Cocktail Lounge w/ Aggie and Brad: Make Ceasefires Bougie Again!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:30):
The following program contains course language and adult themes. Listener
discretion is advised and welcome to another episode of The

(01:07):
Cocktail Lounge. I am your hostess with the most is
Aggie and with me sometimes as usual, sometimes not we
ever swamp appable and kaffable co host Brad Slagger. How
are you doing?

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Wait? Wait, wait, wait a second, are you blaming me? No?

Speaker 1 (01:26):
No, no, I'm saying I've been gone, that I was
the one.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
That was well, welcome back. The bar has not been
the same without you tippling with us here, I do.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
I had a lot of cleaning up to do when
I got back to the bar. Let me tell you
there was a lot of stuff, questionable things on the floor.
I mean there were spence swizzlesticks, some toothpicks, a lot
of peanut shells. I don't know what to do with you.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Well, I mean, I can't take all the credit for that.
Most of it's sure, but not all of it.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yes, I'm sure that it was. It was quite a
little bit more quiet while.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
I was gone, Well just a bit. It's uh, you know,
it's always a change, and it's just not the same
without your bubbly nature here. So how have you been doing.
How have you been holding up? That's the main question.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
I'm doing doing better. I've been trying to, you know,
get back to my semi normal stage. For those of
you unaware, my father passed away on June ninth, and
so I took time off to be down there while

(02:49):
he was in the hospital, and then took more time
off to be with my mother and do the funeral
arrangements and all sorts of other things that needed to
be done. And it was so heartwarming to get so
many messages from so many friends that I've made here
on ex Twitter, whatever you want to call it other

(03:10):
social media sites. You guys really really made me feel
so loved and so.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Touched.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
So thank you for that. I really do appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Well, I mean that's because you're very loved and you're
touched weight.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
I am a little touched in the head. Yeah, I
come buy that naturally.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Well, you were missed and I'm very very happy to
have you back at the console. Uh this is the
way it should be.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yes, I am happy to be back.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
It's not the same without you, and neither am I.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
AH. A quick shout out to Jeff too, because he's
and very kind. And you know, I had to skip
on on our Spirited Book podcast, and I see that
he has done a lovely little tribute. He put a
little candle on one of the tables in the cocktail

(04:14):
lounge for my dad. So thank you.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
That was very sweet, Yes it was. But we're we're
very happy. And Jeff filled in one week while you
were absent, so that was cool too. Me, him and
Rick were here billying up for a good good time. However,
I did I missed last week's show too. We had

(04:38):
to run a repeat. I was otherwise occupied last week.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
I heard that there was something going on. I can't.
I'm racking my brains. I don't. I don't know, something
about some celebration of some sort. I don't know what's
going on.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
Just a small matter of the Florida Panthers correcting everything
and making sure that America retained Canada's Stanley cu up
here in the United States for a second consecutive year.
It was. It was a glorious series. It was close
at the start, and then they just basically stepped on
the neck of the Edmonton Oilers and took their second

(05:13):
consecutive championship in pretty dominating fashion. Really, it's this year
was rather impressive even, you know, I think the coach
put it best. He said, like last year was a
dream season. This year was an ordeal. It was you know,
they basically worked extra hard this year and just the

(05:34):
way they played was amazing. I think they won ten
of their games on the road, just I mean, weren't
bothered whatsoever when I think they went ten and three
in road games in the playoffs, just staggering. Sam Bennett
got Most Valuable Player fifteen goals, he scored thirteen of
them away from.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
Home, and it just that's amazing.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
And they yeah, they just they played strong. I think
they had a streak of four consecutive road games with
five or more goals for just felt as comfortable as
can be when they traveled. It was just amazing to watch.
So Yes, for the better part of this week, I've
just been in a stupid, kind of a insufferable frame

(06:20):
of mind. That have just been all kinds of happy
and giddy and celebrating and then laughing my ass off
because Canada is just supremely pissed off at the Florida Panthers.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
It has been pretty funny to watch the Canadians. People
absolutely rab it over this.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
They're not celebrating right, this is classless. They're just they're
they're picking on the players and insulting the Edmonton team.
We're celebrating incorrectly, is what the message is from.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Man, here's you know, like we discussed, here's my issue.
I am. I'm still looking through the hockey playbook. I'm
looking through the Mismanner section on hockey, and I don't
see where this is a gentleman's game. I don't see
anything about that.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
No, no, it's generally not regarded as a genteel sport.
And you know that it was kind of funny. There
was like a real good hockey podcast that I listened
to spitting Shicklets and these are a bunch of former players.
But these guys know the game top to bottom and
they're just very upfront about everything. They're not you know,

(07:32):
it isn't like no trickle look at the scores. Was
because like did you see these fuckers, Oh my god,
you know that kind of stuff. They basically discussed the
game like they were in the locker room. It's really cool,
and they were even talking. They were like down on
the ice. He's like the chirping that went on during
the games was like at a level they haven't even
heard before. And for Edmonton to be crying. I've seen

(07:58):
the games. I watched them myself, and the Oilers were
playing some pretty dirty hockey themselves. I mean there was
one play on our forward. One of their players come
up from behind chopped them at the back of the leg,
so he collapsed on the ice right. Refs didn't see this.
Then his teammate is skating by and backhands our player
in the face while he's down on the ice, and

(08:21):
they're bitching about the way the Florida Panthers played. And
the funny thing is, you didn't hear the Panthers complaining.
They weren't saying. The Panthers basically rub their hands together
and they're like, oh, okay, I see how it is.
And it's really the dumbest thing you could do with
this team, because Florida does play a very tough, very

(08:41):
physical style. Now it's not dirty necessarily, it's very in
your face. I lost count how many not just body checks,
but how many times I saw them hit guys and
get the puck as a result. And the fore check
is smothering at times, and they're brutal in the neutral zone.
Nobody can get down ice like they should. The top

(09:03):
scorer in the league, the MVP, Connor McDavid, can't even score.
He had one goal in the entire Stanley Cup Finals
and it was in garbage time. Completely locked him down
and it was just an embarrassment for the most part
because of that.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
And I'm sorry, I'm just okay, I'm taking a lot
of glee in this. I'll probably have to go to
confession for the amount of glee that I'm taking in this.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
But the thing is Florida plays this tough style and
scores a crap ton of goals in the process. Edmonton
is a running gun team. They're just flying up and
down the ice at times and scoring, but they don't
have a physical side. So like in game three, they
were like, well that's it, we're secretary of these guys,
and they tried to play a physical game. We killed them.

(09:58):
Florida was like, oh, you want to find I mean,
there's like, I think one hundred and eighty minutes and
penalties doled out, and it was like by the end
of the game, there was eight players on the bench
of both teams. You know. It was that kind of
game and Florida just destroyed them. It was embarrassing for Edmonton.
You know, they can do one or the other. If
they play physical, they're not going to score. If they

(10:19):
I see, you know, try to do their run and
gun style, then they're gonna get hit like crazy. Florida
does both. That's the thing. In fact, probably the most
emblematic goal was by Sam Bennett. Puck is in our
end of the ice. He drills a guy on the boards,
puck comes loose, and another Edmonton player gathers it up.
He comes and hits that guy and knocks it loose,

(10:40):
takes the puck, goes down and scores all on the
same shift. It was just amazing to watch. That's that's
the Panthers right there. So and this is such a
unique team. I mean, and I'm part of it is yes,
it's my team, so I'm looking at it this way.
But the unit they got in the locker room is

(11:01):
like I've never.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
Seen Hella Phrasy, my friend.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
I mean, I'm listening to other people talk about this.
That's what I'm saying, is they commentators, the national guys,
they were like this team you know, I've seen them.
There were interviewing guys on the ice after the win,
and the new guys were saying, it's like, it's amazing.
It's like I've been in this locker room and by
the fourth day, I felt like I've been here five years.

(11:29):
You know. It's just that kind of chemistry they've got.
And he even said that before the game, they were like,
you know, how tensery guys. You know, we're your nervous
He's like, he's like, these guys were joking around as
casuals can be. It felt like a game in November,
you know. And that's just the way they are. They
they go out together on days off, you know, they

(11:49):
all eat together, they party together, and they that's why
when they're on the road they play so well, because
they're just a compact unit instead of a bunch of stars.
And one of them even said he is we don't
care who scores, you know, like someone said, oh, you
only have one goal in the series. It's like, are
we winning? Cool? And literally that's their attitude. One player

(12:12):
had his first goal of the entire playoffs. It was
like Game three of the Stanley Cup, but he had
a stupid amount of assist and he's been playing fantastic
and you know, they said, oh, how do you feel
after you finally scored. He's like, as long as we're winning,
I could be zero and I'd be thrilled. And that's
just the way everybody is. And it's so cool to
watch this and yeah afterward, I mean, they're partying like

(12:37):
sons of bitches this past week and has been amazing.
They're out drinking like crazy. They've already damaged the Cup
in two different places. They were on strict orders not
to take it in the ocean. I think it probably
found the salt water. However, Oh yeah, it's just you know,

(12:59):
they they held the parade on the beach. I mean
it's going to happen.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
Yeah, oh well, okay, And you know.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
I've listening to Edmonton and were like, look at this
crappy turnout or hardly anybody there Florida fans up. All
I can do is laugh, you know, And it's just like,
for twenty five years we've been mediocre and everybody dumps
on Florida because we're not a true hockey town. And
now we win two Stanley Cups, we go to three

(13:25):
in a row. And now they resent us because we're
celebrating inappropriately. It's like, you know what, shut up what I.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
Mean, they don't have the They did not write the
guide on proper celebration after a Stanley Cup. They didn't
write that. I mean, and forgive me, but I seem
to recall there was a game not too long ago,
not this year, but I think it was last year
where two well it was two Canadian teams and brothers

(13:54):
played for each team. So one brother played for one team,
the other played for the other.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
Win.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
They got in a fight or something, and the grandma
was up in the stands and she was disapproving.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
Oh yeah that was us.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
That was played one and it was Brady could chuck
and Matthew could chuck.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
Okay, so it's not like Canada does.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
But the two teams emptied out. Noah. So that's the thing.
The people they always tried to claim, like, oh, you know,
we're the real hockey fans. It's like, well, then, why
are you getting pissing and moaning about guys having fun
with the cup? I mean, how about this win the
Cup and then show us the proper way to celebrate. Okay,

(14:38):
I mean.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
There's that. You know. It's like, once you have the
cup back in Canada, maybe in another what thirty years,
maybe then you can tell us bread.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
And these people they flirted, their bunch of classless goofs.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
Fine, I'm sorry, I am not going to take any
kind of advice or criticism from people who eat poutine.
It's not happening.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
Well no, no, no, come on, let's not be crude. I
like poutine.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
No, I eat garbage too, Brad. The point is these
people have no standing.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
I know. I just when I hear the Syrupeans get
upset about the way we're having fun, I just, oh, okay,
got it. We'll take notes next year when we win,
and we'll do it properly. Screw it. You know they're
mad because I think what there When they score goals
in Edmonton, they're their theme song is Pink Pony Club.

(15:43):
They would play that after the game, I'm sorry, after
a goal. And after the Panthers won the Stanley Cup,
it was like an hour later, they're still partying in
the locker room and there's Matthew could chuck cigar in hand,
two beers and he's dancing to Pink Pony Club.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
Like, oh dry, how dare you Thornberg?

Speaker 2 (16:09):
There was like the next day there was Brad Marshan
and he was out and he had a cigar, a cocktail,
a coffee, and a beer under his arm all at
the same time.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
Oh yes, I saw that. It was beautiful.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
And then, you know, and everybody thought he was going
to be a rental player. And somebody was at the
Elbow Room. That's the bar down on the beach that's
been there since forever. That's their hangout now, that's just
their spot, and someone's like, hey, you know, we'd love
to have you back. You want to come. He's like, dude,
I'm not going anywhere, and he held up four fingers
because he's got a contract coming up and he wants

(16:48):
to get signed. Bennett's got to get signed. So we
got a couple guys on unrestricted free agent list, but
we got a core players here. I went down the
list after the game the next day. Our core of
like six or seven studs on this team. They're all
signed until like twenty twenty nine and twenty thirty. So

(17:09):
we're gonna be scary for a little while. Yet, we're
gonna be I'm sorry rude for quite a while.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
No, you're not gonna be rude, You're gonna be Flaoridians.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
It's the same picture, just the way it goes.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
But well, I was very gratified to hear that the
Stanley Cups is staying here in the good old US
of A. But you know, like you said, I have
been trying to figure out why it is that Canadians
are debanding that, or at least criticizing your method of celebration.

(17:53):
I just don't I don't understand why, why, why they're
so incensed about it. These are supposed to be the
the nice neighbors, you know, the names that you know,
apologize for breathing, you know, across It's just I don't understand.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
Yeah, it's it's it's just amusing. And I think a
lot of it is Donald Trump fall out, of course,
because it was I remember instead of the All Star Game,
they had the Four Nations Tournament this year, and that
was a lot of political intrigue hanging over those games,
and I just think it's part of that. It's, you know,

(18:35):
like Americans be so literally I've just been laughing. It's
it's been hilarious to watch that, Oh flirty people are so.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
Yeah, shut up, this is where your snorebirds come to stay.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
I mean, went it back, and then you can go
and party respectfully. I guess go to Starbucks or something
with it. But we'll be down. They've had it already
at South Beach night clubs. And you know, it's not
like they're in a VIP suite or something. They're on
the dance floor with it. They're hanging with the fans.
Every time I see them, they're like surrounded by us

(19:15):
around the beach. They're at the club, they're at the
bar elbowroom, and they're pouring beer on people down. I
mean it is the steam is just connected with the
fans and it's not like, oh, we have the best fans. No,
they're down there shaking her hand and giving it to them.
It's great.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
So the fan base has been very, for lack of
a better term, supportive, and they show it at every turn,
regardless of a loss or a win.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
You know, they talk about the fans socked. Then'll come out.
We're like in the top ten in attendance for three
years running now. And you know somebody I think this said, oh,
we counted four hundred thousand people that's like the third
or fourth smallest celebration crowd for the Stanley Cup. Okay,

(20:03):
you know, I mean they did it on a one A.
This is the literally the strip on the beach, and
there's a great shot there was. I don't know if
it's a Coastguard cutter or just a standard military chopper,
but they flew over the beach during the celebration shooting
down and it was just the coolest picture. Crap. Ton
of people on the anyone a on the sand, crowds

(20:26):
of people out in the water. It was hilarious. And
that's just it. I mean, there wasn't a lot of room.
You couldn't have two million people down there to begin with.
There's just no way to get them there. We got
drawbridges to get to the beach basically. So I don't
care about the crowd size. That's something for you people
in Edmonton who bitch you moan about.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
Yeah. I don't think they're happy with the fact that
they're crowd sizes, you know, just not big enough. I'm
trying to compensate for something.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
They're so used to the games too, and whenever they
play there's this massive people outside their stadium watching as
well on big screens, and every time they scored, you know,
they're in Florida here, and if Edmonton scores, they'd put
them on the jumbo tron and there's you know, two
thousand people screaming and yelling in their gear. Okay, great,
they didn't show them once during the entire final game.
That's how bunch of a blowout it was.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
That's pretty sad. I mean, I used to be an
Edmonton Oilers fan back when the Great One played, and
I remember they had the quality of their fan base
was really solid. It really was win or lose, just
the way that Florida has one, just where my Aggies
have that whole winter lose fan base, right and so,

(21:43):
but you know it has changed, and of course this
was years and years and years ago that I was
part of it. Once when Gretzky left, I was like done.
I was so upset about the whole thing that I
just I didn't watch hockey for like five years. I
was so mad. I was also mad that he married

(22:03):
Janet Jones, but that's another story.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
How could you be mad about that?

Speaker 1 (22:08):
Because I wanted Gretzky.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
I mean, now, with retrospect, it was a cool choice.
She's quite beautiful, very talented, you know, very a very
nice person from what I understand. So and they're still together, right,
So for me, I think that it's a winning it's
a winner. It's just you know, back then, when I
was young, impressionable and stupid, I want to marry Wayne Gretzky.

(22:42):
Then he left me for that bimbo. But neither here
nor there anyway, I was young.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
Okay, well enough of my exuberance here. We have other
things to get to. I mean, this is the cocktail
lounge after all.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
Yeah, yeah, it is. It is. And there's been a
lot of stuff happening in the world, hasn't it While
I've been gone. Apparently the world didn't stop.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
Well, I think we should ease into things by having
something show specific to talk about. There's been a new
Guinness World record that was recently set, and I'm not
talking about you know, last year I covered the story

(23:32):
just because it was so stupid. I'm like, oh, this
is journalism. You know, some guys tried to set the
record for the fastest drinking a Caprice son. You know
that kind of crap. Now, not not talking about anything
trivial like that. This is serious.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
This is probably the longest crawl in history.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
His name is Martin Perez from Argentina, and he decided
that he wanted to set a record in order to
expose the native, bustling Buenos Are's nightlife. Let's say so
one day, between the hours of seven pm and six

(24:17):
point fifty nine pm. The following day, Martin set a
new Guinness World Record title for the most pubs visited
in a twenty four hour period. One hundred and fifty
two bars. This guy went to in one day.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
Let's see your spirit animal.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
And literally spirits animal. That's that's damn impressive. I mean
right there for a number of reasons, but primary being
holy hell, dude, it's uh pretty impressive. He had to
average over six bars an hour in order to do this.

(25:06):
So you want to talk about logistics. A ton of
planning went into this, of course, but he plotted it
out where he would hit these. Now the record is
established in this fashion that Guinness stipulates that you have
to have a minimum amount of fluid consumed on premises
and paid for, so it doesn't have to be alcohol.

(25:31):
That's one writer in all of this. He doesn't they're
not trying to get somebody, you know, alcohol poisoning as
a result. So you can drink I think it's just
over three ounces, three to four ounces, maybe like two
shots worth or like a quarter of a pint, let's
just say. And it could be soda, it could be
you know, other drinks, but you have to consume it

(25:54):
on site. You have to actually pay for the drink.
So he had people find from the Guinness establishment and
they had to do shifts. They had like I think
four different people followed him through doing four hour shifts
and had to have somebody verifying the receipts at each establishment.

(26:18):
So he had a notary on site that could verify
this and you know, plotted it out. He used uber
for a stretch of it. He did have like a
two or three hour break at home where he slept
for a bit before he got back underway. One hundred
and fifty two damn bars. I mean that's a yeah,

(26:40):
this guy needs a cape. I'm just saying.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
I'm just I'm just a gog that there were one
hundred and fifty two bars in Buenos Aires and the
surrounding annexed areus. I mean, it is a big city,
this is true, but that's not all that's there. I

(27:04):
mean he just managed to make one hundred and fifty two.
That that's not to say that there's only one hundred
and fifty two. I'm just a god that there's more.
I'm like, how how bad is it there that people
need to drink all the time?

Speaker 2 (27:19):
Well, they said that basically, he began his route in
neighborhoods of Recoleta, moved through the Palermo Soho, then Palero
Hollywood Collegials, and then the Chacarita area.

Speaker 1 (27:40):
Is that what you mean, Coales?

Speaker 2 (27:43):
Pardon?

Speaker 3 (27:44):
Yes, I was trying to make out way where making
him like what Collaheale's okay, I'm.

Speaker 2 (27:57):
Sorry, Vernacia, So I'm not really sure you've.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
Heard it both ways.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
I get it, yes, but yeah, he he was just
coasting at that point, and uh went home for a
few hours, like I said, picked the journey back up
again midday on Saturday, and then uh went to the
downtown Buenos Ares Aria and then San Telmo, Belgrano and Nunez.

(28:27):
So he yeah, he was all over the map here
of course. Wow. I gotta say that's uh, that's well done,
well done on his.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
Part, so well congratulations do by the scene, well done.
I'm sure he slept for a couple of days after that.
I got up and took a couple of ass for I.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
Slept the guy who's probably in the baptim him because
he to take a week for five hours.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
For a guy. But hey, it's an achievement and I
got to applaud it because he did plan this out
very well. It wasn't something that he just you know,
a lot of people don't understand that when you want
to break a world record or establish one for you know,
X or y or see, you actually have to plan

(29:27):
this very carefully, and he did, to the point of
having notaries there to notarize the receipts, I'm assuming, and
things of that nature. People taking pictures of him. I'm
assuming there were witnesses as well, you know that kind
of stuff. And so that was a good plan on

(29:50):
his part.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
But how cool would it be You work for Guinness
and that's your job. I were like, oh, you got
to get down a point of the areas for a
couple of days and go bar hopping.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
I don't know if he had a Guinness guy with
him the whole time, but if he did I'm sure
that guy was, like, I've seen this movie. It doesn't
end well, Like, you know.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
This has got to be better than you know, marking
the guy that has the most hiccups inside of an
hour or something.

Speaker 1 (30:24):
Yes, this is true. This is true. Yeah, there's some
records that I'm just like, not really envious of achieving
or breaking. But this one, this one would be a
doable one, kind of like you know, The World's End,
only with a better ending and better plot. I'm salty

(30:44):
about that movie still to this day.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
Yeah, that one was a bit over sold, was it not.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
Yes, it was it was. I was really really disappointed.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
But anyway, Yeah, well, we had some less mirthful events
take place this week.

Speaker 1 (31:01):
Do we have any.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
I'm I'm still tabulating some of the coverage of this,
but in case you didn't notice, over the weekend, we
bombed Iran. I heard. Wasn't that a pod didn't I
don't know if it was weird l or somebody else

(31:26):
did it? Bob Bob bomb bomb Iran?

Speaker 1 (31:28):
Actually, now that you bring that up, President Trump posted
that on truth social He posted a video of the
bombers flying there with the song in the background.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
Wow, this man is no shame.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
Honestly, I think if I had to pick a president
that has had more fun with his job, I can't
pick on anybody over Trump. Trump is actually having fun
being president. He's actually enjoying the presidency. And and and
I I think, you know, he's making it fun again

(32:11):
to paraphrase his common phrase, and uh, you know, I mean,
I'm trying to think. I know that Richard Nixon really
thrived on the power behind it, but I can't think
of a president that actually had fun with it. I
think Reagan kind of came close because he had that,

(32:34):
you know.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
Sure, but he also appreciated it. You know, he made
a point of always warning a suit in the oval
office that kind of stuff. I mean, he Trump is
just he's just not a politician. And when he does
stuff like this, of course the people at Edmonton are
going to, oh, that's such a classless president. Why do
you have to do that? That's not what a president does.

(32:58):
M But that's you know, half of a strolling He
knows it's going to piss off a certain amount of people.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
Yes, and but he has fun with that. I can
appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
But it was so funny too to watch, not just
the media, but just people in general, because for how
many weeks did they try to push that taco meme?

Speaker 1 (33:21):
You know, Oh, I think several places are still doing
the Trump always chickens out thing, and I'm like, you know,
you're trying to make fetch happen, and it's not going
to happen. This is too forced. It needs to be organic,
and that's one thing that Democrats are not. They're not organic.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
You know, it's a bust. When Eric Swalwell is promoting
it and they like he tried to be real witty
about it too, and it's like they had one of
his interns filming coming into his offices, like Representative Swalwell,
do you have a comment about what Trump just did?
And he's at his desk and he holds up a finger,
hold on, wait a second, and he's eating tacos. Get

(34:02):
it taco because it's drump ty chicken and I'm eating
taco jess, you see me, I'm eating it. And he couldn't.

Speaker 1 (34:12):
He didn't go to a taco truck. He went to
Taco Bell, wasn't.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
It probably, But then the Democrats also did that, Oh
we're going to hire a taco truck and have them
serve tacos outside of the RNC headquarters. That's what we're
gonna do.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
Yeah, okay.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
Promptly failed at it because they couldn't park in front
of the building, so they were like two blocks away,
and then they were on a side alley and it
wasn't a taco truck. It was, you know, somebody with
a toe behind kitchen. And the only people that managed
to show up were Democrat staffers that knew about it,

(34:51):
and then they ran out of taco. Was supposed to
be there for two hours. They ran out of tacos
in like forty five minutes. It was like, really, this
is okay, that'll show him. Trump is probably on his
knees now as a result of you giving away free
tacos and DC what are you doing? But yeah, they're

(35:12):
they're trying to do is Trump trickings out and then
he manages the bomb I ran And then they're.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
Like, oh, I guess he did not shouldn't have done that.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
Why is he doing it? Why is he so mean?

Speaker 1 (35:26):
I know? And you know, I saw a tweet that
kind of actually does the whole I get what do
you call it? That's a timeline, you know, and I
think it was Cassie Akiva who put it out and

(35:50):
she just you know, numerated everything. And I was like,
everybody was like getting upset with with Trump getting mad
at Israel, and I'm like, if you hear the whole thing,
he's actually mad at both of them. But Israel is
the part that the media was like capturing, because that's

(36:11):
the important part, that he was mad at Israel. Never
mind that he's also mad at Iran for what was happening.
But as you and I both know, the ceasefire when
they tell you in six hours, we will have a
six ceasefire, so they rushed to do everything until the
last minute. It didn't mean that there wasn't going to
be any fighting in between that time and the ceasefire.

(36:34):
And I think that's what a lot of people misunderstood.
I mean, there is a reason why the armistice was
on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the
eleventh month. You know, the eleventh hour. They were still
fighting up until that point. Oh yeah, you know, so
I think a lot of people misunderstood the situation. But

(36:59):
you know, it turns out once once the brubble had cleared,
you know, the smoke had cleared and all that stuff,
and we saw exactly what happened between both countries. Yeah, okay,
I get it. Israel has a right to retaliate when
you know, Iran actually decides to either break the ceasefire,
which is not exactly what happened. The ceasefire was not

(37:21):
happening yet an hour after the ceasefire had been disclosed
is when Ron decided to send rockets to Israel. So
having to explain that to so many people, it was
just it was exhausting because there are people are just

(37:43):
they really don't understand why Iran is such a big threat.
On one hand, some people are saying, well, you know,
they're ineffective or they have a nuclear weapon, I mean pickoling,
and I'm like, you don't underst And one of the
things that I the very first movie that DreamWorks put

(38:06):
out was called The Peacemaker, I think it was called
with Nicole Kidman and that idiot former Batman George person
George Clotey, I know his name, but anyway, one of
the things that really stuck in my head was I'm
not the you know, Nicole. Nicole's character was saying, I'm

(38:28):
not afraid of a group that has many nuclear weapons,
I'm afraid of the one that only has one, because
their intent is to use it. It's not a deterrent,
it's to be used. And this is why Iran has
this unfortunate regime that does believe in the destruction of

(38:56):
the world in order to bring their caliphate. They really
do believe this their bodies and that does bring that in.
You know, people have forgotten about that. People have forgotten
that Iran declared war on US way back in seventy nine.

Speaker 2 (39:13):
Well the other thing, too, is that everybody tries to
make excuses, Well they don't have the bomb. It's like
all they got all the pieces. They're enriching uranium. They
were at like sixty percent.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
That's like, yeah, that's like telling me, well, you don't
have the you know the tasmahulland Lego said, I have
all the pieces, Well I do it. I An'll have
to do is put it together and then I'll have it,
you know, but.

Speaker 2 (39:36):
It you know, they're saying that, you know, they're allowed
to have it for their commercial use for their citizens.
It's like, yeah, it's like three to five percent enrichment
you need for that sixty percent as one purpose and
it's still weaponize it. And they go from sixty to
one hundred percent and then weaponize it. It's on one calendar.
You can you know, depending on how great their system is,

(40:00):
they can finish that job and have a weapon pretty quickly.

Speaker 1 (40:03):
And here's the thing. They don't care what they destroy.
They want to be the catalyst for the destruction of
the world. To them, it is very important because that
will signify the coming of the caliphate. Body. Okay, they
believe this. To them, it is truth. And I cannot

(40:25):
stress this enough. These people are serious. They've always been serious.
This is a country that will stone a woman for
breaking laws of chastity because she was raped. Okay, They're
very not with it. They're not. They don't have the

(40:48):
conscience that most countries do, even those that are you know,
socialists or communists. They don't have that type of conscience
where the people are a building block to them. The
people are means to an end. The people don't matter.
The coming of the caliphate matters. And this is what

(41:09):
I've been trying to tell a lot of people. This
is something that you know, I've learned way back in
the eighties when I was you know taking studying in college.
We knew this was it was part of the curriculum.
I can't find it anymore, by the way. I'd looked
in the curriculum for for the College of Anthropology, and

(41:29):
I couldn't find that class to save my life. There
were several classes that I took that are no longer there,
which I found very elucidating, let me tell you. And
I was like a pall that what is included. But
that's subject for another day. But the thing with Iran
is that a lot of people tend to view Iran
from the perspective of a western country. They're not even

(41:53):
a Middle Eastern country. They're not at Far East country,
They're not a Southeast country. There they can consider themselves
to be the whole of their holy That is what
separates Iran from other Middle Eastern countries. Syria has its issues,

(42:16):
Lebanon has THEIRS, Jordan has Theirs, UAE, all of them,
they're all political. For Iran, it's not political. They truly
do believe this, and this is this is the best
example I can give you of this particular religion that

(42:36):
is truly a political ideology they implement. I mean, it's
emblematic of their entire being. And so when a lot
of people say, well, you know, they don't have any clue,
but not because we keep breaking their stuff. But then
they come in with somebody else funding the program, and
they keep rebuilding it, and it happens. This is a cycle.

(42:58):
When somebody says, well, they know they've been doing this
for twenty years, We've been breaking it for twenty years,
and by we the people that are serious about breaking it,
like Israel and the US. Yeah, I think remember when
Hillary was talking about how she would go to war
with the rand to stop them from having nuclear weapons.
I'm old enough to remember that. I'm old enough to

(43:20):
remember Biden saying it at the UN. I'm old enough
to remember Obama saying it when he was debating that
Rodney character. I remember all of these people saying that
it was necessary to go to war with Iran to
stop them from having nuclear weapons.

Speaker 2 (43:40):
The only thing since then, talking about the.

Speaker 1 (43:44):
Only two things that have changed since then is that
Iran has actually actually been able to get their hands
on their money because somebody we all know unfroze their assets.
And the fact that Trump is president and so the
left is going insane because Trump is actually going to
do what the left has been talking about doing for

(44:05):
the past twelve years.

Speaker 2 (44:08):
Yeah, and look at their reaction. How dare he is?
Basically what it comes down to, because they're mad that
he actually did what everybody's been talking about.

Speaker 1 (44:16):
Makes sense, I guess, because it wasn't talk and this
is this is this is what I like about Trump.
I might not agree with him on everything, but for him,
it's not talk.

Speaker 2 (44:28):
But this is where they trap themselves all the time too,
with their They have all these preconceived notions about he
gave a two week deadline. He does this all the time,
and then it falls apart. He's never gonna bomb it
any bombs. I ran, like David from Cracked Me Up Saturday,
I ran, knows he never lives up to his two

(44:50):
week player and this is gonna be a complete failure.
Egg on his face. And then he had to scramble
because out literally you do. I think it was like
two hours after he posted the article, so he had
to come up with another one the next day. And
he's like, well, I kind of agree that we should
have done this, but I don't like the way he
did it. And then all this talk of impeachment. Now,

(45:14):
well he didn't go to Congress first, does he doesn't
have to? And the Democrats are mad, Oh, he didn't
notify us first. Oh you mean the people that constantly
leak classified information about war time efforts. Yeah, that's why.
And like Hakeem Jeffreys is out there bitching and moan
and they were like, yeah, we called him and nobody

(45:35):
answered the phone. We got the call records. Here's here's
when we called him before the strike and nobody answered.
And the press read about this too. It's like, how
did they do that? There was no advance word?

Speaker 1 (45:48):
Yeah, because no Democrats were told.

Speaker 2 (45:54):
And I think who was it. I forget which news
outlet it was, but they said when he when he
came out and gave his speech Saturday night, and it
was Marco Rubio and JD. Vance and Pete Hesith. They're like, oh,
there's Trump and all of his loyalists. They're the only
ones that knew about this. The people that are loyal
to him. It's like, you mean the people that run

(46:15):
the country, the secretarial secretary, the secretary of Defense. Yeah,
they were in one state. Oh, no, breaking news. The
people in charge knew what were going on? I mean,
that's this is how hilarious this has all been. And
then my favorite, of course New York Times and also

(46:39):
uh herriage. Over at Fox News. Pete Hexath gave a
speech Sunday morning. He's like, you know, I just want
to praise our boys for going on this mission. Oh MG,
women fly planes too. In fact, one of them was
on the mission. This is what the New York Times

(47:01):
reported on Hexit said, are boys? Well, we better impeach
him for misgendering a bomber pilot. I guess is what
are you doing? We refuse to be happy when something
goes right in this country because of who's in charge.

Speaker 1 (47:18):
No, they cannot be happy if something goes right. They
they're only happy when things go wrong, when things fail,
because that means that the government must fix it.

Speaker 2 (47:30):
That means look at the other thing said, well, he
totally screwed the economy because he bombed Iran. A gas
prices are going to shoot up instantly. And then today
gas prices fell below seventy dollars a barrel and oil.

Speaker 1 (47:44):
Oh yeah, I filled up today and it had dropped
five cents from yesterday.

Speaker 2 (47:50):
Guarantee you like I just saw like spot crude price
was like sixty seven to eighty or something. I think
at the close today, within a day or two, there's
going to be reports. This is the worst thing because
oil companies they stopped drilling. If it goes below seventy.
You just got done bitching about it was too high.
Now it's too low.

Speaker 1 (48:10):
You know, No, they're bitching about oil companies drilling. So
now you're bitching because they won't pick a lane.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
And then you know, of course, if Trump comes out
and says, well, you know, they're drilling like crazy, it's
like they were drilling more under Biden. So yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (48:26):
Don't know where, maybe in the North North Northern Sea
or something.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
Well, no, basically in his last year because he was
so desperate because gas prices kept shooting up, and he
was like, all right, all right, all right, you guys
can start drilling again. Because this is after he emptied
the emergency oil reserves to try to lower prices, and
that worked for like two days, and then they're like, yeah,
I guess we kind of need that stuff after all,

(48:52):
so go ahead, you guys can drill. And literally that
was the case. I mean, we were drilling more, but
it was because we to. So it's just it's constantly
the case anymore. But I just have to laugh anymore.
And then you know, NPR came out with an article

(49:13):
two experts say that they didn't get the uranium reserves
in Iran. Well, let me read into this one. And
one of the experts says, we assume they didn't hit
it because we don't know where their uranium deposits are at.
That was how they disproved it. We're just going to

(49:35):
assume he missed.

Speaker 1 (49:38):
They don't know where they are, so they're just going
to assume that because they don't know where they are,
the people attacking them don't know where they are there,
so they missed. Is that their logic?

Speaker 2 (49:48):
Your expert says, we don't know where it's at, therefore
we can't prove he destroyed it. Therefore he's lying. That's
not proof. I'm sorry. When I see the word assume
from an expert, that's when I stopped reading. And it
was about paragraph three.

Speaker 1 (50:07):
Did you catch the Washington Post what they posted on
x They posted a map of likely targets Iran could
take of American targets that are in the Middle East. Well,
I could not believe that they posted that map. I mean,
that's there was a time when that would be treason.

Speaker 2 (50:29):
Well it was. It was a Thursday of last week.
They had one of their reporters posting the coordinates of
the successful missile strikes from I ran inside it.

Speaker 1 (50:39):
I can't within these people. Oh god, honestly, I just
we need to just scrap all the journalism schools. It's pointless.
Just give them all the death penalty for two years
and then rebuild. Like they did with the football programs.
You know, when they were cheating or you're doing some

(51:02):
stuff or whatever, they would get the death penalty for
two years. They had to disband the entire program, and
then they had to rebuild from scratch. This is what
should happen to all journalism schools.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
Yes, I'm for it. I mean, basically Columbia has done
it to themselves in the last couple of years. But sure,
I'm not against it. Amazing.

Speaker 1 (51:28):
Yes, And when I say disband, I mean fire all
the professors too. You're going to have to start everything
from scratch.

Speaker 2 (51:36):
I'm for it. I'm for it. Yeah, build it from
the ground up and rebuild. Yeah, this is the thing
I follow every so often a couple journalism professors. They
are as hyper partisan leftist as you can get, and
they're the ones molding the objective journalists. I mean, it's

(52:01):
looking at them. It's no mystery right there. But that's
what we're dealing with.

Speaker 1 (52:11):
However, anyway, I do I do like the way that
some of the journalists and some of the papers and
you know, editorials are framing the New York City mayoral race.
That has been fun.

Speaker 2 (52:34):
I just happen to be looking at some of the
results that come in. I don't. I think the polls
have closed, but their results aren't final yet. But the
wing nut is ahead.

Speaker 1 (52:47):
I'm not surprised.

Speaker 2 (52:48):
Let me narrow that down. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Oh okay, yeah,
Zoran mount Donnie is that?

Speaker 1 (52:58):
I'm Donnie wow.

Speaker 2 (53:02):
Currently sitting at forty three and a half, where Cuomo's
at thirty five point four. Last update I got that
says of about nine thirty ninth well as about a
minute ago, so he's ahead by forty seven thousand votes roughly.

Speaker 1 (53:22):
This is for anybody out there that has not been following.
If you look at who is running and who is supporting,
this is this is basically the best example of the young,
college educated kids versus the blue collar older workers of

(53:44):
New York City.

Speaker 2 (53:46):
So the idiots at Columbia University, like I just mentioned.

Speaker 1 (53:51):
This is a This is a race, just like what
happened with AOC. It is about getting the young vote.
Those that go to Columbia, those that go to State,
University of New York, Community, University of New York, whatever City,
University of New York, Manhattan, you all of these colleges

(54:13):
that are in New York. That's where they recruit. That's
where you get these votes for this guy. It's not
the blue collar worker that's you know, but I mean
this guy, this Zoran person just put out a video
about government owned grocery stores in the city of New York.

Speaker 2 (54:36):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (54:37):
And I'm just going back to all of the kids
that are voting for this guy. Have no idea what
it was like in communist Russia when you had to
stand in line just to get a loaf of bread.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
Okay, just like you guys like that government cheese.

Speaker 1 (54:58):
Hey wait, I liked the government cheese. I loved it.

Speaker 2 (55:06):
I've known people in the past that they were they
were eligible for it, or they would get it, and
they were like, do you want this? It was like
a brick of cheese. It was they translate my last
name that comes directly from the Netherlands cheese, yes, free cheese,

(55:26):
hell yes, I mean yeah, but it's cameramage. I didn't
pay for it, and I would literally sit there, what just.

Speaker 1 (55:34):
Know this is? You know what's happening. First of all,
I don't understand why Coomo would even be in the
running after the travesty that was his governorship over New
York during COVID, But he decided, hey, I'm going to try.
I got to give him kudos because he decided to
actually put hiss out there.

Speaker 2 (55:52):
But Aggie, the entire Democrat field is a travesty.

Speaker 1 (55:56):
Okay it is. It's a complete and total wreck.

Speaker 2 (56:00):
Is a complete nutter wing nut Cuomo walking failure right there.
And then third place is Brad Lander, who just got
arrested because he was trying to protect illegal immigrants from ice. Okay,
that's that's the top three of the Democrats right there.

(56:21):
I'm sorry, I can't care about New York.

Speaker 1 (56:27):
No.

Speaker 2 (56:28):
I think they knew is going to come back and
shinhammer them right in the face. And it's just like
the City of Chicago that went from what was her name,
the last mayor that completed Lightfoot the Goldfish, Beetlejuice. She
just basically would drive into a light pole and then

(56:51):
blame the electric company for her accident. That's how ene
she was. They dive from her to worse. And the
guy that's an offer is now the people that elected
him hate him and he won't even change what he's doing.
Just what can you do? I mean, just it's ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (57:12):
Well, you know, and don't forget that. You know, this
is the Democratic primary for New York. So there's still
a chance that.

Speaker 2 (57:23):
The Republican win.

Speaker 1 (57:25):
Zoehan or whatever the hell his name is, well not Yeah,
well there's a chance that Republican might win. There's a
chance the independent might win, which is Eric Adams. And
I mean, if you recall he left the Democratic Party
because he had to come to Jesus moment about a
legal immigration.

Speaker 2 (57:46):
And he saw that something about a three billion dollars
shortfall as a result would do that.

Speaker 1 (57:54):
Yeah, but you know that it's he does see that
that particular issue is a millstone around the neck and
he recognizes that. And I can only hope that people
start recognizing it in bluer cities as well. I mean,
look at what's happened to in Chicago. There's people that
are so upset about the whole situation, and yet they

(58:16):
voted for this guy. I don't understand that. But and
the weird thing is is what's happening in Mexico over
this whole thing. First you have President Shinbaum. God, I
really don't like that woman, and I just I would
pay Bank to see her in a cat fight with

(58:39):
Maloney because my money would be on Maloney. Totally. I
would pay Bank for that. But anyway, you know, Shinbaum
is over here going talking about Puerto Rican of course
we promote violence. What but you know she's over here

(59:02):
talking about how Mexicans have to support the Mexicans that
left Mexico to go, you know, live a better life
in the US. And I'm going, did you just hear
the words that are coming out of your mouth? Did
you just hear what you just admit it to? Your
country is so bad that people, your nationals are leaving

(59:26):
to go to the US to have a better life.
That's how bad things are in Mexico. She literally admitted
to it live on TV.

Speaker 2 (59:34):
Yeah, but that's the undercurrent in the riots over in
Los Angeles when they're all waving the Mexican flag and
burning the US flag and you're like, wait a second,
you are calling America crap hole. You're chanting Viva Mexico
on the streets. Yeah, and you're mad about being sent

(59:57):
back to the country that you're waving the flag proudly for,
you know, And that's this is where the whole nonsensical
nature of it comes into. Yeah, but they care go
backter because the whole country is just a sesspool or Jude,
then why are you praising it on our streets? Go
home and do it, you know, that kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (01:00:19):
But you know, you Admittedly, she did admit that people
are leaving Mexico because things are bad there, and so
she's mad at the US because the US plans to
tax money that's coming in to Mexico from those illegal
aliens that are over here working, right, So she was

(01:00:42):
mad about that. What I found interesting was that due
to the ice raids in California, there's been a lot
of self deportation going on into Mexico and now the
Mexicans are mad.

Speaker 2 (01:00:58):
Yeah, they said it was something like what, I'm millions
so far.

Speaker 1 (01:01:01):
There, it's been quite quite a bit. In Tijuana alone,
it's been in the thousands, you know, tens of thousands.
But they're mad because some of those that self deported
from over there are not Mexicans. They're from Central America,
they're from South America, they're from other countries that are
not even in the Americas, and so they're very upset because,

(01:01:26):
as y'all know, Mexico is a socialist country, and so
they have a lot of benefits for those under a
certain economic strata, and now the Mexicans are seeing the
effects of having illegal aliens in their country taking benefits
from the nationals, and so there have been spreading all

(01:01:50):
of these, you know, marches and protests have been sprouting up,
and I've heard, you know, the videos. I sent you
one of them, but I've heard other videos, and the
vitriol was amazing. I was like, man, I've never heard
I've only heard that word coming out of my uncle

(01:02:10):
when he was screaming at my cousin, and only once.
It was like bad. So it's just like a gog
at the hostility. But you know, now the tables have
turned because now Mexico is dealing with an illegal immigrant
immigration problem, and these people cannot turn to their government.

(01:02:34):
The government's not going to help them. The government has
not helped a single national in decades, not that I
can recall. I honestly don't remember. I'm pretty sure Shinbaum
is part of the cartels. That's how she got the gig.
But as y'all know, the constitution in Mexico, if you

(01:02:56):
serve as president, you serve only for five years and
then you can never serve again. So nothing gets done.
And to see all of these people actually rising up
and protesting, screaming, you know, you see the signs that
say immigrants yes, illegals no. And I'm like, now, do
you get it? Now? Do you get what we've been

(01:03:18):
screaming across the border. And y'all have been calling us
a bunch of racist bigots.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
Well, we just saw this in the Washington Post last week.
They had a whole article about the magnificence in Spain
and how they're flourishing because of their immigration taking place.
And it's like, well, you read into the article and
they're taking in people legally to benefit their society. And

(01:03:48):
the Washington Posts in America has an anti immigrant trend,
and it's like pump the brakes illegal immigrant trend and
more than a trend. Law. That's the thing is, we're
just enforcing it for a change, But they don't even
recognize that. What's being doing their beneficial immigration. Yeah, but

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they're doing it legally, they're becoming citizens, they're becoming contributing
members of the society. We'll take that. But people working
here illegally and shipping the money out of the country,
tell me how that helps us. Meanwhile, we have to
support them with social programs. There's your problem.

Speaker 1 (01:04:34):
Indeed. Indeed, so I'm I'm just like watching what's going
on in Mexico. And it's not just Tijuana. There are
several border cities that are experiencing the same thing. And
it's not just in the border either. I believe there
was a protest near Distrito Federa, which is the capital

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city of Mexico City. There was My friend was lives
in San Luis, photo Sa, and he was telling me
that there was one also there, and it was it
was more quiet. It was more like a march rather
than you know, screaming and burning cars like we're used
to seeing over here. But you know, he he says,

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there's people are getting mad because the self deportation is
happening southward. Nobody wants to go to Canada. Don't want
it was going to self deport to Canada. People prefer
the weather down here to pick weather up there, and so,

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you know, because they don't know how long. Well that too,
but they don't know how long the process to come
back into the country is going to take. And they
don't want to be caught in a winter in Canada waiting.
So it's and also they don't know the languages, so
they go to somewhere where they can speak the language,

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which you know, by default is Mexico. That's the next
biggest one on the chain. So but they're staying in Mexico.
Mexico wants them to keep moving southward, going back to
their countries. Well, they don't want that. They want to
stay nearby so that they can enter legally into the
US once they get approved.

Speaker 2 (01:06:22):
Well there's also a little reminder of what goes on
in the southern border of Mexico.

Speaker 1 (01:06:27):
Oh, the deportation jails.

Speaker 2 (01:06:32):
They've got the walls up and if you break in
and stick around, you get arrested. You don't get deported,
you get incarcerated. And this is the thing, it's just
every other country does it. Every other country has strict rules,
and when we do the same thing, suddenly we're the
bad guys. We won't take there detritus for some reason.

(01:06:55):
Oh weh, how dare you? You can't do that? You
do it? Why not? I mean common sense pragmatism. That's me. Sorry.
On a related note, though, talk about not making sense.

(01:07:18):
It's the uh we just had the what first day
of summer was Friday?

Speaker 1 (01:07:22):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (01:07:25):
I'll encourage anybody, if you're a VIP member at Red
Stay go check out my elitist dipsology column where I
recommend a number of summer cocktails. It's the season. I'm
gonna have some more Hawk tours this year. I just
love those drinks. I know, I know it sounds daffing,

(01:07:47):
you know, how things delicious? I'm sorry, it's that damn good.

Speaker 1 (01:07:52):
I never posted this, but I actually made a cocktail
called Fang Fang. I should post it. I should post it,
but maybe later.

Speaker 2 (01:08:06):
But it's summer season, and as they say, the time
is right. But I found an interesting little nugget about summer.
I guess is it fashions one of the hot new trends.
Are you ready for this? Beach towels?

Speaker 1 (01:08:30):
I tell I can't. I can't. You heard me screaming
and ranting about this earlier.

Speaker 2 (01:08:38):
Well, it's far be it for me to tell people
how to spend their money. If you gotta go for it,
I guess sure, whatever, But again it's my curse of
common sense and pragmancism. This is about some of the

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hot new beach towels for summer. Ugh the how do
I put this? People with money are stupid? Yes? How

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did they get I'll tell you what's actually going on here.
It's the These are the people with money marrying idiots.
This is what it comes down to.

Speaker 1 (01:09:38):
I can't wait to see the knockoffs, honestly, because you
know there's gonna be.

Speaker 2 (01:09:42):
So so like basically Jeff Bezos girlfriend fiance, they're about
to get married. This this is the kind of crap
they would do. Beach towels. Prada, for instance, has a
nautical striped style of a beach towel. Right, I'm gonna

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do the conversion here, roughly going for nine and fifty.

Speaker 1 (01:10:15):
Dollars for a fucking beach towel.

Speaker 2 (01:10:19):
Brad another.

Speaker 1 (01:10:24):
It's just it's a utilitarian piece of cloth that's supposed
to guard you from sweat, sand, salt, and and and.

Speaker 2 (01:10:31):
And excuse me, stuff what it is? A summer fashion statement?
Another another design house, Malion Maren. They have a model
there by hermise is that armage Armie? Oh am, I

(01:10:54):
wrong for that. I pronounced the h Disney correctly.

Speaker 1 (01:10:57):
It's a Serviette Depledge.

Speaker 2 (01:11:03):
I'm sorry, were you talking to me? What now? I
think your microphone was on Hermes?

Speaker 1 (01:11:09):
Just go with Hermes Hermis.

Speaker 2 (01:11:12):
Yeah, that one's gonna go for about eight hundred and forty.
Door has one on the markets. That's a little more
of nine hundred and fifty for that one. Oh, let's see.
If you're a little more money conscious, let's say the

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Dior Rivera has one in navy or baby pink, and
it's got their traditional motif on there. This one's a
little more affordable, however, you can get that beach towel
for about six hundred dollars. But the best one, the

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one I really like. Hard to describe on the radio,
but it's kind of in deeper hues like a darker
red navy and another slate blue kind of a crenulated border,
almost like shark fin design, and then it's got the
outline of turtles and fish on the center field. I
really like this one. It's pretty.

Speaker 1 (01:12:18):
Uh, of course you do you have bougie taste.

Speaker 2 (01:12:24):
I'm just saying it's got like this beach theme, you know,
shark fins.

Speaker 1 (01:12:29):
Turtle towel.

Speaker 2 (01:12:32):
This one's gonna go for one fifty dollars for.

Speaker 1 (01:12:37):
A towel that you're not even gonna use.

Speaker 2 (01:12:40):
The way it's supposed to be used is from Loro Piana,
the fish and Turtle beach towel. It's a cream field
that comes printed with tropical wildlife drawings and is designed
to absorb salt water, sand and sunscreen. And then I
guess you'd take it to the dryg leaders is like

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each of these towels hands stitched or something by I
don't know, princes.

Speaker 1 (01:13:15):
I don't, I don't, I don't understand. I'm just I mean, okay,
as we discussed, I do have some pricey footwear, but
I use my pricey footwear. I will wear my I
will wear my beautiful Christian let bouton shoes and I

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will go out in them. They will meet the pavement,
they will meet the grass, they will meet everything I'm
walking on. I have no problem with that, because if
I'm going to spend that much money on a pair
of shoes, I'm going to use the hell out of
those shoes. Okay, they will be destroyed by the time

(01:13:57):
I'm done. That is the point of having shoes. You
want to wear them, you want to enjoy them and everything.
You can't do that with a beach towel. If you're
not even gonna go to the sandy beach and put
it down there and put your sweaty, oil basted body

(01:14:17):
on it. You know, it's just it makes still sense
to me to spend thirteen hundred dollars on a beach towel.

Speaker 2 (01:14:28):
I mean, I'm This is my theory that oil barns
in Dubai probably get together at a bar and have
a contest to see how much money their girlfriend and
wives waste, just to flaunt how much they've got and

(01:14:50):
can deal with it. And my wife just bought a
fourteen hundred dollars beach towel.

Speaker 1 (01:14:57):
I just I couldn't. I couldn't.

Speaker 2 (01:15:05):
I just I love that this exists, and I love
that all the fashion houses are all getting in on
this at the same time too. I mean, they probably
do this every year. I don't know. I don't keep
up with beach fashions.

Speaker 1 (01:15:18):
I don't either, you know me, We've discussed this. I
went to feedback and I took a bathing suit that
never saw the light of the day because I will
not I don't. I don't go into public I don't
do that in public swimming pools or the beach or
anything like that. But I'll wear shorts, I'll wear a
T shirt, and yeah, I'll take a beach towel out

(01:15:39):
there so that my paistley legs don't have the criss
crossing of the of the tan seat that I'm sitting.
So I do use a beach towel. I will go
out to the beach and I will lay it out
and you know, I'll sit there, and you know I've

(01:16:00):
done yoga on a beach style at the beach. I've done.

Speaker 2 (01:16:03):
You can go to the pool at night. You don't
have to go out during the day. If you're worried
about your alabaster ivory legs. I mean you can still.
It's not go to a hot tub at night. How
about that?

Speaker 1 (01:16:13):
Yes, I get it. I know that I'm just very
self conscious about I've always been shy. Okay, but that's
not the point. That's not the point.

Speaker 2 (01:16:27):
Sorry, I'm just trying to help.

Speaker 1 (01:16:31):
I'm just saying, if you're gonna plunk down that much
money for a beach style, use the hell out of it.
Make sure that everybody knows that you have that beach style.
Take it everywhere. Drape it on your car seat, Drape
it on the car seat next to you so people
can see it.

Speaker 2 (01:16:48):
Luggage rack on your defender ninety I mean for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:16:52):
I mean use it as a tabletopper. I don't care
what you do with it, but at least use it.
If you're gonna invest in something. This is god a
people wanted to be a collector's item. Nobody's out there
collecting towels. Very few people actually collect beach towels, and
they have to be things of a certain nature. Like

(01:17:15):
I was amazed to find out that several of the
beach howls that I owned when I worked at the
Disney stores, I bought several, you know, when they were
discontinuing the pattern. I mean day would go. I mean,
at the time they were swelling for like twenty eight dollars,
which was pretty pricey for a beach towel, but then
they would go fifty percent off, and then seventy five

(01:17:36):
percent off, and then we would get our forty percent
off on top of that. So yeah, I went until
there were seventy five percent off, and I would snag them.
And I have Aladdin, I have Little Mermaid, I have
the Genie, I have several Nickey Mouse ones. I have
a bunch of those and I use them all the time.
And I was surprised to find on eBay that some

(01:17:58):
of these towels that I have are going for three
for five hundred dollars. So I get that there's a
market for this type of a collector, but I really
don't see somebody just wanting to collect this. I just
still see it. I could be wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:18:16):
There's just to look under collector beach towels to see
if that's a thing. There's plenty. See there's a vintage
Fantastic four from seventy five. This is going for about
sixty dollars. But this is asking price that's not You

(01:18:38):
go Disney Park, Splash Mountain for one hundred.

Speaker 1 (01:18:44):
See if we can find the Disney teenie with the faces,
what is it? I have one that's the genie from
Aladdin and it's all his faces, all of the faces
that he made. It's navy blue background and they're just
little squares of his face and poses.

Speaker 2 (01:19:07):
A couple of and they're all in squares. Brady Bunch. Yeah, okay, gotcha, Yeah,
sixty by thirty two. There's let's see three. I think yeah,
about fifteen of the faces on it. M hm okay,
twenty bucks.

Speaker 1 (01:19:24):
See, there's not a big market. Some yes, some no.
I mean it just depends on the print and the movie.
I guess whatever. But it's not a big deal. And
you know, like I said, I'm waiting for the knockoff.
So hey, Jeff, idea, get that turtle. It was talking

(01:19:47):
to that turtle and big a towel. Do youre magic?

Speaker 2 (01:19:52):
I'll send them an image. Let's see what we can get.
I'd love to take that down to South Beach too.
It's like, oh this old thing. Yeah, I love it
a lot. Please step away, don't don't get.

Speaker 1 (01:20:04):
To don't even look at it.

Speaker 2 (01:20:10):
Well, speaking of South Beach, speaking of Florida, got a
Florida Man's story because we gotta.

Speaker 1 (01:20:17):
Okay, you got you got ninety seconds go.

Speaker 2 (01:20:20):
Oh are we that tight? Jeez? So yeah, Florida guy
got arrested because well, basically, he drove his vehicle into
a restaurant. Now you might have in your mind what happened,
but understand the magic of our stories down here. The

(01:20:42):
news items of Florida Man are that there's layers. It's
not just guy got mad at a drive through and
got in a fight with the person that worked there.
It is bitching about not getting your sauce, and you
throw an alligator through the window, and then you wonder
why they have an alligator in the car with them

(01:21:03):
just in case this had you know. That's what I'm
talking about. Layers. So no, this guy didn't just drive
into a restaurant when diners were there and threatened lives. No,
he did this after hours. He actually broke into the establishment,
moved all the chairs and tables aside to clear a
path for him to bring his vehicle into the establishment

(01:21:27):
in responsible fashion, as we all would do. He did
this because he had an electric vehicle and he wanted
to charge it inside.

Speaker 1 (01:21:39):
So many questions.

Speaker 2 (01:21:44):
And of course, this brilliant individual who wants to save
the planet was not aware that they had security cameras
inside the place, and so he was therefore apprehended after
the fact. I love this. Somewhere they have to say
that he's accused of driving through a restaurant to charge

(01:22:05):
his car. It's on video.

Speaker 1 (01:22:09):
I mean, I'm pretty sure it happened because I watched it.

Speaker 2 (01:22:12):
Car is inside the establishment. I think we're there, okay.

Speaker 1 (01:22:17):
I'm just I mean, I have I have a lot
of questions. I mean, I'm pretty sure he's aware of
charging stations and when they can be found, that's fine.
My question is, if he drove this vehicle into the restaurant,
how did you know that he would have the appropriate

(01:22:38):
socket in which to charge his vehicle.

Speaker 2 (01:22:43):
Why inside the restaurant and why.

Speaker 1 (01:22:46):
Inside the restaurant.

Speaker 2 (01:22:48):
That's another big one, like tapping into the oven connection
or something or to twenty. I'm pretty think I'm close
to what I brought on.

Speaker 1 (01:22:56):
Well, let's just say all of those things that would
that would have that different socket, those were in the kitchen,
you know, your freezers, the washer, you know those those
are They're not in the front of the establishment.

Speaker 2 (01:23:12):
Go to Walmart. They got them in the parking lot.

Speaker 1 (01:23:16):
I think that's another thing. A lot of places have
stations in their parting lots. I guess maybe he just
didn't have the money, so he opted to break into
a place where he could charge the vehicle. But I'm
still I'm still iffy on the whole Where are you
gonna plug it?

Speaker 2 (01:23:37):
Yeah? They basically had a worn out for him for
burglary and attempted theft.

Speaker 1 (01:23:46):
I didn't steal anything. You were stealing electricity, Dude, how come.

Speaker 2 (01:23:53):
It's not attempted burglary? What the hell? And how is
this restaurant designed to accom I'm going to eat a
vehicle pulling in. I can only assume they had maybe
sliding doors in an outside patio, but usually they have
a railing by the streets. I mean, yeah, I want
to go to this place and just get a layout

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and just.

Speaker 1 (01:24:15):
Okay, yeah, go take pictures because I'm in for one.

Speaker 2 (01:24:20):
Where's your docking for your EV's by the way to
buy the bar over back by the bathrooms. I'm just
scouting out for later tonight, That's all I'm saying. Yeah,
it's not too far away from me either. It's up
in West Palm, so it's probably like, what maybe an
hour not even.

Speaker 1 (01:24:37):
So all right, you have one minute to do your spill.

Speaker 2 (01:24:45):
Oh excuse me, well, well then to where you were Yiddish.
But yes, as far as that goes. If you want
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Well, you can find me on X at Aggie Ricin
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have a good one.

Speaker 2 (01:26:06):
And go raise a glass and look at the ceiling.
There's a storm across the valley.

Speaker 1 (01:26:20):
Fly the rolling in the afterloone is heavy on your shoulder.

Speaker 2 (01:26:32):
There's a truck out.

Speaker 1 (01:26:34):
On the four lane a mile moreway.

Speaker 2 (01:26:41):
The winding of his weed just makes it colder. He's
an hour with riding,