Happy Earth Day

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Episode Transcript

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Watch it, man. The bossis all you never know, well,
the Boss doesn't listen to this stupidshow. He is hostuff come up this
this Morning news. Mike Elliott isjoining us right now, and Mike's like,
oh, yeah, yes, Ido. What's up, brother,
I'll have a baconator with sey twofries, and uh, I need that

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dreamstickle Frosty. Hey, what's up? Have you guys? Have you had
that ordered? Have you guys orderedon the AI Wendy's yet? No?
The drive through the AI Josh wasjust there earlier, but I don't think
he used the AI. He justused the standards quack box to talk to
the dude. So I did that. I ordered the AI Wendy's. And

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it was weird, man, becauseI found I found myself like being polite
to the to the computer. Iwas like, I need like a twenty
piece nugget please, and like thankyou. I'm like, why am I
being nice to a freaking computer?It was so bizarre, man. You
gotta be nice to them before they, you know, achieve consciousness and then

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take over the world. They werelike, oh he was one of the
good guys. He he he.He was very polite to me live.
What's like, are they like,is the computer gonna spit on my food?
If I'm a jerk? Yeah,probably not, but I guess it
could. I don't know. Therecould be something some sort of uh,

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I don't know, there could besome sort of repercussions at some point down
the line. I support, wellif it's but it's it's a machine.
It's a computer. Like couldn't youjust say, hey, m effort,
I want some fries right now?Like what's it gonna do? What's it
gonna do? That's what I waswondering, is it's like what if I
start like going, hey, youknow what I need? Like, uh,
I need like a burrito sabri anda chalupa and a big Mac.

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Like, what's it gonna do?That? Short, sir? Try that.
I want to know what it does. I'd be I'd be curious to
see what it does. If itwas just like yeah, go to Taco
Bella McDonald's, you mother, Imean, you know you can start getting
what if it did that like hegave it back to you, that would
be fantastic. I would oh mygod, it would be so fun man,
going viral. That would be great. Absolutely, that would be great.

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So, uh, Mike Elliott joiningus a host of Columbus Morning news,
and uh, dude, what abeautiful day. First off and foremost,
and thank you for taking a coupleof minutes, because I'm sure we're
the last two schleps you want tobe talking to right about now. Fuck,
I'm sure you're going. The otherday when I asked you to come

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on with us, You're like,yeah, and you're going, man,
I hope it's not a nice day. And it is. You're like,
I gotta cancel. I can't becauseZach was trying to get you a second
ago. He goes. Zach goes, dude, it's just going straight to
voicemail, and I go, oh, man, he's ghosting us. He's
ghosting. I would have never lethim live it down if he had missed
this hit. Oh my god,did I know what it's like when a
guest doesn't answer the bug? SoI was actually I was walking into my

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office with a twelve hours can ofgolden refreshment, so I missed the the
first call. So I got up. So we're all, good man,
oh your office that you're here,or you're at home? You tell my
home? Yeah, the home office, the home studio where I do most
of my best thinking. It's calledit's called the bathroom. Come on,

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I love it, man, Ilove it. I love it. I
was just complaining to Josh earlier aboutthe the one holers out here in the
front of the rude. Yeah.I was like, I told him,
I go, you know, Iwalk in there with the light on,
leaves the fan on, and Isaid, I walked in there and what
the the smell that was coming outof that room? Slap me across the

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face when I walked in there,and I was like, why can't they
just leave the light on? Itjust made me think of it because you
mentioned the bathroom. So yeah,in the morning, it's it's brutal because
we also share that with w coL. I'm going to tell you what
that morning show, and that's allI'm going to say. They blow they
blow up some bathroom. They mightplay some they might play some good music.

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They're people over there, but Iam I gonna name names, but
oh my goodness, they can destroya bathroom. I know exactly who you're
talking about. And uh, I'llleave it just at that. I don't
want to enter the DZ zone.So just let that go there. I
was thinking to myself, he wasgonna go it stinks in the bathroom and

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on the air with those guys.Oh well, I mean tried. I
mean, have you ever cracked thedoor while they're on the air and felt
smelled the walls out like you openedup studio door and it's like, you
know, it's like when they tookthe arc of the Covenant lid off in.
Oh my gosh, your eyes areyour face is melding off? Likely,

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my god, that was more whenWoody was there, I think though
it might have been. Yeah,it's actually it's gotten better since wood he's
been gone. There's no question.Well I gonna say, oh my gosh.
Uh so today Earth Day. Iknow this is a big day for
you, Mike. It's a bigcelebration day. He's already playing two trees

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all right. Yeah, I've gotI got some boxwoods in h I conditioned
the soil. I I made sureI walked barefoot through my lawns. Did
you do any composting, Yeah,I h I actually put my order in
for my Tesla. You guys,they're they're there. They knocked the prices
down on Tesla sheep. Now Isaw, So we're gonna we're gonna save

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the environment. Tesla's are like twothousand dollars cheaper. They're only like eighty
grand now, so you know,why not? You know, I got
the lithium ion batteries. They're goingto catch fire, So that's all good
for the environment, right, likenickel and cadmium and sure how we get
Yeah, so firthday, I'm buyinga Tesla for for birthday, is what

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I'm going to do. What Iwould also like to know is what are
they gonna do with all of thebatteries as we start getting you know,
more hundreds and thousands and hundreds ofthousands of people buying these in droves,
and then we start cycling through allof those batteries and they're going to start
stacking up, and what about yourEarth Day? Then? You know,
kind of to your point, right, Yeah, we'll change eroth day to

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battery day. Like how do wedispose of these? Like it's it's so
ridiculous. We're all supposed to havethese by what twenty thirty now, I
guess, yeah, it's unbelievable.And but you know what, you know,
the good people in in in westernin eastern Ohio, and in in
West Virginia. Who are you know, mining coals because you know electricity comes

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from wind in solar right, sure, no, no, it comes from
coal, right, But it's sostupid. Yeah, Biden celebrating by announcing
new funding for solar energy products.Seven billion dollars. Of course in federal
grant's going to be made for solarprojects. I like, here's the part

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that jumped out at me, Mike, was in low and middle middle income
communities. And I'm saying to myself, you know, how about you know,
as far as the low and middleincome communities, how about just lowering
the price of bread and milk?How about just you know, doing that.
Don't get us now, don't giveus solar projects for stuff that you

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know most people aren't using. Andlet's face it, low income who can
afford those solar panels and start tryingto you know, go that route or
whatever. It is so bast awkwardswith this administration just every single day,
you know, well so so inthe low in the low and middle income
communities, we'll put in wind millsand solar panels right next to the shot

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the shot spotder technology where they canhear gun shots. So you can have
your windmill, but if there's someonewith a gun and fire the constable,
we are right there. Like it'sso unbelievable, man, like the shot
spotter technology. You kidding me?Yeah, exactly. And I don't know
about you. Have you used theHave you ever used a paper straw?

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Because they kind of cite that asfar as reusable straws, bags, water
bottles, that's what they're recommending now. The single use plastic items they're trying
to reduce by sixty percent. AndI'm just gone a paper straw. You
ever try to seek anything through apaper strong Well, my favorite thing is
when they give you a paper strawthat comes wrapped in plastic. Well,

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that's exactly right. And I haveused a paper straw because, you know,
whatever restaurant I was at at thetime, that was the only choice,
and you get like two chances toget the drink in your mouth because
it gets soggy and disgusting. Butthere's like some data out there that says
paper straws are actually worse. Whatgoes into like producing a paper straw versus
a plastic straw is actually worse forthe environment than the plastic straw So,

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and you know what we're worried about. What is it? Turtles getting plastic
straws up their noses? Is thatthe thing that was one of the things.
Yeah, and then the little theplastic rings they talk about that end
up in the ocean somehow too,that like six packs used to come in
you know what I mean. Yeah, do you how many plastic straws are
up than nooses of people in LosAngeles that are fighting for this. It's

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like, are you kidding me?Come on, man? Exactly, man,
exactly, no question. And theother thing that I was having trouble
with Mike was I was trying togoogle when you know, China celebrates Earth
Day and I couldn't. I couldn'tget that figured out. And then I
thought, okay, well, maybelet me try India. It's just like

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we're the only ones doing this.We're the only ones that supposedly gives a
damn about Earth and the Earth Dayand Mother Earth and all of that.
This is like the rest of theworld does not care, or if they
do care, I cann't find anythingabout it. You know. Look,
I'm all for clean air and cleanwater and litter off the roads. There's
no arguing that. But we needlike we're doing our part. What about

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China and you know South America venezuelLike they're just like belching out freaking toxins
into the air man like they ifit's global warming or global then let's enforce
it globally. But we're just sittinghere trying to like, you know,
make sure I don't use my leafblower on a Saturday morning? Are you

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kidding me? Like, let's howabout what they're doing in China. Those
they're dumping like acid into the ocean, Like come on, and let's not
let's not also lose track of thefact that all this ev nonsense that they're
pushing. Where do they get thosebatteries? Basically, China has exploited Africa.

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Africa has been recolonized by the Chineseand they're basically using slave labor in
Africa to get your coalbalt your lithium. How bag you can up strip mining
the continent of Africa, bear,But that's going to save the planet as
Africa gets picked apart. How dareyou? I mean, come on,

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they're using they're using like you know, ten year olds with flies on their
eyes to dig for Nickel, Like, come on, like that's it's so.
It's brutal what they're doing in Africa. Look, I thought you guys
were calling it. Have me reviewthe Taylor Swift album. I can't believe
we got really serious here, theTaylor Swift album. And look, I
heard you mention it the other morningon the air. You can say whatever

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you want to or about her,but she is a she is a money
making juggernaut right now. She isanything. She has the Midas touch as
they call it, or what haveyou. But yeah, as far as
your music, and I'm with youon that. You were like, I
don't care much for me. Ireally don't either. I'm forced to play
it if i'm you know, outsideof here doing like DJ at a wedding
or something. But other than that, yeah, I'm with you. I

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don't get in the car and turnit on. I can. I can
honestly say, well, I appreciateit. I appreciate the economics of Taylor
Swift. I mean, look,she's got to figure it out. She
is a kajillionaire. There's people aroundher making a kajillion bucks. But she
released thirty one tracks. Can yeah, they You're right. The Swifties would

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be losing their minds, like,oh, this is the best thing ever,
this is super You're right, you'reright. Yeah, she put a
whole new spin on it. Inever knew how powerful that phone was.
Unbelievable, thirty one track. Theycan't all be good, No, there's
no question about that. Hey,Mike, real quick, how many times
have you mowed the lawn so far? I think I got three mo's in.

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It's looking pretty good. Yeah.We I miss our lawn talks because
we used to have those quite abit. But you're up to three so
far. Okay, everything good?Is it looking good? Nice thick blush?
Yeah, it's looking good. Igot the blade sharpen on the mower.
And you know, I talked toRon Wilson every Friday at like seven
ten and gives me my tips,and uh, yeah, it's looking good.

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Man. I got I got stepone down, so I'm good.
There. There's no weeds, nodandelions. Everything's good, all right,
awesome man. Mike Elliott, hostof Columbus Morning News, Free Palestine.
Mike, thanks brother for joining us. Man, I'll talk to you soon. See you