The DJT Experience

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(01:41):
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(02:04):
Mister James.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Hey, Melanie, Hey Jim. How many optometrists does it take
to change the light bulb?

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Eight?

Speaker 1 (02:14):
No, No, one or two? One out or two?

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Okay, that was very visual. He's doing the thing where
they do click the thing one or two, one or two. Yeah.
So if you've ever been to an optometrist, that joke
was hilarious.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
What if you haven't get to one? Blind?

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Just silly stooge, You have no idea what we were
just doing.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah cute.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Alrighty, my dear sweet husband, how has your week been.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
It's been very well. I'm learning my new job very
it's going very well. I'm prepping to write a book,
as are you, starting next week.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yes, we're doing it through not Nanomo.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Not nanoimo. But what's it called intele It's something like that.
It's a.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Something or rather, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
They are. It's actually a program that you can that
helps you with your writing, and they're sponsoring their own
little thing, which you know, it's actually ninety days. You
spend October prepping. Oops, remember writing in December editing, So
it's it's a little bit more you know, complete.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Well, I guess, I mean the whole idea with Nano
raimo is you you pants it for unless you're not
a unless November, spend the rest of the year editing.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
It's like, awe prepping, that's so cute. I'm not that way.
Maybe I should be, especially since I have a particular bent.
I want to take this time that I haven't done before.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
But yeah, it's about time. You got bad.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
I'm just gonna shut up. But yeah, it's it's been
a real fun. We we became official members of our
church today.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Yes, that was exciting.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
And let's see, my dad is sending us some patriotic
songs he wrote, and we're going to try to get
him on the show.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Such a sweet man.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah, it's a little late to submit it to you know,
the right places, but still it'd be it'd be fun
to hear, and I'll get the word out to a
few people. See what I can do in advance. Oh,
we early voted.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yes, I voted, and it was really cool.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
They asked for my ID.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah, piece of paper, a.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
Piece of paper for a ballot which was afterwards scanned.
In other words, it's the way, not a dominion machine.
I felt very safe and secure about my vote counting.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Unfortunately, you know, we're a red state, so our votes
will probably be counted. But blue states they've made it
pretty much illegal to count the votes or be able
to audit it.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
Well, I'm not sorry.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
I wonder why wouldn't.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
What the power structure to be messed with like it
was in twenty sixteen.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
So that's them apart. Yeah, so now we're back to
the Hitler bs, which is really insulting to Jews, Holocaust survivors.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
And Jews and pretty much everybody.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
I mean's not so obnoxious and just intellectually lazy quite so,
I mean, come on, people, get over yourselves, so grow up.
And Kamala is like, yes, I do believe he's a dictator.
Oh so he just like forgot for those four years
he was in office and the whole thing about how

(05:50):
he didn't leave peacefully so he had to be like
chained up.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
And pulled kicking and screaming.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah, I mean, it just didn't happen they're literally just
making crap up and the.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
Satia career out of making crap ups, So you know,
why stop now? Yeah, if it's if you do something
and it works, keep doing it till it doesn't work anymore. Well, hopefully,
hopefully it won't work anymore.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
He went vertical by getting horizontal, but ding ding Okay, Well,
we like to start off our positive podcast by you know,
talking about dead people.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
So if you go, really only one this week, I
mean there are probably.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Others, but always coming three.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
So now that was coming ones. The Phil Lesh, the
bassist for the legendary band The Grateful Dead, passed on
at the age of eighty four.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
He's probably very happy.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yes, he's quite grateful. Yeah. I had the opportunity to
see him and the band on three different occasions, and
it's they were. They were a great live band, and
he was a big part of it because he was
a he was trained, you know, listening to avant garde

(07:07):
jazz and that kind of thing, so he was able
to to when once they went off on their improvisational jams,
turning a four minute song into a twenty minute song.
He was playing along with Jerry Garcia and just it
was a beautiful sound. Every now and then they would yell,
the audience would yell, let Phil sing, and he'd he'd

(07:29):
sing that. The first time I saw them.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
He was let Phil sing. Yeah, he just like sing
random stuff.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
Well not random stuff, but there were there were a
few songs he wrote for the band and he sang
lead on, but there weren't that many of them, so
he did. He did get to sing on occasion, or
he sang back up a lot, but singing lead didn't.
But yeah, that leaves three longtime members of the band,

(07:56):
and uh so everybody who was a fan of the
Grateful Dead.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
How old was he?

Speaker 1 (08:01):
Eighty four?

Speaker 2 (08:02):
Okay? He lived a good life, not bad, not bad,
not bad.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
Not bad. He had he he had his own band
with his family from twenty fourteen.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
Till this year, with his family like the Partridge family.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
Like the phil Leshion family or phil Leshion friends. So cute, cute,
how cute it was? I haven't heard anything is. After
the Grateful Dead broke up, the remaining members would get
together and do things every now and then, a Dead
in company, which he was not a part of, but

(08:39):
for a few years they toured as the Dead without
Jerry Garcia being grateful. Yeah, not grateful.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
He was gone, so nobody nobody traveled as the grateful.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
No, not yet, not yet. That might that might be coming.
Maybe maybe you and I could do that.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
No, yeah, although we are, we're very great.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yeah, we spend every day being grateful.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
Yes, we got some incredibly good news this last week.
So I don't know how much we've been sharing with
the saga of the Kia. But long story short, it
ex late. It basically exploded hours after getting an oil change,
and the oil change company is like yang eh, and

(09:24):
Kia was like nan yangay, and it's like okay. So
I'm just left holding the bill here because that's not fair.
So we towed it somewhere and they're like, oh, you've
got to do this four hundred dollars diagnostic and nobody's
going to touch it, blar blah, And I'm like, well,
why should I pay for that? I mean we're talking
literal hours after an oil change in a brand spank
a new battery, which you know cost as much as

(09:45):
the stupid diagnostic, and so lather, rinse, repeat for several weeks.
And this is back in August. I think, so yeah,
I mean this is just dragged on.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
And our neighbors, God blessed them, helped us out in
a lot of different ways.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
We don't want to go into too much, too many details,
but we are very blessed.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
Is you know, kind of a handyman looked at our
car out in a few ways.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
So what we were getting was from the I'm not
going to name any names, so from the oil change company.
They were saying, well, obviously there's oil in your car,
so we didn't do anything wrong. It's like, okay, but
what what kind of cowonky donkey is it? They said, oh, well,
we found this recall notice, so that that must be

(10:33):
what it is. And then Kia was saying, well, yeah,
we we already serviced your car for the recall, so
it wasn't us, so you know, and then they would
just ping pong back and forth, but nobody would talk
to me.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
So finally we just the bullet to kat the.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
Thing to get the diagnostic and it turns out that
it is indeed part of the recall. And I and
they were very under the one my warranty that was
extended because of the recall, and they were a contrite
considering that they were the exact shop that had looked
at it for that and said everything was kosher and
it was just a software upgrade. Well obviously it was not.

(11:13):
So that is getting fixed, and I should have our expense,
and not at our expense, just a wee bit of
money for some belts and hoses that which would.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
Have happened to do anything.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah, So yay, that's awesome and amazing and wonderful and
fantastic and hopefully that engine will fix my little twenty
seventeen and let her last another five years or so.
And you know, if you'd like to contribute to the
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(11:43):
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Speaker 1 (12:32):
I think that we need to talk about Donald John Trump,
not not the presidential candidate, but the human being.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
Are we allowed to do that?

Speaker 1 (12:44):
Well?

Speaker 2 (12:44):
Are we allowed to see him as a human being?

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Well?

Speaker 2 (12:47):
I get the impression that if you act like he's
a human being, that just makes you evil, bad and wrong.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
Which makes the McDonald's restaurant wrong.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
And Joe Rogan we'll talk about that later. That's that.
That was a fun little stunt. I thought it was brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
But he sat there and chatted and it really was
more of a conversation.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
Bro's talking with you know.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
He sat down with Joe Rogan spoke for almost three hours.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
And I love how it ended too. It's like, how
long have I been talking? Oh? Wow? I got somewhere
to go and then went on and did a rally
in Texas.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
Yeah, and I think it was Noa's Michigan. I don't remember, but.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Is tired and he looks like he's all like shit,
little miss took two days off twelve days before.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
You know, that's that was her decision.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
I don't think it was well, I mean I don't.
I don't think it mattered because all of her voters
already wrote her in before they even knew she was candidate.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
They weren't even primary, which I think is really sad.
They should have been able to have a primary vote.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
They don't care blue no matter who, even if she's
did twat waffle. The opinions expressed, yeah, we already played that. Yeah. Anyways,
it was really interesting. I do recommend if you hate
his ever living guts and you're not exactly one hundred
percent sure why to go listen or even if you're

(14:16):
a fan, this will give you a yeah. Yeah. There
was a lot of really great moments. He rogan asked
the questions that everybody wants to ask, are there really aliens?
And what was in the JFK files?

Speaker 1 (14:29):
Right? And you know, I think that it was really
cool that mister Trump did his best to answer without
giving anything away because that that stuff is top secret.
In a little woo woo and yeah out there.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
Well I got the feeling that much like me, Trump
does not believe in aliens. He wasn't able to say
one way or the other because they always have to
trot that story out to you know, change the subject
or whatever. But I really got the impression that he
doesn't believe in him and what little he was shown,
and I think a lot was held back from him
because basically he had a hostile team working against him

(15:05):
the whole time he was in there. And but I
think all of the the what do they call him, no,
Seum's non they call him something different than UFOs now,
but the EAPs or whatever the heck they're calling them,
and they're they're they're from Earth. They're probably secret military

(15:27):
with all these drones and everything.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
I mean, it could be a number of different things.
I was more interested, frankly, and in their chatter about
John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
And what what he got out was basically he was
told leave it alone because there's still people alive who'd
be affected. I got the impression that that's no longer
so right. So I've been going through thinking, Okay, since
Trump was in office till now, what heavy hitters have

(16:01):
passed on. I think McCain was already gone or did
he die.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
During McCain died during well, I don't remember. I think
I think he might even be talking about his buddy R. F. K. Junior,
who you know he might have some knowledge about about
his uncle.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
I mean, they're trying to kill them all. Let's just
face it. They're trying to kill them all. So I'm
surprised they haven't taken potshots at Tulci, although she probably
took rolling firebacks.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
She's a badass.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
He's like a superhero.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
She is a superhero.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
And then so they are actually at Madison Square Garden
as we speak, and of course that means that it's
a Nazi rally. That's what they've been saying it with.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
All the black Dais and Hispanics and women and hilarious.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
You can't even say the word Nazi, Nazi, Nazi, Nazi
Nazi on YouTube. That'll actually get our show taken down.
People have to say.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
In the producers, no.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
Nazis, I did not see that coming. Yeah, you're not
even allowed to say it, even if you're talking about
how absolutely asinine it is that they're calling supporters of
a guy who was in office for four years, nobody
got in prison, not even I mean, he even had
the wherewithal to not go after Hillary because he said

(17:27):
that it would destroy the nation, and he was right.
But they don't care. They're just gonna juggernaut their way
through the nation, destroy it and and leave the smoldering
ashes behind him with a big old smile on their face.
But he actually had the emotional maturity to avoid that,
even though she deserves to be in prison, she is.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
Payments on its way, It'll happen, We'll see.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
It just feels like they all get away with everything
all the time, and it's really really frustrating.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
So anyway, I thought this this this podcast. Joe Rogan
has always been a really good.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
Yeah, and he and he even said if he were
to have because he did extend it to Kamalin, of
course she turned it down because she can't sit there
and there.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
For five minutes a little three hours, and.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
You know, I don't There are rumors that he ended
up having to say no because she had so many stipulations,
but those are just rumors, so I don't know. And
one of the stipulations was that they weren't allowed to
talk politics at all, and he's like, kind of the point, Yeah,
but yeah, she's she's pretending like she has scheduling.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
We but Trump talked for the first time I've ever
heard him, talked about his first first hours in office.
Surreal it was.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
And that was so cool because he said when he
got shot, it wasn't surreal. He knew everything that was
going on and everything that was going on around him
and exactly where he got hit and everything, and everybody
else was freaking out, but he was pretty calm because
he knew he was okay. But yeah, walking into the
Lincoln bedroom.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
And he talked about how long the bed was because
you know, Lincoln was a tall guy.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
I mean, didn't even need to be that long if
he took his hat off.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
Well, there's that he talked about. He talked UFC with
Joe Rogan.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
Yeah, and what I found really fascinating besides I mean
his knowledge of sports. Obviously he's but he really had
historical knowledge that you don't assume because everybody acts like
he's just this big dummy that he knew all about
the plaques and what they said, and the history of
the room and the history of you know, the living
quarters and all of that. He knew all of that

(19:39):
just off the top of his head. Can you even
imagine Biden trying to talk about any of that. Yeah,
he even doesn't.

Speaker 1 (19:47):
He's busy raging against Kamala. The rumors are that he's
calling her all kinds of rotten stuff behind her back.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
Well, they never liked each other. I mean she called
him a racist to his face.

Speaker 1 (19:59):
Yeah, because he's blaming her for for you know, first
of all, taking his presidency away from him and secondly
just running a garbage campaign.

Speaker 2 (20:11):
It is a garbage campaign, but it's working.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
And getting back to the interview with Trump, he also
talked about, you know, a lot of historical things. He
talked about his perspective on tariffs and and and did
so in a way that was easy to understand and appreciate.

(20:34):
You may not agree with.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
Tariffs, but depends on how they're used.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
But he was using it as a political tactic. He
will continue to do so.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
And the whole thing about it being attacks, well no, no,
I mean like he was saying, he was talking to
Macan maccan, is that how you say his name?

Speaker 1 (20:56):
Macron of France.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
Even pretended a tiny it's a bits, a bit of
a French accent, not not Kamala's style, but like you know,
doing doing the narrative of how he talked to him,
and he said, you know, we'll just if you're going
to put this tariff on the United States of America
that's going to make it almost impossible for us to
sell whatever it was, cars or whatever, then I'm gonna
give tariff for all your fancy cheeses and wines. Now,

(21:21):
this isn't everyday things like Kamala is trying to make
it out to be. You know, she's like, oh, milk,
eggs and bread, honey, those are all domestic things, so
there's no term.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
French. French wine are luxury items and are already expensive,
and so I mean just adding adding a tariff to
it would make it very difficult.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
Baby formula, you know, this isn't the basics of life,
but the way she's talking and it's like, oh, you know,
tampons and baby formula are going to be tariffed out
of AGAs.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
And he also one thing I loved about it is
he admitted what we've all what those of us who
followed Trump and have heard his speeches. No, he may
seem to go off on another topic, but he always
eventually brings it back to the question. And Joe, to
his credit, after repeating a question a few times, Joe

(22:14):
Rogan figured it out that it's.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
The same thing. Yeah, yeah, and he just let him
talk and he did come back, and he even said
a couple of times, so let's bring it back to this.
That was tru himself.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
Let's bring it back to this. And and so I
thought it was I thought it was insightful if you
really wanted to know more about Trump and funny funny, Oh,
he's funny, that is. But we talked about him last
week on at the Al Smith thing, how funny he
can be. But he is a far more intelligent man

(22:46):
than a lot of people give him credit for. Well,
you have to in order to run those businesses like
he does. He knows and he relates things that he's done,
like you know, real estate development, that's what that's his career.
So he knows and he's able to relate that to
other things. And you know, he knew he wasn't a

(23:08):
lifetime politician when he came in, but being a high
end luxury real estate developer, he had to work with
a lot of politicians and you know, try to get
things from and he was beloved.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
That's something that Rogan brought up too. It's like, well,
before you ran for president, folks loved you. Even the
broads on the view who have absolutely zero respect for
none at all. Most of them are so stupid that
it's actually painful to watch them. And then somebody like
like Whoopee, who used to be brilliant and hilarious, was

(23:41):
one of my favorite comedians, she has lost her ever
loving mind. And I don't know if it's because they've
been paid off or what's going on. But he wasn't
able to play the video, but a lot of other
people have h Right before he announced, right before he
came down that escalator, he was welcomed, hug kissed, They
treated him fine, you know they they even said, oh,
I hear you're gonna run for president. They were excited

(24:02):
about it. And then the minute he announced, all of
a sudden, he's hitler, is what I mean? How does
that work? And really, if he can you imagine the
actual bad guy that they keep them, you know, the
mustachioed murderer that they keep talking about. Can you imagine
going back in time and having a bunch of people

(24:24):
sitting around and joking with him and drinking a beer
with him, and ha ha. And then like the next
day they're like, oh, he's evil and we need to
kill him. That didn't happen. No, that didn't happen, you know.
And and but it did with this guy. And it's like,
but he didn't change anything. Yeah, where's you know? Kamalos
already said, yeah, one a out of there too. It
forget that noise for a h screw you, you know,

(24:45):
and just on down the line. And I might even
stick a couple of soldiers in your house while I'm
ot at you know, she's.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
She's she's crazy that as long as we.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
Have the right to murder our babies.

Speaker 1 (24:57):
Trump was very direct about certain people we thought were
low iq John Bolton, Kamala Harris, you.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
Know, General Millie, Millie, I want to say Miley, like Cyrus.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
General SIUs, total idiots.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
He came in like a wrecking ball. Yeah yeah, and
he knows better now, you know. Unfortunately he admitt well
and that that was very nice too, because they always say, oh,
we have such an ego, he's such a canadmit he's wrong? Well,
he just flat out said, yeah, I hired poorly.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
And it's because he there's a certain math you have
to calculate because he had I think he said ten
thousand hires. Well he can't, he can't personally vet every
single person. Yeah, he has to run the country, so
he trusted untrustworthy people.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
Yeah, that's the problem.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
To to you know, cast higher whatever.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
And that's the thing people don't realize when you when
you come into the White House, there's like a full staff.
I mean it's like if you were to go to
downtown Abbey. You're not gonna get brand new maid staff,
brand new cook, brand new this, that and the other.
You're gonna come in, You're gonna get all the same
old people that were there before. And that goes all
the way up to the administrative assistance and the people

(26:21):
who are in roles that really do affect the country politically,
and they are grandfathered in for years and years and
years and years, right, and they'll stay there for edmindis
after administration after administration, and if they have certain loyalties,
well then the guy that goes against those loyalties is
screwed because they will work against him or gal. The

(26:43):
guy or Gal that Kamala is just a puppet.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
She there is just nothing between the running the show.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
There is nothing between her ears.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
So if she's not running it, like Biden is asserting.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
That's a group of people. I don't think there's any
one person.

Speaker 3 (26:59):
I think.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
I think it's it's a group, it's it's a cabal,
it's it's yeah, the swamp. I mean, let's face it.
And that's one of the things. That's the other thing
I get really frustrated about. They're like, oh, you know,
if you like Trump and you're voting for Trump, then
you just believe in everything he says, and you're a
sick of fan and you're in a cult, and on
and on and on. It's like, no, we we talk

(27:20):
about things that we don't like about him all the time.
And you know what's really great is I can say
I don't like that, you know, he he bombs such
and so I don't like that he didn't join the swamp.
I don't like that he didn't get the wall built.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
With Faucis so readily.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
Oh, I hate that he let Fauci in there in
Bolton and a few of the others. I hate that,
and and those are really stupid mistakes. And then you know,
I appreciate what he tried to do during COVID, although
no matter what he did, they would have said he
did it wrong. And they went from oh, I mean
even Kamala herself said she would never take a vaccine
that had anything to do with Trump. And then if

(28:01):
you don't take that exact vaccine and I'm putting the
word vaccine in big fat quoting marks, and I don't care.
We've already been kicked off.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
Of We've already established an mRNA.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah, if you don't take that, well, then you're gonna
get kicked out of the military leisure job, can't take
a train or bus or whatever. It's like, wait a minute,
isn't this the same Trump vaccine that you wanted nothing
to do with, And now all of a sudden you're
going all dictatory about it.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
It's because the China value.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
Is GM just were working out his trunks.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
I've been working on my Trump. I'm almost there.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
Hopefully we have another four years that you'll get to
to nothing. That was great. I think one of my
favorite exchanges of this three hour tour, and there was
a lot of really good gems in there. But yeah,
they talked honestly about nuclear and I just pronounced it
like a bush nuclear. And you know, anybodyho listens to

(28:55):
Scott Adams and if you don't, please do he He's
been looking at that a lot. And we have a
third generation and a fourth on its way of nuclear
power that really is green and really can save the
planet and will take over you know, all the things
that I mean, we could have as much energy as

(29:16):
we need cheaply without harming the environment, right, like like
all the other like coal and everything else does. And
but because they hear nuclear and they think Fukushima, and
they think you know, all the other you know, whoops
and all the other meltdowns, you know, they Ukraine, and

(29:37):
people are automatically against it without really listening to what
it's about. So so Trump touched very lightly on that.
But what he did touch on is that there is
in fact, I think Mercedes, if I'm not totally crazy,
they're able to make smaller plants, so we're not doing
these big giants, whole city plants. I mean, there's I mean,

(30:00):
it might even get to the point where it's portable
like in Back to the Future. It's like, right, So
many things from back the future have come true, except
for the flying cars. It's the only thing we haven't
gotten yet.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
That's because people will let the car run out of juice.
I know my car.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
Yeah, we'd have to have instead of airbags, we'd have parachute,
automatic parachute. Yeah, there'd be so many of them floating down.
But yeah, I thought that was fascinating and I'm really
glad they brought it up. And I also love the
fact that Rogan used the exact term fine people hoax,

(30:35):
the fine people hoax, and the drink bleach hoax, and
I think Trump threw in there the bloodbath hoax. Finally
we're using the correct term. These are hoaxes. They did
not happen, and both Kamala and Biden run have run
are running on that hoax, the fine people hoax. He

(31:00):
never complimented Nazis, he never said he wanted anything to
do with Hitler, he never said that Nazis were very
fine people. If you think he did, you have been hoaxed,
my friend, and even Snopes has debunked that. But people
are still, people.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
Like General John Kelly are saying that.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
Which is nonsense, nonsense, and the and the suckers and
losers hoax. He never said that, and he even said, well,
I was standing next to a general. Why would I
say something so stupid that would probably get me punched?
You know? So even if I thought that, which I don't,
why would I say it? Then?

Speaker 1 (31:43):
Just the same guy that was ridiculed for hosting an
event make you know that honored the people the military,
remember that one thing he did.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
Yeah, and they're also trying to say that he said
something awful about Uh. I forget exactly who it was,
but they had lost their son and they're like, oh,
he said this and not that was rude. And the
actual family came out and said, no, he didn't. Right,
that's completely made up, and how dare you use us

(32:14):
for your political nonsense? But they're still running with it anyway.
They're still running with it anyway. Anyways. I think one
of my favorite was when they were talking about energy.
They were talking about nuclear and he was talking about windmills,
and I think they mentioned about Elon's rockets and how
he had to capture seals and put headphones on him

(32:34):
to see if they were stressed out or it was
this whole ridiculous thing that actually they were talking about
all the all the hoops you have to jump through
for the ecology folks, and so he's like, you know,
the windmills that are way out in the sea is
actually causing whales to die, which is true. It's no

(32:55):
conspiracy theory, it's absolutely true. And he goes, you know,
maybe we need to get out there, and you know,
I'd like to be a whales psychologist to find out
what makes it go crazy. Is like, that was just
such a golden moment, whales psychologist. So you know they're
going to clip that out of context and no, look
how crazy he is he wants to be a whale psychologist.
But I thought it was I thought it was funny,
and they did. They had a great banter, Yeah they did.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
They I like Joe Rogan because he would just as
easily have Kamala on the show if she did. Yeah,
you know, and he's talked to people of all different
political stripes and he engages. Yeah, and it's it's a
fun listen whether he's interviewing a sports person or celebrity.
I'm not that much into sports, but if he's talking

(33:40):
to like a wrestler or baseball player or whatever, it's
still an interesting listen.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
Yeah, And it was interesting the next day when they
were talking about the interview and his take on it,
and he thought it was funny that when he asked
him a question like the JFK files or aliens or whatever,
all of a sudden, Trump diverted to talking about the UFC,
and he realized what was going on at the time.
But he's like, all right, okay, what he's doing here. Yeah,

(34:09):
it was kind of masterful the way he did it
when you pay attention to it.

Speaker 1 (34:11):
So, no, he's Trump is a good communicator. You know,
he's he comes across as lacking nuance. He's sometimes you know,
he said some mean things. He does. He did the
gesture when he was talking about that journalist, not knowing
the journalist had some neurological illness. He did that for

(34:34):
every I mean he stopped after that. I think I
don't remember him doing it afterwards.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
But I mean I do that too. I'm like, Ner,
it has nothing to do with, you know, any physical
limitations they might have. I mean, you have that voice
that you do when you're talking about idiots. I think
he used it for the sill Act.

Speaker 1 (34:52):
Yeah, all I tarted talking about.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
Just basically the males.

Speaker 1 (34:58):
So glad he's gone, Yeah, I'm not. I'm not saying that,
you know, Sheriff Joe or whatever his name is, all
that much better, but wondering.

Speaker 2 (35:06):
If the FBI still have a gun.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
Do is they do? They do?

Speaker 2 (35:10):
Yeah, they do, But we digress. Anyways, it was very interesting.
I didn't want to play clips on it because everybody.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
Else in his Besides, we've been doing that time and
time again. We'll play it, but I mean we take
we take a if we can take a five minute
interview or speech or something and break it down, it
takes half an hour. What would three hours do exactly
where our show is only two hours long typically.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
Well, plus I think you should listen to it.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
Yeah, this is it's worth it. Really, if you haven't
had a chance to listen to it, you can either
watch it or listen to it. You get the same.
It was just really.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
Really nice to have somebody let him get a word
in edgewise for a freaking change.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
I know Columbia University journalists who like interrupt and screaming.

Speaker 2 (35:58):
Yeah yeah, all right, Well okay, that was a heck
of an introduction, So let's head on into.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
Counterculture. Wise is proud to present news of the weird
and wonderful. Here are your hosts, Melanie Hope and Jim Monis.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
And here we are. You should have liked that picture.
I do.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
I think that's that's a great cartoon of us. I do.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
It is very cartoon of us. Yeah, say.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
Well, this is from our friends up North. North, a
town in Saskatchewan, is facing one major hurdle in the
run up to its November municipal election ret Row. No
one is running for mayor officials in Kyle, said Mayor
George Williams, who was elected in November twenty twenty one,

(36:57):
is retiring this year and so far no can have
come forward to seek the office.

Speaker 2 (37:02):
Maybe they'll end up with a dog like that Alaskan town.

Speaker 1 (37:05):
Maybe do a better job than most. An open spot
on the town council also has no nominees. Chief administrative
officer Amber Dashne said two rounds of applications have gone
out seeking nominations for mayor, but so far no one
has signed up. It's a little concerning, but I'm confident
that someone will step forward, Dashney told, is it an

(37:26):
unpaid job?

Speaker 2 (37:26):
Is that? What's going on? That they're just not paying,
don't know.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
Usually there's that you get at least a stipend.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
For being Yeah, I mean there's a lot of people
to get into politic I mean, look at Nancy Pelosi.
She's a gajillionaire because she got into politics.

Speaker 1 (37:39):
Dashney said, the council will select the deputy mayor to
handle the duties day office if no candidates run for
mayor in the November thirteenth election. At that meeting, we'll
decide on a date for a by election, and we
will continue calling a by election to fill the mayor's
spot and the other councilor's spot as well. Dashney said,
I just thought of something. What he's not in the room, Okay,

(38:02):
but Max said he was going to run for president
and then found out that that go, Yeah, and then
you just let it go. Maybe maybe it was I
didn't I never asked him why he abandoned it. I
guess because he wanted to be a journalist. You can't
really do both. Yeah, so maybe.

Speaker 2 (38:19):
Though they are so heavy into politics, they might as
well be politicians.

Speaker 1 (38:24):
But yeah, but maybe he doesn't have to move to saskatchewank.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
Yeah, I don't think he or.

Speaker 1 (38:29):
Do you really need to live there in order to
be mayor. Apparently they're hard up for one.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
Well, yeah, and there's a lot of places. I mean,
look at you know, Hillary Clinton being the whatever of
New York and she was nowhere.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
Near New York and Senator and.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
Look at AOC she doesn't live anywhere near what supposedly is.

Speaker 1 (38:52):
Her district, and met Romney moved to another state. Yeah,
so I mean it's possible.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
All right, Well, we'll bring it up with him offline.
See what he's says crazy speaking of far off places
with crazy animals. Yeah, this was caught on video. We
actually have the video for this one. Kind of gross,
it's a little bit nasty, but you know, that's what

(39:17):
happens when you are I didn't know they still had wheels.

Speaker 1 (39:21):
I thought they apparently they're just they're they're letting the
ones there now like live their life and keep them.

Speaker 3 (39:28):
In then no willies off in the Okay, Well apparently
what happened and they were attending an orchestra at SeaWorld
and the orca just basically.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
Told him what he thought of them. So I actually
had the video of that, because you know, we strive
to give you quality entertainment here at counterculture wise, there
is no Oh it's all weird now there it goes.

Speaker 1 (39:56):
This is the one in San Antonio. There's a few
of them.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
Okay, this is Yeah. He went all over the place,
didn't he. And then he comes into kids like you,
look what just happened you? And then he comes back
and he's like, oh, you think that was bad, you
ain't seen nothing yet. And that kid knows exactly what
just happened to.

Speaker 1 (40:20):
Pretty Grossted.

Speaker 2 (40:24):
I was gross. Okay, sorry, kiddos. That was a little bit.

Speaker 1 (40:29):
That'll teach you to I like.

Speaker 2 (40:31):
I like how in captivity, Yeah, that'll teach you. I
like how this article is written though the oceanic of
mammal then splashes the fecies filled fecies FECs filled water
onto the crowd listiting a mixture of shock, disgust, and
amusement and amusement. For those to comment on the incident,

(40:53):
animals poop get over.

Speaker 1 (40:54):
Yeah that's pretty much. But I would say, you know that.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
You were in the splash, so they don't.

Speaker 1 (41:01):
They don't get a bathroom break between performances, you know,
just how it is.

Speaker 2 (41:05):
That's that's where they go. I mean where else are
they gonna go? Alright, your turn, all right?

Speaker 1 (41:12):
So Melanie and I love giraffes. We went to brew
the zoo last weekend and had a chance to.

Speaker 2 (41:20):
Our big boy. He has gone into another world. But
the two young ladies and the new are there now.

Speaker 1 (41:28):
This one, this giraffe was born at a Tennessee zoo.
But this is a very different beast. A baby giraffe
was born without spots. Last month's clean. He's very clean, spotless.
According to Bright Zoo, where the giraffe was born, she's
the only known the only really, guys, she's the only

(41:50):
solid covered, reticulated giraffe.

Speaker 2 (41:52):
She's the only known, only solid color in the world.
And our giraffes are reticulated. And I know that because
they taught me when I was there.

Speaker 1 (42:01):
Yeah. I have a friend who was in a show
with me. It was a zoo keeper for the giraffes,
and she she talked to us. I think that she
was the same girl talk to us when we were
in the show with her.

Speaker 2 (42:12):
Yeah, Oh, I did not make that connection.

Speaker 1 (42:15):
Giraffe Conservation Foundation and NGO, the concentrates on the conservation
and care of drafts in the wild, did not immediately
respond to Today dot COM's.

Speaker 2 (42:25):
Requests where we even reading that paragraph? What a stupid paragraph.

Speaker 1 (42:28):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
We reached out and they said nothing. Okay, yay.

Speaker 1 (42:32):
Bright Zoo, located in Washington County, Tennessee, is a USDA
licensed private institution accredited by the Zoological Association of the USDA.

Speaker 2 (42:40):
Also the same entity that rates our stakes, the same
exact one. I really think we need to separate those
duties USD prime cut reticulated.

Speaker 1 (42:57):
What the zoo says, A solid brown giraffe born on
July thirty first already stands six feet tall. They grow quick.

Speaker 2 (43:02):
Call it brown. I would call it fawn. Six feet tall.

Speaker 1 (43:08):
Yeah, I'm sure she called them to correct them, and
they had no comment.

Speaker 2 (43:14):
Of course not.

Speaker 1 (43:15):
I'm playing draft. Experts believe she's the only solid colored
reticulated giraffe living anywhere on the planet. A press really
shared with Today. Zoo is currently seeking help from the
public and finding a name for the baby giraffe Brownie. There.
Thanks cash your vote on the zoo's Facebook page.

Speaker 2 (43:33):
I say, Bambi, ooh, she's fun colored.

Speaker 1 (43:37):
There you go so far, The zoo says is Narrowdentalists
of suggestions. The names kippa key, the Swahili word for unique,
for Yali, which means unusual, ordinary, Shakiri which means she
is most beautiful, and Jamella one of great beauty.

Speaker 2 (43:54):
Stick with Bambi. I like Brownie, you would Brownie probably
thinking about brownies right now. Speaking of Brownie's, I blew
up the microwave. I've got to be the only person
on the planet who can destroy a microwave trying to
melt chocolate. Pro tip, do not stick chocolate chips in

(44:17):
a what are those little things called the little crud?
I can always ramikin thank you, I have to sing
the song.

Speaker 1 (44:26):
Or I cannot remic again.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
I'm a Ramican Ramiican man, Ramican man. Anyways, do not
stick chocolate chips and a ramikin to melt them and
then forget that you did so and let it go.
It was only three minutes.

Speaker 1 (44:41):
It was only three louver low heat for to clean
the pan. Well, now we have to clean the microwave.

Speaker 2 (44:49):
No, now we have to get rid of the microwave
because I somehow managed to melt the top off of
the microwave. Yeah, so I'm pretty sure it's not say
it's gonna be.

Speaker 1 (45:01):
I'm gonna be. One of my One of my projects
this week is to go to Target, Walmart, all the
rest online and price microwaves. So find one that fits
our amazing lifestyle, like any any of them.

Speaker 2 (45:19):
Get a two by four to prop it up on
one side.

Speaker 1 (45:22):
Since we have the most lopsided kitchen.

Speaker 2 (45:25):
You've never seen a kitchen that's so lopsided. It's the
craziest thing.

Speaker 1 (45:30):
You know, when Jesus talks about the the builder build
his house on the sand, I think I think this
was their their their template. Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (45:41):
Seriously, because this house I cannot figure it out. There
are places in this house that are seriously you can.
I mean, it has vaulted ceilings, which is cool, but
it means every time you hang a picture you have
to use a level because nothing is going to like
you can't line it up with the wall or the

(46:04):
ceiling because everything's at a slant. Okay, that I get. Okay? So,
like right now I'm looking at my backsplash board that
I use with my students, and then I have a
map behind me as well. But it looks like it
is completely off kilter. But we used a level, and
it is level with the earth. I just don't think

(46:24):
that the house is level with the earth.

Speaker 1 (46:27):
The house is this house as many.

Speaker 2 (46:30):
Level is not one of them. No, no, So what
I had to do for this microwave is the little
screw on feet that go on the bottom.

Speaker 4 (46:38):
Hm.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
I had to take all three of the other ones
off so that I could build up the fourth one
high enough to make it so that it didn't rock
back and forth whenever you used it, because that's how
far off.

Speaker 1 (46:51):
Yeah, it was a ridiculous an angle. I've never seen
that either.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
It's insane. And of course we're gonna have to do
that again with the new microwave that we're about to get.
You know what, Head on over to counterculture was Doug hum,
don't leave this this podcast, open a new tab and
support us, you know, crap, the microwave, the microwaves, save
the Kia, just help us, help us, for god, it

(47:18):
is some psychiatric attention. I'm thinking. Yeah, head on over
to all the things, all right, and oh crap, you
read the giraffe ones, so I have to read this
one and.

Speaker 1 (47:33):
You've had to read in a row.

Speaker 2 (47:34):
Yeah, what I I'm going to go on strike if
you keep giving me the crap ones, and this one
I literally starts with the word literal end crap. It's
a literal crap shoot. And of course it's here in Texas.
A Texas startup named Throne is making waves in scatological
circles after devising a camera that attaches to your toilet

(47:54):
and photographs your yes, you guessed it, poop. Why why
are we here? Are we are? We're above this at
counterculture wise? Why are we talking so much about defecation
in this particular podcast? I give you one week to

(48:15):
arrange the stories, and this is what I get. This
is what happens when you let a man child put
the stories together. Ladies and gentlemen. I'm very very sorry.
I apologize.

Speaker 1 (48:26):
I don't remember one the poop, not this one, added
the prop I admit.

Speaker 2 (48:39):
Throne uses a downward facing camera I certainly hope so
that securely captures video during each bathroom visit. The Austin
based tech firm Rights, while describing the crappy camera, simply
dubbed Throne on their site. They're not filming bell movements
for besses and giggles. Cute ever, wrote this pithy pithy.

(49:03):
This seemingly voyeuristic tech is used to lift the lid
on the user's gut healthy. They're having a lot of
fun with the puns. They're doing a better job than
we are. The downward facing device simply clips onto the
toilet rim and snaps videos of your stool. Afterward, doctor
train artificial intelligence analyzes the stool and provides insight into

(49:24):
the user's daily digestive and hydration status. Well, I can
give you that. I can give you that. After an
hour sitting there reading the comics and doing puzzles, it's like, okay,
well today I didn't have enough fiber.

Speaker 1 (49:38):
I ain't going nowhere with that.

Speaker 2 (49:41):
I would. Well, I'm glad it's AI and not like
an actual human being that has to do that. I
can tell you that I've had to do that with
pets when we're at a veterinary clinic. So it's nice
to know that the human part has been lifted from that.
Oh look at you. You get to read.

Speaker 1 (49:58):
Something cultural, nothing to do with I got culture. An
exceptionally well preserved Roman toilet No I'm kidding, exceptionally well
preserved Roman marble statue thank you has been discovered in Varna.
The Bulgarian Black Sea City's Regional History Museum said initial
estimates so that the statue dates from the second to

(50:20):
third century of the Christian era. The find was made
during construction work outside the fortress walls of the ancient
city known in antiquity as Odessos. The museum said that
it had been notified by the construction contractor, Georgie Kryshchev.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
You're reading those names and not me. I can read.

Speaker 1 (50:41):
Pooh, I can read Georgie Kretschev. The sculpture is slightly
larger than life size, made of fine white marble, and
is very well preserved. Only the right wrist is missing
and there is minor damage to the face. It's actually
quite amazing.

Speaker 2 (50:55):
The entire hand well.

Speaker 1 (50:59):
Yeah, if the wrist is missing them the hands all they.

Speaker 2 (51:01):
Didn't say that. It said only the right risk.

Speaker 1 (51:03):
You expected that the hands.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
Literally, well, I mean it could have been attached.

Speaker 1 (51:10):
Unbelievable. The sculptures of a middle aged male of the
short beard dressed in Roman toga oh God holding a scroll.
There is a well preserved inscription on the plant in Greek,
and the preliminary reading reveals the name of the person
depicted Gaius Marius Homogenes, the toga in which this prominent
citizen of Odessa's clothed betrays his close ties with Roman authority.

(51:33):
The museum set on October fifteenth.

Speaker 2 (51:35):
So they had fancy bedsheets that noted your authority. Yep, okay.

Speaker 1 (51:42):
The statue is currently currently Was it a.

Speaker 2 (51:44):
Thread count thing? I mean, how did you know one
bed sheet from the other.

Speaker 1 (51:49):
I don't know, it's a statue. I don't know what what? What? What?

Speaker 2 (51:54):
The thread was a prominent citizen.

Speaker 1 (51:57):
Her heart the statue sheet? I don't I don't think
they used bed sheets for togas back then. This isn't
the animal house.

Speaker 2 (52:04):
Maybe they used togus for bed sheets. Huh did you
ever think of that?

Speaker 1 (52:10):
I had no reason to think about that.

Speaker 2 (52:14):
Three o'clock in the morning, gym is going to be
in the corner, sucking to I'm going tocas for beas
be quite possibly.

Speaker 1 (52:20):
If it's not, I can't sleep, the clowns will eat me.
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (52:23):
Well, that's me.

Speaker 1 (52:24):
Uh. The statue is currently in the Archaeological Museum in Varna,
awaiting careful cleaning by the restoration team. That's one thing
I like to do when I go to from now on,
when we go visit new places, I always want to
visit any museums that they will meet. Then again, we
haven't been in any of the museums.

Speaker 2 (52:39):
A fantastic area. Yeah, so they just lifted it off
with Okay, So I'm confused because here it's like they
said it was white marble, but now it's beige. And
it was just like sitting on a rock in the
middle of no dang where, and they're like, okay, now
we're going to bring him because he's not white marble anymore.

Speaker 1 (52:58):
Well, it's it's also lighting. So there's sometimes depending on
the if you're how you photographed something on the backside
and it looks like he is, I go to the
bottom picture. Yeah he's lying down.

Speaker 2 (53:14):
Yeah, it looks like he's flat on the backside. So
that's that's an incredible find.

Speaker 1 (53:18):
Yeah, it is pretty amazing.

Speaker 2 (53:20):
Yeah, especially in that grade of shape.

Speaker 1 (53:23):
Hope that alrighty, now, a.

Speaker 2 (53:26):
Little bit of history, a little bit all about all that.

Speaker 1 (53:32):
This is gonna be fun.

Speaker 2 (53:33):
You'll like this one, all right, and hopefully she's not gonna.

Speaker 1 (53:39):
I think we're I think we're done with defcation for
the evening, I mean stories about deficts.

Speaker 2 (53:44):
No more boo all right. For most Americans, Rosie the riveter,
the arm flexing female factory worker in a World War
poster is a simple I'm pretty sure she didn't say
it that way. Well, like we could do. It is
a symbol of American strength resiliency during one of history's
darkest periods. But for Jennifer McMullen, a Los Angeles resident

(54:06):
who this week turned one hundred years old, the feminist
icon is more than a historical artifact. It's an emblem
of her life story. McMullan was a factory worker during
World War Two at Lockheed Aircraft, predecessor to defense and
aviation giant Lockheed Martin in Burbank, California. That made her

(54:27):
one of the roughly five million women recruited by US
defense manufacturers to fill factory jobs amid a shortage of
rokeries while men were going to war, and it was
kind of awesome that, you know, we were able to
get together and do what needed to be done. The rosies,
as the women serving on the production lines were called,
played a pivotal role in building tanks, ships, planes, and

(54:50):
other material essential to the war. Effort. Why is the
word effort underlined? Is that a link going somewhere defense
dot No, I'm not going to click it. I'm just
curious that of all the words they could have underlined
war effort.

Speaker 1 (55:06):
I think they should have underlined both the word war.

Speaker 2 (55:08):
Yeah, because it's like, where is that going to go?
It's like, you know the dictionary definition of the word effort,
but no, it goes to a defense dot gov. Their
impact on American society was perhaps even larger, advancing cultural
acceptance of women in the workforce. And now we don't
get paid vacation or natal care, and everybody has to
have dual incomes, and now babies are raised by the

(55:30):
government OI at a time that females holding a job
was associated with National archives. Well, I'm even can see this.
I guess some people are just listening and can't see it.
I'm just saying among family and friends. At her birthday
celebration on October twentieth at the Oakmont of Whittier assisted

(55:53):
living facility in Whittier, California, where she resides, Wow, that
was SuperFect. Yeah, that celebration where she was that was
that was like a kmala thing. Yeah, these words in
which I was with the words that I am speaking,
that are words. And when we think.

Speaker 1 (56:13):
We're talking words, i'm talking, I'm talking.

Speaker 2 (56:15):
I'm talking. I'm talking, and I'm going to talk like
I'm asking it say anything. Everything I say is going
to sound like I'm asking a question anyway. Okay, So
I'm not going to read that again because how many
times can I say? What are your where? She resides
by the way, McMullan shared her thoughts with we don't care.
It feels wonderful, it feels really good. I'm happy that

(56:35):
we're here. So there's the iconic Rosie the riveter. Seated
next to McMullan was her husband of nearly, oh my gosh,
eighty years. Can you imagine being married to somebody for
eighty years?

Speaker 1 (56:49):
Barely imagine being married to someone for eighty months, and then.

Speaker 2 (56:52):
I can't even imagine being alive for eighty years. We
are sane. They got married when they were twenty. They're
just babies. Oh my gosh, that's insane.

Speaker 1 (57:02):
And he's alive too, Wan.

Speaker 2 (57:07):
Veteran, who himself is just a few months away from
turning one hundred. Ooh, she's a little credile robber look
at her. The couple shared three sons and four grandchildren,
who traveled all over the world during those years together.
We've been married about seventy nine years, she said, So
it feels good good to have a companion. Yeah, who's
still alive? You go girl. Also in attendance was Moowen's granddaughter,

(57:31):
who read from a letter. Granddaughter who's like sixty, I mean,
come on, who read a letter sent by the American
Rosie the Riveter Association. That's a thing, m h. And
it's our American Rosie the Riverter Association in honor of
her grandmother's milestone. You were a Rosie Riveter, one of
the many hard working and patriotic women who came forward

(57:53):
during World War Two to help ensure Allied victory. The
letter said she had to wait one hundred years to
get that. As for what's next, the sprightly Centurion in
tune we can't do it fashion said, looking forward to
my one fifty and you know what if Elon Musk
has anything to say about it, My sweet woman, she.

Speaker 1 (58:13):
Actually looks pretty darn good for one hundred. Yeah, you're
not playing the video, but she does look young.

Speaker 2 (58:21):
She does. I love that they gave her a tiara.
That just makes my day because my birthday's next week
and I always wear a tiara on my birthday.

Speaker 1 (58:28):
Do you have a tiara? Do I need to get
you another one?

Speaker 2 (58:30):
I have two, but I might get a third.

Speaker 1 (58:31):
Because you know, I like this Pinka get one while
while Spirit Halloween is still open.

Speaker 2 (58:35):
Oh there you go? No, no, no, I like, well,
they might have good ones. I usually get mine at
Claire's because like there's and I want plastic. I want
I want metal and rhinestones if I can't have real diamonds.

Speaker 1 (58:48):
Stone cow.

Speaker 2 (58:50):
Camp.

Speaker 1 (58:53):
All right.

Speaker 2 (58:54):
That was weirds are the weird and wonderful and now
oh no, oh you got another one?

Speaker 1 (58:59):
Well you you did mention that Trump went to the McDonald's.

Speaker 2 (59:02):
Well that is Oh did I put that some word?
I put that right under word It says ravening story.
Oh I did, I skipped it, didn't I? Oh? Okay,
So some of you may know that Trump indeed did
work at McDonald's this week.

Speaker 1 (59:19):
Yeah, yeah, fifteen minutes longer.

Speaker 2 (59:21):
Than fifteen minutes longer. Actually he was there for a
lot longer than that they asked him at. Fifteen minutes
was hilarious and broke the internet. I mean, just broke
the internet. Is so hilarious. I just wanted to show
this really quick. This was the crowd that had gathered
to see him. Now, remember Trump can't even Johnny Crowns.

(59:46):
He's tired. People are leaving his rallies because they're not
interested in seeing what he has to say. Honey, I'm
thinking that just may not be for real. Yeah, those
are the crowds that were gathering outside this McDonald's.

Speaker 1 (01:00:05):
It's actually pretty impressive. And so he worked the fry machine.
He did, he did started handing out. Now can you
imagine driving up to McDonald's and having the president okay
technically former president, but having president you.

Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
Wan to him former president. I like to help him. Now,
I think everybody was just getting free fries. I mean, yes, okay,
it was a staged event. And that's what's so funny
is the left are like, oh, it was staged, it
was state.

Speaker 1 (01:00:37):
Well, of course it was. Duke says more about that.

Speaker 2 (01:00:41):
Actually he does. He does, well, well, well, let's play
this and then we'll play Chuck. But I mean, duh,
dude's been shot at like twice. Now, of course they're
going to vet the people coming up. But what was
really funny is the people who are coming up in
their cars. I mean, we're just My favorite was the
woman who said that he came from a country that
was socialist and please don't let them be like my country.

(01:01:03):
I think it was Brazil, you know, please don't let
them be like us, you know, mister president. And he
spent like the last two weeks just being like, I'm
a dude. I'm human. Hello, not not the little mustachie
old guy. I'm just an everyday guy. So here is
Trump at McDonald's and video that we're gonna obviously get

(01:01:24):
dmc out of the blillian.

Speaker 1 (01:01:27):
Floor, but I'm going for a job right now at McDonald's.
I've had I really wanted to do this all much.

Speaker 2 (01:01:33):
I wanted to do this all my life. She didn't
do it. And look at I mean, she looks just
absolutely terrified of the evil. I mean, so there's a
spry guide. And this fry guide was a great little trainer.
He was so good at what he did. I mean,
he gave him every like step by step, and he
was super patient. And Trump asked questions along the way

(01:01:54):
and and just really sweet. And then Trump of Corsetti.
He was a good trainer. He taught me everything I
needed to know, which you know every I mean, what
is this like an eighteen year old kid. I mean
obviously terrified of Hitler. I can tell just by the
way they interacted. Yeah, so really cute in exchange here.

Speaker 5 (01:02:12):
Worked at McDon It was a big part of her
resume that she worked at McDonald's.

Speaker 1 (01:02:16):
How tough job it was.

Speaker 5 (01:02:17):
She specifically worked at the French fry with to make
the French fries, and she talked about the heat, it
was so tough.

Speaker 1 (01:02:24):
She never worked at McDonald's.

Speaker 5 (01:02:25):
McDonald's just confirmed that again, by the way, she never
worked at McDonald's.

Speaker 2 (01:02:30):
Now, in her defense, McDonald said that they could not
find any record of her having done so, which isn't
technically saying she's right, and.

Speaker 1 (01:02:45):
You know it's the franchise who's paying you, not McDonald's.

Speaker 2 (01:02:50):
Well, I mean, okay, but I can go back to
nineteen eighty nine, you know, when I was a high
high schooler and I worked for you know, three months
at an off named fast food restaurant in Kent, Washington,
and the Social Security Administration can tell you exactly the dates.

Speaker 1 (01:03:08):
I right, same with me working at Dairy Queen in
in Washington State. Yeah, the Twin Lakes. I think it's
still there, said Dairy.

Speaker 2 (01:03:18):
Queen, probably. But I mean, seriously, I can go all
the way back to my very well, not my very
first job babysitting, but my very first real job where
I got a paycheck w two, you know, and it's
easy to prove right. Lion kamala, lion kamala. They didn't

(01:03:41):
work with lion's head. We'll got them go with this fries.

Speaker 1 (01:03:46):
Exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
That's like that.

Speaker 3 (01:03:50):
We will.

Speaker 2 (01:03:54):
Yeah, McDon nasty are if they've been sitting around now
there's this nasty period. I never liked McDonald's fries.

Speaker 1 (01:04:01):
I always liked them when they're fresh off the fresh
out of the prior.

Speaker 2 (01:04:07):
Yeah, they do nothing. I like Wndy's fries my favorite.
Or five guys will we were christ out of them.
So there you go, President Donald Trump working at McDonald's.
He did it. I thought that was brilliant. I mean,
what a great I mean, come on, that was awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:04:30):
That was awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:04:31):
That was a lot of fun. So I'm glad he
did that. Well, let's let's see what Chuck has.

Speaker 1 (01:04:36):
To say about.

Speaker 2 (01:04:38):
That, and Oh boy, I do apologize in advance for
what you are about to witness. This was not my fault,
but here you go.

Speaker 1 (01:05:01):
And now CCW News presents, holy crap, this is actually happening.
Two weeks till Civil War edition, October twenty twenty four.
I'm Chuck U. Farley. The big news this week is
the lack of relief for getting from Kamala Harris's complete
disaster of a campaign, which sadly distracts from desperate American
citizens in a post apocalyptic hurricane zone in need of

(01:05:24):
actual disaster relief. While the Harris Biden cabal extorts eight
billion of your tax dollars to launder through Ukraine and
three hundred and eighty five million dollars to rebuild Lebanon,
while also funding Israel's munitions so they can bomb Lebanon
to bits. Harris told those hurricane survivors who lost everything
that they could log onto the non existent Internet using

(01:05:45):
their destroyed computers without any electricity to apply to get
seven hundred and fifty of their tax dollars back as
a loan, while Tennessee deployed its national Guard to Kuwait
instead of guarding its own nation in its time need,
FEMA withheld aid from those stranded further out, and the
government threatened to arrest private citizens offering aid to them.

(01:06:07):
The Vice Calckler was on the porn podcast She's Your Daddy,
discussing abortion, and just to drive the point home, the
porn industry published their endorsement of Heals Up Paris. Because,
as they've often said, decency is on the ballot. I
swear I'm not making this up, but never fear. FEMA
has made it clear that its number one focus is equity,

(01:06:28):
its number two goal is facing climate resilience, and its
number three goal, which is literally its sole purpose, so
it only makes sense that it's at last on the list,
is preparedness. What did this dei centric approach result in?
FEMA sent palettes of chainsaws to the most remote areas
with no food, shelter, running water, or electricity. Electric chainsaws. No,

(01:06:55):
I'm not making this up either. President Trump trolled his
opponent and then broke the internet by serving fries at
a Pennsylvania McDonald's this weekend. I've now worked for fifteen
minutes more than Kamala at McDonald's, equipped as the giant
line of excited customers snaked its way to the drive
through just to get a glimpse of him, harbingers of
the obvious unless it happens to be real news. Mainstream

(01:07:17):
media was put to point out that it was staged
and everyone involved was vetted beforehand, as if that made
no sense given how many times he's been fired upon.
Golden archis Shenanigan's aside. Now that RFK Junior is part
of the Trump team, he has declared that he wants
to focus on making America healthy again. Meanwhile, Kamala is

(01:07:38):
celebrating her endorsement from Lizzo Lord. I swear I am
not making this up. Lizzo flow in on our private
jet to the US's second most violent city, which she
said made her though she fled the nineoseconds, she made
the money to do so, and claimed quote, if Kamala
is elected, the whole country will look like Detroit. Donald

(01:08:01):
Trump approved of that message 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 (01:08:26):
Now see that's why we can't have nice things. I
think that's a good lead into this particular segment. What
do you think.

Speaker 1 (01:08:34):
I think that's an amazing lead in.

Speaker 2 (01:08:36):
All right, I'm checking checking no poop all right.

Speaker 1 (01:08:41):
Off you go either all right, well, good poop.

Speaker 2 (01:08:45):
Free here at counterculture wise, we don't ask.

Speaker 1 (01:08:47):
For fecis free. No crap, yeah, this is this is
out of Poland, Poland. A funeral home in Poland issued
an unusual apology on Saturday after a corpse that it
was transporting fell out of a hearse and into traffic.

Speaker 2 (01:09:06):
No, into traffic, oh no.

Speaker 1 (01:09:10):
Polish media reported that a man was driving down a
street Friday in Stalla wa Wola, a city in southeastern Poland,
when he first saw a sheet on his car window.

Speaker 2 (01:09:21):
Sitcom.

Speaker 1 (01:09:24):
When the sheet slid down, he saw body lying on
the road. For a moment, the driver feared that he you're.

Speaker 2 (01:09:30):
Just fruitdy and slip and rather than say a body,
you said of Biden, I swear you did well to
go back and re listen to that.

Speaker 1 (01:09:37):
I swear you said body lying in the road. I
swear I'm not making this up. For a moment, the
driver feared that he had hit the person. Local media
published an image of the corpse lying on a white
striped pedestrian crossing where it tumbled out of the hearse.

Speaker 2 (01:09:52):
Notice that this media did not.

Speaker 1 (01:09:55):
The company transporting the corpse, Haiti's Funeral Services. Oh might
you know.

Speaker 2 (01:10:05):
That cannot be their name, but that's their name. It's
going to mean something different.

Speaker 1 (01:10:14):
It's probably hot. That's probably just how it's pronounced. It
spelled hades, and so I just felt that was.

Speaker 3 (01:10:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:10:23):
They issued a statement Saturday, taking responsibility for the incident
and blaming the technical failure of the hearse. It is
with deep regret that we have farmed that as a
result of the unexpected technical failure of the electricalgate lock
in the hearts during the transport of the.

Speaker 2 (01:10:39):
Body of accent, that's what you got.

Speaker 1 (01:10:42):
I don't know what polish sounds like. An unfortunate event
occurred which does not reflect the high stairs deep empathy
towards the families of the disease.

Speaker 2 (01:10:55):
I love you because I have no idea what it
sounds like, but I'm pretty sure that's not.

Speaker 1 (01:10:58):
It, and the respect we already saw it for the disease,
the company wrote in a statement post on its website.
It apologized all those who were disappointed and upset by
this event.

Speaker 2 (01:11:10):
Disappointed you mean you didn't run it over? You didn't
get that satisfied. But speaking of which, we still don't
know what you hit the other day.

Speaker 1 (01:11:21):
Oh yeah, I ran over something on the drive home.

Speaker 2 (01:11:24):
I think it was metallic. I'm like, you can tell
me what it was made out of based on the
sound it made when you ran over it. I don't
think that's a thing monus wheel state on.

Speaker 1 (01:11:40):
Yeah, I'm glad the wheel stayed on, the new tires
didn't get damaged.

Speaker 2 (01:11:43):
Yeah, freaking three hundred dollars tires.

Speaker 1 (01:11:47):
Oh, that wasn't so bad.

Speaker 2 (01:11:50):
Unbelievably expensive. These were supposed to be used tires, they said.

Speaker 1 (01:11:55):
I think they inadvertently gave us new ones, though.

Speaker 2 (01:11:57):
I think they advertently did it. Whatever, it's very indvertent.
I feel violated.

Speaker 1 (01:12:03):
It was so language it was so virtile. Language barrier.
But still yeah, save money over yeah somewhere else.

Speaker 2 (01:12:10):
Yeah, language barrier blues. Oh no, give him the new ones.
He's a dumb honky. He didn't know.

Speaker 1 (01:12:19):
The term is cracker. Thank you?

Speaker 2 (01:12:21):
No, no, no, all? What do they? Green goo? You're a
green go? Okay, this one is wrong on so many levels,
but the fact that there's this sign is kind of terrifying.
Hug it up. But make a quick New Zealand airbra

(01:12:42):
courses New Zealand s that's a time limit on goodbyes.
Now I'm wondering. Now does it start the minute you
start hugging? Do you get to talk first? Or is
it like the minute, I mean the clock start.

Speaker 1 (01:12:56):
It might be in the article.

Speaker 2 (01:12:57):
Let's find out well to New Zealand. Emotional farewells are
a common side at airports, but travelers leaving the New
Zealand city of Dunedin will have to be quick. A
new three minute time limit on goodbye hugs in the
airport's drop off areas intended to prevent lingering cuddles from
causing traffic jams. Max hug time three minutes. Worn signs

(01:13:22):
outside the terminal adding that those seeking quote fonder farewells
end quote should add to the airport's parkale They just
log into OnlyFans, you know whatever, fonder farewells. The cuddle
cap was imposed in September to keep things moving smoothly
and the redesigned passenger drop off area outside the airport.

(01:13:45):
The CEO told the Associated Press it was a part.
It was the airport's wave reminding people that the zone
was for quick, quick farewells only get out. The signed
polarized social media users. We were accused of breaching basic
human rights and how dare we limit how long someone
can have a hug for? He said, adding that others

(01:14:06):
had welcomed the change. Unfortunately, every single one of them
was named Karen. The signs were meant as an alternative
to those that at the airport's warning of wheel clamping
or fines for drivers parked and drop off. Okay, now
parking getting out of the vehicle, walking away from the
vehicle that's different, but hugging someone. Some in Britain have

(01:14:28):
imposed fees for all drop offs. However, brief sorry right.
Denen's airport of modest terminals serving a city of one
hundred and thirty five thousand people in New Zealand South
Island preferred a quirky approach to Bono said, our dog
is drying everything she has to get her attention.

Speaker 1 (01:14:48):
I know she doesn't realize she has it, but she's.

Speaker 2 (01:14:51):
Out there just squeaking her little heart out because we
close the door.

Speaker 1 (01:14:54):
How dare she has some one of her squeaky toys
and she has more than one.

Speaker 2 (01:14:57):
She's like a seal out there squeaking everything she can
and chasing the cats, and she's really wrong side of
the door. Apparently, three minutes was plenty of time to
pull up safe for a well to you led one
and move on, he said. The time of it is
really a nicer way of saying, you know, get on
with it, get a room. Do you think that they're
gonna have like in high school we had a smoking square.

Speaker 1 (01:15:19):
I remember that I had one.

Speaker 2 (01:15:20):
Yeah. Do you think they're going to have like a
hugging square where you're allowed to do that?

Speaker 1 (01:15:25):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (01:15:27):
A twenty second hug is long enough to release the
well being boosting hormones oxy o for a crying of
the mud, oxytocin, and serotonin. Anything longer was really awkward.
You know what's really awkward is when you're like, bye, sweetie,
I hope you come back from my rack. I love you.
One hippopotamus, two hippopotamus, three hippopotamus for it. That's awkward.

(01:15:53):
But cassengers need not worry unduly about enforcement. We do
not have hug police yet they will. Yes. Lisitors might, however,
be asked to move their lingering embraces. Move you're that
I'm going to use that from now on, when I'm
in a traffic light and like it turns green and
the dude doesn't move, I'll be like, move, you're lingering

(01:16:14):
and brace. That's what I'm gonna do from now on.
God bless you, God bless you. Not move your lingering embrace.
Where they can cuddle free of charge for up to
fifty free of charge fifteen minute cuddles.

Speaker 1 (01:16:32):
The hug police. They're going to be in your bed.

Speaker 2 (01:16:35):
Yeah, hug point, take up your head fifteen minutes and
four seconds. Now it's ten ninety nine a minute.

Speaker 1 (01:16:45):
Our next story is an honorary Florida Man. We have
some Florida Man stories to share, but probably not tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:16:53):
Will probably this one's a dudes, this one.

Speaker 1 (01:16:58):
You're I'm just gonna say on the outset, you are
not guaranteed privacy when you have geek squad move your files.
And it's really not a difficult thing to do anyway,
No even I can do it. I proved it by
erasing a novel anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:17:15):
Well, yeah, that's true. I spent a lot of time
trying to find that novel.

Speaker 1 (01:17:19):
I did too.

Speaker 2 (01:17:20):
Unfortunately, what he had on his hard drive was not
so novel.

Speaker 1 (01:17:25):
A Kentucky man as opposed to Kentucky Warn't was arrested
after police.

Speaker 2 (01:17:30):
Said he has a ponytail. Ladies and gentlemen, he has
a ponytail.

Speaker 1 (01:17:34):
Yeah, so totally eighties.

Speaker 2 (01:17:36):
He has a widow's peak, like all the way back
behind his ears and a ponytail.

Speaker 1 (01:17:41):
Yeah, very very nineteen eighties chic look forty years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:17:46):
He looks surprised that he's there too.

Speaker 1 (01:17:48):
A Kentucky man was arrested at a Police said best
Buy employees allegedly discovered child porn.

Speaker 2 (01:17:55):
Best By it literally.

Speaker 1 (01:17:57):
Was the Yeah, that's why I said, geek.

Speaker 2 (01:17:59):
Square are making a joke.

Speaker 1 (01:18:01):
It literally no, it's literally literally best Buy. Oh my god,
discovered child porn on his computer. Wile trying to help
transferred file no. Jack Hancock took, seventy eight years old,
took his computer to a best Buy Louisville on August
twenty eighth to have its files moved on to an

(01:18:21):
external hard drive. During the exchange, employees saw what they
believed to be files containing child pornography. According to arrest
records obtained by the Lexington Herald Ledger.

Speaker 2 (01:18:32):
Oh I would hate to be that employee.

Speaker 1 (01:18:34):
As opposed to it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:36):
Says Bobby twelve. Oh no, no, no, no, no, shutdown
to oh dear, oh my.

Speaker 1 (01:18:43):
The Saint Matthew's Police department obtained a search warrant for
Hancock's home, and on the morning of October fourteenth, investigators
reportedly found hundreds of images of children engaging in sex
acts with adults.

Speaker 2 (01:18:55):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:18:58):
Authorities alleged that Hancock had been in the process of
downad downloading more childborn when the search warr was executed.
According to you just can't get enough. It's like it's
like potato chips. According to a citation obtained by wdrb EW,
the seventy eight year old allegedly admitted to knowingly having
more than three hundred files.

Speaker 2 (01:19:20):
You know what's terrifying is that there's three hundred files
to be had.

Speaker 1 (01:19:25):
There's big money in it. You know, no why, I
don't know. People are evil. According to court records obtained
by Harold Leader, Hancock was arrested face twenty counts of
possessing matter portraying sexual performance by a minor under twelve
years old.

Speaker 2 (01:19:42):
Twelve years yeah, sick pervert.

Speaker 1 (01:19:46):
His bond was set to ten thousand dollars in his
due back in court on Wednesday.

Speaker 2 (01:19:51):
That is the face of swine evil. Shwinem oh Christ,
I lift up each and every one of those children.
May they be freed from this evil.

Speaker 1 (01:20:05):
Yeah, everybody involved in that should if he has the
information he needs to come.

Speaker 2 (01:20:10):
I mean there's there's rotten hell and then there's just
rowden hell. You know. Yeah, this is a fun one.

Speaker 1 (01:20:17):
Yeah see, I mean this is supposed isn't isn't we
supposed to or THC supposed to make you crave pizza?

Speaker 2 (01:20:24):
You would think, so it's like a double yeah. Yeah,
I think this is just entrepreneurship. So famous pizza place
in Wisconsin, it's just an apology after serving pizza contaminated
with TC. Why why is there TCHC in my pizza?
I really want to know? Is that a thing? Now?

(01:20:45):
A Wisconsin based pizza restaurant has issued an apology after
it was discovered that some of its pizza served to
customers was contaminated with THHC. And seriously, though, why, I mean,
and are we talking like eda boo? I just really

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do we sprinkle it on like a regano? I mean,
how is this done? Officials of Public Health, Medicine and
Dane County stated that the release that Famous Yetti's Pizza
famous yetis yeah, well, I mean as opposed to all
the unfamous Yetties out there, had an unintentional THHC contamination. Oh,
I had an unintentional to your condamination in the dough

(01:21:30):
of some of its pizzas in the dough. It's in
the dough some of it's pizzas, and then it lists
to specific day reggae health officials are warning may have
purchased pizza during that time frame. I'm pretty sure they

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know by now from Famous Yettis and to throw it away.
No man, what's the street value of these babies? Around
five thirty pm on October twenty four, Famous Jetti'sizza just
the incident on its Facebook page with an explanation and
an apology. The full statement can be read below. I
think Shaggy should.

Speaker 6 (01:22:07):
Read this Yeti's community is a deep regret that we
inform you of a potential contamination.

Speaker 1 (01:22:13):
I can't do this.

Speaker 6 (01:22:16):
I was involving pizzas sold between like Tuesday, October twenty
second and Thursday, October twenty fourth. After receiving ports from staff,
Yetti's owner and employees of unexplained physical reactions. Er, we
underwent an investigation with the Stone Police and the local
health officials.

Speaker 2 (01:22:35):
I think that the unexplained physical reactions went something like
this when the moon was in the seth pause.

Speaker 1 (01:22:51):
Okay, Today it was confirmed the pizza had been sold
with dough mistakenly prepared with Delta nine contaminated oil will
accidentally using the product originated from a shared storage space
and the on site cooperative commercial kitchen.

Speaker 2 (01:23:08):
What is what?

Speaker 1 (01:23:09):
No, it looks like they shared. They share the kitchen
with some other businesses.

Speaker 2 (01:23:13):
And you know how much a bottle of that oil
would cost?

Speaker 1 (01:23:16):
No, it's not it ain't exactly lesson you know, right? Wow,
the oil accidentally used in the product originally.

Speaker 2 (01:23:26):
The gentle my fuzzy white behind. Come on, is anybody buying.

Speaker 1 (01:23:30):
Kind of fuzzy but mostly smooth. We want to assure
you that all affected products have been destroyed. Oh Man,
ro famous Yetis is working closely with local authorities to
improve our storage and security protocols to prevent this from
happening again and to guarantee the safety of our customers.
We like sincerely apologize when you can convenience or arm caused.

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Which is famous YETI is a Gmail come man.

Speaker 2 (01:24:03):
The release also notes that Famous Yetti's Pizza operates in
a building with a shared industrial kitchen where many businesses
make food.

Speaker 1 (01:24:10):
And other products.

Speaker 2 (01:24:12):
Other products. Really, that's a thing. Will you share a
kitchen with other I've never heard of such a thing.
I don't know, gus literally never heard of such a thing.

Speaker 1 (01:24:25):
It may just be a Wisconsin thing. I don't know, weird,
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:24:28):
Public health sanitarians are currently investigating the building with help
from the Stoughton Police Department. In the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture,
Trade and Consumer Protection, the owner of Famous Yetti's pizzas
cooperaty with the investigation. The public health and memory health
officials are also asking anyone who ate the pizza and
experience THC related symptoms to contact their healthcare provider.

Speaker 4 (01:24:52):
Blue Sky's smiling means don't list the THHC guys.

Speaker 2 (01:25:00):
The sad thing is is one of the THHC related
symptoms is that you get the munchies so that you
eat more pizza. You eat more pizza, and then you
get the munchies so you eat more pizza.

Speaker 1 (01:25:12):
It's a conspiracy.

Speaker 2 (01:25:13):
And then they I mean, what they find of these
poor people, like are really really happy, and they've eaten
the pizza, every less morsel, the pizza, the box, the
pizza came.

Speaker 1 (01:25:22):
In, the greasy paper underneath the pizza, their eyeball of
the cat roll it up and smoke it.

Speaker 2 (01:25:31):
I'm seriously, though, I am not buying it. I'm just
I'm not buying the accidental bit. I'm just not. I mean,
call me a tinfoil had conspiracy theorist, and I'm not buyingdal.

Speaker 1 (01:25:43):
The Washington Post.

Speaker 2 (01:25:46):
Wait, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Now,
I work very hard on Yeah, you're rushies. Yeah, I
worked very very hard on these things. Of course, not
hard enough to actually find the bloody thing in time here,
but the thing and this stuff, So here we go.

Speaker 1 (01:26:09):
This is not Bubba Waters.

Speaker 2 (01:26:11):
It is no longer twenty twenty. But this is your
new abnormal. If you can't raise corporate taxes, or if
GOP takes control of the Senate, where do you get

(01:26:32):
the money to do that? Do you still go forward
those plans and borrow? Well, but we're gonna have to
raise corporate taxes, and we're gonna have.

Speaker 1 (01:26:43):
To raise We're gonna have to make sure that the
biggest corporations and billionaires pay their fair share.

Speaker 2 (01:26:51):
That's just it. It's about paying their fair share.

Speaker 1 (01:26:55):
I am not mad at anyone for achieving success, but
everyone should pay their fair share.

Speaker 2 (01:27:00):
And it is not right that the teachers and the.

Speaker 1 (01:27:02):
Firefighters that I meet every day across our country are
paying a higher tax than the richest people in our country.
President aren't a single thing that idea that she couldn't do,
and so I was able to delegate her responsibility on
everything from foreign policy and messy policy.

Speaker 7 (01:27:22):
She simply has said, it doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way. We can't afford.
We can't afford four more years of this.

Speaker 1 (01:27:34):
And I've been saying it, Jay, She's into each hall.

Speaker 2 (01:27:44):
Do you think you just.

Speaker 1 (01:27:44):
Fell out of a coconut tree? All right? So else
as it was.

Speaker 2 (01:27:58):
Best wine ever?

Speaker 1 (01:28:00):
Oh God. The Washington Post decided to go back to
its old policy of not endorsing a candidate for the election,
and the entire world is melting down over this. One
day after The Washington Post announced it would not endorse

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the presidential candidate in this year's election or in the future,
its billionaire owner remained silent as the newspaper staffer and turmoil. Turmoil,
I tell you. Jeff Bezos has so far declined to
comment on the situation. When it's that flimsy, I know,
empty water bottle flew off. Jeff Bezos has so far

(01:28:42):
declined to comment on the situation, even as his own
papers journalist reported it was Bezos himself who ultimately spiked
the planned endorsement. A source of knowledge told CNN on Friday,
the endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris who else it's
a left wing newspaper, had been drafted before it was
squashed in the last tie.

Speaker 2 (01:29:03):
The minute, a news organization of any sort, be it
a paper or a channel, endorses a particular candidate, they
cease to be news. They are no longer news. They
are now opinion. Well they are partisan opinion. So anytime
I see any news organization, a paper, a magazine, or

(01:29:29):
a god forbid, an entire channel come out and endorse
a particular candidate, you are no longer news in my eyes. Okay?

Speaker 1 (01:29:36):
Can I ask you something though? Sure you just did, well,
let me ask you something else. In addition, it's been
a tradition for newspapers to do this, and sometimes you
have like there's entire editorial sections where people write opinions
on political events and that kind of thing. Are you
saying that should also be removed? Or just endorsements of

(01:29:59):
political candidates.

Speaker 2 (01:30:00):
The tradition was you would have an opinion piece or
side by side, you'd have one person say this is
why I think this candidate should blah blah blah, and
the other side is, this is why I think the
opposing candidate should blah blah blah. Okay, that's the way
it was done, Okay, And it was on the opinions page, right,

(01:30:21):
And the paper itself did not say, oh, you should
vote for this person, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:30:28):
That's true. They do say that this is the opinion,
just like our little disclaimer at the beginning of our show. Okay,
I get it. In the past twenty four hours, at
least one whiny little editor has resigned. I'm sorry that
I've added a few words. Fine core editor to Canada
where they belong, and high profile Post staff is a
publicly expressed their dismay as many in the paper's opinion

(01:30:50):
section are furious, simply furious over how the situation was handled.

Speaker 2 (01:30:54):
Why they endorsed no one. It's not like they endorsed
the guy they didn't like, I know, said we're not
going to be We're going to be an actual news organization.
God forbid.

Speaker 1 (01:31:05):
For many current and former staffers of The Venerable Newspaper,
like the Venereal newspapers, the timing all the announcement was
highly suspect and has led them to believe Bezos's business
interests influenced the decision. Dull you think maybe. Former Post
executive editor Marty Barron, who led the paper under Bezos
during the first Trump administration, called the decision an act

(01:31:27):
of cowardice.

Speaker 2 (01:31:28):
To declara moment getting behind the candidate that you know
isn't going to get you shot is a sign of cowardice.

Speaker 3 (01:31:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:31:39):
I think backing you know, a particular candidate because you
all of your your little fluozy you know diddy friends
think you should that's cowardice. I think saying, you know,
forget you, I'm going to try to be a news
organization that took stones, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:31:58):
To declare a moment of high principle only eleven days
before the election. There's just highly suspect that it is necessary.
That is just not to be believed.

Speaker 2 (01:32:07):
Let me get this right to It's highly suspect if
you have principles, I know, eleven days before an election,
are you guys listening to yourselves?

Speaker 1 (01:32:17):
Baron told CNN's Michael Smerconish on I hope I never
have to pronounce that name again on Saturday morning.

Speaker 2 (01:32:24):
Sci it sounds like a city in Washington State, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:32:26):
It does. It probably is. Trump has threatened Bezos continually.
Baron noted, but when Baron was in charge of the newspaper,
Bezos resisted that pressure and he was proud and grateful
for that leadership.

Speaker 2 (01:32:37):
Wait, what Trump is threatened?

Speaker 1 (01:32:41):
That's according to the whiny boy who's pissed.

Speaker 2 (01:32:44):
And they put the word continually in quotations. So what
does that mean?

Speaker 1 (01:32:48):
I don't even know.

Speaker 2 (01:32:48):
And what do they mean by threatened? You can't just
blip over that. That means nothing.

Speaker 1 (01:32:53):
I know. You know, Bezos has other commissional interests, the
big in Amazon. He has a space company called Blue Origin.
Baron said, Trump is threatened to pursue his political enemies,
and he rewards his friends, and he punishes his perceived
political and think there's no other explanation for what's happening
right now.

Speaker 2 (01:33:12):
That's not boldface, sorry, bald face.

Speaker 7 (01:33:16):
Lie.

Speaker 2 (01:33:18):
Trump has not threatened to pursue his political enemies. He
has been pursued by his political enemies, but not once
is he threatened to pursue them.

Speaker 1 (01:33:29):
Baron said, Post publisher Will Lewis's defense of the non
endorsement was laughable, noting that the Post is endorsed in
other races and they shouldn't if their philosophy as readers
can make up their own minds on the big issues
that they face in this democracy. Me inserting words that
is there that should be the philosophy, literally, then don't
run any editorials, Baron said, But the fact is they

(01:33:51):
only decide not to run an editorial in this one instance,
eleven days before the election. In a statement to CNN
on Saturday, push back on reports about Bezos's role in
the endorsement decision, reporting around the role of the Washington
Post owner and the decision not to publish a presidential
endorsement has been inaccurate. Lewis said he was not sent,

(01:34:14):
did not read, and did not opine on Indy Draft.
As publisher, I do not believe in presidential endorsements. Amen
Good I now have newfound respect for the Washington Post.

Speaker 2 (01:34:26):
They're conflating editorial with endorsement. Those are two completely different things.
If you want to run an editorial, fine, do that,
put opinion big and bold across the top, and then
have somebody with a different opinion. That's cowardly if you cannot.

Speaker 4 (01:34:43):
Do that.

Speaker 1 (01:34:46):
As publisher. We are an independent newspaper and should report,
should support our reader's ability to make up their own minds.
Several current Post journalists told CNN they have no problem
with the editorial board not endorsing in any situation, with
some actively agreeing with the decision, but they all found
the timing of the announcement extremely troubling. Deciding that now

(01:35:10):
right before an election puts us in a lose lose position.
Cowards for caving or whining over not endorsing Harris, which
the Trump campaign is already used trying to use to
undermine us. One another told CNN that people are angry
and feel like senior managers are undermining the journalism.

Speaker 2 (01:35:28):
It's not journalism to endorse a candidate. It's the opposite,
undermining journalism by opining and not calling it an opinion.

Speaker 1 (01:35:38):
Okay, Others expressed deep concerned the wave of readers reacting
to the news have canceled their subscriptions, something that will
directly impact the newsroom's ability to function. Robert Kagan, a
Post columnist and opinion editor at large who had been
with a paper for twenty five years, publicly resigned on
Friday as a direct result of the non endorsement. By

(01:35:58):
the way, what's another name for Robert Dick? No, no, no, no.
I was about to do my Bob impersonation.

Speaker 4 (01:36:09):
Oh Bob, I'm sorry, Bob after this obviously an effort
by Jeff Bezos to curry favor with Donald Trump in
the anticipation of his possible.

Speaker 1 (01:36:20):
Victory possible ma, but Kagan told CNN's Aaron Burnett out
front on Friday, Trump is trying to go after Bezos's business.
Bezos runs one of the largest companies in America. They
have tremendously intricate relations with federal government. They depend on
the federal government.

Speaker 2 (01:36:37):
They shouldn't.

Speaker 1 (01:36:38):
On Friday, Trump met with executives in Blue Origin, the
space exploration company owned by Bezos, hours after the Post
announced his decision Friday. The company has a three point
four billion dollar contract with the federal government to build
a new spacecraft to scuttle astronauts to it from the
Moon's surface. That's pretty cool. Seeing as how Boeing failed monstrously.

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Trump advisors and supporters, that's got to bail them out, crowing.
Since both The Post and the Los Angeles Times billionaire
owners stepped in to prevent their papers from endorsing Harris,
a post on x by a Post reporter noting that
Trump met with Blue Origin executives the same day the
Post declined to endorse Harris was reposted by Trump's spokesman,

(01:37:21):
Stephen Chung along with multiple love emojis. Trump senior advisor
Stephen Miller also pounced on the non endorsement, writing, you
know the Kamala campaign is sinking when even the Washington
Post refuses to endorse.

Speaker 2 (01:37:33):
She's a terrible candidate.

Speaker 1 (01:37:35):
She is, She's horrible. The Democratic Party has some intelligent
people in their ranks. They should have been able to
come up with somebody different.

Speaker 2 (01:37:44):
The Trump camp had to go with the diversity higher
otherwise they'd be called racist. Whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:37:51):
Earlier in the week, the Trump campaign used the Los
Angeles Times as non endorsement and fundraising email, calling it
a humiliating blow for Harris. Other staffers said the decasse
and not to endorse will ultimately harm American democracy.

Speaker 2 (01:38:05):
So called news organizations endorsing is directly messing with democracy,
even though.

Speaker 1 (01:38:13):
Lewis claimed in his note to readers that the move
should not be seen as a tested endorsement of one
candidate or as a condemnation of.

Speaker 2 (01:38:19):
The other, kind of the point.

Speaker 1 (01:38:20):
In a joint statement, legendary Post journalist Bob Woodward and
Carl Bernstein Watergate fame naturally.

Speaker 2 (01:38:26):
Everything's Watergate, everybody's Hitler, everything worse than Watergate, Noting.

Speaker 1 (01:38:31):
The timing the announcement ignores the Washington Post so own
overwhelming reportorial evidence on the threat Donald Trump poses to democracy.
A group of seventeen Post opinion columnists also published a
statement Friday evening criticizing their own papers decision not to
endorse the candidate in the presidential election as a terrible mistake.

Speaker 2 (01:38:53):
I think they also, like Bob as well.

Speaker 1 (01:38:56):
The Washington Post decision that I aim to please. The
Washington Post decision not to make an endorsement of the
presidential campaign is a terrible mistake, they wrote, He represents
an abandonment of the fundamental editorial convictions of the paper
that we love and for which we have worked a
combine two hundred and eighteen years, a bunch of Bob
and Bob in the break room. He worked there for

(01:39:17):
one hundred and twelve himself.

Speaker 2 (01:39:20):
Now he could be president. Yeah, come on, guys, you
work at a newspaper that's run by the captain of
the love boat. Let it got.

Speaker 1 (01:39:34):
Oh, by the way, the guy who sang the love
boat theme, he'd be passed on to Jeck Jones.

Speaker 2 (01:39:38):
Yeah, wasn't that a Tony the Tiger.

Speaker 1 (01:39:41):
No, that was the guy that was throw Raven Scruff
who sang you mean one, mister Grinch.

Speaker 2 (01:39:46):
Oh yeah, I didn't sing the love boat.

Speaker 1 (01:39:51):
Then it would have come out love over scarting a
new It's great, that's.

Speaker 2 (01:39:57):
Great, it would sounded awesome. Oh man, I thought you
said we were done with the poop jokes.

Speaker 1 (01:40:04):
That is that we've already gone over. Oh wait, no, wait, no, wait,
that's not that's it's not a poop joke. It just
happens to be a toilet with the NPR.

Speaker 2 (01:40:14):
Okay, where they belong.

Speaker 1 (01:40:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:40:18):
A conservative Christian gathering aimed at women is set to
take place on the National Mall in Washington, d C.
This Saturday, so that in past Yesterday dRIT attention from
both supporters and critics. According to NPR, the event, known
as Women for America, is expected to bring together thousands
of women who share concerns about issues such as abortion,

(01:40:38):
the Rainbow People, and what organizers describe as the erosion
of traditional values.

Speaker 1 (01:40:44):
God forbid, we should have traditional values, that great nation
of ours.

Speaker 2 (01:40:49):
The rally, organized by prominent conservative Christian figures, aims to
unite women who feel their voices have been marginalized they
have in mainstream political discourse. It has organizers emphasize the
importance of faith, family, and freedom. Oh good graving, no
wonder they're upset as core principles guiding their movement. According

(01:41:09):
to true Well, the family came from nevermind. According to NPR,
the gathering has attracted scrutiny from extremism experts, who express
concerns about some of the events messaging, and affiliations. However,
supporters of the rally argue that such characterizations unfairly stigmatize
conservative women exercising their First Amendment rights. One of the

(01:41:32):
event's key organizers, Sarah Thompson, told NPR. We're here to
celebrate the strength and values of American women who love God,
their families, and their country. This isn't about extremism. It's
about empowering women to stand up for what they believe in. Well,
in the eyes of leftist that is extremism. You should

(01:41:52):
not be allowed those rights. You should not be considered
a whole woman. You shouldn't even be allowed to play
in your own sports only, shouldn't be out there having
kids and not, you know, ripping them limb from limb
from your womb. And sorry, I might have been teritorialized
just a tiny bit. The rally is expected to feature
a lineup of speakers, including conservative politicians, religious leaders, and

(01:42:15):
media personalities. Topics slated for discussion to that, Yeah, it
would have been fun include protecting the sanctity of life,
presuming women's sports, and defending parental rights and education. Gully
didn't I just say all that?

Speaker 1 (01:42:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:42:30):
Only not quite as succinct, a little bit more ragy.
While the event has garnered support from various conservative groups,
it has also faced criticism from progressive organizations. Of course
it has, according to NPR, which is garbage. Unfortunately that
your taxpayers national Some civil rights groups have expressed concern

(01:42:52):
that the ralli's messaging could contribute to divisiveness and potentially
marginalized certain communities. Oh no, hmm. If you want to
live in a world where Christians are considered extremists than
kamala Is you goal, don't post bad grammar people. It
just makes you look dumb. However, event organize, well, what's

(01:43:15):
the thing extremists and experts are keeping an eye. Yeah.
Event organizers and supporters contend that such criticisms mischaracterize their intentions.
Jane Roberts, is a scheduled speaker at the event, told NPR,
We're not here to spread hate division. We're here to
unite women who share common values and concerns about the
directions of our country. But the left doesn't understand is

(01:43:36):
that two things can be true. I can love my country,
a candidate, my children, my family, and not hate you. Right,
I don't have to hate anybody I can love. I mean,
what is that you know? Love is love? Love who
you want this and that that doesn't automatically mean that

(01:43:58):
you have to hate everybody who is in that that
you love. It's ridiculous. The gathering comes at a time
of heightened political tension in the United States, with issues
such as abortion rights and gender identity at the forefront
of the national debate. Supporters of the rally argue that
it provides a necessary platform for conservative women who fail

(01:44:18):
their perspectives are often overlooked in mainstream media and politics,
they are one. According to NPR, law enforcement agencies are
preparing for the event with measures to measures in place
to ensure the safety of both participants and potential counter protesters.
It's for the safety of the freakadelic, rainbow haired, purest

(01:44:40):
tattooed crazy people who like to get violent. Is know
what they're Therefore, the National Park Services issued permits for
the gathering, emphasizing the right to peacefully assemble on federal
grounds as is our constitutional right. Despite the controversy surrounding
the event, many conservative women view it as an opportunity
to network, share ideas, and mobilize for future political action.

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Sarah Johnson, and rally attended from Ohio, told NPR, this
event gives us a chance to come together and realize
we're not alone. There are millions of women across America
who share our values and concerns, so it goes on
to tell you a little bit more about what it's
about and all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:45:20):
But the funny part is we have the NPR article,
which is a transcript of a show, and they take
a very different approach, just the I'm gonna go ahead
and we're gonna reenact this.

Speaker 2 (01:45:36):
We're gonna do dramatic reading NPR. Wait are we doing voices?
What do you think of debt? Yusuf?

Speaker 1 (01:45:46):
I don't know. Extremism experts are keeping an eye on
an event targeted at women in Washington, DC. A conservative
Christian gathering on the National Mall Saturday aims to bringing
together anti LGBTQ, anti abortion, and q ON activists.

Speaker 2 (01:46:04):
Wait what q what now? Oh you know QAnon died
in twenty six qwan.

Speaker 1 (01:46:10):
On was I don't even know how real that was,
but anyway, it was a group of people who believed
certain things as well.

Speaker 2 (01:46:17):
Some guy on Reddit or something that was so.

Speaker 1 (01:46:20):
Today, the part of Scott Simon, the host of Whatever
the Hill weekend edition Saturday, will be played by James
Monas and Odette Yusuf. The guest will be portrayed by
Miss Melanie Holt Okay, So is Odette evil.

Speaker 2 (01:46:36):
Or a good person?

Speaker 1 (01:46:38):
I don't know. Calls for atment today on the National
Mall in Washington, d C. Not to Mark Jong Kapoor,
but calls by Christian leaders urging what they call Esther's
to make amends. We're going to turn out NPR Domestic
Extremism correspondent Odette Yusef.

Speaker 2 (01:46:57):
Oh, yeah, she's got to be a full.

Speaker 1 (01:46:58):
Odette, Thank you so much much for joining us.

Speaker 2 (01:47:01):
Shan thing.

Speaker 1 (01:47:02):
The organizer of this event called for a million women
to gather at the mall. How do they use the
term Ester's what's that?

Speaker 2 (01:47:10):
So to understand this we have to look at the
Hebrew Hebrew rival. This is a reference to the Book
of Ester's. No, there is no book of Ester's Spas,
there's revelations h O Stir, which tells the story said
in the fifth century BCE of Esther, the Jewish wife
of the Persian king. And according to this story, Esther

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became aware that one of the king's courtiers was organizing
a pogrim against the Jews, and she's urged by her relative,
a man named Mordecai actually her father, to use her
position of influence to thward that plot, and she does so.
Today's rally is happening on the Jewish day of Atonement
Yam Kippur, and it's calling on Christian women, the esters,

(01:47:54):
and the men in their lives, the Mordecais, to fast
and pray and gather on the mall for the deliverance
of the nation. And really, Scott, this is the national
culmination of dozens of state based rallies that were held
back in the spring at state capitals under the tagline
don't mess with our kids, And those had attendants that
range from the hundreds to the thousand, and what do

(01:48:16):
they want.

Speaker 1 (01:48:16):
To communicate with that slogan don't mess with our kids?

Speaker 2 (01:48:19):
Yeah, it's not very specific, right, and I think maybe
that's by design to sort of roll in people who
have been activated around several disparate issues in the last
few years. I wish I could have listened to her,
because I would be doing her voice. So we're experiencing
the Moms for Liberty types, guess, who have built influence

(01:48:40):
through ANTILGPTQ campaigns. But we're also likely to see people
who want to see a national abortion ban. And then
there are people who believe in the Q and on
conspiracy theory. I spoke with Matthew Taylor, and he's a
senior scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian and Jewish Studies,
and he says that these narratives that inspire fear over
children being abuse could be dangerous son child abuse.

Speaker 1 (01:49:04):
I was I was out of I was out of
character there.

Speaker 8 (01:49:06):
Hold on the way that they're rotcheting up the rhetoric
about the threat of children in and of itself, I
think is dangerous in the way that it creates a
permission structure that says we have to do whatever we
can to stop this group because otherwise our children will
suffer or die because of them.

Speaker 2 (01:49:21):
I've seen an issue there. So it'll be interesting, Scott
to see how this energy that was really developed in
the last four years at the local level with these
school board flights and library fights translates when it comes
together nationally in these weeks before the election. And who
organized this event, sorry, The organizers are Jenny Dnnelle and

(01:49:41):
leu Engel. Both of them are connected to a network
known as the New Apostolytic Reform or Apostolic whatever or
I don't know, Apple pose don't make it any worse.
And the naar is action a non denomage, she's stupid.
What do you know, non denominational charismatic churches and leaders,

(01:50:01):
some of them call themselves profits and apostles. And this
network has been very closely tied with president former president
Botard blumph and Taylor, the religious scholar that we heard
from earlier, say is that when Trump became president, he
played a key role in sort of shifting the seat
of power within the religious right. To emphasize this nar network,

(01:50:24):
by the way.

Speaker 1 (01:50:25):
Slight editorial pause for James Russell lowns we're Christians. We
do call ourselves profits and apostles because that's what we are. Yeah, next,
the last four years is in many ways completely changed
the landscape or the rules. But what's that?

Speaker 2 (01:50:42):
Maybe not so much profit.

Speaker 1 (01:50:43):
Well some of us are, I'm not, but apostles definitely.
The last four years is in many ways completely changed
the landscape of the religious right in America and the
Trump are to the point where many of the most
active religious leaders in our politics right now are people
that ninety percent the country had never heard of. Better
that way, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:51:05):
So again, this event isn't explicitly political, but Taylor says
that in twenty twenty. There were similar gatherings they held
in DC ahead of that election, and that helped build
energy for Trump. And we can't have that because Orangeman
bad orangemn bad bad, and after election Day that energy
was directed towards stop this deal efforts. And of course,

(01:51:26):
ultimately January worse than the apocalypse, worse than hayl are
worse than nine to eleven, the day that will live.

Speaker 1 (01:51:37):
In infony, Pearl Harbor.

Speaker 2 (01:51:39):
Pearl January sixth.

Speaker 5 (01:51:42):
Do you know?

Speaker 2 (01:51:42):
Political violence researchers this time? Don't expect another January sixth
at the Capitol. Actually, no, there's going to be another
January sixth of the Capitol in a seventh, and an
eighth and the ninth. It's not like you can just
keep over a day. The people really is done. And
you know what else, it's going to be a July fourth.
They even have those in England.

Speaker 1 (01:52:02):
That's true.

Speaker 2 (01:52:02):
Yeah, But there is closer attention now to the narratives
that are unifying Trump supporters and the question of where
that energy will go if he loses. Oh, but has it?
The current cabbage in chief, who supposedly is still running
the country even though he doesn't know where he is.
Wasn't he the unifier? The great unifiers? So are we

(01:52:24):
supposed to be unified and filled with joy? So wouldn't
you be thrilled if women found a way to unify themselves?

Speaker 1 (01:52:33):
NPR's Odette use of definitely not a Christian name. Thank
you so much for being with us, Odette, Thank you?

Speaker 2 (01:52:44):
I mean wow. So yeah, So people who don't want
to murder their children and would kind of.

Speaker 1 (01:52:54):
Just a basic knowledge that what their schools are doing
with their kids. Yeah, yeah, they're terrorists.

Speaker 2 (01:53:00):
Yeah, these people are insane. Trump has broken these and
it wasn't even him, just their idea of who they
think he is. That they're broken. These are broken, evil people. Wait, no,

(01:53:23):
that was our turn? Whose turn is it now?

Speaker 1 (01:53:25):
We both did that?

Speaker 2 (01:53:26):
And Kamala Harris plagiarized blah blah blah. That seems to
be like the thing now nobody writes their own book
very very airbrush because she don't look like that.

Speaker 1 (01:53:36):
Well, this was also in two thousand and nine. She
did look like I.

Speaker 2 (01:53:40):
Guess maybe you know, for somebody who's pretending to be black,
she really should do something with her hair to make
herself look black. So several passes now We're not just
talking like a snippet here or there. She only copied
and pasted hire Wikipedia articles.

Speaker 1 (01:53:57):
That crazy. Yeah, this book, she came out so smart
on crime. Oh boy, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:54:08):
Makes us safer by jailing guys well past their sentencing
so that she could have slave labor. And yeah, so
basically she didn't write her own book. Surprise to prise, surprise, next.

Speaker 1 (01:54:21):
Next, Okay, that's fine with me. Here's yet another example,
another exhibit. Biden is not Trump.

Speaker 2 (01:54:32):
Biden's not alive. But okay, yeah, well anyway, wait, wait, wait, no,
I want to make sure that we understand because he's
told us, in no uncertain terms that not a single
troop has died while he was in office, completely forgetting
all the Marines that he murdered.

Speaker 9 (01:54:50):
That there are Afghanistan, there are no active troops currently
right now in any war zones at all, That we
will never have troops in Ukraine.

Speaker 2 (01:55:02):
And oh wait, what's this wait it is stelter down bit.

Speaker 1 (01:55:12):
Yeah, the US said Wednesday, the three thousand North Korean
troops have been deployed to Russia and our training at
several locations calling the move.

Speaker 2 (01:55:21):
Wait, deployed to Russia.

Speaker 1 (01:55:24):
Yeah, I'm so training at several locations that you'll see.

Speaker 2 (01:55:28):
Okay, So now North Korea, China, and Russia are buddy buddies. Yeah,
mm hmm, good job Biden.

Speaker 1 (01:55:35):
Yeah, calling them move very seriously, warning that those forces
will be fair game if they go into combat. And Ukraine,
how can they be fair game if there if we
don't have any troops in Ukraine.

Speaker 2 (01:55:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:55:44):
The deployment raises the potential for the North Koreans to
join Russian forces in Ukraine and suggests expanded military ties
between the two nations, as Moscow seeks weapons and troops
to gain ground on a grinding war that is stalemated
after more than two years.

Speaker 2 (01:56:00):
This will end within two days of Trump being in office.

Speaker 1 (01:56:05):
Yeah, that will come to an end. Defense Secretary of
Lloyd Austin called it a next step after the North
has provided Russia with arms, and said Pyongyang could face
consequences for aiding Russia.

Speaker 2 (01:56:17):
Director, I'm sure they're shaking that you've been doing.

Speaker 1 (01:56:22):
Pegantic nothings have been dropped on them.

Speaker 2 (01:56:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:56:25):
His comments were the first public US confirmation of North
Korea sending troops to Russia, a development South Korean officials
disclosed but was denied. Of course, by Pyongyang. In Moscow,
White House National Security spokesman John Kirby said the US
believes that at least three thousand North Korean soldiers traveled
by ship to Vladivostok, Russia's largest pacific port, in early

(01:56:48):
to mid October.

Speaker 2 (01:56:49):
I hope that Russia feeds them, because these poor guys
are always hungry.

Speaker 1 (01:56:53):
These soldiers then travel onward to multiple Russian military training
sites in eastern Russia, where they are currently undergoing trade ain't.
Kirby said, we do not yet know whether these soldiers
will enter into combat alongside the Russian military, but this
is a certainly a highly concerning probability. Kirby said they
could go to western Russia and then engage in combat
against Ukraine's forces, but both he and Austin said the

(01:57:16):
US continues to assess the situation and do nothing. Exactly
what the North Korean troops are doing in Russia was
left to be seen, Austin told reporters in Rome. He added,
if they air co belligerents, their intentions to participate in
this belligerence, co belligerence a great name.

Speaker 2 (01:57:32):
I want a badge, Hello, I want a co belligerence.

Speaker 1 (01:57:36):
Their intentions to participate in this war on Russia's behalf.
That is a very very serious issue and will have
impacts not only in Europe, it will also impact things
in the Indo Pacific. Kirby warned, However, I can tell
you one thing though, if they do deploy to fight
against Ukraine their fair game, nothing will happen, he said.
A key question is what North Korea is leader Kim

(01:57:56):
Jong un is getting out of this. Russia and North
Korea sharply boosted their cooperation in the last two years
during the Biden administration, and in June they signed a
major defense steal requiring both countries to use all available
means to provide immediate military assistance if either is attacked.
South Korean officials worry that Russia may reward North Korea

(01:58:18):
by giving it sophisticated weapons technologies that could boost its
nuclear missile programs that targets South Korea.

Speaker 2 (01:58:24):
Trump had ended that it was all under control, that
was ended. Rocket man hadn't sent up a rocket for now.
He's just fire and a will knock yourself out.

Speaker 1 (01:58:36):
Well, they seemed a weak leader. Yeah, Biden is, andker
Harris is going to be even she comes in there.

Speaker 2 (01:58:43):
She tries to affect their accent. Can't you just see
her trying to talk hell button, I have no action
now do.

Speaker 1 (01:58:55):
Anyway?

Speaker 2 (01:58:56):
He'll eat her for lunch. Nobody takes her seriously.

Speaker 1 (01:59:02):
Anyway. Just on and on and on, and it's just
more and more of the same. It's it's several different
experts saying the exact same thing.

Speaker 2 (01:59:14):
I just read, Ladies and gentlemen. I'm not going to
tell you how to vote, but I am going to
ask you to get out and vote with the understanding
that my birthday is November seventh. You will vote before
November fifth. All I ask And like I said, I'm
not telling you who to vote for. All I ask
for is lower grocery prices, world peace, and mean tweets.
And that's all I'm going to say.

Speaker 1 (01:59:35):
Hey, anybody who's listened to our show for the last
five years and knows where you stand on it or no,
this isn't exactly a big shocker.

Speaker 2 (01:59:43):
Shocker shocker, lacka laca. Well, this will probably tick off
some people because I know there are a lot of
people who get their hat they're panties in a twist
talking about this organization. But they do a lot of goods,
mister Foods. Yeah, So let's head on into my favorite

(02:00:05):
segment as we wrap up our show. Here we go
here on counterculture wise. We may rant, we may rave,
but most of all, we go against the current culture
because we believe, to the core of our beings that

(02:00:27):
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 the magnificent iceberg that is our world.
We now present news of the wonderfuller our final story tonight. Jim,

(02:01:06):
you timed it just right to make sure that I'm
the one who has to reach one you do because
you're you know, I haven't read this, and you know
I'm probably gonna cry, all right. So one of our
favorite restaurants that, of course, we did not go to
today because it's Sunday, a Houston Chick fil A, recently
went far above and beyond the typical customer service to

(02:01:28):
surprise a terminally ill regular with a bucket list experience
of sorts. Bill and Becky decided twenty years ago, as
they approached retirement, they'd set out to visit every state capital. Oh, Hash,
that'll be so fun. But as the years went by,
they never found a good time to visit Junu, Alaska.
Now I have been there now carrying a terminal cancer diagnosis.

(02:01:51):
Bill and his partner Becky of more than fifty years,
had all but accepted this bucket list adventure would end
on a dour note. But when the spring It's Village
location of Chick fil A found out about Bill's unfulfilled dream,
they decided in honor of the two long time regulars
to contact a location in Januejo Juno, Juno, It's Juno,

(02:02:14):
I want to say Jane Juno and concoct a plan.
Bill and Becky mean so much to our team and
we wanted to do what we could to help them
complete their bucket list, said Mike boy mad Delino. Isn't
he the.

Speaker 1 (02:02:31):
No, He's not related to Mary, dang it.

Speaker 2 (02:02:34):
He caught me local Chick fil A owner operator. We
loved channeling a spirit for adventure from Alaska to Texas
and we're honored to play a small part in helping
them achieve this incredible milestone. Is why don't we keep saying? Well,
they do speak, you say it now now I'm not

(02:02:56):
I'm afraid to say it. Juno Okay. Chick fil A
team got a hold of a photograph from Bill and
Becky's wedding day, blew it up into a cardboard cutout,
and began placing it in front of iconic Juno sites,

(02:03:16):
including the State Capitol Building and the Meddenhall Glacier, where
visual artists used their wedding photo as inspiration to draw
them sitting comfortably in front of the glacier as if
they had visited in their twenties. Is so precious, look
at them? Okay, Now we gotta go back and look
what they look like. Ah, Okay, now we gotta go

(02:03:37):
back and look at okay. Aw So here they are
in front of the city Hall. And here they are
I'm not sure where. It's some so cute and they
send the pictures back. The team then took all these
photos and made a scrap book, placed it in a
basket with some Oh, they even got souvenirs and mailed
it to the Houston Springwood's Village location as a surprise.

(02:03:59):
That is so cute. As an extra touch, the touring
Chick fil A team members signed Bill and Becky's names
in the Capitol Building visitors log. Oh, and they put
together this beautiful scrap book with all kinds of fun things.
And we got a little chotchkeys and stickers and all

(02:04:19):
kinds of fun stuff. Where's the drawing of them? I
wanted to see the drawing. They didn't show the drawing.

Speaker 1 (02:04:26):
Didn't show the drawing.

Speaker 2 (02:04:27):
Yeah, they said that they an artist did a drawing
sitting comfortably in front of the glacier as if they
had visited in their twenties. I want to see that.
This is the cutest idea. Lone Star Live reports that
Bill and Becky medat night.

Speaker 1 (02:04:45):
It is click on the click on the link at
the bottom.

Speaker 2 (02:04:47):
There the reports word reports reports here.

Speaker 1 (02:04:53):
And you'll see it.

Speaker 2 (02:04:54):
Okay, disable my add blockers and blah, I hate that.
Okay for b I'm sweet as cheffing my way through this. Okay,
polar Bear, keep going and I'm loving this is so cute.
And they signed the registry for them. It's so sweet.

(02:05:17):
Oh there they are, Ah, welcome to the Glacier and
Chick fil A team. Blah blah, blah blah. It's the
same basic article.

Speaker 1 (02:05:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:05:27):
Oh there they are looking at.

Speaker 1 (02:05:29):
The book.

Speaker 2 (02:05:31):
So Sweet They Work. Villain Becky met working at a
telephone company in nineteen seventy two when they were both
in their twenties. They've shared more than fifty years of love,
building a large family with five kids, seventeen grandchildren, and
fourteen great grandchildren. Here's the Chick fil A and letter.

(02:05:52):
We know your shared dream of visiting all fifty state
capitals has been a remarkable journey, testament to your adventure
spirit and the love you bullshare for exploration. While your
travels have taken you to nearly every corner of the country,
you understand that Alaska's state capital will remain the one
you're unable to visit together. Oh this is so sweet.

(02:06:12):
That is just precious. However, we wanted to honor your
incredible journey with the help of the representatives at the
Alaska State Capital. We are thrilled to let you know
that your names have been proudly added to their visitor log.
They were overjoyed to help fulfill your dream, and they
send their warmest wishes along with keepsakes and a special

(02:06:32):
note from their offices. In this small way, we hope
you fill Alaska's presence with you. My experience with Alaskans
is they are the sweetest people. I've always I've been
to Alaska many times with as a child, as an adult,
and I've always met the nicest, oddest, but sweetest people.
And it's so nice to see this. This is a

(02:06:55):
really really sweet Well, folks, that's how we like to
end it on a high note, and we sincerely enjoy
being part of your day. May you spend the rest
of your week just being kind to each other and
we will see you.

Speaker 1 (02:07:24):
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