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Speaker 1 (00:30):
The following program contains course language and adult themes. Listener
discretion is advised.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Welcome everyone to another episode of The Cocktail Lounge. I
am your hostess with Emostes, Aggie, and with me, as always,
is the ever swab affable, uncapable co host Brad Slager.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
How are you doing this evening, Brad?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Oh, I'm good. I'm uh, I'm thrilled. I'mbuiliant at the
moment because free speech has one.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Oh really, I missed the memo.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
That's been the prevailing message of the day. Apparently a
comedian is coming back from a hiatus and so the
Constitution's preserved.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
It's what they're trying to sell us, now, I did
see that.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
It is to laugh. And yet there we are. I mean,
I'm it's just been I mean, we're gonna get into it,
of course, but it's been amusing. It's been fun, but
also managed to diversify attention. Over the weekend, there's plenty
of football to be had. Sadly, your team didn't play.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
No, No, we had a buy which worked in my
favor because I was up to my elbows literally and
figuratively in paint.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
I was at my mom's.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Since last Thursday helping her to paint a bookcase thing.
I mean, this behemoth that was in my father's room
and she wanted it freshened up and really nice and pretty.
And there was a lot of work involved. I mean,
everything had to be sanded, but I couldn't move the
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piece outside because it is so massive, so I had
to stand in place, which meant I had to keep vacuuming.
I had to keep wiping everything down. It was just
it was insane, but I managed to do it.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Yeah, you only had two days to do this.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I got there Thursday night, I started Friday, and I
finished everything by Sunday night. That's one of the beauties
of this all in one paint is that it is
since it's water base, it dries quickly and I was
able to met I managed to actually.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Do the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
But you know, I mean you're you're cutting all the edges,
You're cutting and everything, and the underside, all of the
shelves in you know, under and over to the sides
and this and that and everything. The only thing I
did not paint was on the very top, which was
like two inches away from the ceiling. So I figured
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nobody's going to use that, but yeah, I was. I
was doing that, and then my mom threw me a curveball.
When I got there. She said, oh, I need you
to paint the outdoor the front window trim as well.
And I'm like, oh, okay, all right, yeah I can
do that too, And so I did that, and then
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you know, I've been pinning all weekend, but I managed
to do everything.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
So fun, very much fun. Well, at least, the good
news is your team actually went up in the polls
despite my plays.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I was wondering about that because we did have a
bye and I did not expect us to move, but
we actually moved up by a spot. So last week
we were ranked ten. This week we're ranked nine, and
I'm like, but we didn't play, And I'm like, see,
this is why I hate this ranking thing. I cannot
I cannot tell you how much I despise the rankings.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
They make no sense to me.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
It defies all logic, and unless you're a coach, it
just doesn't work for me.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Well, it's see, that's the whole thing. You're applying logic.
My whole purpose of college football is to get whipped
up into when I'm emotional fervor and start arguing and
yelling with everybody.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Well, and you know what I used to.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
And there was this one guy that I'm that I
met who's sole arguing. He was graduated from Notre Dame.
So you can see where I'm going with this already.
Already he's got like three strikes against them, right. But
his whole contention was that if you played the top
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ten teams and lost, you still should be ranked eleven
because you played all the top ten teams. And I'm like, yeah, no,
that's not the way it works.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Yeah, you have to actually kind of performed to a
degree in order to correct, you know, I mean, you
got to show us something, bring something to the table here.
You know, it's not just unless you're Notre Dame then
that's and they're used to that. You know. It's like, well,
we lost, but we beat the spread, therefore we should
move up in the polls.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
You shut up, you know, And Notre Dame.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I may be wrong, but Notre Dame is the only
team I can recall that actually moved up in the
rankings after losing a game.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
And I've never understood that.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
That happened several years ago. But I was like, wait,
what how But they lost and they didn't lose by
a point. They lost big lee Like they lost.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
They lost pretty That's just uh kind of the way
it works. We're used to it. We expected It's like, okay,
sure you're in whatever. You know, that's just the way
it operates. But uh yeah, I mean, good news for
you guys. You you managed to jump a notch. That's
not too bad. Texas basically is becoming less and less impressive.
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The former number one team. They actually slid down despite winning,
but they kind of played nobody. Well, it's a lot
of it is an eye test, you know, how you
look when you do things. So it's it's just a
matter of impressing with the way you do something. And
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so even if you win, but if you don't light
up the scoreboard as you're supposed to, you know.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
That's well see.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
And I take exception with that because when Johnny Football
played for A and M, he was a master of
the scramble and everything, and it was very messy out there,
but he managed to get that ball, you know, down
that range and everything, and people complain, oh it was
so messy, you know. Yes, he's he's really good at
what he does, but it was kind of messy, and so.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
You're going to drop in the polls.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Meanwhile, now over here at UT and it's not just UT,
I believe there's another there's another another team. They have
a quarterback that does something similar and they praise him
for it. And I'm like, okay, so what changed? Yeah,
what has changed? Because literally last year you were saying
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bad things about the way this is done in certain places,
how scrambling like that and everything, which I considered to
be a skill because you're evading being sacked.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
And and you know, now.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
It's great, but up until a year ago it was
it was just bad form. So so what changed?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
See, that's and I think that's what's affecting the Longhorns
is that Arch Manning was supposed to be the third
coming of a Manning. You know, he was built up
to and he's not performing at that ultra high level
and he's scrambling a lot more. And their impression that
people have is like, well, yeah, but he's not hitting
his passes, or he's panicking and running too early, he's
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not doing his reads proper, so he has to run
and scramble that kind of thing. And again it's it's
pure perception, that's all it is. It's not there's nothing
object of going on here. Everything about the pole is subjective.
We look at look at Miami. They won this weekend
in solid but maybe not dominating fashionating, Yet they moved
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up two notches in the pole when Penn State and
Ohio State didn't play.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
And congratulations are in order to do Miami. They're doing
really well.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
But I mean we leap frog Penn State and LSU,
who were both off. So it's just, yeah, again, it
doesn't make sense. I wouldn't say they earned a second
spot because of it. It's just you know, the way
the way the poll's work, and right now it really
doesn't matter anyway.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
So well, Raptor does bring up a good point. He
is still young manning and yeah, this is the problem
with his last night. This is a problem with him
being denoted as a legacy. There is so much pressure
for him to outdo his family, and I'm like, that's
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really not very fair at all.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
But it's not even out due if he you know,
even if he quote only unquote achieved similar numbers to
his grandfather and uncle, even that's a very very high
bar for him to reach. So yeah, you know, I'm
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gonna say, let this kid marinate for a season, give
me a year to cook it in. Next year, we'll
get a real good read on what he is. You know,
he hasn't played a full game until this season. He
has an operator at a full offense and looked at
you know, the voluminous number of plays that you have
to have at the drop of a hat and all
of that. So there's, you know, still a curve going
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on here. So it's you know, but I mean, that's
that's what the Longhorns are facing right now. It's like, oh,
he's not Dayton Manning. Well then if they win and
it wasn't dominating, then they have to fall from number
seven to ten or whatever it was. So yeah, it
doesn't make much sense.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Well, none of this makes sense to me. I you know,
even even if if A and M is high up
in the ranks, I'm still like, why, I don't I
don't understand.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I don't get it.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
You guys availed yourself. Well, you beat a top ten
team already, you know, and you're looking better each game,
so you're you're playing into that role and that's I
think you guys are properly placed. I have no problem
with you guys in the top ten.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
We were, you know, last year we were starting to click,
but we started clicking kind of late in the season, so.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Didn't do that well.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I will say this though, and I I I this
is nothing against our beloved Jen or you know, Calvin
or any of the UT fans that are maybe listening
to our chat. But I have seen a flate that
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on my social media. My friends who did attend you tee,
who were very very obnoxious last year after our first
foray back into the old rivalry where you team one
and and I'm lost, are very quiet right now. They
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have not said anything, and they're keeping a very low profile.
And I am too gracious. I'm not going to go
after them and say, oh, I see that you guys
are hiding and blah blah blah, because that's just not
I mean, I'm saying it here, but I'm not doing
that on social media or anything like that. I had
one of them actually send me a real we share
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we share videos all the time about our high school
and football things, and he he's like, I saw that
the Aggies are ranked really high. I'm not sure why,
and I was just like, well, you know me, I
really don't understand the ranking system and I really don't
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like it, but it is.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
What it is. Oh wait, I see you guys dropped
what happened?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
And I genuinely I really wanted to know what happened
because I had missed the game and he didn't reply.
So I think they're still liking their wounds or something.
But you know, it's still early in the season. Anything
can happen.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Yeah, we'll not even October, so it's not exactly we're
in panic mode or anything at the moment. And you
know this this coming weekend is going to have a
little bit of shakeout going on. I think there's three
prominent games involving the top ten, so of plenty of
opportunity to do some movement here. And it's just you know,
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the nature of the Beast as it is right now.
I mean this time of year, we're still in shakeout mode.
Everybody's figuring out where they are actually rest and you know,
earn your spot and that kind of thing. It's just
a just part of the process. Really. It's first half
of the season. By October is basically when you get
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a good feel of things. And the head the head
matchups are going to tell the story. So that's where
you know, wait a couple of weeks, we'll get there.
Two weeks from now, Miami plays FSU Top ten contest
right there, that'll be a shakeout game too. But Saturday
was nice. The Gators came down here for a contest.
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Nobody seemed to notify the Gators, however, unfortunately for them.
It was kind of funny though. On college game Day
they actually came to Miami. Odd thing is, they weren't
allowed to set up at the stadium for some reason.
I don't know why. So they were on campus, which
is about a forty five minute drive away. I don't
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understand why, but I mean great vista like where they
were at. You could see, you know, part of the
beautiful campus and then it overlooked the lake where they
had um sailboats out there, and then the dive Center
was off to the left a little bit. Matthew Kuchuk
and the Florida Panthers was the guest picker.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
You must have been in hog Heaven.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Oh it was just my weekend, I mean it was,
and he was hilarious. He was, you know, spot on
with the with the picks and you know, good reasons why,
joking around plenty, and then at the culmination of things,
Pat McAfee, who was resplendent in a sky blue sport
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coat perfect for Miami setting. You know, they do the
last round of picks. You know, it's like, okay, the
last game Florida, um and everybody goes through and of
course everybody's picking um Ka. Chuck stands up, but he's
got a um hockey sweater and Pat McAfee's got the
last pig. He's like, let me just tell you, you
know it, gets up and starts chanting with the crowd.
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But this this has been looking at me all day.
And he gets all excited, hops out of his chair
and grabs a wireless mic.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Then he starts running.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
He's still yammering away and trotting through campus and this
is where ray Lewis got his dance down. And then
he starts to run into the pool complex. I go,
this son of a bitch ain't gonna do it. Is
he starts racing around the pool and sure enough starts
scaling the dive tower and to his credit, all the
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way to the top. Yep, hits the fifty meter platform,
strips down all the way to his skivvies and jumps
into the pool.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Okay, so I thought it was underwear, but no, he
was actually wearing speedos. And I have to give the
man props because he did not care that he was
live on TV and he just adjusted himself, tucked that
hand right in there and adjusted himself.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
And I'm like, my.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
God, well here's you know what's funny about that. I
was pulling it up for my for my weekly column.
I was gonna use the clip, so I got I
got it from Adam Schuchter of ESPN, and he just said, no,
this is the way you close out a show. And
he had about a three minute clip. Twitter totally put
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a warning on it, like wouldn't even let me distribute.
It's like this is this video has been flagged.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
I what.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Like, it wasn't a warning like be careful, It was
like flagged you can't you know, nobody can see this,
which I thought was just patently. I just wrote that.
I was like, guys, I took this from an ESPN
analyst and this was actually on broadcast television. What the hell?
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And like, I don't know a half hour later or so,
it's like, okay, it was flagged improperly. Okay, well here
you go, you can play it whatever.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Well it was, it was odd because you you sent
me the link and I I clicked on the on
the post and I watched the whole thing, and I
kept my eyes kept getting bigger and bigger. I kept
shrinking back from the from my phone, going no, no,
this is not Oh my god, look what look what
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he's doing. Oh my goodness. And then he jumps in
right and everything. And then after I watch it, I
get the warning the whole the whole videos blurred warning
excess like this as you know, being the you know,
adult content or whatever.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
It is that they say.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
And I'm like, but he was literally in his swim
trunk side.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
I don't understand.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
This is what I can't figure out now, Okay, that
got flagged. Right about yes, two weeks ago, there was
some troll and I think he was hitting everybody at
kaylor Rent or something, and I just jumped out of
it at one point and made fun. And he responds
to me with a clip from a gay porno, no warning, nothing,
it's on my feed. What are your standards exactly? It's
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like a guy jumping in the pool from ESPN. Nobody
can see that. But yeah, a couple of guys ringing
each other, fully new, that's perfectly acceptable.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
What I I was like, I don't understand this at all.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Algorithm, are you running here? Because this makes no sense?
But anyway, uh, the game went pretty well. The thing
is it was raining the whole time, and so that
kind of tamped down on things. Miami. Weirdly enough, random
ball like crazy, like all they did was just punch
it up the middle of the I mean it was
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such diametrically opposed to their game plan, you know, where
it's like throw run, run, throw that kind of No.
It was like I think forty five times I ran
the ball this game, just you know, I mean they dominated,
you know, game time, possession and all of that, and
one pretty handily. Florida was just inempt And it was
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funny because I'm I went out to the tavern to
watch and gave him good friend of mine is there
who's a UF fan, and he walked in and I
didn't even see him come in. He came in through
the back door and he just like grabs my shoulders
like it's game time, and I was like, oh, you
showed up. He's like, yep, I'm a dumb ass. He was.
He was honest the whole time. He's like, OK, yeah,
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we're gonna get killed. And then like by the first quarter,
he was Every time I look across the bar where
he was just both of his hands were up, like
what what what's going on? They couldn't They had one
first down the entire first half. I think they had
total yards of thirty they went to the locker room.
I think four or five Hurricane players had more yardage
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than the entire Florida team. And the weirdest stat of all,
they actually measure air yardage for a quarterback like you know,
when he releases the ball and it gets caught, not
you know, total yards on the play like runs after
the catchy. His air yardage for the game was negative
five because he kept throwing just you know, quick outs
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to the side and behind him like DJ Lagway did
not want to go downfield and they were. They had
one drive. They had an eighty yard drive in the
third quarter. Was like, holy crap, these guys figured something
mountain and then they fell right back to their usual
and that was it. So it wasn't pretty at all,
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and Miami just kind of, you know, pumped the ball.
Pumped the ball. That's all they did the whole game
and just dominated. And Okay, we're number two, doesn't mean
much more. I mean, if they were ten or two
right now, I'm fine. If they were the number one team,
I'd probably be nervous. So give me top ten. I'm fine.
I'm cool with that. There was a couple of other
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cool games though, that were Memphis. Did you happen to
see the highlights of that one?
Speaker 1 (22:19):
I did not.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
They were like, I think about ten point dog going
into this against Arkansas. They get a late touchdown I
don't know, like five minutes to go, take the lead
by six points. Whoa, oh no, no, they came back.
They were down by six. They got that touchdown so
that they were leading by one. So Arkansas gets it
and they put up a long drive and it's about
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thirty seconds left in the game and they're like, okay,
we're gonna set up for the field go. They were
on like the ten yard line, and it was pretty
much that play where you look at the kicker, which
hash mark where do you want us to set up at?
We'll run it there, Okay, got it go boom. Running
back hits the pile and fumbles and Memphis gets it back.
So Arkansas's on the ten yard like to win the
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game and they lose by one. Makes sense of that?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Yeah? And then Indiana Illinois. Everybody was watching that one.
It was like, Oh, this is gonna be close. We
gotta figure out. You're like, these are two upstart schools
for the most part, and neither one has been really
good for a while, and they're both kind of last
couple of seasons they've both picked it up. It's like,
this is gonna be a close one to see who
could do it? No, Indiana stepped on their neck sixty
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three to ten. Just it was like they played the
old school or something. What the hell is that all about?
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Yeah, some people have been complaining that late of late
some of the bigger teams are actually just playing you know,
high school teams. But yeah, that comes with the territory,
I guess. You know, the high school teams want the
the exposure, they need the money, that kind of thing.
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I'll be honest, we my team has been there too.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
All the totally get it.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
No, as a being the high school team. My team
was the school team for a while.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
So everybody goes through that though. But I gotta tell
you the Florida Gator's damn, their schedule just brutal. I mean,
everybody they play going forward is just gonna ship from So, yeah,
their coach is done. Here's the amazing thing. Clemson lost again.
They're one in three, so.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
That to me is very surprising. I did not expect
Clemson to, like no, because everybody.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Thought just like, yeah, they got a lot of the
same team coming back. They're jelled, they're looking good, dabbos swinging,
and they're losing at home. That's the worst. So who
knows what's up with that? And I don't. Some people
are like, oh, I don't know, Debo could be in trouble,
could get fired, Like please stop it. I don't think
he's going anywhere. Plus I think his buyout is something
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like fifty million, So nah, they're not gonna let him
go anytime soon. I don't think.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
But I think Florida's I think pretty much everybody has
learned from the fiasco that was Jimbo.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Okay, nobody's gonna do that.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Well, just that's a that's a record that Aggie's are
gonna keep forever.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Well, I think just the very fact that he's been
there for what I don't know was the twelve fourteen
seasons or so. He's just a fixer. So they probably
signed him like a ten year deal and such, and yeah,
his buyout is going to be monstrous, so I don't
think he's moving anytime soon. But it's uh, yeah, it's
gonna be a real interesting weekend coming up. I mean,
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even the lesser games are pretty good. Notre Dame Arkansas
could be a fun one. That's in Arkansas, so that's
not gonna be a rollover. How about this Texas Christian
They got into the top twenty five this week. They
a nice guy. Yeah, we're about twenty four. Now let's
see dude, Nope, that's not so much. Got LSU and
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Old Miss. That could be fun. Old Miss got a
backup quarterback and he's playing pretty sharp. Actually, and you
guys are playing Auburn.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Yep, we played Auburn next.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I thought that this was the weekend that we played Auburn,
but it turned out that now Auburn was playing somebody else.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
So well, they had a good game against Oklahoma, but
then in the second half, it was just sooner defense
took over. He got like sacked them nine times. I
mean they were just in the backfield the whole time,
and that the game went a safety was just brutal.
I'm gonna be this is interesting. I think Tennessee and
Mississippi State because Mississippi statesmen playing better of late Alabama.
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Georgia is going to be the big marquee game as well. No,
I think second because Oregon Penn State mm hmm, that's
gonna be huge. So that'll be a top ten shakeout there.
But man, if Alabama loses in Georgia, how about that?
You think they would hang on?
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Uh, that's going to be a game. That is going
to be a game. I'm I'm not so sure about
the Haggy game, you know. I'm like, we could technically win,
technically lives.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
I think you should win. And you're playing at home.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Right so I believe so.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Yes, we're playing in Auburn is having a decent season,
but I think I think you guys are better. I
think you're playing well enough, and I think your defense
can shake them, So I feel good about your chances there.
That'd be a nice win, and hey, if between Oregon
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and Penn State, you might even move up a notch
or two as a result that.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I think it's going to be an interesting game Oregon
and Penn State. I mean, I'll be flipping back and
forth between that game and Alabama and Georgia. But I
never thought I would see Alabama ranks so low. Honestly,
I never thought I would see that.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
It's a good feeling, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
I like it.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
See an Alabama Notre Dame in the lower reaches of
the pole, It's like, wow, this.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Is I'm just upset.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
I can't use my hashtag, my favorite hashtag in the world,
and I can.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Never use it again. Last year was the last year.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
So what's happening?
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Not today? Saban?
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (28:50):
That was my favorite, yep because it was a play
on not today Satan, So I got can.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
You get it?
Speaker 3 (28:58):
I still refer to him as that every year and then.
But that's the Miami and me. Yeah, yeah, Well I
got a mean, I gotta I gotta like him a
college game, Dare. It's like he's uh, he looks comfortable
and he's having fun. It's like weird. So it's like
when Bill Belichick smiles. You feel that unsettling come over? Yes,
but it's different. He's in retirement now, so it's like, okay,
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I get you. Whatever, go make another AFFLEC commercial and
go have fun with the boys. Whatever. But holy crap,
Miami Dolphins in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Jeez, I g yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
I got to watch that the Cowboy game, and I
was like, this is not gonna end well, and once
again I was proven correct.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
I can't figure that team out.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
You know, it's really sad when you have somebody like
then L Washington, who is a.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Die hard.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Denzil he came out.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
I'm just saying, okay, fine, whatever, mister.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Who's a diehard Cowboys fan and saying things have got
to change. And I'm like, why aren't you paying Why
aren't people paying attention to him?
Speaker 1 (30:27):
He's never been wrong?
Speaker 3 (30:30):
No, no, but you can't. Some things aren't immovable object. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Well, you know, a lot of people don't particularly care
for Jerry Jones and and everything that. You know, it's
really weird because I was never a Jerry Jones fan,
and technically I'm not a Jerry Jones fan, but I
do have a lot of respect for what he has
built with his life and how he encouraged his kids
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to their own lives too, And.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
I was really raised.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
He was.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
I don't know if you caught this, but he was
in an episode of Landman, Oh yeah and yeah and
you know, and he talked about that, and I was like,
I was surprised to hear that this was he was
talking about his own life. And I went and I
researched it and I was like, holy crap, it's done.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
A lot, you know.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
But but yeah, he needs some things have got to change.
And I just I don't know where to start with
that team. I really don't.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Yeah, it's uh, that's a tough one, you know. I'm
and as far as the Dolphins go, it's like I
already have that hopeless. I feel like my friend Bob,
the University of Florida fan. And the funny thing is
he was on Thursday, of course, so I had to
come and do the show with Ordy while it was
on behind me. But the Bills fan in the house
(31:57):
keeps telling me, she's like, I don't feel good about this.
I was like, please, you're gonna smoke us. Calm down. Yeah,
But when we played crap ass teams. We always play
in a crap ass shit and then she's like, sorry,
I didn't mean anything. I was like, I were a
crap ass team, no problem, and yet they managed to
challenge him for about three quarters. I'm sitting doing the
(32:17):
show and I turned over my shoulder fourteen to fourteen
what doing the show? So some more? I turned over
my shoulder twenty one a piece. I'm texting her during
the show like WTF. She's like, I told her. But
then they, you know, put it together and Miami managed
(32:38):
to ship the bed in the fourth and lose the game.
I was expected. So how about this? Though? This is
this cracked me up. The whole weekend was weird. There
were like three games that had a field goal in
the last couple of minutes to win it or something.
All of them got blocked. I'm I don't have the
(32:58):
Dolphins to watch or anything, so I got red Zone on.
I see two different games within a couple of minutes
of each other have a block kick go back for
a touchdown. The other way makes sense of that?
Speaker 1 (33:11):
They can't. I'm still trying to make sense of the Browns.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Yeah, I'm still flummoxed.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
By that.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
The Eagles won by blocking a kick and taking it back,
and then you had the Jets come back and take
the lead by a point when they did it, and
then the Buccaneers managed to put together a drive and
then correctly kick the ball for the victory. But yeah,
before the game started, it was one of the pregame
shows they were talking about, you know, let's throw some
(33:42):
questions around to the panel, who's going to be the
last team to lose? And they were like, oh, good question. Yeah,
I think the Bills could go ten and oh eleven
and no, well, Green Bay they should go nine and
ho or ten and oh at least, and then they
promptly go out and lose to the Browns. What was
it twelve to ten or something? In Pharisees Cleveland you're
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playing Cleveland, Jesus.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
It was it was I yeah, I got nothing. I
was like, how, how? How I don't get it?
Speaker 1 (34:17):
And then the I don't know, I.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Don't know that anybody picked the Ravens that have a
losing record right now. And I mean the amazing thing
is they're losing while putting up a crep ton of points.
I mean, they lost it a Bills when they scored
forty they I think thirty eight they put up last
night and lost something like that. They're supposed to have
(34:41):
always the top defense in the league, and they're just
giving up points left right, and then Derrek Henry gave
up his third fumble. He never does that.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Straight thing in football.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Yeah, but it's screwing up my suicide league picks. But okay, whatever.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
See, this is why I tell everybody pick on the
basis of colors and mascots. You can't go wrong. It
has never failed me. I don't want to understand why
you people keep looking at stats.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Because that doesn't work. When you do the fantasy it does.
And I'm totally hosed in my one league because I
had two starting quarterbacks of mine go down last week. Like, well, hell,
I go to the waiver wire. Okay, Michael Pennix, I
think he's kind of doing well. Falcons get shut out. Okay,
(35:48):
maybe there's a w NBA fantasy league I can get
into whatever.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
I would bet that.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
You would have to. But yeah, that was a that
was the fun and frivolity of the weekend. And then
and then everything turns seriously, Yeah, we're shredding the constitution.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
I mean, come on, I mean, I cannot with these people.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
I just it didn't need to pick a lane either.
Either government needs to stay out of you know, TV
and blah blah blah, or government needs to stay in.
You can't have both. And this is what they're trying
to have it. I mean, we're we're referencing the whole
Jimmy Kimmel telenovela that has been going on. For some reason,
(36:46):
the left keeps insisting that Trump was the one that
had Kimmel yanked off the air, and I'm like, no,
Kimmel was responsible for that little to do. As I understanded,
several groups that have affiliates decided not to air to
(37:08):
just preempt it because they were not happy with what
Kimmel said, which was an outrageous lie that was basically
designed to push the agenda that the guy that had
murdered Charlie Kirk was a right wing person.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
And he was not. And so.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Disney gets involved and says, Okay, we're gonna just yank
him indefinitely, which pretty much says just until we figure
out what we're doing, and then we'll put I knew
he was going to come back because that whole indefinite
thing that tells me, yeah, he's coming back. So I
wasn't surprised when Disney decided to bring him back. But
then Sinclair said, yeah, okay, you can bring him back,
(37:54):
but we're not airing him. We're preempting him. But something else.
And now you have Congress people actually wanting to investigate
and break up Sinclair. Now keep in mind, Dizney is
a behemoth that owns at least half.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Of everything in the world.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
But they're going to break up Sinclair and they're what
thirty eight or fifty eight stations.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
What I just I love the fact that for days
all we've heard was we got to keep the government
out of broadcasting and telling them what to do. This
is outrageous. And then today they want proposal.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Yeah, they want government in there, but.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
We're going to go in there and try to tell
him ab how to run your business. You just spent
five days bitching about that. This is different though, because
it's us.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
I guess I don't know, well, you and I we
were maybe you were in high school. I know I
was in high school when this happened because it was
my senior year, or maybe it was my sophomore year.
Either case, I was in misstools Claws. So but I
remember the anti antitrust lawsuit that was leveraged against mob Bell,
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you know, and the breakup of all the baby.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Bells because.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
Mob Bell had a monopoly on the telephone business. And
so I remember that anti trust and we were following
it in class and everything. There has not been anything
like that since. For some reason, They've found their ways
around that whole anti trust thing. And so now you
(39:40):
have these conglomerations, Disney being one of the big ones,
because Disney owns, like I said, half the world when
it comes to this kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
So yeah, and what about Google? They everywhere?
Speaker 2 (39:54):
So Google gets around a lot of stuff by staying
in beta. I found that out. That's how they get
around a lot of stuff. They stay in beta instead
of you know, moving out of it. So it's always
a better taste, better tasting testing, whatever.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
But that's how Google gets around a lot of their stuff.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
Disney gets around a lot of their stuff because they
have a lot of other things under their umbreda that
they could put it under. So a lot of people
don't know that it's not just Disney, you know, movie Studios.
They have Hollywood Pictures, they have Meryormax, they have Touchstone,
(40:38):
they have several you know, so they can buy under
one of those, and that's how they can avoid the
whole antitrust issue.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
But to go after one company that has.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
A few affiliates that air a specific broadcasting network that
that's not that's not a violation of the Antitrust Act,
not anywhere near it. So for them to actually go
after it. And then I found out and I have
(41:17):
not I heard this from somebody else. Apparently they were
Sinclair and Next were supposed to air a tribute to
Charlie Kirk in place of Jimmy Kimmel. But what happened
was they received a lot of death threats. So a
lot of the affiliates started receiving a lot of death threats.
And yeah, so that's why they did not air it.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
It was in the interest of safety. And I don't
blame them.
Speaker 2 (41:48):
And another if, if indeed this is true, this is another,
you know, just another example of the tolerant left.
Speaker 3 (41:58):
What did you see the the story it blew up.
I think on Friday somebody had shot up the ABC
affiliate in Sacramento. Oh yeah, they put a few bullets
through like the glass of their lobby or such big
news for like Friday and Saturday. It's all you hear,
oh man, another shooting took place. The violence is getting
(42:19):
out of hand, and then they find out the guy's
a teacher, a leftist activist, a Democrat countryributor, I mean,
a laundry list of things. His Twitter feed was like
as anti Trump as it comes. Didn't hear a word
about this jackass in the media.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
No, that story went away real quick.
Speaker 3 (42:41):
It's like, wait a second, we're talking about violence covering
political sources. It's like, okay, got Democrats shooting up a
station over Kimball. What you gonna do with that? Yeah,
we're not. We're not gonna do it. We're not gonna
cover that. That's fine, No, I swear. It's like and
(43:01):
the same thing goes with this censorship, you know, hysteria
going on. It's like, yeah, you guys bothered when you
were doing it with others. You know, everybody brought it
up Rose.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
In Google just correctly, didn't They just admit on you know,
at a congressional hearing that they did censor on behalf
of the Biden administration. They took down a lot of
subscribers and a lot of the content content providers because
they were conservative and Biden administration asked them to do that.
(43:34):
And they're saying, oh, yeah, are bad, but yeah, please
tell me who's censoring who.
Speaker 3 (43:40):
And last night Jake Tapper, he's on seth Meyers Show,
and of course they're talking about Kimball and there's Jake.
You know, it's like shaking his head. Never, never have
I seen this much government involvement in the silencing of people.
It is just disgraceful. Check the hell you've been for
the last years. Because this Google story that came up
(44:04):
in the morning this morning after his appears, but I'm sorry,
falls right in line with what we learned in the
Twitter files where Biden was telling Twitter, yeah, this account
shut them down, dis account, Yeah, knock them down. They
gotta be quiet. You gotta rid of that one. And
it got so bad that a judge at one point
(44:24):
issued ruling that the White House had to stop communicating
with Twitter because of this, because there was.
Speaker 2 (44:31):
Twitter had actual FBI people working for them.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
That was.
Speaker 2 (44:38):
Horrifying to me. I'm like, why you know and when
you found out why when you found out that they
were using Twitter as of a way to actually spy
on the populace.
Speaker 1 (44:50):
That was pretty fucking scary. But anybody on the left.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
If this happened and say, oh, never heard of that, because,
as I always like to say, with the left, history
starts brand new each and every day.
Speaker 3 (45:08):
But I mean this is you know, there's Tapper. I've
never seen anything like this before. Okay, Biden was doing
it with Twitter, he was doing it with Facebook. Now
we find out they were doing it with YouTube. I mean,
this that is active. You call it passive censorship because
he used cutouts and such. But the government is compelling
(45:31):
a business to shut down voices, that's censorship. There's no
way to cut it. Well, it's a private business. Okay, fine,
so is ABC. Yeah, but Trump forced them to Biden Twitter,
Biden YouTube, Biden Facebook, same thing.
Speaker 2 (45:50):
And now you have, you know, this thing going on
with Jimmy Kimmel about censorship, and I'm like, uh no,
he was not censored.
Speaker 1 (45:58):
He was not censored.
Speaker 2 (45:59):
He was free to say whatever he wanted on any
platform at any time. That is non censorship. Censorship is
when you are prevented, like doctor Robert Malone, from actually
accessing any social media because the Biden administration said, what
you're saying about COVID is dangerous and we don't like it.
Speaker 3 (46:19):
That censorship, well, that's even specifically the word in Google used.
They said the Biden administration was compelling us to shut
down accounts because of COVID content or being conservative, and
I mean spelled out right there. It's like, you know, literally.
Speaker 2 (46:38):
They literally took down President Trump's Twitter account during an
election cycle. How is that non censorship? The New York
tell Parlor from from from the app stores.
Speaker 3 (46:57):
No, it wasn't just the app store. They were completely
deep platform.
Speaker 1 (47:00):
They were completely from what I said stores, but yes.
Speaker 3 (47:03):
No, they were operating on Amazon server base, and Amazon
cut them off entirely. Like the It wasn't just that
you couldn't download it anymore, you couldn't get on the site.
They shut them, and it was just it was coercive
and they had to go through crap ton of hoops
to get back up online as such. And they're like
(47:23):
a shadow of what they used to be. But example
after example exists of this over it'll past four years.
I mean, why do you think they made such a
big deal out of January sixth, because that was justification
to shut anybody down if they can connect them or
do so out of the guys of safety. Well, there
(47:47):
was information could lead to more violence, so we have
to clamp down on this. That's the bullshit rationale they
came up with. And so this was Brian Stelter's whole
basis too, the danger of information. It's poisoning America and
we have to silence these voices. He was working to
get Fox News taken off of cable systems. That's not
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like silencing a comedian in late night. That's shutting down
an entire news outlet, is what he was lobbying for.
And now he's out there wringing his hands and turning white.
I can believe Jimmy Gimmel's out of work, dude. He
was giving this information. That's your thing. You should be
(48:31):
cheering and tap dancing over this ass. But that's the
entirety of it that they started this, and now they're
the ones, you know, feigning shock and oh, I've never
in my life seen such a thing. Really, because you
were promoting it four years ago. What's that outfit? It's
(48:53):
a they're they're supposedly a free speech lobby the fire
organized or something like that, and it's like, you know,
I forget what the acronym is, freedom and realism or
bad whatever, But they just put out the one of
their leaders put out an editorial at the New York Times,
(49:15):
Gotta be careful with this censorship thing, because you know
this could come back and be used against you someday.
It's like, how oblivious do you think we are? It's like,
what you're seeing today is that very thing, because they
started it years ago, you dumbasses. Now it's like they're
lecturing the right, be careful, this could be used against you. Yeah,
(49:40):
I wonder what that feels like. They really think we're
that stupid. That's what's amazing. It's like, sorry, we're not democrats.
We actually know what's going on.
Speaker 1 (49:53):
It.
Speaker 2 (49:54):
You know, sometimes I wonder if I'm ever going to
stop being surprised, and somehow are there they managed to
surprise me yet again.
Speaker 3 (50:06):
I just it's I always talk about it, how it's
my uh, pragmatic paradox that I live in. And it
was like, I can't believe they're doing this, and I
totally can believe they're doing it because I'm so used
to it. It's like, I'm not surprised they are. It's
like they think they're getting away with it kind of thing.
(50:27):
It's common sense exists, you idiots. But that's the world
we're in right now, so we've got to keep at it. Hey,
did you see our former vice president is out there
selling a book.
Speaker 2 (50:47):
I did see that, and I was quite surprised that,
you know, she wrote something. I mean, I shouldn't be because,
let's face it, my least favorite writer of all time
is James Joyce, and that's because he writes just one long,
entire sentences and it just publishes it as a book.
(51:08):
So I can't I can't stand him, and I don't
care who likes him, and I don't care if people
have written dissertations on his brilliance. No, the guy was
not brilliant. He just didn't like using any kind of punctuation.
But I was surprised to hear that she actually managed
(51:28):
to finish something so well. Kudos, But I'm sure it
was the ghostwriter.
Speaker 3 (51:35):
Yeah, this is I don't know, she's calling one hundred
and seven days or something. I think the subheading is
how to lose an election in four months The Easy
Way by Kamala Harris. It just it's like, you failed.
How are you writing a book about this? That's the
(51:55):
part I'm trying to wrap my head around. It's like,
hang on, I.
Speaker 1 (51:59):
Think there's a lot of a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (52:01):
I'll be honest, I'm actually curious. I am curious enough
to want to read this book. I did hear that
the audio book of it is like over ten hours
or something ridiculous amount like that, and I'm going, why
is it that? No, I'm not joking. I heard it
was that long, and I'm like, why does she cackle
(52:22):
through it or something or what?
Speaker 3 (52:23):
I don't know what this is. This is Kamala's method,
you know. She if you ask Curry yes or no question,
you're going to get a fifteen minute answer.
Speaker 2 (52:35):
I guess, but that's what I heard. I heard that
the audiobook was extensively long, and I did hear that
there were some snippets in this book that have been
made public. Probably the biggest one was how she arrived
(52:56):
at her choice for her.
Speaker 1 (52:58):
Running mate, and I found that.
Speaker 2 (53:03):
Listen, everybody that listens to me here knows that I
am a big fan of the telenovela. I'm always joking
about there's a telenovela everywhere you look. Twitter is full
of them, and I am there for it. Like the
little meme says, you know, like the two dogs fighting
and the cat off in the distance. You know, I
don't like my drama, but I love to watch everybody
(53:23):
else's drama.
Speaker 1 (53:24):
That's me.
Speaker 4 (53:25):
I can confirm nine hours and fifty eight minutes see
Narrate It by Kamala Harris. How much you want to
wager it's like the first time reading what she wrote.
Speaker 1 (53:41):
I would not doubt it. But yes, it's extensively long
for an audiobook, and I'm.
Speaker 3 (53:48):
Somebody just says to her straight up, now, did you
ever actually work at McDonald's. Well, you know, when you're
in college and you have to go in earn living
and there's things you to do, and you'll turn to
alternative methods. Let me just be clear. What you need
to do is go out and work, and you yes
(54:09):
or no?
Speaker 2 (54:09):
Is well, you know, like I said, the big news
was how she arrived at choosing her running mate. And
one of the things that I found very interesting is
that she actually she liked Pete Putage and Pete would
(54:30):
have been a remarkable running mate, but she opted not
to because he was gay, and she was as a
black woman, the head of the ticket did not want
And my guess is, I don't I'm trying.
Speaker 3 (54:44):
Do you want to hear her response? I've got it, sure, Sure,
she was on Rachel Maddow of all people last night
discussing this very thing, and you'll get a you'll get
a nice little sample of the word salad mistress right here.
So it's pretty marvelous stuff.
Speaker 5 (55:05):
I guess i'd ask you to just elaborate on that
a little bit. It's hard to hear with you running,
as you know, you're the first woman elected vice president,
you're a black woman and a South Asian woman elected
that high office, very nearly elected president, to say that
he couldn't be on the ticket effectively because he was.
Speaker 1 (55:21):
Gay, it's hard to hear.
Speaker 6 (55:23):
No, No, that's not what I said. That that's that he
couldn't be on the ticket because he is gay. My point,
as I write in the book, is that I was
clear that in one hundred and seven days, in one
of the most hotly contested elections for president United States,
(55:44):
against someone like Donald Trump, who knows no floor to
be a black woman running for president United States and
as a vice presidential running mate a gay man. With
the stakes being so high, it made me very sad,
(56:04):
but I also realized it would be a real risk
no matter how. You know, I've been an advocate and
an ally of the LGBT community my entire life. So
it wasn't about it wasn't about it right, So it
wasn't about any any prejudice on my part. But we
had such a short we had such a short period
(56:27):
of time, and the stakes were so high. I think
Pete is a phenomenal, phenomenal public servant, and I think
America is and would be ready for that. But at
when I had to make that decision with two weeks
(56:50):
to go, you know, and maybe I was being too
cautious all right.
Speaker 2 (56:58):
Here, But here's this, This is what I found very interesting.
We all know Rachel Maddow is a lesbian. She is
very forthright in her activism in that respect, and I
don't care what y'all say. I don't think she's ugly.
I think she is a very striking woman. And I
always thought that she actually had a really nice skulf. Okay,
(57:21):
I'm gonna put that out there. Her skull was really nice.
She has beautiful skin. I don't care what anybody else said.
I don't think I don't think she's ugly. But she
had the opportunity to ask why it was a risk
because she is directly affected. She is part of that community,
and she needed to put that out there. She should
have actually pinned Kamala Harris down and asked her why
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is it a risk?
Speaker 3 (57:48):
And see Rachel Maddow tolerating that very answer. If it
came from a Republican Hell no, no.
Speaker 2 (57:57):
She would not tolerate that from anyvative. And this is
this is the point I'm trying to make. She was
running cover for her, and it makes it's a disgrace
because if you truly are an ally, you would have
explained why, and she's not. To her, It's a convenience bloy,
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That's all it was. And I'm like, okay. First of all,
you had Pete Buotagen, who for all accounts had name
recognition and he did have a good fan base.
Speaker 1 (58:32):
You had Josh.
Speaker 2 (58:32):
Shapiro who was governor of Pennsylvania, who had the credits
and every young are very well spoken. The guy is
really really good at speaking. He's he's good at putting,
you know, his information out there. He would have been great.
She picks walls, She picks walls. I'm like, why nobody
(58:56):
even knew about walls.
Speaker 3 (58:58):
In a normal political party, Josh Shapiro would be out
of the park as far as a candidate.
Speaker 1 (59:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (59:04):
And you couldn't do that in the Democrats because he's Jewish.
They said it. I'm not being ANENTI no.
Speaker 2 (59:10):
No, no, that's exactly what they said.
Speaker 1 (59:12):
He's Jewish. You can't have a Jewish guy.
Speaker 3 (59:14):
And here I am a Jewish candidate because of the
Muslim Palestinian issues.
Speaker 2 (59:19):
But the thing it boils down to, and I'm speaking
as a woman, it boils down to vanity. Kamala Harris
had always been overshadowed by Biden. She did not want
to be overshadowed by her vice president pick. And Josh
Shapiro would have overshadowed her because he is competent. Pete Budagage,
even though he wasn't a very competent transportation secretary, would
(59:43):
probably be more competent as vice president than she was.
And that was her problem. She had to pick someone
who was not as competent as she was and the
field and that was very small.
Speaker 3 (59:57):
Well with this answer, she just gave it what I
just played here. I mean, it was a simple question,
two minute answer out of her first off she said,
I was clear. It's like, honey, that's what phrase you
can never utter. Sorry, no, And she said I didn't
(01:00:18):
avoid choosing him because he's gay. I did it because
I'm black and he's gay, and they made and then
she says he's a phenomenal candidate. The country was ready
for it, meeting a gay candidate. All right. That means
(01:00:38):
you didn't pick him because you can't take the fact
that he's gay. Because if he's phenomenal and the miracle
was ready for it, why wouldn't you choose him? That
makes zero sense. And so I think she's trying desperately
to dig herself, like she probably put that in the
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book with the intentions like you know it's you know,
listening to all our advisors, Well, you can't pick potaged
because of the gate, and we know that, and she's
approaching from a political standpoint. But now she put it
in the book and everybody's like, wait a second, you
said you didn't pick him because he's gay. What's up
with that? Well, that's not when I said when I
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when I said.
Speaker 1 (01:01:21):
I was like, I noticed she was very defensive.
Speaker 3 (01:01:24):
I didn't pick him, not because he's gay, but I
because I couldn't have a gay on the ticket is
basically what she's saying. So and and here's Matt. I
was like, yeah, good, good point. She's nodding away. It's like,
what the hell is going on, because I am sorry,
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if Trump said I can't pick somebody because he's a
gay candidate, you think that would just be like, oh, yeah, yeah,
I see your point. Hell no, no.
Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
I was just like, there were opportunities for Matt out
to actually expand on that cryptic explanation, but she didn't.
And you know, in a way, I was I expected
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it because this is all about propping Harris up, but
I was disappointed because this was at the service to
the LGB community and it would have actually impressed upon
the community how they are viewed by that particular party.
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I have many friends, both on the left and on
the right that happened to be part of the LGB community.
Some are in the TQ community as well, and a
lot of them had a wake up call after the
Charlie Kirk assassination I was very surprised. I did hear
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from one of my oldest friends who happens to be gay,
and he was he thought that Kirk had issues and
he did not agree with anything that Kirk said. And
he also said that Kirk was a homophobe and everything.
And I just told him, listen, I understand that you
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feel that way, but if you're just taking the word
of somebody else without actually looking at all of the videos.
And he came back with I watched the clips, I said,
clips is the operative word. I want you to watch
the whole complete videos, everything in context, and then get
back to me. And he asked me, do you have
some videos that you can share with me. I said, well,
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you can go to YouTube. They're all up there, but
I will send you some that I think pertained to
you that you might find more illuminating.
Speaker 1 (01:04:01):
And he was.
Speaker 2 (01:04:04):
Very upset, not because of what Kirk said in those videos.
He was upset in that he had been led to
believe otherwise by people he trusted, and so now he
is He said, I can't in good conscience vote Democrat anymore.
(01:04:25):
And this is a problem that the LAPS is having,
is that this past September ten was a touchstone for
a lot of people, and a lot of people are
starting to figure out that maybe, just maybe I am
not voting for my interests when I vote Democrat. Now,
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there have been some people that always tell me, you
never vote for your interests if you're voting for a
Republican and I'm like, both of you to assume that
you know what my interests are because you're not me,
so you can't really judge.
Speaker 1 (01:05:01):
But a lot of them are starting.
Speaker 2 (01:05:03):
To have that, And I think had Meadow actually pushed
her on that one particular thing, I think that would
have that would have done a lot of good, at
least to put things in perspective where Harris is concerned,
because they're still trying to prop her up as a
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possible contender. And I'm like, when Buddhachi is actually tracking
higher percentage twice than she is, yeah, she's got no, no,
she doesn't.
Speaker 1 (01:05:36):
Get a chance.
Speaker 2 (01:05:36):
But a lot of people are still trying to push
her into that particular spot, and I'm like, it's not
stop trying to make fetch happen. She burned so many
bridges and this book, she's burning the rest of them.
She's completely wrecking them, she's I mean, seriously, this is
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like the bridges of Tokyo Reed, the bridge on the
River Qui, only like ten times as big.
Speaker 3 (01:06:05):
Well, the thing that the Democrats are doing it themselves
so frequently is they make such a big deal out
of identity politics that when they get into a position
that they have to do the choice, it burns them.
And you know, there's you look on the conservative side, Republicans,
they don't make a big deal about it. Just take
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take a look at Winsome Sears in Virginia. She's running
for governor as a GOP candidate lieutenant governor. Currently. She's
not being sold by the Republicans as a black candidate.
They're not touting that from what I've seen. And the
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Democrats are trying to contend with the fact that anytime
race comes up is from their people doing something racist
in reference to her. And so you got Democrats that are,
you know, oh, we're to party for Jewish people and
blacks and gays and all of that. And then in
a case like this, it's like, well, we couldn't he's gay,
we couldn't put him on the ticket. Why how? And
(01:07:13):
you're they always call us anti Semitic. For instance, somehow
Donald Trump is anti Semitic and he's aggressive because he's
in bed with Putin, I mean Yahoo. So he's like
in trouble both ways. Charlie Kirk was supposedly anti Semitic.
I've heard that ever since he got killed, and I
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was like he was meeting that Yahoo all the time,
you know. And so the Democrats actually go against their
lecturing and don't suffer for it, and then the Republicans,
who actually put these candidates out there but just don't
doubt them, still get in trouble. And so somehow the
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GOPI is racist for having win some series on the
ticket and Virginia.
Speaker 2 (01:08:02):
And Minares and you know, I name every single you
know minority that's been running on any conservative ticket.
Speaker 3 (01:08:09):
And a ton of them in Congress right now. I mean,
Rubio was Secretary of State. You got Ted Cruz in
the Senate for three terms. Now you don't see the
GEOP hoping.
Speaker 2 (01:08:20):
I am seriously hoping he because my senior Senator Avice
John Cornyn.
Speaker 3 (01:08:29):
But have you ever heard them referred to as you know,
the Hispanic Ted Cruz, Like that's a phrase I've never heard. No,
And yet that's mandatory on the Democrat side.
Speaker 2 (01:08:42):
As a matter of fact, I seem to call when
Cruz was first elected junior Senator from state of Texas,
I didn't even it, didn't even register that he was Hispanic.
As a matter of fact, I heard he was his
bank the Democrats. I was like, oh, I guess he
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is because his last name. Let me check out his pedigree.
Oh yeah, his parents. Okay, But I didn't think anything
of it because living in Texas, just because you have
an Hispanic name does not make you Hispanic, and by
you know, by extension, having an anglicized name does not
actually make you.
Speaker 1 (01:09:25):
Anglo. I grew up with.
Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
A very good friend of mine whose last name was Betancourt,
and that is not Hispanic. But the betan Courts were
a large, prominent family that immigrated into Mexico back in
the seventeen hundreds, I believe, and so Bettancourt is a
very popular name in Mexico. So you know, you can't
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really judge with the last name and any of you know,
my last name, Oh yeah, you really can't judge.
Speaker 3 (01:09:58):
Rubio sounds Italian, Rubio.
Speaker 1 (01:10:03):
Is actually Spanish for blonde.
Speaker 3 (01:10:08):
Ruby. I'm only I'm used to the feminine side of it.
Speaker 2 (01:10:12):
I don't usual, or it could be the kid from
hook Rubyo. Remember that movie.
Speaker 3 (01:10:29):
Why But yeah, that's a.
Speaker 1 (01:10:32):
But it's a great movie. That was awesome. I will
die all that hail and I Will take you with.
Speaker 3 (01:10:38):
Me over produced. Didn't care for it. It's kind of contrived.
I'm not a big fan.
Speaker 2 (01:10:42):
Well, I didn't like Julia Roberts in it, but it's
one of the few movies that I've seen with her
in it. But she was like the one detractor. But
I loved all of the Lost Boys. I loved Maggie Smith.
I loved the whole concept.
Speaker 3 (01:10:57):
I thought it right.
Speaker 1 (01:11:00):
We can agree to disagree, Brad.
Speaker 3 (01:11:03):
I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just saying I'm correct.
Big difference. Well, I'm gonna have to turn to you
on this one, given that you're the royal expert. But
from what I understand, the Duchess of York is in trouble.
Speaker 1 (01:11:23):
She's in big trouble.
Speaker 3 (01:11:27):
This is the part that cracks me up. Though. It's like,
for all the screaming and yelling the Epstein Files, she's
on the hook.
Speaker 2 (01:11:35):
I I thought it was kind of weird. Okay, I
read Jeff Charles had a good ride up that you
you sent me the link to. And I thought it
was kind of weird that she was actually talking about
the fact that she was under duress about the email,
(01:12:03):
because she at first she condemned him back in two
thousand and eight, and then in twenty eleven and she
wrote an email saying you've been my step fat friend
and blah blah blah and all this stuff, you know,
apologizing for all this stuff, blah blah, blah blah. And
(01:12:24):
then she reportedly is saying that she wrote this second
email because he threatened to destroy her. And I'm like,
if he's threatening you, threatening to destroy you from behind
jail walls or whatever, shouldn't you take that to like
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a lawyer, shouldn't you like, why would you write a
conciliatory email to someone who was threatening to destroy you?
First of all, her ex husband is embroiled with this
whole Epstein thing. I mean, that's a separate issue altogether,
I think for Andrew. And So, as a matter of fact,
(01:13:09):
I believe one of the last acts that Queen Elizabeth
did was to censure him and banish him basically because
of his sizes to Epstein. But a lot of people
are asking why would she worry Why would she be
worried about being destroyed for saying that Epstein was a
(01:13:34):
pedophile right when it was already about a record when
he went to jail in two thousand and eight. So
people are trying to piece this together. They're trying to
so it's not washing, it's not really gelling for me,
(01:13:54):
she's trying to backtrack of this email saying I was
under dress. I had to write it because he was
threatening my family, he was threatening to destroy me. But
she had enough recognition both socially and politically whereby she
could actually deflect this and say, hey, I denounced him,
(01:14:18):
and now he's threatening me. I'm lawyering up because I don't,
you know, I need security. I don't understand. She should
have come out and said that she had all of
the backing of everybody because she had excoriated him back then.
So why would she write this email saying I'm so
sorry I said these things. You've always been my friend,
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I love you bits blah blah blah blah. And I'm like, yeah,
that doesn't sound right to me. That doesn't sound like
she was under duress. For anything. If she had been
under duress because he was threatening her with either physically
or mentally, emotionally or whatever, with destroying her, she had
(01:15:03):
the wherewithal to come out and say this is what
he's doing because she had, she had the clout, she
had all of you know, she she works for many
well worked for many charities. They've since dropped her since
this email came out. She had, uh, like I said,
the political cloud and the social cloud to actually call
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him out on it, and this calling him out for
threatening her like this would actually have made him look
even worse would have added to how horrible this man
really is.
Speaker 1 (01:15:38):
So why didn't she take it on?
Speaker 2 (01:15:40):
Why didn't Why didn't she come out and say that, yes,
this thinks to I haven't In my.
Speaker 3 (01:15:46):
Opinion, she's kind of hinting like he had some kind
of power over her or something, because she's she even said,
it's like he wasn't yelling at me, he was talking
like Hannibal Lecter. I'm dis putted in you like that
some kind of what it's like, what exactly did she
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think he could possibly do to her? My question, I'm
at a loss here as how that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (01:16:18):
But it doesn't make any sense to me. For me,
it's more of a I'm trying to cover my ass
because of you know, whatever reason.
Speaker 1 (01:16:28):
And I'm like, you.
Speaker 2 (01:16:30):
Didn't that if indeed he was threatening you, you had
the backing of your title, okay, which Queen Elizabeth was good,
you know, kind enough to grant her when she divorced Andrew.
Queen Elizabeth did say you can keep that title. You
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had the backing of the title, and by extension, you
had the backing of the monarchy, if you could put
it if you wanted to push back as somebody who's
threatening you, which, by the way, she has done before,
which is which is this makes no sense?
Speaker 3 (01:17:08):
Yeah, here's here's where her explanation falls apart. She's making
it sound like he delivered like a quiet threat to
her or something if she didn't come clean and admit
to something. But but it was almost like, you know,
you've got to clear my name and say that I'm
a good guy. She didn't do that. She wrote to
him privately. It wasn't like she came out in public
(01:17:34):
and said, you know, Jeffrey's actually a swell guy and
we should give him another chance. So for her to
say like well, you know, he he was getting real
mad and making threats at me, so I had to
appease him and say that he's a good guy. It's like, yeah,
but you didn't in private. How does that help him?
That makes no sense whatsoever. So I'm calling bull crap,
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is what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (01:17:58):
Totally. I just it makes absolutely no sense.
Speaker 2 (01:18:04):
This is not the first time that she has been
caught in a bad situation. I believe that several years ago,
I want to say, like maybe two or three years
after her divorce, she was trying to sell her name,
(01:18:28):
you know, so she was trying to get people to
pay her for the benefit of her showing up as
Duchess of York somewhere or whatever. And the the House
of Windsor actually excoriated her for that because she's not
supposed to use her title for monetary purposes, for monetary gain.
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She's supposed to use her title for charitable causes, which
is why she was you know, after that, she learned
her lesson and she did that. But you know, she's
not a stranger to doing shady things, I should say,
(01:19:13):
to be kind, so h yeah, well, you know, it
kind of defies the description because when you think about it,
she and Princess Diana were very close.
Speaker 1 (01:19:29):
They were good friends, and but they were so different.
Speaker 2 (01:19:35):
In the manner of being. Diana conducted herself with the
utmost respect to her title.
Speaker 1 (01:19:48):
Sarah did not.
Speaker 2 (01:19:50):
And even there was a time when the Queen was
very weary because she felt Sarah was being an undo
bad influence on Diana, even though Diana was actually I
think she's just a couple of years older than Sarah
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was and had been married for a long longer period
of time than Sarah had been. But you know, there
was again the Queen stept In had the talk and
Sarah straightened out then, so, like I said, she's not
a stranger to controversy, which is why for her to
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say I was being threatened, and so I had to
write that email to make everything nice again. No, you're
being threatened by somebody who's behind bars. You take that
to your lawyers and you make sure that everybody knows
about it, because you have you have a shield by
being Duchess of York.
Speaker 1 (01:20:51):
You can use that as your.
Speaker 2 (01:20:53):
Shield, and she didn't, so you know that, I, like
I said, I'm gonna be watching this TELENOVELA two.
Speaker 3 (01:21:05):
I figured you would like this, well I was, I guess,
if we're going to lodge this in our usual category
of scientific research, maybe there's some I guess etymologists will
call them who have released a book some time ago.
(01:21:28):
But I stumbled across this and it cracked me up.
It's like, who the hell would do this? Well, the
only thing dumber is somebody who would be interested enough
to use it as fodder for a podcast such as me.
Their entire book is about the origin of the word
dude as it you used today, Like they wanted to
(01:21:51):
trace the etymological history of and this goes act like,
way the hell back do you do? You know where
it started from? M yankee doodle? What the yeah? The
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term well, to start with yankee that was a Dutch insults.
That's what the Dutch settlers in New Amsterdam would refer
to the English settlers like it kind of meant almost
like little John or something like that. It was like
the right and then doodle was full. So yankee doodle
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was you know, basically saying like a little little fools.
And then I don't know, kind of a Generation X style,
they turned that around and made it a term of
endearment like, yeah, how would you thinking, doodle? What of it?
That kind of thing, so and that whole stuck a
(01:23:00):
feather in his hat or such. Dude was shortened from
doodle because that was used to describe people that tried
to dress up in a fashion higher than their actual
social status. I guess what's the term they use now.
It's like, not ratchet, it's the other one when the
(01:23:27):
street lingo that they use of the day. It's just
basically a way like if you were lower class but
you wanted to dress better, you were a dude then.
And this carried through to like the late eighteen hundred,
so guys that were like really sporting it up were
called dudes, and then that translated to the West, and
(01:23:50):
the original dude ranches were basically almost like the movie
City Slickers. They set up actual ranches for city folk
to come in and pretend they're cowboys, so they were
basically appealing to these people, and then dude ranch just
kind of fell into common parlance, and then dude carried
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on to the next level. It was still the same thing,
but like in the zoot suit era, I guess, and
it was almost always restricted to men. That's the weird thing.
It was always a male thing, and then almost like
it moved across the country. So then it went from
the west into some of the cities and then on
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the West coast, and then it got adapted by the
surfers in the skateboarders.
Speaker 1 (01:24:43):
Wow, totally vatical.
Speaker 3 (01:24:46):
Kind of out there. I just can't believe it. I
just said that in about what two three minutes. These
guys wrote an actual two hundred and fifty page book
about this.
Speaker 2 (01:24:58):
Well, it's you know, a lot of people wonder where
the term greeno came from. And I had a friend
who was from San Luis Poto Sea, which is near
the Mexico city, and he told me, as legend goes,
it was the cry for the people of Mexico to
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tell the army to get out of Mexico. The Americans,
you know, green go because they were wearing green. That's
where the term greeno came from. Now that's what that's
what he told me. I don't know, I have not
researched that etymology, but it makes sense to me because yeah,
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I know, those people.
Speaker 1 (01:25:50):
Trust me atteracts.
Speaker 3 (01:25:52):
They were saying verde.
Speaker 1 (01:25:56):
Yeah, so the green green go.
Speaker 2 (01:26:00):
But you know, I it's you know, there's so many
different words that I do wonder and sometimes it would
be I would love to just get lost in researching
words and everything, but I don't have the time anymore.
Speaker 3 (01:26:19):
Well, it'd be nice to have that as a job.
Speaker 1 (01:26:22):
It'd be fun, it'd be fun.
Speaker 3 (01:26:23):
Yeah, I mean, just you know, you can show up
to work, and so what are you gonna do today?
Bred look up the word dude. I'm working on dude
right now, probably gonna probably gonna be at this a
whole week. I'm sorry, but you don't. Don't come at
me with any other words. I'm gonna be tied up
on this one. It's it's like four letters. I know,
(01:26:44):
I know, but I'm in colonial times right now. Okay,
give me a break.
Speaker 1 (01:26:51):
That's too fine.
Speaker 2 (01:26:53):
Well, we're almost at the top of the hour, so
I guess we should talk about where we can find
each other.
Speaker 1 (01:27:00):
So Brad, why don't you go first tell us where
we can find you?
Speaker 3 (01:27:04):
What you don't know?
Speaker 1 (01:27:05):
I know most people can't.
Speaker 3 (01:27:09):
I am available daily over at townhall dot com. I've
got a media column there every day called Rift from
the Headlines, and you can see me on the front
page of Red state on the regular as well, where
I've got a twice weekly podcast it's called Liable Sources,
covering more of the median detail and audio. And you
can hear more of me on this network. Thursday night,
(01:27:32):
I'm going to be here with Paul Young from Screen Rain.
He and I go through bad movies, having fun at
their expense for your entertainment. On disasters in the making.
I'll just say we have a earth shattering, earth ending
feature for this week.
Speaker 2 (01:27:49):
Oh I'm disappointed, Okay, go ahead, Why no, No, it's okay.
Speaker 1 (01:27:55):
It's not duck Stover yet. I have a perfect duck
Stover movie for you.
Speaker 3 (01:27:59):
Guys. We'll take recommendations. We're not above that. That's fine, okay,
But alternate Thursdays, I'm here with Orty Packard. He and
I bring all the vital entertainment and business of Hollywood
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Where can people find more of your magnificence.
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For now you can find me at Aggie the barkeep
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Toxic Masculinity at eight pm, where I bring the drink
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Thank you so much for joining us, y'all. It has
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been a lovely evening and we hope that you all
chill out and have a good one.
Speaker 3 (01:29:18):
Too, and go raise a glass and look at the ceiling.
Speaker 6 (01:29:30):
Day