Eddie & Rocky -- 11/19/25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
About all that is designed that gets you to separate
from your money at big time, big time.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Now are we willing to do that this year? That's
the thing, you know.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
It's Look, we're living in economy right now where you know,
the job market's great, Inflation has been brought down, but
prices are still very very high with everything.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
So what's that mean for the holidays? What does it
mean for the kiddos? What's it mean for that special
gift ed that you want to buy your girlfriend? Well, yeah,
I gotta get her something nice, they better or whatever,
take care of the McDonald's or something. But anyways, here
to discuss holiday spending. People are predicting it's down. The

(00:41):
stock market's been down a little bit here lately. To
discuss what exactly is going on is the guy we
love to talk to. He's our financial strategist. He's the
president of Cotton Wealth Management Associates. He is our good friend,
Steve Cotton. Steve, how we doing?

Speaker 3 (00:55):
We are just doing great, Eddie and Rocky. Glad to
be with you today.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
So Steve, how are we looking here? We are basically
on where we almost exactly five weeks out from Christmas.
Now we look and how are we feeling about it?

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Well, there are several things that I think about this,
And I just came from a briefing with the vice
Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board here in Dallas, and
we looked at all kinds of statistics nationally and in
Texas and all over the country. And while while consumer
sentiment is moderating and consumer sentiment, spending sentiment is moderating

(01:31):
and getting a little softer, guys, I have a theory
that people have been under a lot of stress this year,
and that we're moving into a time when family is
more important than ether than ever. And I think because
of the downturn and energy prices and maybe a little
bit better affordability on airfares and now with the lifting

(01:53):
of the government closure airlines easing up, I think people
are going to travel more than you think. And I
think we're going to spend into Christmas a little more
opportunistically than you think. And I think don't underestimate the
strength and the durability of the American economy in the
American family.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Okay, so you're thinking most part will be would you say,
similar to last year, better and worse.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
I think it will be similar to last year, and
it may even surprise you to hear me say it
may be a tad stronger.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
I don't think that the statistics we're seeing now are
necessarily indicative of what we're going to see heading into Christmas.
I think it's going to be better than people think.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Steve Cotton is our guest financial strategist, and Steve what
and these things that the stein market is so sick
local there's been a recent kind of downturn, isn't it?
Is that just natural cycle? What are we looking at?

Speaker 3 (02:56):
We're looking at profit taking people. Some people, some investors
have felt like the stock market was over valued and
do for a correction, and they wanted to get ahead
of that by taking profits off the table, which they did,
which of course lowers the market. Other people see this
as a tremendous buying opportunity. Good quality companies had been

(03:18):
on sale. Now the two of the three market, the
S and P and the Nasdaq, are back up positive.
The now thirty is down a little bit today. But
I think what we saw in the last two days
really was profit taking and just hedging the downside.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
See what are you seeing?

Speaker 1 (03:36):
What's your thoughts on the tariffs. And now, look, in theory,
I believed in the tar Look, I don't think there's
there's no denying that the US was getting screwed when
it came to what other countries were doing with tariffs
on our goods. Right, there's the reason why you go
to Japan. You don't see Ford trucks and all that

(03:57):
sort of thing. So in theory, I I agreed with
the tariffs. What's your thought on because they haven't exactly
sprung results, that doesn't mean that they won't. And I
know some have been relaxed a little bit. Just give
us your thoughts on that moving forward.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
Well, it's a you ask a good question. The tariff
story is a mixed story, and it's very complex.

Speaker 5 (04:19):
Let me give you an example.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
If I go to the liquor store and I want
to buy my favorite Irish whiskey and I find that
it's now ninety eight dollars a bottle, then I'll pivot
and I'll buy a good Kentucky whiskey instead forty eight
dollars a bottle, So I switch products. The American people
do the same thing. Now, there are some areas Trump

(04:42):
put a fifty percent tariff on copper. We have to
import about fifty percent of our copper in this country,
coppers used in new home construction, everything, and that kind
of a tariff is going to be inflationary. But terraffs
are not necessary automatically inflationary. It depends on the commodity,

(05:03):
depends on the country, depends on the elasticity of demand
and supply, depends on a lot of things. Right now,
the tariffs in general have not been inflationary, which I
think surprises the analysts. What do it look like going
into twenty twenty six is anybody's guests. But if Trump
manages to push down foreign tariffs on our goods and

(05:26):
services and eliminate some of the non tariff barriers to
our entry into their markets, that is going to be
a huge positive for the American economy in twenty six
and twenty seven.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
And that's what I'm going to ask you, Steve. I
wanted to ask you is Okay, we're here, we are
in the obviously getting towards the end of the fourth quarter.
What do you see for next year? In general? It
sounds like you're very optimistic.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
I am very cautiously positive, and I'll tell you why,
because the Congress has reauthorized the Trump twenty seventeen tax
cuts and expanded it with no tax on tips, no
tax on overtime. I think people are getting something like
a four thousand dollars tax credit for their Social Security income.

(06:14):
They weren't able to make Social Security income tax free,
so the compromise was, well, let's give somebody, you know,
let's give people below a certain income level at least
a tax credit. That will be helpful. The Fed is
going to continue to cut interest rates. I think very strong,
very powerful of thirty year mortgage rates are going to

(06:35):
you know, continue to dip down. That's going to be positive.
There is so much positive and that's even before we
get to these Trump trade deals, like the trillion dollar
deal that he announced with Saudi Arabia at the White
House yesterday. We're going to have such a wind at

(06:55):
our backs over the next five years. I really think
that we're to have a very strong economy and the
markets will reflect that. So if you can buy at
these lower rates as an investor, I would do so.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
Steve Cotton is our guests, and Steve, what do you
what's your forecast or thought on the effect of or
the impact of AI on the economy, because on one hand,
you hear a lot of horror stories that AI is
replacing a lot of jobs and it's a big thing.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
But I don't know.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
I feel like it's it's not going to come as
fast as we may think it's going to come.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
With your thoughts, I think you're right. I think it's
that's too is going to be a mixed story. I
think there will be some the insurance industry or the
accounting industry rather thinks that AI is going to be
tremendously helpful to their to their financial analysis work. I
know in my own case as a financial advisor, I

(07:51):
now use an app called jump Ai, and it has
taken the time it takes me to put notes in
my record keeping after a client meeting has taken it
from an hour to seven minutes, a tremendous increase in efficiency.
There will be other areas where AI will cost us jobs.

(08:12):
There will be other areas where AI will create new
types of jobs. But I think overall it's going to
be a help There will be bad actors that misuse it.
The cyber criminals will misuse it, the crooks and the
scammers will misuse it. So I think it'll be a
mixed bag. But I think on balance, if it helps

(08:33):
us analyze potential drug therapies more quickly, that could be
a huge help for public health. So it'll be a
mixed story. And it's just like the Internet, some good,
some bad, you won't know until we're five or ten
years out.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yeah, I just feel like, kind of like the.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
Dot com bo, everyone thought, you know, if you know,
made a website that was going to save your business,
Well not necessarily in that kind of a bubblee. Just
like that, if you have a failing business, all the
AI in the world isn't going to help you out
if you're not doing things right.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
So it's not some universal fix in my opinion.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
No, Well, every time we've had any kind of technological evolution,
they are winners and losers, and don't underestimate the winners.
When when the Henry Ford started putting Model t's on
the on the roads, the Budgy equip manufacturers went out
of business, we lost those jobs, but we created a

(09:34):
new auto industry.

Speaker 5 (09:37):
There are all kinds of stories like that.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
But AI is going to enable us to do more
analysis more quickly. It's already had tremendous applications in the
defense arena. And you know a company that that you
never heard of a year ago, Pallanteer is now one
of the stars in the AI world. And that's all

(10:02):
because they do pattern recognition. So I think there'll be
a mixed bag, but there will be bad that will
come along with the good, just like in all technological changes.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
All right, Well that's Steve Cotton. We will let you go, buddy.
It is always our pleasure. Thanks so much for stepping
in today. People want to find out more about you.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
Where can they go, Well, we have a website Cotton
c O T t O n WMA dot com Cotton WMA.
We have clients all over the country and all over
the world. We just like helping people and doing it
with strong ethics and a stewardship model.

Speaker 5 (10:37):
That's who we are.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
Steve, Thanks so much, buddy.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
Okay, glad to be with you.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Thanks Steve. Steve Cotton, our financial guy optimistic. I'm liking that.
That's first. I've yeah, you hear the doom and gloom.
I want to hear somebody say it's all good. Yeah,
that's good. I mean, because all of this is based
on emotion anyway. So I feel like I have enough
people say.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
Things are going to be fine, and people will take
the money they have and go blow it.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
And if there's that's terrible, then they'll save it.

Speaker 6 (11:08):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
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Speaker 5 (11:13):
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Speaker 2 (13:08):
In a side hustle. Doesn't it mean? Yes, an uber
or something like that, or a lift or you know,
do door dash. Well, this lady in South Africa had
a whole different thing going on. Rosemanissi, thirty nine, was
in court. This has been earlier in the month, but
she faced the charges of illegal possession of human tissue.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah, every market has a niche, right, how.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
Are you getting the black market human tissue trade? Like
you said, isn't doing door dash a little easier? I
don't know. Menissi is a cleaner at a maternity ward
at the hospital there in South Africa. Scarity officers were
tipped off that she was seeking buyers for human body tissues.
They arrested her with a plastic bag of human placenta.

(14:00):
Oh my god, she was trying to sell. Come on, man,
I mean, what does one get for that? That's what
I want to know. And maybe we'll go into it.
And how do you fence it? How do you get
connected in that business? You know what I'm saying, yeah,
you gotta you know, you know somebody and hey, I'll

(14:21):
pay you this if you let me do this. And
I assume that's how it works, that's how all those
things work. You have to Oh, I think I'll go
to my friend doctor Frankenstein. Maybe you know somebody.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
Yeah, and how do you get in touch with the
people that want those things between? Yeah, and there's that's
not a business that's out there, and then you can
ask a lot of people, Hey how do you do it?

Speaker 2 (14:46):
She Police say she may face further charges. She has
not gone to trial yet. But like I said, I
don't know how you work yourself into that underworld. Is
that on the dark web or something.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
I feel like that's something you get you dip your
toe in and you start going down the path and
you're like, how did I end up here?

Speaker 2 (15:07):
That's not one of those things that I end up here. Yeah,
you could get in and get out, you know, you
know what I'm saying. Yeah, Okay, you sell some stolen
you fence some already. How about this? You sell a
half a pound a pot or something for your buddy
and you're like, okay, I know a guy you'll buy
this and just give it to me and I'll do that.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Okay, do that, Yeah, make a few bucks I can
pay for my news.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
That. That's out right. But once you get into the
human tissue trade, it seems like you might be a
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Speaker 11 (21:27):
Catch the Louis of the US.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
They became the first all girl group to have a
UK number one single with this song they Love. I
love motown music. Oh dude, oh yeah, I just yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
I've said before, but when I was young, that's where
the classic rock stations played. When I was you know,
seven eight, nine years old listening to radio in the
car by day. You know, it was a lot of
those not all that, but you know it was a
lot of the you know, classic rock. But you have
you got a lot more motown now than you are,
ben then you do now, Oh for sure, it didn't

(22:03):
even the oldies so called oldies stations don't play motown anymore.
I don't. It's all music from Okay, I get it.
It's all music from the eighties and eighties and early
nineties and stuff. Yeah, I think their van is on
the oldiest station these days. Oh for sure. Let me
tell you something, man, when I'm walking around Kroger and

(22:27):
I'm hearing Welcome to the Jungle, no fact, that's a fact.
Yeah yeah, I mean some of them. I've been in
a grocery store with dead before, and I'll be like,
I look at the that's that's welcome to the jungle.
And then later on I'm hearing like smells like teen
Spirit or something like the oldies station. Life is weird, man.

(22:49):
My dear late mother would have had a stroke back
then they're playing that elevator music. When you walked around
in the stores, you know, or maybe any store you
went into yeah, but uh no, that's that's a great song.
Obviously a great group, a ton of hits. I guess.
The main production team was Holland Doser in Holland.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
They were giant, giant right just where they just write
and produce everything right.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
They had like a little there was a little stable
of these guys that all hung out together. I mean,
Smokey Robinson was in the mix, Quincy Jones, Arry Gordy,
you know, he started kind of started it all. But yeah,
those guys were I see, I have the serious XM.
So I listened to the Smoky Robinson motownsitting the channel

(23:36):
all the time, and Smokey's always talking about the old days.
And Smokey's got to be like eighty five. Yeah, he
was old around was a kid. But one time, it's
kind of a sad memory, really rock. Not that sad
for me, but it was when I was first came

(23:58):
to town. I was working at SAIM here in town.
I was just on the air part time, and my
girlfriend and I she had moved down from Canton. We'd
gone to school together and she loved Smokey Robinson him
and so through the radio stage, Smokey came to music Hall,

(24:20):
and so I got his tickets and she did know it.
And then I came and so, like the day before,
I said, look, I got us whatever it was ninth
Row Center seats and music Hall for Smoky and she
went nuts. Woke up the next day and had the
worst case of flu I've ever seen anybody in my
life have. She couldn't get out of miserable. She was

(24:45):
sick as a dog. And I was like, I don't
want to go to this show without your baby, like
be so smoky too. But she's like, no, you go.
And her one of her fa write song by Smoking
Robinson The Miracles was ooh baby baby. Oh yeah, great song.

(25:05):
Guess what song you open with?

Speaker 6 (25:06):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (25:07):
No?

Speaker 2 (25:08):
Did you have the heart to tell her that? I was, Well,
he opened with it. He kind of did a little
melody when he opened with it, but he walked down
on stage going oh baby, and then you know he
came back and did the whole song later on. Uh,
but she was it, get well, what song does he do?
I said, well, he kind of opened with the ooh

(25:29):
baby baby and she started crying.

Speaker 1 (25:33):
That's wroth, that's rough speaking of music, and when is
the when's the right time to turn on the Christmas music.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
I'm post Thanksgiving right if not later. To me, Uh,
I mean, because I used to mess with my wife
all the time because she's big. You know, I've always
talked about her being Christmas Mary there and uh so
on the A Spectrum, you know, they have those music channels. Yeah,

(26:04):
and so they have music of the season, and so
you got that as well. Yeah, And so they would
during on the music of the season thing, they would
always have Halloween music and then like two or three
days after Halloween it would switch to Christmas music. So
she'd get out of bed one day and I'd have

(26:24):
the Christmas music playing and that would be on like well,
let's say two weeks ago from right now. It would
have been on November secon or something. And so I
had it on all the time, and I told her
this year, I was like, I got so sick of
listening to Christmas music last year. We're going to wait
time for Thanksgiving. And I don't care. You can jam

(26:46):
it all you want to, and even she got sick
of it. You do, man, you just can't. I mean,
too much of anything good is too much? Enough's enough,
and too much as nasty as my dear late father.
And now they have I don't know if you've noticed
this or not, they have a twenty four seven three
sixty five Christmas channel. You can listen to Christmas music

(27:07):
in August if you want to. Those people should be
brought out back and shot.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
I don't know, you're listening to Christmas music and like,
you know, July fifth, Okay, yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
No, maybe as a joke on the fourth of July
or something. Let's listen to as a joke and listen
to it for joke for you know, fifteen minutes. But yeah, no,
I don't I don't get it. But hey, knock yourself out.

Speaker 6 (27:35):
It's that.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
If that's your jam rock, you just go right ahead.
We'll do yeah, Christmas music topic as we get later
into get into December, we'll do that a little bit. Yeah,
well we can go the baby it's cold outside thing.
We can talk about that because.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
Yeah, but then the pendulum, this one swung back. You
can listen to that song and radio stations, oh oh
for sure. Yeah, but I was in the hot.

Speaker 2 (28:00):
They came out with that new version of it, and
basically it's it switched roles instead of making it sound
all PC and stuff. It sounds like they're girls like going, hey,
I don't want to go home, Let's go to bed.
He's like, oh, nope, you better go. He's like, no,
I want you you know right, He's like, let's go.
Let's rock and roll. He's like, no, here's your cat's Yeah.

(28:23):
That's the ultimate early like twenty twenty two scenario. So
rock on the other side of that coin. You know,
I never went for the booty calls back when I
was a younger man. I was too much of a gentleman.
How about you. See, I knew you'd say that. I
thought I'd save you from you What are you talking about?

(28:44):
But I'd save you from yourself. Well, you better be
careful with that stuff, because it was out. This happened
about a month ago. I'll just read the first line.
A New Jersey woman has pleaded guilty to the four
am touring of a man's home after he fell asleep
inside and stood her up on a booty call. Wow,

(29:06):
she got that upsets she went and let his house
on fire.

Speaker 17 (29:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (29:11):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
Uh da da da da da As detailed in court records,
uh Tasha Russell had traveled to the home of the
victim Curtis Stokes, who told cops he had in fighted
and defend it to his residence. To him, Stokes outed
that Russell was a side chick he had been seating

(29:34):
for a while. Did she know she was a side chick?
I guess so, the uh, it says the don the affairs.
Pre dawn communication had consisted of Russell texting Stokes high,
to which he said, bring y'all over here, yea. And
by the time that he she had arrived, Stokes had

(29:55):
fallen asleep and didn't responded to the door. And since
Russell sent a text him saying you wasted my money
to come out here, which he still didn't respond to, then,
it says then she sent a series of threatening texts
you're smoked, another one I see you want to die,

(30:17):
Another one I swear to God, I hope you die.
She then went to a Conico gas station and purchased lighter,
fluid matches, and a cigarette lighter. He returned to his
home and set a fire outside the rear apartment's sole.
It had one door in and out of this apartment,
and she was burning it down. God, and so he escaped.

(30:39):
Though he's alive Stokes Old Pelasia woke to the smell
of smoking, was unable to leave via the door as
the fire was too intense. He ended up suffering first
and second degree burns. Forcefully removed an entire window frame
to escape. Wearing only a T shirt, only a T shirt,
and covered head to toe in sweet and ash. He

(31:02):
ran to the nearby police headquarters to report the blaze.
So here's this dude running down the street naked from
the waist down and just a T shirt while his
apartment's burning down, and this lady's laughing her butt off. Now,
I've had some crazy ex girlfriend experiences and you have too. Yes,
we've shared some of these, but that's a whole another

(31:23):
level that I had kill you. Let me tell you something, man,
that is next level. When I mean she legit tried
to kill him. Yeah, and she said she was going
to Yeah, I'm going to kill you, and then she
actually acted on it. Yeah. So it looks like she's

(31:45):
going to be going to jail for a little bit
minimum of eight years.

Speaker 5 (31:48):
Apparently.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
I think that's fair. You got to set the example there. See,
that's what but that's what the guy gets. You've got
to be a gentleman like had fingers. I never did
that stuff.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yeah, And you never caught yourself in a situation where
someone wanted to burn your house down.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
Nah, I just show up at their house drunk and go,
what's up? Hey, Okay, I done what I meant? Get
him out of here.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
Have you ever like Daddy's call it a girl like
like a thousand times at night?

Speaker 5 (32:18):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (32:19):
Maybe when I was yeah, like sixteen or something, right,
But yeah, no, not, I had too much pride.

Speaker 5 (32:26):
But.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
I called him.

Speaker 6 (32:30):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
I did go to one of my ex's house one time.
I knew she had a date coming over and I
didn't have anything to do that night because the girl
I was supposed to go out with sted me up,
and so I showed up at her house and that
she had made the mistake of telling me I got
a date coming to pick me up at seven o'clock
or whatever it was, And I said, okay, cool, cool.
So I showed up at her house at like five thirty.

(32:51):
You got to get out here. I was like, ah,
I brought a bottle of wine, Let's have some wine.
So I just sat down here to couch and started
drinking wine. And she was like, get out of here,
my god, I don't worry about it. I'll leave. So
I hung out until about ten till seven, and I
finally left. All right, he's in confront yea.

Speaker 6 (33:10):
And.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
The further that story. I ended up stopping by Mike
McConnell's house and I walked in and his wife was
in labor. Really yeah, it is cool. Yeah, And so
I was like, you want me to leave, you're kind
of busy. They were both like, hang on, I'm not

(33:34):
going to the hospital for a while. So I hung
out with him well, and she's sitting there. I'm like, okay,
I'm good. He kind of bothering me all the screaming
and the outbursts. I went to Frisians and got his
vegetable soup. It's a long story with that. We check
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So you know that tattoo that Mike Tyson has on
his face right bose eye, Remember he like oddly got
it like a couple of days before a fight and
had to postpone it. Anyway, So a couple guys, little
little bro trip. They go over to Bangkok, Okay, this
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We went we went out, and for some reason I
had the great idea of getting of all of us
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you know, is non like not the real thing. Well
you would think it would go away. He realized the

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decision was not good because, as he said, quote, I
did not know that black hennah is illegal in the
US and can lead to permanent scarring and infection of
your face. So he gets home and the tattoo is
not going away. In fact, it's like blistering and oozing.
And yeah, my whole tattoo is blistering and oozing. And

(36:54):
we just looked up everywhere that there are a lot
of people have gotten this same kind of thing right
in the same spot and if you had permanent scarring.
So he's like realizing that this thing could be one
of being permanent. I might have a permanent Mike Tyson
tattoo on my face is starting to blister, scar and
oos and kind of freaking out. Blah blah blah blah blah.

(37:14):
So and there's no real follow up to it. We're
kind of waiting to see if this guy look to you. Yeah,
according to the f T, a hannah itself has approved
only for use as a hair dye in the United States.
And I guess this cron this certain kind black hannah
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a lot of problems.

Speaker 2 (37:43):
It's one thing, if you had it like on your arm,
but like it's right on your face. And that's kind
of that's part of the plot of Hangover to seen
that exactly. Yeah, the two or three and one of
them gets too with with that. We got Jay Ratt
left coming up. We'll we'll ask him about perhaps some

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Speaker 2 (43:45):
Zoo Cree almost exactly five weeks out from Christmas. Thanksgiving
week from tomorrow. That means the heavy travel season is
definitely here. When you say it like that, five weeks out,
o man, wow, Gracie weeks boom. That just hit me
today and then it's five weeks right, But like you said,
lots of travels starting next week and then for the

(44:08):
next month and a half. In here to discuss, uh
the traffic woes or maybe not so much.

Speaker 1 (44:13):
Our good friend Jay Ratliff, who's back on the men,
Looking good, feeling good?

Speaker 2 (44:17):
Jay? How are you?

Speaker 21 (44:19):
I'm doing very well, brother, and too many things to
be thankful for it to be otherwise you know that.

Speaker 2 (44:23):
Well, go welcome back. It's great to have you.

Speaker 5 (44:25):
Man.

Speaker 21 (44:26):
So it's I got I got an education in Bell's
palsy and uh yeah, just getting ready for church three
weeks ago and the left side of my face just
starts to drop, and you know, you head to the
hospital have it checked out immediately, and just a viral
infection that they said would take a little bit of
time to recuperate from. They called it mild, which was good,

(44:46):
and uh not too many people wereun My family were upset.
I wasn't talking much and I don't really.

Speaker 5 (44:50):
Want to take you that.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
There you go. I can tell you my brother went
through that few years back, and uh, he's recovered just
just fine. So you heard us talking here about the
holiday travel season and obviously a lot of worry about
the shutdown and all that stuff, and our travel was affected.
What are we looking at here? Is it going to
be back one hundred percent?

Speaker 4 (45:13):
What can you.

Speaker 5 (45:14):
Expect it will be? Now?

Speaker 21 (45:16):
Keep in mind, before the shutdown, Eddie, we were averaging
because we had a shortage of air traffic controllers, which
we still have today. We were averaging about thirty nine
hundred delays a day. That's going to continue. It will
subside a bit, but that's been the norm for an
extended period of time and we're still going to be
fighting that. But as far as the airlines getting back

(45:36):
to a full schedule. Yes, the CEOs are telling us
that Airlines is going to have all hands on deck,
full schedule and they will be ready for what's going
to begin the travel season as of this Friday, because
really it goes from the twenty first and through maybe
the first of December as far as the Thanksgiving travel season.

Speaker 5 (45:55):
So that's going to be good.

Speaker 21 (45:57):
And of course airlines have a lot of practice with
this because if if the three of us are talking
about a massive snowstorm in the Northeast, it takes them
a few days to get through that and.

Speaker 5 (46:07):
Then very quickly they're back on schedule.

Speaker 21 (46:10):
They're very good about adapting and getting all the pieces
back in place where they can maximize things, and you.

Speaker 5 (46:16):
Know at the the end of the month.

Speaker 21 (46:18):
If it were something let's say that we were closer
to the end of the month, the airlines have a
little bit more of a challenge because you have pilots
and others that have a maximum number of flight hours
they can have in the course of a month and
they can't exceed that, and sometimes that kind of hinders
moving around some of those pieces. But the fact that
we've been able to do it in the middle of
the month. Now it's going to be in good shape.

(46:38):
And my biggest worry is weather at this point in time.
We don't want any weather systems to come through of
any significance next week, because when you have nearly every
plane that is super full, there's no place to put anybody.
So we need a lot of on time flights, no
technical issues, no weather issues. But I suspect the airlines
will be up and ready to go.

Speaker 2 (46:59):
That's good.

Speaker 1 (46:59):
And then in terms of we had our guy Steve
Cotton on earlier Financial Guy, and he predicted holiday travel
even despite high prices of some things, certainly goods and services,
he's predicting it's not going to affect travel at all,
and airline travel maybe even more than last year.

Speaker 21 (47:19):
I think we're certainly going to see that Thanksgiving. We
could probably see that as we end up the end
of the year as well, Rocky, And what we're seeing
at this point in time is a lot of people
that are fly with Thanksgiving. They know to buy their
tickets in December of last year January of this year,
so they've been able to lock in some really good
fairs and pretty much save some money as they travel
others that waited a little bit less for the savings,

(47:42):
and there are still some deals out there in some markets.
If you're looking you have the Thanksgiving morning that Thursday morning,
the twenty seventh, coming back two days later on the
twenty ninth. There are some markets that have some discounted
airfairs that are not super discounted, but there's still some
decent deals. As airlines are looking at some of the
advanced bookings that are still not everywhere they want it

(48:03):
to be, so they're tossing out some deals. And if
you know what the average fair is between the cities
you're flying, and it's three hundred and fifty dollars, you
don't want to pay it. And then you check it
early one morning, and that's the best time to check
fairs and it's down to one seventy eight to twenty eight.
You know it's a deal, and you know to jump
on it right then because they may only float maybe
six seats at that discounted price, and if you see it,

(48:27):
you need to grab it because if not, it.

Speaker 5 (48:29):
Won't last long.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
So Jay, I'm always wondering about this. Traveling during the holidays,
when are the best times to travel. You mentioned maybe
traveling on Thanksgiving morning, is that a good idea? I mean,
and then flying back on flying back on the weekend,
it seems like that's going to be a mess. And Christmas,
Christmas New Year is that type of thing. When are

(48:50):
good days to fly?

Speaker 21 (48:52):
Well if you are, if you take away the fact
that you know, you know issues with cancelations, you know,
I'm never a fan of traveling.

Speaker 5 (49:01):
The day of because anything can happen.

Speaker 21 (49:04):
Because if you wait until Thanksgiving morning to fly, if
that's your choice that you made reservations a long time ago,
and weather kicks in, there might be a delay in
getting you at a destination and it can wipe out
your holiday. So it's like going on a cruise or
some of the long away to vacation that you have.
Last thing you want to do is wait for the
last minute to travel. Most people, and they're taking cruises
all go a day early. Other types of things. They'll

(49:26):
try to get there early, eat a hotel room or
what have you so that they don't have to have
the worry the day of travel to get there on time.
But probably the best time to travel, without any doubt
is the first flight in the morning. If you can,
especially during the holidays, because the morning flights are the
originating flights that are as such because the flight came

(49:47):
in the night before and it makes up the next
morning's originator. And from an airline standpoint, there's no more
important flight for us in the industry than the early
morning departure. It is the one a day that cannot
leave late because if it leaves late, the second flight
could leave late. If that aircraft is used five times

(50:07):
that day, it just continues to build and delays cost
airlines a great deal of money. The other benefit about
flying out early in the morning if you can, is
if there's a problem the night before with your airplane
coming in, the airlines are going to know about it.
They're going to notify you, typically the night before saying, look,
we don't want you to get to the airport. Your
flight's been canceled. Here's the options you have, which one

(50:28):
would you like? And the other thing to obviously remember
is when you're traveling through the travel season, ay, get
to the airport where you're walking in the door two
hours early. I have people that say, Jay, I get
to the airport two hours early, but then it takes
me twenty eight minutes to find.

Speaker 5 (50:41):
A parking spot.

Speaker 21 (50:42):
Well, now you're down to ninety minutes, and you don't
want to be cutting at that close because the lines
are going to be longer.

Speaker 5 (50:47):
Eddie, you mentioned it. A lot of people never.

Speaker 21 (50:49):
Haven't flown in a long long time or flying. Some
of them still take fireworks with them to blast at grandmalls,
and since we call those explosives, they're not allowed on
the airplane. So that's going to slow down the security line.
And you just don't ever, ever, ever want to cut
it that close. You want to get to the airport,
get through the security checkpoint, get at the gate of departure,

(51:09):
and be there long before it you need to, so
you just don't have the added stress of anything as
you're going. And obviously make sure the airlines have a
way to get a hold of you in the event
there is a problem with your itinerary. And remember because
Thanksgiving and the end of the year travel seasons are
so busy with many of the airplanes packed to ninety
eight ninety nine one hundred percent capacity. If your flight's

(51:32):
canceled and you're going to Orlando, maybe every flight going
to Orlando for four days is filled. But what you
can say is, can you get me into Tampa? Can
you get me in to Saint Pete? Can you get
me to Daytona Beach some airport around there where, Yes,
you may have to rent a car and drive that
final leg, But if you give the agent you're working
with multiple cities to check, there's a much greater chance

(51:53):
that you can get to your destination in a very
fast fashion versus sitting down and just waiting for your
light to your destination, which many times could take two
or three days before any number of seats might open
up where you can get out.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
So, Jay are coming into the new year, are we
going to see is the let me ask you this,
in your opinion, is this air traffic controller thing going
to resolve itself? What is going to happen with that situation?

Speaker 21 (52:19):
Well, Donald Trump, President Trump made it a priority when
he came into office, and I was thrilled to see it,
because we've had air traffic control shortages for amount of
a number of years, at number of decades really when
you look at it. So they're talking about ramping up
the total number of air traffic controllers from fifteen hundred
to over two thousand a year, which is good. The

(52:40):
problem is the facilities. We have to increase the facility
size so that we can get that number through. We
also have a shortage of trainers from the Federal Aviation
Administration for the air traffic controllers, so we're going to
have to also try to make sure that that issue
is addressed. They're talking about bringing in the air traffic
controllers from other countries to help eat up the process.

(53:01):
But as long as it remains a priority, I think
within the next two to three years, issue will be closer.
Because remember when you if the three of us wanted
to be an air traffic controller, we've got maybe a
five year journey before we're working by ourselves. So it's
never going to be a quick fix and as such,
it's going to take an extended amount of attention from

(53:21):
whatever administration to get it done. And President Trump has said, look,
the technology is outdated.

Speaker 5 (53:27):
We've talked about that multiple.

Speaker 21 (53:28):
Times, and we've obviously had personnel issues that have to
be addressed. And if those can be taken care of
President Trump, if he does that for the next three
years while he's in office, it will help aviation for
at least the next ten to fifteen years. So this
is a huge, huge issue that I just hope doesn't
lose any of its momentum because we've got to get

(53:49):
it fixed fast. Because look, to me, the aviation industry
is an integral part of the nation's economy and it's
part of that great, big economic engine. So the more
that we can do to help that by investing in
proper air traffic controllers of technology that's needed. Guys, it's
going to do nothing but help our country, especially if
air travel is expected to double number wise over the

(54:11):
course of the next fifteen.

Speaker 5 (54:12):
To twenty years.

Speaker 2 (54:13):
It's crazy. Wow with that, Jay ratleff Is it is
always good info, buddy. We appreciate it. And again it
is great to have you back. You have a great holiday.
If we don't talk to you, man, have great thanksgiving.

Speaker 5 (54:26):
Love to be thankful for guys, you too, Thank you,
you guy.

Speaker 2 (54:28):
Thank you our good friend Jay Ratliffe. And double the
amount of flyers in the next ten to fifteen years. Bro, woof, woof.
I know, I know, God, I want to fly more,
but I don't want everyone else to correct what less
to fly? Yeah, less people, I mean, that was the

(54:48):
one thing I gotta say during COVID. Oh, I totally
agree with you, dude.

Speaker 1 (54:53):
And even during some of the governments shut there was
a feeling there was less people on the flights.

Speaker 2 (54:58):
It is wonderful. Yeah, during COVID. Oh, do you get
on a plane, there'll be ten people on right, there's
nobody sitting in the row ahead of you or behind you.
There's nobody sitting. Even deb couldn't sit next to me,
which I love that. Oh yeah, yeah, because he gets
all stinky in that right, But no, I mean I
don't want it to be back to that. But two
times the number. Let's go be rugged. Yes with that,

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Speaker 1 (57:24):
Ford won their first four games of the year. Louisville
have won their first four games of the year, including
being beating UK last week and now the showdown this
Friday Herritage Bank Arena. You see the Louisville and join
us right now. How about this the head coach of
the Bearcats, Wes Miller. Coach Miller, how are you?

Speaker 4 (57:44):
I'm doing good, ROCKI thanks for having me on.

Speaker 1 (57:46):
Yeah, absolutely so. I caught a little bit of your game.
What the last game against who's Mount Saint Mary's. It
looks like you guys struggled a little bit early on
in that game and then kind of turn it on.
How do you feel about how your team's playing at
the moment.

Speaker 4 (58:02):
You know, I think we've been a work in progress.
We have a lot of new faces this year, so
I really liked the group. I've liked their approach. You know,
there's been stretches, and you mentioned the last game. There's
a stretch in the second half where we played the
way that we practice on both ends and things look
really good, and then there's been stretches here early we

(58:23):
deviate from that and we have to get back to
work and try to learn from those things the next
day in practice. I do believe there's been enough good
stretches that if we can get more consistent, we could
be a really, really good basketball team. And I think
this group's committed to doing that. So I'm excited about
the year. But we have a very difficult game, as

(58:44):
you mentioned on Friday night, and we're gonna have to
be more consistent to be competitive in that game.

Speaker 2 (58:49):
We're talking to Wes Miller from UC and coach, how
do you and the guys feel about the game being
moved to a Heritage Bank Center a little different environment there.

Speaker 5 (59:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (59:00):
Well, I've said this a couple of times today publicly.
Already you know, no bones about it. Guys, I'd love
to play that game at home and fit there. I
would imagine it. I'd imagine those those guys when we
return it next year, would like to play that game
in their home arena and not a neutral facility in Louisville.
So I think that would be the preference.

Speaker 5 (59:21):
That's not what's happening.

Speaker 4 (59:22):
Uh. The fact of the matter is we're playing the
sixth ranked team in the country. There's some history and
rivalry to Louisville Cincinnati that goes goes back long before
any of the people in the program, now any people
in either program. Now we're a part of it, but
there's some there's some history there. Uh, it's it's a
rivalry game. It's going to be here in our city.

(59:44):
So there's a lot of good here. But if if, if,
if being honest, I'd much rather play it at home.
And I think people understand that.

Speaker 2 (59:52):
It doesn't even need to be said, because let me
ask you this.

Speaker 1 (59:55):
So I'm you know, knee deep in football, calling college
football games, meeting with with college foot coaches, and a
lot of talked about tell me every week just about
how much the game has changed? Right with nil and
portal and all that. How about you as a basketball coach.
I'm just curious how much the game and you know,
instituting a program and culture and all that has changed

(01:00:18):
since you started coaching.

Speaker 4 (01:00:21):
Well, it has changed, I'd say over the last five years.
It's been as significant a change as there's ever been
in this industry.

Speaker 5 (01:00:31):
But I'm one of these people that what didn't.

Speaker 4 (01:00:33):
Hear complaining or him and haunt about it? It does nothing.
So my job is to do what's right for Cincinnati,
for our basketball program, and to work at that every
single day. So I don't get into the conversations about it,
but to answer the question honestly and directly, it's completely
different in so many different ways. What's not different, though,

(01:00:54):
is that we still get to go in that practice
him every day and coach basketball. We still get to
work with people. It used to be eighteen twenty two.
It might be like eighteen to twenty eight now, but
we still get to work with young people. There's still relationships,
you still get you find kids that want excellence, Like
some of the things that were have always been prevalent

(01:01:16):
are still there and I'm grateful for that. And then gosh,
there's so much that's changed. But what does complaining do.
Let's go figure it out. That's our jobs.

Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
That's it got to adopt coach Wes Miller as our
guest right now, and coach, looking at the stats, Boby
Miller leading guys in points, rebounds, blocks, how big of
an impact does he having early in this season?

Speaker 5 (01:01:37):
He's been great.

Speaker 4 (01:01:39):
You know, I think he's a senior in college. He's
always had such tremendous ability. You know, seven foot or
six eleven, and he can dribble past you, you can
play multiple positions offensively, can guard all five positions on defense,
and he's always had the ability to do all that.
I think he's learning now to play with aggression. He's

(01:02:02):
playing with consistent effort. He's learning how to control the
things that he can control, how hard he runs the floor,
how hard he crashes the offensive board, you know, how
much defensive intensity has Like, he's starting to figure out
how to play with those with some force and play
with some consistency in those areas. And it's been really
neat to watch him not just have a good start.

(01:02:23):
But you've seen that in our fall and preseason practices too.

Speaker 2 (01:02:26):
Coach, you mentioned you're playing number six Louisville here on Friday.
Talk about them. Give the listeners right now, what do
they do well and a key for you to stopping that.

Speaker 5 (01:02:38):
Well.

Speaker 4 (01:02:38):
Listen, they put together a great class recruiting class, portal class.
They have a freshman point guard and kel Brown that
will be a lottery pick in the next year's draft.
So they have a tremendous team. They have done a
great job there and they're they're picked is a national
championship contender for a reason, right they they have they

(01:02:59):
have a chance to have a great year and really
do that. So they played four games. Of the four,
they've scored over one hundred and three of them and
I think they got ninety two or ninety four and
the other one, so they really score it. They play
with pace, they have a ton of shooting on the floor,
and again they're they're a great team. But what a
tremendous opportunity for us here early in the year, you know,

(01:03:22):
to get out and and and compete against the team
that's been picked in the preseason to go to a
final four. It's here in our city. I'm excited for
the game. I know our players are as well, no.

Speaker 1 (01:03:34):
Doubt and I know Barracat fans are excited. The game
is Friday Heritage Bang Arena. I know there's some tickets
still out there, and you know you want Barricat Nation
right to rise up and fill that place up and
make it hard on the cards.

Speaker 4 (01:03:46):
Right, Well, heck ya, guys, And I got like I
think it was in fifth third, and then I got winns.
I don't pay attention to all this crap, and nor
am I in charge of it that I got wins at.
The ticket prices were outrageous, and I've made the people
that are running the game aware of it. I heard
this today, So I want to go ahead and say
it that Planet Fitness is a sponsor and that they

(01:04:08):
came out and if you type in Planet fifty and
the ticket Master as a code, you can get fifty
percent off to any ticket on Ticketmaster. So wow, fans,
our fans should be able to come out and watch
the Bearcats playing Cincinnati, and it should be affordable and
and I hope, I hope that helps uh and I
hope we see as many Bearcats as we can there.

(01:04:29):
But we're excited for the opportunity and we can't wait
to take the floor on Friday.

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
All right, coach, we really appreciate it, man, thanks so much.

Speaker 4 (01:04:36):
Yeah, thanks guys.

Speaker 2 (01:04:37):
Look, coach, thanks coach Wes Miller and again worth the
worth noting that that's a six thirty game on Friday, right, Harrysbank,
and he is right. I looked up some the ticket price.

Speaker 1 (01:04:49):
I mean, good god, really, you know, but but I
mean with that that code he just mentioned fifty percent
off now of a sudden boom and then there's still
some manageable ticket, but there's some prices. I was like, gee, whiz,
but you know, so some affordable tickets there and type
in the Plane of Fitness code.

Speaker 2 (01:05:06):
Get you some money off. It's gonna be a good
root on the cats.

Speaker 6 (01:05:09):
Man, come on with that.

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Speaker 1 (01:07:02):
I'm looking at a painting that has become the most
expensive work of modern art. Okay, so we're not talking
to the Mona Lisa and you know Wedding at Cana
and all those famous ones.

Speaker 5 (01:07:16):
It's the.

Speaker 2 (01:07:19):
Let's say it's called that clemps as an artist. I
don't know. Clemp's a portrait of Elizabeth Letter, which is
like a nineteen fourteen, nineteen sixteen depiction of the daughter
of one of the artist's biggest patrons. Was it soue
the bees?

Speaker 5 (01:07:36):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:07:37):
That's the auction house just sold this historic painting for
two hundred and thirty six point four million dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:07:46):
Now there was a copy of the paint. Is that
is that that looked like much?

Speaker 5 (01:07:50):
To you?

Speaker 2 (01:07:52):
It looks like somebody you go to, it's like it
looks like.

Speaker 1 (01:07:55):
Something like I would paint. We're like, oh, well, the
person who's like Torso is entirely too long. They're like,
are too short and her neck is too long? Come on,
and that is my gripe. Now you go into a
like a museum and you see some of these paintings,
these portraits, You're like, my god, yeah, that's unbelievably talented.
And some of this I'm like, like, I say I

(01:08:18):
could do it, but you know someone who's like decent,
I feel I could do that? And why is that
worth two and thirty six million up bucks? See, I'm
I wish I knew more about art because I don't.
I know next to nothing.

Speaker 5 (01:08:31):
I know.

Speaker 2 (01:08:32):
If I know what I like when I see it,
it's you know, I'm not stupid, but you know I've
been to I've been to the famous museums and stuff.
And I on our honeymoon we went to the Louver
in Paris and I'm walking around here looking to that
stuff and I'm like, am I supposed to like that.

Speaker 1 (01:08:49):
Yeah, yeah, there's but again there's some where you're like,
that is talent, that's beautiful, like a people like paint right,
like famous portraits of distinguished people anymore, because those those
would be great. But it's all this this modern art stuff,
I feel like is a is a con for like,
we're not as good as the old guys used to be,

(01:09:12):
so we're gonna call it like its own separate section
called modern art, which means we can do wacky, goofy,
less talented stuff and con it off as being the same.

Speaker 2 (01:09:22):
That's what I think. Well, it's look, if you've got
the money, I guess it's well, like we've talked about
memorabilia before, the Onus Wagner baseball card is not gonna
lose value, Babe Ruth, whatever game used bad, it's not
gonna lose value. But stuff like that, how do you

(01:09:43):
know if somebody tells me that's worth two hundred and
thirty million dollars, I guess I have to trust them
and go.

Speaker 6 (01:09:48):
Vibe, you're right.

Speaker 1 (01:09:50):
But they could tell me that's worth one hundred dollars
and I'd be like, okay, same thing, you know, Yeah,
I can't tell, but some of those old pains. You're like, Okay,
that's that's like a pri sless painting.

Speaker 2 (01:10:01):
Yeah, well there was. Have you ever seen the show,
The John Oliver Show on HBO. Yeah, last week to night.
But I know I know of it. I did not
watch it. They're doing a charity auction thing to raise
them all I don't forget for food banks or some such.
And they got their hands on a Bob you know,
Bob Ross, the old painting that, yes, and then they're

(01:10:25):
having an auction.

Speaker 6 (01:10:26):
The bidding on it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:27):
The last I saw was a million dollars. Really cause somebody,
I guess, go, okay, I'll buy Bob Ross painty for
a million dollars. Well, here's the thing.

Speaker 1 (01:10:35):
About ten years ago I looked into this, I was like,
I'd love to have one of those, and he seemingly
painted like thousands of them, right, But after looking into this,
most of his paintings are in like the Bob Ross
like collection like in this, you know what I mean, Like,
they're not available to the public to even by. So
that makes there's like a small finite amount that are

(01:10:58):
out there, which in turn makes them worth a lot
of money. There's a great documentary on I think it's
on Netflix.

Speaker 2 (01:11:06):
I've I've read about that I have not seen. Yeah,
and it's it's kind of screwed up. You know, someone
got involved on the business side of it and just there. Yeah,
they own the rights to.

Speaker 1 (01:11:16):
All of his stuff and they you know, they sell
you know, Bob Ross paints and Bob Ross paint brushes
and Bob Ross paint aprons and Bob Ross canvases and
are just killing it and the family gets nothing. And
I feel like it was some sort of pretty shady
arrangement that you know, nice guy kind of got conned
into and and now not only he's dead, but is

(01:11:39):
the family screwed?

Speaker 2 (01:11:41):
Well, that's what happens to you're too You're too nice, right, Yeah,
I mean that's kind of what what what it turned
out to be? So rock And in other news your
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I can see now where you're alone with this? Is
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Speaker 8 (01:12:04):
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No?

Speaker 2 (01:12:05):
Kim Kardashian, This actually this happened a few weeks ago,
and I just I just ran across that. I forgot
I had it. She's had more customers than in ATM
you think, yeah, well, she agrees with you and your
a constant argument with our good friend Dean Regus about

(01:12:26):
the moon landing. Now, for the record, I believe the
moon landing happened. I'm simply saying there is some some
evidence out there that makes you go hmmm. Apparently she
was in a discussion with actress Sarah Pawson on the
set of a TV show that they're both going to
be in soon. Kardashian references interviews featuring buzz Aldron now

(01:12:50):
ninety five where I don't know why they were talking
about the moon landing with buzz Aldrin, who Kardashian refers
to as the other one. You gotta know what you're
talking about, Neil Armstrong. When she assists the astronauts themselves
cast doubt on the moon landing, she points specifically to

(01:13:12):
an interview when buzz Aldrin gave that he gave when
asked about the scariest moment of his lunar journey, he
says it didn't happen. I've seen the clip. I have
not seen that I have, though Aldra appaired to mean
he was never scared at all. Conspiracy theorists have interpreted
that to mean that the landing was faked. What the

(01:13:35):
biggest one that I've seen that makes you again question it?
And there's a lot out there, but I don't remember
the guy's name. But a guy set out to do
like the the definitive documentary. I was like the fiftieth
anniversary or something of.

Speaker 6 (01:13:50):
The moon landing.

Speaker 2 (01:13:51):
He's gonna he's gonna do it right right every intention.
NASA is on board.

Speaker 1 (01:13:56):
She goes to him and says, hey, give me the
you know, the original footage, right so I can you know,
I can include this, and I like, okay, cool, we'll
get it to you. You know, a couple of weeks,
a couple months ago, by hey, I need that original
archive footage.

Speaker 2 (01:14:09):
I like to take a look at it for the think. Okay, okay.
Finally comes back and says, yo, I need the footage,
and they go, yeah, we don't have it. He's like,
what do you mean you don't have it? And so
the original footage of the moon landing apparently just not
They lost it or something happened to it. You mean
to tell me the video of the single most important

(01:14:31):
event in modern history you lost it? So he like
turned the whole documentary into like maybe it didn't happen
kind of thing.

Speaker 5 (01:14:40):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:14:41):
That's the one to me where I go.

Speaker 8 (01:14:44):
That.

Speaker 1 (01:14:45):
And then the video of the of the lunar module
taking off, and it was like, you know, in order
to time it up, they would have had to like
activate the camera panning like you know, thirteen fourteen plus
second and and and it times up perfect.

Speaker 2 (01:15:01):
It's like, wait a minute, I believe it happened. But
I'm just saying, no, you no, it sounds like you
don't like that, but what happened. I'm just saying, there
are some things where you question it. Well, they look
at they did that with like the your car is
smarter than the equipment they were using.

Speaker 1 (01:15:20):
Yeah, well, I mean that's the I mean, that's the
basic fact is Yeah. I mean the literally the cell
phone that I'm holding my hand right now is a
lot more powerful and than anything technology wise on the show.

Speaker 2 (01:15:33):
I think I just proved your point that maybe this
didn't happen. How could they have arranged on that saying
don't bring up the dean because it'll get upset out
of it. Again, for the record, I believe it happened. Okay,
gun to my head, it happened. But on Earth or
on the moon, I just careous saying we're gonna be

(01:15:56):
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the Justice Department to release its files on sex offender
Jeffrey Epstein is headed to the President for his signature.
The Attorney General, Pam Bondi is talking about new information

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on those files.

Speaker 22 (01:19:48):
You do not have any clarity on what that new
information is. And it was only months ago that Bondi
herself had closed the case on the Epstein issue, declaring
that there was not evidence to go after uncharged third parties.
Now the White House is saying that the President will
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(01:22:08):
did you want to confront him with? First? The first one,
Willie and I just sent you the tweet.

Speaker 1 (01:22:13):
And this is unbelievable, but Bill Belichick spotted at a
cheerleading competition in Raleigh, North Carolina. Okay, this is a
co ed adult cheerleading team, which is girlfriend Jordan happens
to be a part of. Again, we're talking grown people,
grown adults, men, women dress up as cheerleaders at a competition,

(01:22:35):
and there's Bill Belichick and his sweatshirt sitting there in
the corner. I mean, don't you Willy at some point
of say, look, I suppoor you, honey. I love whatever
you do. But guess what, I'm Bill Belichick and I
just can't be seen at a place like this.

Speaker 2 (01:22:52):
I'm not doing this.

Speaker 17 (01:22:54):
Your comments, well, I've seen the flips by the way
Jordan Hudson, and it's extremely athletic. I've watched the flips
she performs for the co ed Black Squad as part
of the Cheer Extreme All Stars ex Evolution exhibition. And
so for you to diminish her athletics too, for that

(01:23:17):
cheerleading is not the critical part of Bill Belichick's life
is really really sexist on your part, because, according to
one fashionista, Bill Belichick was rocking a great gray used
gray sweatshirt and a goofy looking golf hat while watching

(01:23:38):
Jordan Hudson do flips backwards with two rather pot bellied
males over the hill themselves flipping her up in the air,
and she's standing on one foot. These two guys are
holding her up. She's on one foot, she got her
arms up, going Go Go go, and she finished fourth
in the competition. That's all I can say.

Speaker 5 (01:23:57):
It wasn't that strong.

Speaker 2 (01:24:00):
Well, but for Rocky to try to diminish her compliments,
how do you start with me now? Menacing her accomplishments,
that's very quite sych. Yeah, I will seeing you stand
up for for females everywhere? Is it barns my heart?

Speaker 6 (01:24:18):
Oh god, I know.

Speaker 17 (01:24:20):
I mean, how many twenty four year old women who
have a degree in cosmetology want a rock At cheerleading outfit?
By the way, she was wearing, according to this story,
a embellished top and black shorts, and she also had
on Nike tennis shoes and a pink ribbed white sweatsock.

(01:24:42):
So we're talking about Bill Belichick showing up a competition
to watch his twenty four year old girlfriend rock the
extreme cheerleaders, going Go Go Go. And this was after
he just got beat by wake Forest. I'm not sure
they even had a football team. Wake Forest twenty eight
twelve was dropped the Tar Hills to four and six,

(01:25:03):
and he wouldn't shake the hand of coach Jake Dickert.
Dickert Dickert was the head coach of Wake Forest. He fell,
he took off his hat. I just beat the greatest
coach of all time at wake Forest, and Belichick kind
of blew him off and hurried off to the swimsuit.
By the way, there's the swimsuit competition after the cheerleading outset.

(01:25:25):
And so I'm reading the story he's going to get
into all of her activities.

Speaker 2 (01:25:31):
Well, hey, look, if you're a seventy something year old
guy in your twenty four twenty five year old girlfriend
says jump, you say, how high does he see in her?

Speaker 18 (01:25:41):
Though?

Speaker 6 (01:25:41):
You think, what does he get out of this?

Speaker 4 (01:25:43):
Eddie?

Speaker 17 (01:25:44):
What's he getting? What's begetting out of this?

Speaker 2 (01:25:47):
Well, that's what I'd like to know, for one thing.
But he gets the attention of a how many come
on now? Will he? You're you and I are, well,
you're a lot older me. But nonetheless, if a young,
an attractive young woman was paying attention to you, that
would turn your head a little bit.

Speaker 17 (01:26:05):
You know, absolutely not don't know, but see he's after
my wallet, no.

Speaker 2 (01:26:10):
Way correct, And of course you're after your wallet. But
you know he is also socially backwards. You and I
are social butterflies. Bell Belichick rock. You've talked about this before.
He has had his head in a playbook since he
was about nineteen years old, and now he all of
a sudden he's divorced. He doesn't care, he doesn't care
about women. And then this twenty four year old cutie

(01:26:32):
pie comes along and pays attention all of a sudden. Okay,
I'm listening, But to.

Speaker 1 (01:26:37):
The point where you would go to an adult cheerleading competition.

Speaker 2 (01:26:40):
No, hell no, whatever it takes, good night all the time.

Speaker 17 (01:26:45):
I want to see Elmo at an adult cheerleading competition.
And some of these individuals throwing her up from the
air look like they're about thirty years old with potbellies.
Someone from bleacher dot com Natasha Die also people mag
that I didn't have on my bingo card a seventy
two year old Bill Belichick showing up a cheerleader competition

(01:27:07):
for his twenty four year old girlfriend doing flips. That
wasn't something I predicted I'd be doing today. I mean,
every time you think it can't get worse, he digs
deeper and it gets worse.

Speaker 1 (01:27:20):
Yeah, And look, it would be one thing if he
was sitting there at eight and two or something. You're
doing this, but they got what four wins.

Speaker 2 (01:27:29):
Dude, boy, he could have the record of John Wooden
back in the day, and it's still embarrassing. I'm sorry.

Speaker 17 (01:27:38):
Oh, I know is that he's lost his mind. And
when they start, when they get married and start having children,
that'll be the social event of the year if that occurs.
She's telling her girlfriend she's deeply in love. She met
the grand grand grandfather of her dreams and they want
to start a family.

Speaker 2 (01:27:57):
Yeah, well, good luck with that, because we've up we have,
We've discussed before. He Belichick will be almost eighty years
old by the time his kid would be in first grade. Basically,
that's a pathetic graduate.

Speaker 17 (01:28:13):
From high school. He'd be ninety five, but he'll be
a young ninety five.

Speaker 5 (01:28:19):
He'll be spry.

Speaker 17 (01:28:20):
Yeah, switching switching.

Speaker 2 (01:28:24):
Gears, Willie.

Speaker 1 (01:28:25):
All the talk on all the political channels is about
the Epstein files, and the Epstein files are going to
get released.

Speaker 2 (01:28:33):
What what what do you see coming out of this?

Speaker 1 (01:28:35):
I know Democrats are hungry, they're thinking this is going
to be the death nail. And you know, pictures and
descriptions of him and Jeff Epstein and you know a
bunch of thirteen year old is going to come out.
I contend that if that existed, it would have been released,
you know, about two years ago when Biden and Harris
were running.

Speaker 2 (01:28:53):
But what do you think is going to come out
of all this? If anything?

Speaker 17 (01:28:57):
Well, I never liked the facts getting away of your pain.
And I'll say this. There's a large oil painting of
President Bill Clinton in the home of Jeffrey Epstein in
New York City, in which Clinton is sitting on an
easy chair wearing a blue dress, high heels with a
crap eating smile on his face. Also a King Jeffries

(01:29:19):
the Senate. I'm sorry, the House Minority leader put himself
in a position to ask Jeffrey Epstein for money in
twenty thirteen, calling himself the Baraque of Manhattan. So the
leader of the Democrats solicited money from mckem Jefferies eight
years after he was convicted of having sex with a
minor and prostituting her out and King Jefferies that was

(01:29:43):
no problem with him. The Leader of the Democrats wanted money.
And then you also have the US Congressman while in
twenty nineteen questioning Michael Cohan, her name was Pleston. She's
a black female African American Democrat was getting texted back
and forth from Jeffrey Epstein himself just before he got
arrested for child trafficking. So you have Democrats in the

(01:30:04):
Congress solictening Epstein for money. You have Democrats in the
Congress texting in real time with jeff Epstein, getting questions
from Jeffrey Epstein what to ask Michael Cohen. You have
the picture the painting of Bill Clinton in the home.
You have Hillary Clinton taking the fifth and refusing to
answer questions about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. May I

(01:30:26):
go further about the Democrats. On the other hand, Epstein
was visiting President Clinton, had Epstein in the White House
seventeen times when he was in the White House, and
Trump didn't invite him one time. So, now, who's more culpable?

Speaker 8 (01:30:40):
Rock?

Speaker 17 (01:30:41):
Which party is more culpable?

Speaker 5 (01:30:42):
Do you think?

Speaker 2 (01:30:43):
I would say the Democrat Party?

Speaker 1 (01:30:45):
But they're giddy though, they think this is it, this
is the one they've been waiting for.

Speaker 2 (01:30:51):
Well, wellie, where do you see it? Where do you
see it ending? What is the endgame here? If there
is no if there is no possible endgame for the Democrats.

Speaker 17 (01:31:00):
There's sixty thousand emails have been released already with one
hundred thousand pages. I don't know how anybody generates sixty
thousand emails going back to nineteen ninety three when email started.
Hambondi said today, Number one, a lot of material must
be blocked out from the release of the Epstein files.
And on top of the sixty thousand Number one, do

(01:31:22):
we have active criminal investigations of individuals in Florida who
had sex with underage girls as part of the Epstein group,
and Florida they don't have a statute of limitation, So
if that's the case, we have to ex out any
references to a person under active criminal investigation. Secondly, there's
a lot of child pornography in the Epstein files. We

(01:31:45):
can't release anything relative to child pornography because that is
against the law. Thirdly, because most of the victims are
under age, they have to have a guardian and light
them appointed or a special counsel to waive on their
behalf the reporting of their as part of the Epstein files.
So take out of the Epstein files any reference to
an active criminal investigation. Take out anything in the Epstein

(01:32:08):
files relative to pornography of a child under the age
of eighteen. You can't do that. Take out anything in
the Epstein files about the girls who are now thirty, forty,
and fifty years old that don't want their name used.
Take those out because if you're forty five years old
and you have a husband, three kids, and maybe grandkids,
you don't want your name associated with this. You're done

(01:32:30):
with it. And take out anything about national security. So
when Pam Bondi or whoever releases in the next within
thirty days, all these new Epstein files, there's going to
be page after page that is blocked out. Then more
conspiracy will arise as to why that happened, how come
you got rid of that, why didn't you reference this?
It will not end because the Democrats think they're benefiting

(01:32:53):
from this to what they're going to do is keep
doing this and doing it till the American people say
we can't take it anymore. We've had enough. We're missing
three hundred thousand children that were trafficked in the last
four years under Joe Biden. We can't find seventy nine
thousand who were given to human traffickers. Those seventy nine
thousand children are somewhere right now in America, we can't

(01:33:15):
locate them. But we're going to focus not on the
failures of the Democrats and Joe Biden and Kamala We're
going to focus on Jeffrey Epstein. And Trump cut off
all relations to him in twenty oh six, and so
it's been almost twenty years. Trump's done with it. The
Democrats are soliciting him for money. The Democrats have referenced

(01:33:35):
Jeffrey Epstein to get questions to ask Michael Cohen and
Democrats are in the hopper on this more than the
Republican But the media didn't point it out, and.

Speaker 2 (01:33:45):
I just did, so look away you did. You got
him all whelmed up. No, but it's the thing everybody's
talking about. And I agree with you. We live in
a day and age, especially with social media. Facts are
no longer verified.

Speaker 1 (01:33:59):
No one's actually interested in if the if what the
evidence produced is true for or not. They're going to
stick to their whatever people originally thought. After these documents
come out, guess what people are going to think exactly
the same. And so you're right, it's it's trying to
it's a distraction. I think Trump was finally just tired
of you know, of the question of it being asked

(01:34:20):
being the distraction. So get it out there, you know,
let people go wild for a little bit. Everyone at
the end of the day is going to think the
same thing and hopefully get on with you in the
country both you.

Speaker 17 (01:34:30):
Know, Eddie, facts don't matter. But none of the victims
identified Donald Trump. So if you believe the victims, not
one has said Donald Trump was involved with them. Number two,
you have all the prosecutors, all of the defensive attorneys,
and all the class action lawyers who have sued Donald
Trump on these issues, and everyone involved. They all say

(01:34:50):
he's not involved.

Speaker 2 (01:34:52):
Said Dershowitz, who's what Epstein's lawyer right, said, he's not connected.

Speaker 17 (01:34:58):
He's not connected. So everyone knows the facts that he's
not connected, which is further of a conspiracy that he is.
The lack of evidence is proof it must be true.
So if you're a Democrat, you don't want to hear
the facts of your opinion. And I don't like people
that rely upon opinions instead of facts. I rely upon
not opinions, but facts. I want the facts. If I

(01:35:21):
get the facts that Trump is somehow involved, so bid.
But every victim said no, he's not involved, including Virginia
Giuffrey wrote the book, who said Trump was a gentleman
and that was ignored by the media didn't fit their opinion.
How am not dealing with facts and not opinions? Wouldn't
that be interesting?

Speaker 5 (01:35:38):
Willie?

Speaker 2 (01:35:38):
With that, we will let you go, buddy, and not
calm down, go get.

Speaker 3 (01:35:44):
So.

Speaker 17 (01:35:45):
I got me all fired up. I'm sitting there ready
to have dinner and I'm all fired up, and my
stomach's and turmoil, my bowels are releasing. I can't tell you.

Speaker 2 (01:35:52):
Get yourself some hot coco and go visit your coy.

Speaker 17 (01:35:56):
God bless America.

Speaker 2 (01:35:58):
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All right, back with Eddie and Rocky a little while longer,
but before we get out of here. Rock you'll fly
every weekend going to your football games and stuff. More
or less I do, yeah, more or less? Are you courteous?
Very courteous? Yes, except for when the plane land. You
know my biggest pep. Even life is on the plane
lands and people in the back of the plane jump
up and just rush thee You should get off the

(01:37:53):
plane in orderly fashion, like human beings, not animals. Well,
I'm sure that Atle's being a network or responded our
good friend Alec Stone. Probably there's a there's a protocol
list that you're as an ABC correspondent you required to follow.

Speaker 23 (01:38:09):
Alex explain, to always be courteous, to always be perfectly nice.

Speaker 5 (01:38:15):
You know.

Speaker 23 (01:38:15):
The thing that gets me is one when people immediately
get on their cell phone and talk like you're not
sitting next to them, and you're like, can you wait
five minutes until you get into the terminal. I don't
want to hear you talk. But the other thing is, yeah,
the getting up. I always think of that. Do you
remember the bus exit like when you were a kid
and they would tell you it goes left right, left, right,
left right, and that people don't follow that. I had

(01:38:37):
a guy, maybe like eight or nine months ago. I
was traveling with my family and right as I got up,
he was behind me. He pushed me down from the
shoulder and went around me, and I went, are you
kidding me?

Speaker 5 (01:38:48):
Why?

Speaker 23 (01:38:50):
Like as I'm getting up to put his hand on
my shoulder and push me back down. And then he
goes and to my wife. Did you see that? She's like,
just let it go, Just let go. But like, if
you're in the back, wait and tell. I know, maybe
you've a connecting flight, but wait and tell everybody in
front of you goes or for permission to go forward
if you're running late and you got to go up there,

(01:39:11):
But otherwise wait your turn, man. So yeah, the big
news today is the Department of Transportation that they have
put out a video that I can just see it's
going to be mocked by Saturday Night Live. It's an
interesting campaign where Secretary Sean Duffy is going for a
new version of air travel, what they're calling the Golden

(01:39:32):
Age of travel starts with you. And in this video
they put out today, they begin with images and sound
like the nineteen fifties and sixties when air travel is
luxurious and people got fancy to go on airplanes, and
then it devolves in the video into all of the
fights on board and everything. And Sean Duffy says this
in this campaign that they're beginning you hoping.

Speaker 10 (01:39:54):
A plaint woman kind of bag of the overhead, ben,
are you dressing with the stuff?

Speaker 3 (01:39:59):
Are you keeping intolve?

Speaker 7 (01:40:00):
Your children are saying thank you to your flight attendant,
in your pilots, I was.

Speaker 10 (01:40:05):
Saying please and thank you in general, the golden age
of travel begins.

Speaker 23 (01:40:12):
So he is calling, and the Department is going to
begin this campaign to restore courtesy and class to air
travel to ensure what they say the safety of passengers,
gate workers, flight attendants, and pilots. They say it comes
with all of the remember all the unruly passengers really
during COVID, They say, a four hundred percent increase in
flight outbursts and unruly passengers since twenty nineteen, and a

(01:40:32):
lot of that was during COVID, back during all the
masked fights and all of that. But the Department says
that it's committed to ushering in a golden age of
travel again, and they want excitement and manners and relaxation
to come back when you're traveling. I think you're gonna
have a lot of people saying, yeah, good luck with that,
that that went away a long time ago, and that
the you know, the genis out of the bottle on
this one of getting people to dress nice. When they

(01:40:54):
travel and demand the people be nice and that they
have a relaxing, nice experience. And I would argue as well,
the airlines have a role to play in this, as
they are squeezing people in and not giving food service
and you know, squeezing their schedules tight where there's a
lot of delays and whatnot. That it's not only on
the passenger, but the campaign is going to be to

(01:41:15):
try to be nice while you're traveling.

Speaker 1 (01:41:17):
Well, the new one, Alex, that I've found as someone
who travels every weekend is the getting of the in
flight drink doesn't happen anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:41:26):
And they're always like, ah, it's too bumpy. I'm like, no,
it's not. It's not too bumpy at all. It's perfectly fine.
I mean, Alex, we're an hour out from Atlanta here
and flying from Cincinnati. They used to serve you breakfast
on a flight from Cincinnati to Atlanta. Now then we'll
give you a coke.

Speaker 23 (01:41:46):
They don't serve you a meal if you're going six
hours across the country. And yeah, and I've seen that
too with the drinks or where they say, yeah, this
is such a quick ninety minute flight, we're only going
to serve water, and it's usually something random like apple juice,
and you're like, and apple juice. On a flight about
a year ago where I was sitting in the the
extra leg room area where they are supposed to offer

(01:42:08):
you alcohol as well, and they were only going to
do water on board, and the guy next to me,
we both went, wait a second. We paid extra for
these seats, and the guy next to me says, ma'am,
I would like a beer, and she was like, well,
let me see if I've got any in here. All right,
we're not supposed to do it. We're like, yeah, but
that's the whole selling point on the extra leg room
seats is you get free drinks. And they only wanted

(01:42:30):
to do water and apple juice on that flight. And yeah,
you're going, it's not that short. This is a small plane.
It's a commuter plane, regional plane. It's not bumpy like
I believe the deal is you not, you know, not
to force slight attendants to do more than they should
in that amount of time, but kind of part of
the job is coming through with the drinks.

Speaker 2 (01:42:50):
All right, Well, Alex, we know where you got it going. Buddy,
Thanks so much, Remember say please, thank.

Speaker 23 (01:42:55):
You, please, and thank you to you as well. Goodbye.

Speaker 2 (01:43:00):
All right rock In other news, now we always talk
about odd ball people and odd ball things they do. Yes,
case in point, A fifty seven year old man in
Japan was arrested back in October after investigator discovered he'd

(01:43:24):
allegedly stolen fifty fire hose nozzles. Are they made of
platinum or something? I don't know about it? Well check
this out. It wasn't clear why he was stealing them,
as he kept in his possession rather than trying to
sell them. The official said the nozzles aren't worth much

(01:43:46):
as scrap metal anyway, but the absence of them presents
a serious risk to the public. So this dude just
goes around stealing I get whatever, you know, the old
school things that do you break the glass and yank
out the hose. I guess he's stealing those. Wait, so
is it the nozzle to the hose or is it

(01:44:06):
like the little hammer that you break the glass. It's
just the now, it's the nozzle off of the hose,
like like antique ones, or just he just likes them.
I guess he just likes them like they like they're
saying there, they're not worth anything. So you got fifty
of them? Fifty? I can see if he's you know,
got a collection of old stuff throughout history, and here's

(01:44:29):
like the first fire nozzle, and here's like the in
the twenties, and here's the don't sound like that. I
think I'll steal one from the iHeartMedia building. That's what
this guy's doing. A leg that might be worth something someday.

Speaker 6 (01:44:42):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:44:44):
I'm trying to think of odd other odd things that
people collect. Oh, you know, people collect the beanie babies.

Speaker 1 (01:44:52):
And everybody I've ever you know that I've ever watched
that that is, you know, a collector of anything there
They say like all those.

Speaker 2 (01:45:00):
Being news aren't worth a nickel. I've always heard the
end nothing like everyone saved them and did all this
stuff and they're not worth a nickel. Well look at
the like Pokemons, all that stuff that the there's people,
but those things are worth a million, Yeah them are? Yeah?
What is that is that going to hold its value?
You know, like we were talking earlier in the show

(01:45:22):
about uh, collectibles and paintings. You're talking about paintings and stuff.
Is it sooner or later? Being I'm like, yeah, that's
not like bitcoin to me. I don't how does that
hold its value? Well, I mean, good thing you didn't
get didn't get involved in that, because that thing's gone
down a lot, right, big time, big time. So yeah,
but I mean we've done topics on like you know,

(01:45:45):
with Kenner being here and then the Cincinnati area, like
all those old Star Wars figures that are all worth
a lot of money now, like the you know, the
Boba fet something with the rocket launcher of nineteen eighty
two was like the big one. But yeah, what if
like tomorrow it's like, eh, nobody cares. Nobody cares anymore,
right then you're kind of stuck. But well it's only

(01:46:06):
that you could see it.

Speaker 1 (01:46:07):
But yeah, the Honus Wagner baseball card, Babe Ruth bat sure,
Jimmy Hendrix's guitar, they lit on fire, like that's right.

Speaker 2 (01:46:15):
You're pretty sure that's not going anywhere. Some of the stuff, Yeah,
you never know. Well, it's like watching those old we
we've talked about this before, the antique road shows and
all that stuff where they come in. Yeah, you got
to feel bad for some of those people. I think
I told you that this just.

Speaker 1 (01:46:30):
Can't watch them, because it's just like these people have
had this collection, this thing they've thought forever was worth something.

Speaker 2 (01:46:35):
That's not the worst one I saw. And I've talked,
I've told this story before. But there was a lady
on there and she had it was supposedly the first
professional contract that Elvis signed to do a show in whatever,
Tupelo or something right and for whatever it was seventy

(01:46:59):
five bucks or something, but it was allegedly his first gig,
and she thought she was on easy Street.

Speaker 17 (01:47:06):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:47:06):
She was like, I said, look at that signature on there.
Look at the quality of the paper. It's definitely old.
And the guys looking at it, and he's looking at
doing the mic fine glass ohole nine yards and get
out of the gets out the microscope, and she's like
sitting there just liking her chops, going how many hundred
grand is this worth? And he is I'm sorry to

(01:47:28):
tell you that's not worth than anything that's not real?
I know, yeah, I mean what suck? And they're like,
humh that what Yeah, yep, I've seen it. Uh so
well it's my I don't wear my wedding ring anymore
because he kept falling off. Sure, I to wife the

(01:47:48):
same thing, right, yeah, oh honey, I just if it
falls off all the time, it always falls off the
bar for some reason. What's going on with that? From
the point was I didn't want to lose it in
a bar, for God's sakes, especially that one. There's a
lot of cute women and stuff around. They might grab

(01:48:09):
it and run with it. Oh my god, yeah that right, thanks, thanks, honey.
I'm thinking of you, yes, but I thought in mind
we took in with traffic and weather. What is going
on

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