Cocktail Lounge w/ Aggie and Brad: Downward Urology and Upward Motility

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:30):
The following program contains course language and adult themes.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Listener discretion is advised and welcome to another episode of

(01:07):
The Cocktail Lounge. I am your hostess with mostes, Aggie,
and with me as always as the ever suave, affable
and paffable co host, Brad Slager. How are you doing
this evening, Brad?

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Doing very well, doing very well. How's everything been in Texas?

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Apparently I was late getting on to the show, and
I've been ready with my head cut off. So this
is all my fault that we started late. This is
on me for once. This is my fault. But you know,
things are going okay. Here we're chopping down trees and

(01:48):
now we're hauling all this stuff out and preparing myself
for my parents visiting later on this month. Oh know,
it's a big thing for me.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
I know this has you on the edge of your meds.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yes, I left my parents and adore them to you,
as you know, I just I need to be My
mom is a fantastic housekeeper, so I'm just afraid she's
going to bring her white gloves.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
Yeah you can just just call her anal with it.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yeah, okay, she is. But other than that, yeah, We're done.
Okay over here? How about y'all.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
Well, I mean, the good news is you're going to
be off of your, yes, your alcohol sabbatical.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
By the time I'm off, I'll be off of my
you know, calorie sabbatical because apparently I'm just like, I
gave up everything that was fun. So I'm making a
cake for Easter, and I'm making I don't know what
else for dinner, but I just know that that cake
is going to be fabulous.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
Making it. You're making it for you, just say it.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yes, I am that doesn't eat cake.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
I'm just relieved because by next week my co host
will be back on the Cocktail Lounge after her dry o.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yes, yes, as you know. And it's really sad because
I try not to post much on the cocktail account,
but the cocktail account is associated with both this show
and spirited books and Toxic Masculinity, so I've been trying
to put some recipes and stuff like that, but it's
very you know, during length, I don't post much on

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the other account.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
So you even give up digital drinking? Come on, I did?

Speaker 2 (03:44):
I did? I give it all up and I got
I got screamed up by my sister because of that.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
It's like the account.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Oh yeah, she's she's on she's on egg and she was.
She screamed at me, as like you haven't boasted recipes
for for weeks now. I'm like, it's lent and she says,
oh yeah, like you're still you're observing.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
It too welcome. Your sister doesn't follow.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Me, she doesn't follow a lot of people, but I can.
I can tell her to Okay, I'll tell her to
follow you. Calm down, Nancy, come on, Okay, yes, I

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will instruct her to follow you.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
I just I really just want to scare your family,
is what it is.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
No, honey, it's gonna be the other way around. Really,
really really, I'm I'm the nice one. I'm also the
tamest one in my family, and you're already leary of me.
So just just now, I think you'd have fun with.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
Like cup poodle. You're you know, little yep a lot,
but for the most part, you're not worried about getting bit.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yes, fine, go ahead and think of me that way.
I'll live with it. I'll live with it. You'll be surprised,
but I'll live with it. We've met, this is true.
So how are things over on your side of the
Gulf of America.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
Oh, I guess you know, shiit. Uh Boston University lost
the championship on Saturday, and then uh Florida Panthers are
basically limping into the playoffs right now. They can't seem
to win a game, but they're finally getting everybody back.
They've had about eight guys off the roster before now,
so I'm hoping by Saturday, when the playoffs begin, they'll

(06:02):
be somewhat back to normal. But we'll have to find out.
I'm cautiously optimistic this year.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Keep you my fingers crossed, hmm.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
But yeah, otherwise going well, going well, and having a
lot of fun watching watching the media complex completely discredit
themselves almost on an hourly basis. Amusingly enough, it's just
patent So like last week, how much of a genius

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do we look?

Speaker 2 (06:41):
We were giving We look like financial geniuses? We seriously,
but you know, it's not hard to beat Jim Kramer.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
Exactly. I started to have confidence in things once he
came out. I think it was the Friday before last
that yes, he Markt's gonna die mushroom clouds and everyone's like, okay,
so everything's gonna be fine. I mean Monday, we knew,
we talked about it in the last show. Monday was

(07:11):
you know, just a shit storm. And then you look
at it, it's like, oh, it went down and people
are losing their minds about this, and then it was
up and down by Friday. This is what I'm saying,
we look like geniuses. What do we say last week
is like, look, they're tariffs, they're modular, they can pull
down at any point in time. They can renegotiate them.
I think a day or two later, Trump comes out
and says, yeah, we're we could totally renegotiate these things. Friday,

(07:35):
the market closed for the week up nine point six percent. Yeah,
and again, like last Monday, it was supposed to be
complete meltdown. The economy's ruined. This is the worst president
of all time. Friday, it turns out everybody ended up
making money except for the people that were short selling.
And it just goes on and on. And I'm listening

(07:58):
to these people on Twitter, you know, the so called
market experts are so claimed and such, and it's just
like horrible. It's like fleetion went down. You're a lawyer,
you have no proof of it. Here's a link saying
and flesh went down and we talked about it. Gas
prices went down. Another report came out last week how
food prices have dropped, and I mean, the jobs were

(08:21):
beaten expectations. Every indicator of the economy is good right now,
and they're trying to cheer lead the market down and
cheerlead the economy down as well, and it's they can't
find it now. And by pretty much by the weekend,
people stopped talking about tariffs in the economy.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
It's oh, yeah, that kind of went away. I was like,
I thought this was very important, and they're back to
talking about it, but not as ardently, not as doomsday
as they were before.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
Well, yeah, it's because they don't have anything they can
point to.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
No, not really, but the economy show me. Well. I
one of the things, one of the things that really
grated on my nerves about this whole They keep using
the washing machine example, and I'm like, I don't know
who started it, but everybody picked it up. And I'm like,
first of all, in my sixty years of living, I

(09:18):
have bought two sets of what that's it? So it's
not like a washing machine is something that you go
out to buy every month. Okay. Second of all, when
I went in there, I noticed that the foreign makes
like Samsung LG you know, were higher price than the

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mad Tag Westinghouse that we that are made here in America.
Now I don't, I don't. I don't know if that's
because demand, I don't know, it's because of the tariffs
that we had. I don't, I don't know why, but
that's what it was. And so we had to do
a lot of research and everything, and we ended up

(09:59):
getting you know what said or whatever it was. I
don't even know what I have. But nobody buys a
washing machine every month. They just they don't. And I'm thinking, well,
if the prices are comparable for the American Maid and
the foreign made then if the tariffs do go up

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on the foreign made washing machine, that means that the
price of the American Maid will stay pretty much steady
because it's made here, and people will buy that particular item.
I don't see the downside here. Explain it to me,
like I'm five, And of course, you know, I was

(10:42):
talking to my sister about this and she's like, I
didn't see it that way. I did not, really, you know,
it didn't hit me, and I was like, I literally
just bought washing when I've moved here, I had to
buy a new set. So it was I've been here
four years, so it was, you know, relatively not a
long time ago that I bought the washing and dryer set,

(11:05):
and so I remember how much it was. And I
was just at Low's last weekend, and I happened to go,
and I'm looking for a small one that does both
the washing and the drying to put in the guest
house so that guests can do their own, you know stuff.
So I was looking at those, but I noticed that

(11:25):
the prices on the American made stuff were actually less
than the prices of the foreign stuff. So, you know,
maybe it's just me, maybe it's just the area that
I'm living at, but keep you know, using the washing
machine example is not resonating with John p. Public.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
It's I mean, the you know what we're talking about
also is durable goods. You know, these are appliances, tools,
even computer an you think that last two three years
after per is a durable good as opposed to clothing
and you know other frivolous items, or I should say
frivolous maybe, but more expendable, you know, like sunglasses and

(12:10):
clothing and stuff like that. So it's really tough to
measure durable goods for an individual like yourself and others
because of that. But here's the what cracks me up
about the whole tariffs thing. I was listening to a
radio show a couple of days ago, just happened to
have it on, and they were saying, oh, you know,
I just I live in a small town and I'm
talking to the mom and pop shop and they explained

(12:32):
to me how, because of Donald Trump's tariffs, all this
stuff in your shop is now much more expensive and
the people aren't coming in because of the price difference.
The tariffs have been in place for five days. What
the heck in your knickknack shop? Did they just have
shipped over on a container vessel?

Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yeah? And I understand that the small businesses maybe impacted
greatly and others may not be impact that asked great,
But you know, this was I remember talking to an
acquaintance of mine back in I want to say ninety nine,
maybe the year two thousand or something, and she wanted
to start selling, you know, baby clothes, but she was

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going to have it all made in China and then
shipped over here. And I asked her why when the
town she lives in literally has a there was a
textile it had textile industry. And she says, well, it's cheaper,
so my profit margin can be greater. And I was like, okay,

(13:41):
I get that, but what if something happens where suddenly
you can't get you know, did they imposed tariffs or
they impose this, or there's a blockade or there's an embargo.
I mean, even back then, things with China were not
that great. So she was like, oh, that will never happen. Well, yeah,

(14:04):
guess what it's happening. And I unfortunately her business is
thoughts last long she it was. It was ridiculous, but
she had high hopes, but she didn't have a good
plan in place. And you know, having been on the
sales side, on the service side, on managerial side, you know,

(14:28):
in retail, you know, I got I have seen where
the certain trends that are more popular than others, and
I you know, there is a there has always been
a want of American made goods. There was there's a
company Lungaburger. I don't know, some people may be familiar

(14:51):
with it. They made baskets and they was founded back
in the eighties and the founder was one of eight
children and they grew up making baskets because his father
made baskets for different people. You know, they had bushel baskets,
they had baskets for the gyms they had, you know.

(15:11):
So he made it into a very thriving direct marketing
industry and the dishes that they used were made here
in the United States by Faltsgraph. Well, it came the
time that Fualtscraft could not compete with China, and they

(15:31):
had three factories and one by one they were closed.
And once you know, that happened, you know, Longerbirdic decided
to ship everything to China and have them do it. Well,
the costs for Longer Burger dropped, but the prices stayed
the same. The quality suffered because it you know, and

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we noticed that the quality suffered, and we were getting complaints.
I was direct marketing person for Longer Proger, so I know,
and we were getting complaints from our customers about the
really bad quality of their of the stoneware, and so
you know, we were like, yeah, we're sorry. And I

(16:15):
never pushed the stuntware on anybody. I actually told people, yeah,
don't buy it. The quality has gone. That's it's not
good anymore. And it wasn't It wasn't cheap either longer.
Burger commanded pretty high prices back then, so you know,
then they started sending more stuff to be made in
China and everything. So here's a company that marketed itself

(16:38):
on being American made, but half of their stuff was
now being made in China, and their loophole was, well,
the baskets are still American made because they're made here.
And I'm like, yeah, but people want everything made here
and people would pay that money. They would. I knew
women that would save their pennies to buy these baskets,

(17:01):
and you know, it was amazing to me that they
would because they were made here. And I still have
several baskets. I have a lot of baskets from Lunger
Burger because they're very durable. It was a very good product.
But eventually, you know, the the his children, his two daughters,
ran the company to the ground and that was that anyway,

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But that is an example of what happened when you
know you're outsourcing something that you actually posted here as
an American made product. It had quality, it was QC.
There was a lot of oversea and once in Santa
to China. You don't have that. You just don't.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
And well, the only thing that's really going on right
now is that it looks like Chinese terror sort of
ones that are going to stay in place for the
most part. And you know, this has a few people
freaking out about it. But like Kevin O'Leary, you know,
mister one interval from Shark Tank, he's the one saying
that this is gonna screw China sideways. He keeps coming

(18:05):
on different shows, CNN, MSNBC and he's like, listen, China
is gonna get nailed. And here's what's so funny. I
put is on my feed earlier today. I want to
go to my mark Teenie Shark account. I got the
graph on there. We were joking last week how Team
Who was going to be most affected. You know, we
just said it as a joke. The daily digital ad

(18:31):
spend by Team Who on four different platforms. They spent
a million a day advertising on Facebook and then you
know the other three were you know, modicum amounts, but
for the most part it was mostly Facebook a million plus,
you know, go up and down you can see it
from March first. Yeah, about four or five days ago,

(18:55):
they stopped spending advertising almost entirely, Like the charge just
nosedives down. Zero wows went in place. So again we're geniuses.
Mm hmmm, said team was most affected here. They are like,
holy shit, bailing out on ad spend right now. But
I mean, it's it's all fluid, all this crap. And

(19:18):
I just had to laugh on Friday because I was
cutting my podcast and I just said, oh, you know,
we'll see, you know how it goes. Let me just
check the mark while I'm recording. Oh, we're up nine
point six for the last five days. Just well, pure
media cheerleading for bad economy is what it came down.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
I know a lot of people that went into the
market and they're quite happy, you know, with the money
that they made, and you know, and they're not long
term players in the market, so but they're quite happy.
My parents are quite quite happy with their investments right now.

(20:00):
My brother is not. He's something else. But you know it,
I am amazed because there were a lot of people,
you know right now that somebody wants they're pushing for
an investigation on President Trump for insider trading because he
literally told millions of people that right now it's a

(20:25):
good time to get in the market. Yes, I can
see where that's insider trading.

Speaker 3 (20:29):
I know. I was like, I saw somebody complain about that,
and I said, how much of an insider am I
if I see him broadcasting just social media.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
Like I'm one of the inn people like.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
A backroom deal. But and it's kind of funny to you.
I mean, just to ring our bell over at the
town Hall media they announced I think it was yesterday,
struck a media deal with Don Junior. He's he's got
his own online I think it's a news feed news
outlet that he's doing in Salem. Partner with that. Salem's

(21:07):
stock price more than doubled after the announcement. I was like, son,
him a bitch. Couldn't you guys have tipped us off
a few hours ago? And but that's uh, that would
have that would have been insider trading. You see, Yeah,
I bring that up. But that's again, how crappy is
the market If that can take place? It's just and

(21:30):
I you know, I'm not saying I'm all in. You know,
the market's gonna be perfect all year I'm one hundred
percent behind Trump. I'm just looking at facts here, and
when people are losing their mind it was like over what.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
Oh, I know, these people have to lose their minds
over something. It could be Trump picked up a wooly caterpillar.
Oh my god, he can endanger so many lives because
he's now telling kids that it's okay to pick these
things up. Seriously, they would go back to it and
saying over something like that.

Speaker 3 (22:01):
Well, I mean it's the old joke too. You know,
if he comes up with a cure for cancer, they'll
complain about all the doctors put out of work.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
Oh, yes, yes, that that'll happen. That would happen.

Speaker 3 (22:09):
Yes, I mean we're seeing it right now. Did you
see them light up Caitlin Collins in the White House yesterday?

Speaker 2 (22:17):
Okay, first shout out to buy because he held his
own and put her in her place. He was fantastic. Also,
he wore a jacket crops well he it was a
total black It was awesome. But he wore a jacket
unlike somebody else that we will not mention.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
But go ahead, Oh, I'll mention it. Way to go, kid, Rock, I'm.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
Not talking about Rock talking about Zelenski.

Speaker 3 (22:49):
Now. But but Kelly, you know, he first comes out
and he's like he addressed the media on his own too.
It was he prompt or he looked at them and said, Okay,
people crossing the US border right now, we're look down
one percent of what they used to be and you
people aren't reporting on it. How is that not great news?
It was like, damn, love this guy, this is one

(23:12):
immigrant we should let in across our boarder. Now he's
fixing things in his place, never mind. But but then
you know, Caitlin Collins chirps up and she's like, well,
are you going to bring back the Maryland Father who
was wrongfully deported? And at this point I just had
to I heard her ask the question, and I was like,
oh shit, here it comes, and sure enough, but I

(23:37):
mean Trump, it was Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
A lot of people, and we're all.

Speaker 3 (23:44):
Jumping on her. It is like, have you not seen
the facts. And even after that political came out, they're
still calling this guy a mode Maryland father And it
is such an Asdine argument to make the guy one
is definitively an illegal immigrant. There's there's no question about it.

(24:07):
They keep saying Maryland father, No.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
Two courts established, yes, and two courts established him as
an m S thirteen gang member.

Speaker 3 (24:18):
They're ignoring.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
And here's the thing, because this was established by two
separate courts. He was given the due process.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
Right, Baldwin asine Organs. Okay, here you go. Well he
didn't get due process. It's like as face their court documents.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
And he had exactly thank you, Danny, and he had
that portation orders. He had this. This guy was not
huge legally, and I'm sorry that that's the law, you know.
And there are certain things, you know, especially they're using
the Scudders ruling as being well, you know who said

(25:00):
that you have to bring him back? I said, Actually,
that's not what the Skoda's ruling said at all. They said,
if El Salvador releases him, then we must facilitate his
return to Maryland and then he can be redeported correctly.
But that's only.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
The thing about that deportation in error. They're making it
sound like they accidentally plucked some father off a playground. Back.
Oh you look like a bad guy. We're gonna take it.
And no, the error, if there was one, is that
he had he had a deportation stay order because he
had managed to argue in court that his life was

(25:40):
threatened if he went to l Salvador, his home country,
which should tell you a few things. One, why would
he be endangered there if you, oh, he's a citizen
from there. And secondly, why is he endangered? Oh, because
other gang members want to get a piece of them.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
Well, but here's the thing, and this is something.

Speaker 3 (25:57):
That they deported him. They to the long country. Is
what it comes down to.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
If he were in danger, he could have sought asylum.
He didn't. And this is and this is what I
try telling people. The moment you come through a port
of entry and you ask for asylum, the government, our
government starts processing you. Okay, it's not like you walking

(26:24):
into an embassy and the embassy actually has to take
it upon itself too whether or not they'll accept you.
And once they decide, yeah, okay, we'll accept your requests
for asylum, and then they start processing you. No, the
government gets that and then they start processing you. But
you have to register for the government. And I think
this is what everybody misses. That's this is why that.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
Whole they don't ignore it.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
No, Yeah, Tom Holman and Okasio Cortest going at It
was so entertaining for me because he shut her down.
She kept saying, these are all legal assilees, and I'm like, no,
they're not, because they did not come through a port
of entry. And that is the crux of this issue
for me. This guy didn't come through a port of entry.

(27:09):
He never declared he wanted asylum. He's been here for
years and he never wants declared asylum. And now you're
telling me, oh, his life is in danger. Well, why
didn't that come up when he first came up here.

Speaker 3 (27:23):
Now it's pretty easy to see what's going on here.
The media basically trapped themselves because they're everything they do,
their entire operation, all of their reporting, all stems from
one thing. How do we prove Donald Trump wrong or
how do we make them look bad? So they come
on this issue, Oh, they deported a father, and it's like, no,

(27:43):
he's a gang member, he's illegal, he's got deportation orders,
he's gone. Why do you want a gang member to
come back to the country. This is it's insane, And
they didn't. Now they're stuck because they just default argued
against what Donald He's wrong. And the court said something.
A judge said something.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
Yeah, let's not forget that there was I don't know
if you recall this, but remember that German family that
was living here. They had requested asylum because they wanted
to homeschool their children, and homeschooling is illegal in Germany.
You must attend the state school. Okay, you can attend
a private school, but that private school is also handled

(28:25):
by the government, so it's it's you know, there's not
a lot of leeway between private and public schools in Germany.
But homeschooling is definitely illegal in Germany, or it was
at the time, and they sought asylum here for you know,
and it was a family of what twelve, I mean,
it was some ridiculous number. It was a huge family.
And the Obama administration said, yeah, no, you can't say

(28:47):
you have to go back. They were quite okay, these
people asked for asylum. They had a reason for their asylum.
They wanted to live in freedom, to be able to
teach their children away from the state schools of Germany,
because they felt those state schools were now starting to
be infiltrated by oh guess what Islam teaching. So they

(29:13):
wanted to get their kids away from that. Obama sent
them back and as last I checked, they actually requested
asylum from another country, and I believe they now live
in Italy or something. But the the thing was, you know,
they actually had a reason for being here. They went
through the process, they were granted asylum, and then Obama

(29:35):
took it back and it was the most insane thing
I had ever seen in my entire life. But this
guy doesn't seek asylum, and now we want to gift
it to him after he's out of out of here
and in the proper country. I'm like what, I'm like,
this is this is completely There.

Speaker 3 (29:57):
Was another one that blew up over the weekend. The
you see the one about the Harvard researcher who got deported.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
Oh yeah, that was good times.

Speaker 3 (30:08):
She's coming across the border and they catch her with
biological material and she didn't declare it, and so border
patrols like the hell's going on here, you know? And
she had petri dishes of this and vials of that
and such, and you know, and they asked her specifically,

(30:30):
like you know, what do you have? Declare you bring
anything across of this nature? And she says no, so
she's a Russian scientist by one thing. So for for
the first time in quite a while, now I'm seeing
people on the left defending a Russian because usually if
you say Russia, it's just automatically you're guilty of something
that they did if they did it, of course, But

(30:51):
she's a Harvard researcher, so I guess that counters it
somehow cancels out. That's the mitigating Well, she was working
for Harvard, so's it's good. But then everybody say, oh,
look at the Trump administration getting rid of an educator,
someone who could help our country. And it's like, wait
a second, she's not a citizen too. She tried smuggling
this crap over and oh it was a mistake. She's

(31:12):
been doing this now. They found on her phone where
she was talking to coworkers and told them she was
sneaking this stuff into the country. Yes, that's okay, you
get caught smuggling biological material into the country. Sorry, you're ascan.
You're on the first flight out. Welcome to the Kremlin.

(31:33):
But these people are screaming about Trump he hates educators.
It's just another example. And somebody came up with a
brilliant piece of evidence. Joe Biden had done the exact
same thing. Harvard researcher smuggling biological material arrested. I don't

(31:53):
remember hearing about Joe Biden was anti education, anti school,
anti Harvard, or anything of the sort. But this is
the thing. It's like what they're just in such default
hate Trumpet's automatically wrong mode that they don't even think
about possibility of Oh I don't know pre existing examples
of this taking place with other presidents, and I know no,

(32:14):
Joe Biden would never do that. Oops.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
Oh yeah he did. Oh yeah, he did.

Speaker 3 (32:20):
It's just all of this is so comical because nobody's
relying on facts anymore. It's just like, can we get
details first before we flip out? Like with the arsonist
of Josh Shapiro's home. Have you seen the details on
that asshole? Oh?

Speaker 2 (32:38):
My lord.

Speaker 3 (32:40):
So, I mean, just for the record, as soon as
I saw this happen, when they said, I mean I
think it was what Saturday night, Sunday morning, Yeah, it
was early.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
It was like two am Sunday morning, you.

Speaker 3 (32:50):
Know, And they said somebody threw maltov cocktails into the
window of Josh Shapiro's home while they were inside sleeping.
The first thing I said is, whoever this is, lock
their ass up and leave them alone. Think about maybe
feeding them in a month or so. This is no
part of society. Get rid of them. I don't care
what side they're on. It's wrong. And so of course

(33:10):
the media, Oh they went after Shapiro. This has to
be mega And of course now we hear, well, this
is the problem with political violence, and this is always
for how what more than a month now, they've been
defending firebombing Tesla dealerships and people. Yeah, teslas, Well, that's
just forms of protest. You just have to objor.

Speaker 2 (33:31):
Destruction of public property is completely acceptable to the left,
and now destruction of private property to make a point
is also acceptable.

Speaker 3 (33:42):
But the Tesla firebombs and throwing bricks through windows of
cars and stuff is all political motivated. So that is
a terrorist act? Oh yeah by definition? Oh no, no,
that's a protest. Why are you going after them? But
now this guy does the same thing. After how many
Democrats have come out and talked about violence, you know,

(34:02):
I mean Schumer. They pointedly asked him, He's like, are
you going to tell people to stop bombing dealerships and
decry this, and he wouldn't like no that assily reviews.
Jasmine Crockett has talked about going after Elon Musk, said
we have to attack Ted Cruz literally said we have

(34:23):
to crack him over the head. Yeah, and more and
more Democrats are just coming out with this kind of talk.
And Elon Musk has this coming. He shouldn't have gotten involved.
This is his own fault. So, oh so you'll approve
of this. Now some ass face does this as Josh
Shapiro and suddenly it's post political violence is off limits.

Speaker 2 (34:41):
Now.

Speaker 3 (34:41):
This is just disgraceful, and they're trying to blame it
on the right and they said, oh, you know, he
went up the Shapiro. He's also had scathing things to
say about Joe Biden. This is ABC News.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
He's a fucking socialist.

Speaker 3 (34:56):
Yeah, and I'm flipping through the whole article and it's
like and and and you're gonna get around to No.
Never mentioned how this guy was slam Trump also slammed Republicans. Finally,
somebody dug up his social media where he said I'm
registered as a socialist and he was pissed off because
Biden and Shapiro aren't far enough left. Well, the guy's

(35:18):
basically a nut job. I'll flat out say his mother
said he was off his medication, and he's bipolar, and
he's this, he's the guy's just a nut I wouldn't
take any political advice from somebody like this and just
get rid of them institution or jail either, cool, because
what this is completely unacceptable. But just the way the

(35:41):
media frames this is like, well he did, Biden. It's like,
you want to tell the rest of the story, jackasses.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
No they don't, well.

Speaker 3 (35:56):
Just all of it. It keeps the same thing that
comes up, and we just keep seeing the same thing.
And this is why people are walking away from the media.
I mean, I gotta be telling you, I'm worried because
primarily is what I do is cover the press. I
think so many people are just going to be done
with the media that I'm not gonna have a job anymore.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
Oh no, no, no, they know you'll have a job
for quite a while. This is not going away.

Speaker 3 (36:21):
I mean, I'll have material, but I think it's going
to get to a point where people are you.

Speaker 2 (36:24):
Still we still have we still have the li likes
of Taylor Lawrence, and we have Underscore Ben whatever his
name has been, the one that took over the onion.
We still have those.

Speaker 3 (36:43):
There. They've kind of dispatched themselves.

Speaker 2 (36:46):
We have Caitlin Collins. I mean, that's that that is
rich environment right there. Your job is safe just with her.

Speaker 3 (36:55):
It's like I said, I material, I'm not worried about
it's it's people giving them about the media. That's my
we walked away. When are you gonna do it? Brad?
That's it's like, well, I'm just I'm holding the door open,
That's what I'm.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
Well, you know, And this is the prime example of
how the media is just not doing its job. Take,
for example, the giant dong that went up into the
sky full of double X chromosomes.

Speaker 3 (37:28):
Okay, well got wait, whoa did you? Did you watch
some porn parody? I don't know about. What are you
talking about?

Speaker 2 (37:34):
No, no, no, no, I'm talking about Blue Origin going up in space.
Come on, it looks like a giant dick.

Speaker 3 (37:41):
Some two thousand and one sex odyssey or something.

Speaker 2 (37:44):
And I mean it's like everybody says, he may be
trying to compensate for something, but you know, his his
girlfriend looks pretty happy. But you know, I'm like, I
don't know who designed that, but my god, why, I mean,
when you have a classic the Saturn five is laying
right there over at the Dunson Space Center, you could

(38:07):
just run with that. But no, I mean the media
was covering this spectacle because that's what it was. It
was a spectacle, and these six women were going up
into and they made it seem like this was they
were going up into space. I honestly thought the way
this was hyped, they were going to the International Space Station.

(38:29):
And then I saw who it was and I'm like,
I haven't heard them. Have they been training? And I
went and I looked. I went to NASA dot Gov,
I went to space dot Com. I talked to my
my friends that are working over at the JPL. I
talked to my brother in law, who is a contractor
for NASA, and they said, absolutely not. They have not

(38:50):
been training for anything. What are you talking about. They're
just there. It's a it's a stunt. And I'm like,
that is egregious, and I'm I'm going to talk about
it from the point of view of somebody who has
some experience with people that work at NASA, having grown
up with a dad that did work for NASA and
all that stuff. I'm not as avid space junkie as

(39:12):
our producer Jeff and Jeff feel free to like pop
in at any time, but I'm talking from the point
of view of true feminism. Okay, these women did a
disservice to so many young girls. I cannot even begin
to express the amount of the service that they did. First,

(39:38):
you take Katie Perry, beautiful woman, very talented. Her songs
are you know, a hit. She's now at some TV
show judging or whatever. But one of the things that
she said prior to going up in the Capsule and
the Thick, she said, and this is her quote, Space

(40:00):
is going to finally be glam glam glamorous. Okay, let
me tell you something. If I could take glam up
with me, I would do that. We are going to
put the ass in astronaut. Those were her words. Okay.
The young woman who was dating Jeff Bezo's actually designed

(40:23):
the spacesuits so called, and she was talking about how
the spacesuits are elegant, but they little, they bring a
little spice to space because they were very form fitting.
Now I have absolutely nothing against having a form fitting
spacesuits simply because it provides less traction, doesn't hang up

(40:46):
on anything or whatever. But it's obviously not going to
serve you well if you're going on a long voyage
or whatever. But neither here nor there. But the one
thing that really upset me was back again to Katy Perry,
and she said that she was making space for future

(41:06):
women and taking up space and belonging. And I was like,
how does pay twenty eight million dollars a person? Yes,
that's how much it cost to go up there. And
let's not forget Owen's son did the same thing, Richard Garriott.
But I'll get back to that in a second. How

(41:29):
does that create a future for women? Instead of actually
incentivizing girls to look into STEM, emphasizing how STEM can
open this career for them, Katie's talking about glam and
putting the ass an astronaut instead of actually going and saying,

(41:52):
look to how many women have already opened this path
for you. They pretended to be the ones opening the path,
And that for me was beyond egregious, you know, just.

Speaker 3 (42:08):
Listening to Katy Perry in general, she basically came out
twirling her hair and she's like, this was like such
a great experience, and I'm totally like now a space
doctor because yeah, I did it, and stuff like oh
my God, would use.

Speaker 2 (42:27):
You've basically and this is what happened. Was twenty eight
million dollars per person. There's six women going up, so
you can imagine, you know, you can do the math.
And they went up there for eleven minutes. And now
they're claiming they're creating a future for women. That future
has already been established. Now, admittedly she took the US

(42:48):
a long time. Russia beat us to that. There were
other women in the Russian space program. We didn't actually
put a woman up in space until Sally Ride, And
I admit that is a lack on our part and
I have my issues with that. Believe me. I reviewed
a book about it, and it's I'm still salty, yes,

(43:11):
but that path has already been carved out. And it
pisses me off that these women are saying, look what
we did for you. Sure, if you got twenty eight
million dollars to spend going up there for eleven minutes,
you go, girl, you do it. You have earned that
money and you can spend it any way you want.

(43:33):
I am very proud of you, but don't tell me
that you forged a path for women that's already been there,
and that's been there, and you took advantage of it
because you had the money to do so.

Speaker 3 (43:44):
Oh my god, did you see my hair? It was
like heroic and stuff on me because it was like floating.
I'd spent like all day doing it and it was
just like up and it was like, oh my god,
what do I do?

Speaker 4 (43:55):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (43:55):
Whatever? I didn't even take a hairtie, so I'm like
a heroine.

Speaker 2 (44:01):
Is This is what really pisses me off. They're talking about,
you know, we need to be better for humanity and
all that stuff, and I'm like, if you have twenty
eight million dollars to spend on this, you could have
spent it on something that's better for humanity, not going
up into space for eleven minutes. Now, this was a
photo op for you.

Speaker 5 (44:20):
Tag me and take me and tag me in.

Speaker 2 (44:23):
You're in, Jeff, you go, Bolly.

Speaker 5 (44:25):
I'm going to continue your rant. These wore bags that
went up into an uber ride for eleven minutes. Let's
just say I'm guaranteeing you Between all of them, it's
not their first freaking rocket ride. If you know what
I meant, the audacity audacity of these hoe bags making

(44:47):
some of the comments they have when I guarantee you
none of them could have done. And I'm just gonna
use recency bias here what Sudie Williams just got done
by being rescued by SpaceX over half a year, nine
months in space, Sunny and Butcher spent in there. Do

(45:07):
you think any of these fake eyelash extension bitches could
have lasted a day in space, let alone nine months,
like Sunni who was only supposed to be there for
eight freaking days and ended up for nine months. Oh
my god, do you imagine what these hoes would have
looked like after that amount of time?

Speaker 2 (45:26):
No, I know they wouldn't have the Only reason there
was an astronaut and that capsule was in case something
went wrong. But she didn't fly the capsule. And this
is something that is completely missing from all of the coverage.
There were men that were flying that capsule.

Speaker 5 (45:45):
Men were at the controls.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
Those are the hero and I know and Jef, Like
I said, I brought up Richard Garriott, who is the
son of Owen Garriot, very famous astronaut Richard Garritt is
known for being a video game creator and he has
amassed a huge fortune, and he wanted to go up

(46:10):
in space as well. He paid his ticket and he
made absolutely no bones about it. Yes, I will pay
millions of dollars to go up in space and see
what my dad did. And he went up to the
you know, up there to the ISS and everything and
all that stuff. But he went through training for this stuff.
It wasn't like he got a really nice nazzy suit

(46:33):
and he was taught how to buckle up, you know.
He went through the training necessary to go up there,
and he made no bones about the fact that he
wanted to do this. He could afford to do this,
and he wanted to do it because that was something
that he had admired of his dad. His dad took
those risks. He went up in space. He did stuff

(46:55):
that some of us can never even imagine doing. And
he wanted to have that commonality with his father and
he could afford to do so. But he absolutely said
nothing about we need to be better for humans, we
need to you know this, I'm putting the acid astronaut. No,
there was none of that. This was not a photo
wop for him. This was for him and his dad

(47:19):
to have something together.

Speaker 3 (47:22):
But he didn't go up into space in a push
up brawl that you don't need when you're in space
because there's like no gravity. And so I wore that
and didn't have to.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
Yeah, let's not forget that Kate Kate Upton was in
zero G and she looked fabulous in her little gold bikini.

Speaker 3 (47:39):
So true.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
But I mean it's a and I think Jeff will
agree with me here that this is a huge the
service two kids, because now they think that astronauts really
look like this, and astronauts really just go up for
eleven minutes and that's it. They don't. There wasn't. There
was a huge opportunity here and it was completely squashed

(48:09):
in favor of vanity.

Speaker 3 (48:13):
Yeah, but you just think, now, when you're in a
bar and you know there's astronauts there and picking up
all the chicks, you can just walk up and say,
Katy Perry did it, and then you're in fun.

Speaker 2 (48:23):
Fact, I was picked up by an astronaut at a bar.

Speaker 3 (48:29):
Where are you now?

Speaker 2 (48:30):
Yes? I was?

Speaker 3 (48:31):
And did you see stars? No?

Speaker 2 (48:35):
I did not, but I was very I was very
kind and I turned it down gently, and I bought
him the beer for being so kind.

Speaker 3 (48:44):
How do you turn down an American hero.

Speaker 2 (48:47):
I had no idea at the time that he was
an astronaut. I learned about it afterwards when we started talking,
and you know, we had a we had a nice time.
But I was, I was, it's not interested. But he
was a nice guy. I will say that, but yeah,
he was. He was an astronaut.

Speaker 3 (49:05):
Over it over and how does he how does he
not lead with that?

Speaker 2 (49:10):
Uh? You know what, It's really weird, But the really
good ones never lead with that. That has been of
all the astronauts that I've met, I've met them like
in bookstores. I've met them at the grocery store because
I used to live in that area, clear Lake area,

(49:31):
and the and the weird thing was, you know, it
was like being an astronaut was not their identity. It
was it was something they did. They went to work,
you know, that kind of thing. But golfing, some of
those men, oh my god, the moment you brought up
that four letter world, Uh it was over. They were
glassy eyed that started talking stats and people and masters

(49:54):
and this and that, and I was like, okay, I'm done.
One of my girlfriends mother owned a bookstore, and so
a lot of the astronauts whenever they had a book signing,
they would they would be there because that was the
nearest bookstore to the Johnson's Space Center, and so, uh

(50:15):
you know, every sofphonre you know, my girlfriend Susan would
call me and say, hey, you know, was going to
be here signing, you know, and and so we would
go and we'd be like groopies and everything. And honestly,
I mean if he were not he or she because
sometimes you know, Sally Wright was there too, she came
for book signing. If if you know, if they had

(50:38):
not been sitting at the table, I wouldn't have picked
them out of a lineup. I wouldn't have known who
they were.

Speaker 3 (50:44):
I just I could see regular. You know why they
call it the Johnson Space Center, don't you?

Speaker 2 (50:54):
Speaking of Johnson.

Speaker 3 (50:56):
Pulls out a condom from his pocket. It's like like
I can deploy my heat shields, if you know what
I mean.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
Speaking of Dawson. There is a certain certain interesting, uh
new race that has.

Speaker 3 (51:19):
Been well, I probably want to call it a competition,
maybe with a very ardent application of pronunciation on that
word competition. Wow, there's not a slip up there. Some
venture capitalists in California have managed to raise quite a

(51:45):
few million dollars for a new, as I said, a
new competition that's set to go up. Wow. The entendres
are just in a sky at this point, as you're
gonna find out very easily.

Speaker 2 (52:02):
They're just bursting forth like you would not believe.

Speaker 3 (52:05):
Go on, see what you did there.

Speaker 2 (52:10):
You're going to hell.

Speaker 3 (52:14):
Ye, put a sock in it for a moment.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
If you know what I mean, I will be in
confession tomorrow morning.

Speaker 3 (52:20):
Come on, all right, So this the new startup announced
the launch of a world's first race of this particular type.
I'm really trying to say this without any kind of
other inn windows or single and condres here. Almost impossible.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
But you can do it. This is your this is
your expertise, not mine, not mine.

Speaker 6 (52:53):
I don't know any So these uh entrepreneurs recently raised
a million dollars to support their efforts.

Speaker 3 (53:10):
The four men behind the idea have scheduled coming up
based on their manifesto. I'm just gonna have to read
from it. Okay, this is actually on their website. This
is apparently a thing. It's been reported. When people hear

(53:33):
about it, they ask me the same thing every time, Wait,
is this actually happening, And the answer is always hell,
yes it is. We're talking about sperm racing. These guys
have somehow come up with, well, damn it, have devised

(54:04):
a method of it's purely accidental. Really, I swear. It's
like I get halfway through a sentence and I gotta
pull out. I mean god, this is all of course
done on a microscopic level, but they have actually supposedly
crafted a racetrack for sperm, and so it's set up

(54:30):
in a way that will It's got certain pathways that
mimic a female's interior, and they also use some chemical
signaling to draw them in a particular area, and there's
a defined finish line supposedly.

Speaker 2 (54:48):
I just have to reiterate, it's not the speed of
the ejaculation, it's the speed of the sperm that's that's
in a contest.

Speaker 3 (55:00):
It's if they'll basically they'll take two samples from I
guess the what would you call them, the pit boss,
I don't know. The they would then deposit the samples
onto their I guess petri dish racetrack and watch the

(55:21):
single cell organisms devise motility and go for the finish line.

Speaker 2 (55:32):
It's it's basically the fastest sperm wins. And I understand
that that the incentivized. They're incentivized to do this because
male fertility rates have been falling for the past few years,
and so they sure that's what they're incentivized. Men to

(55:52):
actually be healthier, work out or you know, eat better
and all that stuff so that fertility rates go up.
And this is the incentive having a sperm race.

Speaker 3 (56:06):
I'm so happy to hear you say sperm race.

Speaker 2 (56:09):
I cannot believe I'm telling you confession. Tomorrow Tomorrow morning,
ten am, I'll be gone.

Speaker 3 (56:16):
As they go on to explain sperm motility, how fast
your spur moves turns out to be a massive factor
in fertility. It's measurable, trackable, and just like running a
race or lifting a weight, it's something you can actually improve,
but no one's turned it into something people care about.
So we did. We're turning health into a sport. So

(56:41):
we've devised a microscopic racetrack that mimics the reproductive system,
the chemical signals, fluid dynamics, and synchronized starts, high resolution
cameras track every microscopic move, and it's all livestream, complete
with stats, leaderboards, an instant replays. Okay, perfect, you're even

(57:27):
going to be able to bet on this?

Speaker 2 (57:29):
Yes? Yes, and this, And that's what it boils done
to making money.

Speaker 3 (57:34):
And this is what I call bull crap, because how
the hell are you going to judge this? How are
you going to know that what they're putting on screen
is not something that was pre animated.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
Yeah, I don't know how this is gonna work. I
don't think this is gonna work. But it's their money.

Speaker 3 (57:55):
I mean other people are.

Speaker 2 (57:57):
And they have a right to bet on whatever stupid
thing they want to bat on. A fool and his
money are soon parted.

Speaker 3 (58:11):
I'm that sign, let you hear, is me being a gentleman.

Speaker 2 (58:15):
Thank you. Well, I mean, you know, the news this
week have been very Johnson oriented. I mean, first Blue
Origin goes up in space. I mean, that's the biggest

(58:37):
dong I've ever seen.

Speaker 3 (58:41):
I mean, Dieselos fallows went up and pierced the atmosphere.

Speaker 2 (58:46):
You have sperm races, and there has been a scientific
like his design that came out because of this.

Speaker 3 (58:58):
He always liked to bring scientific information abroaden horizons and
for the edification of our audience. You know that we
always try to, you know, just improve everybody on on
a mental cerebral level. So scientists have been working on

(59:19):
a very new design. This is going to be a
micturitionan engineering endeavor that's been taking place. They're trying to
create a better urinal and thank God for that. What
has taken you guys? So damn long.

Speaker 2 (59:41):
I I've never used one, so I really don't know.

Speaker 3 (59:46):
Come on, you're in your fifties now, how are you?
Oh wait, that's right, I'm sorry, never.

Speaker 2 (59:51):
Mind, I don't I don't have the proper equipment for this.

Speaker 3 (59:58):
You don't have the plumb to use our plumbing, I
got it. So I just I love the fact that
they bring data for this. This is what I actually do.
So the basic ural design has remained similar, if not
nearly identical, for decades, and as any ural user knows,
there are still drawbacks, or rather splashbacks.

Speaker 2 (01:00:24):
I I just I just want to say that this
is this is coming from researchers and students from Canada's
University of Waterloo, and I cannot I cannot love this
more than than anything. I swear I cannot love this anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:00:41):
The problem is now, of course they're going to come
up with this great design and then they're going to
apply tariffs to it. We won't be able to get
it here in the United States.

Speaker 2 (01:00:49):
Well, if the design is out right now I'm looking
at it, I'm pretty sure somebody over here can just
mimic it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:58):
So pretty much what they did is come up with
I think five different designs and using fluid dynamics and
measurable apertures, studying the flow of fluid at the proper
pressure dur at angles. They were then able to measure
a splash pattern on the floor and you know, measure

(01:01:20):
out which ones would produce the most. And then came
up with some newer designs to see if they could
diminish the rebound of their leavings, as it were, and
they came up with a couple of designs that have
actually dropped the fluid bounce by single percentage point. It's

(01:01:43):
like there's only five percent as much as there used to.

Speaker 2 (01:01:46):
Be, Okay, I you know, looking at them, I kind
of I favor the Nautilus over the Cornicopia. Cornicopia looks
like it might have some issues for some people, especially
shorter men.

Speaker 3 (01:02:06):
Intention because the Cortucopia's basically has a flange that comes
up in the front. As opposed to a like a
rounded portal, this one actually looks like a like a
fairing almost, So I can see where that would cut
back on the splashing. But if you're not paying attention,
like you're on your phone or something like that, not

(01:02:27):
that people do that in the panthroom with bars or anything.
If you're a little bit, so might your stream and
then you're gonna get even more of a splash. So
I think the Nautilus would be much better as far as.

Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
I Yeah, I got nothing, but I did.

Speaker 3 (01:02:57):
I like the way that they have a grid actually
to uh track the droplets on the floor beneath the
urals to see which ones would produce fewer of these
unintentional And of course that you know this is gonna
save the environment and save fresh water, less clean up,
less labor, all of that noise. Are you gonna keep

(01:03:20):
it off my shoes? That's my main concern.

Speaker 2 (01:03:23):
Well, like John Wayne said, never wear swede shoes, Never
ever wear sweet shoes, because when you're in the ural
and you're famous, somebody's gonna look at you and say
aren't you and turn you'll get splashed. So never wear shoes, thought.

Speaker 3 (01:03:43):
Something with like cow patties in the field or something.

Speaker 2 (01:03:46):
No, No, that's that's actually a bit of advice that
he gave someone. I think it was Gene Ackman. Never
wear shoes.

Speaker 3 (01:03:59):
God, So there you go. They've they've built a better urinal.

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
Hey, you know, there's always room for improvement. I personally don't.
It's not something I would use obviously, But looking at
the two designs, I kind of see where the Nautilus
would actually be a better design than the Cornucopia, because
the Nautilists would actually benefit men of all statures. The

(01:04:29):
corner copy would not.

Speaker 3 (01:04:31):
So well, they did say that that one is going
to be beneficial for those like in you know, wheelchairs
and stuff like that too, So yes, probably where although
I thought they just used stalls. To be honest, not judging,
I'm just saying, I don't you know in my career,
if we're gonna call it that, it's really more of

(01:04:53):
an avocation. But nonetheless, don't don't recall anybody in a
wheeled convenience you seeing a urinal.

Speaker 2 (01:05:02):
No, no, I I don't recall, and they usually go
to the stall handicap one.

Speaker 3 (01:05:09):
So usually have their own in fact, so anyway, it's
got bars, usually cleaner, so they tell me because I
don't use them. I mean, don't get me wrong, I
don't think.

Speaker 2 (01:05:22):
I'm I don't even want to talk about this anyway. Uh,
there's no really good segue out of that. We're just
gonna leave with a fun story coming out of Florida
because there's this from.

Speaker 3 (01:05:43):
Your clean from Urinal.

Speaker 2 (01:05:48):
Else I couldn't I couldn't find a way.

Speaker 3 (01:05:54):
Well, next time you're in Florida and I've got a
nice tourist spot for you to.

Speaker 2 (01:05:58):
Hit, I gotta go see this place because I actually
one of the things I want to do is I
want to go to Japan just to go to one
of these places. But I have a bone to pick.

Speaker 3 (01:06:11):
But go on, Well, this is in Saint Augustine, America's
oldest city, so of course it's in Florida. Just gotta go.
But animal lovers now have a place to hang out
with the it animal of the movement, who determines.

Speaker 2 (01:06:32):
That, by the way, what is merchandising.

Speaker 3 (01:06:35):
Animal of to day or something.

Speaker 2 (01:06:37):
It's all merchandising, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:06:40):
So yeah, but I mean, do they have pr reps
or something.

Speaker 2 (01:06:44):
I don't really know.

Speaker 3 (01:06:45):
I tell you what, it's twenty twenty five. I'm gonna
put my room and under map this year, damn it,
That's what I'm gonna do. I really think that this
is just a lack of a lack of news. I
just think we're orders do this just to set and
everybody in Hollywood's got one in their home.

Speaker 2 (01:07:06):
Now I actually have a stuffed line.

Speaker 3 (01:07:12):
Well I'm sure, yeah, there are people out there that do.
But telling me that this is the hot new animal
of the moment of your shut up in the back
of a real estate office building and what is known
as America's oldest city, copy bearas are crawling into visitors lap,
munching on corn on the cob, and hunting for scratches

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from humans at the Cappy Beara Cafe.

Speaker 2 (01:07:41):
Yes, but no, explain well it is. It's called the
Cappy Barrack Cafe, and it was it was started as
to help out the nonprofit for the animal Rescue right,
something to that effect. But they don't serve coffee there.

(01:08:03):
You literally pay a certain amount of money. I think
it's like, what is it like one hundred dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:08:12):
Fifty bucks to scratch the road and some one hundred
bucks for an hour. But that gets you other animals
they have that are like armadillos.

Speaker 2 (01:08:18):
And such, Right, Okay, I have an issue with that too,
and I'll get to that in a minute. The Kapi
bearra thing fabulous, but you cannot call it a cafe
if you're not serving coffee. Okay, that's a that's a
personal bone because this actually is this was inspired by

(01:08:41):
an actual Kapi bearra cafe. That's I believe Tokyo has one.
I want to say hi Akido has one. Two maybe
I think there's like three in Japan. And they're actually
coffee houses. I mean you walk in, you order coffee,
you sit at a table, and capy bars come up
to you. You don't pay extra for the cappy bearra

(01:09:06):
in this case, you do so you can pet them
for a certain period of time. But they did show
that one lady was like petting an armadillo, and I'm like,
you need to be very careful with armadillos. I'm sure
this armadillo has passed the the leprosy test and probably

(01:09:27):
does not carry leprosy or anything like that. But armadillos
have very sharp claws, and hopefully the claws have been
trimmed or or the armadillo has been declawed, and it's
not a favorable thing. But when you go in there
and you have something like that, like an armadillo to
pen everything, don't assume that because you can pet it there,

(01:09:51):
you can pet it anywhere. No, that's wrong. I can's
that's our animal.

Speaker 4 (01:09:58):
We know it.

Speaker 3 (01:09:59):
Well, I've grabbed these in the wild before. Look at
me not even knowing this.

Speaker 2 (01:10:05):
Yeah, yeah, I know armadillas can carry leprosy. They do
have very sharp claws, and they they can't be a
little ornery, you know. And the one that I saw
her petting and everything was very very small. It was
it was still a baby. Was because the armadillos that
I have here, they're bigger than possums, and they're bigger

(01:10:29):
than raccoons there. I mean they're they're substantially so.

Speaker 3 (01:10:32):
Yeah, the ones I've picked up are and they're actually
leathery more than a shell. Yes, they're very ye the
back and then a lot of times when you do that,
they'll curl up so you can cradle the shell in
your hand. Yes, the armor, I should say, but they're
very cute.

Speaker 2 (01:10:47):
They're very cute. You had and you're actually handling it correctly,
so you know, kudos to you. But yeah, getting back
to the kapi bear thing, I would absolutely go bad
shit in saying at that place, I would shell out
all of the money that I had with me just
for the opportunity. And no, they're not they're not fluffy.

(01:11:12):
Don't mistake this for a gerbil. They're related to gerbils,
but don't mistake it for their Their coat is not fluffy.
It's a very Yeah, it's kind of rough. But these things,
these are the most chill animals on the planet. So
I call myself the capy Berea of hostesses for a reason,

(01:11:34):
and the most chill hostess you will ever ever do.

Speaker 3 (01:11:38):
So none of these are knocking around your acreage.

Speaker 2 (01:11:42):
No, but I we can own them. It is legal
to own capy bears here in Texas, so and we
do have a large lake. They would be very happy,
But no, there's too many predators that are around here.
We have coyeries, we have wild feral pigs, so, and

(01:12:05):
there have been wolf sightings around here too, So yeah,
fun times.

Speaker 3 (01:12:12):
You do you guys ever bag any of the wild boar?
Oh yeah, really.

Speaker 2 (01:12:19):
Yeah, it's uh frel Carol. Hogs are open season in
Texas all year long. So so if if if one
is spotted around here and you can, you can tell.

Speaker 3 (01:12:32):
I want to come.

Speaker 2 (01:12:34):
See I told you guys to stop. I actually have
some in the freezer.

Speaker 3 (01:12:42):
Last time, more roast and it is great.

Speaker 2 (01:12:48):
Yeah, yeah it doesn't. It's it's really good. But yeah,
I would totally be at that cafe. But you know,
as long as I could bring my own cock then,
I mean, because they need to change the thing that's
getting on my nurse. They need to change the thing.
CAPI beara haven, capy beara cuddles. I don't care what

(01:13:10):
they call it, just kind of call it cafe. If
you're not gonna serve coffee, it's ridiculous. They give you
a towel, They give you a blanket to go lay
on so that they can come up to you and
you can pet them. And the trick is you scratch
them well enough they'll turn over and present their belly
so for more rubs and everything. But I'm like, but
where's the coffee.

Speaker 3 (01:13:34):
Rodents Smuggling Incorporated may not be a selling pot.

Speaker 2 (01:13:45):
I don't see it downside, honestly. I like rodents. You know,
I used to have mice. I used to have hamsters.
I had a durble, had rats. Of course, now have
a snake. I can't have any rodents.

Speaker 3 (01:14:01):
Say that actually demand at your price. Well, there's a
story around here that I gotta say, I'm shocked. Wasn't
a Florida woman's story, but falls right into the same
Vein forty five year old woman got arrested after leading
police on a high speed chase on I seventy in Idaho.

(01:14:24):
I think Mariah won one of those what are my
states one hundred and thirty miles an hour at one point,
and while.

Speaker 2 (01:14:32):
The speeds wow, Yeah, they were.

Speaker 3 (01:14:35):
Trying to slow her down a few times by using
the roadway spikes, and finally at one point they were
successful managed to get a flat tire on the front,
at which point she slowed down and ended up pulling over.
So the cops surround the car. They've got their guns drawn.
Get out a car, Get out a car. She wouldn't.

(01:14:56):
She's like, no response, nothing at all. That's because she
busy on her phone. She was calling Yeah, she couldn't
come out and surrender to the cops because she called
Triple A about her flat tire.

Speaker 2 (01:15:17):
Because wow, I'm I'm gonna ask is she blonde?

Speaker 3 (01:15:26):
I don't have photos unfortunately on this story, so don't
have confirmation on that. But yeah, she's calling Triple A
like I need you to come out here. My front
tire is flat, well surrounded by like eight troopers and
like Triple A was like, can I get your location?

(01:15:47):
And she gives it to it and they're like hmm, yeah,
can you hold on? And they forwarded a call to
the cops and then the cops get on the phone
with her like ma'am, get your ass out of the car.

Speaker 2 (01:16:00):
Unbelievable. This is like I swear some women just I
there's there's no description, Like I mean, you remember that
woman that just decided to go to somebody's house because
they had a Tesla charger and she just decided to
use the Tesla charger charger car and the guy comes

(01:16:21):
out it's like, mam, you can't do that. That's my charger.
It's like, I'm just charging my car and he's like,
but with my charger. That's my electricity you're using. I
won't be long. And he's like, you don't understand. You're
committing a robbery right now, you're stealing my electricity. Oh,

(01:16:43):
this is a charger for a car. And she's trying
to explain to him how she has a right to
charge her vehicle wherever she wants to. He ended up
calling the cops and she still didn't get it. And
this woman is calling trip away.

Speaker 3 (01:17:04):
Yeah, I have a problem. And when you see a
whole bunch of cops, just keep going because I'm in
the middle.

Speaker 2 (01:17:13):
I mean, did she ever explain why she was going so.

Speaker 3 (01:17:20):
Fast or story that went into grand detail? It was
just wow, that kind of brilliance is what we're looking at. Well,
here's some brilliant speaking of blonde idiots and tariffs. Did
you catch Chris Matthews with his take on this whole controversy?

Speaker 2 (01:17:43):
What about growing our wood?

Speaker 3 (01:17:47):
Yeah, he's His big concern was that we source a
lot of two by fours from Canada for the building industry.

Speaker 2 (01:17:57):
Mm hmmm, because we're halfway where.

Speaker 3 (01:18:00):
The heck, Where the heck are we going to get
our lumber? Now? If that happens, if they cut us
off of our two by fours. How are we going
to get lumber for building materials?

Speaker 2 (01:18:09):
I don't know. We can fucking get it from the Amazon.
They're cutting down everything over there to make a highway
for the twenty people in the Climate Change to go,
you know, meet up because they they can't get from
the airport on a car. I don't know what the
hell's going on down there. But what does he not
go outside?

Speaker 1 (01:18:28):
Does Chris Matthews not look on his lawn to look
at the pretty big bush that's growing and providing shade
for him to win joy?

Speaker 3 (01:18:40):
Well, it's like they put it out at town hall
after he said this, just a picture of him with
the quote next one where we're going to get our
lumber from this stuff doesn't grow on trees. I mean classic.
This calls back one of the first instances I had
that are environmental movement in this country was full of crap.

(01:19:04):
You know, they kept talking about for years and this
goes back probably to the eighties and nineties at least,
but there was always talk about how you know, they're
clearcutting forests, you know that term, right, and they're making
it seem like the Pacific Northwest is just this barren,
arid desert now because of the evil lumber companies just

(01:19:27):
going out there and rapaciously dropping down anything that moves.
And then somebody actually had the nerve to go out
and do a tree survey like measure how many trees
we have in the country. Came to find out we
have more forest land now than we did at the

(01:19:47):
time of the signing of the Declaration of independence. What
are you saying, No, it's unpossible. Well get this, believe
it or not. Those crude earth hating lumber companies, you
won't believe what they do. They plant trees, Yep, they do.

(01:20:12):
So they actually had a mindset of saying, you know what,
we're gonna need more wood in the future. We should
make more and then they did. It's so they came
out with this survey and they were like, yeah, guys,
it's cool. We've got more trees now than ever. So

(01:20:33):
the environment is They didn't shut up and say, well,
that's good news, because the last thing you want if
you're an environmentalist is to hear good environmental news. So
they looked at this and said, how the hell can
we complain about it? Because you know, I'm told we
need more trees to suck up the poisonous CO two,

(01:20:58):
which is a natural element of the earth.

Speaker 2 (01:21:00):
Yes, of course.

Speaker 3 (01:21:02):
I'm still at a loss of the how something that
exists on the planet.

Speaker 2 (01:21:08):
I'm not sure how it is that cows are destroying
the planet, but we can't eat the cows to prevent
them from destroying the planet. I'm still trying to square
that circle. But whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:21:18):
Anyway, so they came up when they heard about this,
it's like, oh, we got more forest land than ever.
Then they came up with the term that this is
a monospecies forest and therefore bad.

Speaker 2 (01:21:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:21:38):
No, there's not natural organic biodiversity because they plant too
many trees, is their explanation.

Speaker 2 (01:21:46):
The trees are planet for harvest. I don't understand. How
is this escaping people.

Speaker 3 (01:21:53):
When more trees to save us. It's like, well, guess what,
we've got more trees. Oh, those are bad trees.

Speaker 2 (01:22:01):
Yeah, I don't When the forest areas outside of Bastrop,
Texas burnt down several years ago, they had a massive wildfire.
Texas A and M University, in conjunction with other universities,
but specifically Texas A and M was the Forestry department was

(01:22:24):
the lead in replanting all the trees. And there's there's
a scientific way. You can't just plant them, you know,
in rows or whatever. And you can't plant this tree
next to this tree. It has to be next to
this other type of tree and everything. So there's a
lot of science that goes into replanting a forest. And
you cannot tell that a fire actually took this place

(01:22:49):
out completely. It is completely. It looks just like the
way it was. It's amazing to me. And this is
what a lot of these people don't really understand. There
is a you know, there's a way to actually replant
a forest that has been overtaken by wildfire. But these

(01:23:12):
particular trees are specifically planted to be harvested. They have
to be mono. It has to be you know, I
just how are these people able to breathe?

Speaker 3 (01:23:26):
I don't get they're badies.

Speaker 2 (01:23:29):
You planted Oh my god, anyway you should?

Speaker 3 (01:23:33):
I guess have planted trees nobody can use and then
they'd be happy because.

Speaker 2 (01:23:38):
I don't know. I don't get it either, but guess
what is crap?

Speaker 3 (01:23:42):
When I was a scuba diving too, because they used
to tell, oh, don't let your fins brush the coral
because it's very fragile and that's an organism and your
your fins will actually kill it. And meanwhile, I'm watching
parrotfish just devouring the coral.

Speaker 2 (01:23:56):
Yeah, it's okay for them to do. It's just not.

Speaker 3 (01:23:59):
Okay for you to If I brush up against the coral.
It's like a toothpick to what I'm watching this guy do.
And he says there, he just chomps away all afternoon
and then craps out rock. But I'm killing the reef. God.

Speaker 2 (01:24:13):
Well, on that note, I guess we should wind up
because we do have a show after this man O
rama is coming up. So Brad, why don't you take
a deep breath and tell us where we can find you.

Speaker 3 (01:24:25):
I am daily scene over at town hall dot com.
I've got a media column there called Rift from the Headlines,
tearing into the media complex with all their issues, problems
and disasters. And you can also hear me on Red
State on the front page. I put up articles and
columns as well as my twice weekly podcast called Liable Sources,

(01:24:46):
where I go even deeper into the muck admire of
the mainstream media. Where's I call the outmoded media and
you can hear more of me on this network. On
Thursday night, I'm going to be here with Ordy Packard.
He and I I will go through all of the
vital and important entertainment information on the Culture Shift. Alternate Thursdays,

(01:25:06):
It's me and Paul Young from Screen Ramp. We go
over bad movies and bad side of Hollywood, on disasters
in the Making, and of course every Tuesday evening here
at eight and a half with the ever effervestent Aggie
Reacon on this show the Cocktail Lounge. And if you
need more of me than that, let's face it, you
do head over to Jitter. I'm at Martini Shark. And

(01:25:27):
what about you, Waggy. How can people find more of
your magnificence?

Speaker 2 (01:25:32):
Well, you can find me at Aggieveecon and at Agi
the barkeep. Those are over on x You can find
me a thirty pm Eastern Tuesday nights doing the cocktail
Lounge with the everswap view a thirty pm Eastern Friday
nights doing he Said, She said, with the awesome Rati Rick.
The second Wednesday of every month, the APM Eastern, the
guys get together for toxic masculinity, and I bring them

(01:25:53):
drink at the evening, and Jeff and I now do
spirited Books once a month, the first Monday of every
month at a thirty pm Eastern where we read books
outside of our comfort zone and match them with a
libration to go with it. Thanks so much for joining us,
you guys. We had a lot of fun. And I

(01:26:13):
don't even know how to end this.

Speaker 3 (01:26:18):
Well, I'll I'll wrap my hand around this and take
it from them. Spit out the last few moments here.
I'm just looking forward to next week's show, where my
co host will be back on the wagon. And yeah,
we can get back to normal cocktail environment here on

(01:26:39):
the program. So we'll be back next week. And in
the meantime, raise a glass stand look at the ceiling.

Speaker 7 (01:26:46):
I y'all, when I down away again in the night,
I got the feeling it's something wrong.

Speaker 4 (01:27:08):
I can stand at. He's a fallen my joy then
a world and all get down the stairs. As to
the length of it, the jokers to the right here,
I stucking the man over with you. It's so