08-20-25 - *FULL SHOW* Benjamin Allbright Filling In For Ross

Episode Transcript

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I got a lot of stuff I want to get

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to today. It is National Radio Day, a thing I
totally knew before. Marty and Gina pointed that out about
fifteen minutes ago and in no way just found out about.
But congratulations to I guess all who celebrate National Radio Day.
I don't know why it was necessarily decided since the
early nineteen nineties that August twentieth was going to be

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National Radio Day, perhaps because eight MK, which is not
WWJA and Detroit first broadcast on August twentieth, nineteen twenty.
But I found that out just a few minutes ago,
started looking at some stuff on this was a little
bit interested. According to Wikipedia, WWA debuted as the Detroit
News Radio Phone and was the outgrowth of interest in

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radio technology by the publishers of the Detroit News combined
with Leada Forests longtime promotion of radio broadcasting back at
the time. Now, annual recognition didn't take off until NPR
brought attention to the holiday day or or you know,
made up hollow whatever you want and back in twenty eleven.
But uh, yeah, that was one of those things that

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I guess there's not a National Radio Day now. I
know we were We were sort of talking about that
during the break. Who we grew up listening to? Uh?
For those of us that got into this industry, who
were the titans that either motivated or got us into
wanting to be in this space. For me, it was
a little bit different. You know. I think a lot

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of people, probably my age or in my age range,
grew up with like Howard Stern and stuff like that.
You know, when I was a kid, I wasn't allowed
to listen to that. When I was a kid, you know,
my family had had a fairly religious bent to them,
and we were we were not allowed to listen to
things like that. But I did listen to a lot
of sports talk radio growing up. But I never thought

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that that was going to be that never jumped out
at me as something I wanted to do. It was
never a career goal. There was not some sort of
that's my destiny someday any of that kind of stuff.
I just enjoy doing it. And the type of radio
that I listened to is vastly different, I think, from
the type of radio that I do. You know, everything

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that I listened to growing up was was more of
that color driven radio where you know, you had callers
in and all that kind of stuff, and you know,
down in Arkansas, the callers would be lined up for hours.
You just had hours of content listening to that kind
of stuff. But I'm sure people, I'm sure that there
are people who have heard of Paul fine Bomb or

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heard some of the sample of callers they call it
to Paul fine Bomb. It was similar to that. I mean,
obviously on a smaller scale and you know, much much
longer ago, but certainly something that that piqued my interest in.
I don't know why. I don't know if it was
just the the continued tuning in, like what will these
people say next? You know, because most of the time
when I feel like back then, most of the time

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when I was listening to color driven sports talk radio,
I feel like I was listening for the idiots, you know,
you were listening for the people who call it he like,
what dumb thing are they going to say next? And
this host is going to have to you know, tiptoe
around it. As far as that kind of stuff goes,
I don't know. I just thought, uh, I thought that
was fascinating. I started thinking back one of the guys

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that I listened to and he he wound up moving
on from radio into into television, and funny, funny enough,
he moved on from a regular morning show into sports. Uh.
Sports on TV was a guy named Craig O'Neil u
down there in Arkansas. He had a humorous morning show.
I was more geared towards you know, adults with with kids,
but as a junior high at high schooler, we would

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listen to it on the drive into school. Uh. And
he had that perfect radio voice for those of you
who have listened and heard, like you know, Alan Roach,
our own Shannon Scott back there, although he refuses to
use it on the air. It's he's he's like, uh,
what is it? Vincent Gallo? So I'm not gonna let
the world have my films anymore. I'm gonna burn all
my paintings here, You're deprived of my art. It was,

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you know, he was one of those guys that he
just knew how to with humor without being a jerk,
sort of make fun I guess of or poke fun
at some of the colors that they would get when
they would say things that were that were sort of
out of pocket. And and I guess that was probably
the closest thing to something that would inspire me to

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to do this. So and again, I never I never
thought that I would wind up doing ready. That was never.
That was never on my radar at all. For those
of you who don't know me, I do Broncos Country
Tonight here and do the NFL Insider stuff for the station.
My career arc is uh, not one that I think

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is replicable for most people that had nothing to do.
I have no training in journalism and radio and media whatsoever.
I came up through in the in the army I had.
I had a software company. After that, did some consulting
at a software company, sold that and retired for a
while and built up a social media following, and then
fell backwards into this. So this is one of those

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things that is sort of a post retirement career for me,
but a fascinating one. I definitely enjoy this. I love
doing this now. I got the bug after they had
me in as a guest to talk about football, and
I enjoy doing this. I've worked in various capacities over
the years and other things, dabbled and a few things

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here or there. I worked in data and analytics on
two presidential campaigns, one for a Democrat, one for Republican.
The Democrat was General Wesley Clark, who the Republican was
Mike Huckabee. I've you know, I've done a lot of
different things over the course of my life, and I
hope that that's given me a broader, more varied opinion,
and I hope that that makes ideally me more interesting

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to listen to, or at least more thought provoking. That's
my goal when I get on the microphone. I want
to make people think, and then I want to earn
stuff too. I hate the I hate the way you
get certain people that just preach to you like their
opinion is an errant. You know, I have opinions on things.
Some of them are not going to be right. I

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love the pushback. I like when you guys text in
and have a differing opinion. That makes me think about that.
So keep that in mind. Keep that in mind today
five six six nine zeros. The text line, feel free
to text me your opinions as well, and if you
disagree with me, try to do it in a manner
that's respectful. I mean, if you call me a jerk,
I'm less apt to be receptive. But I want to
hear what you guys have to say on some of

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these things as well. I got plenty to get into today.
We'll do a little bit of I do want to
get out of this plant virus thing because I find
it fascinating that we've got a plant virus that's potentially
a cure for cancer. We'll get to that a little bit.
I will get to some of the economic stuff, which
I always enjoy doing. Economics is a huge hobby for me.

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I love discussing economics. I love getting into the various
aspects of it and people's opinions on it and where
they come from. That. So we're often rolling here on
the Ross Kaminsky Show, Benjamin all right here, and I
will try not to as we've We've had about one
hundred teests come in. Don't wreck the uh, do't wrect
the Ferrari was my uh. It was my joke the

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last time, and everybody seems to seems to remember that,
don't wrect the VW, don't wreckt the Pinto, don't wreckt
the ISUSA Trooper. Seems like, you guys, don't wreckt the
seventy one Gremlin. I said, I love that you guys
remember that as a callback. That's it makes me smile.
So Uh, several coming in here on things that you
listened to on this national radio day. Guys that you

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listened to, uh, Ladies that you listened to growing up. Uh,
some of these obvious growing up in southern California's from
the nine four nine. I had Mark and Bryan and
Howard Stern in the mornings, followed by Jim Rome Lee,
Hacksaw Hamilton in the afternoon. Great time for radio back then. Yeah, Howard,
Like again, Howard Stern was was one I wasn't really

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all how to listen to, although I did. It's one
of those things now in my adulthood, which I go
back and listen now, and I'm not a big fan
of the show as it is now. I like some
of the older episodes a little bit. The things that
I take away from people that I either wouldn't have
listened to before or you know, wouldn't have given the

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time of day. Now I go back and I listen
to some of these things. Howard Stern, whatever you think
of him, whatever you think of where a show is now,
whatever you think of him as a person as politics, whatever,
is a phenomenal interviewer, and so like for me, who
has to develop that into my toolkit because I've got
to do that for this job, trying to pick up
tips and tricks. For the way that he just gets

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people to tell stories. That part of it, that part
of the craft fascinates me as far as Howard Stern,
Joe Rogan is very good at that sort of letting
a moment breathe and letting guys or gals sort of
tell their story and get into things that other interviewers
who are just trying to get to the next question
don't really get to. I find those things. I find

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those aspects of it fastening. Like you got a lot
of you guys texting in on things that that you
listened to coming up. We'll get to some of that
when I get back here. I got to hit a break,
but we will get we'll get to that. We'll get
some of these other stories. Like I said, we're off
in rolling trying not to wrect the Ferrari here for
Ross Ross Kaminski show, Benjamin all Bright. We'll be back
right here. Okay, that's all. It doesn't get enough run
as an old time classic. I'm just saying five six

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six nine zeros a text line. We had quite a
few of you saying a whole bunch of nice things.
I really appreciate that in terms of listening for when
I fill in, So I genuinely appreciate all that kind
of stuff. Several of you writing in on the stuff
used to listen to. Rick Lewis gets mentioned a lot. Yeah,
Rick Lewis and Florox is something I listened to before

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I was even in Colorado. I moved out here in
twenty twelve, and like any good story, it starts with
a girl, it ends a disaster. We broke up two
and a half three weeks after I got here. I stayed,
she left, and I've just stayed here ever since. I
enjoyed this great state. I moved out here. When I
moved here, I moved here from Tampa, so quite a

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bit of a little bit of a culture and climate change,
but otherwise I really enjoy it out here, and I
have stuck around and sort of made it my home. Yeah,
Rick and Lewis and Florax and just Rick. Listen, gentlemen,
and Rick has been a great mentor for me. Rick
was one of the people that I mean, I wouldn't
be here without Rick Lewis. You know. Rick's a guy
that I bounced things off when I was trying out

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over at the now defunct Orange and Blue seven sixty.
When I was trying out over there and they brought
me in, I would have Rick listen to those shows,
and let me tell you, they were epically bad. How
he suffered through them, I'll never know. But I had
him do that and sort of give me advice on
what it is that I could do to improve or
tighten things up and that kind of stuff. And Rick
has just been an absolutely fabulous mentor and a friend.

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And if it were for guys like him and Dave Logan,
I wouldn't even be here without without their approval and
without their mentorship, and without them going to bat for
me multiple times, you know, over the years. So I Yeah,
a big shout out to Curriculus. A lot of Paul
Harvey in here too. Yeah, that was one. That name
probably doesn't come up as much as it should amongst

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the radio icons the radio legends, but but probably should more.
A whole lot of Rush Limbaugh in here, which you know,
Rush had a unique way I think he was I
don't want to say he was the first guy to
both sides and audience, because I mean, we call that
the Howard Start effect. But you know Rush did that too.

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We Rush would, Rush would get all the people that
agreed with him tuning in obviously, and then if you
didn't agree with Rush on a point, you were even
more likely to stay tuned in to see what he
had to say. And he was. He was phenomenal, you know,
at doing that. Hymn Ster and those guys were great
at capturing sort of that both sides of an audience

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and getting people to tune in longer if you didn't
agree with what they had to say. And that's something
that a skill in my toolkit that I probably wish
I had, wish I was stronger at. I tend to
and I guess you know, social media sort of reinforces
that you tend to get to the people who agree
with you with the other people tend to get bitter, angry,

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rile them up a little bit. And I don't know
if you've ever seen my social media, don't you can
unfollow me at all, bright NFL. It's a dumpster fire.
I wouldn't follow me, but it's it certainly devolves into
quite a bit of that at times, although I do
try to disarm them with mom jokes here or there,
although so that seems to rile them up more sometimes too.
So five sixty six nine zero is the text a

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lot again National Radio Day today. So I want to
hear the radio or the entertainers that you came up
on listening to and the people that got you into
listening to radio. For me, like I said, I woulder
it wasn't allowed to listen to Howard stern athough I
did sneak a few listens here or there, But a guy,
you know down their local dark son named Craig O'Neil
was somebody that kind of kind of got me into listening. Uh.

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Rick Lewis obviously been around a lot of the sports
talk guys. You know, you go back quite a bit
and there's there's quite a few. Alan Berg, of course
of infamy here was played by Mark Moran on the
uh the movie was at the Order. I think it was.
The movie briefly had ko in it. Recently George Nori

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another pretty famous one with with Coast to Coast am
uh seven to two olve here Alice Cooper at Nights. Yeah,
that was one I wasn't. That's another one I wasn't
allowed to listen to, but still did anyway. You know,
I religious upbringing that I had sort of put a
damper on a lot of that stuff early, but got
a chance to do all that. Uh seven to two O, Ben,

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did you have an accent from Arkansas? So how did
you extinguish it practice? Honestly, I've had a bit of
a drawl and it comes out if I've had a
few beers. You can hear. You can hear it in
things that I say, like if I refer it, like
the frame that he used most often for people to
tell us. So I talked about going to high school,
like you can hear it. You can hear the drawl
when I reference high school there. But I worked really

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hard on trying to have a regionally neutral dialect. And
it's sort of funny because I moved to Arkansas and
what would have been like my seventh or eighth grade year,
and and it went through through high school and then
beyond into college and to them, I didn't have an accent,
but anytime I left the state, people would talk about

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how thick my accent was. So it's it's kind of
funny you live there amongst them and they say you
don't have one, and then you go somewhere else and
they say you have a very thick one. I don't know.
We come back up and talk about this plant virus
that trains your immune system to kill cancer, and see
if you guys will go full I am groot injecting
this in you guys. Listen to Roski Miski show mention
beent all brought pillidim right here. Chris Barron, who's the
Elead singer, is actually a friend of mine who's we've

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known each other for about a decade and a half
or whatever. Head him on my nighttime show a couple
of years back from the competition. Jokingly kept calling our
show the spin doctor, saying that we spun everything for
the broncos. I was like, look, well, if our radio
competition wants to hear the spin doctors, who am I
to stand in the way. Let me put them on
the show. And so we did, and I got a

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call from the program director of the other station at
the time. He's like, Okay, you got us on that one.
We'll stop using that term. So just one way to
turn enemies into friends. I guess five, six, six, nine
zeros of text lon You guys listen to Ros Kiminski show.
Ben's bon Albright here filling in for Ross today and
I tease this a little bit in the last half hour,

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but I wanted to talk about this. There's a plant virus,
a virus that affects plants, doesn't affect people, animals, whatever
effects plants, that trains your immune system to kill cancer.
And it's a virus that typically infects black eyed peas,
and it's showing great promise. Is a low cost, potent

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cancer immunotherapy, and researchers are starting to uncover why. In
a study published in Cell bio Material, a team led
by chemical and nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego,
took a closer look at how the COLP mosaic virus,
or CPMV, unlike other plant viruses, is uniquely effective at
activating the body's immune system to recognize and attack cancer cells,

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and preclinical studies, CPMV is demonstrated potent anti tumor effects
in multiple mouse models canine cancer patients when injected directly
into tumors such as neutrophils, microphages, natural coat cells. The
tumor micro environment destroys cancer cells. It activates B cells
and T cells to establish systemic, long lasting anti tumor memory.

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And this immune reawakening not only helps clear the targeted tumor,
but primes the immune system to hunt down metastatic tumors
elsewhere in the body. So it's fascinating as CPMV, but
not other plant viruses, stimulates an anti tumor response, and
the work that they're doing right now is giving them
insight into into y works so well. The key question

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in translating CPMV to human cancer patients has been what
makes this plant virus so effective at fighting cancer? And
colleagues at the National Cancer Institutes Nanotechnology Lab performs side
by side comparisons of CPMV, which is and then CCMV,
which is a closely related plant virus that does not

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exhibit any anti tumor effects, and both viruses form similarly
sized nanoparticles that are taken up by human immune cells
at similar rates, yet once inside, produce different outcomes. CPMV,
the one that shows promise here, stimulates type one, two,
and three interferons, which are proteins with well known anti

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cancer properties. And this is particularly interesting because some of
the earliest cancer immunotherapy drugs were recombinant interferons. Meanwhile, ccmv
and this is the one that does not. This is
the one that the National Cancer where they wanted to
get a foundation with, stimulates a set of pro inflammatory
interlukens that do not translate to effective tumor clearance. Another

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difference lies in how these viruses rna are processed within
a million cells, CPMV RNAs persist longer and get delivered
to the and I struggle with this word endolsosome where
they activate toll like receptors tail R seven, which is
a critical component in priming antiviral and more importantly, anti

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tumor immune responses. And the ccmv RNAs, on the other hand,
failed to reach that activation point. The big thing about
this is it offers a unique advantage is a cost
effective imminotherapy. Unlike many other therapies that require complex and
costly manufacturing, this virus can be produced using molecular farming.

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It could literally be grown in plants using sunlight, soil,
and water. So this team is working toward advancing CPMV
to clinical trials in humans and they haven't gotten there yet,
but so far in everything that they've they've tried it
and it has been absolutely phenomenal breakthrough in fighting tumors

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and fighting cancer. And so let's started with me. Especially
with the hot debate on I guess vaccines these days,
got me to wondering how many people will go full
I am groot, you know, injecting a plant virus into
themselves in an effort to potentially slow down or stop cancer.

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And you know, on the one hand, when I was
having this conversation with somebody yesterday, on the one hand,
there are people that look at that and they feel
a barrent about it right off the top. And then
that same person was like, but I bet you somebody
has cancer. That's the inflection point when all that, all
those stands go right out the window, and all of
a sudden, you'd be willing to inject yourself with just

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about anything if it works to get rid of it.
U For me, I've always been one of those people
that's better living through chemistry type person. If you've got
something that works, I don't really care what it is.
If it works, it works, you know, obviously, I want
to know about side effects of which there are no

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known at this time. But I'm one of those people
like if it works, it works, I don't know, you
know whatever, But I don't know, like would you would
you do that? Would you inject a virus that affects
plants into your body if you knew it could clear
up tumors and or fight or stop cancer, And then

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what would be you know, what, what would be the
acceptable range of side effects that you'd be willing Like
right now there are no known right which sounds too
good to be true. But as one of the textures
points out, I just I think it's I think it's
a fascinating thing, and I don't I don't know what.
I don't know where the not point from for that

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would be for me, right, I don't know where the
inflection point would be for me, Like, no, I'm not
doing that because you know a B or C side effect,
And so I just got me to thinking about the
longer range, the longer implications of those kinds of things.
There's there's quite a debate these days over the COVID

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vaccine some of the perceived not yet proven side effects
that came from that. Uh, there's a there's a large
interest in what appears to be heart problems stemming from
off that uh, and so that that needs to be
studied to see if those those problems, those cardiac events,
are coming from the vaccine or not. And then how

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you know the efficacy on that vaccine to begin with,
whether it was actually effective in stopping going I got,
I had the vaccine, I got COVID what three times?
So I can't it can't be that effective? Are these
ones I got weren't that effective? But I'm just curious
as as to where you guys would be. Would you
inject a plant virus into yourself if he knew it

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had the potential to prevent cancer? Three ZHO three ben
if I had canceled, group me up those of you
who don't get that reference. Groot is the talking tree
character from James Guns Guardian of the Galaxy Marvel movies
nine seven Oh Ben, don't wreck the seventy three Pinto
and if you do, add'll buff out? Not fair enough.

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We want to see if we could train wreck this thing.
And Russell never have me back on nine seven oh
Hal and Charlie on k how mom always had it
on Don't wreck the Chavette my mom had a chavette
back in the day. She did wreck it. Actually, I
remember that as a silver Chavette and she was like
a distraught that she had wrecked it. National Radio Day.

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Appreciate you guys. Let me know the people you listen to.
One of the big names that came in here on
the tech RV Brown fortunate enough to have met IRV
before he passed. Well, I'll tell you a quick story IRV.
So IRV was over doing Broker to air over at
Mile High Sports at the time and somebody had tipped

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him off about me, I guess, and he had me
on to talk about at the time it was post
Broncos Super Bowl. Was right for the Super Bowl, uh
well maybe not right about a month after, and had
me on to talk about the Broncos quarterback situation with
Peyton Manning, we're going to be retiring and what the

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Broncos were going to do, and they wanted to talk
a little bit about Bronck Osweiler and I. This was
right around the time of the Combine, give or take,
and I told him like, I don't think Brock's coming back.
I had been up there in Indy. I was pretty
sure he was going to Houston, the Houston Texans, and
nobody else was talking about that at the time, absolutely

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no one, and a lot of people didn't realize that
rock Osweiler had been John Alway's son's roommate in college
when Jack was down there at Arizona State, and so
they felt like there was some sort of familial connection there.
So IRV had me on, talked about this kind of stuff.
I guess he enjoyed having me on. Whatever I said
tickled him because he kept having me on after that.

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Him and Joe and he made up this whole as
IRV would do. He would give you a nickname. He
called me Southern Fried, and then he would give me
He had this whole backstory. He made up that I
moved out to Colorado to sell jellies and jams by
the side of the road and had not been successful
in doing so, and that was that was his bit.
So yeah, that was IRV. Brown was one that another

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one that without his sort of blessing, I don't know
that I would be doing this or where I am
today any any other ones that inspire love to do.
I love seeing this stuff, guys, So just send those
in fives, six, then zero. One of the other stories
I wanted to get to here in the front part

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of this is that it appears that the war on
drugs is over and the drugs won. Shannon double takes
me there. South American cocoa cultivation has expanded exponentially since
twenty fourteen. It was on a trend line down and
it hit a low in about twenty fourteen, and then

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it just spiked after that. Global cocaine production has surged.
You used to do about global cocaine manufacture in twenty
fourteen was about one thousand tons per year, and the

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most recent year we have data for twenty twenty three
has come in and it looks like it's almost at
four thousand tons. It has been on in almost exponential
drive upward. It's fascinating to me. It's clear that the
war on drugs is almost over and the drugs have won.

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Recreational marijuana has been legalized over most of the country,
and we've seen that historically. Prohibition is a textbook example
of a policy with negative, unintended consequences. Libertarians, and I
consider myself a centrist with libertarian leanings, have opposed drug

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prohibition for two main reasons. First, there's a simple rights
based argument saying that what I put in my body
is basically my business, not the governments. And a government
that is big enough and powerful enough to tell you
that you can or cannot smoke or snort, is big
enough or powerful enough to tell you that you can't
buy extra large soft drinks or cook with transfats. And

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that is it to say that all libertarians or myself
think that anything should go. I favor sort of that,
like an ethical consensus that condemns drug use when it
interferes with one's ability to be a good friend or father,
sanctions people when they spend their money on drugs ie
attacks including cigarettes and alcohol. But I also think that

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markets are pretty effective regulators, and businesses shouldn't be stopped
if they wish to make staying off drugs a condition
for employment. The difference between a government in a business
or organization that comprises civil and commercial societies that a
government can jail you, a business or a church can't.

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Libertarians also propose excuse me opposed prohibition for consequentialist reasons.
Even if we dispense with the rights based arguments against
prohibition for a minute, it's pretty clear that the drug
war has been an absolute disaster. Maybe people are using
fewer drugs, although the data we have does not seem

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to support that, but the drugs they are using are
also far more potent, and the drug war is at
the root of crime problems that you can go see.
Mark Thornton wrote an excellent piece called the Economics of Prohibition.
It's a great thing if you get a chance that
you should read them. Ideally, we could expect to keep

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a peace dividend from a scale back drug war that
frees up resources for use other than policing it and incarceration.
And there's some evidence that legalizing marijuana sales leads to
higher home values. There are studies on some of these
things that you can look into on your own. I'm
not going to go through all those today. Fifteen years ago,

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ending the drug war was a pipe dream. It would
have been political suicide. But with medical marijuana and recreational
marijuana being legalized in state after state, it may start
being time to have those conversations or at least reframing

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what we call the war on drugs into something that
is more effective. Because what we have done since twenty
fourteen has been radically ineffective. Cocaine manufacturing growth is literally
quadrupled since twenty fourteen. And that is even with the
scary ads we run on television, with the fentanyl we

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run on radio, we hear the stories, the risk has
gone up and usage or at least growth has quadrupled.
And that is that is an absolutely fascinating thing to
me because I feel like as we look around and
all this ties in economically for me, I feel like

(29:58):
we as we look around and we look around at
a United States that is experiencing crippling debt. In order
to solve that financial crisis, and I've been over this before,
there are only two ways to do that. You either

(30:19):
increase revenue to pay it down, or you decrease spending
so that your current revenue can pay it down. There
isn't any other option. That's it. There is no sort
of financial alchemy that gets us out of that. So
if that's the case, where can we reduce spending? Well?
Is there a way that we can reframe the war

(30:42):
on drugs in an effort to reduce costs from our end?
Nine seven zero posts a great question here. I don't
actually have the answer for how's the tonnage of production
being weighed against the tonnage of confiscation. That is a
good question. I don't have the answer for. I'm gonna

(31:03):
call somebody during the break because that is a great question.
I would love to know an answer to. Are we
stopping more? Are we are we realizing more of this
because we are stopping power? Is more effective at the borders?
Entirely possible. I'm willing to conceide that's a possibility. That's said,
the space or the land usage to grow cacao down

(31:25):
there in places like Venezuela has quadrupled, and that has
nothing to do with what we've confiscated at the border.
We have data on Columbia, Peru, Bolivia, and I can
tell you that the hectares used for cultivation of cacao

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has basically quadrupled. I mean, the graphs are near mirrors
in terms of manufacture, production surges, and the growth. It
had reached a low point in twenty thirteen and then spiked,
leveling off in twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, small drop in

(32:07):
nineteen and twenty, and then jump back up. And for
those of you who are sitting there looking to confirm
your priors. Yeah, that's going down while Republicans were president
and going up while Democrats were. Correlation doesn't necessarily equal causation,
but perhaps there is something to that. But for me,

(32:31):
when I look at this, I feel like that this
is and I'm not necessarily saying we need to go
out here and legalize heroin and crack and all this
kind of stuff. I'm not even I'm not going that
far at all. I just wonder if there's a there's
a conversation to be had here, because we spend a
lot of money, a lot of money, and this is

(32:55):
an area where perhaps we could save some. The cost
in the war on drugs has been an exponential which
started all the way back with Nixon. This is a

(33:16):
five decades old air quotes war on something. It includes
more than thirty nine billion dollars the federal government spent
last year alone. We've spent a trillion dollars since nineteen
seventy one on something that has been an abject failure.

(33:39):
So for me, this is something that even if we
don't have a solution, we should be having a conversation on.
In twenty twenty one, Gallup found sixty four percent of
Americans said the nation's drug problems extremely serious or very serious.

(34:00):
That number was up. Americans do not feel like we
are winning this. Since nineteen ninety nine, opioid overdoses have
gone from killing two point nine people per one hundred
thousand to more than twenty one per one hundred thousand.

(34:21):
Over the last twenty five years, opioid overdoses have increased sevenfold.
Synthetics have gone from causing point three overdose deaths per
hundred thousand to more than seventeen per one hundred thousand,

(34:42):
and those numbers in the African American community surge passed
those of any other racial or ethnic groups. It is
really disproportionately affecting that community. Opioid overdoses deaths per on
hundred thousand from twenty eighteen to twenty one, and African
Americans went from fourteen point one to thirty three points five.

(35:02):
The overall numbers on that fourteen point six to twenty
four point seven. African American community is far out pacing
the rest of US. White Americans have higher opioid overdose
death rate than the nation overall, but it hasn't surged
at those same numbers. We got to hit a break
Ros Kaminski show. Ben's been all brought to be back
after this. The Vespa, the Vespa, sorry, the Vespa. Everybody's

(35:24):
got a different vehicle that I said to Ferrari, and
Ross is like, we're nowhere near classic enough to run
a Ferrari around here. So yeah, the Gremlin seems to
be the most popular, uh, the most popular vehicle here.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
I'm trying not torect with I wonder how many of
these people actually owned a Gremlin.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
I don't know one of that ridden in a Gremlin? Yeah.
Or a Pinto. We got a pin We got quite
a few Pintos in here as well, So that was
you know. I was like, it wasn't a four Pinto once?
Well that was enough for me? How was it? I
mean it was not a comfortable ride we had. Technology
has advanced. Where are those the ones that exploded? Yeah?
The poor design of the gas tanks or something? Five

(36:01):
six six nine zeros of text line. I had a
lot of good stuff coming in there based off the
last segment, uh, five oh three. I believe as long
as the demand is there, drugs will find a way
inside the United States. I agree. I do believe that
you know, demand obviously is a precursor for supply. I
just think that we are ineffectively spending the money that

(36:22):
we're doing there. And that goes back to again with
the debt that we have and an American sort of
return to Oh yeah, we've got to have fiscal responsibility,
you know, in the in the post COVID era, there

(36:42):
are we we have to look at how to be
more efficient with our dollars. We've got to learn how
to we've got to figure out ways to raise revenue,
we've got to cut costs, and we've got to be
more efficient. Just I mean, you just have to triangulate that.
Otherwise we're going to continue to to find ways to
uh to spend ourselves into oblivion. Somebody said, uh, the
three or three said, sure way to cut deficits spending.

(37:03):
No candidate is up for reelection if the budget isn't balanced. Uh.
And then the seven to us said there's a third way,
and sadly it's the one they're using inflation to devalue
money and thus the debt. And and you are correct,
although that that again that's kicking the can down the road.
And it's it's interesting to me because a lot of

(37:25):
people don't understand why you would want to do that,
why you'd use devaluation as a monetary policy tool, and
and so I wanted to try to get into that
a little bit. It's worth noting that that, first of all,
the strategic currency devaluation does not always work, and it

(37:49):
can also it can often lead to a currency war
between nations. One of the big reasons that China has
had an advantage on everybody else that nobody talks about
is the fact that they use the offshore and the
on shore one so they can manipulate one or the
other to give themselves a competitive It's a brilliant strategy.
It's it's brilliant. Nobody else does that. And so that's

(38:10):
one of the reasons when people talk about China, like, like,
at how they have this advantage all this kind of stuff.
It's not just the fact that they have cheap labor
and uh, you know, and all the other things that
they have going on. That's that's one of the ones
that that they have. It may seem counterintuitive, but strong
currency is not necessarily in a nation's best interest. Weak

(38:31):
domestic currency makes a nation's exports more competitive in global
markets and simultaneously makes imports more expensive. And you know,
we certainly talked about tariffs and what you know, the
import tax and all that kind of stuff, but I
don't want to get into that at this moment. Higher
export volume spur economic growth. That that's what this administration wants.

(38:53):
They want higher export volume. That's the thing they want.
That's part of these all of these they call them deals,
but whatever, all these negotiations that they've had with people
to put tariffs on stuff. The tariff. The idea behind
the tariff is it raises the cost of the good
here in the United States, so you'll buy local, and
you know, you'll ship out more. These companies will ship

(39:13):
out more when there's no tariff on the other side. Right,
So fairly simple. That's the dumbed out version anyway. And
that's the thing. Like the idea that tariffs wouldn't make
things more expensive, they absolutely do. It's a feature, not
a bug. It's supposed to make it more expensive. It's
so you'll buy the other thing instead of that. That's
why these countries, like when people always ask me, well,

(39:35):
why do why are we mad about tariffs? What other
countries use them? Well, first, of all the countries mostly
don't use them. The average tariff rid on the United
States around the world something like two percent. They mostly
don't use them because they don't want to make things
more expensive at the register for their citizens. They use
them just a little bit to offset, or try to

(39:55):
offset if they have a particular targeted item or menu
factoring sector or whatever in their country, to try to
help that out. We have been using them unilaterally, potentially illegally.
We'll get to that later. Well, we've been using them unilaterally,
and that is almost always a recipe for disaster. In
terms of devalued currency. Though to get back to what

(40:20):
the texture was talking about, it does it may seem
counter two to a strong currency, again not necessarily in
our best interest. Weaker currency makes exports more competitive in
global markets. Devaluation is different from depreciation though in that
it's an intentional action, where depreciation is a market forces

(40:42):
for the I got a couple of texts on that,
and I don't really want to go down the rabbit
hole of trying to do all that, but you get
a lot of when you devalue that stuff, you get
currency wars, right, and there's been historical conflict between countries
like China and US over the valuation of currencies. Devaluation

(41:04):
helps countries stay competitive globally, and it attracts foreign investment
in cheaper assets. You go back and you look. The
eighty Omnibus Trade Act mandates that the US Treasury check
if other countries manipulate their currencies exchange rate against the dollar.

(41:25):
In twenty nineteen, Secretary Revenution report that China had devalued
its currency to gain an unfair trade advantage. That goes
back to what I was talking about earlier. China has
the dual currency system so they can get away with it.
This past year, after trade issues from US tariff's, China
Central Bank began to slowly weaken the want again in
order to keep the export let economy that they have competitive.

(41:47):
So the offshore wand fell to seven dollars and forty
or seven point four to three per dollars se point
four three one per dollar in April of twenty twenty five,
although analysts predicted that the Chinese government would avoid sharper
devaluations in order to preserve their market stability. And you
can go back, there's plenty of charts on this. You
can go back and look at you know, and read

(42:08):
up on manipulation that I don't want to get too
deep in the weeds on that one. But the role
of tariffs in counteracting evaluation. If imports become too cheap,
the country can use tariffs to boost their prices and
encourage local demand for local products. So the tariffs on China,
the idea or the theory behind it is that if

(42:30):
China devalues their wand to stay competitive globally, that you
tear if their product to make it cost more at
the register, so people stay away from it, and that's
the counterbalance. The problem is that we've unilaterally you know,
prizes across the board, and we are not putting tariffs
on things at a high enough rate to onshore manufacturing,

(42:52):
which was a stated goal. You'd have to really do it.
But all it does is make things more expensive for
American citizens at a time where we really can't afford that.
And I'll get in a little bit more about why
it creates a a downward spiral when we come back.
We got to hit a break right here on k
But the don't wreckt the Ferrari thing. Everybody's been texting

(43:12):
in all morning with horrible cars as to not wreck.
What's the best worst one so far? Oh? I got
the seventy three AMC Gremlin eight ninety two Ford Ranger.
Don't wreckt the you go. Let's see here trying to
direct the SAP. Yeah, that Zepp, that's I don't like

(43:35):
this one. I don't even know is that is that
even really a thing?

Speaker 2 (43:38):
Are you just throwing letters together or spelled you know, autocorrect?

Speaker 1 (43:42):
Don't direct the peel P fifty. Somebody said, di'trect the Citron,
which is funny because I'm actually in the market for
a Citron. Yeah, there's it's funny that you that you
mentioned that. I I uh, one of the Texters did.
I've been looking at it a nineteen seventy two Citron
d S twenty one plus. It's for those of you
who don't recognize that car, there's sort of a similar vehicle.

(44:04):
The one I'm looking at is black and it's got
like red leather and tear. The the one that if
you if you look at it in light blue, you
may recognize that car from the TV show The Mentalist.
It's what the guy drove. A similar is similar to that,
so we'll see. I I just I think they're cool
looking cars.

Speaker 2 (44:22):
I see that more of like a the Avengers Jordan Jordan,
who the.

Speaker 1 (44:27):
Oh yeah, miss Peel And yeah you talk about the Avengers.
The yeah you're talking. Yeah, you're talking about That's why
I see what the citron there. You're not the Marvel Avengers,
the British Avengers. Yeah, but yeah, there's there's so many,
like there's so many. Stephen Firestone, My first car is
a Sody four Gremlin, smashed in the back, paint flaking off,
broken muffler, straight six, three speed, couldn't kill that motor.

(44:52):
Drove it for three years on tempt tags before I
have a junket. Oh to hear you guys, car stories.
Tell me, tell me about your h Tell me about
your worst car you ever had. Mine was my first one.
Oh my good, these texts are rolling. And don't write
the Pontiac as Tech bought those that Walter White car. Yeah,

(45:13):
it looked like a razorback, you know, the car that
looked like a razorback or whatever. It's like, it looks
like a Pontiac az Tech like to me, like those
cyber trucks are the demon spawn of a pontiac As
Trek and a DeLorean and an El Camino, you know,
just mixing it up. Nobody said it Delorion yet that
I can see. But oh for the uh.

Speaker 2 (45:35):
For for how they look, I mean they look great,
but they're actually.

Speaker 1 (45:38):
Very terrible car. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I tried to. I
looked at it, looked at getting one a while back.
And actually another guy in town beat me, beat me
to it. Yeah, Dan Jacobs, who was a you know,
he's a lawyer at a judge and and uh works
as a sports talk post on the weekends at another station.
And he he beat me to it. Yeah. I want

(45:58):
to hear you guys' worst cause I'll tell you My
first car that I ever had was a nineteen eighty
one Honda Civic Hatchback and it was kind of this
I call it puke white color because it was supposed
to be some shade of white, although it was really
more of a light brown. Yes, going on, no power steering,
so anytime you wanted to turn a corner in that thing,

(46:20):
I mean you were putting full muscle in that tiny car.
Oh yeah, that car was horrible. Somebody somebody broke in
and instole the stereo. It was such a it was
such a terrible vehicle. Somebody took so much pity on me.
Felt so bad. I gotta retire of that joke. Yeah,
it was. It was a I mean it got it
got incredible gas mileage. But that car was ugly as sin.

(46:43):
Brad Pitt couldn't get laid in that car. It was.
I mean, it was terrible. That was my first car.
But I think I'm almo the opinion that everybody should
have kind of one of those cars, like a character
car to start off on.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
It didn't have to be a start because my first
car was a eighty seven Silica GTS, so I mean
that's pretty good. But then I found out I was
gonna be a dad, so I sold that and got
a Lincoln Wagon Okay, Mercury, Mercury, Okay, waggoner.

Speaker 1 (47:12):
Here it was. It was not sure. No. My buddy,
my best friend, his first car was the was an
El Camino. It was like purple and white. And then
he had a Buick Regal after that, so we were
riding around in the luxury real. Yeah, but that was
you could like buy a car. I mean that it

(47:32):
had a back seat, but I don't know what you
were doing back there with that because people weren't fitting
in it. I think I threw the CDs, but I
had the big book of CDs back then.

Speaker 2 (47:40):
I just throw those back there as one does all
the mixed ones because he didn't have the original ones.
He just had a friend who then you copied one
and like.

Speaker 1 (47:47):
I had, I was. I was the one who had
the CD burner. So I was I had the CDs
and then I would burn them for that, I would
make them give me. You had to give me your
original CDs and I would burn all the other ones
and give you. So that's how I increased my CD collection.
Tell somebody stole it along with the you know when
they broke in installed the CD player, they stole the CD.
So balancing Universe out right five six six nine zero

(48:08):
is the text line seven towerho been? Doesn't the Citron
have the disc brakes in the engine compartment? I think so?
Oh first car seventy eight Chavette that my dad bought
at Mountain Bell Auction came the big logo on the
door that's for the three zero three seven one. I

(48:33):
don't wreck the Renault Alliance, the eighty seven or old.
You guys are great with these with this car stuff.
This stuff is hilarious. I've accidentally, I have accidentally created
a bit that I did not mean to, so we
said a forty eight Rambler in nineteen seventy four. ILL
love this stuff. Keep this stuff coming in. I want
to hear about you guys's first terrible cars five six
six nins. There we got hit a break, we come back,

(48:54):
we get back into it. It was the Roskimiski show
mention by filling in here.

Speaker 2 (48:57):
On Kaway, yes's something I hear.

Speaker 1 (49:02):
I grow tired of hearing how my genius is the
limits of your intellect? No no bounds five six six
nine zeros in text line Benjamin all Bright filling in
for Ross Comminskeith today, and we've accidentally created a firestorm
of a bit here. As everybody is sending me their
either first car or lemon car stories. There's there's there's
so many here. I can't possibly get to them all,

(49:25):
even if I did this for the rest of the show,
but I do want to get to some of some
of these are absolutely hilarious. I do want to thank
the seven and too zero for sending me that article
on the plant virus, excuse me on the uh the
double blind studies on the food allergy thing. I'm going
to read that later. I always appreciate you, guys. One
of the things I love. I love to learn, right,

(49:46):
So if you guys ever have stuff, don't hesitate to
fire those links on over on our text line because
I love I save all this stuff and I love
reading it later. I'm a I'm a voracious consumer of
of information and wanting to Is the text line the
best place to get it to you? Do you have to? Yeah?
I just do a text I know. I mean, I
has given people's opinion of me. I hesitate to put
other contact information for myself out there. You don't have

(50:07):
a Benjamin Olbright at iHeartMedia dot com. There is something
similar to that that I would not like people to know.
It's definitely not that. It's definitely not exactly that email address. Yes,
it's the first name, last name for everybody I heardmedia
dot com. It could be a dot in there somewhere.
There's not there's not but five six sixth tens here.

(50:28):
I'm loving all these stories. Oh my god, some of
these are like I was crying laughing during the break
on a couple of these I want to get into.
You know, the first vehicle is terribly ugly, but a
heck of it. As Susie Trooper put her through Helen back,
as any sixteen year old drove for eight years, I
think it's just a box on wheels. Well, yeah, this
one we had the sixteen year old. I got the

(50:50):
seventy nine Subaru station Wagon. Ugly is sin, but it
did get me the hottest freshman girl in the history
of the world. Good for you, Good for you? Yeah,
I had I had that that hot I had the Civic,
and then I had because I literally had two bad cars.
And then I you know, then I started that was
in the army, and I could afford better at all that,
So I had that. And then I had my grandfather's

(51:11):
like this Honda Civic astral wagon looking thing like the
highbrid between the Civic and the Odyssey. I don't know.
It was terrible. It had the lambskin seat covers. I
mean this this vehicle reeked of old. And the only
reason I had that is because my brother, who's fifteen

(51:32):
months younger than me, had wrecked his Mustang. Uh and
get you already picking up when I putting, you're picking
up when I putting. No, Well, favorite may have been
incapable of providing for himself. The middle child. Yeah, he
was a middle child. I'm the I'm the oldest, so
I naturally had to do things on my own all

(51:52):
the others. Yeah, so you know, so anyway, I yeah,
this car was terrible reached and he refused to drive it.
He wrecked his Mustang and he was looking for a
new car and he refused. My grandpa gave us a
car so we'd have one extra at the time, and
he's just refused. He's like, I'm not driving that thing.
I just I'll walk. And I'm like, you live five
miles from anything. We live out in the middle of

(52:13):
rural Arkansas. Like we live in the middle of a
rice field. Enjoy walking. Yeah. So yeah, and he ended
up getting hisself another Mustang or whatever with the insurance
and all that. But yeah, so I drove it. But
and then I was like, well, I'm just gonna keep
driving this thing. I've got it, I might as well
drive it. So I did. It got it. To its credit,
it got phenomenal gas mileage. But that was the only
thing it got other than a to B. If there's

(52:34):
one quality, that was it? Yeah, that was That was
the thing. So I love the like all these obscure
references that people are taking us great. They've been handed
the keys to a nineteen ninety seven Forest Green astro van.
Don't wreck it. It's funny because his bit got started
when I told Ross, uh, you know, when I was
filling in for a show the last time, that I
wouldn't wreck the Ferrari. And then everybody started melting down

(52:58):
and they're like, this show is not a Ferrari. It's
way too high class for this. We are a We're
a Kremlin, definitely says on a very consistent basis. We
are a semi professional radio show. So we're nowhere close
to it for us. I just love the audience because
the audience here is absolutely self deprecating with all this stuff.
Sixty five Dodge Dart punctured the gas tank. Nobody's brought
up a conversion van yet. I haven't seen that. There's

(53:20):
a there's a couple of couple of great ones here.
First car was a sixty eight Dodge Coronet, lime green
with white racing stripes, black leather, and Terror bought it
at the East. It was car auction in nineteen seventy
four for four hundred bucks. My father almost had a
stroke when he woke up the next morning and saw
what I had bought. We lived in a small farming
town of nine hundred in rural Illinois. Love it, let's

(53:44):
see you hit my whole life in one meeting. Lost
my v card in the blue and white Pinto, later
in the purple el Camino with a white tunnel cover.
Then progressed to the sixty three four door Galaxy five hundred.
Move it up in the world. Oh been. My first
car was a sixty three Plymouth Valiant coup. I loved
that car. It was easy to work on. It was

(54:04):
a hand me down. My first worst car I bought
was eighty four Dodge Charger. There was somebody who had
a story on a Scout I'm trying to find. I'm
trying to roll back down here and find it real
quick because the text light it's blowing up with you
guys just sending these stories in the itness. I love
this vehicle as a character. I learned to drive stick
Chift on a sixty four International Scout. It was originally green,

(54:28):
but may have been painted white with house paint. Yes,
I could see the ground through the floor, and the
doors were held shut by bathroom door latches. Beautiful. It
would occasionally pop out a gear in the driveway. I'd
roll into the street. It would top out at fifty
five miles an hour. I went to school in Greeley,

(54:49):
but I got more than my share of colorful hand
gestures anytime I drove to the Metro and I twenty
five with a seventy five mile an hour speed limit.
It was the best car. I felt like a boss
at first. I will say this though, the International Scout
was a great vehicle. Kind of got mistaken for Bronco
because it kind of looked similar back in the day.
It was a great figl My buddy, the same guy

(55:09):
I was talking about earlier, you had the Buick Regal
in the the El Camino. Uh. He wound up getting
one of those when he got back from Iraqi and
I were enlisted together when he got back for he
bought one to restore it. Never restored any part of
it whatsoever, but drove that thing around it was like
orange and white. Drove it out. We had a blast
in that thing. I think the only improvement he ever

(55:30):
made to it was installing a CD player, like that's
the only thing. He was I'm gonna restore this, never
restore a lick of it. I think he put some
primer on some rough spots. At one point. There were
a lot of these cars because we didn't know any better,
or just because we were just happy to have what
we could have. I mean, I think there's a component
to that, because I mean, like looking back on it
with the benefit of hindsight, you know, now you're like,

(55:51):
oh my god, that thing was was horrible, but you
drove it for eight years because we said, you drove
forever and you got around. You know. I had the
longest lasting car I had. I had a Jeep Cherokee
back in the nineties. It was ninety six Cherokee had
the inline sixth great engine. I swear I put six

(56:13):
hundred thousand miles on that thing.

Speaker 2 (56:15):
After you got it, Yeah, after I got it, it
had probably had like two hundred something.

Speaker 1 (56:19):
No no, no, no, no, I got it. I got
it fifty five sixty thousand miles on it, Okay, And
I got this thing. I found it in a dealership
in Saint Louis somewhere, and We drove that thing cross country. Ever,
we went everywhere because in a living we went to
Memphis in it. We would go to Dallas, Austin. We
drove out to LA a few times. We went all
over in that thing, and I swear that was I
had somebody try to do. I took that thing to Tampa.

(56:41):
So I still had that thing in twenty eleven, twenty ten,
twenty eleven, and I got rid of it when I
came out here, So that that's tell how long it was.
It wasn't my primary driver, but I did have that
thing for long distance trips or whatever I needed it for.
That that thing ran forever. Then. My first car was
a nineteen eighty two toy Yo to Corona. Yes, like

(57:02):
the beat, is that an actual thing I have? I
have no reason not to believe him, but sure, huh
did it? Did it? Did it come in line? Somebody
said they're bringing the International scout Back. I would I
would seriously look at that. If they brought the scout Back,

(57:22):
I would be so on that fifty five Chevy Nomad,
Fenderwell Flames and a four fifty four Big Rat Motor. Awesome. Yeah,
some of these, I mean, it's like, I don't want
to get I don't get stuck on this just but
it is like the stuff you guys are saying, absolutely
absolutely hilarious. My first car was a seventy six dots

(57:46):
in two eighty Z. My boyfriend now husband draw a
trans am. Tell our kids we were cool. A ninety
seven day woo lottos. Do they even make day anymore?
Like dayre was a? It was a I believe it
was Korean. I'll tell you the funniest thing real quick,

(58:08):
last one on this and then I'll get some more
of these layers. The funniest one I ever had. I
had a nineteen ninety six Geo tracker. You remember that.
It was like the Suzuki Sidekick, you know, like the
little mini suv or whatever micromachine suv. That thing. I
swear to god it got fifty miles to the gallon.
They had like a three cylinder engine. But this one

(58:30):
that I bought it was different because like most of
those things you saw, they were they were tighty. This
one somebody had put a one inch lift on it
and it had like an extended wheelbase, okay, and they
had repainted it. So you remember the tracker logo. You know,
it was like this laser font or whatever. Yeah, they
had gotten rid of that and spray painted this like
this Arctic wolf tracker font thing going on. Oh it

(58:54):
was tacky as as everything. It looked like like the
logo looked like something you would get on a gas
station T shirt. It was, and I oh, I drove
the mess out of They had the white soft top.
I drove. I never even put the ties ripped. That
took the top off and never even put it back on.
Didn't matter if it rained in that thing. I like
this one here. This guy's an actual badass here in
nineteen ninety two as ten blazer front with the fron

(59:17):
front bed seat. Yeah, that was a popular That's that's
one you can be proud of. That was a popular
vehicle down there in Arkansas because you get to have
your girls, you know, slide over next to your buddy
all the way over, you know, you have the front
bench seat like that. Yeah, that was a popular one,
Ges ten Blazer. Some of these like my god, oh
Man ninety five green Cherokee two door two by four

(59:41):
sport bought near Tampa. Also drove a seventy two baby
blue Plymouth Valiant, which was my grandparents. Oh my god. Yeah,
you guys are keeping it like I promise you printing
the text line to read some of this stuff later.
This stuff is absolutely phenomenal. I wanted to get to
forget stuck on that. I wanted to get to this.

(01:00:01):
I don't know if you guys have seen this, the
radioactive shrimp. Have you seen this radioactive shrimp? There? There's
a recall on shrimp from Walmart because the shrimp might
be radioactive. Right. The FDA is war in the public
not to consume certain frozen shrimp products sold at Walmart
due to possible contamination with caesium one thirty seven, a

(01:00:23):
radioactive isotope. Warning effects the Great Value brand of raw
frozen shrimp sold at the superstorem I'm thinking great, honestly
Great Value shrimp, gas station sushi. What could go wrong? Exactly?
Uh yeah, the warning effects Great Value brand, which anyone

(01:00:43):
who has purchased the product should dispose of them immediately.
Statement from the agency said the FDA was actively investigating
reports of caesium one thirty seven contamination in shipping containers
and frozen shrimp products shipped from Indonesia. Customs and Border
protect detected Casion one thirty seven and shipping containers at
four points LA, Houston, Savannah, and Miami containers that tested

(01:01:07):
positive for the isotope of and denied entry. The FDA added,
though that has not confirmed the presence of contamination in
any commercial product. The products appear to have been prepared, packed,
or held under insanitary conditions, whereby they may have become
contaminated with Cazia one thirty seven. Limited exposure to Casion

(01:01:28):
one thirty seven and could cause an elevate a risk
of cancer resulting in damage to DNA within living cells
of the body, and the amount detected is at a
level of concern for imported foods, attempts to recall, attempts
to address concerns related to long term, repeated low dose exposure.

(01:01:49):
Anyone who who's bought or sells the product should throw
them out. Walmart similarly advised customers with products in their
position to discard them, and customers who purchased them could
visit any Walmart store for a full refund. You do
not need to take the shrimp back. You can take
your receipt back if it's got season one thirty seven.
Don't carry it around with you throw it and by
throwing it out, don't throw it the god can. Yeah,

(01:02:12):
don't throw it the garbage can in your house, Season
one thirty seven. For those that don't know, it's a
common radioactive isotope caesium uh. It's it's produced via nuclear
fission in order to be used in medical devices and gauges.
Is often used in radiation therapy to treat cancer. It
could also be a waste product of nuclear reactors and

(01:02:34):
has been found near nuclear accidents. People are often exposed
to very small quantities due to isotope remaining in the
environment following nuclear weapons testing dating back to the mid
twentieth century, which is one of the ways they tell
lease jumbo shrimp. Then like it looks like the regular package,
like the you know, the peel at each you know

(01:02:55):
they pick out of shrimp, cocktail, shrimp kind of thing.
That's what that's the picture here that I got. Uh.
I don't know. I just yeah, I don't know. If
the god zillowed him with seven that's right, that's where
your line's going with that. I was like, yeah, you're
more creative than me. I was being litteral, that is, uh.
But yeah, season one thirty seven. Is he in the
soil like everywhere due to nuclear weapons testing back in
the day, is how they tell That's how they do

(01:03:19):
sample testing on bottles of wine, like like expensive old
bottles of wine that people buy, and you could slide
down past the cork and test if there's seesium inside
the bottle. Then they forged the wine bottle because there
would be no caesium there until after the nuclear you know,
testing was still so it's one of the ways that

(01:03:39):
they can test if a bottle of wine has been
forged from a long time ago. Fascinating things you pick
up on the show, right wine nerd over there, We're
just I'm trying to wreck the gremlin. They want to
learn more about wine here. Maybe we'll do a segment.
We'll do that. We'll have somalier in here, we'll do it.
We'll do it on air wine testing. That'll go over
real well, that'll be a bit. Large amounts of the

(01:04:01):
isotope can be incredibly dangerous in addition to increasing cancer risks, burns, radiation, sickness,
even death. According to the CDC, even low levels of
this radiation can build up and become extremely harmful. It
does often end up in food cycle that people, but
it's extremely low levels because of the dissipation over the

(01:04:21):
globe from the nuclear website. So normally you're not getting
up anyway if you've had great value brand shrimp which
is sold at Walmart, because when you think shrimp, you
think great value brand shrimp from Walmart. Yeah, and with
all due respect to Walmart, I'm sure, but it might
be a great product. It's just I'm I'm yeah. That's

(01:04:42):
one of those saying. It's like there's certain things you
just don't right, that's one of them. Like I never,
I very rarely eat seafood in a landlocked state, correct,
you know? Much less? Uh? Was it? Somebody was trying
to sell me on the virtues of gas station sushi
the other day, and I'm like, you gotta be kidding.
Only if you're in or an adventure. Yeah, I'm not.
I already had an issue with sushi back in the day,

(01:05:03):
Like I'm not. No, Oh my good. And apparently it is.
The jumbo shrimp is one of them. Okay, see yeah, yep,
it's radioactive. Yep. Did you know Walton Goggins was doing
Walmart ads? That was the other rabbit hole thing I

(01:05:25):
found out when researching the story. Okay, maybe Billy's doing
Walmart ads? Why not?

Speaker 2 (01:05:32):
I mean, I mean he's everywhere these days. He's going
full Gene Simmons on everything. He's not trying to sell
his own blood yet at this point.

Speaker 1 (01:05:38):
So I think, give it time. It's like novacane, give
it time, tottle work. I don't know, Like the list
here does say that that shrimp is sold here in Colorado, Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas,
and West Virginia.

Speaker 2 (01:06:01):
So not only are we wasting time telling the story
and devoting this much time to the story, it is
actually useful.

Speaker 1 (01:06:06):
Yeah, look at us. That's not just you know, it's
not just some random, weird, helpful, weird story of the day.
Several textures are texting in now the three h three
the season situation seems like a missed marketing opportunity for
Glowing the Dark Shrimp Ross has the best audience. Man,

(01:06:27):
I love I love this stuff. This is absolutely ridiculous.
We come back. I'm gonna get into more of you
Guys' text because we have like so many of these
that need to be read. I can't let these go
to waste. This is too funny to let go to waste.
I appreciate you guys being along the off for the ride.
Here Benjamin Allbright filling in for ros Kiminski on The
Ros Kiminski Show. Right here on k Benjamin Albright filling

(01:06:48):
in for Ross Kominsky five six six nine zeros a
text line and then it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:53):
Happened to like that Benjamin old right guy. Is there
any other way that I can find him? Or is
he has another show? I mean, you're filling in here
for Ross Kiminsky and on this semi professional show that
we don't want to wreck.

Speaker 1 (01:07:03):
The Ferrari Monny semi professional basis too right.

Speaker 2 (01:07:05):
So is there anyway if I happen to like this
Benjamin Albright character?

Speaker 1 (01:07:10):
Where else could I find him? Well? Obviously you could
listen here on KOWA. The A of course stands for
all Bright. I'm on all the Knobs kidding I I'm
on Broncos Country Tonight today. I'll be I can't with
sports actually from from three to six with Right Edwards,
but Broncos Country Tonight is my normal show from six
to nine. Also do the Broncos insider segments on the

(01:07:30):
game day broadcast with Dave Logan. You can usually catch
me on Sunday mornings doing the gambling and fantasy shows
and all that kind of stuff. So kind of jack
of all trades, master of none as far as that
stuff goes. If you have social media, you can unfollow
me at Albright NFL. It's a dumpster fire. I wouldn't
follow me, but you know you are welcome to join along.
I think I have some other social media with that

(01:07:52):
tag too, so if you you know, if you follow
me there, that's fine. I'm on Instagram, but I don't
use it for anything other than posting funny memes and
take of myself.

Speaker 2 (01:08:00):
With the outfits that you wear. You don't utilize Instagram.

Speaker 1 (01:08:04):
I do. I pose the pictures of myself, okay, and
then my stories. It's all just funny memes, and you know,
I don't really do football news on there or anything else.
So if you were looking for that, you're in the
wrong place for that. But if you do like funny memes,
I'm there for them. Speaking of which, thank you to
the listener who sent in whatever that oil painting is
I don't even know this. They send me this picture

(01:08:25):
of me, like this oil painted looking thing. I want
to thank Jacob for that where I'm sitting driving a
Ferrari with a radio, microphone and switchboard looking out of it.
And I got to tell you my hair has never
looked thicker or more lustrous than in this picture. You got.
The details are all right too. You got the all
black shirt. You know, It's like literally they call me
over the sales department, right, they call me black shirt

(01:08:45):
Ben because I always wear the the you know, the
black deep, usually wear the black deep V necklough. Today
I'm wearing a Mars twenty twenty mission, you know, NASA
T shirt and not so much now.

Speaker 2 (01:08:53):
But in the past, You've also always referred to yourself
as a skinny fat and in that you're you and
that picture.

Speaker 1 (01:09:00):
I got more farm muscle in that painting that I've
ever had in my life. Yeah, well, I mean I did.
I lost a bunch of weight. I did. I did
put on in that mid section inspired by you. No no,
no no, I did I told you this previously. You
don't get to you don't get to duck away from
this one. Mister Redbeard. Uh, I appreciate Dragon for those
of you who don't know, lost bunch of weight and

(01:09:21):
he's posted that stuff on his social media. And finally
got to the point between you and a Rod and
Ryan Edwards all losing weight. I was like, you know what,
I can't be, uh, the only fat guy. I can't
be the sloppy fat guy around here, which I'm not fat,
like I'm a naturally skinny guy. I just haven't had
a terrible diet and and didn't do it. So yeah,
I hate less than got moving. So yeah, dropped drop

(01:09:41):
thirty pounds and you know, mostly got rid of the
Santa Claus looking pot belly thing I had going on.
And uh, it's been that's been good. Five six six
nine zero is the text line we had. Yeah, played
the rest diss on shrimp and then play the restaurant
spot that was It was great that we had one
of our I guess our sponsored Blue Island Oyster Bar

(01:10:03):
and Seafood. Now I'm told they do not sell the
radioactive shrimps. So you can go to Blue Blue Oyster
Bar and Seafood and get the.

Speaker 2 (01:10:10):
Chances so that they do not pick up the great
value Walmart brand, right, they get.

Speaker 1 (01:10:14):
They have good high quality, good high quality seafood out there,
great meal choices and all that kind of stuff. They
do not have the caesium one thirty seven infected shrimp there.
So if you want to get shrimp and you you
want to avoid the caesium one thirty seven, they ago
see how that works. I'm not dissing on all shrimp.
I just thought that that story wash was funny. One

(01:10:35):
of the things I did want to tell you guys about.
This is not an ad, by the way, I promise
you none of these next couple of stories are in ads,
although one might seem like it. Circle k who has
helped sponsor one of the charities I'm involved in, Heroes
Thank you. We do that in the fourth quarter of
every year. We give money back to to veterans in
need and all that kind of stuff. We have great
sponsors to that. So Okay has sponsored that before. But

(01:10:56):
they're Inner Circle Loyalty program. If you look at if
you need to fill up your car ghasoline. I know
how the price everything is up these days, but if
you need to fill up your car gasoline, circle case
doing one of their inner circles the loyalty program days
forty cents off per gallon Tomorrow, forty cents off per
gallon for Inner Circle Fuel day for back to school.
It's good from six am to midnight. You have to

(01:11:17):
enter your phone number with your Inner Circle account at
the gas pump or inside the store at check out
before the transaction, and you only can do it once.
You can't sit there and like go back multiple times
over the course of the day and do it. It'll
only register it once. But if you do that, you'll
get forty cents off per gallon tomorrow. So I'm not
saying drive that thing all the way down to eat
and get straighted somewhere, but forty cents off per gallon

(01:11:38):
might be the day to fill up tomorrow. I have
to fill up today. Just give it a couple of
squeezes and then go back tomorrow. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:11:43):
Another The good question here is I'm not sure if
you would know. The answer to this is what if
I don't have I'm not part of the Inner Circle?

Speaker 1 (01:11:50):
Can I see you? Go to the Circle k, you
can google the Intercircle reward. You can sign up online today. Okay,
It's just like putting your phone number in untill sign
up tomorrow. I would soon, so I mean because it's
an instant so you could theoretically sign up tomorrow and
be and be fine. Get Yeah, we don't know for certain.
This is it's not mad and I don't know for certain,
but I always like passing along the get cheaper gas stuff.

(01:12:13):
So yeah, forty cents off a gallon, that's that's uh,
you know, nothing to take a stick. I could probably
buy a football team with all that savings. So not
a good one the way the way gas costs are
these days. I'm just saying one of the other stories
I wanted to get to. Your Target CEO is stepping
down now. In the interest of full disclosure before I
read you this story, h Brian Cornell, who is the

(01:12:33):
Target CEO that's stepping down at for eleven years, his
son is a friend of mine, So in the interest
of full disclosure, JC is a friend of mine and
we've known each other for a long time, work together
on some things. He's owned some some football websites, things
like that. We've worked together on things. But I want
to do with that. This is a tale of where
going anti woke made you go broke. As Target retailers

(01:12:54):
lashed out against the company. Company facing slumping sales and
backlash to its retreat on d Brian Cornell stepping down
after eleven years. This departure was fairly expected. The industry
anaus believe Target should bring in an outside voice to
leave the company, but instead they opted for an internal candidate.
Cornell's gonna be replaced or stepped out on February first

(01:13:15):
of twenty twenty six, and he will be replaced by
Michael Fidelki, who is Target's current chief operating officer. Nowki
starred as an intern at Target's been with a company
for twenty years, was chosen from a quote strong list
of external and internal candidates, Cornell said on a call
with analyst Wednesday, adding that he is the right candidate
to lead our business back to growth. Cornell will stay

(01:13:36):
on as an executive chairman. He took over in twenty
fourteen and revitalized Target, overseeing a strategy to remodel stores
and strengthen the online business to compete with Amazon. But
Target's been in a deep slump for a couple of years,
a result largely of its own strategic missteps. The company
struggled as customers have purchased less of its goods and clothing.

(01:13:58):
It faced intense competition for Walmart and Amazon at costco.
Target on Wednesday reported sales fell for a third straight quarter.
Shares fell ten percent in pre market trading, and Target
stock is among the worst performing companies in the SP
five hundred this year. Now Target stop stock dropper flects
many of its investors belief the chain needed to go
in a different direction and analyze to criticized Target's board

(01:14:20):
for choosing an insider who helped develop the current strategy
that they have. The last three years have been unkind
to Target, but twenty twenty five particularly tumultuous. Earlier this year,
the company ended some of its DEI programs, and that
decision apparently angered supporters of its policies who felt blindsided

(01:14:41):
by Target. Customers online protest to Target's decision, and Lucy Dayton,
the dardglers of Target's co founders, called the company's actions
a betrayal. And this is one of those situations where
apparently its customer base was very into those policies. The
majority of its customer and not everybody's going.

Speaker 2 (01:14:59):
He he chose to make those policies and implement those policies.

Speaker 1 (01:15:03):
Now, they appealed those policies. So they had a lot
of what people I hate the word. As soon as
I hear the word woke, I tune out to what
people were talking, right, But they had some DEI. They
had a lot of DEI programs and policies that they
were very pro that, right, But at that time, he
was the one implementing those programs repealing them. He was
the one who repealed them and said we're not going

(01:15:23):
to do DEI. We're not going to do that.

Speaker 2 (01:15:25):
So some other CEO was in charge. They Target freaked out.
Finally part him on and he was like, all right,
I'm no. So he'd been with Target for a while.
I'm just trying to get a good timeline to hear
to what because if if he was in charge while
all the woke stuff was going on, then became anti
woke kind.

Speaker 1 (01:15:43):
Of what happened there. So basically Target has largely been
a progressive company when it comes to that, and they've
been you know, their niche has been a little bit different.
You remember, retailers like Kmart or Walmart have always been
more of a value conscious aspect what they do. Target
had an element of that, but they were almost like
a value conscious, but like the luxury You're right, right, right,

(01:16:06):
So the higher end of the value conscious.

Speaker 2 (01:16:08):
I don't have to put pants on to go to Walmart,
but to Target, Yeah, I'll put pants on.

Speaker 1 (01:16:11):
Oh you got to hit an iron on that shit. No,
I'm just kidding, it's it. Target has been that brand well,
apparently unbeknownst to them, a large swatch of their core
customer constituency was in favor of those progressive policies, and
they have severely experienced drops in sales. Now that that's

(01:16:40):
the only company to roll back the eye policies, but
they came under more pressure because they had more deeply
ingrained programs into the core of their business, and they
just have a more progressive base of customers than their competitors.
So a combination of that tariffs consumer slow down is
putting even more pressure on them. And even though they're

(01:17:00):
more known for trend your items, more than than half
of Target's merchandise is what you'd call it discretionary, but
that merchandise is slumped as shoppers spend more and essential
for food household basics, which is like half of Walmart's
business actually comes from groceries. Right, So Target imports about

(01:17:22):
half its merchandise compared to roughly about a third for Walmart.
So the tariffs are also hitting you know, Target pretty
pretty hard right now too. So it needs to raise
prices at almost double the rate of Walmart in order
to mitigate tariff impact. Yeah, so the math there is
just not mathing. And Target's recent struggles are reversal of

(01:17:45):
Brian Cornell's early years at the retailer. In twenty eighteen,
Target reported its best results in decades under him. The
following year, he was named CNN's Business CEO of the
Year for leading the turnaround at Target. And the company
had thrived at a time when a lot of brick
and mortar stores were closing because online stores without you
know that front, it was was doing pretty well. So,

(01:18:06):
uh we we come back. I want to get into
this food influencers thing. Uh this was this is a
pretty funny stuff. We got to hit up break here.
We'll be right back. Yeah. What are some good car TV? Shows? Man?
I because I was thinking about this the other day
because I was remembering a show like most people can
say night Rider, you know, and ever that I wonder,
like I wonder if people would guess this one. I'll

(01:18:26):
give you a little hint. Heroes with the Coyote X if.

Speaker 3 (01:18:29):
You know what that is.

Speaker 1 (01:18:33):
Shows that prominently centered around a car. TV shows, with
all the reboots that they're doing, you would think you
could find a way to reboot Hardcastle and McCormick. Do
you even remember that show? You don't remember Hardcastle McCormick,
It must be over top of me. Yeah, it was.
Remember what year it came out? Gosh, what year was that?

(01:19:04):
They had like three seasons. I honestly it was like
nineteen eighty four. I could be wrong on somebody on
the text line that's gory off by year they had
like three seasons to it. But it was like this
judge who is going to retire and he has like
this drawer like with two hundred people who escaped conviction

(01:19:27):
due to like loopholes and so inspired by the Lone Ranger,
he decides he's gonna make them answer for their crime.
And then the other guy's like a car thief, and
they strike a deal in which he's gonna help them
and they use the car, this prototype car that he

(01:19:47):
stole called the coyote X. I don't know anyway, it
was how many people don't remember Hardcastle and McCormick. That
was another Stephen J. Cannell. You know show, Really people
don't remember that one? You don't. I can't believe you

(01:20:07):
don't remember. Sorry, nobody remembers hard Like. I guess I
have a pretty bad ass looking car though, but I
got I got nothing, no memories of that whatsoever. I
have the weirdest taste. I guess in TV shows. You
are a bit of an odd ball. I mean that
goes without saying. But yeah, I mean, I can't remember
the people. It bothers my It blows my mind that

(01:20:27):
people don't remember that, especially say I mean if it
was just a one season you know, one off and yeah,
but it just lasted like three seasons. It's got three
full seasons in there, so it's like, okay, yeah, this
wasn't like a one off you know show that didn't
you know, that didn't perform or whatever. It was. Uh,
I mean, it was the top twenty show in the
United State. It was like fifteenth and the Nielsen and

(01:20:47):
nobody remembers Hardcastle and McCormick, and it had like the
the Coyote X man. All Right, I guess I'm falling
on deaf ears. Uh. Seven to Us is a Lincoln
Lawyer is a pretty good show centered around a car.
That's that's new, isn't it necessarily Well, there's the TV
show on Netflix. Yeah, it was a series of books

(01:21:08):
and then there was a movie about it that had
Matthew McConaughey in the star Ye yeah, a while back. Yeah,
it's the same guy who did Bosh. In fact, The
Lincoln Lawyer is actually Bosh's like half brother. If you've
ever I don't know if you guys remember the show Bosh.
I love this show, but I was on Amazon, but yeah,
the Lincoln Lawyers like his half brother. Spoiler alert.

Speaker 2 (01:21:28):
If we do have one person, I'm fifty and I
definitely remember I look at that.

Speaker 1 (01:21:31):
You got one we go? One person? Stephen fires though,
there we go. Now it's poured in Stephen Fire Sony
liked that show. I'm saying, like, with all the reboots
that they're doing. They rebooted Magnum, they rebooted mcguiver, Where's
My hard Castle and McCormick reboot, I'm just saying, got
it a break. I'll be back after this. Best TV
theme songs of all time? That'd be fun. Oh, duct Tails,
hands down, that's up there, Perfect Strangers. Oh okay, that's

(01:21:54):
what I would submit right off the bat. Which car
you would want from a TV show all time? Which,
by the way, Chad Bower when we were talking about uh,
he busted in here real QUI because we're talking about
the Hardcastle McCormick thing, which, by the way, how you
found the theme song? Hey? YouTube? Congratulations sir. We were
talking about that and I was like, best shows centered

(01:22:16):
around a car? And he suggested the A Team because
the A Team vam with the Red Rims and the spoiler. Yeah,
that is awesome, well done, Well done, Chad Power.

Speaker 2 (01:22:25):
Chad.

Speaker 1 (01:22:26):
Chad is like one of the most and you guys
hear Chad doing the news epics. Chad is one of
the most surprising people, like you would not like unsuspecting.
You look at him and you would not think this
dude has covered the metal scene like as a top
tier exactly like you would not like, you would not
expect that from but he is. He's like he's like
a total badass when it comes to covering the metal scene,

(01:22:47):
and you would not you would not know that if
you didn't know him, you know, you.

Speaker 2 (01:22:51):
Would think like Rick Lewis and Uncle Nasty and yeah
and the Brett downstairs and Willie, they would they know
there's stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:22:59):
Chat Chad Bower like all the pre eminent voice on metal.
That's so awesome. Oh man, tons of texts coming in.
You guys are great, you guys, You guys have been
phenomenal today.

Speaker 2 (01:23:13):
I really hey, wait wait wait, wait, before we get
to the text, I sent you that photo from the
listener that sent in the image you and the Ferrari. Yeah,
I noticed something and about the photo, no, the text message.
It came up blue on my iPhone, meaning that the
iPhone hater Benjamin Albright currently is using an iPhone.

Speaker 1 (01:23:38):
When did this happen? Yeah, so this past I guess
it was January. I had an NFL offensive coordinator like
text me and he was berating me with profanity because

(01:23:59):
he wanted to FaceTime me after they had won a uh,
they won a game and he went to FaceTime me
and I don't. I don't have FaceTime because I had
an Android and I had been such an iphonehitter for
years and people for years had been trying to get
me to switch from Android to iPhone, and I just
would not do it. I would adamantly refused. And so finally, yes,

(01:24:21):
an NFL coach shamed me into getting an iPhone because
he couldn't FaceTime me, which a lot of this. He's
not the first one to complain about that, but he
was the one. He was the most vociferous. Uh, And
it was time for you know, So anyway, I was
due for a new phone. I was changing providers anyway
because I hated my old provider. Well, so it's glad

(01:24:43):
to have you here in the modern time I switched from.
I had been a Sprint person and then they combined
with T Mobile or whatever. I've been a Sprint person
for a long time. I just they were they offered
the best deal at the time. It was unlimited, didn't
you Well they didn't. But they then they raising the
rates on my lifetime plan that was not supposed to
be raised, and so there's actually like a class action

(01:25:04):
lawsuit going on about that. So anyway, they they've been
raising my race for it. And finally I got to
the point where I reached my level of pestivity and
decided to make a change. So I went over to
I'm now with Verizon, and UH got the Uh. I
made the switch on provider, made the switch on the phone.
There we go. So I have a Verizon iPhone now
it's the Sprint T Mobile Android that I previously had. Actually,

(01:25:26):
I think the androids have grown up phone. To be honest,
this thing is like the dumbest phone of all. Like you,
it's idiot proof. This phone is designed for like your grandparents,
who have no proclivity for technology whatsoever. So you're saying
it just works. Oh my god, hard Castle is on
the Roku channel, says this texter. So if I don't
know what channel, that is cool. Roku they have their

(01:25:48):
own devices. Yeah, I know the Roku device. They have
their own Apparently they've got a channel and it's hard
Castle is on the Rocu. I know what I'm doing tonight.
Uh five six six nine zeros text line, tons of
great text coming in. You guys are again. You guys
are way too kind to me. I'm just some dork
in front of a microphone. But I I certainly appreciate
uh the compliments and loving uh loving being along for

(01:26:10):
the ride here. It's there is a lot of phenomenal
text here. By the way, this one dragon's an infant.
What do you want not knowing? Hardcastle McCormick. How about
the Rockford Files. I'm like two years younger than you,
if that at all. Yeah, but but I'm like, but
those two years make all the difference in the world.

(01:26:31):
Face this way. I grew up in my household.

Speaker 2 (01:26:34):
Growing up was a science fiction house household, so we
didn't do a lot of you know, car type stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:26:39):
Okay, well he was a trek a track or Star
Wars both we okay, I mean fair yeah, fair, Yeah.
I grew up in all the Star Treks and all
that stuff. I'm a huge, like next generation Deep Space
nine fan, Come on, bring it back. Such a The
Dominion War was great. Yeah, there's yeah, there's it's There's

(01:27:01):
a ton of great shows either Stars Getting hotch there's
another good one centered around a car when they I
love the fact that when they did that remake movie
or whatever, which was meant the Ben Stiller Owen Wilson comedy.
But when they did the movie, they had the car
in it. Yeah, they kept the car so and then
they had like the original actors come by and talk
about it being a sweet car and all it. Yeah,
that was great. Best driving so Chips with Erica Strata. Listen,

(01:27:24):
there are way too many close ups of Pacha's posterior
in that show, which may have worked for you, sir
or man, whichever the case may be. It was that
show was literally just an excuse to continue to to
do close ups of Ericastrata's ass, like that's that's what
thats I mean? You know your audience, and Dragon's over here,
fist pumping like, yes, more, keep keep the keep that

(01:27:46):
tight close shot. Yeah, Chips was not really. Chips was
not my thing. But somebody here mentioned The Fall Guy
with the pickup truck. That was a great one. That's
another great one. The original Fall Guy was dope, dude.
I love that show. They did a movie recently which
was fine on its own. It's called The Fall Guy,

(01:28:09):
and I guess you had the same name and the
pickup truck for a second and whatever, But really it
was more like that Starsky and Hutch remake where it
was like it had nothing to do with the original. Really,
what else we got here? They rebade Magnum p I, which,
by the way, I texted that that painting that the
guy did in the Ferrari to my mom and what

(01:28:33):
did she said? You look? She looked like you looked
like Magnum piste Off, Yes, which my mom loved that show.
My mom was a huge Tom Selex mustache fan. You
need to put a mustache on you on that pine.
I don't. I don't. I don't look good with. There's
a couple of things I don't look good with, like
one like a dragon with the with the shaved head,
and the you look awesome. I am not. I need hair.

(01:28:57):
I do not look good without hair. Shaped heads, look
like I look like Gollum from Lord of the Rings.
Like you should fight like my army photos when they
when they took the photo, oh, I look like, Yeah,
I look like I'm getting ready to put the uniform
on it go seet the precious like it is not.
It is not a good look for me. I am
definitely a hair guy. So you know, when that goes,

(01:29:19):
I don't know what I'm gonna do.

Speaker 2 (01:29:19):
At least you stick with the somewhat slight facial stubble because.

Speaker 1 (01:29:23):
Me, yeah, this is this is a month's worth of growth.
That is somehow next day'stubble. I can't grow I just
don't grow facial hair like a normal man.

Speaker 2 (01:29:32):
Because if you shave it and get rid of it,
you're just gonna look like a fetus.

Speaker 1 (01:29:35):
So right, well, stay right where you are. You're good.
That's why I can't do the mustache like it looks
like one of those teenage crustaches. Like it is not
like I can't I know, and I like this is
this is seriously like two weeks of growth here, and
it looks like it looks like a five o'clock shadow.
It was great when it was great when I was

(01:29:55):
in the army because I didn't have to shave us often,
like I get away with it. Umbo was awesome. There
was a car in Colombo. I don't remember the car
in Colombo because there was a treasure.

Speaker 2 (01:30:08):
But maybe he's just reminiscing about old old shows now.

Speaker 1 (01:30:11):
But you both, babies, you don't remember my mother the car.
I don't remember that one. I certainly don't remember that one.
A lot of people say A night writer, Yeah, I
mentioned that one earlier, you know, with Kit and all that,
And then they did the like the remake and they
had Val Kilmer is the voice of Kit. You remember
that they had like a Night Riter TV show that
came back and Val Kilmer was the voice because the
original voice was mister Feenie from Boy Meets World. Yes,

(01:30:34):
the original kit voice was was that guy that actor?
And then they when they came back and did the
remake of it or whatever. Val Kilmer was the huh
was the voice of all people? What else we got here?
The general Lee from Dukes of Hazzard of course Mannix.
Oh wow, there's a good one. Mannix. I haven't had

(01:30:55):
a Mannix reference in forever. This is funny. I'm reading
this this stuff on the text side. I had a
whole like we were going to be nerds and talk
about economics in this segment, but I just blew it
off because all this car stuff was great, and that's
all your fault textures. It is show in the sixties.
My mother is the car. I don't. I do not
remember that when that's way before my time. I do

(01:31:17):
not remember them. Let's see what else is here? Said
too was Brian Keith and Hardcastle. I remember the show barely.
You're driving Ross's call Florida flawlessly great show. Thanks for
filling it well, you know, thanks for having me, Thanks
for listening. Uh, yeah, Brian Keith, wasn't Hardcastle McCormick, U
see fifty years at fifty eight years old, totally remember

(01:31:38):
that show fifty and I watched it, several people saying
it definitely needs a remake. Maxwell Smart on Get Smart
the Best Car I don't remember. I remember them doing
the remake movie with Steve Carrell, right, and I think
Ross would be much more of the expert on Get Smarter.
He says that's one of his favorite shows.

Speaker 2 (01:32:00):
I remember it's not I watched it. Certainly wasn't car centric. Yeah,
I mean he may have had, you know, the special
Agent car, but I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:32:09):
I don't remember the car in that one. I remember,
I like, I watched that show when it was in syndication,
but I don't remember Sunbeam Tiger. Now I'm at to
look us up. I'm at the Google that we have
to look this one up because I don't remember that
the fireburn rock Prof. Fosci and that was classic. Somebody

(01:32:29):
says Colombo drove a beat up Ugo cabriolet. Okay, well, sure,
if you want a car, I mean, that's where you're
gonna get right. I don't just don't. I barely remember that.
And I remember I watched Colombo another one for the
eight team with the van. Yeah, the eighteen van. Dude,
Chad Chad Bower knocked that one out the park, crushed
it like the Scooby Doo Mystery Machine, which, by the way, somebody,

(01:32:52):
somebody would mention that. Yeah, somebody when I lived in uh,
when I lived in Arkansas had painted their conversion van
to like they had remade the Mystery Machine. Nice. That
thing drove it. That was pretty cool. Now we're going
to differentiate between movie cars and TV cars because here's
a chia chitty bang bang. No.

Speaker 2 (01:33:09):
No, it's all good. I mean because we talked slightly
about the Dolorean earlier, and you've got also Ecto one. Yeah,
that's a good classic call.

Speaker 1 (01:33:17):
So we said Dragula from the Monsters, well done, well done,
well done reaching out reach, reaching for one. There I
love it, rewatching Miami Vice right now. For all the cars,
a couple of different ferraris the convertible caddy for tubs
car fifty four. Where are you? I have gotten like
some people have have given me sort of the the
Don Johnson thing because of the like the wardrobe and

(01:33:38):
the pushed up sleeves and stuff, because I've been known
to do that, so that I love that throwing that
one in there. We've already mentioned the Starsky and Hutch,
several people been. Didn't wreck the go cart today? Well done?
I mean the bar was low a golf cart. I
tried to limbo under it, but the bar was low.
Oh man, uh air Wolf the helicopter, yep, yeah, with

(01:34:02):
Jean Michael Vincent. Who else was Was it Don Delouiz
that was in there? Oh thinks? No, No, no, it
wasn't done. Who was Oh man, Now you're gonna make
me think uh c G Bang bang played that bump? Yeah,
several several people on that one. Ernest borgnine, That's what
it was. Ernest borgnine. Wasn't it that? Don Delawize was

(01:34:24):
way off on that one. And then when John Michael
Vincent left, Barry van Dyke, Tick van Dyke's son took over.
It's like the long lost brother Steve McQueen bullet. Yeah,
I mean that that's an obvious. Yeah, that's that's a
great one. Airwolf man, there's a dad that was like
night writer for helicopters. Airwolf had a good theme that

(01:34:45):
was my ring tone. When phones started doing ring tones,
I downloaded the theme from Airwolf? Does anybody have a
ring tone anymore? Nobody's silent now, nobody like it. Remember
when ringtones were the craze though?

Speaker 2 (01:34:58):
Is that just us because we were in this industry
where you know, if somebody gives us a call right now,
we can't have that go on the air.

Speaker 1 (01:35:04):
No, it's like a so you don't hear ring tones anymore.
You're not in a restaurant, you don't hear like the
theme from X Files, all of the sudden were popping off,
which was another one of my ringtones. You assigned certain
people with certain ring tones. No, I just had a few,
like for a minute that you know what it was
the thing, But like you had one for like a
month and you're like, I'm gonna turn bored this, I'm

(01:35:25):
gonna change something else. Yeah, but by two main ones,
the longest lasting ones were the theme from X Files
and the theme from air Wolf. Okay, sure, because I'm weird.
A lot of people Batmobile smoking the bandit? No, Okay,
which Batmobile they're talking about? The show? Okay, because I

(01:35:45):
mean there's also the eighty nine, and there's also the
Dull The Dark Day with a tumbler. By the way,
Joe Burrow, the quarterback of the Cincinnati Bengals, bought one
of those, like they went up for sale Chris Nolan's,
like they sold the ones that were in the movies
the Batmobile tumbler from the Christian Bale movies. Joe Burrow,
the quarterback of the Cincinnati Bengals, bought one of those.
I think it was like the one from the first movie. Yeah,

(01:36:07):
with the Nolan ones.

Speaker 2 (01:36:08):
Yeah, somebody stole it and wrecked it, so they had
to make a complete new one for the second movie.

Speaker 1 (01:36:14):
Stole it and wrecked it. Is that real thing? That's
a real thing. Dah that person on the show, where's
that badass right now? He stole the batmobile and he
wrecked it? Yeah? Oh five six exth times here. I
appreciate all the stuff. You guys are. Nash Bridges, the
Yellow barracouta. Yeah, that was sweet. That's a good one.

(01:36:35):
Good poll. Nash Bridges underrated, show, Don Johnson cheech Marin underrated.
Why do people keep saying we're forgetting about kid night writer? Yeah,
I mentioned pay attention. Somebody said the Mary Tyler Moore Mustang.
I don't even remember that, but good poll good Paul

(01:37:01):
Many Connell uh slinking into the studio right now with
her beverage she didn't bring from for the rest of us.
It would have been a festivus for the rest of us. Yeah,
I need to I need to hear your First of all,
do you remember hard Castle in my cormet? Of course,
I don't mean, come on, I don't. Oh.

Speaker 3 (01:37:20):
Oh, well you know Dragon's not like us. I'm just
saying you did.

Speaker 1 (01:37:24):
Mention.

Speaker 3 (01:37:25):
I didn't hear the whole thing. I mean, surely Tom
Selleck and the Ferrari made it.

Speaker 1 (01:37:29):
We were on Yeah, yeah, okay. Well, first of all,
that's a theme for this show because I told Ross
I wouldn't wreck the Ferrari. And then the user sent
in this painting which I said, hang it in the loover.
I don't know if you've seen this yet. It is
absolutely ridiculous. Oh it is a picture of me in
a Ferrari doing the show here. Wow. And my mom,
which I sent this to, is so you look like
magnet pissed off.

Speaker 3 (01:37:49):
That is something Ben all Bright something right there. How
about the General Lee and the Duke's.

Speaker 1 (01:37:54):
House was getting a lot of run right at you.
Power to Bower crushed it when he said the eighteen
van of course. I mean, but think about when you
think about it.

Speaker 3 (01:38:02):
And I love The Dukes of Hazzard When I was
a kid, Like Friday Night TV was so good when
The Dukes of Hazzard were on. But the reality is
you look back on that show right now and you're like, Okay,
so it's two brothers in a fast car who only
have bows and arrows too used to create mayhem the
mischief while always doing the right thing.

Speaker 1 (01:38:19):
I mean, yeah, that show. If they were to remake
that show now, it would be much darker and grittier.
I think that would be awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:38:29):
Breaking bad field the Dukes of Hazzard, where you know
Boss Hag is corrupted and he's running a meth operation.

Speaker 1 (01:38:36):
It could have legs. I mean, we should pitch this
to Netflix. They've taken Yeah. I was saying, we need
a Hardcastle McCormick remake, though, just for the coyote X.

Speaker 3 (01:38:45):
Who starred in Hardcastle McCord It.

Speaker 1 (01:38:47):
Was Brian Keith, and I can't remember the other actor.
That's what I was trying to remember.

Speaker 3 (01:38:50):
The second guy.

Speaker 1 (01:38:52):
I can't remember the other actor off the top of
my head. I just remember the theme was done by
Mike Post because all the iconic feats were done by
my Post and it was Candle Daniel Hugh Kelly. Oh okay,
it was the other actor. Yeah, Stephen J. Canal did
all the all the cane. I just learned that, like
I've been mispronouncing it for years on.

Speaker 3 (01:39:12):
An episode of Castle where Cannell was playing in the
Castle and he says, oh, Candle, he's been after all
these years, and I was like, well, son of a
biscuit eater, I've been saying that.

Speaker 1 (01:39:22):
I watched The Old Castle and somehow I missed that
because it is one of my favorite.

Speaker 3 (01:39:26):
I'm watching watching it with my daughter right now.

Speaker 1 (01:39:28):
What a great show.

Speaker 3 (01:39:28):
I didn't I didn't get.

Speaker 1 (01:39:29):
I wasn't hip to it when I was on the
first one. When it first came out, I was like,
this premise can't go anywhere. They did.

Speaker 3 (01:39:35):
It works because the leads in the show have incredible
chemistry and actually hated each other in real life.

Speaker 1 (01:39:40):
Shut up, don't tell me that La la la la la.

Speaker 3 (01:39:41):
I don't want to hear it. Part of the reas
the Dream don't want to.

Speaker 1 (01:39:44):
Know this part of the reason. Have you seen? How
much have you seen all of it?

Speaker 3 (01:39:47):
I know I've seen I've seen a lot of it,
but I haven't seen the whole thing.

Speaker 1 (01:39:51):
Okay, part of the I canceled at the end. It's
because they hate each other so much. They were going
to kill off her character that and rebook the thing. Yeah,
they just didn't. Well they did. They just changed the
whole thing and made.

Speaker 3 (01:40:03):
It the rookie right Basically, Nathan Fillion's having quite the
run right now.

Speaker 1 (01:40:08):
I mean he's had it was just my favorite show
of all time. Firefly. Oh I forgot he was in Firefly.
Captain Malcolm Reynolds in Firefly, one of the greatest, had
quite the career slash movies of because they had the
follow up movie at a Firefly, so rend of any generation.

Speaker 3 (01:40:22):
Well, I've just ruined the rest of the show. I
did Ross talk about why he was off today on
the air. Okay, I don't know why he's off to
No never mind, then, okay, I super secret and I
can't tell you.

Speaker 1 (01:40:33):
Okay, never mind, I know, but it's super secret publicly.
But now I'm not going to do it, you know, suspected.
Don't want to wreck this thing to get the Adams
Apple worked on in the Yeah, right, well I didn't,
you know, I didn't want to say it out loud,
but yeah, just get the shaved now real quick before
we get out here. You see the food bloggers that
were recording their food blog down there and Houston when

(01:40:53):
the car slams into the restaurant.

Speaker 3 (01:40:55):
No, but I bet that's their highest watch episode.

Speaker 1 (01:40:59):
So and Anina, Soan Thiago biting into their food at
Coovi's Culinary Creations in Houston when the glass window to
the right of them and their booth shatters, spring glass everywhere,
showering them in glass. Santiago folds out of the booth.
The female driver told authority she believed she placed her
car in park. Apparently she hadn't, because the car rolled
into the restaurant when she took her foot off the break.

(01:41:20):
Uh think they were blessed not to be severely harmed.
But it looked like the guy, it looked like he
might have some injuries or a glass in his eyes,
just the way it managed to get away scott free.
But yeah, one of those as we were talking about
cars all ended on that one when.

Speaker 3 (01:41:33):
You live in Southwest Florida, as I did for five years. Literally,
there's at least a story every week of an old
person not putting their car in park and driving into
someone's business. And I'm not exaggerating. It's insane. How many
old people leave their car and drive and just get out. Yeah, hey,
you know what that restaurant has a drive through.

Speaker 1 (01:41:49):
Now, I wonder what the damage it's got to be
at the end with the insurance. Ridiculous ending it on
a drumo. By the way, so many people are requesting
Castle on Fireflight Easter for your show today, Just letting
you know. I'm gonna end it on this one. We
talked about cars that were iconic. I appreciate everything that
you guys did today being on here with all this
kind of stuff. Eleanor Christine, those mentions are great, but

(01:42:11):
I'm gonna end on this the jeep from mcguiver, You
remember the jeep from macguiver. Dragon looks less than impressed.
All right, Well, I appreciate you guys being a lot
with her. I hope you all have a good rest
of the day. Don't wreck your own ferraris whatever they
may be out there. It's been all right in for
Ross Komiskey mandicottle up next time out.