guy's name.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Omar.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Not only can you eat worms from the mascal, but
they also have like scorpions, trench that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
We had we had a cricket, Is it pretty cool?
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Yeah? A scorpion, that's not cool.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I might eat a scorpion. When we gave that.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
You're not eating a scorpion, I think I will I
eat the cricket. Yeah, but how many how many? How
much tequila had you had that day? Not?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I think it was my first tequila we went. We
went in the morning and he's chocolate covered. No, no,
it's just a cricket. So you want to eat the cricket.
I'm like, because it was a challenge. There you go,
Susan ate the cricket.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Dou goo. There's no reason to eat a cricket. You
have alternative food. If you're starving and trapped in the woods,
you eat a cricket. Well, they are not on the
strip at a resort place in Mexico.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
This is far from cars Ah. They ran out of carneadas,
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Oh the day they were out of scorpions. Here's what
I won't do. They got the baby tarantulus. I could
never do that. That's disgusting. I am gonna hopefully when
we go back in October, I'll be able to eat
a scorpion. I want to do that.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Hey, you want a trancelor scorpion? No, how about the
cheese sticks with some marinara It would be nice.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Well, the tipping's getting out of control. You can't swing
a dead cat without somebody going.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
How is it going to be a dead cat.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Because of your swing of live cat?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
This is cruel.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
A Reddit user posted a picture of a water filling
station a water fountain at the airport in Albany, New York.
There's a QR code that quite says scan here to
leave a tip at a water fountain.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Wow, that is ridiculous. I don't even believe this story.
There's no way, No I researched it is true.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
There's a there's a company called find a Tap dot com.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
There was I know, you brought up the fact that
you bought something off Amazon. Mean, it was like a
T shirt or something, and then at the end they said,
do you want to tip the person that packages the
T shirt for you?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Did you tip?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
No? I didn't, Okay tip. There was when I bought
my Beatles T shirt. Now, yeah, and that was like
two years ago. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I was at a Mexican joint last Saturday and it
is this. You go up to the counter and buy it.
The only thing they do for you is that they
when it's ready, they take it to your table.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
You clean your own table and all that stuff. And
the least amount you can tip is fifteen percent.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
That's how it was on the T shirt. If it's
said fifteen, twenty, twenty five and thirty.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yeah, if you're if you're, all you're gonna do is
run it to my table. It's got there's got to
be a ten percent option there right.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
The name of the company is find at tap dot com.
Customers can comment on water fountains throughout the country. The
CEO of the tap is called Samuel Ian Rosen. He
said the tipping idea started during COVID hell about workers
who install and maintain the water fountains.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yeah, all this starting COVID.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
He said. It was a flop. But they left the
stickers on there so many terrible Do you know why
the stickers on?
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Why?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
B T barnum? There's a sucker born every minute.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
That is true. That is true.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
But if you pay to your workers what they deserve
to be paid, they would not have to live off tips.
That's because that's what the worker will say, is going
to I rely on these tips. Oh okay, but you
just poured a cup of coffee. Why do I why
do you deserve a dollar fifty off a three dollar
cup of coffee?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Come on, man, come on man.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Uh. Jeff Crawford says, we used to buy mescal with
the worm in the bottle, in little airplane bottles. Oh
he said, you eat four or five of those little worms.
You definitely do.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Hold this.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I bet so. Maybe I wasn't eating enough worms.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Because of the tequila. The worm soaks up the tequila.
I bet you each worm has got a shot of
tequila in it.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
No to self, stop by Kroger and get worms to
eat for tomorrow nights. What's the difference?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I know you know what is? What's the difference between
mescal and tequila?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I don't know?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Lee, Okay, all right, so call it.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Tequila smokier if that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Well, it is smoke here. But I don't know what
the distealing process is. Something has to be different, So
let's go ahead. I've got a I don't like talking
about this, but I've got an information machine.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Yeah, just reasonably type it in while you're doing that.
Do you know who Felix bomb Gardener is?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
So man Bomb Carter's kid, He's a hoot.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I feel like I should know who Felix bomb Gardener is. Uh,
he's an Australian. You we talked about this earlier in
the week, A base jumper sky guys and what did
we say the other day? I said, at the end
of any documentary with these these free climbers and the
kayakers they go into you know, Tibet, and they and
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they they do these crazy rapids. Uh. And these guys
that do the squirrel outfit, the they they skydive with
the scroll outfit that they say they're flying.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
They are not.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Yeah, I don't know what happens at the end.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
They all die. Of course they did.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
And so did Felix Bombgardner, fifty six years old, lost
control of his paraglider and crashed into a hotel swimming
pool in the coastal town of Porte Saint Alipo.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
One last person in front of me of the uskin if.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
The apparatus actually struck a woman, I can't imagine.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
She's in the pool, relaxing and rooftop rooftop pools.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
She's like this is great, This is great.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
And here comes some idiot on a you know, a
paraglider crashing into the pool. He lost his life. She
was injured, but not seriously.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Tequila and mescal are both agave spirits. Mescal can be
made thirty different from thirty different types of the agave.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Whereas so it's tequila, where's the true tequila? Is the
blue agave. That's the stuff, that's the number one.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
He's a snob when it comes to.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Well, yeah, because there's no hangover. If you drink a
true blue agave tequila, you don't put sugars and crap
in it. There's no hangover. But a moscal can be
made from thirty different types of agave. And also there's
different regions in Mexico. There's only a few places designated
for two too true tequilas in Mexico, whereas mescal can
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be produced up with nine Mexican states.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Felix, they had lost his life. In twenty twelve, he
broke the world record. I bet you saw that video
from years ago, Austin, you too. He skydived from a
pressurized pod twenty four miles above the ground. So he
was right on the edge of space and he walks.
He went in. He was in like a pod, like
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he had a thing, and he stepped off. It was
a balloon and he stepped off it twenty four miles
up and came down to Earth.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
That is crazy. Oxygen though, I just told you, dude,
you but he stepped on the blood.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
No, but he had a helmet with oxygen in it.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
You didn't say that. You said he was in.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
How do the divers breathe underwater?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
How do they do?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
They have a tank?
Speaker 5 (12:10):
You know mask?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
You know what's weird is the snorkelers that go under
with their snorkel and then they come back up. I'm like,
is it filled with water? What the snorkel?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
They blow it out once they get.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Up, then why go down if you got to blow
it out?
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Oh boy, just stay on top.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I'm so glad I'm not the guy that works at
the beach place. D White comes walking up going explain a.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Snorkel to me?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Can you explain what's the nuts and bolts of a snorkel?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
The physics of a snorkel to me? Mister beach you
blow You say, well, that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
But again.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
He says he's closed almost all these bass jumpers skydivers.
That it ends, the story ends, the movie ends. In
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Speaker 3 (14:00):
I just bit into some I thought it was lemon.
It's cherry grows back after this on news radio eight
forty w.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Probably smells like alcohol. Here are you drinking?
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Using the chlorox to clean up? Okay, there was some
coffee things on the table.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Hey, look at me, salsa are not good.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
You're not bad. Huh, it's not bad. Apparently.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Hey, it's Gus Allen trying to sneak in the studio.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Now he's doing the thing where he puts one finger
over his lips.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Okay, So we started the show with asking the question
I did you did because I watched the news the
last couple of days and I'm seeing how they're blaming
the road for these recks with the semis in the
expressway up by lots of pasta spaghetti junction.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Isn't it funny that they always go after big asphalt.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah, well, I say, let's let's see, because what my
opinion is, I bet you they have lightened the qualifications
to become a truck driver. And sure enough, we had
six callers in ten minutes that said, oh yeah, oh yeah,
it's easier to become a truck driver. Some of these
when they stop at these way ins or weigh ins,
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the way stations, that some of them are illegal and
they don't even speak English or read the signs.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
That's an issue.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Your theory is credible. I like mine a little bit better.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
What is your theory?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
My theory is that that semi was traveling behind a
truck that was hauling ceiling tiles. Yeah, that's said, truck
lost a ceiling tile, it hit a chair and caused
this disaster.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
It started a couple of decades ago when I used
to hear those commercials.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
We used to run them all the time. You could
be a truck driver in just two weeks.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
And it was like what.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
They are And we heard from one of the callers
they said they're contemplating lowering the CDL truck driving licensed
to eighteen years old, and I was like, that is
a terrible idea. Part of the problem issue with America
and trucking is that there are two major trucking companies
now that have bought everybody up and now they're not
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paying them with they're Look, you pay them more, you
get better. Look, it's like cops. You pay them better,
you treat them better, you'll get better cops. You want
good truck drivers, you gotta pay them and treat them good.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Well, we did have a call or that, because I
had forgotten all about this. There was a reality show
where all these truckers would listen and a bid would
come out, say you would take one a load from
the East coast and then bring back another load from
the west coast. And they were all underbidding each other.
It's kind of like, okay, Louisville bands, Louisville bands. When
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you go out to a restaurant or a bar and
you see these bands, they're pretty much still getting paid
like it was the eighties or nineties. Yeah, because there's
other bands that'll go in there and they'll say, yeah,
I we'll do it for one hundred.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Yeah you know.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
But stop stop blaze mean the expressway. Stop blaming the
on and off ramps. Okay, the truck drivers that are wrecking,
and I'm not blaming every individual one of these guys
or girls whoever's driving.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I don't see gender, right.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
I know your gender fluid. They them for Dwight.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Uh. But it's not stop blaming the setup of the expressway. Okay,
at some point it's got to be put on the
truck driver that you jackknifed getting onto a bridge.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Okay, just look, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
For example, for decades, what is the bridge name by
the University of Louisville.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
What the bridge name?
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Yeah? The can opener.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Oh, I'm sorry, Yes, you mean the overpass the overpass, Yeah,
the can opener, correct.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Because the clearance on it is like ten cents.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
Yeah, I think it's thirteen I think, but whatever, it's constantly, Yes,
it is constantly.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
There is a camera on that too. There's a camera
on that. You could see these guys in there, you know,
the last second.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I always feel so sorry for these truck drivers when
they run through that dam.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Yeah, yeah, no doubt because they don't know what's coming
when they come around that corner. But that's that's different
than what we're talking about. I mean, because that's usually
most overpasses are high enough for trucks to go through,
especially in the in a downtown setting like that.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
What it makes sense for the City of Louisville to
maybe put up like some wooden something. Wouldn't it just
goes over the streets leading to that tunnel. Yeah, you
know what I'm saying to say, Hey, this is how
high bam and you break that?
Speaker 3 (18:35):
I think they do.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I think they do. I think there's a bar. I
think there's a plastic bar that goes across that.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
I believe.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
All right, we're gonna take a short break. We'll come
back last break of the week.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
You know who would never ever hit the can opener?
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Who?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
John Bergen from b K Plumbing. This guy's he's like
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Speaker 1 (19:20):
Just let me just remark on the comfort of this
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removed the seats from his pickup truck he drives around.
He sits on that toilet when he's right.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Now.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
It needs electricity because there's lights on it. The water
is heated. You can adjust the streams. You can adjust
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It will change your life. Go with BK Plumbing Supply
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and ask for John or Amy.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Joey Straighter, friend of the show. There are a bunch
of signs at the can opener. The lights flash. If
you're oversized, they can read the signs.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
And there we go back after this news radio eight
forty whas.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
Yes, thank god, good job.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Point.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
I'll tell you start a weekend baby right there. Man, Yeah,
all right, I'm so close to go ninety five.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
The Senate narrowly passes bill that would defund public broadcasting.
Senate Republicans are giving the thumbs up to cutting the
funding to public broadcasting, global health programs, and some foreign aid.
Lawmakers narrowly passed a package earlier this morning or yesterday
morning that would that would make nine billion dollars in
spending that they had already approved. That will affect some
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I think Stage k ET, I think would be the
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to talk about breaking it down between Democrats and Republicans,
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breaking it all down.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Well, if you don't know the name Billy McFarland, there's
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recommend it. Man, it's intense. But he was recently in
the news. I did the story last week Billy mc farland,
the fraudster that started Fire Festival, and then the sequel
by the way, he gets out of jail and he
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starts fire Festival too. He decided, well, look, I got
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I'm gonna put the name the brand fire Festival up
on eBay and sell what he called his iconic brand name,
the auction ended Tuesday. The final bid.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Anybody took a poke at it two hundred thousand.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
I heard it was underwhelming. I don't know the actual price, though.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
I think it's overpriced. I mean it's like, hey, you
want to buy the tree, we're going to sell you
the name for island resort. Okay, what's the name Jonestown?
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (22:06):
So for two hundred and forty five thousand fist clothes.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Well, because again, anything that's branded, whether it's negative or positive,
people know the name.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Here's the only this is the only value I would
find it having that name, having some kind of T shirt.
You now have the rights to make these T shirts
and goof on the festival.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Well, and the other thing is if you actually do
it the right way and you come out with fire Festival,
people like you that are completely obsessed with this story
will be doing Everyone will do the story fire festivals.
Back the morning shows and all the networks talk shows
like ours, we'll talk about it. So you're already getting
millions of dollars of free advertising by saying it. Yes,
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But will it will it prevent people from going to
your event?
Speaker 3 (22:53):
I don't know. But it's a brand name that people
everybody knows.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
I think that maybe you could get two hundred and
forty five grand back just from merchandising. Because remember when
he was starting fire Festival too. I went to the website,
but his T shirts. He was selling his T shirts
for like five hundred bucks. Yeah, because I was gonna
get one as a goof Yeah. I think the lowest
one was one hundred dollars. They asked McFarland about the
cell of his brand for two hundred and forty five
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three hundred dollars. Forty two bidders were involved. When they
asked McFarland, he said, it sucks the final price was
so low, especially considering the amounts of cash that doesn't
even put into dance. In the tens of millions. I've
been ordered to pay back in restitution tens of millions,
tens of millions of dollars.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Well, at at some point you want to be I'd
rather be in prison. This is a you know, ten
million dollars.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I don't know, man.
Speaker 7 (23:49):
I see that the person who bought it, their identity
is currently unknown too. I wonder what that.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
I wonder if that, I wonder if that Danny Wimmer
doing Danny wim.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
I wonder if the person that bought it might be
on this show.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Yeah, any anybody anything. Well, they'll tell you in politics
when they when you get somebody famous to run for
an office, they save millions of dollars in branding or
advertising because people already know the name. So that's why
they allot of times they pick people that were former
quarterbacks or former baseball players and stuff, because people already
know their name and they have to say that they
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can whatever party can save that money even though it
is branded with a complete disaster. I don't know why,
but look when people you know what an actuary.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Is, Yes, my niece shall be Young is an act.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Really that's huge because that is that's one of the
that's one of those jobs that you can make a
lot of money at.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
And I think it's like, here's here's your Christmas check,
she'll be young. I wait to get these nieces and
nephews off the payroll.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Man, Well, at what point should they We're having this
discussion in our family now. It's just like they're twenty five.
Why are we having a birthday party? And b why
are we giving.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Gifts someone my youngest nephews, he's a freaking school teacher.
He's in his twenties and we got here's a stroking
a check.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Well in the stadcase is most of them. My sisters
and brother in laws have done really well. So when
you pull fifty bucks out to give your niece or
nephew that's twenty something years old, it just goes in
the You know, it really doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
I will say this though, Scott and Kathy Young train
their kids very well because every single gift that me,
my mom or whoever gives them gets a thank you
card for me.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
You're lucky if it's a good job. But I think,
and I'm probably getting this wrong.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Actually, actually there's me by joke. If somebody came out
if I was an actuary, they go, hey, you need
to get on that report. Actually, I think.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
And tell me somebody will tell me if I'm wrong.
On social media, I'm sure. But I think they use
analytics to predict the market or in or a certain product.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (26:13):
I think they predict lots of things like is this
person ensurable? Is this coming right? You know what? Now?
The thing about it? If it's all odds and numbers, yeah,
you can taking her to the casino right. Well, also, you.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Can be wrong a lot like weather Man and still
be successful. So this is something I would think. This
next story would be an actuary. Economists sometimes watch men's
underwear sales to predict changes in the economy.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
I like it when men's underwear is half off.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
That's what I buy.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Yes, I know, because some of your underwear is older
than our producer.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
Really is.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
The underwear have on now is older than John So
that was the smell in that? Or I look it's underwear.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
If we put a picture of my underwear next to Dwight's,
next to John Alden's, and then put a contest online
that said, predict which underwear belongs to who.
Speaker 7 (27:13):
That'd be so easy. You don't even have to smell,
because yours would be the fancy kind.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I don't.
Speaker 7 (27:18):
Holes in them look as genericis can be.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Just because they're like a minor tears and not even
in all of them doesn't mean they smell.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
I'll wash them every y I do have fancy men's underwear.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
You really do you have, like the satin ones and stuff?
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Sometimes I do have all types of Yes, I do
have fancy Van Eddy.
Speaker 7 (27:36):
Has a secret life as an underwear model.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Underwear is important, dude, Okay, the undercarriage is important. Sometimes
I change my underwear twice a day.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
What if I were to tell you that I'm not
wearing underwear right now, I would not the only thing
you and I are these cargo pants.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
The idea is when money gets tight, men skip buying
new underwears since it's not something anyone else can see.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
That's men's brains.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
You're wasting.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
You're wasting money.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
It's why three and one shampoo exists.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
It just look, it just makes me feel pretty.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Your underwear.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
The idea was first talked about by former Fed Reserve
chair Alan Greenspan. But there you go, predicting the economy
on men's underwear sales. All right, John Alden, great job
this week. Enjoy your week off. Next week we will
suffer with whoever we have to get through because you,
my friend of the definitive top top.
Speaker 7 (28:30):
I may try to make us an appearance at Long
John Silver.
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Ah, you could be fun.
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
Have you ever had the Coca Cola with the real
sugar in it? You go to Mexico all the time?
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Oh yeah, that's it is like that down there. It
tastes different. But we had that in the seventies, did
we Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
But up until I don't know what year or decade
it was. I thought it was the eighties, they went
Americans or the American Coca Cola division went to high
fruitose corn syrup, which again is I don't think as
good as for you as actual real sugar.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I like a lower a lower fruitos corn syrup. Hi,
you all, I like it. I like a nice medium
fruit toast corn syrup.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Well, good news, the Coca Cola company has agreed to
use real cane sugar in coke in the United States.
They've been using it in Mexico, just like we discussed.
So at some point, and I don't know when they're
gonna flip over, because they make so much of Coca
cola every single day, would have to be a while
before they switch over. But it's actually the same amount
(01:01):
of calories in the cane sugar as the high fruit
toast corn syrup.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
For Coca Cola, it was just it was cheaper.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
And if you think the high fruit toast corn syrup,
big high corn syrup cares about you, yeah, they don't.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Do you even drink Coca Cola's anymore?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I drink three things and I'm not this not a bit.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I drink water, black coffee, and tequila. That's the only
thing I drink, right, Okay, But I will tell you this,
it's different in Mexico. I have tasted their cokes down
there and their pepsis whatever. But the big difference is
if you get a piece of chocolate in Mexico, unless
except our resort, because we're better tastes like pepto bismo.
(01:46):
I don't know chocolate didn't taste is good.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I do know that my wife cannot hide her face
when we're at the restaurant and the waitress says when
she says, I want to dye coke, and she goes,
we have pepsi products, and I just like, you know
that that's coming, Jackie.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Why are you?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Because she does the U and the waitress always goes,
we get that a lot. I apologize. What else can
I get you?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I'd rather have pepsi if I was going to drink
a soft drink.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
You're very in the minority.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
As a matter of fact, you remember, and that was
so difficult to guit It became so difficult to get this.
I liked drinking a caffeine free diet pepsi.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yes, it's like the one day I just I don't
even understand. First of all, you drink it partly because
it has caffeine in it.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
No, no, no, because I would drink I would drink it
at a night. I would just sip my caffeine free diet pepsi.
I would watch Jessica Fletcher on Murdercy Road solve a
mystery that Jessica Fletcher or something else, and that would
go drifting off to sleep because there was no caffeine.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I would almost I cannot drink an actual Coca cola.
The diet coke is just something I'm used to Austin,
are you a diet coke?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
And then order a triple cheeseburger.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Of course, it's always a bunch of appetite. There is
then to make myself feel better. It's diet coke, but
recently it's been coke.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Here.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Let me ask you this question, which camp do you
belong in? Skinny pop or pop corners.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Hate to do it to you, Dwight, but I'm a popcorn.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Thank you, just data bag.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
I'm starting to get to the kettle corn one.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yeahtastic, that's the best question.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Sea salt.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, so Coca Cola switching to real cane sugar.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
It's it's healthier for you. Also, that's part of the
reason that they're switching back. And uh and there will
be I think a slight taste better situation.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
So will PEPSI do this? You think, I mean, got
it right?
Speaker 5 (03:36):
I guess so.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I would think so they do have the throwback in
the bottle. My daughter buys those Fanta or something like that.
It's Fanta. Is that the German Coca Cola?
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I think Fanta was made by Kenny Fanta. No, it's
not true in Connecticut. Yeah, yes, Austin, I.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Have a quick chase the squirrel.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Since we're talking about throwbacks of drinks, at what point
did they start taking the the the worm out of
the tequila?
Speaker 5 (04:03):
I always heard that that.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Was that's not tequila, that's mescal.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Mescal. Okay, why did I think.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
It became famous because of one movie and everybody wanted
to do it? It actually is the cheapest type of
that a.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Rip off because supposedly, you know, if you take the saw,
drink the mescal and not saw it, it's like a
packet that comes with it. Eat the worm. I always
heard you can hallucinate.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
That's not true.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
What nothing happened? Man.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
It was a big thing in the eighties because the
nineteen seventy nine movie called Urban Cowboy the terrible person
in the movie.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Uh, he does that.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
He's he's an idiot, but he's in his trailer and
he holds his tongue on the bottle till the worm
floats down, and then he gets it between his teeth
and he shows it to her and then he swallows it.
It became no one knew about the worm in the
bottle until that movie.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Oh, I see, I thought that that was a thing.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
No, there's there's a one of our favorite little bars.
And when I say little bar, it may be seats eight.
It's a small, little, tiny place in Mexico.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
We go to.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
It's called people.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Yeah, it's called Omar Greta. You guy's name.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Omar.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Not only can you eat worms from the mascal, but
they also have like scorpions, trench that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
We had we had a cricket, Is it pretty cool?
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Yeah? A scorpion, that's not cool.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I might eat a scorpion. When we gave that.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
You're not eating a scorpion, I think I will I
eat the cricket. Yeah, but how many how many? How
much tequila had you had that day? Not?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I think it was my first tequila we went. We
went in the morning and he's chocolate covered. No, no,
it's just a cricket. So you want to eat the cricket.
I'm like, because it was a challenge. There you go,
Susan ate the cricket.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Dou goo. There's no reason to eat a cricket. You
have alternative food. If you're starving and trapped in the woods,
you eat a cricket. Well, they are not on the
strip at a resort place in Mexico.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
This is far from cars Ah. They ran out of carneadas,
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Oh the day they were out of scorpions. Here's what
I won't do. They got the baby tarantulus. I could
never do that. That's disgusting. I am gonna hopefully when
we go back in October, I'll be able to eat
a scorpion. I want to do that.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Hey, you want a trancelor scorpion? No, how about the
cheese sticks with some marinara It would be nice.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Well, the tipping's getting out of control. You can't swing
a dead cat without somebody going.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
How is it going to be a dead cat.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Because of your swing of live cat?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
This is cruel.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
A Reddit user posted a picture of a water filling
station a water fountain at the airport in Albany, New York.
There's a QR code that quite says scan here to
leave a tip at a water fountain.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Wow, that is ridiculous. I don't even believe this story.
There's no way, No I researched it is true.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
There's a there's a company called find a Tap dot com.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
There was I know, you brought up the fact that
you bought something off Amazon. Mean, it was like a
T shirt or something, and then at the end they said,
do you want to tip the person that packages the
T shirt for you?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Did you tip?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
No? I didn't, Okay tip. There was when I bought
my Beatles T shirt. Now, yeah, and that was like
two years ago. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I was at a Mexican joint last Saturday and it
is this. You go up to the counter and buy it.
The only thing they do for you is that they
when it's ready, they take it to your table.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
You clean your own table and all that stuff. And
the least amount you can tip is fifteen percent.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
That's how it was on the T shirt. If it's
said fifteen, twenty, twenty five and thirty.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yeah, if you're if you're, all you're gonna do is
run it to my table. It's got there's got to
be a ten percent option there right.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
The name of the company is find at tap dot com.
Customers can comment on water fountains throughout the country. The
CEO of the tap is called Samuel Ian Rosen. He
said the tipping idea started during COVID hell about workers
who install and maintain the water fountains.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yeah, all this starting COVID.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
He said. It was a flop. But they left the
stickers on there so many terrible Do you know why
the stickers on?
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Why?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
B T barnum? There's a sucker born every minute.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
That is true. That is true.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
But if you pay to your workers what they deserve
to be paid, they would not have to live off tips.
That's because that's what the worker will say, is going
to I rely on these tips. Oh okay, but you
just poured a cup of coffee. Why do I why
do you deserve a dollar fifty off a three dollar
cup of coffee?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Come on, man, come on man.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Uh. Jeff Crawford says, we used to buy mescal with
the worm in the bottle, in little airplane bottles. Oh
he said, you eat four or five of those little worms.
You definitely do.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Hold this.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I bet so. Maybe I wasn't eating enough worms.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Because of the tequila. The worm soaks up the tequila.
I bet you each worm has got a shot of
tequila in it.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
No to self, stop by Kroger and get worms to
eat for tomorrow nights. What's the difference?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I know you know what is? What's the difference between
mescal and tequila?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I don't know?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Lee, Okay, all right, so call it.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Tequila smokier if that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Well, it is smoke here. But I don't know what
the distealing process is. Something has to be different, So
let's go ahead. I've got a I don't like talking
about this, but I've got an information machine.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Yeah, just reasonably type it in while you're doing that.
Do you know who Felix bomb Gardener is?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
So man Bomb Carter's kid, He's a hoot.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I feel like I should know who Felix bomb Gardener is. Uh,
he's an Australian. You we talked about this earlier in
the week, A base jumper sky guys and what did
we say the other day? I said, at the end
of any documentary with these these free climbers and the
kayakers they go into you know, Tibet, and they and
(09:54):
they they do these crazy rapids. Uh. And these guys
that do the squirrel outfit, the they they skydive with
the scroll outfit that they say they're flying.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
They are not.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Yeah, I don't know what happens at the end.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
They all die. Of course they did.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
And so did Felix Bombgardner, fifty six years old, lost
control of his paraglider and crashed into a hotel swimming
pool in the coastal town of Porte Saint Alipo.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
One last person in front of me of the uskin if.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
The apparatus actually struck a woman, I can't imagine.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
She's in the pool, relaxing and rooftop rooftop pools.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
She's like this is great, This is great.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
And here comes some idiot on a you know, a
paraglider crashing into the pool. He lost his life. She
was injured, but not seriously.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Tequila and mescal are both agave spirits. Mescal can be
made thirty different from thirty different types of the agave.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Whereas so it's tequila, where's the true tequila? Is the
blue agave. That's the stuff, that's the number one.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
He's a snob when it comes to.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Well, yeah, because there's no hangover. If you drink a
true blue agave tequila, you don't put sugars and crap
in it. There's no hangover. But a moscal can be
made from thirty different types of agave. And also there's
different regions in Mexico. There's only a few places designated
for two too true tequilas in Mexico, whereas mescal can
(11:23):
be produced up with nine Mexican states.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Felix, they had lost his life. In twenty twelve, he
broke the world record. I bet you saw that video
from years ago, Austin, you too. He skydived from a
pressurized pod twenty four miles above the ground. So he
was right on the edge of space and he walks.
He went in. He was in like a pod, like
(11:45):
he had a thing, and he stepped off. It was
a balloon and he stepped off it twenty four miles
up and came down to Earth.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
That is crazy. Oxygen though, I just told you, dude,
you but he stepped on the blood.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
No, but he had a helmet with oxygen in it.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
You didn't say that. You said he was in.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
How do the divers breathe underwater?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
How do they do?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
They have a tank?
Speaker 5 (12:10):
You know mask?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
You know what's weird is the snorkelers that go under
with their snorkel and then they come back up. I'm like,
is it filled with water? What the snorkel?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
They blow it out once they get.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Up, then why go down if you got to blow
it out?
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Oh boy, just stay on top.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I'm so glad I'm not the guy that works at
the beach place. D White comes walking up going explain a.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Snorkel to me?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Can you explain what's the nuts and bolts of a snorkel?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
The physics of a snorkel to me? Mister beach you
blow You say, well, that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
But again.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
He says he's closed almost all these bass jumpers skydivers.
That it ends, the story ends, the movie ends. In
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I just bit into some I thought it was lemon.
It's cherry grows back after this on news radio eight
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Speaker 1 (14:09):
Probably smells like alcohol. Here are you drinking?
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Using the chlorox to clean up? Okay, there was some
coffee things on the table.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Hey, look at me, salsa are not good.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
You're not bad. Huh, it's not bad. Apparently.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Hey, it's Gus Allen trying to sneak in the studio.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Now he's doing the thing where he puts one finger
over his lips.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Okay, So we started the show with asking the question
I did you did because I watched the news the
last couple of days and I'm seeing how they're blaming
the road for these recks with the semis in the
expressway up by lots of pasta spaghetti junction.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Isn't it funny that they always go after big asphalt.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah, well, I say, let's let's see, because what my
opinion is, I bet you they have lightened the qualifications
to become a truck driver. And sure enough, we had
six callers in ten minutes that said, oh yeah, oh yeah,
it's easier to become a truck driver. Some of these
when they stop at these way ins or weigh ins,
(15:22):
the way stations, that some of them are illegal and
they don't even speak English or read the signs.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
That's an issue.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Your theory is credible. I like mine a little bit better.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
What is your theory?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
My theory is that that semi was traveling behind a
truck that was hauling ceiling tiles. Yeah, that's said, truck
lost a ceiling tile, it hit a chair and caused
this disaster.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
It started a couple of decades ago when I used
to hear those commercials.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
We used to run them all the time. You could
be a truck driver in just two weeks.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
And it was like what.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
They are And we heard from one of the callers
they said they're contemplating lowering the CDL truck driving licensed
to eighteen years old, and I was like, that is
a terrible idea. Part of the problem issue with America
and trucking is that there are two major trucking companies
now that have bought everybody up and now they're not
(16:16):
paying them with they're Look, you pay them more, you
get better. Look, it's like cops. You pay them better,
you treat them better, you'll get better cops. You want
good truck drivers, you gotta pay them and treat them good.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Well, we did have a call or that, because I
had forgotten all about this. There was a reality show
where all these truckers would listen and a bid would
come out, say you would take one a load from
the East coast and then bring back another load from
the west coast. And they were all underbidding each other.
It's kind of like, okay, Louisville bands, Louisville bands. When
(16:46):
you go out to a restaurant or a bar and
you see these bands, they're pretty much still getting paid
like it was the eighties or nineties. Yeah, because there's
other bands that'll go in there and they'll say, yeah,
I we'll do it for one hundred.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Yeah you know.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
But stop stop blaze mean the expressway. Stop blaming the
on and off ramps. Okay, the truck drivers that are wrecking,
and I'm not blaming every individual one of these guys
or girls whoever's driving.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I don't see gender, right.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
I know your gender fluid. They them for Dwight.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Uh. But it's not stop blaming the setup of the expressway. Okay,
at some point it's got to be put on the
truck driver that you jackknifed getting onto a bridge.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Okay, just look, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
For example, for decades, what is the bridge name by
the University of Louisville.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
What the bridge name?
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Yeah? The can opener.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Oh, I'm sorry, Yes, you mean the overpass the overpass, Yeah,
the can opener, correct.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Because the clearance on it is like ten cents.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
Yeah, I think it's thirteen I think, but whatever, it's constantly, Yes,
it is constantly.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
There is a camera on that too. There's a camera
on that. You could see these guys in there, you know,
the last second.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I always feel so sorry for these truck drivers when
they run through that dam.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Yeah, yeah, no doubt because they don't know what's coming
when they come around that corner. But that's that's different
than what we're talking about. I mean, because that's usually
most overpasses are high enough for trucks to go through,
especially in the in a downtown setting like that.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
What it makes sense for the City of Louisville to
maybe put up like some wooden something. Wouldn't it just
goes over the streets leading to that tunnel. Yeah, you
know what I'm saying to say, Hey, this is how
high bam and you break that?
Speaker 3 (18:35):
I think they do.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I think they do. I think there's a bar. I
think there's a plastic bar that goes across that.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
I believe.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
All right, we're gonna take a short break. We'll come
back last break of the week.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
You know who would never ever hit the can opener?
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Who?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
John Bergen from b K Plumbing. This guy's he's like
magnum p.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
I really is. He's that good looking. Annie owns BK
Plumbing Supply. He turned me on to the Nexus toilet.
It's the S seven. You got to go to BK
Plumbingsupply dot com and check out this toilet. He will
arrange the electrician and the plumber to be there on
that same day. He'll take care of all that. All right,
You don't have to worry about that. They install this
(19:13):
toilet and it will change your life. The seat is
heated and it fits your bottom better than any toilet
lit up.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Just let me just remark on the comfort of this
toilet this. This toilet is so comfortable. John Bergen himself
removed the seats from his pickup truck he drives around.
He sits on that toilet when he's right.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Now.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
It needs electricity because there's lights on it. The water
is heated. You can adjust the streams. You can adjust
the air dryer down there, because after you're done with
your business and you clean yourself off, you hit an
air dryer and it blows it off. Of course, there's
girl parts and boy parts, so there's two different buttons
for that. There is a remote control to this toilet.
It will change your life. Go with BK Plumbing Supply
(19:55):
and ask for John or Amy.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Joey Straighter, friend of the show. There are a bunch
of signs at the can opener. The lights flash. If
you're oversized, they can read the signs.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
And there we go back after this news radio eight
forty whas.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
Yes, thank god, good job.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Point.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
I'll tell you start a weekend baby right there. Man, Yeah,
all right, I'm so close to go ninety five.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
The Senate narrowly passes bill that would defund public broadcasting.
Senate Republicans are giving the thumbs up to cutting the
funding to public broadcasting, global health programs, and some foreign aid.
Lawmakers narrowly passed a package earlier this morning or yesterday
morning that would that would make nine billion dollars in
spending that they had already approved. That will affect some
(20:50):
I think Stage k ET, I think would be the
most affected. I will tell you k ET during election season,
they're actually the most fair to watch when you want
to talk about breaking it down between Democrats and Republicans,
because if you go to your side, whatever side, left
or right, but k ET does a really good job
breaking it all down.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Well, if you don't know the name Billy McFarland, there's
a beautiful documentary about Fire Festival on Netflix. I highly
recommend it. Man, it's intense. But he was recently in
the news. I did the story last week Billy mc farland,
the fraudster that started Fire Festival, and then the sequel
by the way, he gets out of jail and he
(21:32):
starts fire Festival too. He decided, well, look, I got
to pay back all this money. Here's what I'll do.
I'm gonna put the name the brand fire Festival up
on eBay and sell what he called his iconic brand name,
the auction ended Tuesday. The final bid.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Anybody took a poke at it two hundred thousand.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
I heard it was underwhelming. I don't know the actual price, though.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
I think it's overpriced. I mean it's like, hey, you
want to buy the tree, we're going to sell you
the name for island resort. Okay, what's the name Jonestown?
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (22:06):
So for two hundred and forty five thousand fist clothes.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Well, because again, anything that's branded, whether it's negative or positive,
people know the name.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Here's the only this is the only value I would
find it having that name, having some kind of T shirt.
You now have the rights to make these T shirts
and goof on the festival.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Well, and the other thing is if you actually do
it the right way and you come out with fire Festival,
people like you that are completely obsessed with this story
will be doing Everyone will do the story fire festivals.
Back the morning shows and all the networks talk shows
like ours, we'll talk about it. So you're already getting
millions of dollars of free advertising by saying it. Yes,
(22:50):
But will it will it prevent people from going to
your event?
Speaker 3 (22:53):
I don't know. But it's a brand name that people
everybody knows.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
I think that maybe you could get two hundred and
forty five grand back just from merchandising. Because remember when
he was starting fire Festival too. I went to the website,
but his T shirts. He was selling his T shirts
for like five hundred bucks. Yeah, because I was gonna
get one as a goof Yeah. I think the lowest
one was one hundred dollars. They asked McFarland about the
cell of his brand for two hundred and forty five
(23:20):
three hundred dollars. Forty two bidders were involved. When they
asked McFarland, he said, it sucks the final price was
so low, especially considering the amounts of cash that doesn't
even put into dance. In the tens of millions. I've
been ordered to pay back in restitution tens of millions,
tens of millions of dollars.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Well, at at some point you want to be I'd
rather be in prison. This is a you know, ten
million dollars.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I don't know, man.
Speaker 7 (23:49):
I see that the person who bought it, their identity
is currently unknown too. I wonder what that.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
I wonder if that, I wonder if that Danny Wimmer
doing Danny wim.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
I wonder if the person that bought it might be
on this show.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Yeah, any anybody anything. Well, they'll tell you in politics
when they when you get somebody famous to run for
an office, they save millions of dollars in branding or
advertising because people already know the name. So that's why
they allot of times they pick people that were former
quarterbacks or former baseball players and stuff, because people already
know their name and they have to say that they
(24:25):
can whatever party can save that money even though it
is branded with a complete disaster. I don't know why,
but look when people you know what an actuary.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Is, Yes, my niece shall be Young is an act.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Really that's huge because that is that's one of the
that's one of those jobs that you can make a
lot of money at.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
And I think it's like, here's here's your Christmas check,
she'll be young. I wait to get these nieces and
nephews off the payroll.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Man, Well, at what point should they We're having this
discussion in our family now. It's just like they're twenty five.
Why are we having a birthday party? And b why
are we giving.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Gifts someone my youngest nephews, he's a freaking school teacher.
He's in his twenties and we got here's a stroking
a check.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Well in the stadcase is most of them. My sisters
and brother in laws have done really well. So when
you pull fifty bucks out to give your niece or
nephew that's twenty something years old, it just goes in
the You know, it really doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
I will say this though, Scott and Kathy Young train
their kids very well because every single gift that me,
my mom or whoever gives them gets a thank you
card for me.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
You're lucky if it's a good job. But I think,
and I'm probably getting this wrong.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Actually, actually there's me by joke. If somebody came out
if I was an actuary, they go, hey, you need
to get on that report. Actually, I think.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
And tell me somebody will tell me if I'm wrong.
On social media, I'm sure. But I think they use
analytics to predict the market or in or a certain product.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (26:13):
I think they predict lots of things like is this
person ensurable? Is this coming right? You know what? Now?
The thing about it? If it's all odds and numbers, yeah,
you can taking her to the casino right. Well, also, you.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Can be wrong a lot like weather Man and still
be successful. So this is something I would think. This
next story would be an actuary. Economists sometimes watch men's
underwear sales to predict changes in the economy.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
I like it when men's underwear is half off.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
That's what I buy.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Yes, I know, because some of your underwear is older
than our producer.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
Really is.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
The underwear have on now is older than John So
that was the smell in that? Or I look it's underwear.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
If we put a picture of my underwear next to Dwight's,
next to John Alden's, and then put a contest online
that said, predict which underwear belongs to who.
Speaker 7 (27:13):
That'd be so easy. You don't even have to smell,
because yours would be the fancy kind.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I don't.
Speaker 7 (27:18):
Holes in them look as genericis can be.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Just because they're like a minor tears and not even
in all of them doesn't mean they smell.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
I'll wash them every y I do have fancy men's underwear.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
You really do you have, like the satin ones and stuff?
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Sometimes I do have all types of Yes, I do
have fancy Van Eddy.
Speaker 7 (27:36):
Has a secret life as an underwear model.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Underwear is important, dude, Okay, the undercarriage is important. Sometimes
I change my underwear twice a day.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
What if I were to tell you that I'm not
wearing underwear right now, I would not the only thing
you and I are these cargo pants.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
The idea is when money gets tight, men skip buying
new underwears since it's not something anyone else can see.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
That's men's brains.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
You're wasting.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
You're wasting money.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
It's why three and one shampoo exists.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
It just look, it just makes me feel pretty.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Your underwear.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
The idea was first talked about by former Fed Reserve
chair Alan Greenspan. But there you go, predicting the economy
on men's underwear sales. All right, John Alden, great job
this week. Enjoy your week off. Next week we will
suffer with whoever we have to get through because you,
my friend of the definitive top top.
Speaker 7 (28:30):
I may try to make us an appearance at Long
John Silver.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Ah, you could be fun.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
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We'll see later. News Radio eight forty whs
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