The Cocktail Lounge w/ Aggie and Brad: Canvas, Cockpits, and Chaos

Episode Transcript

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

(01:07):
The Cocktail Lounge. I am your hostess with mostes Aggie
and with me as always as the ever suave, affable
and quaffable co host, Brad Slager. How are you tonight? Brad? Well?
He was with me? I don't know what happened? Are

(01:29):
you there? Brad?

Speaker 2 (01:33):
How about now?

Speaker 1 (01:34):
I hear you?

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Now what I swear? I am going to punch a
ferret in the throat before we get the show underwear?
How's everything going?

Speaker 1 (01:47):
It's fine from where I'm sitting. I don't know about you.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
I don't know. I think I got like a three
second delay going. I don't know what's going on anymore.
It's everything was perfect until like ten minutes before showtime,
and then everything gremlins? But what are you gonna do?

Speaker 1 (02:07):
I don't know? Is it Florida? Man? Maybe? Is that
what's happening to your computer?

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Probably makes every sense of everything else going on. But
how's everything?

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Everything's pretty good here? I as some of you know,
my folks came to visit me last Wednesday and they
stayed through till yesterday, and it was awesome. I got
to host my parents and their friends. I spent Mother's
Day catering to my mom, and it was it was,
it was great. I missed them terribly already, but you know,

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they wanted to go home. I did bring up the
idea of maybe moving them up here, but my dad's
very sad in his ways, and so he wants to
stay where he's at. But they enjoyed them.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Is was the house clean enough?

Speaker 1 (03:02):
It was clean enough. And then my mom got bored,
so she started cleaning. Of course, I swear, honest to God,
everything was said. I had. We had worked on the
lawn because she's a she's a big time gardener, and

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so she's always picking up over all the leaves, broken twigs, whatever.
She's always cleaning up her lawn and everything. I mean,
we always joked that, oh my gosh, a leaf fell,
Quick run out there and get it before mom sees it.
So we do no. She I was inside and I

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was I was. I roasted a duck for her her
on Saturday, so it was inside busy with that. I
look out the kitchen window and she's over there pruning
my roses. She gets the hose and starts watering everything.
She cannot she can't stay still, She cannot just sit

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and enjoy being still. She just can't. So I just
I gave up. I was like, yeah, you go, mom,
do whatever makes you happy. This is your time to shine.
Go ahead. And so she did. She proved my roses, which.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
I'm sure we're overgrown.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
And I had just proven them, okay, I had taken
all the dead leaves off, I had made sure all
the dead heads were cut everything. No, she had to
prune them to her satisfaction. So but you know, with
my luck, I will get a bunch of roses come
out of that, because everything she touches tends to, you know,

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massively flower. So I'm excited.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
All right, Well, she seems to know what she's doing,
So leave the lady alone.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yes, and how about you? How did y'all spend Mother's
Day weekend?

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Oh? Just a big family gathering up in the Redneck Riviera, Florida.
Hung out there for a couple of days and had
our you know share of family, good times, family drama,
all of that, and just sat back and drank a bunch,
watch some hockey, hung out at the hotel a bit
and just yeah, casual, pretty casual.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Wait wait wait wait, drama.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
No no, I'm not indulging, stopping damn it.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
Okay, fine, you can tell me after the show.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
I don't want to sit there rehash it again. It's
unlike you, un like me.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
This is true, this is it's.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
One of my toibles, slight drama in the schism of
the family. And I'm you know, I'm outside just watching sports,
and every so often different ladies would come out to
the garage where we're all ensconced, and they're rolling their eyes,
and it's like, yeah, good, I'm staying out here. I
don't care if it's ninety eight damn degrees, I'm staying
out here. So pretty much the way it worked out.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
But well, you know, you're you're a good guy. You
sad to avoid drama, and if it doesn't involve me,
you stay away from it. And she just let it,
let it go.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
I just don't give it d And you know, we're
got a laking back of their place, and we're out
there and we spotted a small gator had somehow gotten
in there, probably through one of the one of the pipes,
one of the drainage pipe areas. So you know, the
sister in law whose house were at, she was losing
her mind already, and then she's like, no, don't feed
the thing, and I'm like, go inside and get a

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couple of chicken wings, go, go, go, and sending the
kids in on shuttle runs. And then my u, my
one redneck nephew's got the fishing pole out because he
was flying a kite from it. First off, Okay, then
it came down in the cowfield, so we had to
go and get that. And we're retrieving it from the
fence and like four cows are coming in checking things out.

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Gauge one of the god pete and the Steppedad's like, no,
you can't do that, and I was like, no, ga,
it's just it's barbed wires. So just hold onto the
pole and then step between the barbs and you hop
over and then you can go ped of cow. And
he's like, why are you telling him to do this?

Speaker 1 (07:11):
I was like, because he's a boy.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
I want him to go pet a cow.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
He wants to pet the cow. Let him find out
how to pet a cow. It's not hard.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
It looks like a holstein. I think they're non venomous,
so I'm not too worried.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
Were they black and white?

Speaker 2 (07:25):
It's like two brown ones and a white Yeah, So
it was just.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Oh so there were jerseys.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, probably, I don't know. They got the whole field
of different ones. We get blacks and everything, you name it.
They got him. So it was just funny. It was
got you know, it came down like the winds all
of a sudden died on him. So it came down
in the field, across a lake and everything else, and
we're hauling it back and well we're coming back and
we spot a gator. So he rules everything back in,

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but he's still got a hook on. So I was like,
let's sell ry. So Matthew, you hook it, pull it up,
I'll get the head, you grab the tail. We'll throw
it in the back of Mark's truck, and we'll all
the thing out of here will be euros and everybody's
you know, laughing on She's look at these guys as
she joked. So I'm, you know, beating it in with chicken.
Her like, what are you doing? I was like, did
you not hear our plan? We're gonna catch the gator

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and pull it out and throw it in the truck.
That had dawned on everybody that we're serious and they're
losing her overloving mic She's.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
Like, you can't do it. Watch us.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
Like it was a baby. Wasn't even like a three footer.
It's like, please stop it. You can ever bit us
and might not even notice.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
But my eldest daughter was she was stationed out there
in Florida. She went to a gator round up and
so she got to learn how to corroun them, you know,
round them up and everything. And the guy asked her,
was like, you're really good at this. Do you have experience?
And she said only with snakes and he just looked

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at her. Yeah, that's my kid.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
Yeah. There were like a couple saying, it's like, I
don't know, it's gonna bear boots out of there or something.
It's like a baby. It might get a wallet at best.
But and they scuttled our plans and wouldn't let us
catch it after all, So damn it.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
But oh man would have been good barbecue.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
It was a little too young, pretty kind of sustainable
meat on it, though, so it was just to get
the thing out of there. But they come in and uh,
you know, I'm like, Mark, you got any duct tape,
we might need it from the mouth. He's like, oh,
use electrical tape. I was like, okay, you got that.
He's like, wait, you're serious? Yes? Why is everybody think

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we're joking? It's like our family. I think they're in denial,
is what it is. Me and Matthew are pretty much
uh well, helly, I'll go in and get it if
you want me to to no avail. We did not
catch a gator alas, that's too bad. The rest of
the rest of the weekend was all right though.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
We had our fund Well, that sounds nice. I'm glad
that you guys had well. I'm glad you had a
good time overall.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
So what else is happening? What's got your interest piqued?

Speaker 1 (10:19):
Well, we had some really cool baseball news today. I'm
kind of thrilled about this because I never understood why
this particular rule existed. I mean, MLB had me, you know,

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and I under I understand why the rule exists. I
just don't understand why the rule was applied at stayed
applied after the player's passing. I never understood that there's
nothing that play can do once he passes away. Anyway,
So it came it came down today that the commissioner

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actually ruled that, uh, the MLB would no longer the
puttish spent for players who had transgressed in the game
would no longer apply after their death. So that clears
away for several players like Pete Rose and of the
most famous wise she was to go Jackson to actually

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be considered for the Hall of Fame, So that that's
kind of a big deal in baseball. Most people don't
think that Jackson should be in there because of what
happened with the Black Sox scandal, but a lot of
them do think that Pete Rose should be inducted because

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what his transgressions occurred after he retired as a player
and became a manager, I believe, and so so for
them it has always that has always rankled And I understand,
and I've you know, I come from a place that
where baseball is considered one of the the holy Trinity

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of sports, you know, basketball, baseball, and boxing, those are
the three. So this has always been something a big
topic of discussion when I was growing up, big topic
of discussion still and I can hear my uncle screaming
Hallelujah from here m hmm, because I know he's very

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excited about this. He honestly felt that he was going
to die before this this happened, so he was He's
very happy to hear this.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
I honestly think shoeless Joe Jackson got the chef though,
because it has never been proven that he was part
of the wrangling that went on that year.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
You're right, I've always maintained the same.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
I mean, like his argument was in court, It's like,
just take a look at my stats. They actually got
better throughout the World Series, So how could I be
throwing games? And yeah, that was kind of the uh,
the lynchman. But nobody would ever make the move as
far as Pete Rose goes. I mean I could. I
could see a point to a degree because it's a
manager betting on actual games, never his own. But others. Yes,

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but look at sports today. Every single league has promotional
tie ins with gambling. Yes, and ESPN now has their
own online gambling as well.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
They do. And if we're going to go down this road,
you know, if we're going to go down this road,
look at all of the NFL players who commit felonies
and misemeanors and infractions domestic abuse and all that, and
they still manage to get into the Hall of Fame.
So yeah, for me, it's like this was this was

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way too harsh for Fete Rose and for a lot
of other players. So I'm hoping that this opens the door.
You know.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
Here's the thing, though, the all they've done, they haven't
put them in the Hall. All they've done is now
say that their names are eligible to be voted on.
Here's a lynch of it.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
All.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
The baseball writers are a notoriously what's the word I
want to look for here? That's one. Yes, I was
going to say, like elit ist, anal, retentives and such.
They have a tradition like anytime a player first comes

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up for ballot for the Hall of Fame, like I
don't know, you have to sit out I think five
years or seven years. I don't know what baseball has that.
You know, you go through a period after retirement, then
your first year of eligibility, and then you're allowed I
don't know how many years or how many particular votes
and such, and you have to get two thirds majority

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or something like that. But frequently there's players that are
just a lot when they go up for their first vote,
they're in. You know Cal Ripkins junior prime example. Right,
that's always hold out reporters that will vote no, and
so they'll get in with like ninety eight percent of
the vote because the long standing tradition is, well, Babe

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Ruth didn't get in unanimously, so no other player is
allowed to have a unanimous vote to get into the hall.
It's such utter bullshit.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
It's it's kind of like their own little White House
Correspondence Association, Delio. It's the Hollywood what's it called the
Foreign Press?

Speaker 2 (15:38):
Oh yeah, yeah, globes, right, yeah, it's like that.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
They just they want to feel important, so they vote no.
They want to be the one that said no.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
Yeah. And that's the thing is, how do you how
do you justify voting against somebody that is recognized by
the entire world of baseball's going in the game, like
Hank Caveron and anybody else. You know, they'll sit there
and say, well, no, he can't get in. He has
to be ninety eight or ninety nine, can't be one hundred.
Like you, petty little asshole, what is being proven? What

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are you establishing with that that there were days when
you know, players hang up the spikes in the last game,
was like, all right, next up, Hall of Fame, Like
everybody knows it, and somebody has to vote now just
to be that and it's ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
I remember when they were doing the All American Girls
Professional Baseball League section that they were putting in the
Baseball Hall of Fame. I suspect, you know, late eighties
or so, and there were several of those same people
that were abviod knows about it because they weren't men.

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And I'm like, the whole one of the All American
Girls Professional Baseball League was the fact that the men
went to war and we still needed to provide some
sort of entertainment back home, and these women stepped up
and they played baseball. It wasn't softball, it was baseball
that they were playing. So but yeah, there's always that

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section that will vote no to make a name for themselves.
That's their entire motivation. I don't think they really care
if Pete Rose was, you know, the archangel Michael's favorite
baseball player, they will still vote no simply just to
get their names known.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
Well, that's just the way they are, you know. I
think they have I want to say that they have relaxed.
Maybe I'm looking right now for some reason, I think
they finally like got rid of those old school codgers.
Let's see, they're cheeter. Was like ninety nine each she

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rose Suzuki, who should have been no. Yeah, one one
person didn't vote for your okay, So Mario Rivera in
twenty nineteen got a total vote that was twenty nineteen.
But this year Suzuki, one person voted no.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
And they have and honestly, none of them have a
really good excuse as to voting no.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
It's like nearly four hundred writers and three hundred and
ninety three yes, one no. I mean what I should.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
Well, I I just hope that this actually it is
a way to you know, solve the the ranker that
exists with you know, with with with the people that
love baseball, because you know, I my dad was born

(19:02):
in thirty two, but baseball was the one escape that
most kids had in my hometown back in Puerto Rico.
And my dad remembers the stories about the Black Sox scandal.
He remembers the stories, he remembers listening to the games

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coming in from the US, and it was for him,
it was you know, it was an amazing time. And
then when it happened with Pete Rose, my father was
really upset. And I didn't even think he was a
Pete Rose fan, and he was like, that's not the point.
The point is he did not commit any infractions while

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he was a player, and this the Hall of Fame
is for players. And so he felt that Pete Rose
has gotten a really raw deal for this. So I'm
going to call my dad tomorrow and tell him about it.
Tell him, hey, there might be some redemption soon, so
I'll make him happy.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
Yeah, I'd never really bought into that thing, you know,
like what happens off the field, Say, okay, they still
had phenomenal performances, and now the only real asterisks I
would put in there would be with the guys Barry
Bonds Junior or such, with performers enhancing drugs. I mean,
that's why Roger Clemens won't go away in things of
that nature. So that's up to baseball, I suppose, yeah,

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because I mean Bonds has every hitting record you can
come up with, and yet they're not they're not allowing
them in because of this.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
So and what was it? What was the other guy?
Samed Mark.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
Mark McGuire McGuire.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
Maguire, Yeah, I remember one one year he's skinny. The
next year he is like twice the size of you know,
the jogging vainta. I'm like, what the hell happened? I
did not understand. And of course this was before I
knew what was going on in baseball. I was living
in Arlington at the time and hometown team was the
Texas Rangers, and we used to get Rangers into the

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hall all the time, in particular in the section where
my store was, because that's where the guys hip clothing
stores were, Like Oak Tree. You remember oak Tree? Oh yeah, Well,
jose Canseco loved that store and he used to come

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in at least a week and drop a grand in
clothing there. And I'm like, dude, you can dress so
much better than this, but there's no accounting for taste.
And so one day this broke my heart. He had
a bunch of little kids after him and he turned
to him and said, I don't sign autographs for free.

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And seeing the faces on those little kids, I it
hardened my heart towards towards Gonseco. And then when that
whole thing with juice came out, and all that stuff,
and I'm like, dude, you were the one. You were
one of the major juicers, you know, and you're you're
exposing them because you're no longer getting paid. That's all

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I mean. He just he was such a hypocrite. He
really is. But anyway, I digress. I hope he never
gets in either.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
I'm not h you can't take the personality and meld
that in with the performance on the field stuff.

Speaker 1 (22:26):
I am. I am a Nolan Ryan fan through and through,
and I'm a Roberto Clemente fan from infancy, you know,
so I have I have my favorites. But but no,
oh no, I told you I have. If I have
a grudge against somebody, I will I will die with
that grudge. They will, you know, I will cremate. They

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will cremate me, and my ashes will then carry the
grudge for me. This is how, how how it's going
to go down. So it just doesn't go away with me. Sorry,
not sorry, got it? But I know we have some
hockey news too.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
Oh yeah. The playoffs are ongoing and the the Panthers
and Maple Leaves are locked in a damn good series
and it's Maple Leaves took the first two games. A
lot of people were in panic mode, and I'm on
the record even says like relaxed, we got this. You know,
they're playing fantastic. In fact, game two they completely outplayed

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the maple Leaves. In my opinion, they just lost by
a goal. I couldn't finish, spent the entire game, and
the maple leaves under the ice as you like. But
Game three at home got a victory. Game two at
home was game four altogether, and they just grind it out.
I mean it shut them out to zero and just

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playoff hockey, very close series. And the Canadian fans are
all getting pissy. It's like they're unfamiliar with how to
play the game up there, which is kind of odd
considering Toronto is considered the hockey center of the universe.
But they're all bitches. They hit us as a headshot,
and for every complaint they have, I can find a

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corresponding video of Toronto doing the same thing. Yeah, but
he hit them three feet off the boards. That was boarding. Yeah,
just like your guy when he hit Rhino behind the neck. Right.
And then they're silent or they say you Florida foods
don't understand hockey.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
I think you understand it just fine.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
Matching your example one for one. I mean, and then
I was laughing. I think it was yesterday some some female.
I won't be derogatory. She she's connected with something.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
Say go ahead. I still have the I still have
the tweet where you actually call this pitches so.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
Or to pull that out of your back pocket on
a convenient point.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
That is like that is like by ace in the
hole boom right there. I have this funny story to
tell you about that three. I had that as my
header and I call it something for us RV people
going yeah about your header. Oh yeah, let me change that.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
Yeah, the military isn't so fond of it.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
No, they're not, they're not. I mean, everybody was laughing.
They just thought it was really funny. All of my
doctor friends and everything, but they just they just said, yeah,
that that provided a bunch of laughs. But I don't
know if command sees it like I'm changing it right now.
But yes, I still have that tweet saved my you know, photos,

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because it was classic and it was true. You weren't lying.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
You'll have to you'll have to reshare that with me.
I don't have a fond memory of myself. Sounds like
something i'd say. That's all I'm gonna go.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
Yeah, it was. I think it was me and uh
Stacy Scott's fire and somebody else. I think all three
of us were in the same bread with you, and
you just said, bitches all, y'all's.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
Guilty. That's all I can say.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
Like I said, you weren't wrong, so that's okay.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
Well, this particular syupean Wench was getting her nose bent
out of shape because apparently after the final whistle on Sunday,
there was a chant in the stands of USA USA. Gasp.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
Oh no really, yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
It's like wow, an American team chanting USA. Who the
thunk it?

Speaker 1 (26:59):
Gee? There?

Speaker 2 (27:00):
Why so's she's castigating the Florida fans like, you know,
you have to act so stupid, and they did. And
then people were pointing out that you realized during the
Canadian Games when they played both national anthems the Canadians
were booing, seems a little worse actually, you know, one
is actually hometown pride and the other is actual aggression

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towards the opposition. There and when faced with this rather
clear cut example of hypocrite things, she basically said, yeah,
but when we were booing, that was towards Donald Trump.
So it's like, let me get this straight. Both fan

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bases acted the same or different, but yours was more
nuanced than directed, where the Florida fans saying USA were
being completely rude and disrespectful. Got it. And then I
had some other idiot opening his poutine hole with me

(28:06):
and saying, Florida fans are really dumb because like half
your roster is Canadian. It's like, well, you know, it's
actually eight players out of twenty five, so no, but
you know, nice nice strugs, like you know, but still
you know, rooknoes in that fact. Idiots. Oh, I'm the idiot,

(28:27):
got it? Got it? Okay, because the franchise, the stadium, ownership, management,
and every player on the roster lives in the USA.
Kind of kind of wrong to shade USA. Understand now, perfect, perfect,

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But again, these are's like supposedly Toronto fans the most
nuanced and well versed, cerebral hockey fans on the planet,
and they're just absolutely lost.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
I don't understand. Why can't they do account or chant? Can? Nah? Yah? Can?
I mean, it's it's in the scoop. I mean, I
don't understand why even that too.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
I said, you're you're getting upset about this. You know,
if you were there chanting in Canada, I can guarantee
you not a single person in the United States would
give the rats ass chant away hometown, go for it,
knock yourselves out. And you know the the answer to
that is, well, it's because you people do it all
the time, and you actually dress up in the American

(29:31):
flag and cause police, so it's not bothering you. I
just said, it's not bothering us.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
Okay, but I see I see Canadians wearing their flag.
I see them. It's not cosplay to be proud of
your country. And this is endemic of that whole mindset
where they don't take pride in their nation.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
You know, well they can or canad but it's like
we don't care.

Speaker 1 (30:03):
No, I know, that's another level. We don't care.

Speaker 2 (30:05):
Like when you were booing the national anthem, we were like,
well that's kind of classless. But I'll get over it
because the game's about to start in five seconds.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
Yeah, every right to woo us, just as we have
every right to throw poutine. I mean, seriously, why not.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
I just I just find it funny that they get
bent out of shape. Oh man, American team was shitting us. Yeah,
how dare they? Okay, that's what you want to get
upset about. If I were you, I'd probably get more
upset about the fact you didn't score any goals. But
you know that's that's me not understanding hockey. So I

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just kind of have to sit back and laugh. It's
just okay. But the funny thing is really that they
were It's playoff hockey. They're the ones getting upset and
floors dirty in a bunch of shooty hitters and headshotters and.

Speaker 3 (31:05):
Yeah, yeah, welcome to the NHL.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
Hope you enjoyed the game.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
And this is another thing. It's a game. This is
what it is, a game, and these people treated like
it's like you're it's an act of war or something.
I don't well is the.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
Fact that they're getting offended, like, oh my gosh, he
hit her player. It's like, all right, you took two
head shots at us, one of your guys hit our
star player after the final whistle, and you also knocked
one of our guys out with a concussion. So it's
a two way street here. Guys, you know the ice

(31:46):
tilts and bolt directions. Little. I don't want to get
too vulgar here. It's a family show, but.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
I think so. Yeah, we did the following program, Yeah,
we did.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
It's been a fun series so far and really tight
and uh well played, and I'm I'm enjoying it. So
I'm also enjoying them getting upset.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
It it is it Okay, I enjoy it too. I
will admit I enjoy their their angst. It's very it's
very I'm pointing to my moniker right now, shun delicious.
Yes it is. And I didn't used to be that
kind of person, but I am now, So I'm good

(32:35):
with it.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
Well, I do. I do have to come in with
some breaking news here from Florida.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
God, so we have like five Florida man things and
this is a new one.

Speaker 2 (32:52):
No, no, this. We talked about this and what it's
kind of breaking for everybody. It's uh from the Miami Herald.
They reported that good news, bad news kind of story.
I don't know. Basically, there was a yacht out in
Bay and Miami had dozens of people on board when

(33:16):
it started sinking, and of those on board, it included
thirty two social media influencers that was sinking near Miami Beach. Actually,
and emergency call was put out, the coastguards showed up
on the scene. Yeah, it was just very dramatic, very

(33:39):
tense issue going on there. And I have you know,
gone through some of the follow up reports and unfortunately, yes,
I sadly I do have to report that all thirty
two social media influencers survived. But otherwise good news so

(34:07):
that happened. I just I couldn't imagine being on a
boat with thirty two forget in. I'm pretty sure at
some point in time, I would just throw myself over
the transom. Just I got to check out, guys. I
can make it the short from here. I'm good, No,
don't even slow down, don't worry bye.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
I I'm glad they got rescued. I will not say otherwise,
because you know that that's kind of rude and everything.
But I'm I do wonder why so many were on
a yacht. I mean, there is I know there are
weight limits for for watercraft. There are also limits on

(34:53):
the amount of people that can be on any watercraft,
such as you know, the same type of limits that
exist for buildings. Elevators, et cetera exist for watercraft, so
I'm assuming they exceeded the limit.

Speaker 2 (35:08):
I know. I don't even know if you know, the
boat ran aground on something or flipped, and I don't
think it was because it was overloaded. It was probably
more some idiot driving the boat for the first time,
or it was probably a rental and I know what
I'm doing and then hit a piece of weight.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
Yeah, that's completely plausible too. Yeah. So, I mean, I
saw the picture, and there were quite a few people
on that boat. But like I said, I'm not familiar
with watercraft. I tend to avoid them when I can so,
but I know that there are weight limits. There are
numerical limits as well, just in case. So who knows.

(35:49):
I'm glad they're okay. I will say that as a
disclaimer to you to what you said.

Speaker 2 (35:58):
I just want to give an update. It's all.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
Yeah, but you know, and this is not the only
Florida thing that you've got. I mean, oh no, I
have to say. Your state is it's it's truly, it's truly,
it's a state.

Speaker 2 (36:15):
But go ahead, it's a marvel. You're gonna You're not
gonna offend me.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
I know that I can't offend you. I'm just saying
that there's so much that happens there. I don't know
how you keep track.

Speaker 2 (36:29):
It's like, how dare you be accurate? It is really
offensive when you notice, you know, that kind of thing.
It's just no, yeah, we're screwed up down. I get it.
You have to either embrace it or just let it go,
or or let it bug you the rest of your life,
one or the other. I mean, like, when I go

(36:52):
up to see the relatives up in the red Neck
Revie era, it makes no sense. I can check in
at a hotel there and it's you know, it's it's nice,
it's relatively new, under one hundred bucks, perfect, you know,
free breakfast, it's two three miles from their house. We're fine,
we're set up, it's established. They got a pool. Cool.
Wait ever, all right, we're happy. Same place. A week later,

(37:14):
two hundred and fifty a night, We're like, wait, it's
a Thursday. What the hell? Well they got fishing thirty
going on this way? Can Oh, yes, I got a
bunch of air boats in towns, soho gotta charge it.
And then we went up one time and we we

(37:37):
were there for two nights Friday and Saturday weekend, right,
no problem, third cheap rates cool. And then at the
last second she wanted to go Thursday as well. So
it's like, all right, tack on Thursday. Thursday costs more
than the Friday and Saturday night combined. Wait, wait a mine,
what hold on? Well, no, it's just you know the

(38:00):
way it goes with room rates and stuff. So we
have like we pull in to check in, there's like
four cars in the parking lot. Sorry, you're not you're
not giving us the last room available on not buying it.
But it's that kind of thing, you know, you just uh,
you gotta you gotta roll with it sometimes. What's really

(38:23):
cracking me up, though, is like this is this town
is redneck. And we had a nephew that came in
from California. They hung out in the pool with us
Saturday night. We were out there drinking till like eleven talking.
He's like, oh yeah, you know, hopped in a truck
with Mark and he drove me around town and showed
me the history of Okechobee City and I was like, wow,
and what'd you do? Fifteen minutes later because they're and

(38:50):
the thing I mean, they got everything there, but you know,
pizza hud home depot, you know name and it's all there.
But that stuff's all been like the last couple of years.
I'm sorry. The history of okachov claim won a water tower,
there's that, there's that, there's.

Speaker 1 (39:07):
That here, Banjo's here, just kidding, but yeah, you.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
Got cow farmland. And then over the levee is this
monstrous Lake Okachobe. It's just there, so there are.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
Though it really is. I guess, well, okay, you familiarity
breeds contempt. This is true, but I've seen pictures. It's pretty.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
Wait where I live here far more pretty because Lake
okob is literally that a lake m hm, massive body
of water. Where I live the Everglades. This is Lego
Guachobe filtering through it down from South Florida, and the
Everglades are completely different.

Speaker 1 (39:57):
That is one of the most interesting wa stems in
the world.

Speaker 2 (40:01):
Swamp lands and cattails and gaiters and you name it.
We got every damn thing.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
Pythons, Yeah, pythons included.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
Yep, that's uh, it's everywhere. I actually had a python
dream the other night. Now that I think about it,
it was weird.

Speaker 1 (40:19):
Well, that's Freudian.

Speaker 2 (40:23):
Well, now that you mentioned.

Speaker 1 (40:30):
I will call you tomorrow because I want to know.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
It was just like came upon a scene where there
was a woman pulling a python out of a gator
hole and it was a gator. Second.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
Oh wow, that is Freudian.

Speaker 2 (40:45):
Or exactly accurate.

Speaker 1 (40:47):
I mean just saying, well, that's true.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
You know sometimes the banana is just a banana.

Speaker 1 (40:52):
This is Florida. That is an accurate description of what
what would happen, So I have no doubt.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
It's it's like, oh my gosh, you got the problems
sexual issues. It's like, no, I a mile from this.

Speaker 1 (41:04):
No, if you were living in Alaska and you had
the strength and I have questions. But here now that's
just pretty normal.

Speaker 2 (41:11):
I walked out the front door. I mean this afternoon,
I had to go out to the pool area and
chase away a four foot iguana because he was eating
all the points that is that are the other flowers,
you know, one of the flowering bushes. And it's like
I watched one disappears, like the hell just happened here?

Speaker 1 (41:29):
What?

Speaker 2 (41:29):
And then I see him crawling through changes color gray
to match the wood of the bush, and I was like,
dam a bitch, let me go chase and just life
down here. Yeah, eating the flowers, they're pretty well to
shoot your ass. You don't belong here.

Speaker 1 (41:50):
But maybe I'll get the opportunity to go wrangle a few.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
You might have to because they've scared a hell out
of I mean, I'm the kids are just over too,
and they got a bunch by the airhouse. They're like,
these things don't care. I mean, you throw stuff at them,
hit them, they don't move. It was like, really, because
I came walking up and this thing ran like it
was on fire. You must have known something.

Speaker 1 (42:14):
If they throw something at a snake and it doesn't move,
it has just eaten probably, so it's it's trying to
digest and it will not move for a while, but
after a while it'll move. It'll go on. So that's
pretty funny.

Speaker 2 (42:31):
So life down here. Well, so some more Florida news here.

Speaker 1 (42:36):
Yeah, keep going because I know there's a lot.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
Headline. Florida City finally figures out why it smells so bad.

Speaker 1 (42:50):
Y'all are not going to believe this. They actually had
They did a study.

Speaker 2 (42:56):
Right, there's a mystery stench surrounding the area of Mount
Dora and the residents and visitors have for years worried
about it, but they may have finally identified this thanks
to consultants who were brought in for the city and
for Lake County. And now I've been to Mount Dora.

(43:18):
I know the area. Our friends lived in Lake County.
We go boating with them, go bar hopping on the
boat all the time, and Mount Dora is like a
little older but it's like a touristy kind of place,
like you can get out, walk around and go, you know, shopping,
bar hopping and all kinds of stuff like that. I
firstly didn't encounter too many bad aromas there, but apparently

(43:40):
I don't live there, so that's what I'm missing. And
they've always had a question about what to do about it. Well,
according to the consultants, who issued an eighty three page
report that was funded with a combined effort from two
local governments at two hundred seventy thousand dollars, these experts

(44:06):
have determined that it's probably the Mount Dora landfill that
was generating hydrogen sulfate gas and gave off a pungent odor.

Speaker 1 (44:15):
You should see my shocked face right now.

Speaker 2 (44:19):
These as clowns pocketed nearly three hundred K to say, Yeah,
it's dumb, but I mean credit to them that they
managed to come up with eighty three pages to explain this,
because I know for a fact these guys probably rolled

(44:42):
into town and they're like, you smell that, Like, sure
do it's your guy? You know what, It's gonna take
us weeks to study here. I guarantee you these guys
probably came out with like striped tabs and swabs that
they held in the air and hook samples and claimed

(45:02):
to be doing stuff. And yes, certain areas have a
very innovative sulfide content and quadrants per million that we
need to analyze further in the.

Speaker 1 (45:18):
It's the landfill.

Speaker 2 (45:22):
According to my gauge, here your hydrogen sulfides a spike
in a bit. That's it's unusual. I'm gonna have to
look into this further.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
Wow, that's that's amazing because most people would have just
stepped outside it smells like garbage and give.

Speaker 2 (45:43):
Me half the money. I walked out to the park
a lot and pointed at the highest point in the county,
the landfill. You guys see that over there there? See that? Okay? Now,
when the wind shifts. You're gonna smell that. That's what's
going on. Can I have a check? Please?

Speaker 1 (46:06):
But that's not That's not even the only study that
was done in Florida. Nope, that was silly.

Speaker 2 (46:16):
Some say silly you for instance, some say life saving.

Speaker 1 (46:22):
I'm just gonna stick with silly because that's what it is.

Speaker 2 (46:25):
Well, I'm going to correct you on that because as
a Florida resident, I'm going to refer to this study
from the University of Florida about alligator attacks. Let me
remind you their mascot is a gator, so these people
know what they're talking about. I hear you laughing, but

(46:50):
I'm trying to tell you here. Okay, Florida finally figured
out what causes most alligator attacks. Because of this, a
group of researchers have included this and I'm not talking about,
you know, a little half assed study either. They went
through attack records dating back to the seventeen hundreds that's
almost three hundred years to you and me, and they

(47:15):
looked at everything from the interactions to the causal attack motivators,
what kind of triggers the reptilians might have been activated by,
and tried to determine what led to this. So it's
it was an exhausted by university study. Another university from

(47:36):
the north helped out with this. The research team three
centuries of records seventeen thirty four to twenty twenty one.
It's extensive. These people were not fooling around. They were
serious about this, and the researchers found that in ninety
six percent, that's pretty high number. Ninety six percent of

(47:57):
the recorded incidents, we're due to some form of huge
human inattention or interaction with the reptilian that attacked them.

Speaker 1 (48:11):
So basically, the human got too close to the gator.

Speaker 2 (48:15):
That's exactly what they found out.

Speaker 1 (48:17):
Yes, listen, I'm not a gator expert, but I did
watch crocodile duntee and that's what happened to the blonde chick.
And I mean I learned my lesson there. I don't
understand why this needed to be done. Why did they
need to make a study about this.

Speaker 2 (48:33):
This is another one of those that we should have
come up with.

Speaker 1 (48:38):
We should have done this. I could have spent my
time in Florida people.

Speaker 2 (48:43):
I mean, I'm you know here, I am thinking, Okay,
alligators are freshwater species. I'm just going to spend my
time in the ocean. Damn it. Why are these sharks
bugging me? I wish somebody could explain where it turns out, Uh,

(49:04):
did you get close to the shark? There you go.

Speaker 1 (49:08):
Science, Getting too close to the gator actually provoked the
gator into attacking you. They're territorial. I don't understand why
people have not figured this out yet.

Speaker 2 (49:23):
Look, I'm not saying I haven't grabbed a few gator
tails to chase them off. In my life stuff, there is.

Speaker 1 (49:29):
Only one animal besides a female gator that can get
close to a male gator, and that's a capybara. And
that's it. That is the only animal I've actually seen
get close enough to where the gator is fine with it,
and the gator actually ends up, you know, you know,
resting next to the kapy bar. I mean, the caps
are the most chill of all animals. I mean, they exude,

(49:51):
they don't attack. No, they don't.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
Why not. Do they like taste batter or something?

Speaker 1 (49:58):
No, the capi bera is just like the hippies of
the of the animal world. They're just like flower children.
They're like all about peace and love and understanding. I
don't know what it is about a capy barrel, but
all animals tend to gravitate towards them and distress. That's

(50:18):
why the capi barre cafes in Japan are so popular.
People go in there, they order a cup of coffee
and these capy birous come out of nowhere and they
just pet them and they it's their Their stress is gone.

Speaker 2 (50:30):
I'm sorry, but a fat rodent like that looks like
something a gator would not even hesitate the I know.

Speaker 1 (50:36):
I know, but I've seen, I've actually seen where gators
will just hang out with kapi virus and just lay
next to them.

Speaker 2 (50:43):
I'm intrigued. Now call me. Hey, wait a second, I
think we've just found our study.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
Ooh, and I get to hang out with kapy virus a.

Speaker 2 (50:57):
Walk a coppon beara out to a gator hole.

Speaker 1 (51:01):
To test the theory that Aggie has. Oh holy shit,
this podcast is really good, by the way.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
The Yeah, it'd be kind of an interesting, albeit dangerous study.
But like, what if I were to wait out like
knee high or thigh high water fishing in a gator
bog surrounded by cappy beerra would not protect me because
I do know a great fishing spot that's just got

(51:31):
ship ton of gas, tons of I mean you.

Speaker 1 (51:34):
Just the gators are okay with the cape bears, they
still figure you're part of the food tat.

Speaker 2 (51:47):
I'm not sure that, so like, hang out with the cabs.
I'll fish around you and pull up basts. I'll even
toss them to you if you leave me alone, and
then we go. So I'm curious.

Speaker 1 (52:00):
Anyway, Well, I'm I'm shocked to find out that the
University of Florida Gators spent money trying to figure out
why gators are hostile. And it's just, oh, yeah, you're
standing too close.

Speaker 2 (52:13):
Okay, wow, alligator attacks. We're getting close to an alligator. Thanks.

Speaker 1 (52:23):
Who could have predicted this? Everybody raise your hands.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
It's like that that mock movie trailer that somebody made
years ago called pool Shark. Oh yes, massive party, and
everybody kept falling in and getting the tackles one one
guy in the whole time. Just get out of the water.
Just don't go in the water. But it's like it's

(52:51):
so hot there. Science we should do that, Yeah, we're
gonna well, we should petition the university to study the.

Speaker 1 (53:01):
Well now that there's a Cape Barra cafe so called
in Florida, maybe we could, h we could, we could
swing a grant.

Speaker 2 (53:10):
So I'm saying here the non predatory interaction of interspecies
collectives between the alligator and capi bara. Of course, we
have to use the Latin names for them in order
to really dress this up. But I'm gonna I'm gonna
have to do some research on my own here. I'm

(53:31):
intrigued now by what you're telling me.

Speaker 1 (53:33):
Mm hmm. Did you have another Florida story. I'm sure
there are plenty, Mom, I don't.

Speaker 2 (53:43):
Know if it's Florida, but this one, this one really
caught my eye here.

Speaker 1 (53:48):
Mh I'm already laughing. I don't even know what it is.

Speaker 2 (53:58):
Well, Federal prosecutors on Monday fought to keep a man
behind bars after an investigation made the largest seizure of
homemade explosives ever retained in FBI history. This was in Virginia.
Thirty six year old resident was the focus of an

(54:23):
investigation that was opened a couple of years ago. His neighbor. Basically,
you know, if you see something, say something went that way,
called law enforcement just had suspicious activity and under investigation
came to find out this guy just had a butt

(54:45):
load of pipe bombs that he'd been making, as well
as numerous other explosive devices. So they got him for
possession of unregulated short barrel rifle as well as a
stockpile of no fewer than one h undred and fifty
homemade improvised explosive devices basically pipe bombs. Oh, and made

(55:08):
one other decision about this individual. He had one time
managed to blast three fingers off of one of his hands.

Speaker 1 (55:19):
I guess he wasn't careful enough.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
I think they might have literally caught him red handed.

Speaker 1 (55:27):
Didn't I see what you did there. I'm stunned at
at the cash that they found.

Speaker 2 (55:41):
And that's incredible, they said. Most of the explosives, according
to the prosecutors, were found organized by color in his
detached garage. Some were labeled lethal, others pre loaded into
an apparent wearable vest.

Speaker 1 (56:01):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (56:04):
And some more pipe bombs were found unsecured in a
backpack and that had been labeled hashtag no lives matter.

Speaker 1 (56:13):
No lives Matter.

Speaker 2 (56:19):
I'm gonna say good on the guys for catching this one.
Seems seems a bit sketchy, So yeah, I guess the guy.
Wonder if all his neighbors. I gave him a nickname too,
It's like, hey Deuce. But yeah, the FBI did some

(56:40):
good work here. I think getting this cat off the street,
I'm gonna go with the probably a good idea.

Speaker 1 (56:45):
Huh oh yeah, definitely. I just I'm just kind of
still stunned at the amount that was found. That's incredible
to me.

Speaker 2 (56:58):
It's like, what else do you do with your free time?

Speaker 1 (57:02):
I don't know, cross stitch paint rocks, take a page
out of my book.

Speaker 2 (57:07):
You're making one hundred and fifty damn pipe ons. I mean,
this is going to occupy you, you know, like go
subscribe to a streaming services, find another.

Speaker 1 (57:21):
Get a girlfriend or a boyfriend. I don't judge. Oh
my goodness. Well it seems like Florida is still the
hip and happening place as always.

Speaker 2 (57:35):
Well, I do have one more quick one here. I
didn't tell you this earlier, but sticking with our scientific
studies and such, another one we could have come up with.
This was a study in which basically they were looking
to see if an object can be dropped in a

(57:58):
particular fashion without breaking it. Regarding eggs and the egg
they call this the egg drop challenge, where if you
drop it onto a counter, is there a way to
do so without a breaking And so they figured that

(58:19):
you have a better chance of this if you drop
it with the egg in a horizontal position.

Speaker 1 (58:29):
Hm.

Speaker 2 (58:31):
So if it's a sideways orientation, there's a better chance
of the Who gives a rats ass? I mean seriously,
it's just like, I know, like supposedly egg prices are
throwing the roof, but they're not. They've come significantly lower. Sorry, media,

(58:51):
didn't want to burst your bubbles there, except okay, you
dropped an egg, Yeah, got eleven more, only I dropped
it sideways instead of But you like, eggs are just

(59:12):
the thing now that that's all the media focuses on. Yeah, Well,
the last couple of days, I'm finding more and more
stories of the press trying just like straining desperately to
find bad news in the economy and can't. It is
so damn funny, like the uh ABC News report on

(59:34):
the inflation. The lady reading the report on ABC News,
you could see was disappointed in this. Wow, the inflation
rate last month came in significantly lower than experts anticipated.
And they're putting this big graphic on screen two point
three percent, which you know, some people I think is

(59:56):
not too bad. So I was like, wait a second,
I saw the actual number. Last month, inflation went up
zero point two percent, like near zero. So it's like,
what the hell is this number? Oh, this is the
inflation from a year ago, in the same month. So
in the first week of May to today went up
two point three percent.

Speaker 1 (01:00:17):
They're so desperate by something.

Speaker 2 (01:00:21):
You know, in that period of time, when three quarters
of it was operated by Joe Biden, inflation went away up,
got it, got it, and yesterday I just lost it.
So in the first week of April, CNN tariffs are
going to drive up car prices. It's inevitable, it's going
to happen. It's on the horizon, same network, seeing and

(01:00:47):
same reporter. Yesterday, car prices have remained low. This could
be bad news for the economy.

Speaker 1 (01:00:58):
I mean, how.

Speaker 2 (01:01:03):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (01:01:05):
It doesn't matter. If they're high, it's bad news. If
they're low, if it's bad news. If they stagnate, it's
bad news. It's always bad news. There's any good news
they do not. The news no longer concentrates on the
good things. They don't because Sensationalism is used to drive
the story. You want to get more clicks, you want

(01:01:25):
to get more you know, views, So everything is sensationalized,
and good things are not something that people sensationalize very well.

Speaker 2 (01:01:37):
Well understand too, though. This is the same media that
for four years told us inflation is actually good for
the economy, it's healthy.

Speaker 1 (01:01:44):
Yes, they did. They spent two years telling us that,
and I was like, yeah, I'm never going to believe that,
no matter how much hard you try, it's not I'm
not buying it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:53):
They ignored egg prices shooting through the roof for three years, and.

Speaker 1 (01:01:57):
Then some of them actually saying that we were exaggerating
the price of eggs. And then after Trump was elected,
you saw some representatives going to the store and pointing
at the prices of the pastor raised eggs, you know,
as a indicator of how expensive the eggs were. Now

(01:02:21):
that Trump had just been elected president. Keep in mind
he wasn't in office yet, but they were blaming him
for it. It was already the Trump economy, you know, the
egg prices were still up, and I'm like, up until
November fifth, nobody talked about the egg prices. And then
after November six, everybody was talking about the egg prices, like, oh,
Trump had something to do with it, Well, excuse me

(01:02:44):
past your eggs. They will be more expensive than conventional eggs.
They just will be. There's no getting around it unless
you know somebody out here who raises their own chickens,
and their chickens are you know, left to roost on
their own. Those are pastures, and you can get them
for four dollars a dozen, like I do. Well.

Speaker 2 (01:03:04):
The New York Times for Easter put out a story
that people are dying potatoes because eggs are so expensive.
One nobody's doing this, I'm sorry, I've read. I read
the article. The only citation they had of people doing

(01:03:25):
this was a TikTok video where somebody said, well, if
you can't get eggs, here's a solution. You could always
die potatoes, which means one dumbass influencer did a video
of this, and New York Times was like, well, the
entire country's doing this. And then I had to place

(01:03:45):
a price chart next to the article showing how egg
prices were lower than the day Donald Trump took office.
So nobody's dying potatoes at this price level that was
below where it was last year when no but he
was dying. And then NBC News then makes the announcement

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today or yesterday because food prices are shooting through the roof,
they're going to provide a daily price ticker on a
variety of grocery items like eggs, bread, bacon, something they
have not done for well, probably ever, but definitely not

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in the past four years. But today this is something
we need. And then I'm looking at the list and
most of their items had gone down in price in
the last few days. Gore shre's a swell idea. Guys,
keep it up, thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:04:46):
Yeah, just keep doing what you're doing.

Speaker 2 (01:04:49):
You do you And this is what kills me though.
It's like, as much as I follow the present, it's
just like you said, everything's doom, everything's dire, horrible. Rasmusen
just came out with a poll and they were floored.
They said, we have never seen public approval Ford administration

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at this level. Like two weeks ago it was plus one.
This week was plus three, and they said, this doesn't
happen like thirty five years since we've seen this. We're
the public was like, not just happy with what they're doing,
but weeks later happier. It is a complete defiance of

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what's going on in the press. It kills me. I
love it. Just I just sit back and laugh.

Speaker 1 (01:05:40):
Now, and you're the black hat.

Speaker 2 (01:05:43):
You can't well, that's it. It's the black head of media.
It's my job to be the villain in the press
corps and just point and laugh at them, just killing.

Speaker 1 (01:05:52):
We do a great job with it.

Speaker 2 (01:05:53):
So hey, it's a when you love what you do,
you don't work a day in your life.

Speaker 1 (01:06:00):
Very true, very true.

Speaker 2 (01:06:02):
I mean my paycheck reflects that. But nonetheless, now it's
it is, it's just fun because I've I'm to the
point now I'm actually I think in I think it's
going to be Saturday is my four year anniversary of
my column over at town Hall. Believe that.

Speaker 1 (01:06:20):
Wow, okay, yeah, I was like.

Speaker 2 (01:06:23):
Wait what damn? So that's that's what I do, though,
is just I've I've learned now where to look, how
to look, how to listen to what they're saying. I
found this gem of a story out of Washington. They
they thought they found their latest deportation martyr.

Speaker 3 (01:06:46):
Oh yeah, thirty one year old husband was just we
have the we have the the ring camera just caught
the arrest on the front yard and they tackled him
and he's he's it's just a sweet husband who's been
here since he was two years old, his family brought
up here since he was two.

Speaker 2 (01:07:04):
And just the resident. It's like they had to do
this for a reason. I'm sorry, guys, it's I'm reading
the headline in the first few paragraphs and it's like,
there's no way, like again, just nothing but daisies come
off with this guy's name every time they printed. He's
just so fabulous, he's so wonderful. I counted this article,

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and this thing was monstrous in length. It was like
thirty six paragraphs of weepy sympathy before they got around
to the fact. It's like, well, you know, he had
some difficulty getting his citizenship due to the rape charges.

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I'm sorry, can you wait?

Speaker 1 (01:07:53):
Wait, back up, hold up? What did he just says?

Speaker 2 (01:07:57):
Not when you read an article and you actually hear
the record scratch in your ears, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:08:04):
I was. I've read that. I was like, wait, hold up. Oh,
and that wasn't the only felon.

Speaker 2 (01:08:10):
Oh no, And then he's got two other felony counts
for domestic abuse. He beat the crap out of his
ex father in law when he refused to leave his
ex wife's residence. It's okay, now we're starting to get
a beat on this guy. I got it now, okay,
but literally at this point, I'm laughing.

Speaker 1 (01:08:31):
But it angers me to have the press actually defend
and want to protect the criminal element in the illegal
immigrants that we have here and then turn around and
actually decry the fact that we are accepting Africana refugees
who happened to be white. Wait a minute, hold up.

Speaker 2 (01:08:57):
That's the only reason they've given is because they're white.

Speaker 1 (01:09:01):
And here's the thing. They went through the channels to
seek asylum here. They actually went through the channels to
actually seek asylum in the United States. They followed the
letter of the law to get here. But that's wrong.
According to the media, they're doing it wrong. Had they
gone through Mexico and then stuck in, I think the

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media would have been okay with it, especially if they
had African flags South Africa flags instead of United States
flags when they came in. I think that's pretty much
what irked them the most, the fact that they carried
United States flags.

Speaker 2 (01:09:39):
I think they can get away with it by simply
claiming that the South African flag is Palestine flag. They're
very very close.

Speaker 1 (01:09:46):
Ye're very close.

Speaker 2 (01:09:47):
Actually, I gott oh, it's not I got in a discount.
It was a five below. I just grabbed the whole bunch.
It's okay. It's close enough though, right, so I'm on
your side, let me in.

Speaker 1 (01:09:58):
No, seriously, they're there's a lot of disconnect in the
media and and I see the reflections of cultures, how
they're reflecting on what we're doing overseas. I mean, you
saw Trump he went to Saudi Arabia. One of the
things that a lot of people didn't catch was that

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the Crown Prince actually met him when he landed. When
Biden went over there, Biden had to be taken to
the Crown Prince. Now admitutedly, you know a lot of
people made certain remarks about Biden not shaking the princess hands.
They actually had a fist bump, but that was due

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to COVID protocols that they were still observing at the palace,
so that can be I actually, you know, it's okay
to do the fist bump. That's fine. But one of
the things that stood out for me was what they
were wearing. White robes are worn for informal occasions, but

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black robes are worn for formal occasions. And when President
Biden went to meet the Crown Prince, the Crown Prince
was wearing white and all of his acolytes were also
wearing white robes. When the Crown Prince met President Trump,
everyone was garbed in black robes. And I saw I

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saw that as being more of a sign of respect
towards President Trump than anything else.

Speaker 2 (01:11:33):
It wasn't even the prince wasn't it. Didn't they say, They.

Speaker 1 (01:11:35):
Said, they said, yeah, they sent it was. It was
one of his acolytes that actually went to pick him
up and then came and he, you know, he met
with him. And as you recall, when Blincoln went over
there to meet with the Crown Prince to talk to him,
b Lincoln was completely shunned by the by the prince.

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They kept they kept Lincoln waiting, and then he refused
to meet with Lincoln completely. So Blinken wasted like two
days just waiting for a meeting that never happened, you know,
But you know it was for me, and I am
not I'm not a big Saudi Arabia fan by any stretch.
I happened to have my issues with that country and

(01:12:17):
with the ruling family. But when I saw them garbed
the way they were, I was like, oh, holy shit,
this is real, this is real. And I was like,
I was sitting there and I'm watching this going oh.
And of course I was sitting next to me. He's
like what, and I was like, they're wearing black. And

(01:12:37):
then you know, of course the first thing is like,
are they in mourning, and like, well, no, this is
actually a big sign of respect. So that was a
little eye opening to me, you know, that was that
was one thing that a lot of people didn't catch
because they're not familiar with that particular culture. But I
caught it because I've dealt with that culture before. And

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so that you know that none of the media picked
that up. None of the media actually talked about anything
of that manner. As a matter of fact, they tried
to downplay the fact that the prince was there on
the tarmac itself, and and his wife was there too.

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And that's another thing. Most of the time women are
not present. But if you know, but a high ranking woman, uh,
be it the crown Prince's wife or somebody in his
cabinet that happens to be female. If they bring her

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to meet another head of state, it's a big deal.
It is a big deal. And so that that is
something else that a lot of people missed it seeing
when President Truma arrived. It was it was it was
a very interesting day of me seeing things that most
people didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:14:06):
Like or mid East fashion expert.

Speaker 1 (01:14:10):
Uh yeah, okay, yes, And by the way, the robes
that were very high quality, so well, I will leave
it at that.

Speaker 2 (01:14:19):
They were.

Speaker 1 (01:14:22):
Uh, they were they were silk. But anyway, moving on,
I do have some archaeology news to share with you
while we still have a little bit of time. They
they're most it's Central American, Okay. There were two major finds.

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One of them explains a little bit of a cultural
puzzle that had been people were trying to figure out
for the longest time. There is a large population of
people in Central America, specifically, I want to say Costa

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Rica area that happened to have a lot of dark
skin and a lot of ethnic care so they tend
to have African features, and they did not understand why
it was that there was such a large presence of
that A lot of the theories were that they were
descended from slaves that actually traveled south though had been

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freed by the Spanish in Mexico and traveled southward, But
that really would not account for the high presence of it,
because most of them would settle within twenty thirty miles
from where they were freed. You know, a lot of
the freed and most of the freedom the freed slaves

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happened well after the Civil War anyway, so it still
didn't account for the large presence. But off the Coasta
Rica there have been these two shipwrecks that people had
known about for a very long time. They just assumed
they were pirate ships. Well, it turns out after studying it,

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they figured out there were two Danish slave ships that
sank en route to deliver slaves to South America, and
the slaves that had been aboard actually swam to shore
and there were I mean, there was a large contingent.
There were several hundred slaves, about five or six hundred

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slaves that actually managed to free themselves and swim to
shore and get their freedom that way. And that little
puzzle as to why there is such a large concentration
in that particular area has now been solved. And it
took a while to figure out that these were not
actually pirate ships. They just they just assumed that they

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had been ships. Nobody actually went to excavate them. For
a very long time. The Costa Rican government actually prevented
any excavation of the ships because they felt, well, it's
in Costa Rican waters, it's hours and they're pirate ships,
to just leave them alone, that kind of thing. But
then they found some diver found something that didn't actually

(01:17:25):
look very piratey, so so the government of Costa Rica
actually allowed the Danish government to come in because the
Danish government, remember, you know, they had lost ships in
that area and they had never been recovered and they
didn't know where they were. They just they were just

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lost at sea. And this was prior to the time
when you can actually call, and you know, there was
no way to determine where the ship was. You know,
the most of the commune unications were six seven, eight
weeks you know, behind. So you know, they the some

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of the students from one of the universities came and
they were digging around and they found that the ships
were actually Danish in origin. And they were slave ships,
and so that was that actually solved one of the
you know, one of the riddles as to why there
was such a large concentration of ethnic people in that area.

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So that was kind of cool there they're planning on.
I don't think they're going to bring up the ships themselves.
I think they're just going to chart the ships, leave
the ships where they are, and they're going to remove
as many of the uh, you know, archaeologically saplegeable stuff aboard,

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and they're going to have a conjunction with Costa Rica
and Denmark as to where they will display, you know,
what they find and everything. So that that's kind of
neat that that the way that they're handling that. But
the other thing that I found out was a Teotiha
Khan altar was found in the city of Tikal, which

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was what was that.

Speaker 2 (01:19:19):
You said, what.

Speaker 1 (01:19:21):
Teote Ho teote Ho? Now, I can't say it. I've
been saying it forever. Now I can't say deo ti
Hua Khan. They found a deota hoa khan altar in
the city of Tikah, which was the dynasty seat of
the bayan Uh territory. So for the Mayan culture that

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was the be all and end all, and to find
an altar from a city that was six hundred miles
away was kind of a weird thing because normally you
don't exchange your religious beliefs with another culture most of
the time. The way you know, Teo teotiha Kan was

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in pre classic pre Columbian era city. It was probably
one of the largest cities in the world at the time,
and it was it would send out envoys scouts in
order to find other cities, other cultures and everything and

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establish economic diplomacy. And that was one of the ways
that cities would actually conquer other cities, other city states
in the area. And you know that there's a thing
called the Mongol moon that's the same kind of the

(01:20:58):
same thing, and you would go in, you would establish
an economic partnership or you know, some some sort of exchange,
usually economically. Sometimes Smithy's were exchange. You know, hey, you
can do better obsidian points than we can, but we

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can make bowls, so let's exchange you know, knowledge in
that area. And so people if Delti Hua Kan would
come in and they would settle in the area and everything,
and once you have a settlement going on. The settlement
will grow, and we'll keep growing to a point where
you can actually pull off a conquest without spending too

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much of your own bloodshare. And that's where the altar
comes in. It signifies that there was some sort of
conquest with against the Mayan civilization that was at Tikal,
because that alter, being a religious artifact, would mean that

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they would have a a hold a foothold in that
particular area. So there has always been, uh, you know,
there have always been theories as to the Mayans and
the the Delti Juaganos, who are not the Aztecs. By
the way, the assets came after the Delo ti Ja

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Khan culture actually diminished, So it wasn't the Aztecs. It
wasn't the Omes or the Zappotech or the mixed Dex
or the top or the you know, adult text or
any of those texts. It was it was the Delo
ti Vaganos who were there first. And so that was
that was an interesting find in this area and it

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shows that that particular building had it echoed the architecture
of Deoti Ja Khan more than it did Mayan architecture.
So it shows that there had been a press since
there than had been located. It had been established prior
to the conquest of the area. So that was I

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thought that was pretty cool. But anyway, so that was
that was my aggie eeking for the week.

Speaker 2 (01:23:17):
Got your archeology out of your system?

Speaker 1 (01:23:19):
Yes, And with that, I guess we should close because
we have two minutes and you have a lot of
explaining to do. So Brad, where can we find you?

Speaker 2 (01:23:28):
Oh? Hush you? It's you can see me daily over
at townhall dot com, where I've got my media column
there called Rift from the Headlines. I just dig up,
point and laugh at the media mayhem that we see
at a regular basis. I'm also on the front page
of Red State on a near daily basis, where I

(01:23:49):
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Speaker 2 (01:25:11):
And now go raise a glass and look at the ceiling.