Thankful

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Speaker 1 (00:15):
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Speaker 1 (01:36):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, everybody to another accounter good Jewish show.
It's been an amazing week this week, and oh my goodness,
do we have a lot of things to talk about. Indeed,
I am your hostess. Well, I like to say you
say that for once.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Hey, it's everybody's hostess of Oh, I like that in
the northeast, North and south. Shut my mouth, it is Melanie. Oh,
I like that.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Let's do it that way from now on. And to
my right is my right hand man, my best friend
happens to be my husband and my co host.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
And nice sweet baboo, mister Jeeves.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
I found out something very interesting today.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
You did.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Dogs aren't able to operate MRI machines, but cats can.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah, but you can't get the lab reports.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
That's true. Yeah, that was an excellent comeback.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
I like that very much. I'd like to say I'm
here all week.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
No, No, we've been here long enough.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Felt it's going to be a thankful week this week.
I mean, you're gonna have a couple of days off
and we get to do some bawl cleaning, I guess
is a thing.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, spring cleaning, but.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Late. Yeah, spring cleaning in Texas when it's cool enough
to actually do it without Dina, which.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Is about where we are final.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Finally, Yeah, we're all the way down into the seventies today.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah, And what's really funny. So you saying, oh my gosh,
it's gonna be a massive dip in temperature. We're all
gonna die. It's gonna be in the sixties, although it
is getting down into the thirties overnight.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
So well, just stay bundled up until the morning. She's
got to get up with me tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
I'm gonna sign come. I don't like it, so I
start whiny. When it gets in the seventies.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
It's it gets pretty bad, the whining. I'm sorry, no, no, no,
but you know, honey, honey, you're in physical pain. I mean,
they don't need to know that.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
They don't need to know that. Well, do you have
anything you want to share with the lively audience? And
I'm sure is listening.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Just that I'm very pleased to announce that this much
postponed podcast fourth in the Fire. I'm now I now
have a bunch of accountability partners.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, you've been telling people all day that you're doing this, so.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
So you know I'm hoping. Yeah, well, I want to
do it. I just I didn't think that the interview
with me to get the started was the best thing.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
I just didn't really care for me do you have
any other.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Ideas lots, but I need to contact people and go
out on Farce book and say, hey, you know there's
anybody who wants to do this. And keep in mind,
I'm not doing theological debates. I want actual testimony of
people who've who God has helped them at their in
their time of need, because I know for us it's

(04:38):
just I think the one we did where we just
interviewed each other was kind of outdated because of all
of the stuff that's boored in since then. So mind
redoing that. Okay, would mind revisiting that. We have an
interview that we're going to be recording next week with
mister Diegostino. His name is doctor, you know, and it's

(05:01):
an interesting take on racism, tribalism, and prejudice in America.
So we're gonna going to get through this. We're going
to have a good time. We'll see how it goes.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Let's see how it goes, Okay, Yeah, Jim will probably
be leading that one because I probably will get a
little hot headed, so it'll it'll be interesting, especially since
what happened at the election. We'll just leave it that way.

Speaker 5 (05:31):
Yeah, this is written before the election and This is
also an exercise in us putting our mouths where our
money is and vice versa when we say.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
We love to bring on interviews of all types of
all stripes, and I mean, how else are you going
to learn? I mean, you will never learn something if
you only talk to people that you agree with. So
I I predict that I will learn something, and I'm

(06:02):
pretty sure I will maybe you will do, so it'll be.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
But sometimes we've had we've had interviews we've been gritting
or we were gritting our teeth at the beginning, and
at the end it was like, that was the best
interview ever.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
Fun. Yeah, and then that's gone the other way too,
this is great, this is awesome, And at the end
you're like, Okay. Then we had.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
One years ago where she went off on some weird
tangent that we were even going.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
To be that had nothing to do with us.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
Yeah, no, nothing at all. We're like, oh, what did
we just do? Because it was live?

Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, it was live, which we don't do anymore because
we're smart now. But yeah, we were like, so today
I went outside and da da da da dad, and
we're like, oh, this is really interesting, and what did
you think about this and that and pretty soon when the.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
Moon is in this.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah, it went really.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Real fast, Melanie. I. I mean that's one of the thrills.
And one of the drawbacks of live radio is because
it's out in the ether. Now, there's nothing you can do.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
It's out there. And I think we stopped doing live interviews.
It took two you know, the full me once and
then the for me twice, and it took two of them.
The first one the guy just started going off on racist, Nazi,
crazy kooky things and I was like, hang up now

(07:28):
this we're done. And the second one was all get
it up, ready to go, advertised at thumbnails live radio
and they're like, never mind not shown up.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yeah, there's that too, because we sometimes we make a
mistake or sometimes the author or you know, whoever we're interviewing,
is we get time zones mixed up, right.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
That's one thing. But to tell you literally, as you're live,
I'm not going to bother showing up. And it was
for a really lame reason. It wasn't even like you know,
my kids build down to crack the school open, or
you know, it was just like, oh well, I just
don't feel like whatever, And you know, this was somebody

(08:12):
that we had rescheduled twice, right, this was yeah, so
and so yeah. After after that experience which left me
hanging because this was a night that Jim was working
graveyard all by my little self, and I had nobody
to play off of. I had nobody chuck to it.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
I was in a show or something. I don't remember.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
It was when we were living in a Motel six
in Temple.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
I don't talk about that six either.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
They left the light on for us.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
They did more than once.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
Were they actually they were, Yeah, we've been through it.
We've been through a spell. So yeah, Motel six with
two cats and a golden retriever. And it was interesting,
but we did.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
We we slogged.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
And this being a Thanksgiving week, we're going to have
a segment at the end. I think we're just gonna
spontaneously burst out with what we're grateful for.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
Oh my goodness. I don't want to go too much
into depth, or people will think, oh my gosh, what
is wrong with those two.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
No, no, no, we're not gonna go too much into
debt dep depth debt. We're already we're already in debt.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
We're wor too much in debt. Okay, and you know, folks,
if you'd like, please please drop everything.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
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We'll be talking about that as well.

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Yes we will, at least, Chuck, I have a personal
account of blue Sky. Just it's it's different from what
I do on other.

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I got to mask it on I mean, I'm all
over the.

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Place years ago I don't remember, but yeah.

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I didn't even know how to get on it. But
I don't even know what.

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I don't know if we even have the Brandon shirts anymore.

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I think the designs are still up. But yeah, unlet's
it's like bye bye Brandon.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
Bye bye.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
Alrighty, So I thought it'd be fun today to talk
about the mega swing of the I guess pendulum chandelier.
I don't know what you want to call it, but
how we went from literally literal Hitler literal Hitler is
taking over and oh my gosh, we're all going to

(13:13):
die and if you you know, you've got to vote,
like your life depends on it, and on and on
with the rhetoric. We have people crying in the streets.
One guy killed an entire family. I mean, come on, people,
this has gotten completely out of hand too. You know,
one of the one of the memes is tickle fights
with with Hitler, you know, smiling from ear to ear,

(13:35):
shaking hands, telling jokes. You know. So I ran across
this this meme video which full credit right on the
video because it's absolutely hilarious. And we're not going to
be able to play the sound through the whole thing
because well it's it's a copywriter song. Well will ban us,
but you'll get the gist it go, We'll see it. Yeah, okay,

(13:57):
I thought you'd get a kick out of this because
this is kind of what it's looking like right now.
And if you can't hear this, this is no fun.
I wish we could get out of here. And it's
Biden and Trump, sitting at a table together because some
people are listening. And now they're on a motorcycle together,
baseball game, riding horses, fishing, looking over a mountain winery,

(14:25):
and at a waterfall in the redwood forest, at a
sweat lodge, sharing golf clubs, Mount Rushmore, petting coats, surfing, vegas, rodeo,
dance hall. I don't know what they're doing there. They're

(14:45):
building a house nights you Jim's got the song, so anyways,
they're like, well maybe one day. Anyways, that was from
oh we went away see our four team ike. It
looked like from TikTok. It was hilarious, so.

Speaker 1 (15:08):
Very very well, you are are listening first that would
actually be happening.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
You know, people just yeah, well and the thing is
they probably are. I mean, well Biden doesn't worry is
half the time anyway, So but I mean it's just
it just cracked me up how quickly it went from
the sky is falling and and you know, the third
Reich is on another I guess it'd be the fourth
is on its way in, and you know women are
going to be dying in alley ways and this and

(15:34):
that too.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
Okay, we'll get him next to him.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
Which means they didn't think there was that much There
just wasn't that much passion behind, but they didn't.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
Kamala was the worst possible. I mean, she was a
diversity higher who wasn't Nobody liked her. She she got kicked,
well not kicked, but she had to leave. She never
even got up to one percent. She never got a
single percentage, Like, nobody liked her. She's an unlikable person
no matter how much you push her, She's just not

(16:07):
and she's not smart.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
Well, the thing that strikes me is a lot of
people wanted her in because that would make her the
first woman of color. Now it's a dumb reason. Now,
by the way, these same people, when Tulsi Gabbard runs
in four years, you're not going to hear them talk
about women or you know that she's a Russian agent

(16:30):
blah blah blahh which.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
Is absolutely of course, it is absolute. God.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
What I'm saying is they're just gonna make They're gonna
make a big deal out of it, but they're not
going to mention the fact that she's a woman or
a person of color or now you know, even she's
like a Hindu. I think I don't know.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
Well, she's Hawaiian, she's native Hawaiian. Yeah, and yeah, I
believe she is of Hindu.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
Faith, just like the vague right.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
Also Indian.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
Yeah, so crazy, crazy craziness, the best kind of craziness,
crazy craziness. But everybody seems to be well, there's a
lot of stories coming up, both us talking and Chuck
about how the press is adapting and how the and

(17:21):
the media networks and all of this. There's some huge
changes supposedly coming. I say supposedly because talking they're talking
about doing it. Yeah, but I don't think they've actually
done anything yet.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
We'll see, Yeah, we'll see.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
Uh yeah, So ran to the week. Let's talk about
this alone. Yeah, when you fact check and your fact
check gets fact checked, that's kind of where we are
right now. Yea, and yeah, so some of you probably
already heard this story we're going to talk about. Last week,
To get round to it, the New York Times decided

(17:59):
to fact chech RFK juniors claims about breakfast cereals. Now,
what he was talking about, and what he was alluding to,
is how many just ridiculous chemicals are in our processed foods. Well,
first of all, our food is way over processed, just
way over processed.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
For one of the reasons I want to start eating
more natural foods because the best state for your body
to be in is to process foods if the food
has already been processed for you.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
Right, We're not baby birds. We don't need predigested food.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
Right. So it's like, you give your body the chance
to properly process foods, then you if you do that enough,
then you realize how bad these processed foods are. They
plus the added bunch of needless stuff, which he gave
a great example.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
Right, So this was an example that he was using.
And but I don't want to read the whole thing
that anyway. So we're obesity epidemic, which I found very
interesting because I know that we've had a lot of
you know, garbage put in our food. But I had
no idea that the switch because when I was a kid,

(19:14):
we were told to know uncertain terms that you know,
beef tallow and palm oils were just the worst possible
thing you could ever ever eat. And you know, everything
got replaced with vegetable oil, which is supposed to be
so much better for you. But then when I learned
how vegetable oil is made, especially safflower or rape seed oil. Ew,

(19:34):
it's literal motor oil that they have.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
That was the original original usage was for motor.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
Yeah, they have to bleach it and then they have
to distinctify it because it's so rancid that it smells
terrible and people are eating.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
Just let me know this. One night when I decided
to he did a panic bottle. Big it was wess
and yeah, literally wess and oil.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
And she was like with that stuffs like no, I mean,
now that butter is like seven bucks a pound. Now,
I mean it's hard, but I would rather, you know,
fry some bacon and save the grease, you know, squeeze
a cow, whatever it takes. But yeah, you don't eat
the that.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
Yeah, I'll never touch it again. I mean, you go
out to eat at a restaurant, you don't really have
that much control, but.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
Don't bring it home. You know, restaurants should be once
in a wild thing. You can handle a low level
of toxins a little.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
Bit at a time your body, most bodies can handle that.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
But if you're eating it twenty four to seven, you
know you're your host to scene and thebiscowine and McDonald
McDonald's zing and general food zeing, and sorry, I don't care,
they're all as bad here. You know, when I bake bread,
I use avocado oil, I use whole grain and flour.

(20:54):
You know, I know where my yeast comes. In fact,
I'm actually learning how to make my own bread meat
time light. Really I might. Yeah, And I have a
friend who's gonna teach me sour oaks. I've never done
it before, so I'm then give that a shot. I
did successfully one time make our mayonnaise using avocado oil
and it was quite yummy, and farm fresh eggs, which

(21:17):
when we get we'll.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
Get the processed mayo. A lot of times we do
get the avocado or olive oil.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
Well, okay, but do read your labels definitely, because it'll
say with with uh olive oil. But if you read
the ingredients, there ain't no olive oil on there. And
you know, when I made my mayonnaise, it didn't have
sugar in it, you know, didn't have any of the

(21:45):
poly unsaturated unpronounceables in it.

Speaker 3 (21:47):
So but I digress.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
So he was talking about all the things that are
in you know, normal everything's day things that we eat.

Speaker 3 (21:59):
So where does it?

Speaker 2 (22:00):
Okay, Jesus fruitless as an example, and what did he
say exactly? He said, in some categories, their entire departments,
like nutrition department in the FDA, they have to go.
They're not doing their job, they're not protecting their kids.
Why do we have fruit loops in this country that
have eighteen or nineteen ingredients and then you go to
Canada and it's got two or three. Okay, so he

(22:23):
was probably talking about extra ingredients. But the direction of
this comment is not you know, water, wheat, you know, salt, sugar, whatever.
The direction of this is red dye number four exactly,
and you know whatever. Okay, but the fact check, let's

(22:46):
look at the New York Times push their glasses onto
their nose. Mister Kennedy has singled out foot loops as
an example of a product with too many artificial ingredients.
Artificial ingredients christianing why the Canadian version has fewer than
the US version. But he was wrong. Wrong. Let's see

(23:08):
how he was wrong. The ingredient list is roughly the same,
although Canada's has natural colories made from blueberries and carrots,
while the US product contains redde forta, Yellow five and
blue one, as well as mutilated hydroxyl whatever in the
heck at BHD lab bait chemical that is used for
freshening accordion. Y, did you not just neg gate the

(23:30):
entire first half of your statement and then they make
a correction? Oh? Hell and yeah. In the correction they
took out the word artificial, and that made them correct
in their minds. Mister Kennedy is singled out foot loops
as an example of a product with too many scratch

(23:52):
the word artificial ingredients, and that somehow made them correct.
I mean, hermager just really.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
The point isn't the number.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
By the way, he's not a vaccine denier. He has
not denied of vaccines. He's or nor is he a
science denier. I think we talked about this last week.
He wants more science, more, he wants studies.

Speaker 3 (24:18):
Guys, you don't.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
You don't want to release vaccines or alleged vaccines without
some kind of testing first, which is you know, that
was the COVID vaccines, the m r n A whatever
they are that they yeah were they were rushed out,
you know, because of the panic. I get it.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
What I love are the people that would sit there
and be like, surely, I'm all right. Doesn't get back
into the nenglance on the cell. Guys, that's literally its job.
That's the point. If it doesn't, you're doing something wrong.

(25:00):
This is great. Granted it doesn't come in as M,
but it goes to the T and then it goes
to the D and yeah, it sounds like I'm trying
to talk porn the data the data. Yeah. Yeah, this
is why.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
We need somebody like like rfkit.

Speaker 2 (25:17):
This, this is another, this is another. Oh, I want
to read some of these. I'm just spitting out my
coffee after reading this New York Times fact check, and
he wrote in a post that drew over four million
views on x as you see, the ingredient list is
just completely identical, except that US product contains formaldehyde, cyanide,
and nearly undetectable levels of sex atoxin. Read this fact

(25:40):
check and tell me what the strace pace. We don't
need a radical transformation of our media and health agencies
and other users said. Another person said, this is what
passes for a fact check at the New York Times. Oh,
this is actually Charlie Cook. Media lie a lot, but
fortunately for us, they are also very stupid. This has
got to be the dumbest fact check on RFK Junior

(26:02):
from the New York Times, who approved this podcast to
j Anderson posted and you know, we never get called out,
and I want to get called out one of these days.
So yeah, this is what passed. And you know they
did this throughout. I mean, Donald Trump is load over
four hundred billion times. It's like, yeah, but you know,
or you know three ninety nine billion of those times,

(26:24):
or things.

Speaker 3 (26:25):
Like and the Hamburgers were stuck to the sky.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
Actually you can't tounch the guy and the Alma spare
wouldn't need happening in the Hamburger. It's like, oh my god.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
I mean, really, they're just jealous because they didn't give.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
It any I think that was one where they actually
took the average measurement of a big Mac and times
did it by how many they saw in the picture
and gave the actual footage of how many big macs.
Estimate desperate when he said it was it was stacked
a mile high, They're like, well, I.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
Show it was stacked four feet high. Who cares?

Speaker 2 (27:03):
That's so desperate?

Speaker 1 (27:05):
And Okay, so you have a salesman for Pete's say yeah,
and does.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
That mean that every time one of these these liberal
folks come out and say.

Speaker 3 (27:13):
I'm dying, I'm literally starving, we.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
Can't say, well, actually, if you're literally starving, you know,
we don't do that because that's how people talk. Okay,
trying to fact check whether you are literally starving, we'd
have to get a blood draw, we'd have, you know,
all this stuff. We'd have to to see where you first, you'd.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
Be passing out and like really really yeah obvious when
you're starving.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
So are we supposed to be little you and make
fun of you or are we supposed to just play
nice and say, oh yeah, they were stuck pretty high.
That was funny because the guys that I just rolled
my eyes. It was an NBA team, I can't remember.

Speaker 6 (27:54):
It was.

Speaker 2 (27:57):
Okay, well the team that they thought it was great
on of course, you know that these aren't these guys
are showing up in jerseys and T shirts and you know,
high top tennis shoes. They didn't want to sit down
to fuagua and pinky lifting crystal dinner. You know, that's
not what they wanted.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
And they were having was because you know, real athletes
don't eat that stuff very all. No, no, to them,
it was probably a treat. So yeah, yeah, so yeah.
When when you hear a bunch of people freaking out
and say Kennedy is a threat to health, No, he's
a threat to the health Estami, look.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
At that man with a shirt off, and keep in
mind that he's seventy.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
Something, yeah's in his seventies, and you tell.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
Me he's a threat. Okay, And then you look at
that thing that is in office right now, the narcissistic,
psychotic man in a dress with his ugly hair and.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
His Dee Snyder hairdoo.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
Yeah, only de Snyder's got got a pretty decent physique.
This this guy looks like he swallowed a few bowling balls.
They didn't land in his bra And you tell me
that that is the pillar of health. And by the way,
he never served in the military. He's not an admirable
of admirable. He's not admirable, nor is he an admiral.

(29:15):
That's just And to say the first female just forget
that noise, okay, because you're taking that away from the
first woman who does actually achieve that title. And I
am not here for that. He is a man he
has a mental disorder. He should be treated kindly and

(29:37):
with respect, and he needs to get help. He is
not an admirable. I can't say the word. He's not
a mucky muky and he's not in a physician where
he should be telling anybody anything about hell. And the
sad thing is the person who went, because he's the
the vice whatever. The second I couldn't even tell you. Yeah,

(30:02):
I couldn't even tell you who the real person is
because you took all the wind out of everybody's sails,
because you've got some psychotic, crazy guy, you know, you know,
wearing lipstick.

Speaker 7 (30:11):
And I don't even know what this person is going
to be doing after they get booted from this position,
because who would hire him her?

Speaker 1 (30:21):
They them, it's a type deal, it's anyhows.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
Anyways, I thought that was a funny one, so and
now and now I'm trying to do twelve things at once.
Let's head on into the best time, the funnest time,
the time that we all enjoy, the reason that most
of you are here.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
Counterculture Wise is proud to present news of the weird
and wonderful. Melany Hope and Jim Monent probably.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
Don't whisper into the mic when they're still on.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
Jim, I was, I was making an off color joke quietly,
and now everybody's heard it, so I'm not going to
say it again.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
Plus that was just a rumor and that that didn't
It's just it's funny, and it's I don't know, it's
it's it's one of those things, like you know, the
couch or the horse or whatever. Once you hear it,
you can't unhear it, and people bring it back. Well,
what I thought was really funny is that the supposed,
you know, vice presidential candidate was so low class that

(31:35):
he tried to make a joke out of the couch thing,
which was completely fabricated. Ew that's how low these people went. Yeah,
that's how low they went. Stupid, and we're supposed to
take them seriously, all right, Jim off you goo.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
A plane was grounded for four days at a Portuguese
airport when one hundred and thirty two hamsters escaped from
boxes in the cargo hold.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
Why there are one hundred and two hamsters and boxers
in the car, You know?

Speaker 1 (32:02):
They don't say.

Speaker 3 (32:04):
I really wish they would.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
Say, Yeah, I guess maybe, maybe, maybe one of our
hamster who you you know they do pet transport, and
you know who needs one hundred and thirty two hamsters.
It's not a question of need. It's like you go
down the road and and we're seeing these gorgeous houses,
like that's too much house?

Speaker 6 (32:24):
Is?

Speaker 1 (32:24):
It depends on your point of view. I mean, this
isn't necessarily what you need. What you want, Maybe you
want extra rooms. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
Me.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
I like smaller homes that are just well built and
have quality things.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
I like room, yeah, I mean, I like how big
our living room is and our bedroom is a nice size,
and my like bathrooms that you can stand up and
turn around without smacking into things.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
We got one of those.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
Yeah, Well, the other one is still bigger than the
one that we had at our place in.

Speaker 1 (32:53):
Vegas, and definitely bigger than the place we had when
you met me, way bigger than the one we the
I probably said this before on the show. And then
we're going to get back to hamsters. I promise, get
back to the hamsters.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
We promised there will be hamsters.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
The bathroom the apartment I lived in was part of
a building that I think was like servants quarters or something.
Or whatever it wasn't or I don't know what it
was originally, but the bathroom was definitely an afterthought, although
it was well constructed and there weren't any plowing issues.
But if you were sitting on the toilet and happened

(33:35):
to sneeze, would bang your head on the sink and
fall into the bathtub. It was that teeny and still
be sitting on the toilet. And it was crazy, a
little tiny place. I mean, it worked for me.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
It had a tiled floor, and that tile really did
a lot of work, that one tile that took up
the entire floor. It was.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
It was a fun little place and I had a
view of the city below it was.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
It was.

Speaker 1 (34:04):
It was nice, Yeah, until the trees started growing obscured everything.
Stupid trees. You know, one day I'm going to own
this town. Six months later, one day I'm gonna own
that tree. Are never mind.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
Alone, Jim, And now I know you've been wanting to
branch out for a long time. Someday we'll see the
fruit of your labors.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
Ah.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
Until then, it's the pits. You can join it anytime.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
I can't. Is worse than I I'm all trunked out anyway,
one hundred and thirty It doesn't mean anything. It was
a bad joke.

Speaker 2 (34:43):
It was just me trying to move on why my
Sito Plaza is obliterated?

Speaker 1 (34:48):
And on Jim the tap Airports You Go flight from
Lisbon to Ponta Delgatta Airport featured a full contingent of
passengers as well as hamsters, ferrets and birds and root
to a pet store. That's that they were doing, okay.
The flight ended up grounded and Ponta Delgado when one
hundred and thirty two hamsters were found of escaped into

(35:08):
the cargo hold. Officials said the plane was kept at
the airport for safety reasons, as the hamsters could pose
a risk to the plane's electrical wires.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
I'm sick of these mothers. I just do it.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
I was gonna go sorry. Should have been a movie
with it. Could be the sequel to Snakes on a Plane.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
There you go watch it would just be a lunch
to snakes on a plane.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
You know, that's very true. Maybe if the if the
hamsters had been there. I've never seen the movie. Were
spent four days scouring the plane.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
I did grab a bottle of wine and force myself
to watch Sharknado.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
Though I've got to see that. I want to see that.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
I needed more wine.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
I still want to see it.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
It's pretty bad.

Speaker 1 (35:50):
Of course it's bad.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
I can't believe there were more.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
Bad Just because a lot of people watched it. It
was successful. It passed the ultimate test, not with the
critics loved it, but how much money it made.

Speaker 2 (36:02):
Well, okay, there is that.

Speaker 6 (36:04):
It was.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
It was novel like a virus.

Speaker 1 (36:06):
Melanie and I love well mostly me. I love vinyl records.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
Yeah, I loved him back when you know, I had
a turntable and you couldn't buy digital music before the
CD was invented. Yeah, before cassette tapes were invented, before
the Walkman or the Yeah, I love him then, like
before I was born.

Speaker 1 (36:35):
It's been a hard days.

Speaker 2 (36:39):
They had to balance the penny on. Yeah, I gomma
had an actual Laurence.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
Yes, I did have that record.

Speaker 2 (36:45):
Of course you did. Everybody did, and anybody smart it
did anyway already. So let's look at this story. This
is fun. A vinyl record recording from a couple's nineteen
sixty six wedding was returned to the family after accidentally
ending up at a Texas thrift store. How do you
get a record of your wedding? How is that a

(37:07):
thing you could just have like a record like maker, Like, well.

Speaker 1 (37:11):
Yeah, I guess you could have recordings made of your
wedding back in the day. What I didn't know about
it either, Well.

Speaker 2 (37:18):
That was a thing that is so cool. Katie or
Nellis Ornelius Ornells bought a record from a thrift store
in Austin, but when she opened a slipcover for the
Modern Jazz court Head at music Inns, would be a
great album, would be a good album, she instead found
a recording of Vows, Prayers and Cheers from a wedding.

(37:40):
The record was labeled Phil's and Donna's Wedding Phil and
don We put it on and we were just instantly
just connected with that record and wanted to make sure
it found its way back to its family because it
was in a different sleep, so we anticipated that it's
probably missing its owners. Well the owners were probably missing it.

(38:01):
Rnelis shared her story with the media in hopes of
reaching the record's owners, and the story ended up being
spotted online by the daughter of Phil and Donna Schmidt.
Donna Schmidt explained the couple had married in Los Altos Hills, California,
in nineteen sixty six, before moving to Austin. While there's Wow,
where Schmidt taught at the University of Texas, he smacked

(38:21):
my microphone. I'm sorry for those who are listening. You
probably wantimize doing sound for more than forty years before
his retirement in twenty thirteen. She said they held in
a state sale when they relocated from their Austin house
to a Denver retirement community in March twenty twenty two,
and the record must have been sold as a result
of being misplaced in the wrong sleeve. We had an

(38:44):
estate sale that cleared out everything from our home that
wouldn't fit in our new apartment. We had a large
record collection, and somehow wedding vinyl made its way into
a jazz cover. Makes me wonder what other treasure we
left behind. She said. The record's return will make an
upcoming my stone all the more special. We celebrate our
fiftieth fifty eighth anniversary last August. What a gift for

(39:07):
us to have this recording back just in time for
a fifty ninth next year. And I hope they make
it to sixty and beyond. That is a week story,
and I hope they have a record player. Well, folks,
that would be a great present to get them for
their fifty ninth. Yeah, so head on over to counter
culture is it? Yeah, if you'd like to contribute to

(39:29):
the buy my ludite husband another typewriter and a record player, apparently,
because we need a big we need one of them
mansions just to fit all the stupid we we want
to cotton gin and one are those things a spinning
wheel and one of those those pedal sewing machines.

Speaker 1 (39:49):
And yeah, I'm trying to make music and make stupid.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
I just I just don't know about you, Okay, I
just don't know about you.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
That was funny the other day where we're at this
dog park, and we might talk about that a little
bit later. But this old guy is talking to me
and he just suddenly turns to my wife and says,
is he Okay? I don't even know who he is,
And I'm like, I have more issues than a magazine store.
But yeah, I'm all right, And they all cracked up.
But it's like he said out loud, But people, I

(40:22):
know we're saying he didn't.

Speaker 2 (40:24):
Say it that way though. I think the guy thought
he knew us because he came up and gave.

Speaker 3 (40:29):
Me a big old hug.

Speaker 2 (40:30):
And I have no idea who this guy is. Wow,
and he came up and gave me how was it going?
I'm like, fine, mister stranger guy, sir, how are you?

Speaker 3 (40:39):
And he's like is he okay?

Speaker 2 (40:40):
Like like he knew that there was something like wrong
with you before or maybe he just sensed it.

Speaker 3 (40:47):
You're not okay?

Speaker 1 (40:49):
No, But I know people ask themselves. I can see
the look in their eyes like he I know people
have been asking that for you has been I thought
it was so amusing that finally somebody came out under it.

Speaker 2 (41:02):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (41:03):
It was honest. It was beautiful.

Speaker 2 (41:05):
Out of his dress, wiped off the lipstick, but the
mustache covers it up pretty good. All right, excellenz aliers.

Speaker 1 (41:15):
All right, United Airlines, let's see. Okay, let's do this one.
This comes out of Boise Air Force veteran here not
at Airlines. Pilot Scott Wardle says he loves his job.
It's a cool office and you have a good view.
He says, you have jobs, and then you have jobs
and this is a great job. I like what that
would be a great job you have. Wardle is based

(41:38):
in Boise, but he spends a lot of his time
in the friendly skies. I see what they did there.
You get to see different places, take people to a
different locations, see them go on family vacations. He said.
In September, one of his flights took a turn. Well,
it started out like any other day. I was supposed
to go to Houston and then from Houston to Phoenix.
We never made it there Wardle said, about forty five
minutes in, I get a call. We had medical issues

(41:59):
when one of the passengers he passed out, and we
happened to have two medics and a nurse on the
airplane to help.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
That was for two that is really lucky.

Speaker 1 (42:07):
But the question was what am I going to do now?
Wartle decided to land the plane at the nearest airport,
which is in Albuquerque. Over the loud speaker, let the
passengers know they were going to make an unplanned landing.
To get the passenger to distress some help. We got down,
got the plane landed. The paramedics were waiting for us.
He said. All these people were also getting off the airplane,
and I told him we were going to have a
couple hour delay. But then I found out my flight

(42:28):
attendants just timed out. They worked too many hours. That
means I can't go on with me oh on the
next flight. That's they're very strict about that these days.

Speaker 2 (42:36):
Well I hope they're strict with the pilots as well.

Speaker 1 (42:38):
Yeah, they are just as strict as I don't.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
Care if the lady's serving me. You know, a beverage
is tired, and I mean no offense. I hope you
paid enough rest, But I really care if the dude
flying the bird is tired and sober.

Speaker 1 (42:52):
Yeah, sober is good. Wardle said that meant a much
longer delay. While the passengers waited for a new crew
to fly in. I made sure to confirm they were
on the way with the company, and I thought, I
got to do something with all these people. He said.
It was dinner time. The airport food court was not
far from closing up shop for the night, so I
started exploring some options at that point for what I
want to do. I came up with the idea of

(43:12):
doing pizza for everyone. It's an easy thing. Most people
like pizza. Wardle said. I had to do the math.
I had one hundred and fifty five people, how many
pieces of pizza do I need at Wardle then ordered
dozens of pizzas, and when they arrived, he even served
the pizzas to the passengers. I had some cheese and pepperoni,
some kind of meat and vegetable thing, he said. We
light everyone up and started a buffet right there at
the ticket counter to get everyone fed. Now that rocks,

(43:34):
that is. One of his passengers snapped photos of Wardle
and all the boxes of pizza, and she posted the
store on social media, thanking him for his kindness. These
photos quickly went viral. I happened to see this picture
online and I was like, that looks like Albuquerque pizza.
And I was like, dang, that's me, Wartle said. From
there just kind of mushroomed out, so to speak. Two
different people. The pizza pilot stories Pizza pilot. That is

(43:57):
a great name for pizza place. Pizza pilot. Was it
like an airline themed?

Speaker 2 (44:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (44:03):
It was picked up all over the nation. Wardle was
even featured on The Today Show where it got back
to Boise fast, including the Wartles graduating class at Capitol
High and Boise. Wortle was the top of the class
of nineteen eighty four on Facebook. We had a bunch
of great people in my class. When we stay in touch,
he said. He said he also got a lot of
calls from friends and family, even his Air Force buddies.
I didn't think it was that big of a deal.
I just did my thing, Wartles, So many pilots in

(44:25):
our company do this sort of thing. I just happened
to get my picture taken. U A was really pleased
with how well he took care of his passengers that night,
and they insisted on reimbursing him from pizzas. Oh that's
sweet too. Mortal City simply made a bad day a
little bit better for one hundred and fifty five people.
He would do it again. I know what it feels
like to be stuck at an airport. Trust me. Also
trust Jim. Also trust Melanie. We had to do some

(44:48):
of the show.

Speaker 2 (44:49):
Yeah, I want to see this picture that they have.
Oh yeah, it's the actual picture of him passing out
pizzas right there. The That is just the cutest thing.

Speaker 3 (45:03):
Ah.

Speaker 2 (45:04):
So he's just not just doing his thing, He's not. Yeah,
and what's really great is that the airport pizza joint
was able to fulfill that order in such a short time,
because that's kind of rare. So this says my flight
from La San Mika is bigger. From San Francisco to
Houston today definitely did not go as plan. We had
an emergency landing in New Mexico at four pm due

(45:26):
to medical emergency with the passenger of prayers for the
passenger that was rushed off. That's a nice thing to say, Tanya.
That's very kind of you by the ambulance. When we
arrived and we got dplaned, deep plane, deep plane, and
now finally leaving here at close to eleven Pmoh, I
bet you.

Speaker 3 (45:39):
Everybody was just beat.

Speaker 2 (45:41):
Our pilot is absolutely amazing. He felt so bad for
the situation that he ordered thirty pizzas from a local
pizza shop and had it delivered right to our gate
and then made sure all one hundred and fifty passengers
eight before he made himself a plate. He's a dad.
That's a dada, that's a dad, which we had. Look
at him. What a sweet guy.

Speaker 3 (46:02):
I love these stories.

Speaker 2 (46:03):
These stories are fun. Isn't it nice to hear good
news once in a while, given everything, given everything that's
about to come up, on this show, no boy. Okay,
we have one last story before we head into our
next segment, and this one, I have a feeling is

(46:26):
going to be very sweet. But what I noticed is
that there's no pictures.

Speaker 1 (46:30):
Yeah, sad.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
Well, why don't you while I read this story, go
find a picture and drop that link in our shared file. Okay,
And when you find that, I will share it with
our folks, And until then I will read this. Decades
old memories have a way of reservicing it, digging it
through the boxes and albums.

Speaker 3 (46:51):
That serve as the archives of our lives. So poetic, But.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
For forty one years, one of Earl Guiny's most cherish
chapters lived only in his mind. I was working in automotive.
I was in parts and one of my employees had
the car, and I liked it, said guyns Earl, who
was just twenty two when he got the chance to
purchase his dream car, a nineteen sixty seven Chevrolet Camaro.

(47:21):
It was blue with white stripes down across the hood
and down the back. Two doors, of course, sixty seven
were the ones with the wing window on the side.

Speaker 3 (47:28):
He said.

Speaker 2 (47:29):
The car was loud and people would kind of always
be looking at you, and you'd always see somebody's side
eye and like, see that car down down the street.
It was a cool thing, a fun thing to do. Yeah. No,
we all had that car in our life. But as
often happens, life evolved. In nineteen eighty two, Earl married
his sweetheart Mona Earl and Mona he became a father

(47:50):
of a father to her daughter, Jennifer. Two years later,
they welcomed their son, Jared, with two little ones. At home,
Earl said it was time to part with his favorite
but mostensive toy, his dream Camaro. And it's something that
dads have to let go. They have to let go
of they're hot rods. I've seen it happen time and
time again. I used to tease Jared quite a bit.

(48:13):
I used to have a car like that one over there,
and I said, yeah, I let it go for diaper money.
You needed diapers, And so that's what happened to that car.
I thought he was full of it, because that's exactly
what a guy in a tank top and a minivan
would tell you, like, this is not normal. I'm in
this minivan because of the circumstances. I used to have

(48:35):
a Camaro and I'm like, hmm, I used to have
a Camaro. It's like the guy at the bar talking
about the high school championship or something. Married with children.
Over the years, however, Earl's story became real. The Camaro
was just as vivid in Jared's mind as his dad's.
It's a nineteen sixty seven Marina blue Camaro SS with
a three P fifty small block V eight. Isn't that

(48:57):
a song barra no doda?

Speaker 1 (48:59):
It sounds like a beach boys.

Speaker 2 (49:00):
Yeah, an automatic three speed four on the floor with
the thing and stuffo Traiger crumb, fifteen inch mag wheels
with white letters under my goodness tires, small nineteen sixty
nine style cowl hood on the front. How can to
have a sixty nine style hood? If it was a
sixty seven Camaro, a small little whale tail on the

(49:21):
back in a black interior.

Speaker 1 (49:24):
Because he bought it used and probably it was modified
the ute phoos forty one years ago. It wasn't nineteen sixty.

Speaker 2 (49:29):
Nine, that's true. As he was pastured, thought about how
good it would be to get his dad's car back.
Then in twenty twenty one, he had a great business year.
Instead of pain down debt or investing or doing something responsible.
It did what any guinds man would do. I started
looking for a cool car, but this one specifically. I
wanted to begin the quest to get my dad's car back,

(49:52):
or get as.

Speaker 3 (49:52):
Close as I possibly could.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
After some sleuthing, Jared learned his dad sold the car
for cash. Since there was no proof of sale, he
began looking for a car like his dad's. He spent
twelve months looking coast to coast, and in twenty twenty
two he finally got a lead. There was a Marina
blue Camaro just seventy miles from his home, but it
needed a lot of TLC. Wow, this was a labor

(50:18):
of what it was two years page.

Speaker 3 (50:24):
All right?

Speaker 2 (50:25):
Good. For two years, Jared worked to restore it while
keeping the secret. Then this year, on his dad's sixty
fifth birthday, Jared threw a party and recruited the help
of a magician to reveal a surprise forty one years
in the magician it was a moment that.

Speaker 3 (50:43):
Brought Earle to tears.

Speaker 2 (50:45):
Okay, so let's see the video and then we'll come
back to you. Okay, I've got the tab here and
you said it the vase, the vase in the basements video. Okay,
here we are.

Speaker 6 (50:57):
It's a situation a lot of sient relate to sacrificing something.

Speaker 1 (51:02):
She is kids.

Speaker 6 (51:04):
It's been forty one years since gave his prized possession
pay for diapers.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
Now you're really aware fixed your aspect ratio. Always stop
up and get to the guy. We'll see the guy.

Speaker 8 (51:19):
There we are.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
Okay, So they're telling us about the guy getting the guy.
Actual way of resurfacing when we did this is the
exact article. Memories have a way of resurfacing.

Speaker 3 (51:32):
That's so he's showing a sing your photo.

Speaker 2 (51:35):
Senior photo eight seventy eight, forty one years one years.
Blind's most cherished chapters are in his mind.

Speaker 3 (51:46):
I thought he was older working in automotive.

Speaker 2 (51:49):
I was, okay, So they're basically just rereading the article. Okay,
but I want to see the car.

Speaker 3 (51:55):
See the car. I want to see the car because
she is wow, you know, looking at you.

Speaker 2 (52:04):
Whoever whoever put this together did a lovely job. But
as often happens in life of all, he does kind
of like this is not normal, sense of ginger because
of the gender.

Speaker 1 (52:16):
Sansus. I used to have a Camaro. I used to
have a Camara.

Speaker 9 (52:19):
But over the years, through countless tellings, the Camaro was
just for those who were just listening, as it wasn't
his dad's.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
It's a nineteen sixty seven Marina fifty seven Marina blue.
He goes through the whole thing that we just went through,
so I want to see he wanted to put it together.
This video is literally the entire story only, but in
need of a lot of TLC, a lot of two
years where we lived off to restore it while keeping
it for two years. He himself did that year on
his dad's sixty sixty fifth birthday. Oh that's an old car. Yeah,

(52:56):
he's like, Oh, that's like your old car. That is yours.
He says, that's not that's not just a sixty seven Camaro,
that's your sixty seven Camaro. He's in shock. He's in shock.
It was a moment, just a tear. That's your car.

Speaker 9 (53:17):
For some time getting reacquainted, or will tell you that
this sixty seven Camaro isn't exactly like the car is
exactly better.

Speaker 2 (53:24):
It's better, he says slightly quieter more. Oh the wheel
adjust Yeah.

Speaker 6 (53:35):
How much I love him and how important he is
to me and how good of a job he did
being a dad.

Speaker 2 (53:45):
I want to find so I know there's some people
that are not that listen to the podcast and don't
watch it. So he said, I wanted my dad to
really understand how much I love him and how important
he is to me, and how good of a job
he did being a dad. The feels. I wanted to

(54:07):
find the biggest, most symbolic, most outrageous way to help
him understand how much. And I'm like, what is the
greatest thing possible? And that was the Camaro. It was
always the Camaro.

Speaker 3 (54:17):
That is the sweetest story.

Speaker 2 (54:21):
I love that story. And thanks for finding the video,
Jim no camos. All right, well we'll kind of ease
our way into the next segment as we get into
what we just did. News are the Weird and Wonderful,
and now we're going to do news at the Wicked.
But don't worry, we'll come back to wonderful in a bit.
But first let's check in with Chuck.

Speaker 1 (54:58):
Yeah, now, c w us presence, Holly crap, this is
actually happening. Let it burn, Edition November twenty four, twenty
twenty four. I'm Chuck, you Farley, the big news This
week is that the current Cabbage and chiefs handlers are
so salty about Trump's epic win that they have decided

(55:18):
to start World War three just despite him. Putin has
said in no uncertain terms that once NATO countries enter
the hot war, he will green light the nuclear option.
Biden's puppeteers did, and then Putin did. To demonstrate his capabilities,
Old Vlattye fired a newly developed hypersonic ballistic missile, luckily
not armed with a nuclear payload, deep into Ukraine. Once

(55:41):
woken from his perpetual nap on the beach, Biden was
heard saying, what I thought authorizing the launch of ATTACKUMS
meant I was sending Putin my discarded German shepherds. Meanwhile,
the Daily Mail is writing articles about how to winterize
your vagina. I swear I am not making this up.
Each pick of Trump's dream team causes another lefty's head

(56:04):
to explode, and this reporter is here for it. Matt
Gates bowed out from being nominated as Attorney General after
the Socialists wind that, among other things, he wasn't qualified.
Now they're really big mad because Trump appointed Pam Bondi,
who they say is too qualified to add to their frustration.
This replacement came too quickly for the other side to

(56:26):
come up with any fake, salacious accusations against her. Be
careful what you ask for, kids. As viewership has dropped
lower than that of the Tiddley Wings Network, Comcast has
decided to spin off most of its cable networks, including
E Sci Fi, the Golf Channel, USA Oxygen, and socialist
propaganda mill MSNBC into a separate media company that can

(56:48):
be handily sold off if they can find anyone crazy
enough to pay for it. The name of this new
media company spin Co. In a masterful move only rivaled
by the likes of anywise Rachel Maddow, who only has
to work one day a week to terrify her loyal
viewers with the rage only rivaled by her former network
mate Keith Olberman, has agreed to lower her annual salary

(57:11):
from thirty million to twenty five million dollars per year.
The poor little darling will have to switch to store
brand tissues for her orange Man induced crocodile tears. Speaking
of tears, masses of cry Bullize dramatically announced their escape
from the free speech of Twitter x to the safety
of the censorious platform Blue Sky, where they share blue

(57:31):
heart emojis because red hearts are fascist. No, I did
not make that up. Notable refugees include Don Lemon, Rob Reiner,
Mark Hamill, and George Takai, making X infinitely more enjoyable
for the rest of us. Now, Blue Sky is struggling
under the weight of their own fascism. In only twenty
four hours, the site was inundated with over forty two

(57:52):
thousand reports, and the censorship requests have expanded to over
three thousand flags per hour and climbing. Some of I've
already returned to X to balance out the constant whining sound.
Owners of The Onion thought they might make themselves relevant
again by purchasing Alex Jones's Info Wars Empire and turn
it into a joke site, unlike what the Onion itself

(58:14):
has become. In what is being called a Frankenstein bid,
the Onion's parent company, unironically named Global Tetrahedron, was not
the highest bidder by even half. Instead, they made a
deal with the Sandy Hook parents standing on their dead
children's bodies to take less money in lieu of ruining Jones,
whom they sued for damages equal to the GDP of

(58:35):
France and who had positively nothing to do with a tragedy.
This story has more twists than a Chubby Checker tribute,
as the judges put everything on hold after Elon Musk's
ex Corps attorneys filed a notice of appearance. At the
time of this report, no one knows exactly why. Now
Alex Jones is suing both the Onion and those Sandy

(58:55):
Hook families. This situation is getting crazy enough to turn
frogs straight again. The La Times is also jumping on
the relevance bandwagon by replacing its entire editorial board with
writers who might be willing to report actual news. After
the FBI was caught lying about their involvement in, if
not full on incitement of the violent guided tour of

(59:16):
the Capitol on January sixth, twenty twenty one, they were
also challenged on why they could not identify the mysterious
pipe bomber, who seems to have gotten away scott free
despite extensive surveillance footage and every cellular carrier giving them
records from the area at that time. The FBI swears
that they were given corrupt files, leading them to drop

(59:37):
it like a baggy of coke in the White House. However,
the phone companies outed them by insisting that not only
were the files not corrupt, but they still have copies
should the FBI wish to peruse them. So Chop Chop, feds.
The latest TikTok challenge came in protest of the recent
election which wilfully ignorant, obese, blueheired lefties field took away

(59:57):
their right to murder their own children. Loosely modeling after
Korea's four B movement, Liberal women are threatening to stop
pouring themselves out, thus solving the problem for both pro
lifers and relieved men the world over. Thanks ladies, And
while Montreal burned thanks to pro hamas domestic terrorists, Canada's
effeminate dictator Trudeau lived it up in a Taylor Swift concert.

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One would think that after doing blackface so many times,
he would have at least acquired some rhythm. Oprah says
she was never paid the two point five million dollars
at the Harris campaign paid for her interview on endorsement
because the Harris campaign paid Oprah's production company, Harpo, and
not Oprah directly. So stop with the conspiracies already All told,

(01:00:42):
the contrived Harris campaign spent one point two billion dollars,
yes billion with a B on their losing campaign and
are still twenty million dollars in debt. Most of the
funds went to pay for performances or endorsements from the
likes of Megan Thee, Stallion, Cardi b Eminem and Beyonce,

(01:01:02):
who didn't even perform. I guess she couldn't afford. Taylor
Swift for CCW News. This has been holy crap, this
is actually happening. I'm chuck you Farley, good night, and
may God help us.

Speaker 2 (01:01:34):
Now. See that's why we can't have nice things, all right, folks,
Now we get to have some fun with this craziness.

Speaker 1 (01:01:45):
This is why we can't have eight hundred and twenty
four billion nice things.

Speaker 2 (01:01:49):
Don't forget to leave us those eight hundred and twenty
four billion stars or just five if you don't like us.
This is insane.

Speaker 1 (01:02:00):
All this does is create theories as to where the
money went, and not one single.

Speaker 2 (01:02:07):
Option is good well, and the fact that they don't
have to answer to it, No, they really don't, and
people like, oh, it's just a rounding.

Speaker 1 (01:02:17):
It's about to change. No, not when it's as much. Okay,
look what are we talking about? You ask? The Pentagon
failed at seventh seventh, seven six seven audit in a row,
failing to account for it's more than eight hundred and
twenty four billion dollars dollars once again, like Chuck said,
billion with a B. In twenty twenty four, the Department

(01:02:39):
of Defense Office of Inspector General the DoD EOG for
the dot OIG. Really the DoD OIG, the announced Friday,
No they're not. The dishy mcclapface wins DOGE is good too.
DoD OIG said uitors could not obtain sufficient appropriate audit

(01:03:03):
evidence to support an opinion. The audit, performed by the
independent public accounting Firms, looked at twenty seven different DoD components.
In a statement, the Pentagon Inspector General, Robert Storch, said
there has been little progress since two thousand and five,
almost twenty years ago. Although the DoD made some progress

(01:03:25):
in improving financial management during the fiscal year twenty twenty
four financial statement audits, many of its identified weaknesses have
not improved since two thousand and five, he said, adding
a continued commitment to addressing root causes and implementing corrective
actions is necessary to move forward move toward achieving an
unmodified opinion. The DoD must continue to address the Secretary

(01:03:49):
of Defense audit priorities aggressively retiring non compliance systems and
modernizing the DoD's financial management systems. Would materials support these efforts, However,
achieting a cheating What am I? What's the cheating?

Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
How can you say so much of just not say anything.

Speaker 1 (01:04:05):
That's what they're good at. When you reach that level
of the corporate or government.

Speaker 2 (01:04:09):
They're literally just not saying anything.

Speaker 1 (01:04:11):
You can say, you know, you washed the windows of
your car and surface.

Speaker 2 (01:04:17):
It looks like we're not making No, it looks that weak.

Speaker 1 (01:04:20):
No, you don't make any progress at all. Stupid. However,
it's even clean. Audit opinion does not rest solely in
the hands of financial management professionals, but encompasses the entirety
processes and systems attract the accountability. In other words, we
don't have to be We're the Pentagon, goodbye, get out
of my face. According to man, we don't care. We
don't have to We're the phone company. We don't have

(01:04:40):
to care. According to the audit, do OIG auditors found
twenty eight material weaknesses, two significant deficiencies. That almost sounds
like a Monty python. We've found twenty eight material weaknesses,
two significant deficiencies, and six instances of non compliance with
long regulations contra grand agreements.

Speaker 2 (01:05:01):
But it does, it does. It doesn't sound real.

Speaker 1 (01:05:06):
And I'm skipping the really horrible editing. Material weaknesses were
defined as so significant that they could prevent management from
promptly detecting and correcting a material misstatement in the financial statement.
They hid the money for words, That's all they gotta say.
They hid the money.

Speaker 2 (01:05:24):
Though, don't they have enough?

Speaker 1 (01:05:28):
No, not nearly enough, because you know they're.

Speaker 2 (01:05:31):
Trying to give them as much as possible before Trump
comes in on in Jena expires.

Speaker 1 (01:05:36):
Yeah, and I really, I mean I know that he
already did. The President. Congress can only do so much.
I get that. But I'm really hoping that they drill
down on these guys. They have plenty of weapons they
can already use. They don't need to. I mean, if
you're going to keep doing that, Momentum is on our
side throughout the department, Baha. There's a strong commitment and

(01:05:59):
belief in our momentum. Yeah, I'm behalfy. Department Senior Management,
I assays to DoD continues to make progress towards the
congressional mandate for achieving an unmodified audit opinion fiscally your
twenty eight You actually think you're going to get that
crap wrapped up in four years? It's taken you over. Yeah,

(01:06:19):
it's been twenty years. Basically, what makes you think you're
gonna wrap it up?

Speaker 2 (01:06:23):
One of the vacants in there and it's cleaned up
in you know, five months.

Speaker 1 (01:06:28):
Yeah. Rick Scott, an ally of President. Senator Rick Scott
of Florida, an ally of President like Donald Trump, said
in a post on X the Department Offenses once again
failed to account for its massive taxpayer funded budget over
eight hundred and twenty billion dollars. If we want to
be the most lethal and powerful fighting force on Earth,
we not only needed fund defense, but do so smartly.

(01:06:51):
That is impossible, and the DoD cannot tell anyone how
it spends. It's nearly one a rellion with a t
budget funded by American taxpayers. US federal government is now
more than thirty six trillion dollars in debt. That's nine trillion.
And by the way, every time he says trillion, it's
all it's in all caps trillion more than when President
Biden took office, thanks to his addiction to reckless spending.

(01:07:13):
It's time for a reckoning. And I am confident that
when President Trump takes office, the Senate confirms Pete Haikscept
the Secretary of Defense, the new Doge gets working, will
finally have accountability the American taxpayer and a lethal, not
woe military that terrifies our enemies and is respected by
our allies. After years of the American people footing the
bill for the mistakes and failures of Biden Harris administration,

(01:07:34):
our government needs a wake up call and that is
what President Trump Wilson deliver. I really hope. So. I mean,
it's not really so much of a political issue. It's
just people in power and high places not allowing themselves,
just escaping antability and whatsoever.

Speaker 2 (01:07:51):
And it's like when you have that much money moving around,
these are people that have no concern for the taxpayers.
They they see themselves as so far above it all
that we're nothing to them. We are grains of sand,
We're bugs to be smashed. They will extort us. They

(01:08:14):
will even jail us if we don't give them the
money that they're going to spend on things that we
don't agree with. M h. I think paying taxes is
the most Unamerican thing that they that we do, and
we don't do it because I mean, technically, yeah, they
they could at the at the barrel of a gun,
come and you know, take it from us, which is
kind of what they're doing. It's implied if it's only

(01:08:38):
we have given them this power. We have given it
to them, and everybody is has become such slaves to
the the the government.

Speaker 1 (01:08:51):
They've got the European frame of mind and that the
government grants the right. Snow, Americans believe that has taken
Nature gave us the right exactly, and this has taken.

Speaker 2 (01:09:02):
Uh sorry, I'm trying to think. We'll have a cat
biting me that this has taken generations of brainwashing to
get us to this point. But we're not even willing
to try to change it. But the thing is so
terrified of the government, so we'll let them just buldoze
us down. I mean, look at those people who got
fired on by their own governor, who almost became became

(01:09:28):
vice president. For being on their own patios, for being
on their own property because they were so afraid of
the uga booga bud that would somehow magically jump, you know,
across the street, knock on somebody's door and come in
and infect them.

Speaker 1 (01:09:46):
I mean crazy. So what is your proposal, because obviously
we need to have police officers, we need to have firemen,
we need to have we need to have this nuclear
protection against foreign invaders. How do we fund this or
I mean if we're not, if we're not paying taxes

(01:10:07):
for it, what do you what do you propose? Or
is that just too much of a question for the show?

Speaker 2 (01:10:12):
Well, first of all, the tax code is completely ridiculous. Convolution,
we should not have, you know, giant books. Sorry, I
just had to squirret a kitty who was attacking another kitty,
and now the kitties are not being adapted. Sorry, Moco, Maudy.

Speaker 1 (01:10:33):
Old boy, It's all right, dear mother.

Speaker 2 (01:10:37):
You're not You're not into the younger, younger guy, are you, Fraggie?
Why do you keep attacking the old man.

Speaker 1 (01:10:44):
I just like the guy.

Speaker 2 (01:10:45):
I'm just trying to be friends with him, eh, But
you're kicking him in the head.

Speaker 1 (01:10:49):
That's how I make friends.

Speaker 2 (01:10:51):
Well, that's not how Max makes friends, right Max, certainly not.

Speaker 1 (01:10:55):
Dear mother. It hurts my head. And I'm not a
young kitty anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:10:59):
No or not macomou. Yes, we have to morphize our pets.

Speaker 3 (01:11:04):
Get over it.

Speaker 1 (01:11:05):
Yeah, we do it all day long, every day.

Speaker 2 (01:11:07):
Hence the Yeah. They have their own songs, each has
their own voice. It's it's fun around here. We decided
it's said he's.

Speaker 1 (01:11:15):
Going to have a southern what's wrong with that guy?

Speaker 2 (01:11:17):
Okay? Is he?

Speaker 3 (01:11:18):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (01:11:20):
Okay? Okay. So a couple of things. First of all,
the tax coach should be one page ten have a
nice day and that beautiful.

Speaker 1 (01:11:28):
Yeah, and that includes corporations. That includes anybody who makes
money here in the United States, everybody across the board.
Ten percent, keep it simple.

Speaker 2 (01:11:40):
Okay, twenty percent sales tax on big things yachts, you know,
lottery items, luxury items, you know, and fancy I mean
diamond rings up to a certain point, you know, for
you know, you've got to get engaged and make babies.
So let's let's encourage that. But you know, luxury tax okay, okay,

(01:12:02):
No taxes on estates, no taxes on unrealized gains, But
corporate taxes should be on profits right, and should be
again pretty much a straight amount. You could change that
by industry, right, and the rest is funded by tariffs.

(01:12:22):
And Trump had if you listened to the Joe Rogan podcast,
which we did, Trump actually.

Speaker 1 (01:12:28):
Spelled it out very eloquently.

Speaker 2 (01:12:30):
And it made a lot of sense, because that is
how America before taxes, that is how we funded our nation.
That is how we built railroad tracks, that is how
we did all well. The railroad tracks actually were not
necessarily government at first, right, They were a private industry. Yeah,
and if you recall before the government bought them out,
they worked and the trades are on time and they

(01:12:53):
didn't get derailed all the time.

Speaker 1 (01:12:55):
I love riding the train, but if I wanted to
go visit my friends in law Las Vegas going amtrak,
you think, you know, pretty simple ride. You just get
on and Belton or Temple in Texas and then go
to Las Vegas. No, if you're able to do it,
you got to go up to Chicago, to New York,
to San Francisco to I mean, it's just so convoluted, and.

Speaker 2 (01:13:18):
Which is ridiculous because there is a straight shop from
here to there.

Speaker 1 (01:13:21):
Of course there is.

Speaker 2 (01:13:21):
I mean we're in the Midwest, for crying out loud.

Speaker 1 (01:13:23):
Of course there is.

Speaker 2 (01:13:24):
Yeah, and it's ridiculous. Yeah, well that and then you know,
they never run on time, and they're always falling off
and they haven't kept up with them and the tracks
are all broken, and it's ridiculous. The minute the government
takes over, they ruin everything. You know, they keep doing.

Speaker 3 (01:13:38):
What about the roads?

Speaker 2 (01:13:38):
What about the roads? It's like the number one anti
liberty argument. I drive on the roads. Honey. Ain't no
money going in the dang roads, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:13:48):
And I'm talking as somebody who actually my salary and
the services I provide for my clients. It's on a
state level, though it's very different from a federal level,
but it's still taxpayer funded. But we are trying to
be as responsible as we can.

Speaker 2 (01:14:07):
Well, the thing is, and your job, what you do.
And at the federal level, any any sorts of welfare,
all of that only exists because the government has failed us.
We wouldn't need these mandated what are they called entitlement programs.

(01:14:30):
We wouldn't need them if the government wasn't.

Speaker 3 (01:14:32):
So pisspo at what it does.

Speaker 2 (01:14:34):
That point you know when we were in need, there
was no government there. Well, I mean that the VA
helped you. That's what the VA should be doing. They
where did where did we get help? Because the government
was so backed up, we get to it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:50):
The help we received was the two churches we attended.

Speaker 2 (01:14:54):
This year, and that's where it should come from.

Speaker 1 (01:14:56):
And also from communities, community groups that are funded by
private donations and.

Speaker 2 (01:15:03):
That because it used to be that if you had
a need. And we were just talking about this today
in our Bible study in the used to know each other,
used to know each other, used to be able to
go knock on the door. And the old thing about
can I borrow a cup of sugar? That was an
actual thing and it wasn't that long ago.

Speaker 1 (01:15:20):
I was a kid. Yeah, we were alive during that period.

Speaker 2 (01:15:23):
I remember. I mean, nowadays you see the girl Scouts
camped out in front of Walmart because they can't go
to the door, right, they would be taking, yeah, stand
in front of stores. When I was a kid, we
went up to the Purple's house and we went up
to you know, Joe and Mary Best's house, right, and
they're like, yeah, put me down for five boxes at

(01:15:43):
the mints, and you know, we'd we'd call it, you know,
Dan and Barr up the road, and then we'd go
deliver it to old old smith there who fell off
his tractor. Okay, I didn't live where people were falling
off their tractors, but you could, you know, and you
knew each other, and you cared for each other. And
if somebody went missing or fell down or lost a child.

(01:16:08):
I remember the entire community coming out, you know, looking
for a little girl that got lost in the area.
Like the entire town came out and we found her
and she was alive, which is awesome, awesome, and then
she just got lost. Said, well, actually it was happy.

Speaker 3 (01:16:26):
He is very happy.

Speaker 2 (01:16:26):
It was probably I bet you when that mom heard
that little girl cry, you know, she's like, mommy, mommy.
I bet you that mom that was the happiest moment
of her life hearing her child cry that moment. But
back then, we also didn't think about a lot of
the things that are happening.

Speaker 1 (01:16:42):
We never had to. Yeah, it was just it was
I mean wrong to assume, but one could reasonably assume
that most people in your community are going to come
out and help in the time of crisis.

Speaker 2 (01:16:53):
And I remember being really little and if if I
got lost in the mall or or something, I would
go look for a police span. Those are the ones
that would help you, right, And now they're being taught
to be afraid of them. Right. And then what's happened
is we have been punishing the police for doing their.

Speaker 1 (01:17:12):
Job to the point we don't have decent police.

Speaker 2 (01:17:15):
Yeah, so the good ones are quitting because they're treated
so terribly, and now we don't have good ones anymore.
And then they wonder why it's gotten worse. I'm not
wondering anyways. You asked me a convoluted question. I gave
you an even more convoluted answer.

Speaker 1 (01:17:31):
No, I just I just wanted to wanted a conversation
about it, because it's I think that certainly a simplification
of the tax code would help a great deal, and
it also would remove a lot of the pork, a
lot of the hidden stuff, because that many pages.

Speaker 2 (01:17:47):
That many, No, it's absolutely ridiculous, and there's so many
absolutely ridiculous. And like Trump said, the first time he ran,
when they're like, oh, he doesn't pay enough taxes, blah
blah blah, He's like, well, you guys are the ones
who wrote the rules. I just follow them if you
if you don't, if you don't like it, fix it.
But you won't fix it, that's what he said. You won't.

Speaker 1 (01:18:05):
Well, because they're the benefit. You benefit the benefit from
it too, just as much.

Speaker 2 (01:18:10):
But that's why it is the way it is. And
so you know, when Bernie gets up there talking about
the millionaires and millionaires, is like, honey, you're one of them,
and if you don't like it, fix it. How I mean,
he's been he's been in office longer than I've been alive,
and he's still whining and crying and complaining and not
fixing anything.

Speaker 1 (01:18:27):
It's what I do, just.

Speaker 2 (01:18:30):
Just like a Kamala complaining or people complaining about well,
if you had voted for Kamala, she had a plan
for this, and that she's still in office. Honey, it's
not like you know Biden's doing anything. He doesn't even
know where he is.

Speaker 1 (01:18:46):
An advisory role of some sort and she chose not to. Yeah,
well no, but I know I know the defenses. She
only brex stuff out in the sentences.

Speaker 2 (01:18:58):
She does, and and basically, I mean, let's face it,
Biden's been checked out well since he started running. I
still can't believe they ran him. I'm still that still
blows my mind. Anyways, we really went down a jack. Okay,
this one, this one burns me for so many reasons.

(01:19:22):
And we folks, we need to take back control from.

Speaker 3 (01:19:27):
The schools because they have decided that they.

Speaker 2 (01:19:29):
Are the be all, end all and that you shouldn't
even be raising your children to the point that if
you are not or you feel your child isn't ready.
And there are a lot of kids that aren't ready
at a certain age to learn certain things. And it
doesn't mean the parents aren't going to teach it. It

(01:19:49):
doesn't mean that they're never going to learn it. It
just means they're not ready yet. Kids develop at different.

Speaker 3 (01:19:56):
Ages.

Speaker 2 (01:19:57):
It's just a fat right. And then then the whole
thing with you know, if your birthday was between this
and now, you're going to start kindy garden when you're six,
and when your birthday's between this and that, you might
start kindy garden when you're five. Okay, Well, there is
a huge difference between a five year old and a
six year old.

Speaker 1 (01:20:13):
That's true.

Speaker 2 (01:20:13):
I mean you don't think about it, but think about
that went between the age a lot you've got, you know,
eighteen years, and you think about the first five. You
go from being you know, unable to control your your bowels,
not even being able to control your own head, to
be a walking, talking, shoe tying member of society who's

(01:20:35):
just absorbing life like a sponge and learning things so fast.
I mean, you think about how fast kids between the
ages of five and I'd say nine, how fast they develop,
how fast they grow, and how much they learn.

Speaker 1 (01:20:52):
You learns. When we say how much they learn, we're
not even talking about educated formal education.

Speaker 2 (01:20:58):
We're talking life skills, in your personal relationships, your environment,
things about yourself. And there's going to be a drastic
difference from child to child at what they're ready to learn.
And you know, and of course you know, we're talking
about sex ed the basics as far as this is

(01:21:18):
where you're is and this is where your ha ha
is and this is what they do. I think kids
should learn that from a very young age. And I
think they should learn, you know, the words that so
that they're not comfortable. They're not uncomfortable so you can learn,
you know, penis and vulva and nipple and you know,
words that are real right, you know, instead of who

(01:21:40):
who and haha and all that stuff, because I mean,
it still means the same thing. And then just you know,
when they find out the real words, then they start
shouting them and whatnot. No, I think what we need
to do, and I hate to use a lefty term,
but we need to destigmatize that. We need to normalize that. Okay,
that those are all the lefty terms I'm going to
use today. At the same time, when we're going into

(01:22:01):
the next step, if it is against your religion or
you don't feel your child is at the right age,
you as a parent absolutely have not should do have
the right to opt out, absolutely and you should but
you do, Okay, so you both should and do and

(01:22:26):
this school district decided, well, sure you can do that,
but we're going to dox you if you do. We
want everybody to know. And they're trying to say, oh,
it was an accident, my fluffy white, why don't you
got all right? I don't give them the details anyone more?
All right? New Jersey School District, need I say more,

(01:22:49):
admitted this month to mistikingly releasing to the public a
list of students whose families opted them out of sex
ed classes. So it wasn't even the names of the parents,
it was the name of the children. Cherry Hill Public
Schools shared the list in September twenty twenty three while
responding to a public records request Who's requesting that. The

(01:23:13):
request was seeking information about how many families had opted
their children out of sex ed classes after the state
adopted new standards for the subject. So that would be
a number.

Speaker 1 (01:23:22):
Oh, it was forty two, Yeah, forty two.

Speaker 2 (01:23:25):
Why would their names be anywhere within the vicinity of that.
The standards adopted by the New Jersey Department of Education
in twenty twenty and implemented in twenty twenty two required
discussion of gender expression and gender stereotypes. And they're in
lies the reb They're seen very nicely because you know
they're a liberal paper. But you know darn well that
it included those books that we've all seen that are

(01:23:47):
essentially gay porn in grade schools. And there are a
lot of parents, and I would be one of them
where i'd be. You know, you see two mommies or
two daddies, or you see two boys holding hands, don't
stare at him, don't be mean to him. There's nothing
wrong there, But you don't need to know what they're
doing behind closed doors. I don't want to know. I

(01:24:09):
don't want you going to a parade where they're acting
it out. I don't want you being read to by
a man in address, and I don't want you in
school learning what parts go where in those kind of relationships.
I don't want you being taught that it's okay, because
it's not. I don't want you to being taught that
you have to accept it because you don't. I don't

(01:24:31):
want you being taught that you have to be mean
to anybody, whether they agree with it or not, because
that's BS. But I do not want you going against
the religion and pretending like it's perfectly okay because it's not.
It's just not. And we have become so lax and
so like I said, no hate, I don't want people

(01:24:51):
to get hurt. I don't want people to feel hatred.
I don't want people to be discriminated against. But I
also do not want people to encourage each other to sin.
And that is a hard pill to swallow. And I'm
telling you what I have changed that stance because I
was a barefoot tree hug and hippie. I'm still barefoot
and still hug trees, but kind of still don't wear makeup,

(01:25:17):
still like my mid Yeah ah see, and that's why
I keep them around. But that being said, you you
should have the right as the parent, not should you
have the right as a parent to say no, I

(01:25:37):
do not want my child learning that. And you you
absolutely must not be forced to teach children things that
they don't need to know. Why would a child need
to know that?

Speaker 1 (01:25:47):
Okay, sure there's the young kids too.

Speaker 2 (01:25:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the list shared by Cherry Hill
contained the names of at least ninety two elementary schoolers
who parents opted them out of the sex that you night,
that's the significant number of people. I wonder how many
are Well, it's New Jersey, so it's probably pretty big
school district, so that's actually probably a very small number.

(01:26:11):
The district claims that while it did initially redact the
student's name, they were made visible once the list was
converted to a different format via whatever a website. Body,
my fuzzy white hind end, did you eat a cough
drop and put the wrapper on the desk when you

(01:26:32):
have a perfectly good kitten going out of his way
to reach that wrapper. Poor little guys like stretched out
as far as he could go, and he's really trying
not to get on the table. Kid boy, did he
want that rapper? Don't you know that? In this house,
it is a tradition that if you unwrap pretty much anything,
the kitten gets the quote quote toy, because all the

(01:26:52):
actual kitten toys are under things.

Speaker 1 (01:26:54):
Actually, a friend of mine and used to eat the
Christmas Taffy's crinkly plastic her cat, who normally hated me
or just didn't want anything to do with me. That's
one thing we would. I would toss it to him
and he batted out like a baseball player. That was
our connection.

Speaker 2 (01:27:11):
I can't imagine a cat disliking me because you're such
a cat person.

Speaker 1 (01:27:15):
He's just he only loved his mommy.

Speaker 2 (01:27:17):
That was it.

Speaker 1 (01:27:19):
He wasn't sure to make me. He'd sleep, he'd sleep
on the bed next to me if I was asleep.

Speaker 2 (01:27:24):
I have a feeling that if I didn't rescue you,
you would be a Kamala voting cat lady. I think
I'd rescued you from a life of.

Speaker 1 (01:27:31):
I don't know. I don't want to spect the.

Speaker 2 (01:27:34):
Life of loneliness.

Speaker 1 (01:27:37):
It's on the record that I did vote for Obama
the first time he ran, So I mean, that's that's
on the record.

Speaker 2 (01:27:42):
Now you know.

Speaker 1 (01:27:43):
I'm past it and he's past it. I mean, it's
not like you've both gone our separate ways. Why we
say hello to each other when we're passing them down
the street. But anyway, yep, it's not.

Speaker 2 (01:27:54):
It's not like the other choice was that great. But
I couldn't.

Speaker 1 (01:27:57):
No, I just I didn't know which McCain I would
be voting for.

Speaker 2 (01:28:00):
Well, Eddie McCain is better than socialist, but.

Speaker 1 (01:28:02):
Well I didn't consider.

Speaker 2 (01:28:03):
Him, and he basically became Obama in the end. Anyway,
So all right, Cherry Hill Superintendent Kwame Morton told Crisis
in the Classroom Monday. The names have since been removed
a little too little, too late. The superintendent did not
respond when asked for of course, he didn't the exact
number of names originally shared on the website. Okay, so
this wasn't just they passed a piece of paper to

(01:28:25):
someone that had the names on it. This was publicly
available on a website and it named the children. I
hate it when people sue government entities because that's taking
money from the taxpayers. I hope these parents sue these

(01:28:46):
people out of their jobs. And that's another thing that
would help with the tax issue is when you are
sued suing the okay, first number one, and you're gonna
hate this. No government job should allow unions. Those two

(01:29:07):
go against each.

Speaker 1 (01:29:07):
Other full disclosure, remember.

Speaker 2 (01:29:14):
Well, and they kind of forced I mean no, they
didn't force it on me.

Speaker 1 (01:29:17):
That was a choice. That was my choice.

Speaker 2 (01:29:19):
But basically you get crappy insurance and less this.

Speaker 1 (01:29:22):
And yeah, I did it for I did it for
numerous reasons, and I think I think it was justified.
State jobs don't pay like federal jobs do, and raisors
are slow in coming. That's one of the reasons I did.
But there's other reasons as well. I don't want to
get in go too far into that. I understand I had.

(01:29:44):
I had mixed feelings about it, but in the end
I had to deliberate with myself as to whether to
do this or not.

Speaker 2 (01:29:49):
Like I rand, you became the thing that you fought
against actually never fought against it because you worked for
the government when I first met you.

Speaker 1 (01:29:59):
Yeah, I know. Her writing changed my life and then
I changed it back because she's an atheist, because she's
a ding doll.

Speaker 2 (01:30:09):
She had a lot of good ideas, but she just
couldn't shake the communism.

Speaker 1 (01:30:15):
Well, it's in the end she she says, she despised Mentzsche,
but she's very much like him.

Speaker 2 (01:30:22):
That's actually that's a good thing.

Speaker 1 (01:30:23):
We're going to just leave it at that.

Speaker 8 (01:30:25):
Yeah, But so apparently the district has implemented a new
security measure, thanks oh, and has retrained these employees that
thought it was appropriate to Doc's children.

Speaker 3 (01:30:39):
Not okay with this.

Speaker 2 (01:30:43):
Representative for the Openmachine dot Com doent on a media
of course, they didn't respond. Cheery Hill's admission follows Hervey
ves Quez, a local parent and former school board candidate,
raising concerns that the district violated the Family Education Rights
Privacy Act, otherwise known as PURPA. Okay, so, DARPA sounds
kind of cool, but FURPA just sounds like what happens

(01:31:05):
when you've had too many beans. The federal law is
designed to protect students' educational records, ya thinks. Okay, that's
another thing. Why do we need a federal law for
things like that? Why do we need laws for things
that are just dull?

Speaker 1 (01:31:21):
Well, because people in general, and Americans especially these days,
are devoid of that thing called common sense.

Speaker 2 (01:31:31):
It's because we have dumbed down our society.

Speaker 1 (01:31:33):
We've deliberately dumbed and this is not This is the
government and big business dumbing down people with the full
consent of the governed, which is really sad.

Speaker 2 (01:31:46):
Well, no, but we're back to the We forget that.
They work for us. They work for us. They do
not have the right to control us. We did not
consent to that. And yet those of us who know
that and believe that are alone in the wilderness with

(01:32:08):
nobody will back us. If we're to say, you know,
if you want this government fixed, if you want to
get all the bad people out, and you want to
you want to fix you want to fix our budget,
and you want to correct all the problems that we have,
everybody in this nation stop paying taxes. Boom, don't pay taxes.

(01:32:30):
Do you know how fast things would get fixed? Very?
But the thing is, you can't just have a couple
of freaks out in the middle of nowhere not paying
taxes because the government will come in with their guns
and burn your house down, and because everybody else is
too chicken to do it, and that's that's the you know,

(01:32:52):
I would love to say that that it would become
a Spartacus moment, but no, they'd be like, yeah, yeah,
he's Spartacus and that's the one over there, and that
that's exactly what would happen, because we have he's.

Speaker 1 (01:33:03):
Hiding under the floorboards, leave me alone.

Speaker 2 (01:33:05):
Yeah exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:33:06):
We just we have.

Speaker 2 (01:33:09):
We have too much fear. We're too chicken hearted to
actually stand up. And that that's why it's been so
fun to see this kind of pirate ship thing where
people like you know, Tulsi and even RFK, what they
did was really brave. They literally ended their careers forever

(01:33:31):
pretty much, I.

Speaker 1 (01:33:32):
Mean RFK, especially because I've said it almost every show
over the last several weeks. The Kennedy family virtually invented
the modern Democrat Party. They are they are the scions of.

Speaker 2 (01:33:46):
The party and what the party used to be the
party is now.

Speaker 1 (01:33:50):
Initially, back back when I was a kid, the Democratic
Party stood for equal rights, for justice, for free speech.
They were big on free speech. Republicans were the one
supposedly limiting speech back then, folks, if we can believe
that actually happened anyway, Besquiz was ticked off.

Speaker 2 (01:34:09):
Well, I think every time Republicans have wanted to limit speech,
if you go back and look at it, it was
because of the vulgarity and to protect children. Now they
went a little bit overboard with you know what was it,
Nancy Reagan and the yeah, the D and D games

(01:34:30):
and things like that. That's the problem is when you
have too.

Speaker 3 (01:34:33):
Much power, you will use it.

Speaker 2 (01:34:37):
Absolutely all right. So back to this situation where they
docks these children, Vasquez said at a Cherry Hill School
board meeting last month, his son's name was included on
the list. He told the board there is a high
likelihood of legal action of the matter is not rectified.
Barn play, I think this should be still yeah. I

(01:34:57):
demanded the board take immediate action to address this egregious violation.
Oh nice words, Besquiz. The initial disclosure appeared on September first,
twenty twenty three, and the continued silence from the administration
is not only disrespectful but also unacceptable. Additionally, I expect
disciplinary measures to be enforced against those responsible for this breach.
Headed all, he ain't playing, I'm with you, but I

(01:35:21):
read he.

Speaker 1 (01:35:22):
Ran for the former school board who was a former
school board candidate. I think you should run again. I
think this time he might win because we need people
like this all over the nation.

Speaker 2 (01:35:32):
Also, more parents willing to stand up for their children,
because I think there's a lot of kids who got
that education because their parents just didn't know. They just
didn't know. There are many, many examples of people coming
in with the materials that they're using to teach children
and read them during a school board meeting, and the

(01:35:54):
grown ass adults at the school board freak out and say,
you can't read that here, it's pornograph and this is
what they are exposing children to. So they they clutched
their pearls and couldn't handle it. But it's okay to
have that in the classroom. I mean, this is the
clown world that we live in.

Speaker 1 (01:36:15):
Speaking of clown world.

Speaker 2 (01:36:16):
Speaking of clown world. No, this one's.

Speaker 1 (01:36:19):
Alleged actor alleged.

Speaker 2 (01:36:23):
I'm mad about this. I am so mad. I should
not be as mad about this as I am, because
I really don't care about him. It's just the fact
that he gets away with this, and he's one of
candless fans.

Speaker 1 (01:36:42):
That's why this happened, and a blockbuster ruling Thursday the
State Supreme Court that's the state of Illinois, folks, overturn
the conviction of actor Jesse Smollett. Smollett, Smollett, I don't
care Smullet for an alleged twenty nineteen hoax hate I'm
going to remove the word alleged for a twenty nine
teen hoax hate crime and moved.

Speaker 2 (01:37:02):
Wrote a check.

Speaker 1 (01:37:03):
Yeah, he wrote a check. The former Empire star of
five months jail sentence if not clear his name. Smallett
had challenged nearly every aspect of his case, arguing that
he should have been done with the case after Cook
County's State's Attorney Kim Fox's office struck a deal to
drop the charges that the special prosecutor who reinvestigated the

(01:37:23):
case and reindicted him a year later was wrongfully appointed.
Smallett since spent six whole days in jail in twenty
twenty two before being released to wait out his appeals.
An appeals court last year upheld Smalltt sentence on five
low level felony accounts related to line the police about
an attack he into accomplishes stage near his Streeterville apartment

(01:37:44):
m on the night of the stage attack. Smalllett had
been at the peak of his career, starring in a
groundbreaking role as a black gay character on the hit
TV series Empire, and recording and touring as a musician,
but Smallett would have become a household name of the
weeks after he called police to report he had been
attacked by two men on the street as he walked
home from a subway on a fridgid January night. Sorry folks.

(01:38:09):
In the years that followed Smalllett's career, cratered, Empire was canceled,
and small It became a punchline for late night comedy shows.
He's still a punchline here. We've used it a number
of times and will continue to.

Speaker 2 (01:38:21):
It became synonymo that here it is. Your very name
is a verb for lying.

Speaker 1 (01:38:28):
At a sentencing hearing in twenty twenty two, Judge James
Lynn no relation observed the smaller than endured severe punishment.

Speaker 2 (01:38:36):
The last name, not the first name, Jim, but nice try.

Speaker 1 (01:38:38):
It's a joke, bad one smaller than thandured severe punishment
even before he handed down the restitution in jail time,
You've destroyed your life as you knew it, he said.
There was nothing any sentencing judge could do compared to
the damage you've already done. Your very name is a
verb for lying. I can't imagine anything worse than that.
From the day of his arrest, Smallet has always maintained
his innocence, of course, including during two days they spent

(01:39:02):
on the witness standard his twenty twenty one trial. The
actor spared, sparred blah blah, The actor sparred gamely. The
veteran attorney Dan Webb, a former federal prosecutor better known
for his withering cross examination of Admiral John Poindexter in
the Iran Contra affair. I mean, I remember that.

Speaker 2 (01:39:18):
I don't believe that name is actually point Dexter. So
did that name, did that particular person make pointdexter the
pejorative or was it before.

Speaker 1 (01:39:29):
On Pointdexter has been at least since the forties and fifties,
okay most I think. The only thing I know of
for sure, there's a character on the nineteen sixties version
of the Felix the Cat cartoons or this brainy guy
with gigantic glasses and wears a graduate cap on his

(01:39:50):
head named Poindexter. You know, he was dressed like a
scientist with slide rule.

Speaker 2 (01:39:55):
Yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about.

Speaker 1 (01:39:57):
Yeah, I think that's what they talk about. They say,
point exter. But I could be I could be mistaken. Okay.
H m hmm. Had a sentencing when Judge Lynn ordered
him take him the courtroom to jail. Smlllett rose from
a seat and declared, I did.

Speaker 10 (01:40:14):
Not do this.

Speaker 1 (01:40:15):
I innocent, all right, sorry, I did not do this.
I am innocent.

Speaker 2 (01:40:20):
The way he tuxes I, I did not do this,
and then he cries.

Speaker 1 (01:40:27):
You see so, oh yeah, I didn't see the video.
I didn't care. In an interview last month with Entertainment Weekly,
to do this.

Speaker 2 (01:40:35):
He had a close line, a close a news that
if they were to hang, it would snap the twine.
It wouldn't snap him, okay.

Speaker 1 (01:40:49):
An interview last month with Entertainment Weekly to promote a
new film, Smalllett co wrote and directed Somebody's actually going
to produce a freaking movie made by that clown anyway.
He remained defiant, claiming to have spent about three million
dollars on his defense.

Speaker 2 (01:41:02):
You nailed it. Jim Poindexter, introduced in nineteen fifty nine
and the made for TV cartoon version of Felix. The
cat is where it was introduced. It became lexicalized as
a nerdy intellectual by nineteen eighty six, so you saw
a jump from nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty six is
when it hit its peak.

Speaker 1 (01:41:20):
How about that.

Speaker 2 (01:41:22):
He nailed it?

Speaker 1 (01:41:23):
I did for once, even though it might have made
more sense to have served out as time. I don't
want to have a felony on my record for something
that I didn't do. Smallt Seid in part. That's what
we're fighting for. We who I know that. On the surface,
it probably seems like, why doesn't he just serve the time?
Why doesn't he just let this go? It'd be easier
if I had, in fact done this to say that

(01:41:45):
I did it. I'm a grown man and something happened.
I can't tell exactly what did happen, but I can
tell you what did not happen. And that's what I
have to sit on. No sit on this palth No
matter how much people are yelling in my facing or
a liar or a liar or a liar, No, I'm not.
I'm not. I don't want them to believe that. But
if that's what they believe, that's.

Speaker 2 (01:42:03):
On you, dude.

Speaker 10 (01:42:05):
The guys that you hired out at you you wrote
a check, they have the receipt for the stuff that
they bought to do it with.

Speaker 1 (01:42:18):
And we're not gonna go over because we all know
what happened. He lied.

Speaker 2 (01:42:24):
He is that little kid with with the chocolate dribbling
down his face saying I didn't break in the kicky jars.
Weiry didn't due mommy, how can you believe I did?

Speaker 10 (01:42:35):
I didn't, dude.

Speaker 2 (01:42:36):
They've got like crumbs all over them. I swear that
these people in Hollywood, and these these college graduates, they
do not mature past six years old.

Speaker 1 (01:42:49):
They do not have.

Speaker 2 (01:42:51):
The mental acuity to handle reality. Crazy. My voice got
really high. Okay, speaking of really high, you'd have to
be really high to think that this is art. And
I just want to put it out there folks, that

(01:43:13):
I have a rotten orange in the bottom of my
refrigerator that I would like to put up for auction.
I think the lowest bit should be five hundred thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:43:23):
And we're going to suggest the same amount, and I.

Speaker 2 (01:43:25):
Will give you all rights to that rotten orange, and
I will make sure that it's I mean, I think
you can use nice duct tape. Do you know there's
justin Bieber duct tape out there? Yes?

Speaker 1 (01:43:36):
I actually saw it in a dollar store. It's like
years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:43:40):
Walk into any supermarketing. You can generally buy a banana
for less than a buck, but a banana duct tape
to a wall, well, that might sell for more than
one million dollars at an upcoming auction. So I want
to know do they get the wall? Also, how does
that work? Does he just rip the duct tape off
the wall and you get a rotten banana? I don't
understand how this works. The yellow banana fixed to the

(01:44:02):
white wall with silver duct tape is a work entitled
Comedian Here I am by Italian and I'm using big
fat quote marks artist Morizio Carolan. It first debuted in
twenty nineteen as an edition of three Fruits at the
Art Basil, Miami Beach Bear, where it became a much
discussed sensation. Was it a prank? A commentary on the
state of the art world? Another artist took the banana

(01:44:24):
off the wall and ate it. Ay backup banana was
brought in see folks, if your art can be eaten?
And then backed up with another eight art. It's lunch
a backup banan a though, I think Jim would would
chime in, and I know, huh now and banana too.
I think Jim would chime in that sometimes my lunches
are art.

Speaker 1 (01:44:45):
Oh my god, the sandwiches this woman makes, oh my
ever loving lord, oh my sakes.

Speaker 2 (01:44:52):
And I make it with fresh baked bread bag. All right.
Selfie seeking crowds became so thick comedian was withdrawn from
why I could duct tape a banana to the wall
right this minute and take a selfie and call it that.
But three editions of its sold for between one hundred
and one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Okay, anybody who
doesn't believe that the art world is not just a

(01:45:15):
money laundering system, you cannot deny it. Now. That's the
entire people, that's the entire reason that Hunter Biden is
magically an artists now, because that is the easiest way
to launder money. They eat because people will pretend like
this is real, folks, This is not real. This is
not money that somebody paid for a work of art.

(01:45:38):
This is money that somebody's laundering through that system.

Speaker 1 (01:45:42):
Well, you can't really prove it. That's the issue.

Speaker 2 (01:45:43):
Well, that's the problem. Now the conceptual art working well
in Hunter's case, which you know well and can prove
it because you can see exactly who bought it and
what their connections are China and know exactly you know
where the money is coming from into But then never
do that because democrats are special. Now, the conceptual artwork

(01:46:04):
has an estimated value of between one million and one
point five million at Southereby's auction, which is stupid. These
people need to all get their heads examined. Sotheby's head
of Contemporary Art David Galliparin calls it profound and provocative.
I would call it silly, and I wouldn't sell it.
In fact, I think it it. I think it decreases
the the legitimacy of Southby's, I really do. I think

(01:46:29):
the mere fact that they would even entertain selling a
banana duct taped to the wall it devalues everything that
Sethy's always meant in my brain.

Speaker 1 (01:46:40):
This is where they like auction off Faberge eggs and
Elvis Presley's jacket beatle guitars.

Speaker 2 (01:46:48):
Yeah, now it's you know, a banana step to a
wall and Taylor Swiss used Kleenex. You know it's ridiculous. Well,
Cataline is really doing. It's turning a mirror to the
contemporary art world and asking questions, provoking thought about how
we ascribe value to artworks that we define as artwork. No,
he's not, because if that were true, then people who

(01:47:10):
are halfway decent artists would be making money and they're not.
And hacks who tape a banana to the wall are
making money because it's not real.

Speaker 3 (01:47:20):
It's not real.

Speaker 2 (01:47:22):
Bitters won't be buying the same fruit that was on
display in Miami, and they'll have to go to the
supermarket and get their own banana. Those bananas are long gone,
so that be says the fruit always was meant to
be replaced regularly along with the take.

Speaker 1 (01:47:35):
Read the next paragraph for that.

Speaker 2 (01:47:36):
Any further comment, please, what you buy when you buy
cattle In's Comedian is not the banana itself, but a
certificate of authenticity that grants the owner the permission and
authority to reproduce this banana and duct tape on their
wall as an original artwork by Maurizio cattle.

Speaker 1 (01:48:01):
I just had to let you read that first before
he commented anymore. You know, maybe we can take some catpoop.

Speaker 2 (01:48:07):
And never mind, I want to know how much more
they would pay to give him their house key and
let him come any darn time he wants to replace it.
I bet they would actually pay more for that.

Speaker 1 (01:48:27):
Yeah, they would. And why should I have to reproduce
your art? Pal, you come to my for that much money,
Come to my house once a month and change the banana.

Speaker 3 (01:48:38):
Because if you're willing to pay for it, Yeah, that's crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:48:42):
Oay, So we pay people nineteen dollars an hour to
change diapers, but this guy gets paid one hundred and
twenty million dollars and he doesn't even have to change
the banana. The very title of this piece suggests Catlin

(01:49:03):
himself likely didn't intend for it to be taken seriously,
but Chloe Cooper Jones, and assistant professor at the Columbia
University School of the Artist, said, is worthy thinking about
the context? No, it's not. He ductaated banana to the wall.
This is the guy who couldn't even come up with
the dog ate my homework, and he just got lucky
because y'all are dumb. You're dumb and crooked and corrupt.

(01:49:27):
Because I know people who are i mean, my sister,
even my brother, amazing artists, and they, you know, don't
make money doing it. And you look at banana and
duct tape to a wall. That's that's just it's literal garbage.

Speaker 1 (01:49:40):
That's a slap. And yeah, it's kind of a slap
to the talented people.

Speaker 2 (01:49:44):
At my b and I feel the same way. I
got a lot of musicians out there too. You know,
you see somebody as gifted as both of my uncles
or my mom, and you know, even the people at
our church, and then you hear some of this caterwauling
nonsense or rappers, and you're like, that's just garbage.

Speaker 1 (01:50:01):
Rambling is a dang.

Speaker 2 (01:50:08):
Handline. Permitted the work at an art fair visited by
well off art collectors, where Comedian was sure to get
a lot of attention on social media. That might mean
the art constituted a dare of solts to the collectors
to invest in something observed.

Speaker 3 (01:50:21):
She observed.

Speaker 2 (01:50:22):
She said, it is absurd if Comedian is just a
tool for understanding the insular capitalist art collecting world. Cooper
Jones said, it's not that interesting of an idea, but
that's literally what it is. But she thinks it might
go beyond poking fun at rich people. Well, yeah, it
helps them wander money. Heron has often thought of as

(01:50:44):
a twister artist, she said, but his work is often
at the intersection of the sort of humor and.

Speaker 3 (01:50:49):
The deeply macab that McCobb is.

Speaker 11 (01:50:52):
A banana rots and doesn't look so pretty after a
few days. I know, but you get to replace the
banana at your own expense and effort. He's quite often
looking at ways of provoking it.

Speaker 2 (01:51:05):
Well, okay, if you decide that you no longer want
to replace the banana, do you have to sell that certificate?
How does this work? Are you compelled to duct tape
the banana? And they do realize that every time you
peel duct tape off a wall, it takes all the
paint with it. So do you have to repaint that
segment of the wall? Do you put a frame around
the wall? I would put little lights on it so

(01:51:25):
it shines. And what about fruit flies?

Speaker 1 (01:51:27):
The fruit flies are extra I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:51:34):
He's quite often looking at ways of provoking us, not
just for the sake of provocation, but to ask us
to look into some sort of the darkest parts of
history and of ourselves, which is literally the definition of provocation.
How can you say so many words and not say
a blasted thing, not a darn thing.

Speaker 1 (01:51:51):
Okay, So it's government officials, business leaders, and artsy Fartsi's okay, Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:51:56):
So then they go into the dark side of the banana.
Now if you had done some artwork around that, I mean,
if you get into the history of the banana, it's evil, right,
And that's another reason why I don't want a big government.
I don't want to fund I do not want my
tax dollars to go to fund these people who kill men,

(01:52:16):
women and children over a fruit. Over a fruit. Actually
I think it's technically well, yeah, it's a fruit. Very whatever. Anyways,
I don't want to read about the banana history because
it's very depressing.

Speaker 1 (01:52:27):
Andy Warhol made paintings of bananas, if I remember correctly,
and that was legit because.

Speaker 2 (01:52:33):
Painted them and hang them on your wall or whatever.

Speaker 4 (01:52:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:52:37):
Well yeah, it was the Velvet underground.

Speaker 2 (01:52:39):
Yeah. So then they go into Google trade and blah
blah blah and yardy yardy.

Speaker 3 (01:52:41):
But they're way overthinking it.

Speaker 1 (01:52:43):
It's it's they have to sound pretentious.

Speaker 2 (01:52:46):
People will do money laundring and they're not even trying
to hide it. Okay, this next one's actually kind of hilarious.
So these are influencers, Internet influencers, so yeah, have fun
with this one.

Speaker 1 (01:53:02):
Jen Swifties don't play around. New York City influencer Kitlyn
Saylor was elated when her husband Kyle took her on
a surprise road trip Saturday to Toronto, where Taylor Swift
was playing her final show at the Rogers Center on
her eras tour. But Kitlyn had a bit of a
social media meltdown over the fact that Kyle didn't buy

(01:53:25):
the Peara concert tickets ahead of the show.

Speaker 2 (01:53:27):
Does that kind of moron?

Speaker 1 (01:53:29):
Does that? At two pm in Toronto, Caitlyn wrote on
her Instagram stories, ps, we don't have tickets and noted
that Swift thirty four starts performing at eight pm. On
one of her next IG's stories, she posts a screenshot
of available tickets with the show, which revealed the cheapest
ticket was around three seven hundred and fifty dollars each.

Speaker 2 (01:53:51):
I don't care if the Beatles were reincarnated and gave
a performance. I would not pay that much for a concert.

Speaker 1 (01:53:59):
It's insane. It's insane.

Speaker 2 (01:54:01):
There's banana. Those are banana prices.

Speaker 1 (01:54:04):
Yeah, it's it's crazy go for that much money. We
could go to some of the best night clubs and
we could travel all over Texas, go to night clubs
and see amazing bands, stay in nice hotels, stay in
nice hotels. We don't have to leave Waco because there's
always something going on around here.

Speaker 2 (01:54:23):
You know. And she lip syncs anyway, So why the
bad news.

Speaker 1 (01:54:27):
We stocked tickets last weekend and they went way down
day of so we could get lower bow seats for deal.
Today they went up. Starting to panic, Caitlin wrote. She
then shared a text she sent her mom which read,
if your son in law took me to Toronto to
not see Taylor Swift, I'm gonna murder him. At six
twenty pm, Caitlyn showed off her outfit for the concert,

(01:54:48):
a sparkly black dress with a gold jacket, and said
the face of a gal whose husband made her get
ready but still doesn't have tickets.

Speaker 2 (01:54:55):
They both look a little too old for this to
be a thing.

Speaker 1 (01:55:01):
Yeah. On the next slides shirt where a barney in
the stadium and confessed for the first time all day,
we don't have tickets to fellow swifties. It felt good,
but I'm in full anxiety mode. It's a concert, tquitt. Luckily,
the couple found tickets that cost one eight hundred and
ninety six each and they bought them each each. You
know the thing about this is if I were spending

(01:55:25):
that kind of money on tickets and it was like
a VIP event where you get to meet the musicians,
have dinner and drinks and all of that free tea shirt,
you know, the usual, you know, the whole pile of crap.
Depending on the artist, I might just do that, but
those are just dipstick ticket prices. That's nothing. You're gonna
be singing a nosebleed for that much. Anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:55:48):
Imagine how many pets you could rescue, how many.

Speaker 1 (01:55:51):
They don't care about that? There there are YouTube influencers.
Where do they come on?

Speaker 2 (01:55:55):
Or how many?

Speaker 1 (01:55:56):
Like? Sorry now I'm ticked off about it? All right?
All right, holy freaking we brought them and I'm just
waiting for the transferred. I can't breathe. I can't breathe,
Caitlyn said, the video from outside the stadium, and you're
doing that right now, and annoyed, Kyle said to Caitlin
at eight oh eight pm. Caitlin said, they spent their

(01:56:16):
dog lose college tuition on tickets and they haven't transferred yet,
so we can't get in.

Speaker 2 (01:56:21):
She just went on their dog lose college tuition.

Speaker 1 (01:56:29):
She's an idiot.

Speaker 2 (01:56:30):
Does she think her doggie's going to go to college?

Speaker 1 (01:56:33):
I think she's trying to be funny. I think she's
trying to be funny. Failed, but try to be funny.
Caitlyn then re recorded her husband on the phone with
stub Hub. After the concert officially started five minutes later,
Caitlyn Kyle made it into the stadium. She revealed that
they got upgraded to floor seats. This is a fever dream,
Caitlyn wrote. As a couple of rush of the seats
doing Swift's lovers said of the show, Hi, so we're

(01:56:54):
in the eighth row. Caitlyn said, well, we're okay. Eight
throw ain't bad? Oh, Caitlyn said, recording Swift recording of
course with the freaking phone.

Speaker 2 (01:57:03):
You wonder, bonehead, I wonder how close she was to Trudeau?

Speaker 1 (01:57:08):
Who cares? Caitlyn staidwell, recording Swift seeing Fearless from her
second album, The influencer added, I actually don't know how
it gets better than this, can't read still signing off
what is life? The next day, Caitlyn shared an Instagram
post with photos of her Andyle concert I had the
time of life fighting stub Hub with you, her caption.
Red Swift played six shows the Rogers Toronto.

Speaker 2 (01:57:29):
R al Way for being in the eighth row.

Speaker 1 (01:57:31):
She will perform in Vancouver on December sixth, seventh and
eighth mark don't care, don't ka, which remarks to Arrows tour.

Speaker 2 (01:57:39):
This is this is the same person who will have
an absolute fit.

Speaker 4 (01:57:48):
Because of the global climate issue, this and that and
on and on and then releases I forget how many,
but basically just different pictures on her vinyl record so
she could sell fifteen twenty copies of the same song
because people wanted to collect them.

Speaker 2 (01:58:04):
That's creating more, Oh, I don't know, waste.

Speaker 1 (01:58:09):
Look that's on the idiot consumers her.

Speaker 2 (01:58:13):
She's brilliant.

Speaker 1 (01:58:14):
I've got nothing but the almost respect for Taylor.

Speaker 2 (01:58:18):
It's just I don't really respect her.

Speaker 1 (01:58:19):
Well, no I do, because I don't know if you
know this, but because of a disagreement with a former
record company.

Speaker 2 (01:58:25):
She read I know that. Yeah, No, she's she's brilliant
Marketer her and Leady Gaga, but there are also to
make it. Well, she's a good musician. I mean she's
very much like Bieber was at very very young age,
she had a talent. She feeds on it. I think
she's like way overrated, like way overrated, but she is

(01:58:47):
a talented, smart girl. But they have luxury beliefs. You know,
they're they're completely out of touch with reality and they
have these luxury beliefs, which is they're you know, they
they're Trump tards. They have and I know people call
people who voted for Trump trump tards, but I think
the tard comes from, well did you do your homework?

(01:59:10):
Do you know what you're talking about? In ninety nine
percent of the time the answer was no. So story, Yeah,
it was so close to home, literally literally, And I'm
just gonna put out there, Yes, some cultures are better
than others, and no, I do not apologize for that. Uh,
this is terrifying. So this is Lacy Washington. I literally

(01:59:33):
live within walking distance of the school. Two parents in
Washington allegedly try to choke their seventeen year old daughter
to death. So this is both the mother and the
father in an apparent honor killing attempt after she refused
an arranged marriage with an older man seventeen years old.

(01:59:54):
Ilsen Ali and his wife, Zahara Ali have been charged
with attempted murder for the attack outside teens school Timberline
High School in Lacy, Washington. And thank god they were here.

Speaker 3 (02:00:07):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (02:00:08):
You know how we feel about illegal immigrants. I'm assuming
these are not illegal, But thank god they immigrated here
because that little girl is alive. In the country that
they came from, they would have murdered her and it
would have been okay, and they would have gotten away
with it. Like I said, some cultures are better than others.
The father also allegedly punched his daughter's boyfriend in the

(02:00:31):
face outside the school. The daughter has not been identified,
but told police that her father had recently been threatening
her with honor killing for refusing an arranged marriage with
an older man in another country. She should have run.
On October eighteenth, the girl well she did, ran away
from home and sought help from staff at her high school.

(02:00:52):
Her parents followed her to the school and allegedly attacked
her outside the facility, where her father began choking her
to the point where she had lost consciousness.

Speaker 3 (02:01:02):
And I watched this video.

Speaker 2 (02:01:02):
It's traumatizing. Other students, including the girl's boyfriend, tried to
pry her father off of her. Video footage, first obtained
my Fox thirteen Seattle on the station I endrew up with,
showed the father choking the girl into the ground and
shoving her face into the dirt while students surround him
and tell him to stop. You don't tell him. You

(02:01:25):
grab him by the hair, and you pull him off
of her. The girl's mother all you can't get to
him because he's choking his daughter. The girl's mother also
allegedly tried to choke. Can you imagine being the mother,
the mother and being so indoctrinated into this cult that
you're willing to murder your daughter. It's nuts because she

(02:01:49):
doesn't want to be hoard out to some dirty old man.
Imagine being that. And I mean it's one thing for
you know, the father to you know, just be a
jack hole. But the mom trying to put her hands
on her own child.

Speaker 1 (02:02:07):
I can't even imagine that level of indoctrimenty.

Speaker 2 (02:02:09):
I just I can't even imagine it.

Speaker 1 (02:02:11):
I'm sorry, my wide American mind cannot I just can't.
I can't, I just can't.

Speaker 2 (02:02:19):
It was pretty angry and all the kids were screaming
and yelling. Once her father was off of her, the
girl reportedly ran off with her boyfriend back to the
school's main office while yelling that her father was trying
to kill her. Please don't go home, sweetheart, don't do it.
The incident prompted a school lockdown, and school staff refused
to let the girl's parents inside the building. The girl's
boyfriend told Komo that he had experienced previous issues with

(02:02:41):
the girlfriend's family to the point where he felt it
necessary to get a temporary protective order against them. The
daughter's school has arranged a safe place, thank Jesus, for
her to stay while police investigate the incident. Oh, Father, God,
I loved at this girl. I please get her away
from this religion, this cult. Get her away from these people,
these evil, evil people, and let her have a long, healthy,

(02:03:05):
happy life here in the most beautiful country on the planet,
the United States of America.

Speaker 1 (02:03:12):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (02:03:13):
Just wow, Well, folks, it's been a lot of fun,
and I'm ready to bring it up a notch and
head on into Okay. I always say the first part
is my favorite, but this part's my favorite favorite part
of the show. Of the show here on counterculture Wise,

(02:03:39):
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 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

(02:04:00):
the magnificent iceberg that is our world. We now present
news of the wonder fuller. You get to be this one.
You get to beat this one.

Speaker 1 (02:04:21):
I doubt I'm gonna cry.

Speaker 2 (02:04:23):
You always think you're gonna make me cry. Now it's
your turn.

Speaker 1 (02:04:26):
Okay, I'll make you cry. You'll make me cry by
reading this.

Speaker 2 (02:04:30):
Oh, you're gonna make me cry by reading this. Yes,
Oh it's on marine.

Speaker 1 (02:04:34):
It's on Speaking of marine, That's what this is about.
Is Marines Staff Sergeant Henry Hearth's remarkable, pain filled journey
back to being a reconnaissance marine has come to a
storybook conclusion. On September twenty fifth, twenty twenty two, Hearth
fell one hundred feet off a beachside cliff on the
night he was celebrating his rank of promotion where they

(02:04:56):
fell a marine. The freaking I'm sure alcohol, do you
think the freak accident nearly killed him and left him
with severe damage to his right.

Speaker 2 (02:05:06):
Foot and leg because they were celebrating.

Speaker 1 (02:05:08):
I see what you're saying, celebrating jarheads celebrating it's a must.

Speaker 2 (02:05:12):
You gotta jarhead celebrates just slightly harder than his head.

Speaker 1 (02:05:16):
Yes, but after countless hours rehabbing and the wounded I
don't mean to belittle his injury, that's pretty severe. But
after countless hours rehabing in the Wounded Warrior Battalion West
at Camp Pendleton, California, Hearth passes reconnaissance. Yes, I have.
Hearth passed his Reconnaissance Physical Assessment test on September twenty seventh.

(02:05:39):
He is now waiting deployment with the first recom Battalion,
possibly to the Philippines. That is amazing for a boy
growing up determined to service country, All the blood, sweat
and tears were worth it. In the end, people will
tell you that you're just destined to live a certain way,
or that you're stuck in a certain situation. Staff Sergeant
Hearth said, they are wrong. You are the master of

(02:05:59):
your own fate. You choose the You can choose the
ending of your own story. His motherland, the Hearth put
more succinctly, Harry has been a positive force ever since
he was conceived.

Speaker 2 (02:06:09):
What a sweet thing to say, mommy, wow, Okay.

Speaker 1 (02:06:15):
When Hearth started his military career after high school, his
goal was to become a recon marine, but he pushed
himself too hard, too quickly.

Speaker 2 (02:06:21):
What is a recon marine?

Speaker 1 (02:06:22):
Reconnaissance? They're the ones that go out and check the
terrain and everything before the troops come in with the rifles.
You have to be stealth, you have to be strong,
you have to be quiet.

Speaker 2 (02:06:34):
So the whole time in your head you're hearing beetle doo.

Speaker 1 (02:06:38):
Yeah maybe beetle do maybe maybe. But anyway, he pushed
himself too hard, too quickly. He ended up dislocating three
discs in his back, which gave him permanent scoliosis and
temporarily paralyzed it from the way stands. Apparently, in twenty sixteen,
the Marine Corps gave him an option with staying in

(02:06:59):
for four years as a data administrator if he could
pass a physical fitness test.

Speaker 2 (02:07:03):
Why would he need to pass a physical fitness test
to be a data distrivenor.

Speaker 1 (02:07:07):
The idea was to work as a data administrator while
your body heels, and then take the physical test.

Speaker 2 (02:07:15):
It says if he could pass.

Speaker 1 (02:07:17):
Yeah. Heart not only passed the test, but he came
a recon marine in twenty twenty one thanks to his
rigorous off duty health and fitness routine. Unfortunately, all that
hard work was soon put in jeopardy. During his free
time away from a shooting package, Heart was celebrating his
promotions staff started at the bar and I told you.
After having a few beers, Heart stepped outside to relieve

(02:07:39):
himself instead of waiting in a long line near the bar.
Before going to the bathroom, he noticed an inebriated fellow
bar patron stumbling behind the building, so he helped the
man arrange an uber ride to get home. A few
minutes later, Heart decided to take a walk near a
cliff further down the road instead of going back inside
the crowded establishment. Eventually, nature called him when he stopped
heroin ate the section of ground he was on gave way.
He started sliding down a bloff.

Speaker 2 (02:08:00):
Okay, so it wasn't a drunken stumble. The bluff gave away.
So totally innocent in this except for the whole you know,
pea all over the place, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (02:08:10):
On his initial descend, he broke his tailbow on a
tree pouch, but instead of the tree breaking his fall completely,
he continued going.

Speaker 2 (02:08:16):
Oh no.

Speaker 1 (02:08:17):
Seconds later he was clinging to a clump of pickle
weed one hundred feet above the beach. He could not
manage to firm grip on the vegetation, eventually plunge the
coastline below. He's lucky, He's alive. The false shattered heart's
right femur broke every meta tarsal in his right foot,
torps right knee, and opened up his femoral artery. Oh
my sakes. To complicate matters out of cell phone range

(02:08:40):
and the tide was coming in the next few hours
were agonizing her heart, dragging his mangled leg behind him
as he crawled along the side. It almost sounded like
a novel rather than a true story. He finally got
a hold of emergency responders at the multiple calls and
immediately passed out from the pain.

Speaker 2 (02:08:56):
He's still like peace, bro.

Speaker 1 (02:08:58):
Wow. He was actually emergency room or hospital staff considered
amputating his leg doing during the severity of the injury.
Doctors then considered removing his foot when they discovered and
necrosis was turning his appendage. Black Heart said the only
reason he lived was due to the compression shorts he
was wearing that night. The snug shorts helped prevent him
from bleeding out of his femoral artery. Holy crap, we're.

Speaker 2 (02:09:22):
Your compression shorts.

Speaker 1 (02:09:24):
This is a three hour article.

Speaker 2 (02:09:27):
But okay, you get the gist.

Speaker 1 (02:09:31):
So congratulations, Holy moly.

Speaker 2 (02:09:33):
What So he came back after all of that, So
he's had to do.

Speaker 1 (02:09:37):
Now he's a recon marine and he's in perfect health
and good shape. Yeah, he's a good looking guy. Whatever
it took, I'm gonna skip ahead just a little bit
because you know, he just trained himself and got himself
back in shape. Whatever took, Warriors, absolutely and we continue
to do so whatever it took to be a reconnaissance
marine again. Heart was willing to do his driving passion

(02:09:58):
to regain his elite fighting group set. It's partly why
the Virginia native was named the Wounded Warrior Regiments Recovering
Service Member of the Year, who the regiment honored Hearth
on May first was contributions during an awards lunch hosted
by the Marine Corps Association, The MCA is proud to
recognize the incredible achievements of marines who are awards program,
said Colonel Tim Mundy, USMC, retired, the vice president of

(02:10:21):
MCA's foundation. Marines like Staff Sergeant Hearth who have wounds
or injuries but overcome them to continue to serve certainly
deserve recognition. Wow, and he continues to work on himself.

Speaker 2 (02:10:37):
All right, well, great comeback story, and we do love
this comeback story.

Speaker 1 (02:10:40):
You didn't cry, No, I didn't. But I mean I'm
actually a little bit too stunned to be emotional. I mean,
that's quite a lot. That guy exemplifies the best of
what it means to be.

Speaker 2 (02:10:53):
I'm still that he can walk. I'm still amazing he
can walk. He's truly inspiring.

Speaker 1 (02:10:58):
I'm still amazing. Can breathe. That's just that's that's insane,
she says.

Speaker 2 (02:11:03):
But I truly believe that Harry is by far the
most determined person. I honestly didn't think he'd be able
to walk or run again. But if anybody can do it,
to have that much of one hundred and eighty.

Speaker 3 (02:11:13):
Degree recovery story. It's Harry.

Speaker 2 (02:11:15):
His mom is like a great supporter. Yeah, folks, I've
had to learn how to walk twice now when I
was told that wouldn't happen, and I did. Don't tell
me what I can't do, And do not tell this
marine when he can and can't do. And don't let
anybody ever tell you what you can or can't do.

(02:11:35):
And if there's one thing, hopefully y'all can.

Speaker 1 (02:11:38):
Do, have an amazing week, great Thanksgiving. Oh we forgot
to talk about what we did.

Speaker 2 (02:11:44):
Okay, we're going to take a little bit of extra time.

Speaker 1 (02:11:47):
A little bit of extra time. Just rattle off some
things you're thankful for now. For me, this cat right
here came into my life a couple of months ago.
Frankie Wanky Frankfurt Pee creamsickle, who.

Speaker 3 (02:11:59):
Is I'd say?

Speaker 2 (02:12:01):
Also, we ten times bigger than he was when we brought.

Speaker 1 (02:12:04):
Him in sleeping, which of course means he has an
absolutely angelic look on his face. As soon as he
wakes up, that goes away.

Speaker 2 (02:12:10):
Maximilian von wrinklebeezers between my feet. He's a great cat's
he's a lovely twelve yeah, thirteen years. This year.

Speaker 1 (02:12:18):
Yeah, amazing.

Speaker 2 (02:12:20):
He moved with us from Seattle, Las Vegas, and Las
Vegas to to Waco, so he's quite the continent.

Speaker 1 (02:12:28):
Yeah. And Fritzie, who is just yeah, she is and
she's to get along with.

Speaker 2 (02:12:37):
She's on the couch with the dog. Yeah, and the dog,
Miss Sadie. She has been such a joy And because
of her, we met some super nice people at the dog.

Speaker 1 (02:12:48):
Park and they were a blessing. It was Alex and Jackie.
If you're listening, and you're probably.

Speaker 2 (02:12:53):
Not, probably not no, because we I don't think we
even told him podcast.

Speaker 1 (02:12:58):
I think he gave one of them.

Speaker 2 (02:13:00):
Might we've been passing out stickers like they're candy. You're
passing out candy like their sticks, something like something like that.

Speaker 1 (02:13:04):
Don't don't take candy from strangers, but take stickers from us.
Oh takes stickers from strangers whenever you can. Just the
fact that, I mean, we're not it's too personal to
go through every single thing that we've been through this year,
but I am so grateful that God has made himself
visible to us this year.

Speaker 2 (02:13:22):
This has been a really rough year. We've had rougher,
that's true. But with everything that we've gone through this year,
both of us were a little bit more open to
the Lord in our life. And I was in a
very dark place not too long ago. And it was

(02:13:47):
through the people that christ light shone. And it's not
just because we were given stuff that wasn't the point.
The point was and I think it was really perfectly
put because I never thought about it that whole saw
Thy word as a lamp into my feet and a

(02:14:07):
light into my path. And you think about, oh, yeah,
you're shining a light and see the path. Well, we
think about that in terms of you know, these these
fifty jigawat torches that we have that you know we
can you know, our headlights or whatever. But back then,
we're talking a little metal thing that you hold onto
with whale.

Speaker 3 (02:14:26):
Oil or whatever they were using.

Speaker 2 (02:14:28):
Usually it was whale oil, and you know, a tiny,
tiny little flame. Right, you could only see the next step,
not a foot or two, just the next step. You
couldn't see what was going on around you. Every step
you took was by faith, and that is hard to do.
It takes humility, and it takes a certain level of fearlessness,

(02:14:54):
which I'll admit I had succumbed entirely to fear and
through Christians that are stronger and more intelligent and in
better places than I was. I saw what it meant
to take that step, and I started, and I think

(02:15:16):
you saw. You've even commented how you've seen kind of.

Speaker 1 (02:15:18):
A difference You've come back into yourself. And as far
as how I feel, I mean, I feel strengthened every now,
every day where I wasn't before. I mean, landing a
job like the one I have now was really important,
you know, having that stability, returning knowing that my best

(02:15:44):
creative work has yet to come. Yeah, I've got things
I haven't even told you about that I'm planning to do.
So we we'll talk about that later.

Speaker 2 (02:15:54):
Yeah, So we have a lot of irons in the fire.
And another thing I'm very grateful for is my students,
every single one of them. I love my kids. I
learned something every day while I'm teaching, and that they
have that trust in me that I mean. I have
some students that I have one that I've had since

(02:16:16):
she was in third grade and she's now a junior
and I'm part of their family. Make her stuff, although
that's a completely different family. And you know that all
now that is the blessing that came out of COVID

(02:16:37):
for me is that I got to go across the continent.
I have students in multiple states, and I never would
have had that. You know, I was the scooter tutor
in Las Vegas and I could only get to three
or four kids a day on a good day, and
you know, it wasn't a great income. I always had

(02:16:59):
to have side hustles going on. And then when the
shutdowns happened and everybody went online, that kind of became
my thing. And I never would have thought this for myself.
I love it. I love I've even learned new subjects
just so I can tutor them, and I'm never gonna
stop learning. I mean, I've done geometry and Algebra two

(02:17:22):
and calculus and I hate calculus and Trigg which I
don't mind. And you know, I'm getting deeper into biology
classes and even physics, which I also don't like. But
I have students asking me if I can move up
with them, and you know, hey, I'll have to do
is stay one of us and ahead of them, and
as long as I can explain it. But I mean,

(02:17:43):
just the other day, as students said, well can you
help me with my It is a ethics class and
I'm like, I don't know, what are we doing?

Speaker 7 (02:17:51):
Well?

Speaker 2 (02:17:51):
I need to do this and that for the test.
I'm like, sure, I can help you with that. I
hope to get to German. I don't speak German, but
you find.

Speaker 1 (02:17:57):
A way, right, And she's a she's gifted this way,
I'm prejudiced, but she's gifted in that she can make
concepts understandable and break things down to the basics so
that you have a building block to start with, because
a lot of teachers come in assuming that kids know

(02:18:19):
something that they don't and they operate from there or
they just don't have the ability. And I understand, you
have a classroom with twenty seven students. You're not going
to be able to adapt to each person's learning method
or style of learning. So you know, she serves an

(02:18:41):
important role and I'm very proud.

Speaker 2 (02:18:43):
A good chunk of my gig is reminding the student
that you have the right to ask questions. These kids
have been beaten down to the point where they're afraid
to even ask.

Speaker 1 (02:18:55):
They're just they just I am an authority, listen to
me and just do it. Yeah, And they're not a
way for kids to learn that that shuts off their creativity,
it shuts off their desire to learn.

Speaker 2 (02:19:07):
And the difference I'm seeing in the younger kids that
are starting out versus you know, the kids who went
through COVID and are graduating out night and day. I mean,
younger kids are more inquisitive, they're more eager. They you know,
I feel like I feel going to church and seeing

(02:19:27):
the younger generation and tutoring the kids that I tutor.
And I do have some homeschoolers and they're the most
brilliant kids you.

Speaker 3 (02:19:34):
Could hope for.

Speaker 2 (02:19:35):
But like I said, I have kids from all over
from you know, kids whose English is their second language,
kids who are you know, first or second generation legal immigrants,
kids with add and I have a couple on the spectrum.
Every kid is unique and amazing and has skills, and

(02:19:55):
you just have to figure out how to motivate them.
And sometimes you have to have them have a come
to Jesus moment with mom and dad.

Speaker 1 (02:20:06):
Because yeah, she's had to do that a few times
in the last few weeks.

Speaker 2 (02:20:11):
And I always try to tell them, look, I don't
want to take the nuclear option. You know, we're partners
in this and I'm always going to take your side,
but you gotta do the work.

Speaker 1 (02:20:20):
Yeah, got right, I mean and come and expecting the
tutor to do the work for you. That's that's that's
first of all not ethical, second of all non productive.

Speaker 2 (02:20:30):
You're not helping yourself.

Speaker 1 (02:20:31):
Yeah, you're not going to You're not gonna get me.

Speaker 2 (02:20:33):
But I've also been blown away by how little the
teachers are willing to participate in their job. But I
don't want to go down that rabbit hole. I think
this all comes back to the story about this marine
and the story that we want to leave you with.
We are so grateful for every single listener who is

(02:20:56):
still listening to us without rolling their eyes out of
their head.

Speaker 1 (02:21:00):
If you are rolling your eyes out of your head,
but still you're still hanging on to find out what
silly stuff we say next. We're grateful.

Speaker 2 (02:21:07):
We are grateful for the beautiful place that we live.
I'm grateful for the birds and the squirrels that come
to my window. I am grateful for my loving husband that,
even though he's a big jerk sometimes he really does
try to be a good and godly man. And I
have sincerely loved and enjoyed and needed to see his

(02:21:29):
growth because remember, folks, he was a dog hating atheist
when I met him.

Speaker 1 (02:21:33):
Yeah, dog hating atheist. I'm still on the dog.

Speaker 2 (02:21:38):
Well.

Speaker 1 (02:21:38):
I love Sadie.

Speaker 2 (02:21:41):
And I'm grateful for you know, the simple things, everything
from feeling the grass on my bare feet to the
filling of a nice hot shower, to things that we
take for granted that a lot of people don't get
to experience. Go out there and experienced something. Have an

(02:22:02):
amazing Turkey Day.

Speaker 1 (02:22:05):
Turkey I'll be making.

Speaker 2 (02:22:07):
I'll be making my world famous Palelio stuffing, which has
just about everything everything that the chickens sink. It does
not have chicken, that is one thing it does not happen.
That's the nuts and berries and bacon and sausage. And yeah,
it's got everything you could possibly possibly want and.

Speaker 3 (02:22:29):
It does.

Speaker 2 (02:22:29):
Yeah, it is not vegan, that is for sure. Have
an amazing Thanksgiving everybody. We love you. We'll see you
next week.

Speaker 1 (02:22:46):
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Speaker 2 (02:22:54):
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