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Speaker 1 (00:30):
The following program contains course language and adult themes. Listener
discretion is advised and welcome to another episode of The
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Cocktail Lounge. I am your hostess with the Moses, Maggie,
and with me as always, is the ever small, affable
and quaffable co host Brad Slager. How are you doing
this evening, Brad?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
We're doing good. We're doing good. How was your Labor Day?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
There is the date. I didn't do much of anything
except enjoy Jeff's company as we did our Spirited Books
podcast because it was the first Monday of the month.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
So there you go, right, it was a.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Lot of fun. We had a lot of fun last.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Night, as you're supposed to do.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah. Aside that, we didn't do anything during the weekend.
It rained here some part of Friday, all of Saturday
and some Sunday. And you know, I live in the
boon Dogs. There's nothing to do. Everything here is closed
every Monday anyway, so it's like we soberate Labor Day
every week anyway, So we didn't do anything. How about
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you guys, what did y'all do?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Well? We did our sojourn up to O could show
be hang out with family and such and just spent
a couple of nights up there, had a decent enough time,
and then we became properly lubricated for the weekend and
watched a crap ton of football. That's what I did,
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kicked off the college football.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I gotta say that that part of the weekend actually
made me very happy.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I think we both came out of things looking pretty
dang good. So it was it was fun. It was fun.
We knew there was gonna be some upheaval because no
fewer than three games played over the weekend involved two
top ten teams playing each other, so guaranteed three top
ten teams are gonna lose, and it turned out to
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be four. Hey how about that Alabama? Holy cow did they?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
I am so upset that next Saban is no longer
the coach because my favorite hashtag had to be retired.
But that said, Alabama has pretty much They're pretty much
starting from scratch, aren't they. It just seems like.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
No, they are. Yeah, I think what it is that
other that once Saban left, it was no longer you know,
a lock every single year that they'd be in the
top five and go to the playoffs. So a lot
of the top quality players are now going elsewhere, so
they're coming back to Earth, and it's really hard to
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get a measure of the game. They got drilled by
Florida State. I mean it wasn't even and just to
give you an idea how rough this was. This is
the Florida State team that last year won two games,
and you can't really say that they've completely rejuvenated because
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they somehow beat the living hell out of Alabama while
completing nine passes the entire game. So it was complete
just domination at the line of scrimmage both sides. And
this is the first time that Alabama lost the season.
Oprah broke two touchdowns since nineteen seventy.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
So wow, that's a long stretch. I mean, what nineteen
seventy was thirty years ago. I will die on that hell,
I will die on that hill.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Oh what you're doing? Okay, sure, sure, that's it. That's
about right.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Yeah, Hey, I still say nineteen ninety was ten years ago,
and I am with that.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yes, well, it's one of the healthier things about getting
older is deniability. I know this full well. So yeah, Alabama,
it's it's really difficult to say. You know, it's Florida
State that good or is this team that bad? Or
is it a combination? And yeah, that's yeah where we're fair.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
I'll be fair about all of the teams. You know
that we're playing this weekend. You don't know which is
a really good team, which is a bad team by
the way they played this first game. This is why
I don't like the rankings going into the season. I
want to wait for the rankings to come out until
after the second or third game. That's more solid to me,
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it makes it makes more sense. But you know, we
still have the rankings going in and so there are
certain expectations that were not met this weekend happily, so.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
That being one of them.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
And uh, that was one.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Everything was focused on. It was kind of dog crap,
really number one Texas for number three Ohio States.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
That wasn't a greg game.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Neither one looked good. No, it was not say that
like Ohio State's defense dominated, because I mean Texas couldn't
run the ball at all. So they just keyed on
arch Manning, who didn't look good. He was missing passes
throughout the game, getting rushed a lot.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I think there was a lot. There were a lot
of raised expectations with Manning, there was also the fact
that he was under a lot of pressure to perform
because of his last name. And this is something that
I have always believed that, you know, the last name
can be both a gift and a curse, and as
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it was with in this case, it was more of
a curse than anything. He was expected to perform on
the same level as his uncles, and it didn't pan out.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
So, I mean, Peyton didn't exactly blow the doors off
the stadium his first game either. This is under him.
So I'm not panic.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Flag right now, No, but this is this is the
problem with how we are as a society. We do
expect that because our expectations are measured by the last
of what someone did, and they expect the same from
the first that someone is doing. So instead of comparing
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Arch to what Peyton did on his first year, they're
comparing him to what he did as a professional football player,
you know, that kind of thing. That's his development already set,
already set, already solidified. And I think that was That's
a disservice in my opinion too, Arch Yanning. I mean,
they've they've done that. This happens all the time, and
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so I I was okay, Honestly, I never rooted for Texas.
I was not going to root for Texas. It was
not going to happen. But I was hoping that he
did exceptionally well, simply because it was the expectations were
that high and he didn't.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yeah, it was. It was a tough one. But Ohio
State didn't look any better.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
No, no, they didn't.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
They barely earned two hundred yards total in the entire
ta AA.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
This is why I don't like the rankings before the
season starts. Nothing. I will never get over it. You
and I both know I will take a grudge to
the grave. How am I going to get over this?
I'm never going to get over.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
We we already know that it's garbage and speculation. That's
why it's like, we don't nobody really takes it seriously
until a couple of games anyway. But this just gives
you a feel of where things are, and it also
gives you, you know, barstool talk and that kind of thing.
It's just, uh, you know stuff. The band are around
right now, so it's no one's really taking it that seriously.
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And you know, I don't think that game determined the
level of quality in either Texas or Ohio State. He
just didn't. Penn State played a complete walkover, so you
don't know about them. And you have an LSU and
Clemson another top ten matchup, and Clemson didn't look good
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at all. Really, you know, kid club Nick, He's supposed
to be the second Heights favorite after arch Manning, and
he didn't look good at all because he had zero
running game. I will say thirty.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I did win. I did win a bet on that game.
I did say the Tigers were going to win.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Wow, I see what you did there.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Thank you for those of Vietnam ls. Tigers played Times
and Tigers.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
And don't they both play in Death Valley?
Speaker 3 (10:06):
I think so.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
But it's yeah, that was kind of a tough one too,
but LSU started to come around in the second half,
so they looked a little bit better. One of the
better matchups and better games played the entire weekend happened
Sunday night.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Uh huh, yeah, I seem to recall. It was a
game on Sunday Sunday.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Evening Miami one. Notre Dame lost. Everything is grand I.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
I can I tell you how much I was screaming
at the TV Okay, it's not about Miami. I love
you to death, but this isn't about the Miami. This
is about I wanted Notre Dame to dose. I always
want Notre Dame to lose. I don't like Notre Dame.
And don't call me a bad Catholic, and don't come
at me. I don't want Notre Dame to ever win
anything when it comes to football. The rest of Notre
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Dame sports, they can win at all, they can win everything,
but when it comes to football, no, until they get
in a conference, they're dead.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
To me, well, they're just they're always overrated. I'm sorry,
but yes, they went to the final last year. I
get it, but I don't know that they were the
number sixteen going into the preseason. They didn't even know
who their quarterback was. Their quarterback was. He played okay,
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not horrid, but at the same time not blasting anything
out of the water either. And I gotta tell you
if Miami impressed me because the Carson back he just
came over from Georgia, I was very curious to see
how he'd play. First quarter, he looked a little off,
like he wasn't his timing with his receivers didn't look good,
but then he settled in. And this is guy that
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came from a team that had the most dropped passes
in Division one last year Georgia and Miami's had receivers,
and Miami was actually catching. It was raining the entire
game too, and they were hanging on to the ball
when he threw it to him and he could almost
see him go like whoa. So pretty much from second quartern,
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he was plugged in. He guided Miami to three scoring
drives of seventy yards or more. You know, just they
ran the ball up the middle. Very well. Passing game,
very very good. The second touchdown of the game was amazing.
I mean it was CJ. Daniels has already a nominee
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for Catch of the Year. This was high twenty yard
pass in the end zone. It was going right into
the hands of one of the Irish. He goes elevation,
forty five degree angle, one hand catch, basically took it
out of the guy's hands, radled it fell into the
end zone. Touchdown. Just phenomenal. But this cracked me up
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that another receiver Malachi Tony for Miami, new kid, you know,
kind of unproven, nobody knew who he was, and the
coach after the game, Mario Christobal, he said, yeah, that
was kind of our secret weapon. We didn't want to
let people know about it. And but yeah, he's uh,
he's one we're keeping an eye on. Seventeen years old.
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He should be in high school, and there he is
playing Notre Dame prime time, first college game ever. He
went what six catches eighty five yards, got a touchdown,
So it's just an impressive start for that kid. And
our defense looked great. We were giving them a hard time.
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One of the most bizarre interceptions you'll probably ever see
was Notre Dame had a quick to the sideline. Miami
defender got between somehow two Notre Dame players that were
basically next to each other. He broke the pass up
secondary came in and tried to get it, tipped the
ball higher, that guy flipped and then he kicked it
with his foot before our defensive lineman intercepted it and
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ran for twenty yards. But overall, just a great game.
Notre Dame tied it late twenty four piece, we get
the winning field goal with a minute ago. Just a
great game.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
I'm not a happy not a happy camper when I
saw Notre Dame starting to catch up and then tie
the game, and I was like, what the hell, Miami
cannot possibly let them win. But I was glad to
see that field goal, and I was happy to see
the way it ended. I gotta say I was very happy. Yes,
I was screaming. I was so happy.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
It was a really good game. But that's the one
touchdown that Notre Dame got. There was a busted play
and they hit the tight end for like a sixty
yard pass. Yeah, about the biggest flaw I saw out
of Miami's defense.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Otherwise it was pretty solid. Yeah, they were pretty solid.
Are My team actually did pretty well? You could ever tell?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Though?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
This is we're talking about the Ikes, and I love
my team. Win or lose, no problem, I really I
don't get upset if they lose. But they're so mercurial
when it comes to their playbook. And of course our
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coach is relatively new, so it has you know, he's
been trying to make a cohesive team. He did pretty
good last year and I'm hoping he does better this year.
We played Utsa Road Rudders. Now they're they're not in
our division, but Utsa is it well there Antonio, and
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I was gratified to know that my future son in
law and my daughter were like rooting for Texas and
for once because they absolutely love UTSA because they're they're
they're alma mater's major ribles Texas State. So we were
texting back and forth about the game, and I honestly
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we were favored. Yes, we were favored, but you can
never tell. This is this is why the first game
of the season for me, there will be a lot
of upsets, There'll be a lot of surprises. They'll be
you know, this is when you find out how you
coalesce as a team, how you start clicking together and everything.
And Texas A and M was doing really well. UTSA
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was started to come back and start doing really well
as well. You know, So they played A They played
a really good game. Wasn't completely evening. It was forty
two to twenty four at the final, but I just
thought that it was Yeah, it was close to halftime,
we started pulling away, thankfully, But like I said, you
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can never tell with A and M. Okay, I just
thought that it was kind of cool that the quarterback
for UTSA happens to be a young man named Owen McCowan,
and he is the nephew of one of our former
Texas A and M quarterbacks played ninety five to ninety nine,
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Brandy McCowan. And I thought it was kind of cool
that his uncle was there, and you know, they somebody
asked him who are you rooting for? And he just
he looked at him. It was like, you can't be
seriously asking me that question right now, because you know,
he's an Aggie. He still does come to Texas A
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and M games and does a lot of benefits there,
but it's his nephew playing for TESA and unlike arch
Manning Owen mccownan. Actually, you know, he was nervous at first.
He was you know, there were he wasn't clicking very
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well at the beginning, but then he started getting you know,
his team started to you know, trying to grat gravitate
towards him. Things started to click for him and he
started to do really well. So I think, in my opinion,
he distinguished himself. And I do think he's going to
have a really solid career at UTSA as you know,
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as their main quarterbacks, their first stringth So looking forward
to seeing how he develops. As well, even though it's
not it's not my team or anything, I just because
of the periphery that he is related to one of
our favorite quarterbacks. So I just think that that was
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kind of cool that there was that connection going on
with the with the game. But as far as the
game itself went, I think, in my opinion, both teams
did really well. There were some mishaps with Texas A
and M, specifically their defense, aside that, I think both
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teams executed well, especially in the second quarter, in the
second excuse me, second half. So I had a lot
of fun watching the game, both watching Texas A and
M and watching UTSA. That was kind of neat to
watch to see the Roadrunners actually do so well.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
They had a good year last season, really strong, so
I was kind of curious to see how well they'd
come out.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
They lost quite a bit of their first strings last year.
But like I said, they there their coach had been building,
you know, had his own selection of red shirts, had
been building for a while. So when it came to
playing Texas A and M. That's why I said it
could have gone either way, because UTSA had that you
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know that, I guess legacy from last year, and they
had Owen and they had you know, they had really worked,
they worked really hard to get to where they're at.
And you know, A and M is still kind of
floundering out there. They're just a red headed stepchild of
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SEC as far as I know, but still trying to
do well. And it was actually a good game. I
was just, you know, really happy about Texas. I know,
I know that's very petty of me, but I never
said I was perfect.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
So well, ask you this, how far away are the
campuses like College Station and the UTSA.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
So College Station is approximately because you actually have to
take a lot of back roads. We do have a
couple of state highways that run through it, but they're
very narrow. I mean there's it's just like two lane roads.
They're called highways, but it's one lane in either direction.
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And the College Station is kind of in the in
the six So when I was driving from from the
pretty much the area where UTSA is at to College
Station would take me to two hours forty five minutes.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
And that is.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
No and that is there is nothing close to College Station.
That there's nothing close to College Station. It really is
in the middle of the wast Viel most had the.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Left though, because it was a University of Connecticut. I
want to say they were bragging. It's like, hey, we
had our one of the largest attendancies ever seen out
a football game for us. They're really cooking for us,
the fans. Turns out the stadium they play in is
like twenty four miles from their campus and they played
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some small college up there in Connecticut that's twelve miles
from the stadium.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Oh no, no, no, no, they don't understand.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
A little bit of localism going on it, making it
sound like that, you know, there's this upswell of support
for Connecticut. It's like a team you played actually is closer.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Connecticut is the size of a postage stamp first of all,
So of course they're going to fill up there their
thing that.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Yeah, but their opponent is half as close to the
stadium as the main campus.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Right and it, But they don't I mean, yes, they've
had football far longer than some of the Southern universities
have had. But for the Southern University, we will travel.
We will travel for our alma mater. No matter what.
I've seen it in Florida, I've seen it in Alabama.
I've seen it in Texas. I've seen it in New Mexico.
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I've seen it all throughout the southern part of the US.
They will travel, not gonna lie. We were playing UTEP
one year when I was at Texas A and M
from College Station to UTEP, which is in El Paso,
was approximately twelve hours. Yes, we went. We drove twelve hours.
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Did the game came back? I mean, and we weren't
the only ones that did it. Me and my girlfriends
from Mike Gorm did that, but there were a lot
of people that did it. I mean, you went to
UTEP and I love. I love the stadium at UTUP
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is so cool because it's actually between two mountains, so
it's in that valley and it's beautiful. It really is.
Half of it looked maroon, and most of the people
that were there that were wearing maroon were from out
of town. So we will travel. I've seen Alabama travel.
I've seen Auburn travel. I've seen Fsu, I've seen Florida,
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I've seen Miami travel. I've seen them. They will go
the distance for great place Connecticut. Yeah, whatever, No, I.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Just I found it funny that they're trying to brag
about it. And it was like, did you even look
at the map Bumbassa's logistics? Just to put it out there. Well,
there was a little bit of controversy before the games
that came on it. You know, the Fox Channel. They're
trying to do their own version of College Game Day
because that show has just gotten to be so huge
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and they're really trying to juice that up in the
same fashion. So they've struck a deal in the off
season with Barstool Sports and they're actually bringing on Dave
Portnoy for pregame. And if anybody knows anything about Barstool,
Dave Portnoy is just the irascible lightning rod of sports.
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He cracks me up. I mean, I don't love the guy,
but I just love his attitude at times, and he'll
take it to the media a lot, and he's basically
your typical, no shit Southern Boston guy. They said, then,
to show the college noon Kickoff is what they call
it on Fox, they staged their pregame at Ohio State,
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just like College Game Day, and the word was that
Ohio State was not going to let Portnoy into the stadium.
What for real, because she's I guess such a loud
Michigan fan where he went to school, that he's obnoxious
to the point that they were like, he's not welcoming.
Well that there's still some debate on whether or not
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that actually took place, because now the school is saying, well, no, no,
the network made the decision that he wouldn't be at
the broadcast booth or something like that. But yeah, he
he showed up and of course, you know he's touting Michigan.
The Ohio State fans that were there were screeching at him.
It was hilarious. Over on college game Day. By the way,
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Lee Corso, longtime coach, had his last broadcast ever with them.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Yes, I did see.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
That, So that was a I guess, heartfelt moment. It was,
you know, very touching. He's kind of a fixture, that
guy's been there for decades, so he he had his
last one.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Yeah, Aggie's are not not big fans of Lee Corso, No,
but we appreciate and respect the fact that he has
been a fixture for so many decades. No, Corso has
always said rather bad things about Texas and even when
we had you know, even those times that we beat
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Alabama when Alabama was ranked one well they got lucky
Texas A and m is still not It's still not
a good team. I mean you can even tell that
Alabama really outdit them, and I'm like looking at the stats, going,
are you serious? But you know that was years and
years and years ago. But no, Corso has had such
a career and he is I'm sure that several places
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will have a bust of Corso in their athletic hall
because of his influence and everything that he's done for
the game.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Yeah, the guy's getting up there. I mean he's what
ninety years old by now, and last season he had
you can see him struggling a bit on some broadcast
and he was sick and missed about a handful of
the game. So it seemed like it was kind of time.
But yeah, it was a nice sendoff. It was. It
was pretty good. I mean I enjoyed College game Day.
They're pretty comprehensive. They cover so damn much and barely,
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if ever, did they talk about Miami hurricane. So I
got nothing to get bothered or upset about. We're kind
of used to that in Florida, hear true.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
We're kind of used to it as well. I mean
I remember in Notre Dame's heyday with Lou ha Holts.
Lou Holts had the weirdest thing. Every single team that
was due to play Notre Dame was the most underrated team.
Did you ever notice that? I kept track three years
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in a row, and without fail, every single one was underrated.
Even if they were ranked higher, they were underrated. And
I was just like, are you just trying to like
make sure that there's a little like safety net in
case Notre Dame loses.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
That's how you motivate them. That's how Lou does it.
That's uh, I mean, it's part of the game though.
It's all right, but no, it was. It was a
fun weekend. It was good to see some shake ups
going on. We're waiting to remain to see who's established
and who's not. I am kind of excited for Miami
and they looked They looked good on both sides of
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the ball, so I was happy with that. There was
a bit of controversy, you know, up in Oregon before the.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Game, Before you go anywhere, I need to know something. Okay,
did you wear your Miami pants?
Speaker 2 (29:32):
I did not slacker? Okay this coming weekend? Probably?
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Okay, all right?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
It was uh, you know, I didn't know where i'd
be or even where i'd be watching it and that
kind of thing. So it was like last minute, I
found a bar in the area we were at. So
that's why I thought I was going to be hold
up in a hotel room anyway, So no problem there.
But yeah, an Oregon big controvers before the game. The
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duck lost its head.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
I heard about that.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Now. I mean, I understand it's supposedly a mystique around
the mascots. Oh my gosh. Like it's not like you're
a Disney World and there's five year olds, you know,
because at Disney, as you well know, they have very
strict protocol on how they interact and things they say
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and such. You know, you have to keep up that
facade for the sake of the children. This is a
college football. If my mascot loses its head, what the
hell would I think. It's a new guy that's in
the duck outfit. So he uh, he gets a furry
decapitation like pretty moere near the end zone and the
head comes off. He doesn't like trot over and grab
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it and pop it back on. He makes a bee
line for the tunnel and sprints as much as he
can in his wattle pants and feet, like, oh my god,
my head's off her, and then everybody around him as
someone gets the head and someone gets his other gear
in the role racing into the tunnel as well. Because
of this tragedy that it's just like, dude, pop the
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head back on. I don't think anybody was like sitting
there a gas and like, wait a second, that's not
a real duck.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
But amazing.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
I guess the mascots they have like this very serious
code and if this ever happens, you cannot let them
see your face. Okay, I hate to have that ruin.
So I'm glad he beat cheeks into the tunnel before
something happened.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
I don't know, I'm just I mean, yeah, I got nothing.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Well, I'm I'm in the middle of my fantasy draft here.
Oh so yeah, I'm picking eleven out of everything. So
I'm not too excited here. But we'll we'll see how
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we're gonna do to snake draft. So I've got two
in a row, and that went quick. Man. The draft
just started and I already had to pick here. How
about that. I gotta I got some tough decisions though,
because I'm gonna pick next and then I don't pick
again for like twenty screwed.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Screwed, I am, but I I don't play. I'm sure
that it's a lot of fun to do the fantasy
football thing, but I'm just like, I already won one,
so I was done. Yeah, I literally have done that.
(32:55):
I'm not even joking. I have done that. So once
I played in wine, I was okay, I'm then, and
of course I was. Most people didn't like me because
I picked everything based on mascots and colors and people
were like doing all the stats and everything, and I'm like,
you're doing it wrong, But okay.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
We know how you operate.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
I know. I think I agree. Bit Fantasy Football Wizards
would be a really good team.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Name well, I'm in. I'm in a draft with Super
Mexican if people know him, and a few others that
are you know, online and such podcasting. We have three
divisions and this is what they named them. Division one
is called Letitia's rental property. Division two is Shifts Burbank
porn House, and Division three is Lisa Cook's vacation contract.
(33:53):
It's a more mortgage heavy draft. Oh goodness, gotta love
the attitude in the league.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Mhmm, well, you know.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
And then we had the other league I'm in with,
you know, like family and other guys that I know
are had the grandson pick and then he took Najer
Harris on his team. So he went with the name
of his team is Nase Germany.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
I feel bad for laughing, my boy, I'm going to hell.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
We had a couple of us on the phone doing
it and he was like, so, so Pop, I'm gonna
think about going with this name. What do you think? Like,
you gotta do it? He's like, you think so? You
thinks I like, do it? Gauge Go.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
I mean yeah, I mean it's a kind of a
moral prerogative. I guess moral imperative. Weird, but yeah, but yeah.
Speaking of Nazis, have you heard about the latest art
news nice segue.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Yeah, and it was kind of kind of a hilarious.
I'm gonna let you roam with this your this is
in your wheelhouse.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Well I art, yes, you know me. I love the
concept of restoring lost art to its proper owners and
quick shout out the Dutch are fantastic about doing this.
I adore your people for doing this. I still give
Britain the side eye because they're not very good at it,
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but the Dutch are very good at it. It turns
out that back in the forties there was a Dutch
art collector and gallery owner by the name of Gotchtika,
and he was a Dutch Jew and when Germany invaded
the Netherlands, he fled, leaving behind his entire collection of art,
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which was consequently acquired by Hermann Gering and Adolf Hitler.
And we're talking it wasn't five or ten, We're talking
well over two dozen. Well I think it was over
one hundred pieces, masterpieces that he had collected over the years.
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And apparently I did. I learned something new today because
Hitler had an actual financial advisor. I had no idea
that there was such a thing. But his name was
Fredrich Todkien and he was financial advisor to Gerring and Hitler.
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And by financial advisor, I mean he facilitated the transfers
of monies into accounts and such, and also determined what
artwork was worth, you know, pillaging, and what was worth
melting down and what was worth just tossed in a way.
So he was the guy that was handling all the
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money he kept some of the artwork himself, and when
he fled to Argentina, he took several pieces of artwork,
not just oils on campus, but also sketches by well
known artists. Fast forward a few decades and you know
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there's there are several groups that are devoted to the
express you know, finding of lost art. Not sure if
people are familiar with monuments Men. It was a book
that came out a few years ago, was made into
a film with George whatever his name is, Clooney. Thank you.
(37:59):
I'm not a fan, but I did enjoy the film,
and the book is far better. I'm just going to
put that out there right now. The book is always
better in this case, it really was. It was it
helped to actually spread the news of needing to have
established ministries that devote themselves to the restoration of lost art,
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looking for basically solving the cold cases when it comes
to art. And interestingly enough, one day somebody is looking
at real estate listings and they see one piece of
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art that they recognize as being one of the lost
works that was pillaged by the Nazis during World War Two.
It was it's called Portrait of a Lady. It was
by Giuseppe Gislandi and it was found in Argentina, shocking
no one, okay, because that is exactly where he fled to.
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What's the name Kadgian fled to Argentina and he took
several pieces of art with him when he left. The
home was put up as a listing. It is I
looked it up. It's actually in a really well to
do area right outside of Buenos Aires, so it's in
a very well to do neighborhood. I was looking at
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pictures of the actual rooms that were included in the listing.
Somebody took screenshots before the listing was taken down. When
they saw the portrait, they started trying to get in
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touch with the owner of the home. They would not
call him back. They finally called back and the lady
who answered was the daughter of Katgin. She lives there
with her partner, and she was informed that they needed
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to go look at a painting that was hanging in
her house because there was a possibility that this could
be a piece of lost art. She said that she
was extremely busy. She hung up the phone and then
blocked them and blocked all of the social media and
then went dark. I mean she locked down all of
her social media. Her sister did the same thing, her
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partner did the same thing. So they got a warrant
and they go the painting is gone. But that wasn't
the only thing that they found there. They found several
items of interest because somebody was smart enough to take
screenshots of all of the pictures on that real estate listing.
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That was not the only painting that they saw. They
saw several other pieces of art that had been considered
lost as well. And when they got a warrant and
went to go get that particular painting, the reason that
they're concentrated on that particular painting has to do with
the fact that providence has been established for that painting.
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The last surviving relative of the original owner is eighty
one years old. So there's a matter of urgency to
get this painting back because once she passes away, there's
no one left unless she actually establishes a trust, which
I think she has done, so there is a matter
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of urgency. She has lawyers here in the US, lawyers
in Argentina, lawyers in the Netherlands. They're all trying with
the equivalent of the FBI, which is the Policia Federales
of Argentina to recover this painting, so that's why they're
concentrating on that painting. However, when they actually went in
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with the warrant to search the premises, they found other
things that they felt, hey, this stuff has been missing
for a very long time too. There is no prominence,
but it was listed as lost art. They also absconded.
They found two weapons, I believe a shotgun and a pistol,
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and in Argentina they don't have the Second Amendment, so
that may be a thorny issue for the owners of
the home. I'm not sure. But one of the things
that they did find were these particular sketches and colorings
that Henri Matisse had done. Those had been missing since
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the forties, so they knew that that particular set. Now
they're taking them back to establish whether or not they're
authentic because that particular set of Prince hasn't been missing
since the forties. So because of the warrant specified any
any art that had dubious providence, so of course they
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took almost everything that was hanging on the walls. Unfortunately,
there were three pieces that had been hanging on the
walls that those particular screenshots that they did not locate
when they served the warrant. One was the portrait of
the lady. Another one was a still life by Mignon,
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which has been missing for a very long time, but
there's no providence established yet. However, there was a picture
that was taken that they found online on Instagram that
showed it in the back ground before she locked down
the Instagram account. They were, you know, they were looking
through her Instagram to see if they had any other
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pictures of those, So everything that had a portrait or
a picture or a painting in the background, they they
took screenshots, and that was one of them that they found.
And they also found one called Virgin Mary with Grapes,
which also was a They think maybe an original, but
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it was often copied, so they're not sure. So that
has to be established, a soiled they're the authenticity of
that one has to be established as well. We do
at this point, we don't know where the lady who
owns the houses at the real estate website that had
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listed the house changed the listing, took down that listing
and put another listing in its place. So if you
go to the listing, the listing still shows the original
address on the in you know, on the the website
up on top in your browser, but the pictures are
(45:11):
totally different because it's a different house that they're listing.
That is all the information that they've been able to
gather at this point. So at first, you know, when
you find a painting and it's a piece of lost art,
and that has happened several times, which is why quick
(45:33):
shout out to the Dutch, because it has happened in
the Netherlands, and the Netherlands they are really quick to
try and return pieces of lost art to the origin,
to the owners, to the rightful owners that their families.
You are good people. You are good people. I will
give you profs for that. Like I said, Britain, not
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so much. But anyway, it has happened here in the
United States, it has happened. I believe somebody at the
Metropolitan Metropolitan Museum of Art actually recognized one of the
paintings there and said, I think that's a piece of
lost art. And they actually had the FBI come in,
they had to, you know, figure out they went, They
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got the you know, the the monuments people, the monuments
men come in and everything, and sure enough it was.
It did belonged to the family had been looking for
it for a very long time. They just expected it
to be in Europe, so they never looked in America
for it. But somebody that had been to Europe and
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you about lost art recognized it and that's that was
the tip, and the moment was very gracious. Immediately they
decided to transfer ownership to the family. Once the providence
was established and everything has happened here in Dallas. I
was telling you about that case about the lost art
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that had been found in an attic. It involved items
that had been taken from a church during a siege
of a town in Germany by GI's actually took this
stuff from the church to prevent it from being harmed
by the coming bombing of the Germans that they were
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due to attack. The gentleman that was tasked with keeping
this safe and taking it back home so that it
would not be stolen died in that particular battle. So
the widow put all his stuff in the attic and
forgot about it. She never even opened the trunk, so
it wasn't until the children and grandchildren were actually clearing
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out the attic that they found the trunk and they decided, well,
let's just go through his stuff and see if we
want to keep anything in there. And they discovered a treasure.
I mean, there were things. There were gold chalices, there
was a reliquary, there were manuscripts, there were so many
things in there. And so immediately the first thing they
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did was they called the church. Church sense a priest.
The priest identifies everything as being holy, you know, that
belongs to church. This is this is stuff that we need.
We need the FBI. So they called the FBI. The
FBI does have an art division. I'm not sure if
everybody is familiar with that, but they do have an
art division that investigates crime in the art world but
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also investigates lost art. And so the FBI came and
they started searching for possible you know. So what they
had to do was figure out where the guy had,
what battles he had been in, and figure out from
their determining where the possibility of these the areas that
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he had been in, where the churches were in there,
and they had to actually contact each church, and they
got involved, I mean, Interpol got involved. Interpol is actually
involved in this case as well, and so long story short,
Dallas Museum of Art made a deal with the church said,
if we clean these things up for you, and we
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you know, we restore them and make them all nice
and ship them back to you on our dime, can
we display them for a month. And of course the
church said yes, absolutely, They've been missing for decades. The
church was just happy to get them back eventually. I
was lucky enough to attend that particular showing because it
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was it was it was amazing and I got to
see so many beautiful things. And when I was stationed
in Germany, I was mentioning this to my German friends.
She said, oh, I remember when that happened, you know,
And the church was actually about three hours away, and
I never got to go see the church or anything.
But it was kind of neat to know that it
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had gone back to the church and it had established
really good relations in the art world and in you know,
the Catholic world, because it was people who didn't know
the significance were willing to actually take care of it
and give it back. So that was really nice in
my opinion in this case. And I know I've been
(50:18):
talking a lot about this because if I'm very invested.
This is a major telenovela for me in this case,
because those paintings were removed and now you cannot find
the owner of the house. We're pretty sure that the owners,
who are the daughters of the financial advisor, actually know
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that these particular pieces of art do not belong were
acquired under nefarious means.
Speaker 2 (50:47):
Well, I think the very fact that they that one
painting is what disappeared.
Speaker 3 (50:53):
Actually, yes, at the time, you know, they went back
to see it and it was gone. But what they didn't,
what the art investigators and their FBI didn't realize, was
that there were other pieces that had been hanging on
the walls that were gone as well. But they found
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other pieces that they did not expect to find. So
this entire mystery is still unraveling. I'm gonna be following
this because I it's a it's a bug, it's under
my skin. I need to I need to see it through.
I found I found it to be really I don't
(51:35):
have the word for it. I was just very upset
because you would think at this point in time, these
women who are not young, okay they're not young, they
know what it is. They know it didn't belong to them.
They know their father stole it. They have the choice
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to do the right thing, and they choose not to.
And that, I think for me is what sticks in
my cross. It really does. It really does, especially having
seen so many, so many people actually come forward and
you know, try to do the right thing when it
comes to lost art.
Speaker 2 (52:22):
Yeah, it's it's pretty damned telling that they know what
they got therefore, yeah, they do. Hence the artwork is
now missing, those sons of bitches. It's like you can't
trust Nazis or their descendants. Okay, alleged Nazis. All right,
I'm sorry, I want to get sued.
Speaker 3 (52:44):
No, no they're not. Let's I said. They all fled
to Argentina and Uruguay and Paraguay and you know all
those places. So you know, boys from Brazil.
Speaker 2 (52:57):
And you're the grandchild of one of the boys in Brazil,
will just turn the stuff.
Speaker 3 (53:01):
Over exactly exactly, So yeah, I will.
Speaker 2 (53:07):
Following that, I think you mentioned something about being Puerto Rican.
Did I hear you correct?
Speaker 3 (53:16):
Do you want you son of a bit do you
want me to rent?
Speaker 2 (53:19):
Don't you just I'm going to the source. It was
I heard something maybe kicked up on an island in
the Caribbean and you know something about it.
Speaker 3 (53:29):
Oh okay, yes, Brad needs to do some stuff. So
it's Aggie Grant time. So apparently back in Puerto Rico,
they're getting a little upity again. Yes I'm going to
say that word because I am Puerto Rican and I
can say it gasp I know, right, But apparently they're
(53:51):
starting to get a little upset with colonialism on the island.
And I have to laugh about that. Everything apparently that
the government does for Puerto Ricans, it's colonialism. Everything they
don't do for them is colonialism. So basically everything is colonialism.
(54:11):
That's what I gathered from the whole interview that this
young man did. They're complaining because they don't have a
vote for president. They don't have Senate representation, they don't
have you know, technically they have a voice in the
House of Representatives, but they don't have a vote in
(54:34):
the House of Representatives. And I'm like, you know, I
don't see this happening in Guam or Samoa. I don't
see it in the Bridge and Islands either. I just
see it in Puerto Rico. But here's the thing. There's
something that Puerto Ricans are not contending with well, actually
several things. And this is what I don't understand about
my countrymen. They have it easy, they really do. Puerto Rico.
(54:59):
If Porto Rico we're to become a state, it would
be the largest welfare state in the nation. Forty seven
percent of Puerto Ricans are on some sort of welfare.
And I'm just like, I can't you know, And I
don't mean just welfare, I mean the entitlements that come
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the Medicaid, medicare the kids. About sixty eight percent of
them are on Medicaid. And as far as I know,
there's no reason for that. There really isn't. There's just
no oversight in my opinion, when it comes to that.
But on top of that, Puerto Rico only gets about
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five billion in tax revenue from the residents of that island. Yes,
we do pay some taxes, we don't pay federal taxes.
We don't pay a lot of the taxes that most
people over here in the States do. That's why a
lot of companies go and use Puerto Rico's a tax haven.
And that's another thing that they would lose if they
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were to become independent or a state, and.
Speaker 2 (56:10):
I know something else will lose, but I'll get to
that when you're done.
Speaker 3 (56:14):
So they get about five billion from revenues from the
people that live there. Guess how much they use in
revenue per year, about between twenty eight and thirty billion.
The rest is subsidized by the US. That would go
away the moment that you become a state. Every single
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benefit that you enjoy that states do not, that goes away.
They don't understand that. They don't understand how many benefits
they stand to lose by becoming a state. But that's
not what they want. This little, this little shindic that
they're pulling in front of the Fortsa and the Moro
and all those places in San Juan. They want complete authoroty.
(57:03):
They want sovereignty. They don't want colonialism anymore because even
as a state, that would be part of the colonization
of US. Okay, Now, admittedly, the last go round, most
people wanted statehood when they voted, and that happens almost
every year. Again, Puerto Ricans do not understand that you
(57:28):
don't get to vote your own statehood. Okay, that's for
the other states to decide. The year's a deal. Three
fourths of the current states have to determine that you,
as an incoming state, are a solvent and b economically
boom an economic boom to them. You have to supply
(57:52):
something to them. And Puerto Rico doesn't understand that. They
just have sugarcane, golf tourism, but that's not enough and
they are deeply in the red. They have been in
the red for decades. A lot of people complain about
the hurricane response. Blah blah blah blah. Hey, guess what.
(58:14):
The government cannot do anything until the governor of Puerto
Rico invites the president to do something about it. And
this is something Puerto Ricans didn't know either. I know
because I asked my entire family there and they were
not aware. I actually had to tell them after Maria
happened that this is how it works, and they're like, no,
(58:35):
you're wrong. It's like no, I'm not go look it
up and they're like, you know, we can't read English.
I said, it's there in Spanish. I know because I
just saw it. I read it in Spanish and they,
I mean, I actually sent links and everything. They still
called me a liar, but what I yeah, you can
head Google Translate that works. But anyway, there was one
(58:56):
thing outside of all of this stuff. If they were
to become a sovereign nation, there is a headache that
nobody knows about. The US has never told this to
Puerto Rico because for the US it's not a problem.
The US doesn't recognize it. So for the US it's
not a problem. There's no reason to tell that the
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Puerto Ricans, says, if Puerto Rico were to become a
sovereign state, guess guess who would get involved?
Speaker 2 (59:28):
Unclear Spain.
Speaker 3 (59:32):
Spain has never recognized Puerto Rico as a territory of
the US. They recognize it as a territory of Spain.
We are still considered Iberian nationals. We're not considered Puerto
Ricans by ourselves. We're not considered US citizens. We're considered
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Iberian naturals. I can literally have a Spanish passport if
I can prove I was born in Puerto Rico out
of being I guess allies of a sort. Spain has
never pushed that option. But the moment the US decides
(01:00:17):
to back away and Puerto Rico becomes a sovereign nation,
oh you can bet your sweet ass that Spain is
gonna get involved and they're gonna want a piece of
that action because Spain has been very patient. Spain has
never recognized US's claim on Puerto Rico. And if US
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no longer has a claim on Puerto Rico, well then
that leaves Spain to claim it. And they do have claim.
And this is what Puerto Rico does not understand. It
doesn't matter if they claim sovereignty and the US backs
off and gives them sovereignty and lets go of the
territorial status and whatever spain'st as claim. That's the headache
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that nobody knows about. And I am here for that
entire telenovela. I am. I'm like, if this happens, God,
I hope I'm alive. I hope I'm alive if this happens,
because nobody in Puerto Rico understands the complex ties that
are still It's almost like a the tunk between North
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Korea and South Korea. That's what Puerto Rico is to
the US and Spain. Puerto Rico is a DMZ. And
because the US actually won that war, we claim it
as our own. But Spain never recognized that. So the
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moment that Puerto Rico becomes a sovereign nation, which would
sink it Spain has the right to actually claim it
as its own, and I would be here for all
of that popcorn. I'm not gonna lie. I have tried
so hard to try and educate my family into the
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perils of being independent.
Speaker 1 (01:02:08):
I know.
Speaker 3 (01:02:08):
My uncle is like all about independence. He thinks chay
Guevara was great. He wants to be completely independent of
the US. Blah blah blah blah, more power to you.
What happens, what happens when the US leaves? He doesn't
have He has absolutely no clue. He's like, oh, well,
we would be great again. It's like, yeah, with what money?
(01:02:30):
And he's like, what are you talking about. It's like,
who's going to pay for everything that's going on in
Puerto Rico? He says, we are with what money.
Speaker 5 (01:02:37):
You kicked out the Navy, you kicked out to everybody.
You're not kicking out the US. You're not gonna have
any money. And he's like, oh, you're just exaggerating. And
I'm like, okay, nobody wants to be educated.
Speaker 3 (01:02:51):
That's fine. So this whole little thing about the whole
We're done with colonizing and blah blah blah, and like girl, Well,
if you're done with colonizing, strip yourself there, put on
some hay and go live in a bow. Yeo, you know,
give up your house, start living like the Taninos and
the and the Caribs. Did you know back then, because
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Puerto Rico has been under rule since fourteen ninety two
and they did not recognize that.
Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
Well, I've got another reason why they don't want to
pull out from the US. H Are you familiar with
the rum cover over?
Speaker 3 (01:03:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:03:41):
This is this is a spirits tax that's placed on rum.
Speaker 3 (01:03:46):
Oh pretty much.
Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
This has been in place, I know back in the
nineteen forties they first instituted it. Well, I mean I
shouldn't say that. What it is the US has taxation
rate on what they call proof gallon of any liquor
that you produce. So for every gallon of rum, for instance,
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that you produce that's one hundred proof, you pay a
tax rate on that. So if it's a lower proof,
you pay less of the tax. So basically it's like
a dollar. If it's a dollar per gallon, if you
have eighty proof, it's eighty cents. If it's one hundred
and fifty proof. It's a dollar fifty on the gallon,
that kind of thing. Right, So.
Speaker 3 (01:04:30):
Back in the way you're going with this.
Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
Well, back in the fifties, the US regarded Puerto Rico
has a real drain on the coffers. It was just
like it is today. But what they decided to do
then is basically give Puerto Rico a rebate and said,
you know what, you guys don't have to pay the
(01:04:54):
rum tax, give them a kind of a break. Well,
as the deck aids rolled forward, Puerto Rico still was
a drain on the national debt, and they started to
turn it around and pay Puerto Rico the proceeds of
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the rum tax from other countries, and so any other
nation producing rum would pay this tax and the rebate
would go directly to Puerto Rico. And then over the
years this kept increasing. And what ended up happening then
was this payout to Puerto Rico was based on how
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much rum it produces. Well, the US Virgin Islands wanted
it on the game. You're like, wait a second, we
lose a bunch of money too, we should get some
of this rum rebate money. And so it became a
rum production war between the two islands. So basically both
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islands getting the proceeds of this rum cover over tax
and it was based on volume, so whoever produced more
rum got more of that money. And Baccarty got in
on the game and it was like, hey, oh yeah,
we can step up production like a monster, but we
want to get a cut of this too, And so
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the geniuses that run the island, the government basically reached
an agreement ultimately with Baccarty now gets fifty of this
tax rebate. The biggest rum producer in the world is
and so they were stepping all over the Virgin Islands.
The Virgin Islands said this is killing us, so they
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drew Puerto Rico's second largest rum producer. They said, we're
going to build a brand new facility. You can have
it will help pay for your advertising. We'll give you
tax pers It's to the point now that this is
the maker of Captain Morgan Room. Their production costs or
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near zero.
Speaker 3 (01:07:08):
Well that's one of the reasons why peer Out rum
is made in Antiga as well. They were going to
make that in Puerto Rico until they found out about this,
and they said, no, it's better if we find somewhere
in Antigua. Had the the had that established back in
the late eighteen hundreds closed down somewhere in the mid
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nineteen hundreds, I want to say, so they brought it back,
but yeah, they they said absolutely not to Puerto Rico
because of that. Yes, and you know we're known for
having a lot of distilleries in Puerto Rico. Is a
better fact. Just like Kentucky has the whole bourbon thing
(01:07:53):
going that you go from distillery to distillery, you know,
like a kind of like a tour. We have that
Puerto Rico, but it takes days to do. It's not
a one day things.
Speaker 2 (01:08:10):
That's going to be a significant loss.
Speaker 3 (01:08:12):
If that would be a huge hit.
Speaker 2 (01:08:15):
So if Puerto Rico pulls out of the United States,
they're going to lose all of that.
Speaker 3 (01:08:19):
And they're not only going to lose all that, they'll
be subject.
Speaker 2 (01:08:21):
To tariffs, they'll have to start paying on that tax.
Speaker 3 (01:08:25):
Yes, and they'll be subject to terrorifts because we do
get some of our sugar from Puerto Rico, we do
get some of our coffee from Puerto Rico, we get
a lot of our room from Puerto Rico. They'll be
subject to all that see. And this is what I
keep telling my family. You're not looking ahead, You're not
looking to the possiblity, to the actual outcome. You want
your freedom, not understanding that you technically are free. Most
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of the stuff that keeps you shackled our rules and
laws that the government of Puerto Rico puts on you,
not the US the US. Let's y'all do your own thing.
And this is what they failed to understand. We do
have a lot of freedom in Puerto Rico. The freedoms
that have been taken away from us, it's due to
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our government, not the US government. It's not the federal
government doing imposing this stuff on us, it's the actual
government of Puerto Rico doing it. There was a time
when we enjoyed the Second Amendment. My dad was pretty
good marksman, and then a very liberal governor was elected
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and they passed laws that said, if you are going
to own a gun, you have to be a member
of a gun club. So my dad had to actually
become a member of the gun club to keep his weapon,
and you had to go to the gun club at
least once a week to prove that you were a
member of the gun club. It wasn't good enough that
you were paying dues. You actually had to show up
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and all of the guns had to be registered. And
guess what happened When you registered all the weapons. The
government kue where the weapons were. So if something happened
in your neighborhood, the government could just go and knock
on your door and say, hey, for your safety, you're
going to have to turn your gun in because something
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bad's happening in your neighborhood. They would take away your
right to protect yourself. There is no castle doctrine there.
I mean, it's just all of these laws and regulations
have been imposed by the governor and the Senate of
Puerto Rico, not by the US government. So for them
to actually tell us that they want to be free
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isn't force. It's ridiculous. That's not the way it works there.
Speaker 2 (01:10:48):
Well, they will. They've done this before in the past,
and when they chased out the military one time, and
that had a severe economic impact on the island too.
Speaker 3 (01:10:58):
Oh yeah, oh yeah. Even get me started on what
happened in Vieques and Roosevelt Roads. Because I was one,
I tried warning them they wanted there was an incident
that happened with the US Navy in Viechus. They had
a base in Vicus. There was also Roosevelt Roads in
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Puerto Rico. But the Navy had drills every month, and
there were certain drills that required use of live ammunition.
For three months ahead of time, they were warning everybody,
do not go fishing, to not take your boats out
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in this particular area. We will be conducting these drills
on this particular day. Well, one guy decided to go
out there to protest and he gets killed. So of
course the entirety of Puerto Rico gets upset with the Navy.
Not with the guy for being stupid, mind you, but
with the Navy. This was at a time when President
Bush was actually realigning everything. So the bract was going on,
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and so Puerto Rico was saying, yeah, we're going to
kick you all out, and President Bush said okay, And
in one year he took out every single Navy personnel
and took him to Norfolk. You that the island took
a twenty five percent economic hit when that happened. They
have yet to recover from that. They don't understand how much. Yeah,
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the military actually incentivized the economy there but you live
and learn. I guess.
Speaker 2 (01:12:42):
Or not or not. But there you go. Well, we're
getting close to the hour here, so we probably should
hit a few things on the quick. Got a new study.
How much we love science here?
Speaker 4 (01:13:02):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 3 (01:13:08):
This, well run with this because I've talked a.
Speaker 6 (01:13:10):
Lot, I've been busy, so apparently there was a need
or a design.
Speaker 2 (01:13:24):
No, I can't even say that. Scam. I'm gonna go
with that scam.
Speaker 3 (01:13:31):
M hm.
Speaker 2 (01:13:34):
Mental health experts conducted a study over in Britain, new
study from Biolefield. I think that's how it's called Beeld.
You're the German. What does that say? B b i Feld.
Some Nazis joined up with scientists from the University of Warwick, England,
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and came to a conclusion. Get this, regular caffeine consumers,
I mean they immediately reported feeling happier and more enthusiastic
after a cup of Joe or another caffeinated beverage.
Speaker 3 (01:14:23):
You don't say there were periods after every single word
I just uttered by the way.
Speaker 2 (01:14:31):
It was more pronounced in the morning than later in
the day. According to the study published in the journal
Scientific Reports, that sound you here as me doing the
jerk off motion with my hand. Around eighty percent of
adults worldwide consume caffeinated beverage, and the use of such
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stimulating substances dates far back in human history. You don't
say even wild animals consume caffeine. Bees and bumble bees
prefer nectar from plants that contain caffine. No shit, Why
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we've known this for centuries. Again, we've failed.
Speaker 3 (01:15:21):
I'm trying to figure out how it is that this
required a study. All you had to do is sit
across from your significant other or from your parent to
figure this.
Speaker 2 (01:15:32):
Out, or drink it yourself. Well, you know, like my
daughter been going on forever.
Speaker 3 (01:15:43):
No, don't truly. Yes, my daughter doesn't drink drink caffeine,
but she knows that when I get up in the morning,
I'm very quiet. Then I have my cup of coffee,
and then she can start bombarding me with questions. Okay,
but not before the coffee, because she's not going to
get an answer before the coffee. It's just not going
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to happen. I'm not able to actually give her the
attention that it requires. I know that sounds silly. I
know that sounds like, oh no, you're just making that up. No,
I'm not making this up. I need my coffee. And
the thing was, I wasn't a big coffee drinker until
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maybe about fifteen years ago. Before that, it was just tea,
and it was decaffeinated tea. And it wasn't until I
started I drank coffee because that was all that was
available at some place. And I said, oh, this is
not bad if I added a lot of sugar and
a lot of cream to it. So it became Cafe
La and it took me back to, you know, when
I was little, and we would have Cafe l A
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every every afternoon at three o'clock when I was in
Puerto Rico. So for me, you know, I just adapted
to the coffee thing. And that's part of me. I
in the point, I'm not very talkative until I've had
at least half a cup of java.
Speaker 2 (01:17:06):
You know. I've got a coffee mug that has four
lines written on it and it starts at the top
and says don't, then not yet, then almost, and then
at the very bottom. Okay, now.
Speaker 3 (01:17:22):
You have I speaking of coffee mugs. I just have
to interject here real quick. My dad's favorite coffee mug
when he was here was the inn tech one, so
thank you that was his favorite mug. He loved that mug.
Thank you for that warms my heart.
Speaker 2 (01:17:44):
But yeah, these uh these I'm cracking up even at
the fact that it took two universities to work in
conjunction that comes up.
Speaker 3 (01:17:53):
I am convinced they just kept the money and wrote
this up because everybody knows this. It's true.
Speaker 2 (01:18:01):
Yeah, you basically stole everybody else's work here. You know,
coffee wakes, people are up in the Morning's amazing because
what we found out, Oh my goodness, or dumb asses
or I should say wise, very wise of them. Well,
another regular feature here is of late, has been the
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encroachment of AI into our lives and how we're all
doomed what well you know that for we're basically gonna
have the machines rise up at some point in time
and kill us. It's just it's a regular feature. It
happens a lot. However, here's a little bit of encouragement
(01:18:45):
that maybe it's not so much on the horizon as
we thought. Taco Bell is rethinking his use of artificial
intelligence to power drive through restaurants in the US after
some videos showed that the tech is making mistakes. They've
(01:19:05):
had a few of these pop up online. People like
taking video of them dealing with AI at the drive through.
One customer, well, one of them actually managed to crash
the system when he realized that he was talking to
a robot. He ordered eighteen thousand glasses of water, and
the entire thing just like froze up. I think he
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was getting even with it though, because there's been issues.
Let's just say that one. At one time, a customer
was showing that every time it would order a drink,
it was like, okay, and I'd like to get a
mountain dew. The AI would come back and it was like, okay,
and would you like a drink with that? And this
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would just go back and forth. They're like, yes, a
mountain dew. Please, would you like a drink with that? Sir? Yes,
a large mountain dew? Okay, great, and would you like
a drink with that? Another time, somebody ordered a cup
of ice cream and when they got to the window,
it had bacon in it. I think that happened at
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a McDonald's.
Speaker 3 (01:20:15):
Not gonna lie, I would eat that.
Speaker 2 (01:20:18):
Oh yeah, I would like did you this? I'm just
we're good, We're good. One person got up to the
window and found out their order had hundreds of dollars
of chicken big nuggets added to their bill, you know, so,
uh yeah, what are you getting? Like a fifty gallon
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drum of this? What the hell? How I'm intrigued at
this point?
Speaker 4 (01:20:46):
What do you got?
Speaker 2 (01:20:46):
What? So? Yeah, it's uh, it's not a guarantee to
be a smooth operation at least at this point. It's uh, yeah,
I'm not looking forward to our future with this crap.
Speaker 3 (01:21:08):
I'm amazed, I really am amazed. I've as you know,
i'm not a fan of AI. I'm very leery of it.
I don't like using it. As a matter of fact,
I used to do the Grock thing with the you know,
the photograph and blah blah blah. But I just I
was like, yeah, I know, I'm giving it too much information.
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I mean, it has all my information anyway. But the
more you play with it, the more it learns about you.
And so I'm just like, yeah, no, I'm not going
to do that. And so every time you see on
X the whole Grock thing where you know, who what personage,
(01:21:53):
I'm more like, or you know whatever, I just I
don't play. I enjoy what everybody else posts. I think,
and sometimes it's pretty dead on. No, not gonna lie.
Friend of the chat MD had one and I was like,
holy shit, this is pretty dead on for you know.
But I myself, I'm just I just can't. I'm so
(01:22:17):
maybe it's because I'm so old fashioned. I mean, you
and I were discussing how I write everything, longhand cursive,
all my letters, all my cards. My nieces cannot read
my letters or cards now. But you know, I'm just
I can't. I cannot rely on artificial intelligence to actually
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do the work for me. That atrophies me. I feel
like I'm not using my brain anymore. And at my age,
this is a very important thing. You have to be
mentally engaged. You have to make your brain more engaged,
give it stuff to do things of that nature. That's
why i still write everything, Longhand that's why I'm constantly
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playing word games. That's why I don't do math. I
know several of you do, and math is great, but
math is not my thing. So I just step away
from the math thing. But you know, I see my
professor friends having issues with AI when they teller students
this is your exam question. You know you're gonna have
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to write an essay blah blah blah blah, And invariably
they all fall for the AI trap. And my college
professor friends are all like, I literally tell them not
to do AI. They do AI even as they know
that they are traps set that AI can pick up.
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But you don't see when you see the question, And
I'm like, yeah, the you know, people are kind of lazy.
Speaker 2 (01:23:59):
Not a good idea age, especially with all the stuff
we've cataloged here with all the problems.
Speaker 3 (01:24:07):
No, it's kind of like I said, it's not my thing.
And I understand why some people use it for research,
some people use it for annotation, but to actually use
it to answer your entire essay for school defeats the
purpose of you attend these school and paying for the privilege.
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You're not learning anything.
Speaker 4 (01:24:35):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:24:36):
This is also effect in my field, because you know,
I'm seeing more and more AI in articles and crap
that it's unreadable. I can't stand it. It's there's so
many times, you know, just I'll be skimming through stuff,
whether it's entertainment or sports. For the most part, you know,
something I'll come across. It's like, oh, that's interesting, and
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you've got to slog through paragraph of just ridiculous content
and repetitive. They'll say the same thing in different fashion
over and over. Yeah, they won the Academy Award years ago,
and then after winning the Oscar for this role. They
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it's almost like the eighth grader that's patting the book
report because it had to be two hundred words and
they just after I opened the green cover of the
book and turned to page one, and this is what
AI does. It's this kind of crap because it's all
based on prior written nonsense. But we go through this
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too in some of our sites because we use Grammarly
as kind of a corrective program on our work, just
to see if you know, we missed a phrase or
something's misspelled or something like that. But I hate it
because it always suggests much more monotonous language at times,
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you know, they don't It doesn't want you to write
with your voice. And I'll have a phrase or something
in there that's you know, it's either a gag or
just a turn of phrase that I want to use,
and it's like, you know, it sounds better and cleaner
if you shut the hell up your robot, get out
of here. And the funny thing is too, that there's
an option on there where you can after you upload
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an article, you can click on a tab and it'll
review whether or not your stuff is ai written and
or plagiarized. And the funny thing is, you know a
lot of my columns, I'll use the same phrase at times,
and it'll flag that, oh, this has appeared published in
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another location, and then it'll bring up one of my articles. Great,
I'm plagiarizing myself. Get dumbass.
Speaker 3 (01:26:55):
So I think it's kind of funny that you will
run it through grammarly, and then sometimes he'll send it
to me to edit and I'm like, yeah, I still
find mistakes and you're just screaming, well not really screaming,
just using like lots of exclamation points, and I'm like, yeah,
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I'm sorry. No, Well yeah, it's because you.
Speaker 2 (01:27:32):
Know, I'm usually doing three different things with my stuff.
I'm trying to get graphics put into it, making sure
this link is here, I'm trying to upload tweets or
to see if something else is embedded correctly, and then
I'm I'll go back and reread and I'm like the hell,
you know, because then I'm glazing at that point, I'm
glazing over stuff that I know is there. That's where
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another set of eyes is helpful, grateful.
Speaker 3 (01:28:01):
I'm good at that.
Speaker 2 (01:28:04):
Yes, you raise my eyre, I mean you correct my
work in proper fashion.
Speaker 3 (01:28:11):
All right, Well we're almost at the top of the hour,
so I guess we should wrap up. Thank you for
letting me rent tonight.
Speaker 2 (01:28:19):
Sure, hope you feel better. Hope that was cathartic for you.
Speaker 3 (01:28:22):
I hope it was, you know, good for you too.
I know you are busy.
Speaker 2 (01:28:29):
Well, I'm doing what I can with what I've been deltier,
how about that?
Speaker 3 (01:28:34):
Okay, all right, well, I guess you can tell us
where we can find you.
Speaker 2 (01:28:40):
Oh. I am available daily over at town hall dot
com with my media column called Rifts from the Headlines,
also on the front page of Red State on the regular,
where I also have a twice weekly podcast called Liable Sources,
where I dive deeper into the mayhem of our media complex,
and also on this network. You can hear me. Thursday night,
I'm going to be here with Orty Packard. He and
(01:29:02):
I are going to go through the important entertainment information
on the culture shift and alternate Thursdays, it's me and
Paul Young with bad movie coverage on disasters in the making,
and of course every Tuesday here at eight and a
half with you ever ever invested to you. And if
you need more of me than that, let's face what
you do. If you go to jitter, you can find
(01:29:23):
me over at Martini Shark. And what about you, w Aggy,
Where can people find more of your magnificence?
Speaker 3 (01:29:30):
You can find me at Agi Riken and then I
get the barkeep. Those are over on x You can
find me Tuesday nights a thirty pm doing the cocktail
lounge with the affable you a thirty pm Eastern Friday
night's doing, he said, she said, with the awesome rowdy Rick.
(01:29:51):
Next week, on the second Wednesday of every month, you'll
find me over with Toxic Masculinity, where the guys get
together at eight pm and I bring the drink at
the evening. And last, but not least spirited books, Jeff
and I get together every first Monday at eight thirty
pm Eastern and we go into books that are right
outside of our comfort zone and naturalibation to each book.
(01:30:15):
So that's where you can find me. Thanks everyone for
joining us tonight and letting me like ramble. That was
a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (01:30:28):
Now go raise a glassy look at the ceiling.