NEWSTALK SAUGA960 AUGUST 10, 2024

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Live from Toronto to the world.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
This is Josh Holiday Live. Josh is like a sleep talker.
Josh is the same level as me.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Like this vibe is just like strong and masculine and tough.
Talk it rocks.

Speaker 4 (00:14):
Got something to say?

Speaker 3 (00:15):
What do you had to say?

Speaker 4 (00:16):
The phone lines are now open Kyles six four seven
six yo. Josh operators are standing by. Raise yourself. Josh
Holiday Live starts.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
No, it is August tenth already. What the hohoha? I
like the I like the weather this time of year.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Oh uh huh.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Bert Bert's here, I got a noise.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Good morning in Canada. Yeah, you know if you're from
the north, Yeah, this is a great time of year.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
Oh well, I don't. But the only thing is uh.
At the same time, I like the weather of this,
like right sort of early August today, for example of Toronto,
it's like around well for you, I don't know what
it is, but it's around twenty three. Bert is here
from New Jersey, so whatever that is. In Fahrenheits it's nice, temperate,

(01:15):
probably like low seventies.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
We're doing seventy seven here to the.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Seventy seven, Yeah, which is not I mean, it's a
little little steamier where you are, I think, but breezy.
But the the thing I don't like is it feels
like as soon as the calendar turns from July to August,
the ads in the newspapers and on television it's all
about back to school, and it's there's a bit of

(01:40):
like old trauma from being a kid in school. Yeah,
still in school. Yeah, even to this age now, like
I still feel that, like that kind of that dread
in my in my being when I see those those ads.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Well, it's like the stopwatch of sixty minutes is a
traumatic sound. Why you came on at at when the
Sunday was over? That indications it was over.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yeah, school is time and time to get ready for school.
Yeah uh, but that's a weekend thing. This is like
the whole your whole you're you know, you're having a
good time, you're riding around the bikes with your friends.
Cause a mischief and.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
You'll get no disagreement from me.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah. And I I'm sure there's some people, because I
know people who are like, I don't like the summer.
I don't like summer, And that always surprises me for
people who live here in Canada, where the winters are
such a pain on the ass. But I guess if
you're like a snowboarder or something, or or maybe the
heat gets to you. Maybe maybe that's that's your thing.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
But I mean, you know, God bless those people the heat,
the heat of Toronto gets to them.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Well, no, I will tell you this, it does get
like I mean, it's not like Arizona or or or Dallas,
but it does get like in your terms, in fahrenheit terms,
like like late eighties, early nineties, some days. Ool, I know, Oh.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Hot is heat indecks above body temperature. Yeah, now we're
talking hot.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
I yeah. Well, the one thing I always and I've
said this all the time is if if you're Canadian,
you have to choose, you can't. You can't. It can't
be winter and you're like, oh you go, it's so cool.
It hate the cold, it's so cold. And then when
summer rolls around, you can't be like, oh you god,
it's so hot, it's so hot. You got to pick
your pick, pick the one you're gonna complain about and
stick to it. I have chosen winter to dislike. I'm

(03:31):
always complaining about the cold and the darkness and the
summer if it's hot, it's like, you know, I maybe
feel a little uncomfortable, but I'm never gonna complain about
because I know what February is like.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
I mean, it gets hot a handful of days here.
But people, you know, when it gets up into the
mid eighties or even the low, you know, with some humidity,
people will be like, it's hot, and I'll be like,
it's unpleasant. And you get a little higher and people
like it's hot. I'll be like, it's uncomfortable, but it's
not hot.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
Well, you were raised in Texas, where it's known to
be a hot hot.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah, there's nothing that I think I said this before.
There's nothing like a one hundred and five degree day
to illustrate how comfortable a ninety five degree day really is.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
But I was assumed, and maybe it's just proximity to
Arizona or whatever, but I always assumed Texas heat was
a dry heat.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
He rolled the dice. Sometimes it's real humid and unpleasant
in that way, and sometimes it's just you know, straight
up one hundred and ten.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
And the one thing that the other thing kind of
surprised me that I learned quite young on it. I
did it two ways I've driven kind of that route
sixty six crossing the northern part of Texas. The one
time it was just after Christmas and it was like
really like I think there might have even been some
snow there in the northern part of Texas.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah, I was expecting you to say cold and blowing snow.
I've driven that many times times, and you know that
the south plains it's uh, it's I wouldn't recommend it. Yeah,
it's just as hot as Dallas in the summer with
a hot wind to go with it, and it's bitterly
cold and winter.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
Well, there's the one thing that they're like, it's basically
you're taking sort of roots sixty six as a as
a road doesn't really exist anymore. It's basically been replaced
by I forty. But you can kind of stop off
and see old parts of the road and go through
the smaller towns and it's it's still quite an interesting adventure.
But you just go through the very northern tip of

(05:35):
Texas and there's a giant tourist restaurant there where they
have the big seventies I don't know how seventy six
ounce steak, some giant steak.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah, it's it's an Amarillo. Yeah, I think it's called
the Big Texan.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
Big Texan. And yeah, you go in there and if
if you can finish this giant steak, like.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Like home of the seventy two ounce steak.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
Oh you're looking out yees seventy two I was close,
seventy two ounce steak. Uh, you get it free and
you get I guess.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
If you eat the whole thing, like I said.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
But what's like, I don't understand that because the idea,
like I'm not a I'm not a steak eater, but
in my day I hate steak. And the idea is
that you want to enjoy a nice steak, but I can't.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Sometimes sometimes that's the idea. But in in you know,
out there, maybe sometimes the idea is can you finish
this you know, giant half of a cow?

Speaker 3 (06:28):
Right? But it's almost like a torture. When you get
probably to the last two ounces of that seventy two
ounces or two ounces, well last five ounces, you're probably like,
oh my god, maybe the thirty ounces Okay, yeah, I'm
thinking what yeah, because what's the typical like eight ounces
is like a decent yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
I mean yeah, I don't know I mean, you know,
you eat your weight and steak man. I mean, I
don't know, it's just that's like Alla with my dad
one time and I said, what about that place and
he said, look under in the phone book under tourist traps.

Speaker 3 (06:59):
Oh, it totally is.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, they're like and we didn't go there. They got
good Mexican food, which is what anyone there should do anyway,
don't get don't fall into that, Go get you some
text mex Maybe.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
They have rattlesnakes that are taxidermy in there with their
right now. Yeah. The one thing I really I kind
of liked, just because it's so ridiculous going through the
Southwest is the legend or that or the jackalope or
rabbit antelope take a rabbit and put horns on it.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah, that's yeah.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
Yeah, it's a I don't know if it's as popular
as it used to be. It's such as like a
silly cud.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
Of I think it's just popular until the person is
like eight years old. Maybe that's it and then it's over.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
I was I think I was nineteen. I still like
I I enjoyed it, but maybe it was in an
ironic way because it's like just funny, silly.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
Well, you're known to like tricks. You're a trickster, yes,
I am, And you invest in tricks to play on
other people sometimes and then you you like tricks so
that are played in public.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
Yeah, I do. I one thing.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
I uh.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
I'm also like you know this, I'm a bit of
a magic geek and I have like a more tricks. Yeah,
I'll buy, but I'll buy these magic tricks. A lot
of it is is because I'm like, I really need
to know how things work. In general, I love watching
like magic television, like your Pen and Teller fool us

(08:24):
or because I like I like the idea of trying
to figure out logically how stuff works, and I'm interested
in sort of the I think it stems from as
when I was younger being being a fan of sort
of technical theater, sort of stage craft. So I'm always curious,
and I like I prefer rather than like the close
up stuff, I do like the the larger scale things.

(08:45):
And now sometimes I'll see something a trick because I'm
on mailing list for you know, these magic stores, and
they'll say hey, new this week, and I'll look and
I'm like, how does that work? Oh man? I gotta
mostly I need to know how it works, so then
I order it and I figure out how, I see
how it works, and then it ends up in a
box and I don't use it. I think partially because
uh you know, I'm not not always out in a

(09:08):
lot of social gatherings, so I don't really have chance
to use it or don't have any kind of like
powder to go with it. So I like, I do
like practical things, like I have a few ones that
that are that work with keys, like car keys and
stuff like that. That's kind of just casual, casual fun
and I can do that. But the other stuff where
you have to kind of make some sort of excuse
for doing it is like h and I like, I

(09:31):
have like a fire shooter thing, which is just plain cool, right,
Oh of course, yeah, you shoot like little fireballs. But
I am yeah, I like that.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
I think everyone should have one. Yeah, I mean not everyone,
but I want one.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
It's not well, remember when there was a company selling
uh like like consumer fire flamethrowers in the US.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
Flame thrower I guess I don't remember that.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
It was like a like it was it felt like
it was like this. I don't know if it was
a kickstar or whatever, but it was a like basically
a consumer version of a flamethrower that they were selling
was massively popular. I couldn't order here, obviously because the border.
So yeah, that's that. When last we spoke, my dog

(10:18):
was he hadn't eaten for forty eight hours. Oh that's right,
And that afternoon I took him to the vat and
they took all kinds of they took. I felt terrible
for him because they The worst thing generally when he
goes in there is they put a thermometer in his butt,
which is uncomfortable, and then he also they had to

(10:39):
take blood out of his like I think they take
it out of the jugular, and then they gave him
one needle that was like a kind of a painful needle.
And then the worst was they wanted a urine sample,
so they put a little tube up like a catheter
up as wiener.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
Dude. Yeah, people tune it out and droves. The five
people that were listening just all turned it off.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
Now there's only two. We lost a half. They all, yeah,
that's that happens. I'm just I'm I always worried, Like
I think it's a man thing just to worry like, oh,
I might never have any.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
Kind of well, you go all the way from like,
oh yeah, not eating, here's some talk about the doctor's office,
here's some explicit doctors out, and then just you keep
escalating science.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
It's science. But don't you as don't you like have
in the back of your your your head sort of
a dread that someday you may have some sort of
procedure that requires that. Who yeah, see.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
You're in such a bad shape that you can't go
for example.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
Yeah, it's a great relief. Oh, I'm sure it is.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
You get there, Maybe you're fine with.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
It, just the idea of it. I think they.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
Swelling on it. It doesn't work like that.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
Don't they put like a camera up there too, a
camera I mean if I guess if they got to
go track down a proplem problem. Yeah, I don't know.
Let's not an even think about that anyway. So yeah,
so they did all those tests and took blood and
it was on the Here was a holiday weekend we
have every basically the beginning of every month, we have
a holiday weekend. So I saw, yeah, I saw the

(12:18):
doctor end of day on Saturday, which meant that Sunday
and Monday, there was no no VET around, but he
was nice enough to call me on the Sunday from
he was out in Ottawa, like which is about five
hours away or whatever, doesn't matter, but he called and
said everything looks pretty normal. He was still waiting on
some more tests. And then on the Saturday night, we

(12:42):
have something here called Swiss La that's kind of a
chicken restaurant that's very popular in the US. They don't
have it. But he ate some of that. He ate
because he wasn't eating anything, and he ate some of
that chicken. And the next morning I am some morning
he ate it and slowly, Uh, he's slowly started coming
around and being hisself again. And I had spent almost

(13:04):
a thousand dollars at the VET Canadian Canadian so about
five hundred. But now now like he's I still feel
like there's something up with him, because he's he he
would always just jump up on the bed on his own,
but now he's kind of waits and wines and wants
me to lift him up. And I don't know, there's
something wrong with his paw. And then in the middle
of the night last few nights he's got up for

(13:27):
my bed and then for no reason and then gone
out and wandering around. Then he comes like he wants
me to follow him, and then I go and there's
nothing really going on, and yeah, something's up with him,
but I don't know what it is. I am making
a fora into into filmmaking good time.

Speaker 4 (13:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
When I was in high school, I always said my
goal in life is to write, act or direct for
TV or film. That was almost like a mantra that
I had. Graduating from from school and I went to
radio and television, like a radio and television program, and

(14:07):
then I kind of got like, I never intended to
really do radio, but it's something I was really like
a big fan of as a kid, and ended up
getting some gigs in radio and creative and and and
fell that way. Still kept up with the acting things,
so I was sort of doing acting radio, but the
actual filmmaking side fell to the wayside, and and recently

(14:29):
I was I was the last few years I thought,
I got I gotta have this character I like to do.
I've done it on the radio. This small town radio
host part of a team Steven Tawny, and this live
event was coming up and I knew because our characters
had judged it before, I knew I could probably get

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on it again, and and and I did, and so
this time around, I brought cameras and then we did
a bunch of a bunch of stuff. And it's it's
a world I'm not really super familiar with, especially the
short film world, and there's there's a whole little community
and everything. I've been watching YouTube videos and then you
can submit it to all kinds of like short film

(15:11):
festivals and stuff like that. So I'm learning a lot
about those things. And it's almost done, Like the edit
is done now, it just has to be like made
into like nice color corrected. I guess they make it
all look look all nice, and then the titling is
being done. It's yeah, it's a big thing. So well

(15:32):
debut it here on the radio where you can't see.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
Oh really, no, we wont.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
I'm looking for a local little screening place to have
a family and friends, like there you go? Did you
This is something I stumbled across. Uh, it just caught
my eye because of a history. But apparently in Florida
there's a huge like thirty thousand condos on the market.

(15:58):
They are like a huge, huge, like blood of condos
up for sale.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
I've seen this one before.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
Yeah, do you know why?

Speaker 1 (16:06):
No?

Speaker 3 (16:07):
Oh, well it all I guess it all sort of
stems from when that building collapsed in Florida.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
And yeah, I mean, oh the building collapsed. Oh yes, right,
that building collapsed.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
And so in the wake of that, there's there's more
regulations that have come down and uh yeah, but they'll
be more strict about about the uh you know, checking
the buildings and and updating them. So there's this great
fear by a lot of these old people that if
their buildings are found to be non compliant with these regulations,

(16:40):
that they're going to be be assessed like a huge
amount of money from the building to fix it, which
is part of a con condoment. I think that's the
biggest fear of someone owning a condo is there's gonna be, yeah,
some major assessment you're gonna have to Plus a lot
of these people are they're not working, they're elderly people,
they're sort of all their future is based on a

(17:03):
steady kind.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
Of it's a fixed income world at that point.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
Yeah, and so there's just tons of there's no buyers
because no one wants to get into that situation. So, yeah,
it's it's insane. I because my mother used to have
a condo, but it was only like a it's more
like a basically a two level thing, and none of
the buildings in her area it was all around like

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a little golf course. She had sort of a tiny condo.
And I always see these giant towers by the beach,
and I would think that would be kind of a
cool place to live. Like one of these towers, you
just go down and you're right at the beach.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
I mean, you know, one of the things that fell
apart when the Build Back Better infrastructure package was being
negotiated in Congress was an infrastructure bank, and that could
have been four situations like this where you've got this
thing that you know, no entity, the state can't afford

(18:03):
to fix all these condos. I mean, I looked at
what you're talking about. Yeah, it's like Florida condo market
catastrophic as owners rush to sell homes. If we had
an infrastructure bank, that would be potentially navigable, but as
it is, it's just like, well, either the owner or
the state or some other you know, nobody can be

(18:25):
on the hook for that.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
And it feels like I, certainly with the Santas there,
I don't feel like the state's going to do much
to help.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
No, they don't. They're too busy trying to track down
the trans people or something.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
Yeah, helping people outs woke. They don't want to help people.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
After that, Here here comes boll.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
Uh. The Olympics are winding down to do you just
see any of that stuff?

Speaker 2 (18:47):
Uh? I'm you know, here and there when when other
people in my world turn the Olympics on, I see
the Olympics.

Speaker 3 (18:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
The Canadian basketball team that I wanted to see, you know,
in the in the finals, seems to have been eliminated.

Speaker 3 (18:59):
They kind of crap out.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
So that's too bad. They had a lot of NBA talent.

Speaker 3 (19:03):
But I think I sort of see it. My mother
watches the television news here and obviously they sort of
highlight the Canadians.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
An old term that is the television news.

Speaker 3 (19:13):
Well she's that it's it sort of fits right, the
old people and their television news. There. One is that
the well obviously there's the whole boxing thing where the
where the transphobes are all like all up in arms
and spreading misinformation about about this boxer who was who

(19:33):
is not trans as a female, all the way through
lady boxer, dumb dumbs yep. And that was the big
of controversy. And then some people are are are backtracking saying, yeah,
they made a mistake, we didn't they didn't realize. But
other people are digging in saying, well, but but the
x Y chromosode. It's so stupid. Stupid people are are

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the bane of my existence. Uh. The other thing, there's
a Canadian guy I think it was it was some
sort of tall and it was a hammer toss or something,
but he he looks like Burton Cummings from from bt
O Back Bachman Turner Overdrive. I don't get the familiar

(20:17):
sort of like a like a seventies mustachioed, kind of
long hair guy. Uh. It just kind of like a
folk story because it's just so it's sort of funny,
funny that he he has this classic like seventies look.
So he's he's been been propped up the the I
think our volleyball, our lady volleyballers did pretty well. I uh,

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I do. Like the one thing about the Summer Olympics.
I always said this I'm more of a fan of
the winter because there's more, more danger and more speed.
But I do, as just a person who has you know,
natural instincts, I do enjoy athletic bodies in in uh know,

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athletic suits, gimpy suits of the lady kind. But I
you know there, but I'm sure the dude like you know,
if you like the dudes do did you see the
did you see the pole vaulter? Who's who's pulled knocked
down the knocked down the bard? Okay, well, I think
I want to say it's a French guy. So he

(21:22):
went over the pole vault and he was almost over
and his bulge knocked down the bar like he had
a package in the package knocked down the bar. So
everyone was commenting about uh about that, about the the
irony of it, and and the fact that he you know,

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he can be proud in one way, but he knocked
down the bar. I do you have you ever met
any Olympians?

Speaker 2 (21:53):
Are you never an Olympian? I I all around us
all the time. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
Yeah, I was in I lived in Calgary for two years.
Oh did a little radio show there?

Speaker 2 (22:06):
Or was that the year?

Speaker 4 (22:08):
No?

Speaker 2 (22:09):
Eight th eighties.

Speaker 3 (22:11):
No, eighty ninety No an eighties two, she's eighty. It
was in the nineties. I think it was ninety six
to ninety eight. Yeah, ninety six, ninety eight.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
I'm saying, when was the Calgary Olympics.

Speaker 3 (22:26):
Oh, I want to say eighty eight.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
It was eighty eight.

Speaker 3 (22:30):
Yeah, I want to second, that's my guess. Yeah. And
they still have like the the well, I don't think
they use it anymore, but they have the ski jump
like that.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
I like that. That's what happens.

Speaker 3 (22:41):
Whenever I would drive out to visit relatives out sort
of in the boonies, you would pass by that because
as a youngster, I always wanted to do that, not
the I would obviously be scared of sort of the
acrobatic ones because I bashed my head, But I always
wanted to try doing the long distance one because it's
feels akin to kind of flying, you're sort of soaring.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
You can see that in Lake Placid as well. Yeah,
if you go upstate New York, that's also still just there.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
And they also have they also have a like illusion
of Bob side tracks. So a lot of the Winter
Olympians train out in Calgary, and we were out in
bad for some radio event and happened to be in
this pub and then I chatted up this this this
young woman, and uh turned out she was a lousure,

(23:33):
a lusure and I think a bob sledter, and uh,
she's allusure, She's a lusure baby. Yeah, so we we
we were friends for quite a while, and then at
one point we were at some concert or something, both
kind of drunk and we made out. So I've made
out with a bronze and silver medallist I deserve. I

(23:59):
I so I have some bronze and silver dust on me.
Don't any from that proximity, I don't know. Uh, the
it's Josh Oli. I'm Josh, and Bert is down there
in the States. Uh, and he's much closer to all
the craziness miss that's happening, and uh we'll delve into

(24:20):
that insanity. Uh. You know what, in a moment or two,
just you stand.

Speaker 4 (24:26):
By Josh Holiday live is talked at Rocks.

Speaker 3 (24:30):
Like it when Josh comes up here every once in
a while and teaches us a lesson he so richly deserves.

Speaker 4 (24:34):
Got something on your mind, Get in on the conversation.
Dialer texts six four seven six, you Josh to be hearing.
Now back to whatever the hell this is.

Speaker 3 (24:48):
I don't know what it is. Either it's something, it's
a mess, but thank you for listening either way. Uh,
Burt is here from the US. I'm I'm here in Canada.
So we got a dual perspective here. Uh did you

(25:08):
watch the press conference? Do you like that press conference?

Speaker 2 (25:11):
Well, wish press conference?

Speaker 4 (25:13):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (25:13):
Donald Trump? He called a special press conference.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
Soup on it. He was white, not orange.

Speaker 3 (25:21):
I didn't see the visuals, but uh.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
Yes, yeah, he didn't sound that great.

Speaker 3 (25:26):
You mean that? Hang on, here, are you telling me
that his his uh the color on his face is
not a natural tan.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
I believe he uses a bronzer.

Speaker 3 (25:36):
Oh my god, what you're ruining the illusion for me?
I always thought he was just his opinion, a healthy
guy who you know, gets.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
From McDonald's.

Speaker 3 (25:47):
Yeah. Uh, it was as as as bad as people predicted.
It was just like a rambling kind of uh uh
grievances fest.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
Now as we focus on him, it's like, well, what
are his signs of cognitive decline?

Speaker 3 (26:03):
Because they're there, and it's it feels like it's amplifying,
like I've seen clip more and more clips of him
just sort of rambling and you look at the crowd
behind him and they're sort of like, uh, oh, what
hell are you talking about.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
I got to wonder about there's got to be people
in this movement who are just kind of like, well,
it's that's not fair to call them, but in this
uh you know, extended family as it would be yeah, sure,
uh that are that that have got to be like, man,
this guy's lost a couple of miles on this fastball.

Speaker 3 (26:29):
Well that's the thing. The problem is, I think they've
Once you kind of bought into the whole MAGA movement,
it's hard for you to to say, yeah, I was wrong.
You just kind of have to follow it till.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
It's part of the entire whole thing on the political
right is never having to say you were wrong about anything.

Speaker 3 (26:47):
No, and and your whole life. And it's like the
frog being boiled slowly, like it gets more and more insane,
and then you're supporting white supremacy and then then you're
your way down the rabbit hole. I it's sort of
fun to watch because it's like he's really I think
one of the thing that angers him most because he's
he's not a fan of of black people or or

(27:09):
women unless he's you know, touching them without their permission. Uh,
He's got to be raging at the fact that Kamala
Harris is drawing larger crowds than him. It's it's got
to drive him crazy because that that's a big thing, like, oh,
look at the crowds, look at the ratings. He's all
that's his his main ego feed and the fact that

(27:30):
she's beating him senseless with crowd size and energy is amazing.
And I think it's interesting now because he he said
he wasn't going to debate anymore, and I think everyone
was calling him a chicken and saying saying, yeah, you're
you're you're afraid to debate Kamala. And now he's agreed

(27:50):
to debate again in that that September tenth debate. So
I'm curious to see how that goes.

Speaker 2 (27:57):
I think it's going to be spectacular.

Speaker 3 (27:59):
I certainly will be entertaining. I hope they have the
same rules as the previous one where where they cut
off the speakers mics, because.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
I don't know if I want that, you want him
just to be rambling on. I want the I just
want the regular like back and forth.

Speaker 3 (28:14):
Yeah, I I but I think like she's so fast
and he's so cognitively slow right now that it's not
It won't be good. If you thought Trump versus Biden
was was sort of a uneven match, you wait till
you see this one.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
This is this isn't equally it's like uneven an equal proportion.
But you know, we're we're steadily improving. Yeah, in terms
of in terms of who's got who's with it.

Speaker 3 (28:44):
I think that we have to look at the other
side of this, the scary side of this, as the
MAGA movement and the right wingers slowly realize that they're
probably gonna lose this election unless they cheat. Yeah, you're
going to see more and more desperation, more and more uh, insanity,

(29:05):
and and and law breaking. I don't know if it
we'll get to the point of civil unrest, but certainly
they're already trying to stack the deck in local election
offices to try and fork.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
But I mean a lot of those boards are made
up of multiple you know, people with different affiliations.

Speaker 3 (29:27):
This is true, Yeah, but some of them like they.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
Still have to go before like somebody above them at
the county level. So I mean there's still there's some
checks as much hysteria as there's been about that, and
I do not I don't dismiss it as like a
non factor, but I'm also trying to go like, well, okay.

Speaker 3 (29:46):
Well I will say this. The other thing that I
think is an advantage is that he's not it's it's
he's not the incumbent, so he can't just stay in
the office and make rules to try and keep keep
himself there. He's not there now he's so they're basically
fighting to get him in rather than to get get
you know, keep him in. So I think there's there's

(30:07):
certainly a benefit to that, where last time was like,
well I'm not going to leave office, I'm going to
stay here. There's the riots and stuff to keep him there,
but he's he's not near it, he's not in it.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
So I mean, I'm by the time you know, we
got from twenty fifteen to twenty twenty one, I mean,
when January sixth happened, I had to be like, I
guess I'm not surprised at this point. But if you started,
you know, like ten years prior, and it's like, guess,
what you're going to see an attack on the Capitol.

Speaker 3 (30:37):
Yeah, it's well, it's insanity. And then now especially people
in the well only people in the right fields are
poo pooing the idies saying, well, it wasn't really that,
it was just you know, protesting.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
There's just you know, I can't even be bothered.

Speaker 3 (30:51):
No, it's it's insanity. People are dumb. I My real
hope here is that this is the reset, the peenj
swing that's needed, where like it's it's a probably like
a pipe dream, but the hope is that this kind
of kills the maga moument forever. And ideally the.

Speaker 2 (31:12):
Only way you're gonna really you know, get it out
of people's heads is to have another new deal. Yeah,
another sto. I mean Biden got you know, one eighth
of the way there. Maybe maybe it's a sixteenth in
terms of we're going to do infrastructure, We're gonna you know,
and then they're like, oh, but we let the child

(31:33):
tax credit expire, you know, you know, so I mean
there's it's just inconsistent leftism, inconsistent progressivism. And then you know,
I mean, what are you gonna pay people of basic
income for the factory that closed, you know, thirty years
ago or whatever. That's what they need to do.

Speaker 3 (31:49):
My my hope is, well, they've tried universal basic income
in a bunch of different countries. They even tried it here,
and it's it's always been a success. You end up
spending less money over like less money over time than
you would if you just kind of.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
Uh, well, if you're if you're going to deal with
the people who are so far gone, yeah, and yeah,
it takes a lot to pull them back from the brink. Yes,
so it does make sense that it basically can income
will alleviate a lot of that, I really do the
same time, you know, you've get to deal with the
rent seeking and the you know, the fact that housing
is being snapped up by private equity and.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
All those problems. Yeah, I mean it's yeah, there's so
so I mean, it's so so many problems. But my
one hope is that this magamum when Trump, especially with
his weakness, like pulls down all the all the other
Republican candidates, so that the Democrats will get the House
and the.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
Yeah, if you could get if you could get the
branches all moving in the same direction again, like they
had for two years. You might be able to get
another couple of good packages out of there.

Speaker 3 (32:54):
Well, also, maybe do some some Supreme Court reform.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
There's that, and I mean, you know, the the the
what's happened at the National Labor Relations Board in terms
of empowering unionization and empowering workers has been very important
and helpful to raise wages and improve people's material circumstances.

Speaker 3 (33:13):
Did you did you see who who endorsed what? What
celebrity came up and endorsed Malla today? No, it's all
over Twitter. Former Governor Jesse the body rensure, yes, yeah, yeah, okay,
he yeah, he and he sort of took pokes at

(33:35):
at the people.

Speaker 2 (33:36):
I could almost an impression with him, but I can't.
But yeah, Arian, I was going to mention the FTC.
That's another thing that needs to stay the way it
is and the monopoly rules.

Speaker 3 (33:44):
James A. Doomia, there's someone who does a really great
es venture impression or uh he Actually the thing that
got mentioned today, which I thought was interesting, is they
say that he was one of the people that was
trying to unionize the Oh my, yeah, I love that story.
The wrestling and yes, the w w F yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
Yeah, and he was sold out by hull Cogan, so
he doesn't speak to hul Cogan to this day. Yeah,
and so h hul Cogan was making more money than
all the other wrestlers combined.

Speaker 3 (34:17):
And now you look at it, who's on each side.
Hule Cogan is a trumpe and Jesse's coming out for
the I've heard interviews with him, and he's it's definitely
an interesting character. An odd ball for sure, but interesting character.
It feels like, uh, politicians out of out of Minnesota
often are kind of interesting. You have your Al Frankin here,

(34:39):
Jesse Venturas. I that's the one disappointment for me is
that Al Franken kind of got pushed out and and
hasn't really gotten back him because.

Speaker 2 (34:50):
He now he's I listened to his podcast regularly, and
you know he's doing all right. Yeah, he's doing better
off if he was in the Senate.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
Well that's what Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
I think I hear you.

Speaker 3 (35:02):
And the fact that the reason he he was out
was so like borderline like it.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
Just he just was in the wrong place at the
wrong time culturally. Yeah, to get have something like that
be you know, part of his life.

Speaker 3 (35:17):
But you look at the other side now, like like
democrats eat their own and you look on the other side,
and comparatively, it's like.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
Like, well, I also think that he was not always in.
He had made some enemies in his own party, in
that elected body, so it wasn't all just there was
nobody to be like, no, we're going to rally around him.
It's like, well, you know what, he'd be a good
one to like sacrifice to the you know, to the

(35:48):
to the whole. Uh, you know, because that was a
whole moment, that was the me too moment that was
seeking at that point. Really you see.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
Elon Muskuz he's another kind of right winger. Apparently there's
a there's a company in England that for their services
they're using a lot of Tesla vehicles. They were a
big purchaser of it for their company fleet. And now
they've said no longer, we're not we can't we can't

(36:20):
abide by this right wing white supremacist. We can't buy
for a company run by that kind of person. And
so I think you'll see more and more people go
that way. And it's also they talk about him alienate,
like alienating his His main client base for electric cars

(36:44):
are progressive people for the most part, right, and he's
basically the opposite of that.

Speaker 2 (36:50):
He's a very interesting dichotomy that I hadn't really contemplated
until now, the.

Speaker 3 (36:55):
Fact that that most people most like progressives are the
audience for.

Speaker 2 (37:00):
That He's selling a very expensive product to relatively progressive people,
and then on the other hand, he's running around with billions,
you know, going like, well, let's put the cowboy heat
on backwards and support whatever I mean. Yeah. I also
saw that the on the UK labor law. UK labor
government plans to ban fake news.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
Oh that's great. Yeah, yeah, I think, well, I think
the European Union and well not the England's in it anymore,
but in general, the Europeans are much less tolerant of
the bs that that spews out.

Speaker 2 (37:35):
Of because they can always look over their shoulder to
this North America and see what kind of disaster it
is to allow it.

Speaker 3 (37:42):
Yeah, and I think they were approximate to a movement
like that back in the forties, and they probably a
little gun shy.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 3 (37:51):
A yeah. Anyway, he's a douche on to cheerier things.
What are the worst, the absolute worst messages to send
a potential online match. Gentlemen, we'll give you those those answers,
probably and like it could be a minute, could be

(38:12):
a minute and a half. You'll just have to wait
and see.

Speaker 4 (38:18):
You might disagree with Josh. That's your right show. I'm
listening to a dumb nonsense radio show. But you're probably wrong.

Speaker 3 (38:25):
Josh is right.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
This is great answer, It really is.

Speaker 4 (38:29):
Don't think so, pick up the phone and call six
four seven six, yoh, Josh. More of a texture texting
texting texting Ballo.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
Work two talked to Frocks Josh Holiday Live, Yes.

Speaker 3 (38:49):
Live, Saturday Morning, running up to the top of the
top of the other. Burt is here from his layer
deep in the woods of New Jersey. A little serve
you're not on the dating scene. You got yourself a lady,
you gotta you got a dog, you got kids here,
you're all you got things sorted over there. Well, yeah, wouldn't.

(39:13):
I wouldn't go that far. I'm doing a radio show
for no money. Well wait, we're not getting paid what,
Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (39:20):
You have to clear I'm actually doing it for a visa.

Speaker 3 (39:23):
Yeah, we're trying to build up.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
I'm building up credits in Canada just in case that
s hits the fan.

Speaker 3 (39:29):
Yeah, which, you know, we're months away from finding out
looking better these days, but yeah, it's it really feels
crazy that basically within the next three or four months
we'll know whether the US turns into a fascist dictatorship.
I mean, like three weeks ago, it looked like it
was happening. Yeah, got lucky, got really like then.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
We had a good Sunday and Homeboy quit.

Speaker 3 (39:55):
I wonder you kind of wonder now, like if what
I didn't thinking, like if he's like, oh my god,
I didn't realize like how how much this would change things,
because you know how he's sort of stubborn about.

Speaker 2 (40:06):
I don't know, I don't know what level of contact
he really has with I feel like he's kind of
in a bubble.

Speaker 3 (40:14):
Yeah, he has his Lanetime staff.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
Family bubble, and I don't like I saw somebody say
that Biden doesn't have advisors, he has employees.

Speaker 3 (40:21):
I saw that too. Yeah, so it.

Speaker 2 (40:23):
Makes me think that he's not really responsive to the.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
Tie the outside. Yeah. I am single, obviously, and and
not surprisingly.

Speaker 2 (40:39):
You just got to listen to the first segment of
this radio show on a weekly basis. Yeah, that will
become clear over time.

Speaker 3 (40:46):
I say this before we did this little radio show.
I used to have a I did a podcast on here.
And if you're someone who wants to dig in and
find out all of my terrible, dirty secrets.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
And shames, it's all out there that you.

Speaker 3 (40:59):
Can go back in there and dig around, and you'll
you'll be turned off for sure. I still use dating
apps here and there. According to a website, a dating
app I've never heard of called Breeze, they did a
survey of the worst messages to send a potential online match.

(41:21):
There's ten of them. So let's do a countdown, everybody.
I gotta get a drum roll here. Number ten, I
think my Spotify is broken. You're not listed in the
Hottest Singles. Okay, did it hurt when you fell from heaven?
So that's a really old one. Yeah, this one, I'm

(41:46):
unaware of it. Maybe as a general generational thing. It's
just for P H W O A R R. I
have no idea what that is. Seven seven? What not
to say? The potential match is you're so sexy, just
the basic with a you are though?

Speaker 2 (42:06):
Oh oh, okay.

Speaker 3 (42:07):
Number six you're so hot h A w T. Another
another thing, oh what Now, This one's more of a
response if if someone says they're going to take a shower,
if you type without me question mark, that's kind of
a no. No, uh do you like bad boys? Number three? Hey, sexy,

(42:29):
what's your number? Don't do that?

Speaker 2 (42:31):
Okay, these aren't even that good. No, it's just they're
not even that bad either.

Speaker 3 (42:36):
It's just kind of yeah, it's kind of mid and
some of it's obvious that the number two. Don't send
the egg plant emoji as a as a early.

Speaker 2 (42:45):
Message, like, well, entrention our culture at this point.

Speaker 3 (42:48):
Yeah, and then send picks is the other one, which
which I feel comes pretty early.

Speaker 2 (42:53):
Probably the most commonly uttered phrase online at all.

Speaker 3 (42:57):
Yeah, but in most of the dating profiles there are pictures.
But I'm guessing this is like send pick okay, you
know those type of pics.

Speaker 2 (43:09):
Here.

Speaker 3 (43:12):
This is a restaurant thing. No shows are are becoming
a huge problem. As many as one in five diners
in big cities don't show up for the reservations. That
can have a huge financial effect on the restaurants. But
a new study out says that ninety five percent of
the top restaurants are fighting back by charging fees for

(43:35):
missed reservations, sometimes there as much as the diner would
have spent. Like this, a place in Toronto, Michelin Star
Place charges three hundred and fifty dollars per person, the
cost of an eight course dinner. It's nothing new. There's
a Brooklyn, New York eatery started charging twenty dollars per

(43:56):
person for missed reservations, and no shows dropped by ninety percent.
I think that it makes sense because there's people are flaky.
They'll they'll make they'll make like, well, we're gonna be
in the area, let's just make a reservation and if
we get if we feel like it after the movie,
will go. If not, we'll just go home. You gotta
commit like like because especially if it's a popular restaurant

(44:17):
where other people are wanting to eat there and you're
you're leaving tables open, So yeah, make it. Don't make
a reservation unless you're gonna go. Don't be a dick.
Uh And if you uh, if you're gonna miss your
reservation or you feel like I'm not gonna do it,
then call, call and cancel. Don't just let it. Let
US slide Mount Everest. We've we we've seen the lineups

(44:43):
recently where it's it's it doesn't feel like it's kind
of a solo adventure where like like a man against
nature with just a guy and a group of guides
going off the mountain. Yeah, the pictures came out this
year where it's basically looked like a long, single file
line for a ride at Disneyland going up the face
of Everest. And a lot of the problem with all

(45:05):
of these people going there is they leave behind tons
and tons of trash because they're not they're not going
to carry down all of his trash. They also leave
behind dead bodies. If someone dies on the way up
or the way down, they don't generally get carried down there.
I think there's a very famous I want to say
green jacket, could be green boots, but there's a famous

(45:25):
dead body that people always talk about. Oh it's a
green jacket guy along the trail.

Speaker 2 (45:30):
I know nothing of this. You're you're acting like this
is just common knowledge. But I'm not aware of any
of these. I mean, I'm aware that this practice happens,
that you're going to leave the person.

Speaker 3 (45:38):
Yeah, they just there's there's people along the path that
have been there for years and and basically our landmarks.
Now they're going to do a clean up. There's a
cleanup crew, soldiers and sherbas funded by the government Nepal.
So far removed eleven metric tons of garbage, four dead

(45:59):
bodies and a skeleton.

Speaker 2 (46:01):
I mean that's got to go back fifty sixty years
or something, Right, how long has it been since the
last clean up?

Speaker 3 (46:07):
Probably probably never? Yeah, fifty tons, that's that's a lot.
And it's not like it's like I think there's a
main path that everyone goes up. It's not like it's
spread all around the thing. But the fact that they
retrieved four dead bodies and a skeleton is kind of
the weirdest, creepiest thing, like just a odd ang babous. Sherpa,

(46:29):
the leader of the sherbet team, estimates there could be
as much as fifty tons still up there at the highest.

Speaker 2 (46:36):
As much as they pulled down, there's another whole same amount.

Speaker 3 (46:40):
No, like like five times as much as they're the tons. Yeah,
what kind of stuff do they live out there? Old tents,
food packaging, gas cartridges, auxygen, oxygen bottles, and ropes.

Speaker 2 (46:54):
Because once once you've gone to the top, I mean
you're pretty weak, and so you got to hope you
got enough oxygen to get back down. Then what are
you going to carry stuff out?

Speaker 3 (47:04):
No? Well, a lot of the garbage is in layers
and frozen, so I imagine they probably.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
Have to chill you some of this stuff, you know.
And that's the other thing too, is like they go
up top to come down, is it changed? Has the
snow come through since they were there?

Speaker 3 (47:17):
What?

Speaker 2 (47:17):
What's going on exactly with whatever it is that they've
had to carry in and out? And the weather changes
so rapidly that no one knows what exactly is happening.
What's with your mic?

Speaker 3 (47:30):
I know, it's like flipping around, it's like going flaccid.

Speaker 4 (47:34):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (47:35):
Apparently in recent years they've they've they've managed to change
change the habits here. They required that climbers bring back
their garbage or lose their deposits, which is reduced the
amount of garbage. Oh well, probably helped a lot. They
probably should have had a lot smoner than they did here.
Maybe they should have just like one team going up there,

(47:57):
like built a shoot alongside the path and then when
everyone gets to the top, they just throw their stuff
in their shoes. Huh would be I mean the shoe
would get frozen quickly and clogged. Stop. Stop using lodger
a trash.

Speaker 2 (48:10):
Shoot, that's how many miles long?

Speaker 3 (48:12):
Stop? Yeah, and then they would have to find out
where the track.

Speaker 2 (48:15):
Is, like twenty thousand feet up there, so you got
to like, you know, it's five miles of shoot.

Speaker 3 (48:20):
Yeah, I guess it's not a good idea. Maybe it's
like maybe it's an open shoot like a slide. And
then if people get to the top and they're like
so exhausted they can't climb down, just ride the great slide.
This is a weird invention. And Uh, the automaker Ford
h they have they have this patent thing where they

(48:43):
would have cameras and sensors fitted to vehicles as a
way of helping to snitch on speeders and other vehicles.
The system would detect if a nearby vehicle is exceeding
the local speed limit. From that, a report containing data
of the re so maybe even a photo of the
offending vehicle could be sent to police via intranet. Uh,

(49:08):
it's just a patent. They haven't They've only applied for
the patent, but I don't understand what Like.

Speaker 2 (49:13):
Well, if they're gonna get the patent, they're gonna monetize it.

Speaker 3 (49:17):
Don't I'm saying this. If Ford puts out in the cars,
I don't think I buy a Ford.

Speaker 2 (49:22):
Well, now you better buy a Ford to defend yourself
against the other Fords.

Speaker 3 (49:26):
That's right, it's a battle.

Speaker 2 (49:29):
You can hack their snitch technology and you won't you know,
as you drive by, they'll be confused and think it's
a Mazda.

Speaker 3 (49:36):
Now you're you're veering into my my logical arguments. Are
just wondering. Uh we have when you speak when you
say that the name Ford here in uh Ontario or Toronto?

Speaker 2 (49:49):
Yeah you get that guy?

Speaker 3 (49:50):
Yeah? Yeah, well there's one we had the mayor for
Rob Ford, who is a crack crackhead who made waves
south of the border. You know how many crackhead mayors
are there because I know too, And that's bizarrely Marion Barry,
yeah from DC. Yeah, got a job back. Yeah. This

(50:11):
guy was was, you know, smoking crack. He made like
really filthy comments about uh about as war does on
oral sex like he's he said he had plain enough
to eat at home.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
He was just like a I didn't know that, just.

Speaker 3 (50:31):
A kind of biggest drug addict. And yet this past
year they dedicated the naming of a football stadium for
kids in his his like home district after him. I know,
I know, it's so bizarre.

Speaker 2 (50:46):
So they're still holding the bearing, the torch, the candle
for rob Board.

Speaker 3 (50:51):
Well only because his brother. He's more dangerous brother he was.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
He was a brother at Tennessee Ernie Ford.

Speaker 3 (50:58):
No Doug Done. If you look at picture of this guy,
he's got like cold dead shark eyes. And if you
watch his speeches like he tries to do.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
You're not kidding about those eyes.

Speaker 3 (51:09):
Yeah, And when he does speeches, he's like he's trying
to do an impression of a politician. He's like, folks,
where you are going to like he doesn't know how
to speak. He's just like a big corrupt, dumb dumb
and he's really really messing up our province in major ways.
And he's essentially, I don't want to say, is mob

(51:32):
but allegedly he's tied up with a lot of mobbish people.
Allegedly allegedly, Hey, here's a quick quiz since we're sort
of winding things down here, and you gotta feel like
two minutes living or dead? You tell me living or dead?
Astronaut buzz aldron.

Speaker 2 (51:53):
Ooh good one. I think he's alive.

Speaker 3 (51:59):
He is alive. Gordie Howe, the hockey player alive died
in twenty sixteen. Singer Chuck Berry, I think he's dead
finally died in twenty seventeen.

Speaker 2 (52:15):
Yeah, he was playing forever. He played right up to
the end. He You know, one of the greatest videos
of him that you can see is when he's on
stage singing with John Lennon on television. Wow, it starts going.
If you haven't seen it, it's worth your time on
YouTube because Yoko starts like screeching in the middle of this,

(52:36):
and Chuck Berry's eyes become you can see how angry
he is, but the show keeps going.

Speaker 3 (52:44):
He's the show man, so the show must go on. Okay,
I'm gonna look that up. That's great. Twister star Bill Paxton.

Speaker 2 (52:52):
Alive must be dead because although he's too young to be.

Speaker 3 (52:57):
Died in twenty seventeen, he always gets confused with the
other Bill Yeah Pullman and Paxton. Tammy Faye Baker, the televangelist, Yeah,
way back in two thousand and seven, Journey singer former
Journey singer Steve Perry.

Speaker 2 (53:16):
Oh, I think he's alive, but.

Speaker 3 (53:19):
You are correct. Okay, finally, Actor Donald Sutherland.

Speaker 2 (53:26):
Didn't he just die?

Speaker 3 (53:27):
Yes, he did. He died in June at the age
of eighty eight. Canadian. We're always very proud of our Canadians.
All right, Well, thank you for listening to this radio
show and spending your Saturday morning with us. We'll probably
see you in about a week, unless unless we're unceremoniously
shown the door of this prestigious radio broadcasting company and building. Whatever.

(53:52):
All right, we'll see you next week.

Speaker 2 (53:54):
The show is over.

Speaker 4 (53:55):
The show is over.

Speaker 1 (53:56):
Lessons were learned.

Speaker 4 (53:57):
But the conversation continues. Phone lines are open twenty four
hours a day, seven days a week.

Speaker 2 (54:03):
Okay, well, thanks for calling.

Speaker 4 (54:04):
Three hundred and sixty five days are down. Six four
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(54:24):
That's Joe it's over.

Speaker 3 (54:26):
Okay, we're all down now. This show is over.

Speaker 2 (54:29):
See you, see you next time.

Speaker 3 (54:30):
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