Watch That First Step!!!

In this episode of Drinks with Deedee & John, things take a dramatic — and hilarious — turn. What begins as a cozy holiday chat about Dickens-style hats and binge-watching Downton Abbey suddenly turns into a real-life emergency.

John recounts his frightening fall down the basement steps, the blood trail up four flights of stairs, and the moment he realized two of his fingertips were literally hanging by a thread. From DIY wound care gone wrong to a life-saving ER visit, it’s a wild ride filled with humor, heart, and a lesson in why fitness actually can save your life.

The episode also dives into holiday chaos, maple-syrup trivia, workout routines, planks saving lives, community advice (both brilliant and insane), and preparations for John’s upcoming performance at Green Room 42 — despite fresh stitches.
It’s raw, it’s real, it’s funny, and it’s full of the charming banter only Deedee and John can deliver.

A chaotic holiday story you won’t forget.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:15):
They it's that time.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Drinks with DD and.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
I love you fingers.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
M hm.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
I feel like I'm in Pilgrim's progress.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
Some Pilgrims hats like Scrooge. It's like turn out the
Century like Charles Dickens hat.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Oh, Screwge, that's better. Yeah, weren't they Puritans? Weren't they
like Pilgrims?

Speaker 3 (00:41):
They were in English?

Speaker 1 (00:43):
No, no, no, I mean the Charles Dickens. But isn't
this what they wore?

Speaker 2 (00:46):
What do we just watch?

Speaker 1 (00:47):
We just watched something in a documentary.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Didn't look like top hats.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
With the holly on it, but the sun They're like,
they're like, vent right, whore a hat like that?

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Somebody wore a.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
During Scrooge time.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
It's always Scrooge time somewhere. Sadly, Hey, watch that show.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
And it's got those hats on, just saying. And even
Downtown Abbey, which we just finished that, what were hats
like that too?

Speaker 1 (01:17):
You know what's so bad about finding a television show
you really like is that eventually it's done. We weren't
ready for Downton Abbey to be done.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
And then get this. I know we talked about this
before with Ian.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Excuse me, who we met in Liverpool and then I realized,
we realized, oh my gosh, this is a guy from
Downton Abbey. Well, another show that we watch is Silo
and he's the dad. He's one of the leads in Silo.
And I didn't put that together either came on me.
But in real life he's Scottish. I can't do it.

(01:51):
But he's kind of like, like, who was it? Fat bastard?
Fat bastard. He doesn't look like nice I called. He's
in there, he's all into this stuff like that and
oh it's good to see you, John. Oh fine. But
on these other shows, well Downton Abbey he is very
distinguished brit but on Silo he just he sounds like

(02:13):
like you.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
And me, but not like you.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
What's that mean?

Speaker 1 (02:17):
I mean nobody sounds like you. We call a lawyer
and sue me. So anyway, it's uh. I don't know
if it's more embarrassing or for somebody who does How
can I put this? Whenever I see somebody that I
think I may know, I don't know if I know

(02:38):
them or if I've just seen them on in the
movies or on television, and some part of me doesn't
want to ask, and I don't know why. I don't
want to come up and say do I do I
Do we know each other?

Speaker 3 (02:49):
You know, because they do it to you get that, Yeah,
surely know who you are.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Well, this this gentleman. I thought that we had worked together, Uh,
and we haven't.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
I don't think. I don't know said that. Maybe we have.
I don't know. It's been a long life.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
It's been a long long life from something.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
You know, we figured it out.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
We figured it out, We figured it out.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
How the Finger's doing.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Well, they're here.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
So unless you all been under a rock somewhere or.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
You don't pay attention at all, but if you're watching
a podcast, you probably do. And thank you for that.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
I'm going to take this off now.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yeah, we had a little bit of drama. Well, you know,
I might as well just do the question.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
We had a little bit.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Okay, I like doing.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
It earlier than later. So to when this hat, we
do a hat giveaway early to do it late, right,
so we're doing it super early. I love this hat.
It's cute, it's festive, and it's good on John every week.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
You know this hat, well, you know it wouldn't have
it if you didn't love it.

Speaker 4 (03:51):
Yeah, that the hats I pick out a wonderful for
a reason. This one is festive. It actually fits.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
John got to kind of tug it down a little bit.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
But the question's easy this week.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Don't say that because if I don't know the answer,
which I never do, I'm going to sound stupid.

Speaker 4 (04:07):
What state in America makes the most maple syrup? What
state produces the most maple syrup in our country?

Speaker 1 (04:16):
See?

Speaker 3 (04:17):
Easy?

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Well, somebody answered that already.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Well, you know, it's Christmas, it's time to give gifts
and be nice and things like that.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Oh, you're gonna be nice now. You're always nice, unless
unless somebody's given us a run around with the bank
or something.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Oh boy, you know, well.

Speaker 4 (04:40):
Well, you know, baby, when you're dealing with other countries,
isn't always as easy because they're in another country.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
Oh there's a common denominator. It's not the other country.
It's a it's a we'll figure.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
It out, won't pigure it out anyway.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
So honey, yes, dear, we had drama in this. I've
never said that in my life. I don't know why
I just said that. I'm going to take that back. What, yes, dear,
I've never said that.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
In my life.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
Yes you have no, yes, but that was only in
response like yes, It wasn't okay, yes I don't do it.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
No, I don't do that. I can't do it. I
just can't.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
I can't.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
Well you just said yes, dear, which is sweet.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
Well, but it's it's yes, yes, yes, d it's like that. Yes.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
No.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
It wasn't like would you go would you go run
put gas in the cars?

Speaker 2 (05:27):
I mean no, I don't do that.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
They're not abner crabits. It's not like you're being like.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
He was pretty forceful. He was like, but you get
away from that window. Remember Bewitch. We're talking about Bewitched.
They were great, Yeah they.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
Were, but that's not us, and that's not what it means.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
So thank you, dear, welcome honey.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
So we had drama this week. Uh.

Speaker 4 (05:55):
We called Steinhartz because and they're wonderful. Carl from Steinhartz
came to fix the heater downstairs because we have a big,
old home and the furnace is huge downstairs.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
Than up here. So anyway, it's it's quite the contraption.

Speaker 4 (06:14):
It's gigantic and Steinhart's and very good about services.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
Ye. So it came. No problem with that.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Can you want to show me what was the issue?
It was a condensation pump that was out. When you're heating,
it makes condensation, you know, it drips water, and there's
a pump that makes it so it doesn't just stay
on the floor and mess up your basement.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
So before that I come home, I'm come five minutes,
I come home.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Well we were we were eating blood everywhere.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yeah, well we.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
Were just what in the what is that blood?

Speaker 4 (06:51):
I think I knew it was blood, but it kept going.
I mean, we have like four floors.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
That's a good thing. Bleeding is not so bad. It's
when the bleeding.

Speaker 4 (06:58):
Stops to blood all the way up one, two, three, four,
five said.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
Where there's no no, no, yes.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Started started on the basement.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
Zero saw it there because it was open in because
we have a weird way of getting in the basement,
you know old buildings for like that.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
Well, here's a picture. Here's a picture of what that
looks like.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
And if you look at the picture, you'll see that
the top step is actually two pieces, which is not
a good idea because sometimes that front piece will roll over.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
You can handle it.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
In this case, I can handle it no kidding. In
this case, what happened is I stepped down on that step.
I must have put all my weight on the front
of the step, because that broke. The gentleman what was
his name, Who's Carl who was was here.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
He was like, oh my god. He thought that I.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
Tripped and fell and broke the top step with my
with my butt. It's said, my god, you hit that
so hard. Look you broke it because it's one inch
probably oak, but it's old, but which actually makes it
stronger and harder. Remember dream House, mississipilab lolly Pine gets
stronger with age. But anyway, I stepped on it, and

(08:16):
you can see in that picture that broke and then
I fell. So when I fell, I landed on Thank goodness,
I landed on the other part of that step. But
I reached up and I grabbed the door, which looks
kind of like it's on a pirate ship. There's a
picture of the door. I grabbed the top of that
door and I pulled. I didn't cut it. It's odd.

(08:40):
I pulled the fingerprints off off these two fingers and
I fell and I thought, oh man, that could have
been awful. And then I was like oh boy, I've
heard people say that before, like you don't know, you
cut yourself like a lot of times.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
You need to be very careful with this. If you
do drink wine.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
When you if if you, I don't recommend washing the
wine glasses with a sponge inside, I recommend putting them
in the dishwasher. We don't have a dishwasher. You're looking
at it this show, but it's not plugged in or
hooked up the water or a train. It's a it's
like an end table, is what we have. So if

(09:26):
you do that, be very very careful because oddly enough,
the nicer the wine glasses are the thinner the glasses.
You know, they can make that that sound. Be very
very careful because I remember many times. I guess my
mom must have had a bunch of friends who drank wine,
because I remember they would come and they would cut

(09:50):
this part of their.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
Hand really bad. So but you don't know the.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
Reason I've never seen it.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
Because you've never washed the glass. Well well, but so
what happens is you're down there in the soapy water
and it happens and you think, oh hell, I broke
the glass, and then you look. So I always wondered
when people said, you know, they they broke a bone,
they cut themselves really bad. They did something and they
didn't know it until they saw it. And that's exactly

(10:19):
what happened yesterday, because I was like, oh my god,
I'm glad I didn't fall down, and it was whoa,
and I went, I'm sorry. One morning, I went like this,
and you know how if the wind blows sticky notes
and they kind of go, that's what was happening there
on my finger, and the one was the one was
just hanging on by a tiny little thread. So much

(10:41):
to my my later emergency room doctor's chagrin, I told
him I gnawed it off and he said what And
I said, well, it was just hanging there, and I
didn't think. You know, so I and I you know,
I'm right handed, so I couldn't use any scissors, so
I nodded.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
All to be happier.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
I don't know, I can't use the scissors with my
left hand. Doesn't matter. I'm right handed.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
Big sisters, I could have done it, I mean, but
you should not.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
No, you could have done it.

Speaker 5 (11:12):
Yes, you pigs just flew bys on on a piece
of skin that's hanging off my I don't think so.

Speaker 3 (11:23):
Well, it's better than gnawing at all.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
Why it's gone.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
It's fine, the skin.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
Off your finger, I prefer no. Doctor almost threw us doctor.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
She put that post on.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
So anyway, it was a whole thing.

Speaker 4 (11:39):
Blood all over the house, you know, all the way
up the stairs and I'm all the way to the
toperes what is going on?

Speaker 1 (11:46):
It's forty five steps from where I fell to where
we are sitting right now, forty five steps and there
was blood on every step and on the land and
the whole way, the new.

Speaker 4 (12:02):
One, by the way, what there was even a drop
on the on the new couch. So we got from bears.
It's gone now, but.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
We still have that.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (12:13):
So anyway, so john survived.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
I want to do a little video of that and
send it to Tony so they can see that.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
It makes me wonder, you know.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
You see, he did enough bloody videos ever was well.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
That one you did was absolutely well.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
You know, I just want to make sure he went
to the doctor in Johnson. He wasn't going to go.

Speaker 4 (12:28):
He said, oh I don't need to go. It is
like gigantic holes in blood everywhere, and I'm.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
Like you have to go where it stopped the blood.
It stopped bleeding, by the.

Speaker 3 (12:37):
Way, Yeah, they sewed it up.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
Well, it had stopped before they did that, because I
wrapped it up.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
I did. I did a good job on it, because
it then you won't be reattached.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
You woke up and was bleeding again.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
That's not entirely true.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
When I went to this one, which is the really
the bad one, that wasn't bleeding again, but the skin
was kind of not the puzzle piece didn't quite fit.
But this one, what had happened is when I put
the band aid on it, Uh, part of the sticky
is part of the sticky part of the band aid

(13:09):
got onto the cut. So when I pulled the band
aid off, it pulled the scab off again.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
So that's why it was. That's why it was bleeding.
But here's what I wanted.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
I want to tell you the reason why I didn't
fall down the stairs. I believe this because this is
what Tony Horton P. Ninety X.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
Guy would talk about.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
He said, you know, you need to do these kinds
of workouts so that when you're lifting boxes or if
you should happen to fall down the steps or something
you know, which happens, you'll be able. You'll have enough
core strength to be able to maybe not completely, but
you'll have a much better chance of not falling down

(13:51):
a dark staircase into the basement if you work out.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
So it's not just to uh, it's not just for health.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
It's for sake. It really really is. And what I've
been doing lately, I'll have DD take a picture is planks.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
So I do six minutes and not all at once.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
Even I do three minutes and three minutes of clanks
while watching a YouTube video about the guitar or golf
or something. And I attribute that because I know many
many people who are over sixty who slip and fall,
and in the process of breaking their fall, they break
something else, or they tear a ligament, or they hurt

(14:32):
themselves really, really bad.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
My brother did that to his knee.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
I'm not saying my brother is out of shape, but
I'm saying that he doesn't do planks in the morning.
Hey Bob, I love you. But he fell on the ice.
I think it was this time last year. He slipped
on the ice and he went and grabbed something and
his knee went out. And it's still out. So I

(14:58):
highly recommend some sort of workout routine. And it can
be as simple. You can start doing planks on your knees.
You know what a plank is, right, you can start
doing it on your knees. Anything to engage your core
would be great. And of course there's the electrocution suit.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
There, there's the.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
Electric Well, you know it's true.

Speaker 4 (15:18):
So John, I do the New York Times crossword puzzle
every morning.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
So does that now? It's pretty amazing.

Speaker 4 (15:24):
Yeah, well, on the easy day and to a pretty
fast I think it's twenty seven.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
Minutes the easy day.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
Yeah, it is easy, and then it gets really crazy.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
Hard and it takes a long long I'd be like
John Wayne and the shootest I would if I got
a crossword puzzle from the New York Times a month ago,
I would still be doing it the same one.

Speaker 4 (15:42):
Oh yes, but you did help me with one of
the questions because it said what helped you with your core?

Speaker 3 (15:47):
And it was planks.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
Planks.

Speaker 4 (15:49):
Yeah, yep, so John doing plains. I wouldn't have known
it otherwise.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
It helps your shoulders, it helps your core, obviously, it
helped everything. And you know, all you're doing is you're
in a push up position for six minutes and I'll
get to where I can do it for six minutes.

Speaker 4 (16:06):
Yeah, because those stairs, you know, I mean, look, our
home was built in eighteen seventy five. That was a
long time ago. So the stairs in the basement, all
the other stairs are great. The stairs in a basement,
you know, they're older and they're old wood, so they.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
All they're short too, Yeah, they're short.

Speaker 4 (16:21):
And John is a big guy, so you know, we
just need to replace all of that. So I'm so
glad he didn't following down the stairs. I'm scary. The
blood was scary, but that thought is a lot scarier.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
So anyway, so the next stay, you saw the blood,
but I wasn't there.

Speaker 4 (16:37):
Right, So that is the very very good news in
John's like, I'm not going in the doctor. I'm not,
And I'm like, you have to go to the er
because his fingers are basically almost torn off. So I'm like,
the next morning, I'm how am I going to get
him there? And he agreed, so we went to the
emergency room. They were great.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
Well I went because you sent the pictures to oh
Jack well check and then also Jack dank Well, I
figure out why you sent.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
The pictures to Miss Tammy and she said, oh, no,
he's got to go.

Speaker 4 (17:05):
She's the first lady of Madison, and of course nursings
her background. I said to her, said, don't you think
he needs to go to the arm She said yes,
and he said I don't want to go, like the
night before.

Speaker 3 (17:17):
But then the next day I said, you.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
Have got to go, because well, I was worried about
the thing.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
I was worried about infection.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
And what made me really hear what Dede was saying
about that was that we should have made this a
question instead. But Jack Daniels could not open his safe
and he kicked his safe and cut his toe, broke
his toe. It never healed, and he actually wound up
dying of an infection he got came from a wound

(17:43):
on his toe, and he was this is what really
got me sixty five years old when that happened. So
I'm like, okay, well, all right, I'll go.

Speaker 3 (17:54):
We don't need that sign to be a red flashing line.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
Right. So the whole thing about well she was antiseptic
from the inside out. Well, apparently it doesn't work, because
I don't think Jack Daniels was a teetotaler, and so
his his whiskey did not did not help him.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
So I went.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
And then the thing I was most nervous about. I
can still see it because I've only cut myself, only
been to the hospital one time for me, and I
was like nine or ten years old. I fell off
my bicycle and cut my leg, and I remembered that
they gave me a shot in the in the cut

(18:32):
so that they could stitch it up and not hurt.
But I'll tell you what that shot they give you
when they it's light a cane. When they give you
that shot, it's like ooh ah. And she pulled this
needle out. It's just the needle just kept coming out.
It was she said, it's a long needle, but it's
a very light gauge, which was true. But first time

(18:54):
she put that in there, and then she gave me
three stitches in here and so steady, so wonderful. They
treat me so so fantastic job at King's Daughters, right,
what's the first name, Norton? Norton, Yes, Norton, King's Daughters,
which is right up the hills here.

Speaker 3 (19:09):
King's Daughters forever, and then Norton's.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
Just well in King's Daughters Children's Hospital is part of
Children's Miracle Network as well part of our part of
all of that. So so that's been fair. That was
it was a really good experience. But now my brother
asked a wonderful question, because we're going to see him tomorrow. Right,
we leave for New York today as we do the podcast,

(19:34):
what am I gonna do about the show, because it's like, well,
good thing, I don't play the get Oh well, yes
I do. Oh good thing, I don't have a show soon.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
Oh well, the doctor said, you know, I'm going to
advise you to play the guitar. And he said, well,
going to and it's going to happen in.

Speaker 1 (19:47):
New York, going to Manhattan day to do a one
man's show on my guitar Friday.

Speaker 3 (19:51):
Okay, well, okay.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
Good luck with that. So it's uh, it's it's going
to be it. Because these are the fingers I use.
I'm not a I don't use a pick. I may
have to.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
I may have to use a pick because I kind of.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
Use a combination of the little bottom fat part of
your finger which is missing on these two fingers and
my fingernails on this hand. I use my thumb. People
see that and go, well, what are you doing. You're
like a coqutte. I said, no, you moron, I'm a
guitar player. That's what That's what I used to pick.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
So anyway, it's going to be interesting.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
One other fitness thing I want to recommend, and this
is not we don't have any sponsors here.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
We're not those sort of people. But this has been great.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
When Bowflex first came out with that whole workout bench
and pull down and all that stuff that they had,
it's really a fantastic way to get a full workout.
Well they ventured out into the treadmill and elliptical and
stare machines kind of like life Cycle and all those
other folks. But we have here's a picture of that.

(20:58):
We have a Bowflex back, poor faulty trainer, and I'm
going to do it when we get done with this podcast,
I'm going to go out there and do it. It's twenty
seven degrees, but I'm going to go out there and
do it. You've got to be dedicated. So what that
does is it builds up your.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
Heart, it builds up your cardio.

Speaker 1 (21:19):
Because this time last year, I'd be out there for
only like twenty minutes.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
I'd be out there.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
I would jog down to the river and jog a
little bit and then jog back. And you know, I
could do it, but it's slippery out there. The the
chances of me not slipping at some point or another
and breaking something at my ripe old age or really
any ripe old age, the chances of me doing that

(21:46):
are great.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
So why do that when it's so cold.

Speaker 3 (21:49):
It happens so quickly.

Speaker 4 (21:50):
Look, Madison has the best street department in the world,
I mean lawless streets, beautiful, and Main Street the prettiest
one in the world is So John dropped me off
with Red Rooster to get a couple of breakfast sandwiches.
And when I came back almost looked on the ice.
That's how fast it accumulates. Because it's only twenty cent
in their.

Speaker 1 (22:09):
Griefs outside it's cold.

Speaker 3 (22:11):
It's cold. So John tried its better to be safe
on the back porch with the both.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
Yeah, or you know, I realized, you know, these these
pieces of equipment are expensive. You know, it was like
I think it was like sixteen hundred dollars maybe maybe
maybe two thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
It's a lot of money. I understand that.

Speaker 1 (22:26):
But you can go join Planet Fitness for what is it,
twenty dollars a month?

Speaker 4 (22:33):
No, but I think we should. I can't do it
in twenty degrees. I was doing it and then it
got too cold on a lamp. John can do it.

Speaker 3 (22:40):
I can. Sorry, so I'm not dedicated to do it.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
I'm not good at public fitness, but.

Speaker 3 (22:47):
They haven't appened and tells you if there's anybody up
there now.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
Well, then I can only go when there's nobody there.
That's just anyway.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
Anyway, it's fine.

Speaker 3 (22:54):
I think we should try it.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
I like to work out on my schedule, thank you
very much. And a Planet Fitness has a great a
great way. It's like a key club. You can go
whenever he wants twenty four to seven, I believe, So
you can go in the middle of the night. I'm
a morning workout kind of a guy instead, But.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
You can do that.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
But here the do something, do something and don't do something.
Just there's this feeling people have that Okay, I'm going
to get into shape and then that's it. You know,
you make it too.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
Hard, they stop. Yeah, I mean it's a both what
timel like it.

Speaker 4 (23:28):
It's okay because I have one where you can travel
around the world and it looks like you're going through.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
Belgium or yeah, you're jogging or whatever.

Speaker 3 (23:35):
So that's pretty cool. When it's not twenty three degrees.

Speaker 1 (23:40):
For me, after the first three minutes, I'm sweaty anyway,
So there's not a temperature doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
But the thing here is do something, do something.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
What I was saying before I got interrupted, sir.

Speaker 3 (23:55):
I don't interrupt. I just start talking. Okay, maybe I did.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
Go ahead. You want that T shirt the girls wear,
I don't interrupt, I just start talking the guys where
she doesn't interrupt, she just starts talking.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
I think that'd be a great T shirt that would sell.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
But now here's the here's the myth is you you're
gonna work out and you're gonna get in shape, and then,
for some reason, I don't know why, a lot of
people think that once you get in shape, it just
stays there.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
No, you have got to maintain it.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
A A decision to get fit is a decision you
make for the rest of your life. You can stop,
I mean I stop and start, but you've got to
have this. You can't have a mindset of Okay, I'm
gonna I'm gonna get in my my fighting weight and
then somehow magically you're gonna stay that way without working out.
It doesn't work out way.

Speaker 3 (24:56):
Winter and one thing we did this lovely Lady.

Speaker 4 (24:58):
Joy, This lovely Lady Joy, she invited us to John
to speak to their group and it was a Palm
Springs and I'm like, oh, Palm Springs, it's warmer there,
I told Johnny.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
I said, John, Honey, he said yes.

Speaker 4 (25:13):
It didn't take long because we're going to leave New
York then go to Palm Springs.

Speaker 3 (25:17):
We can play off. Oh do you think you're going
to have trumba.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
I think I'll actually be better because I tendency the
squeeze too hard with these fingers.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
I can't do that.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
Now.

Speaker 4 (25:25):
That's going to be interesting, but it'll be warmer weather.
It's going to be a lovely group. That our type
of people. You know, we like all types of people,
unless you're anti American. We don't like those well are
quite pro American. So it's that kind of group.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
Do you know, if you're anti American and you're somewhere else,
that's okay, why not. But if you're if you if
you left your country because you hate it, and and
you came to the Promised Land and we gave.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
You ship free stuff and you still hate us buy and.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
Then you you take a pool on us. Get the
hell out? What's that about? I don't understand that's happening
more and more, and I think think we are. I'm
not quite sure how we eradicate that that part. It's
a lot of the folks that came over here illegally.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
I don't understand it.

Speaker 4 (26:08):
If you're so anxious to get here and then we
give you pre stuff what you don't deserve anyway.

Speaker 3 (26:13):
The people who deserves are people who.

Speaker 4 (26:15):
Can't work, like if they're mentally challenged or physically challenged,
or our veterans.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
Who who are wounded.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
Are wondering warriors.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
You know, we need to take care of him. We
need to.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
We need to somehow let them know that their sacrifice
was not in vain. Hard to say that, now, when
when you got you got homeless veterans on the on
the street, and you got people from other parts of
the world that came in here for nothing and got
something when they know they got a goodie bag when
they came.

Speaker 4 (26:45):
Here I mean, look at all everything going in Minnesota
that even on the lost moron, Yeah, the governor and there.

Speaker 2 (26:53):
The fish stinks from the head down.

Speaker 3 (26:55):
They have all these.

Speaker 4 (26:56):
People telling on him now, saying, oh yeah, it's all
this fraud. So this Molly's and others. People came from
other countries that are not of our ilk and they
vote for him. They vote Democrats because they give them
free step. That's not when America should be.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
And Donald Trying is all over it.

Speaker 3 (27:16):
Donald Trump is all over currying.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
Is that the word currying favor to curry favor. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
So when like when Biden was letting all these people in,
I was thinking about Mexico and the flaw in the slaw,
as Jimmy Best would say, for that is that that
all the folks that were coming through Del Rio and
coming across the Rio Grande. My initial assumption was, well,

(27:43):
these are all people from Mexico and Central America, South
America maybe, but from at least from our collective continental soil.
But then I realized, well, wait a minute, no, the
folks you see coming across, they're from everywhere. They're just
using that path as a way to get here. Because

(28:06):
my thought was I thought, you know, they're making a
tremendous mistake because as far as a people go, I
live in California for what thirty five thirty five years,
I've not seen a harder working people than the Mexican
demographic or more talented I had in my god, the

(28:28):
way they.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
It just and so I thought, you.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
Know, the the assumption on the Democrat side is that
they're going to vote the way they want because of
course they want free stuff. No, I've never met I've
never met a Hispanic family who wanted free stuff. I've
met many Hispanic families who were so very very proud
that they worked so hard for the stuff that they got,

(28:52):
and they have pride in it.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
But once we got.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
Over fifteen sixteen million people coming in, I realize now
that they what they were planning on doing actually worked.
That's why you've got to if you have the opportunity
to vote against allowing illegals to be counted in the
census or for illegals to be able to vote, do

(29:17):
everything you can. Unless you're happy with your tax dollars
and your hard earned money going to people who refuse
to work.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
If you're happy with that, when you.

Speaker 3 (29:27):
Tried going over CDs and supporting people who hate us.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
Do something you know you want to be philanthropic, then
a study, tunnel to tower, study, wounded warrior, study something,
give money to an animal shelter, do something that you
choose to do.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
Because what is what has wound up happening?

Speaker 1 (29:47):
And I'm starting to see the ads on television which
I think are really good.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
There's an investment company.

Speaker 1 (29:52):
I don't know who they are, but one of the
things they say is, you know, we look at these
companies to make sure that we're not in investing in
a company that we disagree with their fundamental policies. We
don't invest in companies that pay for abortions.

Speaker 4 (30:08):
You don't just get companies to see if they're based
in America and it helps Americans, and they say, these
are the companies that do that well.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
And also to see what their policies are.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
So is there are American companies that are just fine
that support things I don't want to give money to. Indeed,
he didn't want to give money to. So guess what,
we don't invest in them. But if you don't do
pardon me again, if you don't do your research, you
may be you may be giving a lot of money
to Planned Parenthood. You have no idea right now.

Speaker 4 (30:37):
I think Donald Trump and they have cracked down on
Planned parenthead for sure, and basically I think, but that situation,
it comes down to the States.

Speaker 3 (30:46):
And it should.

Speaker 4 (30:48):
Donald Trump is more cracking cracking down more actually on
these international people that hate us, and we're giving money,
you know, all the broad USA I d and the
money in Minnesota that would go to Somalia. But when
we're dealing with born ento these that's even scarier. I mean,

(31:09):
at least, like John has said many times, it's better
to at least know your enemy. But these folks that
we're giving money to Somalia that want to kill us,
or they want to harm us, or they want to
run our country.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
That's scary stuff. And weren't funding it right.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
Yeah, they want to come here and change the country.
I read something just this morning it was great.

Speaker 4 (31:28):
So Donald Trump to answer a question in a very
long way is Yeah, I think he's cracking down on
all the bad stuff. You know, he's a great president.
I mean, I've always thought George Washington was the best president.
But I'll tell you what, Donald Trump's looking pretty darn good.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
Well, you couldn't compare George Washington anyone because he was
the first.

Speaker 4 (31:47):
Yeah, well, and you know and because of he truly, no, no,
no first. John Adams was two, okay, Jefferson three, Madison
Bourn Mone she'll go on Jackson seven and I'll stop there.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
But if you know them, she knows all of them
and all the state.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
Casbain, I love you.

Speaker 4 (32:08):
As I do, but I love, love, love George Washington
because we should have.

Speaker 3 (32:13):
I don't know how we want that war, but.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
We're telling you the French, well.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
They helped, helped a lot, helped a lot. Thank you French.

Speaker 4 (32:22):
I always tell John, you know, people always give the
French on hard time, and we do too. However, in
the end I always said, look, but we've got to
give him a pass because with that there, her help,
we wouldn't have wanted the French.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
Without the French, there ain't know us. There's a song.
You hear a lot of things, especially on X You'll
hear all kinds of terrible things about Donald Trump and
Pete Haig Seth and and uh on on and on.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
Christy Nome.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
Everybody, do your research because what watch watch a speech
of Donald Trump. Watch you watch A Q and A,
because if you don't, watch one of these impromptu press
conferences where all of a sudden, the President of the
United States invites all of the press to ask him

(33:11):
anything they want to ask in full disclosure. He is
truly the most trand this is the most transparent, transparent
administration we've ever had. You may say, I ask transparent
because he's lying. I don't believe he's lying. I do
my research, and I think first and foremost what he
runs everything through filter? Is this good for America? Is

(33:35):
this good for Americans? If it's not, what power do
I have? Here's a difference between.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
Him and mom Domni. Well, one's a president, one's a mayor.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
Okay, but mom Domni made promises about things that he
was going to fix and programs he was going to implement.
That his power as mayor or his position as mayor
doesn't give him the power to do man. Now, Donald
Trump is pushing the envelope or envelope depending on where

(34:11):
you're from on all of that, because the only thing
the only opposition of Democrats can come up with is no,
that's not within his purview.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
Okay, Well, let's find out.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
Let's ask the Supreme Court and find out, because, like,
what's what's happening now with? Who in the world cares
more about the people on a boat that's delivering fentanyl
or any number of illegal substances that will kill you.

(34:43):
These people are delivering this to our soil so that
it can kill. Now, every bit of fentanyl probably is
not intended to kill somebody, but every bit of fentanyl
certainly can and has killed hundreds of thousands of people
in last five years.

Speaker 4 (35:02):
Servicemen, don't listen, don't listen, don't screw you, buddy. I mean,
I hate to be rude that way, but when you
are a member, when you have taken all to serve
your country, and then you tell your fellow.

Speaker 3 (35:17):
Yeah, members of you know what is he?

Speaker 4 (35:20):
I don't know any I guess he's Air Force because
he was an astronaut.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
He's a piece of dog shit up hard my language.
I'm sorry, dogs, I didn't mean to insult you.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
Yeah, he's a servicemen and women.

Speaker 3 (35:32):
Hey, don't listen to the commander in chief.

Speaker 1 (35:34):
Hey, don't listen, don't don't what do they call it orders?
Don't illegal?

Speaker 2 (35:38):
Illegal orders. Well, here's here's a simple way.

Speaker 1 (35:41):
If you are wondering what that's about, or if you
don't know what's going on there. This is a former
you're not really ever former military because he can be
pulled back in and then and then court martial. This
was a high ranking member of the military who was
advising all of the military to disobey direct orders that

(36:01):
they feel are illegal orders.

Speaker 2 (36:05):
Well, who the hell really?

Speaker 1 (36:08):
So then you do that, that's not a slippery slope,
that's a cliff.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
Then you've got somebody saying.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
No, sir, I'm not gonna do I'm not gonna shine
my shoes. I'm not gonna do KP duty because that's
an illegal order. Why because you say so, who the
hell are you? Who the hell is this guy that's
saying that.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
So he is.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
Not just inviting, he is enticing in subordination within our
military at a time where there are foreign powers that
want to kill us. There's always going to be a
time where foreign powers want to kill us. Here's the
easiest way for me to understand it and for me
to say it. I think the most illegal orders ever

(36:52):
given in the military were when Commander in Chief Joe
Biden ordered the military out of Afghanistan before this civilian population.
So he left the civilians there to be slaughtered. Now
if ever, there was a time where the commanders of
those folks, because the folks that are that are that

(37:13):
are in the trenches, they don't have time to make
a decision, and quite frankly, they don't have the right
to make a decision. They are g I Joe's GI
means government issue. When you join the military, you become
a possession for your your Yeah, no, you your own.

(37:34):
You're doing what you're told, do what you're told. Nobody
says do you do you like these orders or not?
You do what you're told.

Speaker 3 (37:40):
And when we say to me, thank you for your
service and service to your country.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
Absolutely a service to your country. But GI does mean
government issue. Sorry, that's just what it means. So when
he ordered the military out of there and all those
people died, not just the thirteen, we hear, thank guy's
got all.

Speaker 3 (37:55):
Our guns and all our stuff, and great, thank you buddy.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
Well, we're absolutely orders that any sensible person, if given
the right, would have ignored.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
But can you imagine try to put.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
Your what was a help mister wizard put your magic
glasses on and imagine what would have happened if when
Joe Biden, within the first sixty days of his administration,
I think, gave the order to evacuate the military out
of Afghanistan. Can you imagine what they would have said
about us if if Republicans said, you can't do that,

(38:33):
don't do that, that's an illegal order. My god, their
heads would have come off. And now that's exactly what
they're advocating. It's insane. They want it both ways, in
every every conceivable area. These folks want it both ways.

Speaker 4 (38:50):
Donald Trump is such a boss. I mean, he's basically
saying anything with auto.

Speaker 2 (38:54):
Pin out not how great is that?

Speaker 1 (38:58):
Yeah, not work it anymore?

Speaker 3 (38:59):
So we'll see that goes.

Speaker 4 (39:00):
Also, Donald Trump is just absolutely He literally called Aylon whatever,
smolly woman, she's garbage. They're garbage, and she's like, I'm
not going anywhere. The one of marrying her brother to
get it's all gross. It's all wrong. And I agree
with the fact that I think you should be born
here to serve I'm sorry, I mean, sir, in the

(39:21):
capacity of member of Congress.

Speaker 3 (39:23):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (39:24):
I just believe that some people may think that's harsh,
but I don't I think you should have to be
born here unless.

Speaker 1 (39:29):
It's to I think maybe right now because of there's
there's so much turmoil and so many things at stake,
and so many questions that yes, but but at this
by the same token, I can't believe I'm saying this.
But some of the some of the wisest counsel I've
been hearing about how great this country is have come

(39:53):
from two very unlikely sources, and one of them is
Arnold Schwarzenegger. I don't care, I can't, but you.

Speaker 4 (39:58):
Think you should have been able to run from governor, Well,
I don't think he can't run for president, thank goodness,
because I don't think he's wise.

Speaker 3 (40:04):
I think he's just stupid stuff. I am not a bank.

Speaker 4 (40:08):
He was a terrible governor. He he he rails on Trump,
he rails on Republicans.

Speaker 3 (40:13):
Forget him.

Speaker 4 (40:14):
The Republicans got him elected to governor of California, and
he sucks.

Speaker 3 (40:19):
Plus he's bad to women. Forget him. Allegedly forget him,
but I think we know.

Speaker 2 (40:24):
But lately, don't he.

Speaker 4 (40:27):
Babies with your housekeeper when you're married to a lovely woman.
I'm just saying, we don't have a housekeeper obviously, thank
you very much, Cad.

Speaker 3 (40:38):
He's talking about washing dishes.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
I cook, he washes dishes, Washington dishes.

Speaker 2 (40:45):
What did you hear what I said? That's funny that
I cooked.

Speaker 1 (40:48):
Can you wash dishes? Yeah, that's funny, that is funny.
I don't personally believe whoever cooks it should should have
to clean the dishes, unless, of course I cook it.
And then I still, you know, because you have.

Speaker 3 (41:02):
A lovely household, and we have a lovely live and.

Speaker 2 (41:05):
It's just we just have slippery steps.

Speaker 4 (41:06):
We just have slippery so we have very old basements
that need to be replaced.

Speaker 2 (41:11):
So I don't I don't know about the Oh I do.

Speaker 4 (41:17):
I think you should be born on American soul or look,
I get it, if you were born at the very
least Air Force base in Germany or something. I think
that's fine because I think that's considered American soil. Oh Yeah,
but no, no, I'm hardcore. I think that you have

(41:37):
to be an American to run for office and to
be in office.

Speaker 3 (41:41):
Forget Arnold, that was a mistake and the Somali's buy.

Speaker 1 (41:46):
The thing that he said that I appreciated was he
did come in here the right way. What he did
when he got here, who knows. But he did come
in the right way. And he advocates that if you're
if you're going to come into this country, don't don't
gripe about it, don't complain about it, and come in
the right way and come in the right way. Well,
but he came in the right way. He paid the

(42:08):
admission to be able to have an opinion.

Speaker 2 (42:10):
If you just come in on.

Speaker 3 (42:11):
A boat, I don't think you should be governor.

Speaker 2 (42:13):
But it's too late.

Speaker 1 (42:14):
He's already been governor and that's it. Yeah, he didn't
do anything for the for the motion picture industry. Okay,
enough about enough about Honold must go a very good
Honold impersonation.

Speaker 2 (42:25):
But anyway, enough about him.

Speaker 3 (42:26):
American Austrian Austrian.

Speaker 2 (42:28):
Yeah, yeah, so.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
Where we go. So now they're griping about and they
just make stuff up. Pete Haigseeth, as far as I
can see, never said kill the survivors. That's what the
left is saying. Oh, he's terribly saying kills was well.
Number one, it's war. This is not fishing. We're not
out there deep sea fishing. These are people who are

(42:54):
bringing extremely poisonous dangerous, awful, kill you kill you and
your children drugs into our country and his order from
the President of the United States is make sure they
don't get here.

Speaker 2 (43:10):
So I think he said that.

Speaker 3 (43:12):
You do anything wrong.

Speaker 1 (43:13):
No, it's war and it.

Speaker 3 (43:15):
Was someone else anyway, but it doesn't matter if it
was him. It's like, look, you guys are jerky.

Speaker 1 (43:20):
He's the secretary of war and if you're a part.

Speaker 3 (43:22):
Of that, you're going down. And if you die, you die.

Speaker 1 (43:25):
That's your probablem what is it? What is it with people?

Speaker 2 (43:27):
If you watch you you haven't seen these They're so funny.

Speaker 1 (43:30):
There's these things on YouTube where people come up in
their door.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
What do they call them?

Speaker 1 (43:36):
The package package pirates or something Amazon pirates, Sports pirates, pirates. Yeah,
they come up and.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
They grab the box and they get to their.

Speaker 1 (43:44):
Pals and it blows up and then they're going to
sue and it's got paint, you know, like that. They're
going to sue the home on and sometimes.

Speaker 2 (43:51):
They come back up to the camera.

Speaker 1 (43:53):
I know you can't do this. You can What do
you mean? I can't do this my porch, This is
my package.

Speaker 2 (44:01):
You are stealing it.

Speaker 1 (44:03):
You are stupid enough to steal this package and it
blows up in your face. Guess what, that's your fault.
That's not my fault. My biggest question is where do
I get one of these packages?

Speaker 4 (44:15):
Well, unfortunately we don't have that problem here, and we
leave sleds and pumpkins and stuff outside or it's never bothered.

Speaker 2 (44:21):
There go the sleds and pumpkins.

Speaker 3 (44:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (44:23):
Well we've got cameras too. Man, where we are, there
are cameras everywhere.

Speaker 3 (44:27):
It's like New York. It's silly to try it, but everywhere. Yeah,
pretty much.

Speaker 4 (44:35):
Not right outside our windows up on on the penthouse floor.

Speaker 1 (44:41):
But anyways, But it's the mentality. Yeah, these people, no
matter what, actually feel like they are entitled to steal
your stuff. And if you do anything to here's a
crossword puzzle word thwart that, then you'll somehow get in trouble.
In Indiana, I don't believe. I believe in Indiana even

(45:02):
if like, if somebody comes into your car, your car
is an extension of your domicile right domicile domo castle. Yeah,
so if you come into my car, you're in my house.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (45:16):
Yeah, done there over it's the most one of the
most gun friendly stakes. Yeah, so hey, but.

Speaker 2 (45:24):
There, but there is this very strange.

Speaker 1 (45:29):
It's this entitlement issue again because the people that that
that go really irate. Now I realize some of this
stuff may be staged, you know, maybe.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
It's not real.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
But this one police officers came because he called the cops.
How stupid can you be? I'm going to steal something
from your porch and then when it blows up in
my face, I'm going to call the cops on and
I'm going to wait for them. So he waited for them,
and the cops showed up and they're like, well, whose
package was it?

Speaker 2 (46:00):
Where was it? I was on the porch. Well do
you live here?

Speaker 1 (46:04):
No?

Speaker 2 (46:05):
Well were you stealing it?

Speaker 1 (46:06):
No?

Speaker 2 (46:06):
I thought it was mine.

Speaker 3 (46:09):
Do you have anything positive to talk about?

Speaker 2 (46:11):
I'm positive that guy's an idiot, So let's talk a.

Speaker 4 (46:15):
Little bit about something positive and talk about how wonderful.
The show is going to be Friday night in New
York at the green Room forty two. John is going
to play through it. He has injured fingers who was
just in the emergency room yesterday, but he's going to
perform a show in New York the green Room forty two,

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we would love for you to show and then this
is a private thing. But then no one's going to
perform in pump Springs.

Speaker 3 (46:43):
Are you going to practice? Honey?

Speaker 2 (46:45):
I can only use my bum.

Speaker 1 (46:47):
Oh I don't know. That's where my brother bob, because
that's what my dad would always play our dad.

Speaker 2 (46:58):
Oh hell.

Speaker 6 (47:03):
H m, that sounds nice. Uh oh yeah, well, honey,
I you maybe.

Speaker 4 (47:14):
You know, some maybe would have maybe would have called
off the show. John's not going to go on, must
go on.

Speaker 3 (47:21):
So we're going to do that. And New York's fun and.

Speaker 4 (47:27):
This I want to be careful because the new mayor
is coming in the first of the year, so I
think this might be the last a good Christmas for
a while. We'll find out, but yeah, he will not
have taken office until January first, he won't and then
so it's still relatively In fact, that's a very safe

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Last time we're in New York, we fellt fun.

Speaker 3 (47:52):
It was all good.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:54):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (47:55):
During the Christmas season you have a lot of people
from all over the world come in and it's really lovely.

Speaker 3 (48:00):
Uh, it's great to be in New York at Christmas time.

Speaker 4 (48:04):
So come on over to the green room for two
and see John play with I don't know, eight fingers,
eight fingers.

Speaker 1 (48:14):
Yeah, we'll see.

Speaker 2 (48:15):
They're healing pretty quickly.

Speaker 1 (48:17):
But I'm not going to be unless I can get
to my fingernail and not get to the tip of
my finger. That's going to be hard to do, might not.

Speaker 4 (48:30):
I do want to think all of you, because you
gave a lot of suggestions. Some of them were insanely bad,
like putting cayenne pepper on the wound, dirting duct tape.
It's rubbing dirt on it.

Speaker 2 (48:44):
It's bad, yeah, I think.

Speaker 3 (48:46):
Or uh, lighter flood or break.

Speaker 1 (48:50):
Fluid on it, windecks or break fluid.

Speaker 4 (48:52):
Somebody somebody said break fluid, wind decks. All these crazy
things are like he's ever reacting and you just put
a band in on them.

Speaker 3 (49:01):
Well guess what. I wasn't so.

Speaker 4 (49:03):
But most of the women, I'd say, nine woman like, no,
you need to get to the emergency room. You need
to get there and have them take a look.

Speaker 3 (49:10):
But a lot of the guys were like, no, you know,
I just wrap it up in a paper towel and yeah,
rumber band and you know, throw some.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
Pepper.

Speaker 1 (49:19):
Did say you imagine putting cayenne pepper open. No, my god,
you'd have to pull me off the ceiling.

Speaker 2 (49:25):
Yes, but infection did. Infection is real.

Speaker 1 (49:30):
Infection is real, so you have to make sure you
you you fight that off. Uh My, one of my
dear friend from Duke's Al Wyatt Junior, passed away.

Speaker 2 (49:42):
It was the staph infection. It happens, happens all the time, like.

Speaker 1 (49:44):
Jack Daniels h And also, by the way, when I
got my tetnis shot, what did I ask the nurse?

Speaker 3 (49:52):
Is there anything else in that shot? He did?

Speaker 4 (49:55):
He goes, look, I'm going to make sure it's just that,
because we've gotten a lot of low back about I
can't believe you got.

Speaker 3 (50:01):
This tennis shot. That's like getting a COVID shot.

Speaker 1 (50:03):
Well about that, No, because I asked, I was specific.
I said, there's nothing like like the vaccine, the COVID vent.
There's nothing bundled in this shot, right, It's just a
tetnis shot. She said, just a teennis shot. I said, okay, great, because.

Speaker 3 (50:16):
People are up in arms about that. How could you
do that?

Speaker 4 (50:19):
Like you're a trader, you're anti vaccine, but you're going
to get the tennis shot.

Speaker 3 (50:23):
I was. I was a little baffled by that.

Speaker 1 (50:25):
Yeah, I am too, because I got a tennis shot.

Speaker 3 (50:27):
Wrong about that?

Speaker 4 (50:28):
I mean, you know, we don't want you to die,
we don't want you to get an affection, we don't
want to job jaw. So I've never heard of a
tennis shop being a problem boy. A lot of people,
a lot of people were concerned about that.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
Educate us.

Speaker 1 (50:42):
I haven't heard about a tennis shot being bad either.
I got when I uh cut my leg when I
was nine years old, and I got the light of
cane shot. I got a tetnis shot because I cut
it on metal. And they always you know, if you
cut your this is what I always heard, And now
maybe I'm wrong, But if you're work out in the
yard a lot so especially in the studio era, I

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would be moving pieces of roofing and you know a
lot of aluminum, a lot of metal, a lot of
things with nails in them. And I was always very
very careful. I wore work gloves to not cut myself
on any of that stuff. And if I did, my
first thought was always when did I get my last
tetnis shot? And they asked here and they say, basically,

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if you can't remember, then it was more than five
years ago. You should get one every ten years, they say,
especially if you do the kind of work where you're
messing around with old stuff. That door is from, like
Dedie said, from eighteen seventy five.

Speaker 4 (51:41):
I am positive those are the original stairs to the basement.

Speaker 1 (51:44):
Yeah, so there's no telling what's you know, what could
be living Adam. So if we're missing something about the
tetnis shot, then then tell me. Uh they did well,
But all they did is they said, you know that
was like the shot.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
No it's not.

Speaker 1 (51:58):
It's not the vaccination. And I asked, okay, so it
was not the vaccination.

Speaker 2 (52:03):
Do not believe the vaccination? Never got it? Never will
listen to a song.

Speaker 3 (52:10):
No.

Speaker 1 (52:10):
At one time in my life, I got a flu
shot and they said it's going to make you feel
like you have the flu maybe, And it did for
about a week, which is about as long as the
flu would have lasted.

Speaker 2 (52:18):
So why didn't I just get the flu shot.

Speaker 3 (52:20):
When you're a kid. I don't remember ever getting a
tennis shot.

Speaker 1 (52:23):
Well I had a handle of my bicycle.

Speaker 4 (52:26):
Well that's different. But I'm like, just get kids tend
shots today. I don't remember remember getting one.

Speaker 2 (52:33):
I was a kid a long time ago.

Speaker 1 (52:34):
I don't know, but I got one then, and then
I got one I probably had. That might have just
been my third, maybe my fourth tetana shot in my life.

Speaker 2 (52:44):
I honestly don't remember.

Speaker 1 (52:45):
But I do remember that I got one in Louisiana
because I cut my hand on a piece of metal roofing.

Speaker 3 (52:52):
And so better safe than sorry.

Speaker 4 (52:54):
Me one thing, And again, thank you all for your
stories and your encouragement, and well Washington, John. Uh, but
a lot of folks did lose fingers, did loose toes,
did loose feet because they got the infection and then
they had they said, flush eating bacteria, all kinds of
terrible things. Infection is real, and infection can kill you,

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and then you can get stepsis and you're gone.

Speaker 1 (53:19):
It's worth it.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
It's not worth it.

Speaker 3 (53:21):
Shot.

Speaker 1 (53:22):
I mean, not that shot. My jab ballime me.

Speaker 4 (53:25):
We don't do any of that. But I mean, if
this is maybe we were wrong, I don't think so.
When John asked them, is there anything else in the
shot other than this, I said, absolutely not. I believe them, they're.

Speaker 1 (53:36):
Real fine, absolutely, And I take my I got these
big old horse pill antibiotics supposed to take one to
a day, one in the morning, one at night, for
seven days, I think.

Speaker 2 (53:47):
And she said take them until they're gone. They always
say that.

Speaker 1 (53:51):
This time, yeah, because you know this was this was
this particular one was it was it deep. I saw
something in the erpos.

Speaker 3 (53:59):
I mean they had sew it.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
Up that felt good. Yep.

Speaker 1 (54:03):
I had to sew it up with this little round
needle like upholstery. It was like an upholstery needle.

Speaker 3 (54:07):
It was you know, I was freaking out. But you
are going to be traveling today. Can you imagine with
the open wound at the airport moving your luggage and
having germs there.

Speaker 4 (54:19):
Oh my gosh. There was no way we could do that.
So I was trying to think, how in the world
am I going to get n to the emergency. I'm
just going to do it one way or the other.
But fortunately the Jack Daniels story worked.

Speaker 2 (54:32):
Yep. Whiskey works.

Speaker 3 (54:36):
Unless you have two holes in your fingers and then
you need.

Speaker 1 (54:40):
Yeah, attention. I'm surprised somebody didn't say just stick stick
your fingers in in some burds. They did. They did. Oh,
the on the Westerns, they pour it into the gunshot wound,
right or the arrow, pour it in the gunpowder, and
you drink n you drink it, or you drink it.
In any porn on the wound or comedy westerns, they

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say it's not for him, it's me.

Speaker 2 (55:01):
It's a doctor, right.

Speaker 4 (55:03):
But many people said, oh, you know whiskey words. No,
I'm a believer that if you start to because I
don't think I've been sick the entire time we've been together.
I just don't get sick, right, and we do drink.
I drink whiskey, especially if I start to feel bad,
which has been a long time.

Speaker 3 (55:20):
The last time I remember.

Speaker 4 (55:21):
Starting to feel like a little fluish or whatever, long
ago in New York City, maybe two thousand and two
or something.

Speaker 3 (55:29):
And then if you get hot, Toddies fixes it for me.

Speaker 1 (55:33):
Anyway, it's whiskey or bourbon and uh irish, I.

Speaker 3 (55:37):
Mean, because that's just like what cures us.

Speaker 2 (55:39):
And honey, yeah, honey and lemon.

Speaker 1 (55:41):
And boy is that good.

Speaker 3 (55:43):
And if you start feeling bad, like.

Speaker 1 (55:46):
Tickle in your throat, just go to the closest irish pub.

Speaker 3 (55:50):
If you've got one oranges, make your own, and that's.

Speaker 1 (55:53):
What it is.

Speaker 3 (55:53):
Hot water cloves, those are good.

Speaker 1 (55:55):
Two if you go to a real Irish pub and
just tell them I feel a little tickle in my
throat there, fix your night y, Fix it right away,
they will.

Speaker 3 (56:03):
Those are the best.

Speaker 2 (56:04):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (56:07):
If you don't drink, ginger tea is really good for
that too. There's another tea called throat coaked that it's good.
That'll that'll help you with it if you don't it.
If you don't drink then you can still do the
honey and the lemon in hot water and it will help.
I just think there's every time I've gone to the

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recording studio I have bourbon with me or whiskey with me.
There is a difference, and I will I will gargle
with it. I will then swallow it. But it does.
It does cut on the show tomorrow night. I'm gonna
have bourbon there because you know I don't. I don't
do shows every week anymore. So when I do it,
about halfway through, I start getting a little like this,

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So drink a little whiskey cuts right through it. I
did a show called The Civil War on tour with
BB and CC Wyans Wyan White Winings. I've never pardoned
med y'all. I've never been able to say that name right, Uh,
And they don't drink. So what they did before a
show is they ate Doritos New Yep and potato chips

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because and they did this potato ches.

Speaker 3 (57:15):
But you think you were going to sing, why don't
you eat chips?

Speaker 1 (57:17):
Well, they said that, and they didn't chew it into
like a fine They would chew it a little bit
and sweat.

Speaker 2 (57:23):
This sounds terrible, but these are two of the greatest
singers in the world. Uh.

Speaker 1 (57:28):
They would they would eat the potato chips and they
said that the potato chips as it went down would
kind of scrape the gunk.

Speaker 2 (57:36):
I know, it sounds terrible. I'd much rather drinking.

Speaker 4 (57:40):
Well, you know how much you all had a potato
chip and you and you didn't quite chew it enough
and you're.

Speaker 1 (57:45):
Like, oh my god, I'm gonna shut on it.

Speaker 4 (57:46):
Yeah, that is the worst feeling because it's like it No,
I don't know what's wrong with those people, but they
do sing well.

Speaker 1 (57:53):
They sing amazing, amazing, good show. Civil War.

Speaker 4 (57:58):
I was what well, I just wanted to congratulate John
and thanked him for going to the emergency.

Speaker 3 (58:05):
Room because I didn't want to lose him. And I
knew I could if he didn't go.

Speaker 4 (58:09):
However, I was going to do anything I had to
do to get him there.

Speaker 3 (58:14):
I had planed ABC and BB.

Speaker 2 (58:16):
So I finally just gave up. But I remembered. I
remembered my buddy al Wyatt Junior.

Speaker 1 (58:23):
I remembered she told me the story of Jack Daniels,
and I thought, you know, I've heard.

Speaker 2 (58:27):
This enough times.

Speaker 1 (58:29):
That is just because the fingers, because this was, this was,
this was already, this was already knitting itself back together.

Speaker 2 (58:40):
The human body is amazing. This one. There's no flap
because I gnawed off.

Speaker 1 (58:45):
But if I were to take this bandage off now,
I'll bet there's a sixteenth of an inch or so
that's already grown back. Here's the amazing thing that I
was joking. I could rob a liquor store and not
leave any fingerprints. That part was gone, and when it
grows back, which it's already doing, I'll have the same

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fingerprints on there.

Speaker 2 (59:06):
How is that possible?

Speaker 4 (59:08):
But see, I thought it was a problem that you
couldn't feel anything. I'm like, that's a problem. I don't
know why, but that so whenever.

Speaker 1 (59:14):
No, no, no, I just said, it didn't hurt whatever.

Speaker 4 (59:17):
Yeah, it should have been hurting because it was a
big deal. And I'm like, that is bad news. Like
it's like not like dead, like dying, you know, And
that's what happens with affection too of a part of
your body. You're gonna you might die because you can't
have anything in your body that's dead and it's going
to spread to the rest. Well it is.

Speaker 1 (59:37):
I just realized my computer, I can put in the thing.
I think I can do either one. But a lot
of times it just asked me to to do the
fingerprint thing on the power button. That ain't happening.

Speaker 4 (59:50):
I think that's just very simple and gang green. I mean,
if something dies and it's in your body, you're you're
gonna die eventually if you don't get it out.

Speaker 3 (59:57):
So I'm glad you're not like Jack Daniel.

Speaker 2 (59:59):
Surey note give me some.

Speaker 4 (01:00:01):
But they well but at the hospital, Look, she scraped
all of that off of his finger.

Speaker 1 (01:00:06):
She said, I'm going to clean it up. I'm going
to clean it up now, oh.

Speaker 4 (01:00:10):
His finger, and then sewed up the rest and all
that was still there. That would have absolutely been an infection.
There's no doubt about it. And you think you're not
going to get even more in an airport. We love
this Cincinnati air.

Speaker 2 (01:00:22):
Oh look, we're out of time.

Speaker 1 (01:00:24):
We are We're over a minute, We're over an hour.

Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
Oh yeah, we're over an hour. Sorry, we got to go.

Speaker 3 (01:00:31):
Well, what we want.

Speaker 4 (01:00:32):
To wish you merry Christmas, a wonderful December. Leading up,
we have the green and you know my red or
whatever and read green. Yeah, and remember the hat giveaway,
and please be patient, folks, because we've got some hats
on backwarder. We've got to make a trip to the
post office. But you will get your hats. I'm happy
with a Bruglin reminder. Hey, I got like that, you know,

(01:00:54):
to Sherlock Holmes hat.

Speaker 2 (01:00:55):
Please do that. Yeah, please do that in fact, because.

Speaker 4 (01:00:57):
We're super busy, but we want you to get your
hat and you will, so our apologies, especially during the
Christmas season when the post.

Speaker 1 (01:01:03):
Office and our post officelood.

Speaker 4 (01:01:05):
It's the best, but they are busy and they are flooded.
So be patient, but you will get it and we're
happy to give this away. Hope to see you Friday.

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
Night, right December fifth.

Speaker 1 (01:01:17):
Oh end.

Speaker 2 (01:01:17):
By the way, it's going to be live streamed as well.

Speaker 1 (01:01:19):
Oh yeah, there's a little we'll put a link in
the description down there. It costs something, but it's a
live stream. And then I have one hard question. We're
talking about T shirts because of this whole thing. A
dear friend of ours that we both knew before we
knew each other.

Speaker 2 (01:01:35):
His name was Daniel Quinn. He has since passed on.

Speaker 1 (01:01:39):
He's in a show if you haven't seen, it's called
Catalina Island now. When we shot it, it was called twenty
six Miles, but you can find it on your television.
He's the drummer. But he used to say he was
going to go to there was a dollar General store
down the street, and he called it dollar in Gabana.
So during this whole thing, I said, I'm just going

(01:01:59):
to go to Dollar in Gabon, want to get some
band aids and some neosporn.

Speaker 4 (01:02:01):
Well, we shortened it to dollar Gabana, Dollar Gabana. That's
what you would say. You would not say dollar and Gobani.

Speaker 1 (01:02:08):
And see it's just kind of a John dollar and okay, uh,
we're talking about it's.

Speaker 3 (01:02:12):
A Dollar General store dollar.

Speaker 4 (01:02:18):
But John's like, I'm gonna get bigger band aids at
the dollar Gavana store.

Speaker 3 (01:02:21):
And people love that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:22):
It's funny that and neo sporn is a funny word.
So that was it got me, Neil's porn.

Speaker 1 (01:02:29):
So we're thinking about about you know, very limited run
t shirts about dollar dollar in Gabona.

Speaker 2 (01:02:35):
I think it's dollar yes, but.

Speaker 4 (01:02:37):
We were saying dollar Grabona or you were. And here's
the other thing to end the show on again, if
there are any places in the country you think we
should visit will be great, or you'd like to host us,
or you know someone has a great venue for the
fifty states who are let us know. We have had
many really great inquiries. Ye Also, John is going to
do a calendar, like with his shirt off and stuff fabulous.

Speaker 2 (01:03:01):
So this is a discussion.

Speaker 3 (01:03:03):
This is happening. This is not did you see how
your job looked whenever he Englid showed.

Speaker 2 (01:03:07):
This is a discussion.

Speaker 4 (01:03:10):
The shirt off almost and everybody loved it. So I
think we need to do a calendar because John is
in such good shape he.

Speaker 1 (01:03:17):
Should show it up and look at the time.

Speaker 3 (01:03:19):
All kinds of.

Speaker 4 (01:03:20):
People loved it, and they said it should be a
poster on a calendar. They said they still had posters
of you. So we're tellingly doing it. So let us
know your ideas how John should dress or.

Speaker 2 (01:03:30):
Not stop it. We're going to leave you now.

Speaker 1 (01:03:33):
We're going to leave you now with a beautiful picture
of the first snow in madisone the first snow in Madison.
I took this picture yesterday morning, and no, our first,
our first snow. We hope you have a wonderful, wonderful
rest of your week. Tell keep what oh.

Speaker 3 (01:03:49):
No, keep keep a calendar, ladies.

Speaker 2 (01:03:52):
Keep doing your research.

Speaker 1 (01:03:54):
Be aware of what's going on in your neighborhood and
your country and your world. And we will see you
next week. Good life or willing, and the Ohio River
don't rise you take.

Speaker 2 (01:04:03):
Care of this has been drinks with DD and.

Speaker 3 (01:04:05):
John ware in the calendar February. Oh yeah, it's common
m hm.