Comedy Gold - Trump at the Al Smith dinner - CounterCultureWISE

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wanh wah wah, Cliff, I would never never do such
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Speaker 2 (02:54):
My mouse was possessed. And then the keyboard decided that
I am not allowed to type a capital A, specifically
capital A, and the L would only work every third time.
And this is a brand new keyboard. Yeah, yeah, and
I really liked it because.

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Speaker 2 (03:17):
It's thirty minutes away, so you know, one hour round trip,
and then it's like, okay, well, since we're down.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Past our usual posting time.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Past our bedtime that I try not to think about that, yeah,
because you have to be up at o dark.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
But we had we I can't say we had a
bad weekend. We went to a wonderful, wonderful Cameron Park Zoo,
our zoo. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Oh, we should have shown the pictures that you took
with them, the penguins.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
I didn't take any pictures of Oh you didn't.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
I thought that's right. We decided we were because we
went to brew at the Zoo.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
We went to brew at the Zoo, which is a
fundraiser for Cameron Park Zoo where all the local breweries
and the Waco of the Central Texas region has a
lot of amazing breweries, micro breweries, whether you like an
amber ale an, I p a a stout.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
There was no pumpkin spice though, no pumpkin spice, so
it was legit.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
So she actually made up for it by getting pumpkin
spice creamer for our coffee for the next few days.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
No, it's fake. I don't care. I want pumpkin spice.
I'm a white girl. Deal with it.

Speaker 4 (04:32):
Don't ever change now there's anything wrong with not being
a Yeah?

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, yeah, So if you hear much ado about nothing
behind us, it's because the little one really really wants
to play with Fritzy and Fritzy is not having it.
And it's adorable.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah, she's got she She used to have what I
called the happy hiss. She'd hissed, but she looked like
she was just teasing. Yeah, Frankie has coaxed her out
of teasing. She's still on hiss bag now and it's
like it's it's quite amusing to watch.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
It is cute. Though she's cute, she's gonna care to.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Help it be cute. Yeah, anybody's seen her videos or
well her photos.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Of photo we've created for her.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
But yeah, but even the photos of the real Fritzy
are like, you know.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yeah, she is a beautiful, beautiful kitty. But yes, the
happy hiss is no more. We are we are now
at the No, I'm not dealing with this, you little what?
I think that's what she would call him if she
were able to call him things. All right, So do
you want to update folks on how things are going
in Jimbo land, anything new you want to share with our.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
The new jobs going well, And I am debating on
Nano Ramo and I'm not too sure if I feel
like discussing it. You know something, this is my venue,
this is my forum.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
It's all about you. It is all about So what.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
Is Nano Raimo not doing this year? Well, we are
a mere eleven days or so from starting.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
I haven't out of them.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Then you're probably not likely to. Now, normally there's banners
and things that you can download and put on your
Facebook page saying I'm ready to rock and roll baby
merg Yeah, there's merching posters, things you can buy, coffee, mugs,
you name it. You go to their website and it's
a it's a.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
Crypt What happened? Well, it makes me sad because well, I.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Mean here's the thing. Firstly, they have been going on
and on and on over the last several years about diversity.
They have beaten the snot out of it.

Speaker 5 (06:55):
And.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
I know we're we're sitting here writing looks. We don't
want to know, we don't care, and you know how
effective it was. One of the liaisons got booted from
her job after referring to another member as a diversity
higher That just shows you how effective DEI programming, and

(07:19):
that's what it is for your website.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
I don't understand why they consider that an insult when
that's literally what it's all about. You know, they should
be like, yes, I am, thank you, that's that's my.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
I know, I know.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
But if it's if it's an insult, maybe maybe they
should look at what they're doing.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
But what's really that's that's just a side car. That's
that's not even the main reason.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
Sidecar.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
Yeah, it's just a sidecar, sidebar, whatever, side car, sidecar bar, take.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
Your car cars, what you put on your motorcycle.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
It's it's just it's not even as important. But for
all intents and purpose, it's just a sidecar.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
I'm still laughing at that. That's adorable. Thank yous right now.
It's just as.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
Jim Ron all those cheeks. Well, anyway, they pretty much
gave their blessing to use AI and that has caused.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Wait to write. Yes, that goes against everything that it's stands,
but they.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
Were they were talking about people, the poor, marginalized people
of whoever will are now going to be able to write,
and it's like they have lost they have lost corporate sponsors,
they have lost writers. So I'm I'm debating, and I'm
going to put this out on Facebook a few days
before nan Oramo, especially if they don't put up their banners,

(08:51):
like really darn soon. Maybe I a keep on keeping
all ramo if they If the banners come up, I
post it and I do the fifty thousand words in
a month. B go ahead and write anyway and just
say fu fu to Nanoraimo until they get their shizzle together,

(09:13):
because there's a lot more. It's not just those two things.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
Well, we should be writing anyway, kind.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
Of forced the or or see concentrate on other creative stuff.
I'm leaning towards option B. They one of the reasons
that they don't have everything up and running is because
there's a there's a funding shortage. And hey, geniuses, the

(09:41):
funding shortage is because.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
You got political.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
You got political when you should have kept your yak shut.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
Yeah, if you wouldn't be inclusive, if you want to
reach more people, if you you you don't go political.
The minute you go political, even people who agree with
you are turned off.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
You gets woke, you goes broke one more time again.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
That that that hurts my heart because I'm the one
who got you involved in this and it's been and.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
I still might be. I mean, I'm gonna write anyway.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
It's just it's gonna I'm gonna do it, so it's
gonna affect you, know my I want to do it
with you. I'm so whiny today.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
I don't even like my whiny.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
All weekend I have not see that wasn't whiny.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
Jim plays with his wife on counterculture Wise Radio.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
That sounded really things that are not really dirty.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
Okay, well, let's get all with the scheduled stuff. Side
rant a sidebar.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
I like sidecar as we're going down the car type
of drink as well.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
If I probably I think it is. Oh boy, anyway,
we have a ton of fun tonight scheduled continue.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
Yeah, I mean we got Come on, folks, my birthday
is November seventh. All I'm asking is that you vote
in the stand up comedian in chief.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
This guy, this Donald Trump guy, evil orange Man, Evil
Orange Man, the mean tweeter himself, the Trumpster.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
I'm the big tweeter. I'm the real mean tweeter. Everybody
tweets it.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
The Trumpster fire himself.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
Oh that's a new one. I like that trumpster fire.
That's funny right there. I don't care who you are,
that is funny right there.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
He showed up at the Al Smith Dinner. Now the
Al Smith Dinner, if I understand correctly, it is a
it is a group run by the Catholic Church. It's
the Al Smith was the cardinal of the New York
Catholic Church way back when, and he was so influential
and such it did such a great job that they

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have this organization named after him and the dinner they
hold annually, and political presidential candidates traditionally show up for these.
The last person not to do it up until this
year was Michael Ducaucus. Who in the hell is Michael Ducaucus? Yeah?
I know, but it was nineteen eighty four and he

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decided vote yet, So yeah, he didn't.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
He didn't do So that wasn't the Hanging Chad's guy,
was it.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
No, that was not the hanging Chad's guy. Hanging Chad's
Guy was Al Gore or George Bush, depending on which
side you wanted to look at. But yeah he was.
He didn't do so hot. So, because Kamala is Kamala Harris,
she decided not to appear because there was not going

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to be a teleprompter for the the presidential.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
Did she really say that's why or does that.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
Just say that's why, but that's why.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
Well she did this god awful scripted.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
Who did the Catherine Mary whatever stupid name is Mary.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
Kathyn Gaglery on Saturday Night?

Speaker 1 (13:17):
You know, thirty years ago is a really funny act.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
You've got to see this though it is ringe. Yeah,
I think I've got it here, hold on, well probably.
I mean, we got booted off a YouTube last week,
like they literally deleted our entire podcast for showing with
with an overlay and a mesh and we're talking over
the top of it. It is one uh covered by

(13:45):
by what is it? But no Google doesn't care. So
I actually I even used AI to cite the articles,
the line everything for this law and bullet points as
to why we were covered by that particular law. And

(14:07):
the reply I got was we could find no reason.
What do you mean you could find no reason? I
set it out for you, And so they said, well,
they're gonna take legal action against you, So if you
want to counter this, just be prepared for a lawsuit.
I'm like, okay, fine, I'm a gonna can't can't. So

(14:28):
I sent it back again and said, you know, this
is why this is the law totally covered. Blah blah blah.
That was my little rhyme. It was like a doctor
susy thing cool, and all I got was the exact
same boilerplate answer. We could find no reason. It's like
what so you know, screw YouTube, it's everywhere else broadcast, Yes,

(14:51):
screwson Claire broadcasting. Your footage wasn't that great anyway, and
you know, I go out of my way. So the
reason I'm telling you all this is because they're probably
gonna to do it again. So hopefully if you're watching,
you're watching on rumble go to rumble bit schoo it
is okay, rumbles the best. And if you're listening, I

(15:12):
don't get I don't get in trouble anywhere else. It's
the weirdest thing. In fact, the audio version is still available,
so sa cleric can just sit on a tack for
all speak of cringing and sitting on tacks. I don't
know if I want to play this whole thing, because
it's pretty bad, but it's awful.

Speaker 6 (15:33):
It's just so your eminence and distinguished guests. The Al
Smith Dinner provides a rare opportunity to set aside partisanship.

Speaker 7 (15:44):
I'm sorry, sorry, what's going on? Who is that?

Speaker 2 (15:48):
This is so fake and so just And this isn't
the first time she's done really fake, stupid garbage like this.
The cross dresser guy that comes in and you know
they do the happy dance. I know, we're walking through Dorset.
It's like, this is the just cringiest propaganda. I cannot

(16:10):
believe that anybody would buy into this.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
Well, she does this dumb video instead of actually.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
Yeah, it doesn't even show up and it's actually kind
of offensive to Catholics if you really get into it.

Speaker 7 (16:28):
Very nice to meet you, Mary Catherine.

Speaker 6 (16:30):
Right now, I'm trying to record my speech for tonight's dinner.

Speaker 8 (16:33):
Oh yeah, I know. I just want to say that
I'm Catholic and tonight is one of the biggest dinners
next to the Last Supper.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
She's supposed to be acting, but she still comes across
as a condescending bee orde. She still has that mean
girls stare, and she still just sounds condescending and obnoxious.
I'm talking, I'm talking.

Speaker 1 (16:54):
You're not saying anything, but you're talking, okay.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
Are we really really considering the possibility of four years
of the president? It tunks like this and everything's a
Kristen and she texted he knows, and she just thinks
she's better than everybody, but can't answer any questions.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
And would she does talk about that Fox interview?

Speaker 2 (17:15):
Would she keep Joe Luke Diversity hires as the press
because she is the worst?

Speaker 1 (17:20):
She probably probably not Usually a usually president wipes the
slate clean, except for maybe secretary of State.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
But if you ask her what she's going to do different,
she well, absolutely nothing comes to mind.

Speaker 6 (17:34):
Anyways, it is a very important dinner and it's an
important tradition that I'm so proud to be a part of.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
You're not part of it, lady, You're not even there.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
Show yourself and there?

Speaker 2 (17:44):
What was her excuse? Did we ever get her?

Speaker 1 (17:48):
She just didn't go.

Speaker 8 (17:49):
Sometimes when I get nervous, I stick my fingers under
my arms and I sim all my gut, that's cross.

Speaker 7 (17:56):
So tell me something I'm giving.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
She's trying to get all of this, the things that
she did on a CNL her movie, which.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
Was said funny thirty years ago, not even.

Speaker 7 (18:06):
There Ellie, you have some thoughts about what I might
say tonight.

Speaker 8 (18:09):
My feelings about what you should say tonight would be
best express in a monologue from one of my favorite
made for TV series.

Speaker 7 (18:14):
Okay, let's hear it?

Speaker 2 (18:15):
Okay. And what's really funny about this is, even though
she's doing the bit that she always does, Kamala asked
what should I say tonight, which basically is you know, policies,
why she's good, or even just hey, glad to be here.
Let's make fun of each other and have a good time.

(18:36):
Her feelings for what Kamala should say expressed in a
monologue have nothing to do with nothing other than I've
got a twat so hire me.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
It's basically, well, let's hear what Molly Shannon Hester said.

Speaker 8 (18:50):
Don't you see?

Speaker 2 (18:51):
Man, we need a woman to represent us.

Speaker 8 (18:55):
A woman brings more heart, more compassion. I can think
how smart she must be to be I'm a top
contender in a field dominated by men.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
She wasn't using her brains to get there. It's time
for a woman, bro, and with this woman.

Speaker 9 (19:12):
We can fly.

Speaker 7 (19:15):
What series was that from?

Speaker 8 (19:17):
Oh, that's from House of Dragons, now streaming on HBO, Max.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
And we've got an ad plugged in there too.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
Was she is she on that show?

Speaker 2 (19:25):
I don't know, but somebody got paid for that. I
mean nobody says, wow, where'd you get that? And they
tell you that you know where? Yeah, nobody says that.
Like literally nobody says that.

Speaker 6 (19:39):
Is there anything that you think that maybe I shouldn't
bring up tonight?

Speaker 8 (19:43):
Well, don't lie, but yeah, yeah, well, shall not bear
false witness to thy neighbor.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
That's all she does. She bears false witness and she
bears dot done.

Speaker 6 (20:02):
Oh indeed, especially thy neighbor's election results.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah, like that's why you are you are.

Speaker 8 (20:13):
Just you know there will be a fact checker there tonight.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
So we're fact checking comedy. Now. Yeah, I noticed that
there's never a fact checker wherever Kamala is. Maybe that's
why she wasn't going to be there.

Speaker 6 (20:26):
Oh that's great, who Jesus?

Speaker 8 (20:28):
And maybe don't say anything negative about Catholics.

Speaker 6 (20:31):
I would never do that no matter where I was.
That would be like criticizing Detroit in.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
Detroit, Okay, he wasn't criticizing Detroit. He was criticizing what
you and your sycophants have done to Detroit and if
you listen to the second half of his speech in Detroit,
it is freakin' moving. It is next level, it is

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stand up and cry. It is oh captain, my captain.
It is a really good speech.

Speaker 1 (21:06):
Okay, now I'm gonna have to actually watch it.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
You gotta watch that speech. It is good. It is
It is Reaganesque, it is it. Yeah, top notch. And
but you don't get to see that. All you get
to see is him talking about what she and her
fellow kamis have done to what was once one of
the most industrious, richest cities on the planet. And he's

(21:30):
talking about, you know, it is an s whole now
thanks to them and thanks to their policies, and he
talks about what he's going to do and how they're
going to bring it back. But you don't get to
see that part. So she's if Jesus is the fact checker,
she's already got flames at her feet.

Speaker 8 (21:54):
Does it bother you that that chrunk guy insults you
all the time, because it really.

Speaker 2 (21:59):
Guy Trump guy, This is so fake and so cringe.

Speaker 8 (22:05):
It bothers my friends and me.

Speaker 6 (22:07):
Oh, Mary Catherine, it's very important to always remember. You
should never let anyone tell you who you are.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
But you're always telling everybody who Trump is supposed to be,
and you're one wrong and you make it up. And
now you've got Obama out there hodge podging like literally
every single hoax. He's actually cross pollinating the Russia, Russia,
Russia and the fine people hoax. Now I know, it's like,

(22:34):
my lord, I mean, how far out of reality do
you have to be to even buy that? I mean
you'd have to like just be living under a rock
or watching nothing but which one is mad Cowwan CBS, Yes, right, NPC.
You'd have to be so completely removed from reality to

(22:55):
not know that those are hoaxes. And what scares me is,
I think a lot of people.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
Are a lot of people.

Speaker 7 (23:02):
You tell them who you are.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
You tell them who you are. I wouldn't do anything different.
Nothing comes to mind. You have told us who you are.
Heels of Harris.

Speaker 8 (23:15):
Hater's gonna hate, hate hate, shake it off.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
Oh and now quote Taylor Swift, Swift, because the.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
Only song of hers I even know.

Speaker 8 (23:23):
Shake it off, shake it off, shake it off? Oh yeah, okay,
and also remember one more thing. Don't worry if you
make a mistakes Catholic people are very forgiving. Yeah, and
also one last thing I want to tell you, don't
forget to say, supers.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
Why why would she say that that was her?

Speaker 1 (23:41):
I know?

Speaker 2 (23:41):
But why why would why would Gamala say that that?

Speaker 6 (23:44):
I don't think she Thank you Mary Catherine, Thank you,
Mama La, Thank you Mama La.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
That's one of her stupid nick that was the type
of cookie. It might be.

Speaker 6 (23:59):
You're eminem and distinguished guests.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
I don't even want to see the rest. It is
so cringe, so very very cringe. Look, it's so cringe
even she makes the cringey face.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
Meanwhile, dude's actually there, the guy that's actually there. Now,
I'm going to skip around a little bit just because
it's like tut long. So she could she couldn't do
a twenty minute anything, not by herself with especially when
she's dating guys that are over sixty They last what
three four minutes tops?

Speaker 1 (24:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
Yeah, we need the babooms thing. We need like a pick.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
We really do need a pick. I'm not always prepared to.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
I'm working on my KAML laughing. Oh wait, wait wait
I slipped into aoc there for a second. I scared
the cat a little bit get may Wait, I'm almost there.
I'm working on it because at some point I'm gonna
have to in some pine, I'm gonna have to voice Kamela.

(25:06):
Oh wait, maybe maybe if I stick my nose, my girl,
my nose? Do I sound I like her? Now?

Speaker 9 (25:13):
God?

Speaker 2 (25:14):
What's her name? On Saturay Night Left? She does a
really good job? Yeah, she's really funny. Yeah, all right,
So here we go with Trump. Like I said, I'll
probably stop and start just because where else here we go,
they're doing the what's his name?

Speaker 9 (25:34):
There?

Speaker 2 (25:35):
That was the thank you? I'm terrible with names. Actually,
he actually did a pretty good set too. And he's
a total TDS, sir.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
Are you sure about that?

Speaker 9 (25:47):
If he's a total.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
He's a total TDS sir. Yeah. But the thing is
is even people who are total TDS ors hate Kamala.
Even Biden hates Kamala. I mean, listen to how he
talks about her. Now, so keep in mind, this guy
is literally walking into the lions Den. He is surrounded
by people who hate him or at least are pretending

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to hate him for a lot of money.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
And there's a Charles Schumer is to Trump's left, and
this is just gets funnier.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
Schmer. It took me a second to figure out who
you are.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
I meant Chuck Schumer, but you know his name is Charless. Hey,
there's a sidecar. Leave me alone.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
Yeah, you know, I always thought Nadler looked like the penguin,
but you really get a look at this guy, and
he's got the beak, he's got that evil stare.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
I mean, I think of it more like these But
that's me.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
I got that going for him. Except vampires are supposed
to be good looking. This guy has no charm at all.
I I, for the life of me, I don't understand
what he's a thing. All right, So here we go.

Speaker 9 (26:55):
Thank everybody, Well, thank you very much. It's an honor.

Speaker 5 (27:01):
And they told me, under no circumstances are you allowed
to use a teleprompter.

Speaker 9 (27:08):
And I got up there and I see this is
beautiful teleprompter.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
So keep in mind he does not have a teleprompter
this entire time, so he is looking down at notes. Yeah,
this is something he's.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
A teleprompter for the other presenters, but for these.

Speaker 2 (27:21):
This is something Kamala would never be able to do,
like in a bajillion years, not at all. In a Brazilian.

Speaker 1 (27:28):
Years not in a Brazilian. Brazilian owns this.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
Yeah, so here I am, and I'm sorry for the quality.
I have a more cover over the top of it
because we're trying not to get busted. But it also
was a really really bad version of it. But this
is the one that has the best sound, right, Yeah,
so those who are listening, you're the ones getting the
best quality.

Speaker 9 (27:51):
But it is tremendous thing. It's a tremendous thing. I've
come here with my father, so it was three times,
but it was also many times before that, a long
time ago, and it's the verse.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
So they were a very respected family and people loved them.
And it was only when he announced he was running
as a Republican that he became person on groard and
his father was evil, racist and all this other garbage.
None of that existed before. That's none of that.

Speaker 9 (28:17):
Special dinner, And you've done a fantastic job, Cardinal, thank
you very much. I appreciate it. So I'd like to
thank your eminence very much. And members of the clergy,
so many people I know.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
Some cardinalists, not a pope or anything.

Speaker 9 (28:35):
Speaker of the House Johnson, what a job. You're done.
He has done a great job.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
I'm so so.

Speaker 9 (28:44):
Good. I supported him. I was. I don't know. He
used to say, that's true. Now I'm not sure he were.
But I gave him his first check from an office
in Beechaven, and I was very proud of it. I
don't know about it now. I was.

Speaker 8 (29:03):
I was.

Speaker 5 (29:03):
It was his first check. He was running, and I said,
he's a good man. Senator Jilibrand, thank you very much.
Thank you very much for working hard. Governor Hockel, wherever
you may be up, this is a big day.

Speaker 9 (29:18):
It's right. Where is the governor in New York?

Speaker 2 (29:22):
Okay?

Speaker 9 (29:23):
Yeah? He is literally not an easy one. Is it?

Speaker 2 (29:25):
All the folks that used to being right?

Speaker 9 (29:27):
We have to get a little money, literally Hitler. Okay,
it's about it just.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
Made it about. You missed the important part with him.
He started to talk about Mayor Eric Adams.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
Oh that's true. I I just want to pause here,
though I might back up a little bit. I want
to pause here because let's think about this. If you,
honestly and for real thought that a man who was
going to become a dictator, throw you in jail and
become literally Hitler as these people have been saying, would

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you be sitting there in your white tie and your
your your nice plate and let him speak arrested? Would
you be laughing at his jokes? These people do not
believe what they say, and yet their followers do. I

(30:22):
mean you you watch the hags on the view and like, oh,
we couldn't even humanize the actual nobody must because they're
making enough money to stay on air. But good lord,
those women are just And what's funny is they loved
him before. You can watch footage of them gushing over
him before he didn't. Ladies and gentlemen, we were talking

(30:45):
about this earlier. If Donald Trump had run as a Democrat,
all of this would have gone away, and he still
could have done all the same stuff, and they would
have been behind him because he had a D after
his name, like Pelosi said, you could be a glass
of water. You have a D after your name, they're

(31:05):
going to vote for you. Why did he run as
a Republican? Why?

Speaker 1 (31:11):
I think it was because his policies were more in
line with what the Republican platform was, or what their
stated platform was. He but he's he's not.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
Really basically a Democrat.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
I mean, most effectively.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
Yeah, most of his policies.

Speaker 1 (31:32):
Actually centrist, middle of the road.

Speaker 9 (31:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
The problem is is that the Democrats have moved so
far to.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
The left that the center is now the right.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
As Joey would say that the line is a dot
to you.

Speaker 9 (31:46):
You know.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
And seriously, though, if he had run as a Democrat,
he wouldn't have even had to change the way he
talks his policies. Nothing. They would have been behind him.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
I just I don't know.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
And then that begs the question, does that mean we
would all have teds and think he's evil and nasty
and blah blah blah some of us, would you think?

Speaker 9 (32:06):
So? Working hard? Governor Hockel, wherever you may be up,
this is a big dayis right? Where is the Yeah?
It's not an easy one, is it?

Speaker 2 (32:22):
Isn't it funny how he can remember people's names and
then he recognizes them when he finds them. I wish,
I wish for the days that a president could do that.
Those are behind us now.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Oh wait, hey, stand up, you're in a wheelchair. Sorry,
let's stand up and clap for you.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
You're oh, that's right. You died last week. And not
just once, folks, not just once, but twice.

Speaker 9 (32:53):
But you're doing all right. We have to get a
little money from the federal government. I have to tell you,
it's about it's about time. It's about time, Mayor Adams,
good luck with everything. And they went after you. They
went after you, Mayor. Ah, boy, I do that.

Speaker 5 (33:11):
Nine and a half months ago, I said, And he
just said something about it about the administration.

Speaker 9 (33:16):
He's going to be indicted any moment, and guess what happened.
But you're gonna win. I know you're gonna win, So
good luck, good luck.

Speaker 5 (33:27):
I don't like what they do. I don't like what
they do. And also just think we've got so many
friends up here.

Speaker 9 (33:34):
It's great. I'm not a great friend. Some of my
best friends, and you are right, they are distinguished and
they are wealthy for the most part. Couple are having
a hard time, but they're gonna get over it. I
also want to thank my very beautiful wife and thank
you for mentioning. But can you believe this. She did
a book and.

Speaker 5 (33:54):
It's a really good book, and she worked hard on
her and it just became number one on the New
York Times list.

Speaker 9 (33:59):
So I think that's okay.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
Now I want you to consider the difference here between
Milania and how they treat her and do Jill. They
never panned to her, They never showed her. Nobody's even
I bet you most people don't even know she's written
a book.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
I didn't know until I saw the speech.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
Actually, or how brilliant she is.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
The woman is gorgeous, she's got brains, she don't need
no man. No, she's choosing to be with Donald.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
That's so there is, That's all there is to it.

Speaker 2 (34:41):
But if the Cabbage in chief was up there, we
can probably go back and look at when he was
on there and he mentioned ductor Jill, they would pan
to her and show her and dyll, you did so good.
You answered all the questions. Is your good boy? Who's
a good boy? Who's that good boy? But he's talking

(35:03):
about how her book became a number one best seller
and they don't even freaking pan on her.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
I don't know if they panned on anybody.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
Don rely even get it. I don't want to mention
who posted this, but it starts with an F and
rhymes with orbs. You would think that they would be
able to at least focus their dang lens. Watch how
many times they are out of focus, but they never
pan on her. It's the craziest thing.

Speaker 5 (35:30):
That's not an easy thing to do, especially when your
name is Trump and you're on the New York Times list,
that's for sure.

Speaker 9 (35:36):
That must be selling like hotcakes. But thank you for match.
I appreciate. Good job you did. It's a true pleasure
to be with you this evening. Amazing pleasure. And these days.

Speaker 5 (35:47):
It's really a pleasure anywhere in New York without a subpoena.

Speaker 9 (35:53):
For my appearance. Anytime I don't get a subpoena, I'm
very happy.

Speaker 5 (36:00):
Yes, they've gone after me, mister Mayor, your peanuts compared
to what they've done, and you're gonna be okay. But
I have to be careful, however, to do understand that
this will be the first time in the history of
this event where jokes will be fact checked, and they

(36:20):
will be and they will be It's been a long
tradition for both Democrat and.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
Okay props on that though, because the whole Mary Catherine
gag that was an improv r. Well, the jokes will
be fact checked because that's what Kamala and Mary Catherine,
the yeah that was that was that was an improv
he does that. He does that.

Speaker 5 (36:45):
Candidates for president of the United States to attend this
dinner always.

Speaker 9 (36:49):
It's a rule. You got to go to the dinner.
You got to do it. Otherwise bad things are going
to happen to you. From a pace.

Speaker 5 (36:59):
You can't do what I just still on that screen,
But my opponent feels like she does not have to
be here, which is deeply disrespectful to the event and
in particular to our great Catholic community, very disrespect.

Speaker 2 (37:14):
Reading them from the car because they didn't real that
want them any into his speech.

Speaker 5 (37:19):
The last Democrat not to attend this important event was Walter.

Speaker 9 (37:24):
Mondale, and it did not go very well for him.
He lost forty nine states and he won won Minnesota.
So I said, there's no way I'm missing it. Actually,
it was not easier for me to get here tonight. God,
I wasn't going to miss this thing, you know matter,
I didn't care. I wasn't going to miss it. But

(37:46):
that's true. Walter Mondale forty nine and one.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
He was expected to go, and they don't remember Mondale either,
So oh we missed it.

Speaker 9 (37:56):
It shows you there is a god. I mean, for
those people that are quite.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
I think. I think this is one of the best
jokes of the night.

Speaker 9 (38:04):
So I said, there's no way I'm missing it. Actually,
it was not easier for me to get here tonight.
Card I wasn't going to miss this thing, no matter.
I didn't care. I wasn't going to miss it. But
that's true Walter Mondale forty nine and one. He was
expected to do well and it didn't work out.

Speaker 3 (38:22):
He didn't work.

Speaker 9 (38:25):
It shows you there is a god.

Speaker 5 (38:26):
I mean, for those people that are quite sure, I
understand the real reason that she's not here. She's hunting
with her running mate.

Speaker 9 (38:36):
Spends a lot of time in any event. It's a
weird weird, weird, weird. You know the word weird. Yeah,
they called me weird. They called JD weird. We're very
solid people. This guy is calling us weird. But this
was weird that the Democrat candidate is not here and
with us tonight. I want to also congratulate. Somebody's going

(38:59):
to make us all healthy. R f K Junior. I
don't see he's campaigning all over the place. He's camp playing, you're.

Speaker 5 (39:07):
All over Hello you both, nice to see you about
doing a good job.

Speaker 9 (39:12):
He's a great guy to hearing the healthier place. We
let him go wild for a little while.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
These are a legendary democratic traffic.

Speaker 5 (39:21):
For because he's got some pretty wild ideas, but most
of them are really good.

Speaker 9 (39:25):
I think he does have He's a good man.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
I just find it fascinating how people are like hooting
and laughing and clapping, and then you go to Morning
Joe and they're like, oh, they booed him the entire time.
They hated him. He couldn't get a laugh, and then
he felt so bad he started self.

Speaker 1 (39:46):
Morning Schmoe is still on the air, ye Why why
don't they replace it with like reruns of Hazel the Crisis.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
Rid something that unhappy. You look at his face. He
the sad thing is he is transforming into a woman.
You can you look at his face from what he
used to look like back when he was, you know,
a Republican ish he never was really.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
You know, because but he was a journalist in the
true sense.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
I wouldn't use he was in the neighborhood, right. But
you look at him now and his eyes are wise.
He looks like a cat lady. His eyes are wild.
He comes up.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
I mean, I don't want to watch it enough to notice, Oh,
it's it's actually.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
It's actually frightening. Frightening the difference that that TDS has
made on him.

Speaker 9 (40:38):
It's he believes the environment, the healthy people, who wants
healthy people, who wants healthy food, and he's gonna do
a big chance to do it because we do need that.

Speaker 5 (40:50):
I would not have missed the Al Smith dinner for
anything in the world. I still remember coming here as
a very young guy with my father.

Speaker 9 (40:59):
Freddie was a great guy. My father, he was a
it was a tough cookie, but he had a very
big heart. He was anytime we'd walk down the street.
And you don't see it too much, like people standing
with cans.

Speaker 2 (41:11):
It's scary looking.

Speaker 9 (41:14):
Got one hundred dollars and put it in that can.
It was beautiful, and frankly, I even think more so
now it was beautiful. You don't see it so much.
People will come here very religiously and a great New
York tradition has been born seventy nine years ago. It

(41:35):
was born seventy nine years ago, and there are some
people that were here for almost that length.

Speaker 5 (41:41):
I know many of them, and it's not a pretty picture.

Speaker 9 (41:46):
Two candidates for president are supposed to exchange good natured barbs,
and you know, we get along very well. I didn't
like Biden very much, and now I like him quite
a bit.

Speaker 5 (41:59):
And now I say that she's much worse than him.
He was a much better candidate than her. Actually, and
when we hopefully win disposed of her, I like her
a lot.

Speaker 9 (42:10):
But right now I can't stand there.

Speaker 2 (42:13):
They have issues with that. It's like, oh, heh only
looks people he's not running against.

Speaker 1 (42:16):
Well duh, it's actually he's he's being funny, but he's
also speaking the truth. Well, yeah, like, why would you
like your opponent?

Speaker 2 (42:27):
Yeah, that makes it. She doesn't. I mean, nobody gives
her an.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
De grief for it, but of course not.

Speaker 2 (42:32):
I think it's hilarious that Biden. Biden was a better candidate.
The guy's completely brain dead, and yet Kamala is even worse.

Speaker 1 (42:40):
Yeah, she's dead from the neck up.

Speaker 9 (42:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
Well, I mean, Biden's always been known as being dumb,
but he could string three words together, right. You know,
he may tell the same story over and over and
over again. He might change the details of that story.
Now he just makes up story. But she can't even
carry on a simple convert station. She can't even order
Dorito's at a convenience store. I mean, everything with her

(43:06):
has to be absolutely scripted, and even then she's an
it's just h Anyways, I thought that was funny that
Biden was a better.

Speaker 9 (43:17):
You never like people that I was competing against.

Speaker 2 (43:20):
Well, you shouldn't.

Speaker 9 (43:21):
When you do, a lot of bad things happen. Yeah,
we are doing well. By the way, the votes are
starting to come in.

Speaker 5 (43:26):
You gotta get out and vote, and Catholics, you gotta
vote for me.

Speaker 2 (43:30):
We'll be voting.

Speaker 9 (43:30):
Say you better remember I'm here and she's not.

Speaker 5 (43:34):
I could have done that too, But you do something
that's incredible.

Speaker 2 (43:39):
In fact, if you live in the Waco area, we
will post the link to all the early voting sites
and times and everything. So absolutely, I know that's a
really small audience, but hey, that's a good place to start,
but also it'll give you an example of where you
can find it in your local area. There you go, vote, people.

Speaker 9 (43:55):
Vote, Catholic Church. You're helping the poor, educating children, and
supporting the vulnerable. But if you really wanted Vice President
Harris to accept your invitation, I guess you should have
told her the funds We're going to bail out the
looters and writers in Minneapolis, and she would have been
here guaranteed. She would have been.

Speaker 1 (44:17):
Guaranteed that was a smack.

Speaker 9 (44:20):
She would have been okay. She would have been okay
with that. But I know this isn't my normal crowd tonight,
because it just isn't. It's not my normal crowd. Believe me,
my normal crowd. He's younger, has.

Speaker 2 (44:35):
A lot of behind him, but.

Speaker 9 (44:38):
You have certain advantages too, like cash, lots of care.

Speaker 5 (44:44):
But many of you are Manhattan liberals from the media
and the Democrat Party. I always say the Democrat You know,
Chuck doesn't like that. He likes Democratic and it sounds
much more beautiful. The Democratic Party. I always say the
Democrat Party because it sounds worse. That is true, he
likes Democratic. Just changed the name this way. You know

(45:06):
it is Democrat. But I must say I was shocked
when I heard that Kamala was skipping the Al Smith dinner.
I really hope that she would come because we can't
get enough.

Speaker 9 (45:18):
Of hearing her beautiful laugh.

Speaker 7 (45:19):
She laughs.

Speaker 5 (45:22):
We would recognize at any place in this room, and
all poles are indicating I'm leading big with a Catholic
vote as I should be, as I should be.

Speaker 9 (45:33):
But I don't think Kamala has given up yet. She hasn't.

Speaker 5 (45:36):
Instead of attending tonight, she's in Michigan receiving communion from
Gretchen Whittmer.

Speaker 1 (45:42):
Oh, so said, you won't explain that to me.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
I was, okay, So I need to find this for
you because if you don't know what that is about.
She did a TikTok with a you know, influencer. So
basically some useless, you know person who I don't even
know who they are, but basically the influencer is on

(46:09):
her knees and Gretchen Whitmer is feeding her aridle like
it's communion and they think it's adorable, and it's it's
really blasphemous. Let's see what we can. We can watch
it afterwards because I don't I don't want to mess

(46:31):
up where we are, but yeah, and i'll show it
to you later. It's it's it's pretty vile. It's it's
pretty vile. I can't seem to find I just wanted
to show. I mean, it's a really really quick, really
quick TikTok, but you can't find. Yeah, you can find

(46:54):
like gobs and gobs and gobs of commentary about her
doing it. But yeah, ok so basically, I mean, you
can get an idea here, and then she stares into
the camera with a straight face like she's so important.
Yet it's pretty vile. So that went viral for.

Speaker 1 (47:17):
All the wrong reasons.

Speaker 2 (47:18):
Okay, and for Trump's team, he has got a crack team.
If they were on top of that, and hopefully they
explained to him what that was. Some people probably understood that,
but that was really on top, really on top of
current events.

Speaker 9 (47:38):
That's not a pretty sight.

Speaker 5 (47:39):
No, But Catholics, please don't be too insulted by Kamala's absence.

Speaker 9 (47:45):
If the Democrats, thank you very much. I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (47:50):
I wish I could hear what that guy sir.

Speaker 5 (47:53):
If Democrats really wanted to have someone not be with
us this evening, they would have just sent Joe Biden.

Speaker 1 (48:04):
Outey, that was beautiful.

Speaker 5 (48:12):
You know he's having second thoughts, you know that, right,
he's having He wants to come back.

Speaker 9 (48:17):
If she does any worse than the polls, they're going
to bring him back again.

Speaker 5 (48:20):
I think he's going to do it. He's the one
that got him out. That's the guy, much more so
than crazy Nassy. I will tell you because I know him.
He did it.

Speaker 9 (48:31):
Joe has almost disappeared from view.

Speaker 5 (48:33):
The only way he could be seen lessons if he
had a show on CNN.

Speaker 9 (48:38):
They they've got nothing fake news right, Fake? That term
wasn't good, you know. They say that term is no
longer invoked because it's much worse than fake. I don't
want to tell you what the real name is. I
won't do it.

Speaker 2 (48:53):
Propaganda.

Speaker 9 (48:53):
All those cameras would shut off immediately. They don't like that.
But apparently Joe didn't think it was fair for me
to have the podium to myself with Kamala skipping the event,
so he called looked at me and said, don't does
anybody understand that? Yeah? I thought it was actually very

(49:15):
good until just now it was announced this morning.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
Okay, So the only other person I've ever seen make
fun of their own jokes when it didn't work was
Johnny Carson.

Speaker 1 (49:26):
That's true. He was a master at it.

Speaker 2 (49:28):
Yeah, and then he would make you laugh because he's like, Okay,
the joke was this bad, and blah blah blah, and
then he'll tell a joke about how bad the joke was,
which is then funny.

Speaker 1 (49:37):
Yeah, he was just just did that.

Speaker 2 (49:39):
That was an ad lib.

Speaker 1 (49:40):
That's not very many comics do that very well.

Speaker 2 (49:43):
Yeah. So I love the fact that we're going to
have a stand up comedians. I would have voted Robin Williams.
Can you imagine Robin oh my gosh at.

Speaker 9 (49:54):
A funeral yesterday?

Speaker 5 (49:55):
In a rare moment of clarity, Joe too, baracusan Obama
that quote, only a few people got there, or as
Rush Limbo used to say, Barack Hussein Obama remembered he
was a piece of work.

Speaker 9 (50:14):
We miss him.

Speaker 5 (50:16):
But as he told Barack Obama, quote, she's not as
strong as me. She's not as strong. Do you understand that?
And Obama agreed, saying that's true. Other than that, I
think the Democrats are getting along quite well.

Speaker 9 (50:31):
Right, nobody got that one.

Speaker 5 (50:34):
The fact is we need new leadership in this country
right now. We have someone in the White House who
can barely talk, barely put together to coherent sentences, who
seems to have mental.

Speaker 9 (50:50):
Faculties of a child. That's said, there's a person that
has nothing going, no intelligence whatsoever. But enough about Kamala Harris,
let's got onto something that was good.

Speaker 5 (51:03):
I know Kamala's word because she spends a lot of
time complaining.

Speaker 9 (51:06):
I won't agree to another debate. But the truth is
I've debated.

Speaker 5 (51:11):
Twice this year, once against Joe Biden and once against
David Muir ABC.

Speaker 9 (51:18):
That was amazing, eleven times none for the other side.
Do you think that's fair news. I don't think so,
that's fake news. I don't know what's going to happen
three weeks from now. It's going to be very interesting.
It just started. It's actually, uh, it's actually isn't it
sort of exciting? Right? It really? Isn't it just exciting?

(51:39):
What's going on. It's a process.

Speaker 5 (51:41):
It's a rough process too, not so pretty and yet
sometimes very beautiful. But the press is reporting the Democrats
are starting to panic.

Speaker 9 (51:53):
They're panicking. They are panicking because you know, the votes
that are coming and are coming in very very strong
a certain way I won't.

Speaker 2 (51:58):
Tell, and it's coming in early.

Speaker 1 (52:03):
They're leaning heavily towards a certain orange hair dude.

Speaker 2 (52:08):
Yeah. And what's going to happen is all these mail
in ballots are just going to magically appear. Like last time,
They've already prepped, they've already said that they won't certify it.
They've already said that. And then they said, oh, there's
going to be violence. Well, we didn't riot. Did you

(52:28):
notice that when they literally stole the election And we're
allowed to say this now because this was censored into oblivion.
When they literally stole the election and bragged about it
and laughed about it, and you know, pointed their finger
into our chest and just laughed in our face. There
was no rioting, No cities were burned down. The closest

(52:50):
you got was January sixth, which was a cake walk,
right when Donald Trump was elected president. They don't play
this footage anymore, but it's out there. They memory hold this.
They tried to burn down DC. There were riots, there
was looting, there were fires. They have memory hold that.

(53:11):
And now they are threatening that again and trying to
place the blame on us. No, and the do nothing
Republicans will let them do it again, no doubt. So
when he said no, we're not going to allow this,
and I'll get the military involved if we have to

(53:32):
to calm down the riots, they're saying, ooh, he's gonna
sip the military on suits and so he's a dictator.
How did evil. Knieval could not make that leap.

Speaker 1 (53:45):
No, because he's dead.

Speaker 2 (53:46):
Well, there's that, But dead people can do a lot
of things. Dead people can be President of the United
States of America, That's true. Never underestimate the power of
dead people.

Speaker 9 (54:00):
Here looking very glum, he looks it, looks love.

Speaker 2 (54:06):
He's like happy about it.

Speaker 5 (54:08):
But look on the bright you're considering how woke your
party has become. If Kamala loses, you still have a
chance to become the first woman president.

Speaker 9 (54:23):
And actually, do you mind if I do that? He said, No,
you gotta do what you gotta do. He's a pro,
he's a profession No, he's a good man. Actually, I
hate to say it. Don't ever use it against me, please,
I'll say this dinner was really set me back when
I say that.

Speaker 5 (54:41):
But I've known him a long time. There's a group
called White Dudes for Harris. Have you seen this? White
Dudes for Harris? Anybody knows by some of you. Doesn't
sound like it. But I'm not worried about them at
all because their wives and their wives lovers are.

Speaker 9 (54:58):
All voting for me, every one of those people.

Speaker 5 (55:06):
And as you may have seen, Kamala did an interview
on Fox News yesterday. It went so poorly for her
that the Democrats have been forced to install another one
hundred drop boxes throughout the city. And the upside really
is Kamala now sees the benefit of deportation.

Speaker 9 (55:27):
She wants to deport people. She's vicious. She wants to
deport people, and she wants to start by deporting.

Speaker 5 (55:33):
Brett Baar Fox. It's an interesting interview last night. A
major issue in this race is childcare, and Kamala has
put forward a concept of a plan.

Speaker 9 (55:45):
A lot of people don't like it.

Speaker 5 (55:46):
The only piece of advice I would have for her
and the event that she wins, would be not to
let her husband Doug anywhere near the nannies.

Speaker 9 (55:55):
Just keep them away. Oh that's a nasty one. That's nasty.
I tell these idiots. They gave me this stuff that's
too tough. Oh I did I didn't you know? They
told me. The last time I did this, I was
running against Crooked Hillary, and I mean Hillary, I mean Hillary.

(56:17):
I was running against Crooked Hillary and I did it
and I thought it was a roast. So I was
told it's a roast.

Speaker 5 (56:23):
And I had the meanest guy you've ever seen right,
stuff up and the man was the room angry. Even
the cardinal remembers I went overboard, don't you a great card?
It was like terrible, And I knew I was in
trouble around midway through, because you know, people are not
Even my own side was angry at me.

Speaker 9 (56:40):
There was saying it's too much. But I did it anyway.
I didn't give it campaign.

Speaker 5 (56:49):
He could take a toll on a family and family life.
Although I hear that Kamala and her husband carve out
some really beautiful alone time at the end of the
day for an intimate dinner just dug her and the
teleprompter that she uses quite well. And by the way,
she wouldn't have liked this tonight if she was told

(57:09):
about no teleprompter.

Speaker 9 (57:10):
I can't believe I saw a teleprompter.

Speaker 5 (57:13):
They said, they've never had a teleprompter in the history
of this dinner. I told that to the condor, right,
and then a teleprompter pops up for he must be
a very important comedian to get that.

Speaker 9 (57:26):
They give you one, but not me. How about that one?
Come ahead, and you did a good job. Tradition halls
that I'm supposed to tell a few self deprecating jokes
this evening, so here it goes, Nope, I've got nothing.

Speaker 5 (57:44):
I've got nothing, there's nothing to say. I guess I
just don't see the point of taking shots at myself
when the people have been shooting at me for how long.

Speaker 2 (58:01):
You know.

Speaker 5 (58:01):
They say about presidents, they say that Andrew Jackson was
the president that was the most meanly treated. His wife died.
She died of heartache. She was heartbroken at the way
they treated him. And they say that second was Abraham Lincoln,
but he was in charge of Civil War.

Speaker 9 (58:20):
Yeah, but those were the two up until me.

Speaker 5 (58:24):
Now they say it's not even close. It's never been
a president that's been treated so badly as me.

Speaker 9 (58:31):
And now people aren't happy about it. But I was
treated a little bit rough, But I don't mind it somehow,
and I think it's just part of the game. I'd
like to think.

Speaker 2 (58:42):
I love how he can go from hyperbole to a
little bit rough. I mean, they're literally firing on him,
they're literally suing him for absolutely ridiculous things, which by
the way, have been completely thrown out. Did you see
that anywhere in the media. No, that, Yeah, the went
up to the next level of court and they're like,

(59:03):
there's no crime here and threw it out. But oh
twenty five times fellon. Yeah, it got thrown out.

Speaker 1 (59:10):
Thirty four best number ever.

Speaker 2 (59:14):
Heways, I'm gonna leave it here because I think we
got all the all the best jokes, yeah, that we
could possibly get.

Speaker 1 (59:20):
He was, he was on fire.

Speaker 2 (59:22):
He was on fire, and his his team is amazing.

Speaker 1 (59:27):
Whoever wrote this is.

Speaker 2 (59:30):
Really on top of foreign events, really nailing the competition,
and it was funny. It was comic gold. I mean,
I know, we just beat it to death for almost
an hour, but it.

Speaker 1 (59:43):
Was it was worth it, I mean, you know, but yeah,
you'll you'll want to watch the rest of it because
he was He's the combination of harsh and gracious. Yeah,
I mean, just the way he treated Chuck, all the
all the jokes and obviously he did ask Chuck it
was okay to do the one first woman president joke?

Speaker 2 (01:00:02):
Yeah you know he said he did so. Yeah, all right, Well,
I like I said that, it was funny. I was
laughing all the way through. And anybody who watches that
and doesn't laugh just doesn't have a soul. And I
don't have a soul right now because it's at the dealership,
So folks, I have an idea. Yeah now, and head

(01:00:29):
on over to counterculture Wise, dont come to help us
out and get her a car. I miss my baby.
I want my car back, and you know, buy a
crap smoke around. If you're hating what you're hearing, fill
out the ID ten T form. We will give it the.

Speaker 1 (01:00:48):
But you tell the friends with whom we completely disagree.

Speaker 2 (01:00:51):
Then yeah, there you go. Yeah, tell people you hate,
and if you are enjoying it, tell people you like
and like, share, subscribe, do all the things.

Speaker 1 (01:01:00):
Also, want to put in a word for our increasingly
great interview series. Yeah, we've been having some great interviews
and we've decided, for numerous reasons to record them and
post them separately from this show because the vast majority
of our guests are not politically oriented in one way. Yeah,

(01:01:22):
and want to just keep it, keep it entertaining a
different levels.

Speaker 2 (01:01:25):
So well, that and availability and everything, and then we
get better views. And this this week we interviewed Sylvia Lerch,
who is the author of a book called Grasp the Nettle,
which great reasons I sincerely enjoyed. I might have fanned,
girled you fangirled a lot kind of hard, lovelyly and

(01:01:46):
octogenarian in Australia, in the outback of Australia.

Speaker 1 (01:01:49):
Yeah, none of the modern conveniences.

Speaker 2 (01:01:51):
Yeah, but she has lived an amazing life, everything from
you know, getting her pilot's license to traveling the world.
Her book is brilliant and has so much nuance, so
I highly recommend it. So you will really enjoy this
interview that will be out Wednesday or Thursday, and you know,

(01:02:12):
keep keep that in mind.

Speaker 1 (01:02:14):
In the meantime, listen to some of our other recent ones.
Just there's so many fun interviews, so many fun subjects.

Speaker 2 (01:02:25):
Musicians CALLI was insane, so much fun.

Speaker 1 (01:02:31):
Michelle the other day, Michelle Slater, she was.

Speaker 2 (01:02:34):
Fantastic the dog uh somate dog. And we got a
lot of really good feedback on that. It was very heartfelt.
I mean, that's the thing when you come on our show.
If you are a performer, we're going to watch your
performances and get to know you a little bit. If
you're an author, we are going to read your book
and we're going to be honest about it. Sometimes we're like,

(01:02:55):
you know, this was interesting and whatever, and let you speak.
Other times, it's like I told on her it was
a really good book. And we you know, we had
the climbing kid, you know, Sam, we had.

Speaker 1 (01:03:08):
The authom so much fun behind the spear. I mean
so many the last couple of months.

Speaker 2 (01:03:14):
Yeah, we really get lucky. And what's really nice is,
you know, we're yeah, we're not gonna have Steven can whatever,
who cares about him. We're gonna have people who are
writing books that are and we have turned down interviews.
We have turned them down because every now and then,
in fact, we have one coming up. I'm not going
to name any names, but it's gonna be hard. It's

(01:03:34):
going to be a difficult interview because the pitch is
not matching the product right.

Speaker 1 (01:03:41):
And so that happens sometimes.

Speaker 2 (01:03:43):
But but we're still gonna be fair.

Speaker 1 (01:03:46):
We're gracious, we're fair. We'd like to have fun. We
don't do the gotcha thing on this show because Melanie
was a victim of a gotcha thing once and we
talked about a number of times.

Speaker 2 (01:03:57):
Mario anyway, now and he doesn't have a podcast, he
doesn't everybody watched it, doesn't have a studio anymore. That awful,
you're guess, like crap, you're gonna have shows and why
about them and just flat out lie about them and
then crop it and pretend like you know, everything you
said didn't happen while it did. So anyways, we don't

(01:04:18):
want to talk smack about anybody because our guests are incredible.
We have so much fun with our interviews. This one
is one of the few. Usually we don't edit our interviews.
We just play them straight. This one's going to need
a little bit of editing because we have a dog
emergency in the middle of it. It's not quite like
where there's a scorpion attacking me in the middle of it.

(01:04:40):
We had to leave that in because they were still
talking just matter of fact while I'm like, you know,
battling the scorpion, my sword in my shield, my budget.
But this one, yeah, we had like a dog emergency
in the background and then a bunch of other crazy
things going on. So there there will be probably bus
in the middle of it. But it's not because she

(01:05:01):
said anything wrong. She was darling and darling, and that's
a good word. She was darling and very just bright
and intelligent and fun and very progressive. Surprisingly, you know,
you don't think of an octagenarians as having these these ideas.
So the book is a very small, very short read,

(01:05:23):
but it's very intense, deep and so you'll hear more
about that on the interview. So do turn in to
turn in, tune in. It's like it's a billion o'clock
at night. We want to turn in late. Yeah, do
tune in for our next interview because she is wonderful.

(01:05:45):
She is Sylvie Alert, the author of Grasp the Nettle,
Australian country life in the nineteen twenties. It's a very
good first hand account of what it was like to
be a basically bought bride in the nineteen twenties, and
she she touches on a lot of things that you
don't expect to be touched.

Speaker 1 (01:06:05):
Yeah, there are some surprising twists if you read deeply enough.
But we're talking too much about it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:09):
Please please, yeah, please do listen, because we don't want
to have the whole interview here before you see the interview.
So all right, let's head on into my favorite segment
of the shoe.

Speaker 10 (01:06:28):
Counterculture Wise is proud to present news of the weird
and wonderful. Here are your hosts, Melanie Hope and Jim
Monas I still love that animation.

Speaker 2 (01:06:39):
I'm glad you do. It's technically not an animated drying.
I haven't animated us yet, but soon to debut is
the animated version.

Speaker 1 (01:06:52):
Well you saw them, yes, Franky, the frank.

Speaker 2 (01:06:54):
Was just blank blank blank blank.

Speaker 1 (01:06:57):
To finish the sentence.

Speaker 2 (01:06:57):
I was waiting for you to finish the same.

Speaker 1 (01:07:00):
We were actually waiting to finish each other's sentence.

Speaker 2 (01:07:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:07:05):
The what you know, we.

Speaker 2 (01:07:07):
Get along because we finish each.

Speaker 4 (01:07:08):
Other's sandwiches, bugles, bugles, blest boy, those things.

Speaker 1 (01:07:20):
Ever since I was a kid.

Speaker 2 (01:07:22):
Pure evil. I never I never imbibed a bugle until my.

Speaker 10 (01:07:30):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:07:30):
I was in my I was in my six or
seven is when I six.

Speaker 2 (01:07:33):
Or seven years single digits.

Speaker 1 (01:07:35):
We started around the same time I did. So Yeah,
they constant.

Speaker 2 (01:07:39):
Okay, well this one's interesting. You want to run with it.

Speaker 1 (01:07:44):
Yeah. The po PO in Texas are attempting to solve
the mystery of a large safe that was dumped at
the side of the road on a cul de sac
Bexser Becks, a Shounting Caraff's office County. I haven't even
opened it yet. The Baxar County Sheriff's office said the
locked safe was found in the cul de sac of
Steven's Parkway.

Speaker 2 (01:08:06):
Yeah, and it's just a safe.

Speaker 1 (01:08:07):
It's just a safe.

Speaker 2 (01:08:08):
Do you think you fell off the back of a
moving truck.

Speaker 1 (01:08:15):
Witnesses described the person who dumped the safe smart Alec
as a man between the ages of fifty and sixty
and driving a newer model Chevrolet Silverado truck. Oh gom,
off the hook.

Speaker 2 (01:08:25):
So they actually saw this guy.

Speaker 9 (01:08:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:08:28):
The driver exited the truck and pulled a large combination
safe from the bed of the truck. The Sheriff's office
said he dumped it on the side of the road.
It's the contents of the safe remain a mystery, that's
all they saying about it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:39):
Wait, we don't know anything else.

Speaker 1 (01:08:41):
Nope, Oh, mister Receave, are you ready for your mister reay?

Speaker 2 (01:08:49):
Well, this is two days ago, so do you think maybe, well,
let's see what we can fix our county safe and
they'll be like, you know, flags and COVID response.

Speaker 1 (01:09:04):
Antonio was completely destroyed.

Speaker 2 (01:09:06):
Today by by a giant nuclear bomb. That you need
a gunlock or safe And okay, they're not giving me
mystery safe dumped on side of road.

Speaker 1 (01:09:21):
Same article we just read from.

Speaker 2 (01:09:23):
I think yeah, there's no update. This is the weirdest thing.
How is there no update? The contents remain a mystery.
I mean, why is nobody asking about this?

Speaker 9 (01:09:38):
Is this?

Speaker 1 (01:09:40):
Is there a kind of story? Drives Melanie brs, Well.

Speaker 2 (01:09:43):
Yeah, they're like dirty door, locked safe? Okay, what's for breakfast?

Speaker 7 (01:09:48):
Like, no, what is it the same?

Speaker 2 (01:09:50):
What's in the safe? You can't just say dirpty dor Okay,
Well we have a Facebook, so let's see what what? What? What? What? What?

Speaker 1 (01:10:03):
What?

Speaker 2 (01:10:04):
I'm so I'm so upset about this. Okay, you just
have this is wrong wrong. I tell you may zoom
in on the well, no, click on the right things.
I'm the one pressing all the buttons. If you're wonder
why our technology sucks so bad, it's my fault. Attempting
to identify silver Shelllarado possibly twenty twenty two, blah blah

(01:10:26):
blah blah, cold a SACA yardy yardy male light complexion
wearing a hat age between fifty sixty approximately five to
ten two hundred down the truck combination just safe from
the bed of the truck. He dumped it on the
side of the road when it's Belieza truck had circular
symbol of the license, possibly a military plate circular symbol.

(01:10:48):
That sounds kind of Marini to me. You have a
Are you seeing a Silverado that I don't know about?

Speaker 1 (01:10:55):
I wish I had a sell If I didn't know about,
that'd be wonderful. I would love to have a Chevy Silverado. Reminder, Hey,
Chevy Silverado fund also known as the RAM fifteen hundred
fund or the Fix, the F one fifty fund, or
any old real darn pickup fund.

Speaker 2 (01:11:15):
Partial license plate was reported to include h Z and
maybe fourteen B with the last digits. If you have
any okay, has there been an update? You need to
take it to the SAPD training place for the next
exploso C. I'm not the only one thinking, yeah, that's
my one hundred thousand dollars and one hundred gold bars
in the save. Really, Lisa, I watched too many scary movies.
My mind goes straight to don't open it. It's probably

(01:11:36):
some cursed doll or objects are trying to get rid of. Well, no,
if it was a cursed doll or objects you're trying
to get rid of, you wouldn't put it at the
side of the road. You'd put at the bottom of
the lake. Everybody knows that.

Speaker 1 (01:11:47):
Anybody who's lived in Las Vegas knows that.

Speaker 2 (01:11:49):
Yeah, well yeah, but you have to go out to
the middle of the lake because when you when the
water dries up, a lot of things get found. As
we've reported numerous times, circular symbol could be a handicap
plate check the traffic lights. Duh, what's in it? I
know that's seriously, you're not gonna tell us what's in it?
Can't you run the serial number of the safe to

(01:12:11):
find out who the owner is? Just a question? Only
the safe reported sold on the owner near the serial number.
A few weeks ago, a guy on the far North
next door app asked if someone could dispose of a safe.
I wonder if he paid someone and they dumped it.
It might be that simple. It might just be like
an old safe he didn't want. I don't know who

(01:12:32):
Natalia Ray is. What's in the box makes me think
of the movie The Lovely Bones. Eerie to the say
the least, it's full of cash. It's mine, just kidding,
just kidding, Open it, open it, open it, open it.
Terms of other dumping going on, far worse than safe.
I want to knowles in the Reserve Vice found stupid

(01:12:54):
crap about the president. They always have to stick, always
has to stick a bunch of garbage in there.

Speaker 9 (01:13:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:13:00):
Yeah, So we're just not gonna update people on the safe.

Speaker 1 (01:13:06):
I'm at the point now or I'm not gonna even
bother to look anymore in two days.

Speaker 2 (01:13:11):
Come on, folks, it's been two days. You can't just
leave us hanging. Mister Gonsals has been located as well.
That's good. He looks happy. And October career Career Day
is happening. Yeah, career fair. Don't care. No, uh, that's it.

(01:13:32):
Tempted it. That's all we get. No updates, all right, folks. Well,
culture wise will keep up on this, and we gotta
ry bother. I'm not gonna sleep at night knowing that
not knowing what was in the day safe. I mean,
who can seriously, who can possibly not want to know

(01:13:54):
what's in that safe?

Speaker 1 (01:13:55):
I'm just what it's like that that cat and the memes,
who wha wha.

Speaker 2 (01:14:05):
Just gonnas wait tonight, Okay, this.

Speaker 1 (01:14:09):
Was courtesy of Sadie the Saders.

Speaker 2 (01:14:13):
There's only one black doggie and the whole thing. There's
only one black doggie, so that would be the sadyers,
it would what is he racist?

Speaker 9 (01:14:21):
Wise?

Speaker 2 (01:14:21):
There only one black? Is that the token black doggie?

Speaker 1 (01:14:23):
I don't know, all right?

Speaker 2 (01:14:25):
A canine loving Canadian broke a Guinness World record by
taking thirty eight dogs on a single walk for over
half a mile. But you'll really let a pack of
thirty eight leashed pooches on a point six mile walk
to break the Guinness World record for the most dogs
walked simultaneously by an individual. I wonder what the previous

(01:14:46):
previous was.

Speaker 1 (01:14:46):
Thirty six?

Speaker 2 (01:14:47):
Oh, it's right there, the previous record thirty six dogs. Oh,
South Korea, I'll be darn. And then they had a
really good line.

Speaker 1 (01:14:58):
They're eating the dogs. They're eating the the dogs.

Speaker 2 (01:15:03):
Participating when he's a temp. We're provided by the Korean
CA nine Rescue shelter.

Speaker 7 (01:15:07):
Why is it?

Speaker 2 (01:15:07):
Why are we still in Korea? Was he in Korean?

Speaker 9 (01:15:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:15:10):
No, he's a Canadian. So why was a Korean shelter
giving them the dogs? All the dogs? Some of them
are from the puppy mill industry, he was. Some of
them are from former meat harvesting areas. Okay, so we're
not being racist here, It's true. Rudy told this guy
these are the dogs that have been rescued by KK
nine R, which I was gonna get us a golden

(01:15:31):
through that. Frankie, you cannot have the microphone, honey.

Speaker 1 (01:15:35):
Come on, moms, I just want to play with it
a little.

Speaker 2 (01:15:38):
Well, you are playing with it a little, but you're
bopping it away from Dad and now you're chomping on dad.

Speaker 1 (01:15:43):
That's what I get for being playful. He's a little
he when he gets really happy, Venus fly kitty, he
is not. He likes to nibble and scratch, but it's
always in fun. He's purring like crazy the whole time.

Speaker 2 (01:15:59):
It's not always upside down and grabbing Jim's hand and
shoving it in his face.

Speaker 1 (01:16:06):
Your face, nice, you love your mom. Cartoons coming up soon.

Speaker 2 (01:16:12):
Yes, a right, Okay. That's a lot of stigma around rescue.
So great animals. They deserve a good home. They just
need a little bit of love. He said. His record
attempt was aimed at promoting dog adoption.

Speaker 1 (01:16:24):
Yay.

Speaker 2 (01:16:25):
We wanted to do something that made these dogs be
the best champions that they are. And I did bring
up the video here. You're not going to hear the
sound just because you're not that there he is walking
all the woggies. Ah, they're all rescued woggies. Look good,
dumb mixed woggies. One black woggie, just one black a
look at the boobies. Good for him and he raised

(01:16:48):
a lot of awareness. And they're all really good dogs.
And we're all getting along. And that's not easy. I've
I've walked five dogs at once, and walking.

Speaker 1 (01:16:58):
One dog at wants is kind of different.

Speaker 2 (01:17:00):
That's that's for you. You know, you, you and your
marine training.

Speaker 1 (01:17:05):
I'm no leader. They got me figured out moment.

Speaker 2 (01:17:09):
One, the leader of all the different I hope every
single one of those woggies got adopted. Congratulations and give
you like that's wonderful. Yes, all right, your time.

Speaker 1 (01:17:26):
To boldly croak where no frog is gone before.

Speaker 2 (01:17:30):
Is gone before.

Speaker 1 (01:17:32):
Picture this knee deep in the stingy, bitey, steamy jungles
of Madagascar.

Speaker 2 (01:17:36):
Did not just say.

Speaker 1 (01:17:40):
Hey, it's what was in there. I didn't even think
about it. That's what we got to work with, folks,
knee deep in the big money, knee deep in the
sting stingy I said it right, the first steamy jungles
of Madagascar, A you.

Speaker 2 (01:17:55):
And you three together, it's not stingy.

Speaker 1 (01:17:58):
Bidy, steamy jungles of madagas scar Please don't make me
say that again. More in the knee deep in the
stingy bite steamy jungles Madagascar. You and your research team
discovered seven new species of frog. What do you name them?
Seven new species absolutely inspired by the various sounds of

(01:18:19):
American sci fi films and television. Seven tree frogs that
make other worldly sounds were named after characters from Star Trek.

Speaker 2 (01:18:27):
All captains.

Speaker 1 (01:18:29):
All the captains. The international team of scientists said their
high pitched whistling calls are like sound effects from the
iconic sci fi series. All seven new animals come from
the frog genus buufus. I don't know, and he met
birdlike whistling sounds in their communication with other frogs rather

(01:18:50):
than croaks, according to Professor mcguilvin says a treky to
some degree, such whistling sounds are often used in the
classic sci fi franchise. That's why we named the frogs
after Kirk Picard, Cisco, Jane Way, Archer, Burnham, and Pike.
That's awesome, that is bad, that is cool. Seven of
the most Now.

Speaker 2 (01:19:10):
I need to hear the chirping. Do we have a
video of the chirping?

Speaker 1 (01:19:12):
I don't know. I didn't check that. Assistant Professor Mark
Shure's of the Natural History Museum of the.

Speaker 2 (01:19:19):
Pike got in there. That's pretty cool. Yeah, only hardcore
trekies would even know who that is.

Speaker 1 (01:19:23):
He's the original he was, he was the O G.
He was the O G O G. Yeah, joke. Well,
while there wasn't any phases of stars in the rainforests
in Madagascar, there's quite a lot of trekking. A few
species are found in places accessible to tourists, but to
find several of these species, we had to undertake major
expeditions to remote forest fragments and mountain peaks at Sures.

(01:19:46):
That's a real sense of scientific discovery and the exploration here,
which we think is in the spirit of Star Trek.
He explained that the other worldly calls of the frogs
are known as advertisement calls, a type of self promotion
that conveyed may convey information about the ma frogs suitability
as a mate to females. That is so cool. So yeah,

(01:20:06):
they named them after the famous Star Trek captains. That
is really cool, amazing and that they get the Yeah,
I wish now, I really want to hear the sounds.
But they I mean, if they look.

Speaker 2 (01:20:18):
The same and they all sound the same, how are
they all different species?

Speaker 1 (01:20:21):
They Well, just look at the two in the photo.
They're they're quite different looking.

Speaker 2 (01:20:28):
I guess, yeah, that could be the same frog from
different angles at different times of the day. I mean,
what do I know about frogs. I know they're adorable,
they're cute.

Speaker 1 (01:20:40):
We got a lot of them around our neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (01:20:43):
Yes we do. We got a lot of really weird
things around our neighborhood.

Speaker 1 (01:20:47):
Yeah, a lot of really weird people. But that's another
story for another time.

Speaker 2 (01:20:51):
That's another story for another time.

Speaker 1 (01:20:54):
All Right, Well, I want this kind of obituary written
for me, and I conk out.

Speaker 2 (01:20:59):
I might be able to to oblige. Let's see what
we got here. Soun's hilarious obituary for his father goes viral,
a final tribute for a laugh. So we definitely want humor, definitely.
When Robert Adolph Boehm, who names their child aid off
seriously even as a middle name, passed away in October

(01:21:19):
sixth he left behind not just a family, but a
lifetime of colorful stories, witty remarks and more than a
few head scratching moments. Who has quickly gone viral? Robertson
wrote a hilarious, one of a kind obituary that perfectly
captures the humor, unpredictability, and eccentricity that defined his father's life.
Do we get tweeted?

Speaker 1 (01:21:37):
Here we go? This is what he wrote. Robert Adolf Bohm,
in accordance with his lifelong dedication to his own personal
brand of decorum, muttered his last unintelligible and likely unnecessary
curse on October sixth, twenty twenty four, shortly before tripping
backward over some stupid mother thing and hitting his head

(01:21:57):
on the floor.

Speaker 2 (01:21:58):
Is that really how he died?

Speaker 1 (01:22:00):
I think so. Robert was born in Winters, Texas, to
the late Walter Bowman Betty Smith on May sixth, nineteen fifty,
after which God immediately and thankfully broke the mold and
attempted to cover up the evidence. Raised Catholic, Robert managed
to get his wife Diane pregnant three times, fast enough
to just barely miss getting drafted into the Vietnam War.

(01:22:20):
By fathering Michelle, John and Charlotte between nineteen sixty seven
and nineteen seventy two, much later, with Robert possibly concerned
about the brewing conflict in Grenada. Charles was born in
nineteen eighty three. Oh boy. This lack of military service
was probably for the best, as when taking up shooting

(01:22:42):
as a hobby in his later years, he managed to
blow not one but two holes in the dash of
his own car on two separate occasions, which unfortunately did
not even startle, let alone surprise as dear wife Diane,
who was much accustomed to such happenings in his presence
and may have actually been safer in the jungles of
Vietnam the entire time while the world was in conflict elsewhere,

(01:23:04):
Robert made do by learning to roof maintain traffic signs
with the city of Amarillo and eventually becoming a semi
professional truck driver, not to be confused with a professional
semi truck. With peace on the horizon, Robert's attention somewhat
counter counterintuitively drifted to weapons of war, spanning the historical

(01:23:27):
and geographical spectrum, from the Atlato of nineteen thousand BC
France to the Siambach of eighteen thirties Africa to the
Mosin Neeagrant m eighteen ninety one of World War II
areas Soviet Union. So many examples of these mainstream hobbyist
items litter his small Clarendon, Texas apartment that one of

(01:23:48):
them may very well have been the item referenced in
as aforementioned eloquent final epitaph. A man of many interests,
Robert was not to be entranced by historical weapons alone,
but also had a pensiant for fashion, frequently seen about
town wearing the latest trend and homemade leather moccasins, a
wide collection of unconventional hats and boldly mismatched shirts and pants. Yeah, dear,

(01:24:12):
got to my own heart. Robert also kept a wide
selection of harmonicas on hand, not to play personally, but
to prompt his beloved dogs to howl continuously at odd
hours of the night, to entertain his many neighbors, and
occasionally to give to as many many many grandchildren and
great grandchildren to play loudly during long road trips with
their parents.

Speaker 2 (01:24:31):
My mom always gave away noisemaker toys for Christmas and
stuff to my cousins with small children, just to just
because she knew they. I remember one year when Colton
was very very little. And now he's all grown up, nephew. Yeah,
and now he's all grown up, he's in his mid twenties.
That Colton was really little and he was the first

(01:24:54):
So my cousin's first child. And they're coming over for Christmas.
And Mom always got everybody present, so the whole huge
family would get together and there would be a billion
presents under the tree. And she got Colton.

Speaker 10 (01:25:06):
This.

Speaker 2 (01:25:08):
It was huge. This thing must have been five feet long.
Firetruck with the ladder that goes up and all the
sirens and oh yeah, and you could press the button.
It's like far fire firehouse number blah blah. This thing
made so much noise, and Mom's like enjoy taking it home. Colton,
he knowing that the kid's gonna play with it at

(01:25:31):
home and drive mom crazy. Yeah she did that on purpose,
of course she did. Okay, many many, many Harmonica's loud yes.

Speaker 1 (01:25:39):
Earlier this year, in February, God finally showed mercy upon Diane,
getting her the hell out of there for some weller
in peace and Criet without Diana gleefully entertained, Robert shifted
his creative focus to the entertainment of You the Fine
townspeople of Clarendon, Texas over the last eight months. If
you have not read Robert or seen his road show yet,
you probably we would have soon. We have all done

(01:26:02):
our best to enjoy or slash whether Robert's antics up
to this point. But he is God's problem now.

Speaker 2 (01:26:08):
So did Diane, his wife Diane dies. She died, Okay,
so he did shortly after she did.

Speaker 1 (01:26:12):
Right, which not out of the ordinary by any means.
Robert's farewell tour will be held Monday, October fourteenth at
ten am at Memorial Park Funeral Home. Blah blah, Amillo.
The family encourages you to dust off whatever outdated or
inappropriate combination clothing you have available to attend. A tip
jar will be available in the front. Flowers are also acceptable.

Speaker 2 (01:26:33):
That's adorable, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:26:35):
So, with his heartfelt and heart hilarious obituary, Robertson has
given his father a sendoff that's sure to be remembered
for years to come, offering one last laugh from a
man whose legacy is now not just his family, but
also the joy he left by us.

Speaker 2 (01:26:49):
Very good writing, and he sounds like he was quite
the character.

Speaker 1 (01:26:53):
He seems like it.

Speaker 2 (01:26:54):
Yes, rest in peace, my friend. That was a lot
of fun. Okay, let's head on into Yeah. Actually, both
of these are kind of fun. Both of them are
a little bit fun because they're just so crazy. So

(01:27:22):
now see, that's why we can't have nice things.

Speaker 1 (01:27:26):
Every week I patch up that window and every week
Frankie has to smash his face through it. What is
wrong with you?

Speaker 2 (01:27:34):
I don't know what you may or may not have
heard a loud rumbling sound and we hear a counterculture
wise or in the studio and have no idea what
it was, but we're pretty sure it wasn't good.

Speaker 1 (01:27:46):
It was Actually Frankie had knocked off those squashes that
I brought home from work.

Speaker 2 (01:27:52):
Those are heavy. They waited more than he does.

Speaker 1 (01:27:55):
Didn't stop him from showing him off the table. He's
a strong boy cat all the cats, he's definitely he is.

Speaker 2 (01:28:02):
The cat I've ever had. If there is a thing
on a surface, he is going to knock it over
just for the sake of Those things are huge. They're
what kind of squashes are those?

Speaker 1 (01:28:12):
They're like they're he.

Speaker 2 (01:28:15):
Wanted to say, the long, weird looking alien ones, and
whether they're butternut they're not.

Speaker 1 (01:28:21):
They're color butternut butternut.

Speaker 2 (01:28:23):
Yeah, Now I gotta look it up anyway, all right,
you read this article while I look up butternut squash.

Speaker 1 (01:28:30):
Now, what this guy did was funny, but it's not
too cool. Actually, don't. I wouldn't anyway. A town of
Massachusetts has sent a season desist letter to a property
owner who projected.

Speaker 2 (01:28:43):
They are butternut squash.

Speaker 1 (01:28:44):
Okay, okay, Yeah, Trump twenty twenty.

Speaker 2 (01:28:46):
Four look a lot like this tower?

Speaker 1 (01:28:49):
Yeah? Actually does? They projected a Trump twenty twenty four
sign onto the side of a municipal water tower.

Speaker 2 (01:28:55):
It's badass.

Speaker 1 (01:28:56):
Well maybe, but officials said the town of Hanson does
not endorse candidates, nor does it allow political science to
be displayed on me. Handsome Town administrator Lisa Green said
the town first became aware that the resident was projecting.

Speaker 2 (01:29:10):
The so he didn't just do it once.

Speaker 1 (01:29:11):
He did it, did it over and over, supporting Republican
presidential candidate Donald Trump from their property onto the Handsome
municipal water tower on October eleventh. Officials have declined to
identify the individual.

Speaker 2 (01:29:23):
Pretty powerful, that's a.

Speaker 1 (01:29:25):
Pretty powerful light. Yeah, this mist leads the public into
believing that this activity is sanctioned or condoned by the town,
Green said in the statements.

Speaker 2 (01:29:33):
Now are stupid and we need The town said.

Speaker 1 (01:29:36):
That it is issuing a fine of one hundred dollars
per day until the activity is stopped.

Speaker 2 (01:29:40):
Those are he's still doing it.

Speaker 1 (01:29:41):
Still doing it. Those finds have been accruing. Town officials said,
still doing it as the time of the publication of
this article. Anyway Highway Department employees have positioned a spotlight
to shine on the tower, making it harder to see
the projection at night. Officials said the residents' actions could
cost a significant amount of taxpayer dollars, including attorney fees,

(01:30:03):
over time to pay workers to turn the spotlight on
and off.

Speaker 2 (01:30:05):
Each day for somebody to go.

Speaker 1 (01:30:08):
Click yeah, and the potential for having to rent to
purchase stronger lighting equipment. The one hundred dollars per day final,
I'm likely not to cover these expenses.

Speaker 2 (01:30:17):
They said, Oh, you're just gonna pay a hundred bucks
a night. Yeah, that is dedication. Huzza kind sir, I say, huzzah, yeah, yes.

Speaker 1 (01:30:33):
Next one. I added this one on because it's just funny.

Speaker 2 (01:30:40):
I really don't see it.

Speaker 1 (01:30:44):
I do, but I have to, like I was positive,
but this is I see.

Speaker 2 (01:30:50):
A snow flaking. I'm just weird. I see a snowflake,
So tell me if I'm wrong here. So this is
their snowed in camp and I see a snowflake. But
apparently other people.

Speaker 1 (01:31:05):
See a Ku Klux Klan meeting.

Speaker 2 (01:31:09):
There's racist under the bed. Ku Klux Klan members light
torches now. Some say Bath and Bodyworks provided them candles
to light. Two. Wow, that is a stretch. It is
a bit of a strep apologizing because you got to
start knocking things over. He's sick in his paws on
my lap. Yeah, and it's a snowflake. I just I

(01:31:32):
don't see and it's you can and it's like a
kid folded a snowflake and people come on. The retail
chain recently released a candle label snowed In that critics
argued resembled the hoods and robes worn by the white
supremacist group. I mean, you're really stretching at this point.

Speaker 1 (01:31:47):
It's a stretch.

Speaker 2 (01:31:48):
After an outcry on social media, the company explained that
the designers did not intend to mimic the KKK outfit
and remove the item from its website and retail starts
everything pointy and white is not a KKK hood. Come on,
people next to they're going to go after Casper, didn't
some of the ghosts in the Casper ghosts have pointy heads.

Speaker 1 (01:32:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:32:07):
Yeah, they're gonna go after Casper.

Speaker 1 (01:32:08):
You know they're going to Those are the bad guys.

Speaker 2 (01:32:11):
Come on, you've got to read this in like a
dumb accent of some sort of bath and Bodyworks were
committed to us.

Speaker 1 (01:32:16):
Okay, after that, crying social media, the company Okay, yeah,
that Bathom body waits. We are committed to listening to
our themes and customers and commit affixing any mistakes we make,
even those that are unin tune, unin teine. But we
don't mean to do like this one, the company said

(01:32:36):
in an email statement to NBC News and other outlets.
By the way, did you know that the theme to
NBC News was Dun Dun Dun Du. That was written
by John Williams, who did all of those movie soundtracks
like Star Wars and Jaws.

Speaker 2 (01:32:54):
I did not know that.

Speaker 1 (01:32:58):
Pretty cool anyway. Also, NBC, I apologize to anyone we've
offended and are swiftly working to have this I don't
removed and evaluate our process forward they're probably gonna they're
probably gonna have every employee go to a stupid sensitivity training.

Speaker 2 (01:33:17):
And and I folded a snowflakes, so kill me snowflakes,
and there were black snowflakes, there'd be an issue. They
talk about it. Come on that you really really have

(01:33:38):
to stretch.

Speaker 1 (01:33:39):
It's a stretch. I mean, I can see it, but
but I don't think who. I don't think Ku Klux
Clam members would get that close to each other. I
just don't.

Speaker 2 (01:33:50):
Anyway, I don't think that many of them actually had.

Speaker 1 (01:33:52):
Next and they're usually red yo.

Speaker 2 (01:34:03):
Okay, well I think I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:34:08):
Yeah, uh yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:34:10):
I think that's enough news of the Wicked. I say
we wrap this baby up a little bit early.

Speaker 1 (01:34:14):
Just I'm okay with it.

Speaker 2 (01:34:15):
It's a go jillion o'clock at night in our end.
And we do have an amazing interview coming up on Wednesday.

Speaker 1 (01:34:22):
Please tune in Wednesday, maybe Thursday, but certainly no later
than that.

Speaker 2 (01:34:27):
Yeah, and Chuck, we'll check in as well. So we
do have a holy crap segment coming up and surprises
it surprises, some surprises in that arena. So Tuesday, tuned in.
We shall be posting those everywhere, including your favorite then
you where you're probably listening right now, and you should

(01:34:48):
like show, subscribe to all the things, give us a
god jillion star.

Speaker 1 (01:34:52):
Review and buy another Kia.

Speaker 2 (01:34:54):
And I miss my card, miss my baby, I miss
a weird do payments away from owninger and she's in
the shop and they won't even tell us what's wrong
with it. And yeah, literally hours after an oil change,
and nobody will take responsibility. So I don't know what's
going on there. Anyway, let's wrap this baby up, shall we?

Speaker 1 (01:35:17):
Positive?

Speaker 2 (01:35:18):
We got to end on a positive note here on
counterculture Wise, we may rant, we may rave, but most
of all, we go against the current culture because we believe,
to the core of our beings that humans are good

(01:35:39):
and the world is an amazing and beautiful place. At
the beginning of our show, we give you news of
the weird and wonderful, but that is just the tip
of the magnificent iceberg that is our world. We now
present news of the wonder fuller. This sou looks like

(01:36:05):
it's gonna be a little.

Speaker 1 (01:36:06):
Rough, Well it is, But you know the funny thing is,
even with the skin condition, that's still a cute kid.

Speaker 2 (01:36:13):
I must take a look at him.

Speaker 1 (01:36:16):
Oh it's just weird. This little boy from Nevada is
pictured here before a life changing surgery that allowed him
to blink and sleep with his eyes closed for the
first time in his seven years of his life.

Speaker 2 (01:36:29):
How did his eyes I mean, don't you have to
blink in order for your eyes to even function?

Speaker 1 (01:36:34):
I guess not. Can you even try to imagine that?
What that must have been like? Carter Bresi was born baby, Yeah,
he was born with something called lamolarchiclosis, which.

Speaker 2 (01:36:50):
Is similar to a finn disease that fish get.

Speaker 1 (01:36:53):
Okay, A rare genetic skin disorder in which the body
creates that's right, I like a fing Okay, that makes sense.
A rare genetic skin disorder in which the body creates
skin cells that do not separate from each other at
the surface of the skin the way they should. In addition,
the body does not shed the skin fast enough, causing
brown scales to form.

Speaker 2 (01:37:14):
So I can see why they would call it athosis. Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:37:17):
Fox News has followed his condition for years, leading to
Carter developing a bit of a supportive base in Nevada,
many of whom contributed to a gofund me to his
medical bills in May when he had the chance for
a life changing eyelid skin graft. It also resulted in
Carter's eyelids takes forty.

Speaker 2 (01:37:34):
Six and ninety nine dollars he was only asking for eight. Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:37:41):
It also resulted in Carter's eyelids turning outward, preventing him
from closing his eyes. He cannot blink, he sleeps with
his eyes open, and is often experiencing lots of pain
and discomfort because of this shy Carter's mom wrote and
that go fund me, which raised forty six thousand dollars
towards the eight thousand dollars costs, like he's just said,
and still go on the cost of oculoplastic surgery that

(01:38:04):
would help the boy close his eyes. I didn't realize
was a sense of community we really had, she admitted
to Fox five after seeing how much money the two
had received. It's really crazy to feel so included the
last month in San Diego, the surgery where he was
carried out successfully and Carter slept, Oh boy did he sleep.
He slept until noon today. He got the best night

(01:38:25):
sleep I send in the video interview after the boys
first night being able to sleep with his eyes closed.
She added that he was a champ throughout the sometimes
painful surgery, remaining calm and asking for medicine if it
got too severe. Oh, that kid is going to have
a story to tell.

Speaker 2 (01:38:42):
Oh my gosh, you probably can't hear this, but mom
is gushy the little guy. Look get him. Oh I
tried to lay in my bag. He tried it. Yeah,
I can't imagine not being able. Oh he's trying to

(01:39:04):
get comfy.

Speaker 1 (01:39:09):
Lepant toy.

Speaker 2 (01:39:13):
He can close his eyes. Look look at him, look
out happy is and they'll probably the black part is
probably from.

Speaker 1 (01:39:24):
The cruising away.

Speaker 7 (01:39:26):
I hope.

Speaker 2 (01:39:30):
She said he was a champ. He did really good. No,
look at me. He was a cute baby. What do
you bet he becomes a motivational speaker.

Speaker 1 (01:39:42):
I'll bet you he does. I hope they find.

Speaker 2 (01:39:46):
A cure for you know, if his skin wasn't all weird.
He's a good looking kid.

Speaker 1 (01:39:51):
Maybe they'll find a cure for it.

Speaker 9 (01:39:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:39:57):
I love how she's just trying to give him a
normal life and and the best she can. She looks
really positive and sweet. Oh, folks, that kid finally gets
a good night's rest.

Speaker 1 (01:40:09):
We're about to do the same.

Speaker 2 (01:40:10):
Now it's our turn. We stay up late because we
love you, and we love you so much. We're gonna
do this again next week, so do tune in for
our interview and for Chuck's take. Remember, if you're listening
on a screwtube, they hate our guts, so you may
or may not be able to find us there, but
find us everywhere else that good podcasts are broadcast, as

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Had a blast tonight. It's been a good show.

Speaker 2 (01:40:53):
Yeah. Now we got to go figure out what else
Frankie has knocked off the counter So we'll see you
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