The Cocktail Lounge w/ Aggie and Brad: Touchdowns, Tiffs & Toxic Taggers

Episode Transcript

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

(01:06):
Cocktail Lounge. I am your hostess with Emoses, Aggie and
with me as always is the ever swap affable and
paffable Ghost. Brad Slacker. How are you doing this evening? Brad?

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Doing well? Doing well? Everything's going pretty good, I gotta say, overall,
how about yourself? How's everything in Texas?

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Everything here is fine. We had a bit of a
cool day today, which was awesome. I cannot tell you
how amazing it felt to be outside yanking weeds without
the sun actually, you know, scorching through through my shirt.
So that was nice. It was. It was very temperate,

(01:49):
which thankfully it's starting to happen. Since you know, we're
middle of October. You would think that it would have
started earlier, but now this is Texas, it doesn't start
till now.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Well. Yeah, my part of my brood was out there
in Dallas this weekend and I'm calling over there, and
so are you guys going through the stockyards? Are you're
gonna go over here? You're gonna go do this? You
kidding me? It's ninety damn degrees outside. So they went
to a mall and went ice skating. Oh nice, smorts smorts. Yeah,

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so I got set me video of the little one
on ice for the first time, and of course Gauge
is out there cutting around.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
So oh how I mean? I wonder if they went
to the same ice rink that I went to when
I lived in Dallas. It was in the well. There
was one in Irvan, so, but it might have been
another one. They have quite a few, well said.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
This one had an ice rink, a bowling alley, had
an area for ping pong, all kinds of activities going on.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
I guess, okay, so it's not that one unless I've
fre done it. This one was just an ice rink.
But there's there's There's not a lot of them here
in Texas well. I think Houston has maybe three, kind
of weird considering it's the fourth largest city in the US.

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But Dallas, I think when I lived there they had
about they had five. There's one that I know of
in San Antonio. And usually the reason for the ice
rinks is that normally we have a minor league hockey
team associated with that, with the exception of Dallas, who

(03:33):
actually has the Stars, but.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
I Antonio Rampage.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah, yeah, it used to be the I think they
changed her name, the ramping changed her name again, or
they're gone one of the two. I have no idea anymore.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
I don't, but I think they also back in the day,
they had a a I think it was like a
sub minor the Western Hockey League, and it was the
San Antonio Iguanas.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Of the Iguanas. The Iguanas. Yes, yes they did. I
had that jersey. It was stolen. I know who took
it too, but I can't prove it.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Bastards.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
Yes, he's related to me by marriage. Otherwise I would
have done something about outbit.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yeah, they had a really kick ass jersey. It was awesome.
I wish, I wish that we would have a bigger
hockey presence in San Antonio, but you know, I don't
live there anymore, so yeah, point us now over here
in East Texas. I think Tyler has an ice drink,
But the best ice rink actually is outside during the

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winter in a town about an hour from me. It's
called Marshall, and it's outside of their old courthouse. They
make that the entire thing. An ice drink and it
is absolutely beautiful and it's outside and it's completely natural.
There's no zamboni or anything, so it's it's really cool.

(05:04):
It's I that's one of the things I planned to
do this this winter.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
No, I will not be posting pictures of people falling
on my butt.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Noue.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
You gotta do it, you gotta do it.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
No, well, my sister might so look for that. She's
she has absolutely no shame.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
But anyway, well, at least you had some football this weekend.
The Hurricanes were on a bye.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
The Haggis were not a nice game. We did, we did.
We had a nice game and we won, but uh,
it was it was a really sad weekend for Texas
A and M. I gotta say, because our beloved former
mascot she retired, I want to say twenty one. I

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think in twenty one she retired Revely nine. She passed
away from complications of pneumonia. And a lot of people
really don't understand what this particular mascot means to our school.
There isn't. I mean, everything in our school has comes
from a tradition. Okay, boy, Yes, Revelly nine was obviously

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the ninth Revely mascot. She was I believe, the tenth
mascot that we had, but she was a ninth fully
and Revelly got her name because these I believe it
was the second puppy that we had as a mascot
would actually call out Revelle before Revely was called, so

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she became Revely. She became the Revely the core cadets,
So our mascot has a tradition that goes back quite
a few decades. She had retired and now we have
Rebellly ten, which is the one that wears the eye
patch because she had the eye surgery to remove that

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cancer's tumor and now has the very kick ass eye patch.
They did. They got her an eyepatch. This is so cool.
But she was to have her internment on Friday, when
a mascot passes away. She's given full military honors at
Texas A and M. And she was interred in a

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hand crafted casket made locally by a craftsman. It was
completely it was hand carved with her name and a number,
and it was one of the most beautiful things I've
ever seen. She was brought to the field by the
Parsons Cavalry, which yes Texas. A and M still has

(07:58):
a cavalry to this day and Texas Yes, so she
was given full honors. She was interred on the north
side of Kyle Field. All of our mascots are interred
on the north side of Kyle Field, and they face
the scoreboard that is placed there so that Revelle can

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watch her Aggie's win. It. It's funny because I had
a last time I was at A and M. There
was clearly out of towner group family and they were
they kind of freaked out about having the dog's graveside
right there next to Kyle Field, and so they were

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very you know, one of the kids actually said, it's
kind of weird to have a scoreboard out here. Is
that for people who can't go in or whatever? And
so some of the people I was with, you know,
they stopped and they explained the whole situation, why she's
interred there, why there's a scoreboard there and everything, and
it was like, you guys are serious, and you know,

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we said, yes, we are. We take it very seriously.
To give you a hint of how seriously we take
our mascot in I believe, I want to say it
was seventy one or seventy three, maybe seventy two. One
of those three years, we were still in the Southwest
Conference and we were playing at Rice Field, Rice University.

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The Rice Owl Band is famous for lampooning everything. They're
one of the most fun bands that you will ever
see out there. And Revelle had just passed away suddenly
and they played They actually formed a fire hydrant on
the field and played, oh where has my Little Dog Gone?

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Upon hearing that, the entire core of Cadets, because they
do travel, and the band left the stands and surrounded
the entire football field. They had to sneak the band
members out in food trucks because the core and the
band were so upset. Now I give the mighty olband,

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yes they're called the mob, complete benefit of the doubt,
because I do know that when it comes to something
like this, they would not be mean about it. I
think this was their way of making a tribute. But
the core of Cadets did not take that kindly, and
neither did the band, and no one left that field

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until all of the band had been suck snuck out,
and you know, the student bodies were they were still there.
It was It was really hostile and I believe Rice
Versity it should an apology. The band is should an apology.
They really really did not think through doing something like this.

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But after that, there was never another mishap with and
to be fair, there was never another mishap with any
other mascots in the Southwest Conference. The band, the Mighty
Alband decided, yeah, we can't do something like that. When
when the cow dies or when.

Speaker 3 (11:28):
The cougar dies or the tiger dies or whatever, it
gotta be nice. But but yeah, so it was. You know,
at the beginning of the game, there was a little
tribute done to uh Repelly and but beside that, we
had a really good game and we were kind of

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scared because and you know me, I always say, if
the opposing team scores first, then everything will be okay.
And thankfully they did. Who they scored first, we were okay.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
And you know, after that, I think it stems from
the Aggie's wanting to gauge how the other team plays,
you know, and then they kind of coalesce and see,
you know, they can predict better where the other team
is going to go. That kind of thing. It was.

Speaker 3 (12:22):
It was actually a pretty fun game to watch. So
I was not disappointed the Gators.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
They tried to make it a game at least, you know,
it looked like loop on that first drive and then
after that.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
That's what I said.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
It's like, I hope they hope, I hope they score first,
because if they score first, everything will find I was right,
and I you know, my sisters and I were like
on the phone, you know.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
And they were all telling me, oh, no, they scored.
Oh no, they scored. We're gonna lose this game. I'm like, no,
they scored first. We're gonna win this game. Trust me.
Every single almost every single time at home, when the
opposing team scores first, we end up winning the game.
And they were all like nahh And I'm.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
Like, go look up the stats and they were like, wow,
a surprising, surprising majority.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
So I said, it's just the way it is. I mean,
they just they gauge how the other team plays and
they go from there. But we were favored only by
a little.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
Bit and I found that going into it, and but.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
Somebody else had us only by three. So yes, it was.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Seven and a half. And I thought maybe that'd be
a tough cover, only because some of the penalty problems
you guys have been going through. But my god, how
much nailed that down this week. There was not not
too many screw ups on that front. You guys smoked
them for the rest of the game, really good. The
offense was cooking.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
I think Michael Coe said okay, because he did say
this previously, before the previous game, he did tell him,
anybody else gets penalties, you're gonna you're gonna have to
pay for them like money, so which the money goes
to the scholarship fund. So it's okay, but that's what
he told him. I was like, if if you do that,

(14:21):
you're gonna pay money. And so they ended up paying
a lot last weekend.

Speaker 3 (14:26):
Before this man and this time they were like, yeah,
we better take it seriously because you know that's my
spending money out.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
But you gus really impressive and well earned. And you
get everybody's talking about how A and M just kind
of sneaks its way into the top five. Nobody's talking
about them, Well they're going to start to now.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
Well look, I cannot I cannot stress to you how
this respect that Texas A and M. We really are
the redheaded stepchild of the sec Still okay, and we're
okay with that title. We're okay being disrespected. It's fine.
We're at least playing in the SEC, and we play
with really good teams and it's it's it's great. I

(15:17):
think the only problem is that we were so hyped
during the Johnny Manzil era that it kind of did
a lot of damage. And then all of the stuff
that happened with Jimbo is still a millstone around our
necks and that's never gonna go away. It is never
gonna go away. And I you know, like I said,

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they didn't hear, they didn't listen to the former Students Association,
they didn't listen to anybody that was not on the
board of Regents. They pay the guy and then they
fire him, and so they have to pay that exhorbitant
amount out, Like I want to know what they got
the money. I'm still asking questions. I need to know

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seventy three million dollar payout. So because of that, I
think there's still a lot of well it's not the
right word, but disrespect close to it where it comes
to our team. And when we got coach Elco, who
was familiar with our team, was familiar with A and M.

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He was familiar with the traditions. He was familiar with everything.
Everybody said, you know, it's gonna be tough, you know, going,
you know, walking in Jimbo's shoes, and I'm like, how
how tough can it be? How tough can it be?
What did Jimbo do for Texas A and M Except

(16:47):
you know, we had a coach with a team. Now
we have a team that has a coach, and that
is what we needed to do. We needed somebody that
would call us the team into a fighting unit and
earning back the copyrighted term the wrecking crew. And I
think we're working towards that again. So I was I

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was very happy with the way they played against the Gators.
I was very happy to see. I don't know if
he caught this, but there's a section outside that's for tailgating.
You reserve the spots at a time. There was a
gentleman there with a pit that had a gator that
was wrapped in bacon. The entire gator was wrapped in

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bacon and it was spinning. Did you see that.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
They had two gas? They had two gators. If I'm
not mistaken, they had two.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
One of them was wrapped in Bacon. That was the
one I wanted to eat.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
They're rotating around each other and it's just like a damn,
that's the way it's done. So that was impressive.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
And they had him shift from Louisiana.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
But they weren't actual Florida Gators. Is that what you're saying.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
No, they were not from Florida. I think they came
from That's where most of the Gator comes from, Lousian
in this area, so I'm pretty sure that's right.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
Okay, Well, there was other big college and that's the
one thing going right for both of our teams is
that we brought in coaches that are former members of
the team. And I think that's one of the better
things you can do. Because we got Mario Chrystoball, former
offensive lineman for US, and yeah, he's doing everything right.

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You know, he's just built a program up in the
proper fashion. He's recruiting some local kids, he's playing the
nil game the right way, and same with Elko. Just
you know, looks like he's bringing in the right kind
of talent and building an entire team. So look at that,
we're both in the top five.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
As a result, you're number two number four.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
Guess who's not in the top five. Guess who's not
in the poll at all? Actually, holy, So first off,
I had to laugh because you know, like A and
M mini schools were having homecoming last week, and so, yes,
what a lot of teams do is have a throwback uniform.
You guys had your old A and M, which is

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really just a thinner version.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
It's just yeah, the script is thinner.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
Yeah, Penn State, I have to I have.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
To interject every game at Texas A and M. Every
home game at Texas A and M is a homecoming game.
Technically this is true, but go on. Oh another tradition.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
Penn State came out with the announcement that they were
doing the throwback uniform for their weekend. I was like, wait,
a damn second. That's their entire They already are, that's
their thing. They play in old uniforms. They look as
generic as they come. This was different, though. They had
white piping on the collar of the jersey and a

(20:02):
number on the helmet revolutionary. So you're still black and
white or navy and white. I guess whatever, how about this,
Maybe concentrate on playing football, because he ask me not.
They just lost their third consecutive game.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
Three in a row.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
Yeah, they lost to Northwestern at home. And you know,
I was just talking about a couple other people who
are like whoa, whoa, whoa. Yeah, but drew allar the
quarterback went down. Yeah, there was like three minutes left
in the game and they were already losing. So that
ain't gonna wash. How about this, here's your stat This

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is the second game in a row that Penn State
lost when they were favored by twenty points or more.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
Oh wait, I did not know they were favored.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
Yeah. Last week they lost a Ucla unranked Ucla hadn't
won a game and had just fired their entire coaching staff,
and Penn State lost at them. This week, they were
at home against Northwestern. Twenty one point favorites lost.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
Yikes. I feel a little bad.

Speaker 3 (21:26):
Maybe what.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
I mean I said at the start of the year
that they're in the Penn State nitty paper lions because
they're just you know, they I just because they're overrated.
But they lost twenty two to twenty one. And as
a results, head coach James Franklin is gone. He got fired,
but he's he's been in capable of winning a big game.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
How long has he been at Penn State.

Speaker 2 (21:58):
I don't want to say, like four years, five years maybe, yeah,
something like that.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
Yeah, I don't I don't think he's been there that long.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
But he's just unable to win a big game. You know,
they've always lose to Ohio State. They Yeah, he's.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
Been there long enough to make changes, and he has
not actually done any changes, has he?

Speaker 2 (22:17):
They lose in the playoffs, they lose, you know, they'll
be undefeated like ten and zero, and then when they
finally have a big opponent and they lose that game.
And three weeks ago they lost the Oregon which was
supposed to be their big game of the year. And
last week they crapped the bed against UCLA. And then
this weekend they lose the Northwestern at home. I mean,
stop it.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
You want to feel old, Oh god, no, but go ahead.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
He's been there eleven years. No really now, damn yep,
one hundred and four, forty five overall, sixty four to
thirty six in the Big Ten. Sixty four and thirty
six in the Big Ten. That's not Penn State numbers
right there. Sorry.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
All I know is that my friend is making fun
of his wife. Constantly on on social media because she
graduated from Penn State, and she's like, I'm gonna hide you.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
And then I also had to laugh because FSU lost.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
Oh they did.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
Yeah, and here's the thing, they lost a pit But
remember not this year, but before the start of last season,
the Seminoles were making a big stink. They wanted to
go to court. They wanted to get out of the
ACC because they're truly an SEC team. We're so fantastic.

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Last season they went two and ten. They were one
in seven in the conference. This year in the conference
that are zero and three. They've won one game out
of eleven in the ACC in the last two years.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
Oh, but they totally deserve to go into the SEC.
I'm not saying that SEC is the best conference or anything,
but if you're going to demand that you go to
another conference because you feel it fits you better because
you're that good, maybe you should put up the numbers. Yeah,
it's a wild shot, but it might work a.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
Little tough to sit there and make that argument today.
I can't think with this season though, I don't know
that there's one particular conference dominating. Like in the Big Ten,
you got Ohio State and who else Michigan does shit
the bed again, They're out of it the ACC You've
got Miami and that's it. Clemson back down and they're done,

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and you know, Oregon's still there and Indiana's coming out
of nowhere. They just beat Oregon thirty to twenty. Makes
sense of that in Org again.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
No less, that's incredible.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
So that got a lot of people's attention, and they
had the Red River shootout this weekend.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
Yes, my condolences go out to Rick. I really I was.
I was pulling for ou and I'll be honest, I
did not wear either school colors because since I didn't attend,
I didn't want to jinx the wrong one, you know
what I mean.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
So it really I saw people say, oh, that was
a classic. It really was not a classic. It was
not a good game. It was six to three at halftime.
And basically what it is there Oklahoma's quarterback John Mattiers
coming back from a hand surgery like two weeks earlier
and just did not look himself. Arch Manning didn't exactly

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light it up. Get a load of these stats. He
was twenty one of twenty seven. Sounds pretty good passing
He averaged six yards per completion though. This is just
nothing but dump dump dump.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
Yeah, that's just like so that's pretty much what I
call it Tony Romo school of quarterbacking. In my opinion,
it was all.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
Just wide screens and you know, hit the guy in
the flat and check down to this receiver, maybe hit
a tight end here and there, and that's about it.
He didn't. He's still not looking, you know, as promise Ole.
Miss had a pretty good game. They struggled against Washington
State for the most part, but held on Alabama. They're
putting it together. They had a kind of a close
one with Missouri. And you know, Texas Tech they're still

(26:39):
in it. They're in the top ten. Figure that out.
So some of the teams don't normally see up there, Indiana,
Texas A and m and Miami they're kind of newer arrival.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
And I'm still trying to figure out how Indiana leapfroged.
But whatever, what.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
Was who they beat? I mean, the fact that they
took care of Oregon on the road, that's pretty damn impressive.
You know, Georgia and LSU are they're just kind of
floating back into the top ten because everybody's dropping down
Georgia Tech looks like the only other team worthwhile in

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the ACC. Notre Dame is back up to thirteen. Yeah, God,
Brigham Young can't lose anymore now. They also don't play
too many people, but they're getting up there. Vanderbilt is
still in it. South Florida's ranked I said they would
be a surprise team. Memphis twenty two, and Cincinnati cracked

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the top twenty five for the first time in a while,
So there you go.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
I yeah, I saw a lot of you know, when
they ap put the all of the emblems for the schools,
I'm like, I don't recognize, like ken of these things.

Speaker 3 (27:51):
I didn't recognize any of the emblems, and I was like, okay,
I gotta look some of these things up now.

Speaker 1 (27:57):
So I went and I looked up what the schools
were and I was like, oh, okay, yeah, this makes
sense finally. But yeah, the thorn in my side is
back to, you know, climbing up the rankings, and I'm
meno happy.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
Now you're fine, You're fine. It's you know, getting into
now the halfway. Marcus passed and it's the gut check
time in his schedule. So now losses are going to
count much more than they would at the start of
the year and see where they go. We got Louisville
this weekend. I think we can handle that. Who are
you guys, lam?

Speaker 1 (28:37):
I think is it l s U or is it? No,
it's not LSU, it's Arkansas. I think it's Arkansas. I
think I haven't looked.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
That should be wittable. Is it Homer on the road?

Speaker 1 (28:49):
Also?

Speaker 2 (28:49):
Do not know? I'm expecting to bring something to the
table here. What's up?

Speaker 1 (28:56):
I'm sorry, I was, I was, I was doing laundry. Okay,
but yeah, I think we play Arkansas and after we
still have to play LSU, and of course we play
Texas Thanksgiving weekend, so that should be I will not

(29:21):
be watching that game. The only reason I'm not going
to be watching that game is I'm going to be
entertaining a lot of people from out of town, and
none of them watch football. So it would be very
rude for me to actually have the football game on
when nobody wants to or put care to even watch it.
I have I have relatives coming in from Puerto Rico,
so I'm not going to be able to watch it.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
This is when you get them to assimilate.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
No, you know what we're going to be doing. We're
going to be watching some old classic baseball games, Pittsburgh
Pirates and Yankees. The Pirates because Robert took Clemente.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
And the y You're watching really old games.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
Yeah, really old games. And the New York Yankees because
my dad really firmly believed that that was the only
baseball team or anything. And I'm like, Dad, there's plenty
of other baseball No, there's only the Yankees. That's it.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
Now, don't get me wrong. That only came after Robert
took clement that passed away. Before then, it was it
was all about the Pittsford Pirates. But after that it
was the Yankees that was it.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
Well, you know, I suppose that makes sense to a degree.
It's a big deal, but I don't know. I'd say, hey,
you know, you're in my house. It's Thanksgiving, we're watching football.
Damn it is the Aggies suck it. Do you know
something like that.

Speaker 1 (30:58):
That is you know, it's it's really fun because that's
something that I see a lot in a lot of
American homes where everybody's watching football during you know, Thanksgiving
and all that. I don't do that here. I know
that sounds I Well, first of all, I'm in the
kitchen all freaking day, right, so I don't have the opportunity.

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But most of the time, either you know, people are
doing or helping me with either the dessert or the
side dishes, or they're helping to set the table, or
they're out, you know, fishing, or they're you know, doing something.
You know, we do family things. Most of the time.
After everything's been put away and everybody sayd and everybody's happy,

(31:44):
then we'll watch football, but not during I just I
never got into the whole watching football during Well, we.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
Have you know, we'll have the games on, but it's
not like twelve people huddle around the TV riveted, you know. World. Well,
that's my sister talking and drinking and food and everything else.
You know, that's my sister. She does.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
She does the buffet and then the football from like
nine in the morning whenever it starts all the way
over and she I mean, and she's you know, with
TV like satellite or whatever, she can watch any game
and she's watching even in Hawaii whenever they're playing over
there or whatever. There's football on all day and there's

(32:27):
two TVs the main one in the in the then
in the in the living room that they can watch them,
and then the one in the office which is taken
out to the garage so people the girls can watch,
but those but they have two different games going on
at all times, so if you don't like that game,

(32:49):
then you can.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
Go watch this other game. I mean, she's she's all
about football. She really really is all about football, probably.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
But it's not like there's any kind of hardcore or
you know, stop talking to me, I'm watching It's nothing
like that. And even if the Bills are on, because
they've been playing a lot lately on Thanksgiving.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
No, that's my sister. Stop talking to me. I'm watching football.
I don't talk to her all the games on she's
I'm not kidding. She's decked with all her jerseys and
the hat and the earrings and everything.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
Hard hard guard.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
Yeah, she is.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
Well. After the football extravagans it was over. We had
we had plenty of news kicking around this week. I guess,
oh yeah, I guess. The peace deal in the Middle
East has been the bigger one, occupying most mines and
basically driving the media crazy.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
Well, I have been. It has been very interesting to
see because some of the stuff we all call it.
We knew that if a ceasefire or a deal was
made or whatever, the people that were free Palestine would
be very upset about it. We called it, I know

(34:10):
we called it. We all said the same thing. Oh,
they don't want a free Palestine, they want the conflict.
They just want to get rid of the Jews. That's
what this is about. It's not about freedom for Palestine.
And now a wrinkle that a lot of people did
not see coming was Hamas actually executing people they believed

(34:31):
to be dissidents or had been informing the Israeli forces.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
Yeah, how about that little genteel news item that's getting
lightly I mean, since the ceasefire was announced, what was
it Thursday? When's your Thursday? At least they said the
piece deal was coming through and such. Basically, the hostilities
between Israel and Hamas kicked down this weekend. Gaza is

(34:57):
still a crap hole because they have all these different
all these factions are in there now shooting each other.
And then today, yeah, we see Hamas marching people in
the street on their knees so they could cap them
in the back of the head, in front of cheering crowds.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
This is why a lot of people don't They don't
understand what Palestine needs. Palestine is a governmental thing, not
a cultural thing, and it's a coal it's coalesced from
all of these different, like you said, factions, tribal cultures,
et cetera. When you know, people are always talking about

(35:39):
how Hamas was voted in with like over ninety percent
of the vote, I want to say ninety seven percent
of the voter. It's like, yeah, of the people they
allowed to vote, And this is the part that most
people miss. Some people were not allowed to vote at
all because they're not friendly with those people. Hamas was
not friendly with those people, and they're not friendly with Hammas.

(36:00):
They only lived there by virtue of being allowed to
live there because they felt they couldn't go anywhere else.
They weren't allowed to leave to go to Israel either,
So a lot of these people were actually stuck there.
And what Hamas calls a dissonant is maybe somebody who
may not like non bred I mean seriously, they will

(36:25):
nitpick about everything. Wow, and it's you know, I tried
explaining this to do somebody once because they didn't understand
how it was that they could vote for this group
to lead them, knowing that they were a terrorist organization.

(36:45):
And I said, well, that's because the only people that
were allowed to vote were the people who liked Hamas.
And I cannot tell you how often people are just
surprised whenever I say that. It's like you assume that
all Palestinian people in Gaza were allowed to vote. That's
the first assumption that you should never don't ever make

(37:08):
that assumption ever, because it's never true. Only certain people
are allowed to vote. And this now it's coming to
light how Hamas is starting to lose the grip that
they have on the Gaza area and they're trying to
kill those people they feel might be might might actually

(37:30):
be dissidents who might rise up against them. There's no
proof provided when they killed all these people.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
This is what the supporters don't want to address any
of this stuff, and when this is taking place repeatedly,
and they keep talking about how the people in Palestine
are starving to death, the relief supplies getting in, and
they never address Hamas attacking the relief zone, going after

(37:59):
supplies all the time. I mean, it's caught on tape
and to the point that they would stop showing it,
and at times they opened fire on their own people
when they were trying to go for relief supplies. And
nobody wants to be honest about it because that completely
screws up the narratives. And now.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
Do you have people who are still you know, free,
free Palestine from the river to the sea, if Palistine
will be free or whatever, And they don't seem to
understand Palestine doesn't want to be free. Palestine just.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
You know, when it comes to Israel, they just want
to be left alone. They're like, how about this, Stop
bombing us and we'll be happy. And there's all this
talk about how Israel so aggressive and antagonistic. They allow
Palestinians into their country to work. They supplied them with
much of their infrastructure as far water and electricity and such.

(39:01):
I mean, they've been a fantastic neighbor in that regard,
and Hamas rewards that benevolence with I want to kill you.
You have to die in no way.

Speaker 1 (39:11):
There are people I don't understand.

Speaker 2 (39:14):
Israel putting up with it though, and saying, you know,
come on into our place. You can work here, you
can get jobs here, because your people need to why
don't they do like Egypt and just put up a
twenty foot wall, or even better, like Egypt, two of
them back to back with the razor wire and deal

(39:34):
with it yourselves. You know, that kind of thing that
would be called inhumane. And they're cutting off the people
and denying them access to a livelihood, and you know,
you can't win with these people. So that's what has
me all shaking my head all the time. I mean,
I've known for decades, you know, people would go over

(39:56):
to Israel and talk to them and it's like, okay,
you see that mountain ridge over there. Our life is
those people wanting to kill us all the time, and
that hasn't changed decades. The other thing that's cracking me
up is the media that absolutely despises President Trump. Is
you could hear the teeth grinding as they're reporting on

(40:19):
this historic piece a president Trump gets credit for.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
I think. I think my favorite things to see were
how we have been working for you know, with this
for two years to bring peace and I'm going hold up, no,
it has not been at work for two years. It's
been to work for a few months. When Trump got
here and I sent you the clip of that young

(40:48):
man who was interviewed, who actually made a really interesting
point that nobody in the media is covering. This man
was a hostage who has been simply freed, and he
said that he you know, he overheard them talking about
how they wanted Kamala Harris to win because they pretty

(41:12):
much knew that she would put pressure to Israel to
basically surrender. And when they heard that Trump had won,
the attitude of the abductee abductor's changed towards the hostages.
They started feeding the hostages again. And the reason became clear.

(41:37):
They could not afford to release emaciated hostages, and they
knew that they were going to have to do so,
so they had to make the hostages look healthy again
so that they could keep up the appearance of having
taken care of them. Right, That's why that changed. And
I mean, it was very revealing to me that they

(41:59):
were hoping that Harris would win because they knew that
administration was hostile to Israel.

Speaker 2 (42:09):
Well, that's what cracks me up so much about these
you know, revisionists out there. It's like old Donald Trump
did is stick his name on Joe Biden's peace deal.
Shut the hell up. Okay, Biden had a year and
four months to hit his peace deal. How came he
never manage to do it in that period of time.

Speaker 1 (42:28):
Oh, Blnken was talking about how Trump actually used Biden's
entire blueprint for this this historic thing, and I'm like,
you are so full of shit. He is so desperate
to find his legacy that he will lie about everything
because he has Blincoln has no legacy whatsoever.

Speaker 2 (42:48):
They're trying to also keep score. Well, Joe Biden got
eighty one hostage is freed, and Donald Trump and they
had twenty three or twenties.

Speaker 1 (42:55):
Yeah, yeah, because they were dead. They're not talking. They're
not even counting the dead one.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
It's so stupid, though, because one of the things I've
saw too was that Trump killed the peace deal that
Biden had arranged in March, and then Israel broke the
ceasefire at his command. It's like, no, they broke the
ceasefire because the hostages were supposed to be released in March.
Who broke that deal? I think the people that had

(43:22):
the hostages, which would be Hamash, You dumbasses. So I
don't want to hear oh if only oh and Trump
basically in the last month. Let it be known to Hamas,
It's like, listen, let people out of there, or we're
coming in. And after getting shit hambered for two years,

(43:45):
that last thing Hamas wants is Navy seals walking through
downtown Gaza. So yeah, sorry, Joe, not your deal. But
all you got to do is listen to Like the
summit conference that took place were Egypt, India, all the
other countries came out, and all they did was sing

(44:07):
praises that we would never get this deal done without
Donald Trump? Sorry, what else? What else are you going
to do there? How is Joe going to take credit
for that?

Speaker 1 (44:19):
I you know, right now, there's a there is some
cause for concern. He President Biden was undergoing some radical
treatment for his prostate cancer. So I told mom, and
Mom said, oh, well, we need to play pray at

(44:40):
Rosary and I was like absolutely, you know, And so
we were doing sorrowful Mysteries or whatever. And I was
telling this to somebody on X and somebody actually said,
you would pray for him, and I was like absolute,
I would pray for him. I don't want him to

(45:02):
die of such a horrible disease. I mean, why wouldn't
I pray for you know, President Biden. It freaks me out.
And this person was not a right winger, by the way.
Oh you know, this was somebody I didn't know, but
apparently when I clicked on their profile, it was like,
you know, had every single flag known to man and

(45:25):
and little blue waves and you know, maggots, you know
that kind of thing hashtags. So they were kind of
you know, they were actually very surprised that I would
say something like that on the thread that I have done,
you know, a rosary for the president and whatever. And
this is something that's it. It's it's sad because we

(45:48):
see it more and more and more that there is
a distinct divide between the right and the left when
it comes to the appreciation for human and you see
that with Hamas. You see that with the way they
treat their own people, the way that the people that
were in charge the Hamas group itself would not dole

(46:13):
out relief to their own people because they wanted them
to hurt, because they looked better for the news. So
you know, that's something that I just I can't you know,
get past, I really can't. I mean, I remember I
lived near Texas, Cana. There was a pow camp for

(46:39):
Germans there, and it used to be that the POW's
had free range all day. At eight o'clock in the morning,
the gates were opened. They could go to town, they
could do their own thing or whatever. They just had
to come back by I think five pm or six pm.

Speaker 3 (46:57):
That's how we treated POW's Derry World, d That's how
we treated the German POWs here.

Speaker 1 (47:06):
So things have changed.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
How inhumane they hit a curfew?

Speaker 1 (47:12):
Yeah, I mean they're always talking about how horrible we
treated the Japanese and the internment camps and everything, and
I'm like, you realize that was a Democrat president, right, Oh.
They they're quick to forget that. They're very quick to
forget that.

Speaker 2 (47:27):
Don't you Dare. It's like whatever, It's just it's been
too fun though, to watch the you know, the way
they treat it. Like over at ABC, I'm watching Mary
Bruce and she's like, well, you know, this is good news,
but you know, there's so many challenges up ahead, and
I'm not sure that Donald Trump has all this stuff
planned out properly. And she's denigrating the peace deal to

(47:48):
the point that I think at least twice David Mehir
had to step in. He's like, no, we got to
be clear. Most people don't feel this way. Most people
are looking at this as a very positive thing, like,
you know, subtly saying reined in Mary. But I couldn't
do that. And then you got, of course, Christiane amanpour

(48:13):
that I don't understand why she's held in such highsty.

Speaker 1 (48:19):
Sorry, I'm looking to make sure there are no sharp objects.
I don't think.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
Everybody regards her. It's just like, oh, it's Christian. She
came out and said that the hostages were probably treated
better than most gosins for the last two years.

Speaker 1 (48:37):
Yeah, she had to apology because she didn't apologize. She
regreted saying it, but that was not an apology.

Speaker 2 (48:49):
Well, I'm sure the switchboards over at ABC News were
lighting up after this. It's like, because then she had
to come out, Oh, you just want to be clear.
Just what I said was shut up, go away, you know,
which makes.

Speaker 1 (49:07):
A kind of makes a good point. We have to
clean up our language because political might be monitoring the chat.

Speaker 2 (49:15):
Politico.

Speaker 1 (49:17):
Oh yes, apparently they disclosed that somebody had sent text
messages from a chat group from a Young Republicans group
or something, and they were. And it's funny because I'm
reading them going, Okay, I would never say these things
or anything, but I sense a lot of sarcasm going on,

(49:38):
and apparently there was, but.

Speaker 2 (49:43):
They didn't use the.

Speaker 1 (49:45):
Again, these people are not running for office, and I,
you know whatever. Had J Jones been running for office,
I would not I'd be like, yeah, that doesn't look good, guy,
but I wouldn't be.

Speaker 2 (49:56):
The thing is, they used this all the time as
an indicator. Oh look at how the people on the
right feel. So everybody thinks that way now, and it
used to be years ago. It was even worse. They
would just like go through YouTube's chat room, you know,
beneath a video where the most egregious stuff would come out.

(50:19):
And so you see, this is how the conservative mindset operates.
Because some anonymous rando with no picture said something aggressive. Okay, yeah,
we all think that now. It's maga as soon as
anything objectorable comes up. Oh look at the way maggot,
those mega idiots. All conservatives now are maga, and all

(50:43):
MAGA thinks the same robotically. You know, shut up. I
mean I'll get home every so often somebody will jump
in me. He was like, how do you this guy
said this? How do you explain it?

Speaker 1 (50:55):
I'm not that guy. Why should I.

Speaker 2 (50:57):
I don't go talk to him? He said it when
you come into my phase four.

Speaker 1 (51:01):
This is something that I have noticed. There's been a switch,
and I think most people in the chat have noticed
that where it used to be that the right was
always on the defensive when it came to accusations of
any kind. You know, it's like so and so said this,
You know, can you explain what he meant? How does

(51:22):
you know? How does the party feel about this? Blah
blah blah? How does all that's? We were always put
on the defensive. We were always were put in that position.
It was, you know, the whole how often have you
beaten your wife? Type of thing? And now I see
that there's now that switch coming around where people are going,

(51:46):
I don't have to explain it to you. That's not
my job.

Speaker 2 (51:49):
Well, it's taken quite a few years of this, but thankfully,
you know, I chucked this again up to that cultural
shift that took place last summer. I always reference that
because I think that's where the mindset it's like, you know, what,
screw you guys, We're not playing a game anymore. We're
not doing that, and of course after the Charlie Kirk killing,
that's only trunch. Further So, now it's like, how do

(52:10):
you respond to this by telling you go screw yourself,
go piss up a rope, go have sex with a cactus?
Which pick one? You know, it's because it's not my problem.
I didn't say it. We're not all robotic thinkers. So yeah, well, dude,
you make people will think this way. Okay, fine, you

(52:32):
go have vigorous coitus with a saguaro and I'll just
go move on my way and do mine.

Speaker 1 (52:36):
What did that ever do to you? Those poor catti
being violated?

Speaker 2 (52:46):
But that's, you know, that's the game that play. Now,
look what's happening in Virginia. You know with this Jay
Jones idiot. People aren't running around and saying, how do
you wears it for this? But they are saying, wait
a second, you still endorse him. That's different.

Speaker 1 (53:01):
And that's the problem. It's that this is what I
try to explain to people. It's like he has said
those things. Yes, he comes out and says he regrets
saying them. He hasn't evolved whatever, but had it been
Nades who had said those things. Do you think that
he wouldn't have been run out of town on a

(53:22):
rail and taken off the ticket by now, of.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
Course he at least you would see the significant drop
in the polls too. That's the funny thing is you
know this happens or who is that other that corpulent
witch out in California last week? Katie Porter?

Speaker 1 (53:41):
Oh, the Leona Helmsley of California politics. That's what I
call her. And I'm dating myself because a lot of
people are like the who, and I'm like, oh, girl,
you have got to look this chick up, because she
was evil personified. I mean seriously, she was called the
Queen of Meen. They made a TV movie about it.

Speaker 2 (54:01):
But I mean, Katie Porter can't even answer simple question.
It's like, well, how do you respond to the forty
percent of conservatives account? I'm not doing this. I'm answering
that question.

Speaker 1 (54:11):
Oh the other onse like, you're in my fucking shot.

Speaker 2 (54:17):
I just I did have to laugh though when somebody said,
oh man, that woman is thin skinned, it was like
the did you see her? I wouldn't use that phrase.

Speaker 1 (54:27):
Well, sausage is thin skinned too. I'm just gonna put
that out there. Maybe I don't criticize people's looks and
I don't criticize their weight, but that is a statement
of fact.

Speaker 2 (54:39):
Okay, yeah, maybe maybe she is thin casing is that
what we're going to say?

Speaker 1 (54:45):
I just, I yeah.

Speaker 2 (54:48):
I mean, I just I revert back to that old
you know what I heard in the movie where they said,
you know, usually when somebody is not physically appealing, they
make up for it by having a charming personality. This
is me.

Speaker 1 (55:02):
I'm living proof. I cannot tell you so many people
that are that tend to be on the slightly overweight side,
who have absolutely sunning personalities, And I would just I mean,
que Latifa, no, no, but I rather on the planer side.

(55:23):
So my personality is more sparkly because I mean, we
do that. We we tend to compensate for lack one
lack and and we have. But this woman has. Can
we get to the point here, Katie Porter has nothing.
There is no there's no upside to anything.

Speaker 2 (55:43):
She's got the appeal of a ditch.

Speaker 1 (55:52):
Calvin makes a really good point, Leona did have better
passion sense and better.

Speaker 2 (55:59):
Well, I'm not I'm gonna hold back my comment at
this point, I don't want to too deeply.

Speaker 1 (56:10):
Okay, Oh, at.

Speaker 2 (56:14):
Least Leona was able to see her shoes.

Speaker 1 (56:18):
This is true too, This is true too. God she
was just like evil, evil witch anyway, But yeah, California
has a little issue with this woman because she she
makes shrews look calm by comparison, and I don't she

(56:42):
can be the forerunner, the front runner.

Speaker 2 (56:45):
She operates like she's entrenched in the Democrat royalty. You know,
it's like she's untouchable in her own mind. It's like,
what are you talking about? I can do this. Stop it,
shut up, get out of here. Do you know who
I am? You know, like that kind of attitude and.

Speaker 1 (57:00):
Oh my goodness, Yes, she's got the whole Do you
know who I am? And I'm like, oh my word.

Speaker 2 (57:07):
I haven't seen the polls lately, but I'm hoping that
there's any sanity in California because she was leading in
the poll when that occurred.

Speaker 1 (57:16):
Well, the thing is, she's not the only well known
liberal that's running for governor. I believe what's his name,
Via whoever, Via Lobos, Via something or there. He used
to be the mayor of la He's running as well, yeah,
there's there's quite a few with name recognition who actually

(57:39):
have policy behind them and actual career experience behind them.
She was she lost her her her seat, I believe,
and then she lost the race for Senate to shift
if I recall correct.

Speaker 2 (57:56):
Ooh possibly, I actually now now I heard catching up
to her is the padea the guy that got Yeah.

Speaker 1 (58:08):
Sorry, sorry, I'm sorry, I'm Hispanic.

Speaker 2 (58:13):
I'm gonna pronounce something however you people say it. I
don't speak LATINX. I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (58:22):
Okay, oh god, here we go.

Speaker 2 (58:25):
You're welcome Politico. And the thing is, he's like rising
in the polls. He isn't even running, like he hasn't
thrown his name into the race officially. He's just like no.

Speaker 1 (58:42):
I do think that the laugh in California is desperate
to find somebody that is more amiable than this woman.
And frankly, they can go through any trash receptacle and
find somebody, honest to god.

Speaker 2 (58:57):
This woman's about his appealing as an abscess. But don't
tell her that, Jay, I just it's to laugh. I
got to say, well, yeah, we're we're also still dealing
with the shutdown at the moment.

Speaker 1 (59:14):
Yeah, and.

Speaker 2 (59:19):
I'm still trying to figure out the House Democrats because.

Speaker 1 (59:26):
I don't understand.

Speaker 2 (59:31):
But there's like a crowd of them sitting in the
chambers and they're like, see where where are the Republicans.
It's like they did their job. I don't understand, what
are you doing exactly? Because your chamber already passed the bill.
The continuing resolution passed the House, So I'm not I've

(59:51):
yet to hear what they expect the Republicans to do. Well,
they should go to the Senate and convince the Democrats
to vote for this. I mean, what that be your job.
I'm sorry, it seems like.

Speaker 1 (01:00:04):
I want to say that I'm kind of glad that
I think she was running with Shift for the for
the seat and she and Shift won. I'm kind of glad.
As much as I despise Shift. I mean, this woman
is like really hostile. Cal brings up a good point.
I mean, she literally threw boiling potatoes at her ex.

(01:00:27):
I don't see how it is that California can actually
be okay with putting somebody of that temperament.

Speaker 2 (01:00:36):
Well, she was, uh yeah. She also was raging at
her staff because they allegedly gave her COVID, you know,
like so like that came out, like the messaging, it
was like, you gave this to me?

Speaker 1 (01:00:54):
What live I live in the hinterlands of Texas. Okay,
there's nobody around here. I still got COVID. It doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 (01:01:06):
You can't blame whoever works for her, willy nilly, it's
that's ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
But whatever, Well she's ridiculous. There you go. So yeah,
the Democrats just cracked me up though with this.

Speaker 1 (01:01:21):
Well, so they're trying to say that, oh, we're here,
We're ready to work. Where are the Republicans, dude that
see our past the House of Representatives? It's in filibuster
in the Senate. There's nothing you guys can do. Why
are you showing this? Why are you doing it? It's
all showmanship, that's all it is.

Speaker 2 (01:01:40):
That lose out there looking under tables. And then who's
that one trans congressman they have?

Speaker 1 (01:01:48):
Oh that dude Sarah.

Speaker 2 (01:01:51):
Sarah actually put out a post and said it's time
for the Republicans to put on their boy pants. If
there's any body that should not use that cliche would
probably be the one that wants to be considered a woman.
So yeah, I'm going to say bad bad form on

(01:02:11):
the messaging there.

Speaker 1 (01:02:14):
Thank you, cal Tim McBride, that's what it is.

Speaker 2 (01:02:20):
You mean, Sarah, excuse.

Speaker 1 (01:02:21):
Me, I'm sorry, I miss stand it. Hey, Yeah, it's
really funny because it was there was something that I
saw today. Just to put that out there. Jennifer Say
actually retweeted a thread about the downward trend on people

(01:02:42):
identifying as trans. Oh yeah, it's like it's like crashing.
I'm like, so this was this was a fashion trend,
that's all it was. It's a very dangerous and very
deadly one, but apparently it was a fashion trend.

Speaker 2 (01:02:58):
Well, I can't wait to see what's gonna happen, like
three or four years with all these uh, all the
progeny of the Hollywood set's going to be coming out
as trans for a year or two now, Like, who
was it? One family has like three children who are trans.
Stop it.

Speaker 1 (01:03:18):
I think Megan Fox says that all of her kids
are trans. I know that Jamie Lee Curtis, one of
her daughters identifies as trans or one of her whatever. Uh,
and Ben and Jennifer one of their kids it's trans.

Speaker 2 (01:03:40):
I mean, when when this whole thing dies off as
far as it being trendy and you know, people stop
saying a brave and because oh another one.

Speaker 1 (01:03:53):
Yeah, all of these kids in Hollywood that identifies trans
most of them go to the same school. It's a
high priced private school, and a lot of their celebrities
take their kids there.

Speaker 2 (01:04:07):
Now, if your trains you get a scholarship.

Speaker 1 (01:04:13):
Would I had I been young and going through school,
I would have actually identified. I mean I watched Boom
Buddies it worked.

Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
Yeah, exactly. There's absolutely no way statistically this is a thing.
You know, five years ago the number was like point
zero zero zero one. Now it's skyrocketed up too. Point
two percent still knock it off. It's not.

Speaker 1 (01:04:47):
Well, it's it's but it's insiduous, and it is affecting
and and and infecting areas that it has no business being.
In particular, it's infecting churches, it's infecting schools, it's infecting

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but where I see the problem mostly as the houses
of worship.

Speaker 2 (01:05:14):
And what happened to the phrase because I remember when
I was going to private school, there was not quite
being drilled in our heads, but it was a bit
of a mantra and it was be in the world
but not of the world, and it just it was
just catching enough. You're like, I get it, Okay, I
know what you're saying. I understand. The leadership doesn't follow that.

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That's what I don't fathom.

Speaker 1 (01:05:38):
Now you have there, you know, Like I said, there
are big problems in some of the churches, which is
kind of weird because you would think that that is
the one place where this stuff should not be infiltrating.
It should not be you know, but look at the

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incidents of this agitator preacher who wears his clerical clothes
to go attack ice places. So that my story a
good photo op, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:06:13):
But I looked into him, I was like, you know,
this guy's got to be Antia or something. They're like, no,
he's he's actually a Presbyterian reverend or such.

Speaker 1 (01:06:24):
Yeah, and he wears the rainbow thing when he is Why.

Speaker 2 (01:06:27):
Is he in a Catholic clerics outfit?

Speaker 1 (01:06:32):
No, different denominations can wear the clerical collar like Catholics do,
Vicars do, Presbyterians do, So it depends some don't, Like
the Baptists don't. Methodists, I don't think they do, but
the Presbyterians do. So, you know, the Church of England

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does but you know they they broke away from the
Catholics because somebody will divorce so uh or off with
their head, you know, that kind of thing. But that
you know there, like I said, there's a there's a
problem now with the churches and having this coming in
and just starting to seep as part of you know,

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being tolerant and welcoming everyone. And what they're missing is
that we can tolerate the person, we just do not
tolerate the sin. And that is that is a line
that the churches have to take. Witness what's going on
over in the Church of England Canterbury Cathedral, which is

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one of the oldest churches, if if one of the
grandest churches in England, if not just Europe. The archbishop
is allowing people to pay graffiti on the walls and
on the pillars of this beautiful church.

Speaker 2 (01:07:59):
The hell.

Speaker 1 (01:08:04):
I went to look at it. I've read about it,
and it is their contention there being the church that
they want to incentivize people to ask questions and to
put them up there for people to see so that
they can seek answers. They also want them to put
positive messages of love and hope and all that stuff well,
I looked at all the graffiti. I didn't see any

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positive messages. Maybe I miss some or whatever, but most
of them were things of questionable nature, like does God exist?
That has no business being on the church walls. And
the reason I say that is that if you have
that question, if that question exists among the people that

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are members of your parish, of your diocese, of your church,
of your cathedral, it's your responsibility to answer that question
in your sermons. And that tells me that there are
no sermons that are providing Christian influence for the parishioners
coming out of that cathedral. That's what I'm getting out

(01:09:13):
of it, because people are asking questions that the church
should have answered a long time ago.

Speaker 2 (01:09:22):
Well, this what I've been talking about, is that the
leadership of the church is falling prey to this crap.
And you know, I understand to a degree. You want
to be you know, open and understanding to others and
bring them in. But you don't alter your standards to
appeal to people who aren't even in your flock. You

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try to draw people into the flock, and you're compromising
the faith in the process of appealing to you unfaithful
It makes no damn sense, don't it doing.

Speaker 1 (01:10:00):
There used to be a time when you would go
and you know, every so often you still see this,
especially in rural areas. You go to a tent revival
and that is basically a huge pitch tent is set
up and there's going to be a traveling evangelist who
is going to be preaching the Word of God to

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the people to incentivize them to actually either found a
church in the area or to find there, you know,
a church to attend in the area, just to bring
people together in you know, to worship and to to
you know, for that purpose. That has fallen so out

(01:10:42):
of favor in Europe that I know people now that
have no idea or concept of what that is. You know,
kids that are like ten, twelve, sixteen years old, they
don't know what that is. Their parents be remember it.
But that hasn't been a thing, and we call it

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ten revivals over here. Europe actually has their own versions
where you know, traveling preachers would go to and they
would be guests at a particular church, you know, and
they would preach and they'd be there for like three
days and all that stuff. And you know, that was
something that was common in Germany. And when I was
living in Germany, I saw it too, and it was

(01:11:28):
really indeed. I mean, the town would announce when this
particular priest was coming to town and he was going
to be at this dome and at this dome and
at this church, and so you could take your pick
and go, you know, see him, because he was literally
traveling to spread the word of God, and he was
like a big, well known guy. And one of them

(01:11:49):
just happened to be Cardinal Ratzinger, who became Benedict the sixteenth.
I got to see him at church. That was so great.
But you know, the thing was that now they don't
do that anymore. They've completely walked away from that. They're
letting people who don't even understand what a church is

(01:12:12):
the filet. And it's one thing for you to actually
put graffiti outside of a church. It's another to bring
it inside the church. And this graffiti is actually inside
the church, it's not outside, so it's not like you
have plausible deniability. The Archbishop of Canbury actually invited people

(01:12:35):
to do this, and his reasoning is he wants people
to start asking questions, dude, do what my church does
my church. You know, there's little pockets behind the pews,
and that's where your missile goes, and that's where your
little hamlet. Yeah, there's a little paper note pad and
pencils and you can actually put that in and there's

(01:12:58):
a little box and then you put it in, and
then the following day, the following weekend they answer your
questions or whatever. They don't do that, And it's almost
there's a certain disconnect now because this is a church
that had a lot of Catholic canonical stuff still within it.

(01:13:21):
I mean they broke away from the Catholic Church. Yeah,
because Henry deeighth just want to marry somebody else. But
they kept a lot of what the Catholic Church had,
and eventually, through time they kept shedding and shedding and
shedding it. And it's to the point where people from
twenty years ago don't recognize that church today. I have

(01:13:44):
a girlfriend who was Anglican. She's like, I need something else.
I can't do this.

Speaker 2 (01:13:53):
How did the churches even go through this process like that?
You know, so mad show. It's like, I'm going to
take you up on your offer.

Speaker 1 (01:14:03):
Here here's the problem with the Anglican Church. The leader
of the church is literally the King of England. What
comes from that direction is what infiltrates the church. When
I was there, it wasn't a problem.

Speaker 2 (01:14:19):
But of putting graffiti in the church as somebody, you know,
like get us on the list. It's like I'm gonna
come in Tuesday and tag a pillar.

Speaker 1 (01:14:29):
Or I'm not quite sure, but I know maybe they have.

Speaker 2 (01:14:31):
A cup holder in all the pews and they just
have a can of roustolium.

Speaker 1 (01:14:37):
Actually, rostolium is illegal in England because of the type
of paint. It is.

Speaker 2 (01:14:44):
The type of what the paint.

Speaker 1 (01:14:47):
They have restrictions on paints and the floor of carbons
and blah blah blah whatever over in England and in Germany.
You can't trust me. So that christolium, it's zto color,
that's what it's called. Zito.

Speaker 2 (01:15:06):
Well, that serves as a nice segue, however, speaking of
propellants that segue. Yeah, I've got the newest dire threat
to the planet regarding.

Speaker 1 (01:15:25):
Oh yeah, we're all going to die on this, y'all.

Speaker 2 (01:15:31):
Seriously at this point, just stop it, you know. But
something that is portable, fast acting and highly effective in
the healthcare field that has transformed the treatment for many
people who suffer from an ailment is killing the planet.

Speaker 1 (01:15:56):
Yep, We're all going to die because of asthetics.

Speaker 2 (01:16:00):
Meter dose. Inhalers rely on hydrofluoral carbon propellants greenhouse gases
that are also used in refrigeration and air conditioning, and
trap in the atmosphere thousands of times more powerfully than
carbon dioxide. Now, the people with inhalers are killing the planet.

Speaker 1 (01:16:23):
Okay, but explain this to me, Like I'm five, You
have an inhaler. It's like this big, right, You shake
it and you put it in your mouth, and then
you depress it as you breathe. In correct, that's how
it works, right, So the propellants are going into your
body right, not out into the atmosphere, but.

Speaker 2 (01:16:47):
When you exhale, like right now, you and I are
exhaling poison.

Speaker 1 (01:16:52):
Two that the plants seem to enjoy.

Speaker 2 (01:16:55):
And these propellants also are going to be exhaled. Oh
my god, this is the part I love that although
the device contains only a small volume of the propellant,
the use of a single inhaler generates carbon emissions equivalent
to driving a gas powered car up to one hundred miles.

Speaker 1 (01:17:19):
Okay, So why can't we do that? Why can't we
actually use it?

Speaker 2 (01:17:24):
Because, Aggie, when this is scaled across the tens of
millions of inhalers that are dispensed every year, those emissions
can total half a million vehicles driven every year.

Speaker 1 (01:17:38):
Do you have any idea how ridiculous all of this sounds.
And by the way, I thank.

Speaker 2 (01:17:43):
Very simple solution, get rid of everybody with asthma, and
that'll save the planet.

Speaker 1 (01:17:54):
Oh my gosh, I don't. Honestly, there's not enough VODCA
in the world for this.

Speaker 2 (01:18:00):
No, I got something better.

Speaker 1 (01:18:03):
Cow makes a good point though. Now Greta has a
job again. Oh dang you n I thank you Dad.

Speaker 2 (01:18:19):
So I mean basically, you're you're you're really stuck because
you know you can't breathe. You need an inhaler. You
stop using the inhaler. You can't breathe. If you use
the inhaler, you kill the planet and you can't breathe.
Just can't win. What But no, this one, this one's
even dumber. Regarding the government shutdown. There's one community that

(01:18:46):
is going to be supremely impacted by this shutdown, you know,
because it's always you know, I always.

Speaker 1 (01:18:55):
Love these the military community.

Speaker 2 (01:18:57):
But something bad happens, but there's always some group that's
hardest hit, you know. Like when wildfires wiped out the
city of Los Angeles, they were claiming that the trans
community was hardest hit. What what Yeah, that was one
of the headlines. Like, I don't know, hundreds of thousands

(01:19:21):
of people lost everything they owned, but oh the trans community,
Uh it cost out even more. Okay, So like, are
you not supposed to feel bad about what happened to you?
Then oh, oh, the trans people went through worse. I'm
so thankful that I lost everything. But yeah, currently, we

(01:19:42):
need to get the government back on track here because
the community that is deeply affected right now is the
population of endangered blackfooted ferrets. According to CBS.

Speaker 1 (01:19:55):
News, what the ferrets.

Speaker 2 (01:20:01):
This rare species that's safeguarded under the Protection of the
Endangered Species Act teeters on the brink of extinction. And
now biologists from the US Fish and Wildlife Service that
are furloughed because of the shutdown, and this could seriously
affect the critical release of four hundred captive bread ferrets

(01:20:24):
that are designed to strengthen the populations in the wild.
God damn you, Chuck Schumer.

Speaker 1 (01:20:35):
Yeah, that says the Schumer shutdown. I will die on
that hill.

Speaker 2 (01:20:39):
I would.

Speaker 1 (01:20:40):
I wish you would, but no, I'll take that back. Man.

Speaker 2 (01:20:43):
I got all of the things. This always cracks me
up there anytime there's a shutdown, they come up with
these horror stories. It's like, oh, no, the people that
drive the sleigh in the National Park at Christmas are
going to be out of work.

Speaker 1 (01:20:57):
What I don't I don't. Uh. And and these right,
they are cute animals mm hmm. But I don't think
they'll be affected by the shutdown. The way that they're
making this thing out to be, well.

Speaker 2 (01:21:12):
It's like they're already in there. They're an endangered species,
so now they're more in jeopardy. Hmmm.

Speaker 3 (01:21:20):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:21:22):
I mean, no animal. I can tell you this because
I do not have been through lots of government shutdowns,
but I was a military wife, so well you know,
we were in the military, and so the shutdowns would
affect the military in certain ways. I can tell you this,

(01:21:44):
anything that has to do with animals was never in
danger because the government will take care of animals before
they take care of people. They've always done that. They
have a pattern for that because the optics look really
bad if they don't, so I can tell you right.

Speaker 3 (01:22:07):
Now, will ever pull that out of their ass? Did
not take that into consideration.

Speaker 2 (01:22:14):
Yeah, and they're talking about how you know, releasing these
in the fall is a critical time so they can
learn hunting skills before winters. So open a cage. Why
do you need the government to let them go?

Speaker 1 (01:22:27):
Let them do something?

Speaker 2 (01:22:29):
What the hell? They'll be helicopter these things in every
two hundred miles or something like that.

Speaker 1 (01:22:36):
No, they'll they'll be fed and they'll be watered, they'll
be taking care of they will have people coming in
and doing this. The government always covers their ass when
it comes to animals. They learn with the Burroughs.

Speaker 2 (01:22:50):
Release them in the spring, Okay, I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:22:53):
What do you want me to They can release them
in the winter and they I think they turned their coats,
but I'm not sure. But anyway, it's getting to be
that time.

Speaker 2 (01:23:04):
Good because I just this ferret story has me destroyed.

Speaker 1 (01:23:09):
Can I know your heart is hurting you, poor.

Speaker 2 (01:23:13):
Baby fucking Shumer.

Speaker 1 (01:23:20):
But that son of a bitch, Suber.

Speaker 2 (01:23:26):
I am writing a tersely worded email tomorrow. That's for
damn sure.

Speaker 1 (01:23:31):
All right, Well, while you're writing that email, tell us,
you know, before you write the email, tell us what
we can find you?

Speaker 2 (01:23:37):
All right, right, all right? You can go over to
town Hall dot com. I got a daily column there
called Rift from the Headlines, when you can see me
on a regular basis. Also over at Red State on
this almost daily basis, if not more so. Or I've
also got a twice weekly podcast I call Liable Sources,
go into the swamp land of our media complex, point

(01:24:00):
out their foibles and make fun of the dumbasses there.
And you can hear more of me on this very
network as well. Thursday night, I'm going to be here
with Ortie Packer and I cover all the vital business
side of entertainment in Hollywood on the Culture Shift alternate Thursdays.
It's me and Paul Young from Screen Ramp. We go
through the dark side of Hollywood and bad movies, on

(01:24:22):
disasters in the making, and if you need more mean
that less face that you do if you head over
to Jit or I am at Martini Shark. What about you, Aggie?
Where can people find more of your magnificence?

Speaker 1 (01:24:34):
Well, for now you can find me at Aggie the
Barkeep over on X you can find me a thirty
pm Eastern Tuesday nights. Soon the Cocktail Lounge with the
everswap View Friday nights, eight thirty pm Eastern. We do,
he said, she said, where reck Ca and I get
together for fun chats. And the second Wednesday of every
month at APM the guys get together for Toxic Masculinity,

(01:24:55):
where I bring the drink of the evening. And last
but not least, I now host a Spirited Books podcast,
a thirty pm Easterner on the first Monday of every month.
Thanks for joining us everyone, We hope you have a
lovely evening.

Speaker 2 (01:25:12):
And go worries a glass and look at the ceiling

Speaker 1 (01:25:29):
Month okay,