The Cocktail Lounge w/ Aggie and Brad: Insert Witty Title Here

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:31):
The following program contains course language and adult themes.

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

(01:08):
of The Cocktail Lounge. I am your hostess with Emoses,
Aggie and with me as always is the ever suave
and co host Brad Schlager. How are you doing this evening, Brad?

Speaker 3 (01:21):
How is it going? Happy Halloween? Not quite eve, but
pre Halloween show. I guess for us.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Pre Halloween, I guess Halloween is this Friday, which means
I'm under the gun to finish my costume.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Always a big secret and no one's allowed to know,
and we have to wait until then. So it's like, okay,
I know, I know.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
It's yes, that's part of my charm.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
We've come to expect it. But that'll be that'll be
fun cool.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
As is my habit. It's going to be I either
take it from you know, film, or I make a
punny costume. This is this falls into the punny category.
So ah, yeah, it'll it's it's gonna be a punny.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
Well, we're all on tinder hooks awaiting the review.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
I know, I know everybody's like, oh what is nobody cares?

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Nobody cares?

Speaker 3 (02:27):
Well, then we'll we'll have to wait and see you.
So how did the howd the Friday Show go? Without me? Uh?

Speaker 2 (02:36):
It would really really well. Jeff knocked it out of
the park. It was really fun. I think I think
the funniest. The funniest character had to be Bobby, which
was played by politic Bunny Sam And it's a tender

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confused child because in the script Bobby is a male,
but she's female and she kept saying I'm a girl. Dammit,
it's just everything it was dying. So it was actually
a really good production. We had a lot of fun.
You were very much missed, so alas.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
But yeah, anybody listening, if you're unaware. Over at Kala
rent here we uh on a semi annual basis put
on broad radio drama productions based on old school radio hats.
And it was the day the understood still and uh

(03:36):
the kalor n players put on yet another one. So
did they announce our holiday show, the one in December? I?

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yes, yes, we did, Yes we did.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
I didn't know if that was still on the DL
or not, if we were embarking.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
It was announced and there was a hint in during
the intermissions. Correct, Jeff.

Speaker 4 (04:02):
Only only at the ending and then for the after party.
It was it was announced, so.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
It was it was really cool. So we have that
one to look forward to. Casting is still being considered,
so hey, you might get a shot here. Actually, I
think you're pretty much issueing for one of those spots.
I recall correctly.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
Yeah, I think I'm being cast. But is it? Uh?
Have we actually announced what we're doing or not yet?

Speaker 4 (04:34):
Do you have announced?

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah? The title? Yes, okay, yeah, we will be doing
a production the Wizard of Oz. Yes, that's correct. I'm
looking forward to it.

Speaker 4 (04:46):
I think it'll be fun with singing.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
I'm okay.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
This is the first that I have heard this.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
Wait what, well, you shut up?

Speaker 3 (04:57):
You've got a voice?

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Uh like yeah, maybe like a dying tuna in a bucket.
I don't think so.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
I've heard you sing back in the day. There's been
videos of you on the Internet of singing. And yes.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
There's video.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
Yeah, you put it up there. It was on your
account before.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Wait. Oh my god, I think I liberately deleted that
from my memory banks because I didn't want Oh.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
Okay, well, still we heard evidence is out there, or
was at least in the not a problem. You're going
to do it me. No, I have a speaking role,
and that is it.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
It's such a funny duddy, Brad. I mean, you have
a great choice. I've heard you sing live and in
person at Seapack.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
What the hell have you heard me sing?

Speaker 2 (05:52):
I was literally sitting next to you while we were
having dinner.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
Oh that yeah, singing and that was bull crapping with
some song that was pouring in from another bar or something.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
It's on video.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
Sarah's got it, bitch, we get her address up here.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Okay, so but yes, we will be having the Christmas production,
will be Wizard of Boss this here, so looking forward
to it.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
Tip be fun, it should be, yes. But apart from that,
we we actually had a pretty good weekend. Huh uh.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
If you are referring to football, yes, that.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
Is kind of the basis of this program at least
and its inception.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah, we had a pretty freaking great time. This was
for me, the game that worried me the most throughout
the season.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
I know that, you know.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
We were playing the Gators. We were playing these people
that the other thing. Arkansas always has it in for us.
They're Arkansas is so severely underrated, they really are. But
the game that bothered me and worried me the most
was LSU. Texas A and m played LSU at Death Valley, LSU,
you know home. It was a home game for LSU,

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and it was It wasn't pretty for LSU.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
No, no, no, no, you you guys took it to
them in pretty good fashion. I gotta say this is
I mean, it was a pretty impressive victory road victory
sec opponent, top twenty team at the time, and yeah,
I mean great performance by all around. And as a result,
LSU is now off the pole and LSU is in

(07:56):
the market for a head coach.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah. Let me tell you there are some stories that
a lot of people outside of this area, outside of
Texas A and M A, the LSU, are not privy
to Brian Kelly when he came in, the first person
that he fired was gosh, what what's his name? Tommy MOFFITTT. Now,

(08:24):
Tommy Moffatt was kind of a big deal. He was
a strength and conditioning coach for LSU for like two decades.
Under him, LSU had what three national championships or something
like that in the past twenty years. He knew what
he was doing completely. Brian Kelly comes in and the

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first person he fires is Tommy moffittt He wanted to
bring in his own team, which a lot of coaches do.
But most of the time what coaches do is when
they bring their own team, they have the old team,
kind of like break the new people in, you know,
that kind of thing. This didn't happen. He just outright
fired him. Moffatt has had a chip on his shoulder

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about Brian Kelly for a long time because of this.
It was it was hilarious to find out when they
were interviewing Marcel Read after the game, he actually disclosed
that one of the tackling dummies had Brian Kelly's face
on it. Homy Moffatt put it there. So for Tommy Moffatt,

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this was this was not just a game. It was
a chance to actually prove to Brian Kelly how seriously
he had messed up. Because Moffatt really is an excellent
coach and what he does and this, you know, coach

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Elko at Texas A and m actually put out bona fides.
Now my team has conditioned. They go the distance far
better than they used to even last year. So Moffatt
is an excellent coach. When it comes to this kind
of stuff. But he's been vindicated. He's been vindicated. So

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that was one of the side stories that a lot
of people were not privy to. But when Marcel Reid
was being interviewed, he did mention the tackling dummy with
Brian Kelly's face on it, and people were like, well,
what's the beef? What's going on? And that's when people
started putting everything together. They knew that Moffatt had been
at LSU, but a lot of people didn't know that

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the reason he left was due to Kelly just firing him.
Like the day or two after Kelly came in, he
didn't even talk to the guy, he just fired it.
So this I think was kind of like not just
karma but also vindication. And we at Texas A and

(11:03):
M really really like coach Moffatt now because.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
Got it? Uh he delivered let's just face he did.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
You know. The team was talking about how Moffin has
actually improved their their gosh, they can go longer of
what's the word I'm looking for. I can't remember.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
Endurance?

Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yes, that their endurance out there on the field because
there were times when you know, and this was this
is something I've told you. Third third quarter is always
the worst quarter because they're they're losing steam, they haven't
gotten their second win. So third quarter is usually when
Texas A and M would lose everything, and that has

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not happened this year. Third quarter has been it has always.
It has been steady throughout the game, so we were
quite happy. It was a really good game. You could
hear there were people on the stands that were demanding
that Kelly be fired. Fire Kelly, Fire Kelly. I mean

(12:15):
they were yelling this in the stands. The almost the
entire LSU student body and general mission had left by
five minutes before the game was over. I mean, I
I'd never seen anything like that. Usually LSU stays throughout

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the game, regardless of win or lose, because they're very,
very attached to their football team. You know, they really.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
I just got to because I mean, yes, it was
the third loss for l s U, but also they
haven't been playing that poorly, I'll say, and this seems
to be now. I'm not going to say that they
should have kept Kelly because if he's not working out, fine,

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but I mean they keep expecting a year after year
type of performance of greatness and all that, but I
don't know, it's he never really seemed like a fit there.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
No, And I think what a lot of people and
this is what I get from people over there at
LSU live in the area. They were telling me that
Kelly wanted was very leery of the saban d dynasty.
He was very leery of other coaches and everything, and

(13:41):
he just wanted to clear that out and establish his own. Again.
We saw that at our school with jimbo Okay, this
was a coach that wanted to establish legacy, but was
not really interested in the team. I never saw him
very interested in the team, not like Elco, who's actually

(14:04):
out there with each member of the team, regardless of
you know, if they're you know, first.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
Strain, well, guys that are falling prey to believing their
own hype, Yeah start here or not the school, not
the team, not the program. You know, it's them, and
that doesn't usually work. I mean, yeah, you want a
coach to come in and put their stamp and personality
on a team, but at the same time, it's not
them exclusively.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
No, And you know the thing, it's Kelly had the
opportunity of a lifetime two actually mold the entire team
and take his time doing it, and he didn't do that. Now,
like I said, LSU still an excellent team obviously, But

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I really do think that the A and M game
at LS you did expect to win that game, regardless
of what the odds were, you know, in Vegas or
whatever the odds.

Speaker 3 (15:09):
But I think just the fact that they were at home,
you know that your death Valley, and I think that's
probably was as big a contributor to Kelly getting fired.
I mean, to see them getting handled like that in
their own house is kind of uh going to be
the terror that And.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
Like I said, it's.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
Legit though you guys are doing the job. This is
your fourth road game this year, scoring forty points. I mean,
it's damn good. I think that's an SEC or ties
an SEC record. I think that's a that's a performance
right there where aid and O and.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
Like I said, this one, this one was the big one.
And I you know a lot of people are you know, oh, no,
Texas is going to be the big one. I'm like, no,
I don't care about win or lose on Texas. LSU
was the one that I was worried about and They're like, well,
so you don't care if y'all lose to Texas, And
I'm like, no, not really, that's like the last game

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of the season anyway, and you know whatever. But this
one was the one that worried me. I thought it
was really interesting because we've had contentious games before at LSU.

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We have a history, but kind of like Texas and
Oklahoma have a history. Ours is similar with LSU, not
as bad because we can't play at each other's you know, fields,
unlike Texas and Oklahoma. But yeah, we've had contentious meetings

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the years, and so the at the end when we won,
one of the things that we'd never done before. We
actually played our our battle hymn, you know, and everybody
that was an Aggie was in that in the stands
and they were doing the saw you know, saw var

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series horns and every band was playing, everybody, the football
players joining up there, the coach was there with the
trainers doing everybody was doing it, and people were, you know,
us Aggie's were like, I don't think we've ever done that.
In death vallely, I don't think we've ever done that.
Somebody said, we've never done it anywhere it's likely. Yeah,

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if we lose a game, and if we lose a game,
regardless of whether we're home or you know, a visitor,
we stay behind and we do I mean a yell
practice kind of like, you know, just to pump us
up and say yeah it was it was a good effort,
and blah blah blah bah. We do a yell practice.

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When we win, we just leave. Nobody stays to do
the the you know, our fight song. So it was
kind of unusual, and people were like, what's going on.
And I saw a video after video of this being
posted from different angles because different people were posting into

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the social media, and I was amazed at how everybody
was participating in this. So it was it was kind
of cool, but you know, I do feel kind of
bad LSU's having an issue right now with Brian Kelly.
Even the Governor of Louisiana got involved in the fight.
He sends out a tweet saying, I hope that LSU

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rethinks their stance on raising ticket prices until they can
deal with Brian Kelly. And he was actually involved in
the talks of the buyout. So yeah, it's pretty interesting now.

Speaker 5 (19:09):
It was.

Speaker 3 (19:10):
It was a pretty big win for you guys. So
it's definitely impressive. You got actually a first place vote
in the AP pole. This wet.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
Like I care?

Speaker 3 (19:22):
How about this for a little bit of irony, though
Miami Hurricanes had a bit of an aggy experience, won
the game rather handily in fact, and they dropped in
the poll.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
Okay, see that.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
The only thing I could really guess. I didn't get
to watch it because I was at a big family
function Saturday night. But I'm thinking maybe the slow first
half they played Stanford and gave up an early touchdown,
took the lead by halftime, and then second half they
just turned it on and smoked them. But maybe that.

(20:04):
But so you know, they were expected to win. They
maybe didn't cover. I think it was a mass of spread.
It was something like forty eight and a half. I
want to say it.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
Was just but they and they fell in the polls.
Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (20:19):
Yeah, So yeah, I think that probably the case. But
it's not really that big a deal, and I think
they're gonna make it through the rest of the schedule.
ACC Championship is gonna be the question mark. I wonder
right now it's looking like it's going to be probably
Miami and Georgia Tech.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
I get the feeling that Miami is the red headed
stepchild of the ACC.

Speaker 1 (20:46):
Kind of are I mean, it's I know we are
of the SEC so.

Speaker 3 (20:52):
Well even at late if we if we have a
good season with only two maybe three losses, they're all
going to be in the ACC though, so the end
up being like seventh or eighth or something like that.
But you know, right now, they're fine. You know, they
got the one loss. I think they're in seventh or
eighth place overall, but they've only played three games in conference.
All the rest of the schedule coming up is going

(21:13):
to be ACC games, and we can get by SMU
in Houston in a couple of weeks. I think that's
probably the last hurdle.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
I don't know, you've got a really really tight, tight
team this year.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
Well yes, and no, they got kind of kicked around
this past weekend, and.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
Everybody can have an off day. You guys had your
off day earlier.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
So yeah, now, I think that that's going to be
the one test. I think, because I still regard the
secondary as maybe the weakest aspect of our game, and
SMU does have a pretty good offense, so that could
be the scary aspect of it. If they can tighten
that ship down, then no problem. But there's a there's

(22:02):
plenty of other activities going on. I got to lean
on you for this one. Texas Tech had a big
controversy during the week ahead of the game. It was
announced that this is so ridiculous. They're banning tortillas in

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the stadium.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
Yes, Texas Tech has a very long tradition with throwing
tortillas onto the field and they've done this for years.
I can't remember them not doing it. So the thing
was it came out that they are now forbidden from
doing so. But when you read what it says, it

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says once you cannot throw tortillas once the game has started.
So if the game has not started, I'm saying, throw
those throw those tortillas out there, make them frisbees. I
all for that, don't There's My grandmother used to say,
there are ways around men, even those who hovered like eagles.

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These people are having like eagles. There's always a way
around it. I'm hoping Texas Tech finds a way because
from I come from a school that thrives on their traditions.
Those traditions have been there since eighteen seventy six, so
you know, and eventually, you know, we get more traditions,
more traditions like the Dixie Chicken is probably one of

(23:31):
the best traditions, but that didn't start till nineteen seventy eight,
you know that. And now it has expanded and it's
it's a great hangout place. If ever you come visit me.
We're taking a road trip just so we can go
to the Dixie Chicken. Yes, but you know that this
has been a tradition at Texas Tech for a very

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long time. So for them to take this oa it's
a harmless tradition. Yes, you're throwing out there. Not all
of them get to the field. It doesn't take much,
just cooked them out of the way. So I don't
I don't see why this has to be so such
an egregious thing for them to curtail. It's just it

(24:17):
doesn't make any sense to me. I mean, you see
you see people throwing beer bottles at pro games. That's
far worse.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
Well, I'm kind of curious what led to this, because
I doubt that there was a case of somebody being
injured by a tortilla.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
Ah, yeah, I don't know, I think maybe somebody was
was angry and then just got mad.

Speaker 3 (24:46):
No idea, might be be a case of alleged racism,
because that seems to be kind of the thing. How
dare you do that?

Speaker 2 (24:55):
I mean, it could be just that they decided and
we don't have the time to scout these things off
of the field, And I'm like, you literally don't have to.
They they're flat, they're little flat discs.

Speaker 3 (25:10):
Okay, they're soft, go through them. I don't think you're
going to be I.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
You know, they don't. You could technically, you could slip online,
you know, if if you're you know, if you're trying
to grip and you don't put it right, you might.
I don't know. I have no idea for me.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
I mean, game time, don't do it.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
But I totally get that. But you know what you
have even better, I would wait until the end of
the game to throw all that shit out there. They
can't find you. They cannot find you for that because
the game technically is over, and it is during the
duration of the game, you're not allowed to throw these tortillas.

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So personally speaking, I would incentivize the school alumni who
are attending these games to just take your tortillas in
and wait until after the game's over.

Speaker 3 (26:09):
Now that's what the Florida Panthers do with their rat tradition.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
You know.

Speaker 3 (26:13):
It used to be after every goal they would do it,
and finally the league said all right enough, and now
it's after a home victory, you do it.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
Well, I think that there being the student body is
going to be searched for tortillas now, I mean, it's
they've gotten back to that point, and I'm like, you've
got to beginning me so normally when we go to
a home game or whatever. They started this well after
I left. But the girls, if you're going to take

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if you're going to take any bags or anything of that,
man should they have to be clear so the people
don't necessarily have to go in and look. They can
just see what you're caring. Which is why there's a
section at the bookstore of clear backpacks and clear purses
that you can buy for pretty penny. Apparently because now

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they're designer with the little texas A and M things
running through it or whatever.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
I don't know, but I'm relatively certain you can smuggle
tortillas in some facts.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
I'm pretty sure you can those things they're flat. If
you're wearing a T shirt, you can put those right
here in the back. You can sneak out with those.
I don't understand how they're gonna You don't have the
time to pat everybody down. You don't have the time.
Tortillas don't show up on an X ray machine. I

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don't know. I don't know how they hope to do this.

Speaker 3 (27:43):
But I saw I did enjoy this. One little bit
of snark came out of the Oklahoma game when they
played Ole Miss. Usually the Okis will mock the other
team with whatever hand tradition they have, you know, if
it's it was the U symbol, they'll turn it upside

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down or things of this nature. They're playing Ole Miss
on Saturday, and instead, they, like the entire stands, started
doing the Gator chump because now there's rumors that Lane
Kiffen will be leaving Old Miss to go take the
job at Florida. So they were just trying to ride

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them the whole game with that. That's pretty creative. I mean,
some good drolling right there. I don't know that Kiffen's
going anywhere necessarily. I mean he's in the top five
right now and you might have been to a Florida
team that can't get out of its own way. But

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that's that's the rumor. At least of course, you know,
all of this is mitigated by the nil and teams
that suck ass can become contenders within the season. Yep,
speaking of of Vanderbilt is a top ten school.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
Miracles can occur anywhere.

Speaker 3 (29:10):
Right now, I think they're they have a six and
one record now and maybe seven to one. They have
the highest ranking right now than they have in eighty
eight years.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
Again, miracles can happen anywhere at any given time. We're
witnessing one right.

Speaker 3 (29:32):
Now, you know. And they're not they're kind of doing
with a whole team effort. I mean, everybody's talking Diego Pavia,
the quarterback, but it's really, you know, like sheer force
of will with him because he'll go like under two
hundred yards, pass for a touchdown, run for two more,

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defense will hold up. You know, they're just they're they're
doing the job as a complete unit, and it's amazing
to watch actually because they were the doormat forever and
this is just kind of odd to see. And then
there's Texas.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
Yeah, there's Texas whatever.

Speaker 3 (30:14):
Arch Manning had his I guess you could call it
his breakout game. He went well, just under three hundred
and fifty yards. I think he had two touchdowns passing,
two more running maybe, and you know, huge game. And
then he goes down with a concussion and he's out.

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It's like Texas is like filight.

Speaker 2 (30:39):
Yes, I feel bad for him, I really do so.

Speaker 3 (30:44):
I don't know the severity of it, but he was
out in his backup quarterback had to go in and
I think he made two passes and one was the
winning touchdown. That was it.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
Well, Like I said, I feel bad for him because
he is under a lot of pressure just name market,
plession alone, expectations attached to them. But also, and this
is something that I've alluded to. I've mentioned sometimes I
always pray before any game. I don't pray that we win.

(31:15):
I don't pray that. I pray that all of the
players are safe, nobody gets hurt, and that they enjoy
good sportsmanship. That's pretty much what my prayer is all about.
And I feel bad because I didn't pray like Texas
was playing, and I it's not that I didn't do

(31:38):
that on purpose. I was in the kitchen, I was
doing some stuff and everything, and it wasn't until later
that I realized, oh, the Texas game was on. And
and then I said, oh, I didn't I didn't pray.
Oh no, you know, And normally it's like I don't
pray for a specific team, you know, the specific game itself,

(31:59):
just the games happened to be on at that time,
you know, So all the whatever, all the eleven o'clock games,
one prayer, all of the three thirty games, one prayer,
you know that kind of thing. That's what I do.
So and I and I completely completely slipped my mind.
And now and I felt bad. And I know he's

(32:20):
he's fine, he's he'll be back to the next game.
But I just I felt this enormous amount of guilt.

Speaker 4 (32:29):
Well, your producer has an opinion on the Texas game.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
It sucked, Yes, horns down speaking of him.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
Jennifer's not here.

Speaker 3 (32:47):
What. Yeah, it was kind of a bit of dismay
going on there with that one. It was it was like, oh, man,
he's having a fantastic game, and there we go. Yeah,
but gotta do it what you gotta do. So it's

(33:08):
starting to shape up. I think the seasons is getting
to a point where we can start to figure out
who's going where. Maybe the bottom five in the playoffs
are going to be a question mark until everything's shaking out,
but I think we're looking pretty good.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
Anything well, you know, there's still time, anything can happen,
but I.

Speaker 3 (33:26):
Think you guys are going to make the playoffs at
the very least.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
Well, I'm still salty about that whole playoff thing. I'm
still very salty about the the year that we had
the COVID shutdown and how we played a full season
and it was a winning season, but they decided, Oh
but Ohio State had a winning season two and they

(33:51):
had no losses. Yeah, because they only played six games.
We played twelve. And they said, yeah, you really didn't
earn it because you're from matt State over there, and
Ohio has name, our recognition, so we're going to give
it to Ohio. So when it comes to the playoffs,
big grains of salt. I think everything with a big

(34:14):
ass grain of salt, because I just don't trust anybody. Hell,
I don't even trust the rankings.

Speaker 3 (34:22):
But I got to get into the barroom chatter. So
that's my thing. Well, beyond the Sporting World. It's been
kind of amusing to watch all the news about the
White House ballroom and I spell that B A W L.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
Thank you for the inspiration it was. That's how I
spelled it on the tweet.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
It is remarkable.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
I what I did not see coming was Sean King
actually defending the ballroom. I honestly never thought that he
would actually tweet out saying, calm your tits, we need
a ballroom. This is this is not it. This is

(35:11):
not the fight you should be doing, you know that
kind of thing. And I was just like, I checked
the handle to make sure it wasn't a parody. I
went to the TL, I went to his account to
make sure that this was the Sean King, and apparently
it was. But he, you know, he came out. And
the thing is, this is something that like you and

(35:33):
I discussed, This has been something that each administration has
been discussing for years, just nobody ever got around to
doing it.

Speaker 3 (35:44):
Well, it's you know, there's all kinds of permutations behind this.
What cracks me up, though, is just this overreaction about
how Donald Trump is just taking a blow tords to
the history of the White House and this is just
my wife fat that.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
I've been in the East Wing. It's a hallway. There's
some offices there, like when I was there, like four
of them weren't in news, like literally not in use,
like nobody was in them.

Speaker 3 (36:18):
It was the closing this because so many people are
posting photos this was the majestic East Wing and it's
a hallway decorated with Christian Christmas decorations and that's all
you can do. And here's the shot of him outside
before we walked into the East Wing, and here's Barack
Obama running with his dogs. It's a hallway, it's it's.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
One of the things that really upset me was that
somebody was defending the fact that the East Wind should
not have been touched because the First Lady's office is there.
And Okay, it takes a lot to offend me, so
I can't say I was offended, but I was pretty
taken Aback. Let's just put it that way. Because this

(37:05):
position has no job. Okay, there's no job. She does
have a staff, admittedly of her choosing. It can be
as big or as small as she wants to be.
I believe. I want to say Laura Bush had like
two people on her staff. But most of the business

(37:26):
that the First Lady, whatever her her chosen project is,
most of that normally is done either in one of
the bigger conference rooms or whatever, or in her suite.
She has a suite that's available to her. As a

(37:47):
matter of fact, we were discussing this because this was
in the movie Dave where Sigourney. We have a character
as the First Lady and she's sitting around with her staff.
She's actually in the suite. She's not in her office,
and they come in when somebody comes in and says,
turn on the TV. Your you know, the President's on,
so she turns it on. That's when she finds out

(38:08):
that he found money for her homeless initiative. They're actually
in a suite, They're not in an office. She's literally
sitting on a chair. There's two people on a sofa,
you know that kind of thing. And I'm like, why
did they even have an office for the First Lady.
That makes no sense to me. There are spaces where
she can do her business.

Speaker 3 (38:29):
I get it, though, I mean, you know, she has
press she's got to do an answer for, and she's
got events that she does sometimes apart from the President,
I mean, I'm not really carpet of moment about it. Yeah,
I mean it could be in two places. She's not
going to be bereft of workspace, is the point. So
that's no.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
And and here's the thing. It's not just a ballroom
that's being constructed. The ballroom is going to be fitted
with you know, the kitchen. There's going to be chastened
to it. There's there's going to be other offices that
are adjacent to it. It's it's not just you know,
an open room.

Speaker 3 (39:07):
But what I've loved the most about the complaints. You know,
the people are trying to dredge up these memories. Oh
the cherished movie room will be gone, and oh there
was this chamber space with a piano, and oh look
at all these events that were held here. It'said great.
So you've got an event space that's coming down to
build an event space.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
The thing is this event space will actually be able
to fit far more people for all of those things.
As a matter of fact, I remember when Obama used
to host movie nights once a month or something, but
only twenty five people could fit in that room. So
it was it wasn't very big. The place where the
piano was maybe ten people. I mean the piano was big.

Speaker 3 (39:53):
So it was well, this was my favorite. I saw
this this morning. Somebody put this out. It was a
picture of it was John Legend and his wife Chrissy Tigan,
just dressed immaculately strolling through the marble, waving to the
camera on their way to a massive event outside in

(40:16):
a tent. I yeel like that. It was presented like, oh,
this is this is the East wing that's gone. It's like, yeah,
they're walking through that to go party outside because there's
nowhere else to do it well, and I think that
kind of summed everything up for me.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
This tent. It was like, Okay, imagine imagine the bluest
steak that you're ever gonna get served. Okay, and imagine
the most glorious hasslebacked potatoes and the most beautiful roasted
broccoli and all that, and it served on a garbage

(40:52):
pan lid. That's what that tent was. Because you walk
in and you all these tables have beautiful linen and
beautiful crystal and china, and you're walking on plywood and
looking up, you're looking at canvas. Okay, it's a tent
and where were the bathrooms. That's right, porta potties. There

(41:19):
were porta potties every time these tents were erected. Because
it doesn't Yes, I'm the ambassador to fill in whatever
country you want, and I'm going to go to the
bathroom in a porter potty and that's gonna be okay.
I am dressed to the nines and I have to
hike my dress up and tiptoe in my heels through

(41:43):
the lawn to go to the porter potty. This this
is what it was like. And people don't understand that
there were no facilities to be able to host dignitaries,
you know, and in massive quantities. And then this is
this was some that was necessary. This is what a
lot of people don't seem to grasp. It wasn't about

(42:06):
the East wing, the East and it's not even the
whole East Wing that's being demolished. It's just the outer
wall that's coming down. And they're just they're trying to
grab at something, they're trying to hold on. They have
a massive talon grip on this. Oh, the East Wing.

Speaker 3 (42:26):
I've saw so many people make in the comment that
you know, these people are losing their ever loving mind.
About an East Wing that they did not know existed
two weeks ago. Yes, that is the case, because everyone's
talking about, oh, the vaunted history there. It's like what
took place there events? You know. That's somebody cracked me up.

(42:49):
They were trying to get into the argument with me
on jitter and talking about how this is trampling history.
It's like the building was built in nineteen forties, there's
your history, and then you don't understand. So they sent
me a clip of an article like three paragraphs about
the history of the East Wing, and I had to
laugh because it we talked about how, you know, the

(43:10):
East Wing began as an outdoor covered patio that was
demolished in this administration in order to build, and that
was later demolished by the other administration to build it.
It's like, oh, I see, so the history of raising
this property is acceptable, but today it's off limits.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
I think with the exception of the Bush administration, I
think each other administration had done something, maybe not quite
as big, but they had changed different things in the
I think. And for me, it's not just that it's

(43:49):
Trump doing it. I think it's the matter in which
he's doing it, because it takes it's private money, it's
not taxpayer money, and this takes the wind out of
the Democratic sales in a way. There. You know, people
are starting to realize, why would my taxpayer money be

(44:10):
needed to do something like the basketball court or the
swimming pool or whatever when private funding could have taken
care of it. That door has not been open, and
people are noticing it. And I think that's part of
the reason why the Democrats are still very upset about this.
It's not the history. They could care less. No, they couldn't.

(44:31):
They couldn't care less.

Speaker 3 (44:33):
That's the thing though, they're all of their narratives. You know,
once you dig into them and actually look into the details.
Oh my gosh, the historical office space in hallway is gone.
You know, they won't be able to watch movies in there. Well,
they can build a bigger one. You know. It's just
where are you going with your argument because it's not

(44:54):
making sense. Well, hey, guess what, that's part for the
course of just about anything.

Speaker 2 (44:59):
The you know, one of the things that was done
to the White House was when in the advent of
the Internet, they had to you know, wire things for
Wi Fi and do all sorts of different things. They
they made holes in the walls for this particular thing.
Nobody said a damn word. No one said it.

Speaker 3 (45:22):
When Barack Obama did three hundred million renovations and destroyed
copious amounts of the property and put it in a basketball.

Speaker 2 (45:30):
Court, said anything about it.

Speaker 3 (45:34):
Oh, there's video out there when he was doing the thing.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
Is all of these things that are being done, you know.
I understand that there was a lot of stuff that
needed to be updated while Obama was president, So I
totally get that. I just think that the Democrats feel
that this is not an update thing. No, you're right,

(45:57):
it's not an update thing. It's a necessy everything it.
I don't think people understand how other people in the
world see that. But the tents are up because I
remember one of my family's friends was somebody that was

(46:19):
pretty high up in the in Puerto Rico and the
politics over there, and they actually were invited to one
of these things during the Obama administration. They were hosted,
the tents were up, blah blah blah and all that stuff,
and they thought food was great, everything was beautiful. They

(46:39):
just could not understand the tent and it was it
made the news over there. This was something that was
covered in the news over there, because you know, we're
whenever we see drama, we need to like focus on it.
And that was kind of dramatic. You know, the whole

(47:00):
tent situation. We've always known about the tents. It's just
that we've never been in the tent. So they were
interviewing him as to the quality of the food, the
quality of the ambiance, the service, everything that went on
during this extravaging at dinner, and the person that was

(47:21):
interviewing him said, why is it that they don't have
They couldn't put this in a in another conference center
or something like that instead of the tent, And he
had no, he had no response to that. He really
didn't know why don't they go to Well, first of all,
if the White House is hosting it, it has to

(47:43):
be done at the White House. Second of all, the
secret service would be a nightmare for any hotel, any
conference center or anything like that. So but you know,
these are questions that a lot of people have asked
outside of here. And I should ask my German girlfriend

(48:04):
and ask her opinion about this thing, and I'm pretty
sure that she'll be like, oh, it's a waste of money.
But then it's you know, when I tell her, well,
it's not the American taxpayer's money, you know, that will
actually make her think a little bit. But you know,
it's like a lot of people didn't understand the tents.
They don't they can't grasp why the tent tents were needed,

(48:29):
because every time you see the White House it looks
like this huge, big complex. The White House is actually
pretty tiny, but it looks big because of the addition
of the West Wing, edition of the Oval Office, edition
of the East Wing. But they don't understand what the
East Wing was and what it held. And this has

(48:50):
actually brought to light. Oh, you know, everybody's like, oh
my god, they're destroying it. And when you notice what's
actually been destroyed, when you see the great effects of it,
you're like, oh, they're just taking out the outer walls
that could just expand out. Why is this such a
big deal.

Speaker 3 (49:07):
No, No, this is on par with nine to eleven.
I literally heard somebody from the Lincoln Projects say this
in a podcast or something. Well, who was it?

Speaker 2 (49:18):
It was? Oh, they compared it to the Pentagon, it.

Speaker 3 (49:22):
Was it was. John Meacham on MSNBC also said that
what Trump is doing to the White House is tantamounted
a kind of activity it leads to a revolution. This
is a saying that remodeling a building off of the

(49:43):
White House could lead to the next civil war in
this nation.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
Well, that's probably what they're hoping for. They really, I mean,
I see this on on x I see it, you know,
clips of it on social media and other places where
the left is always saying this is going to lead
to a civil war. And I'm like, you know, you
you said term a lot. Do you really want a
civil war? Because the civil war is not going to

(50:09):
be fought the way the North and South did it
back in you know, eighteen sixties. Yeah, that's not going
to happen, so, you know, but they just they glorify it.
They keep saying, oh, this is town of mount this
is like the Civil War, Oh my god, blah blah blah.
And I'm like, it's a fucking building. It's going to

(50:31):
look really nice. There's going to be a lot of
gold there. You and I both know this.

Speaker 3 (50:37):
He's going to guild that place up, you know it.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
It's going to be.

Speaker 3 (50:42):
I think it was maybe the the Lincoln Project of Bulwark.
They put up a shot of a Russian ballroom and
then put up a shot of Trump's design for this one.
Can you just look at this? And then you know
there were the similarities. It was the grid pattern in
the ceiling and hanging chandeliers and opulent fittings. And then

(51:06):
you know it's like, oh, you know who else had
a ballroom?

Speaker 2 (51:11):
Yes, here we go.

Speaker 3 (51:12):
Then people started putting up photos of ballrooms from across
the world, and all of them had pretty much the
same design features. It's like, what's your point? Oh my god,
they all have an open floor plan, Russia and ours.
Have you never seen a ballroom before? You? Jack wagons?

Speaker 2 (51:30):
Come on, I don't think. I don't think people understand
the concept of what a ballroom is. They think you're
just going to dance in there. No, it's kind of
like an auditorium. It's a flexible area that where you

(51:51):
can actually do several things that whole you know, movie
theater thing, you can do it there. They're going to have,
you know, the addition to where you can have that
movie night type of thing. If you are hosting a
music you know, a chamber music thing. If you are

(52:13):
hosting somebody playing a piano, you put the piano in there,
you have people in chairs, you get to have that
particular event. It's it's not going to be relegated to
just you know, dancing balls or whatever it is that

(52:33):
they want to go. I can't do them. But that's
what I don't particularly understand, because these are the same
people that understand like you go to a conference center,
you go to one of these giant rooms, and they're flexible.

(52:53):
You use them for all sorts of things. Use them
for dinners, you for you know, balls, you use them
for you know, like I said, you have you host
a private movie screening. You can do all sorts of
things in these So I don't I don't. I think
that they're fixated on the wording of what it is,

(53:17):
and I think that that worked against the administration. Had
they just termed it, you know, like a haul or
something of that nature, I think it would have been
better received. But that's giving them too much credit because
this is the left we're talking about.

Speaker 3 (53:37):
Well, I think the you know, one of the more
emblematic examples in the press of just the imbalance. Thinking
of all of this. ABC News the other day put
out big headline Trump is going to name the ballroom
after himself. And then on the Twitter post, you know,
they had a little montage video and had captions. It's

(54:00):
like insider say that Trump's plans are to do that. Okay, okay,
you click into the article. In the first two paragraphs,
Donald Trump denying it outright. No, I'm not naming it
after myself. We haven't even come up with a name.
It'll probably be a White House ballroom, but after myself. No,
there's no plan for me. I've never said that. It's
like they just they have to create the hype in

(54:22):
hysteria despite the facts that they are presenting. In the
same article, it just shows you how ridiculous all of
this is.

Speaker 2 (54:32):
Indeed, but it does make for you know, nice salty tears.

Speaker 3 (54:42):
That's all. There, you go. I was running out, well,
given that we are the cocktail lounge, we could probably
do some drinking news here.

Speaker 2 (54:54):
I know that you had a column today, so yeah, put.

Speaker 3 (54:58):
It up over at Red State of my dips out
lgy column. But there was some major movement in beer
circles to tell we have a new number one in
the country.

Speaker 2 (55:13):
Really it's not Shiner, so I'm really not interested.

Speaker 3 (55:16):
But they don't get too excited until you find out
michelob Ultra has become the number one beer this Now.
It's kind of a qualified victory because it's number one
in volume sales, but not sales figures because Modello is

(55:38):
still number one in that because it's more expensive, and
so yeah, they're basically right there with each other. But yeah,
it looks like Ultra is starting to move ahead now,
which kind of just surprises me that Miller Light after
the entire bud Light debacle, because bud Light was head
and shoulders number one for like two decades. Yeah, not

(56:01):
even close, no one even competed. And then when they
had the Dylan Mulvany meltdown, you know, my mind is going,
it's like, well, here comes Miller Lite to step right
into the breach, and then nope, never did Modello, which
made I'm to this day, I'm trying to figure that out.
Like I I see in a lot of places and

(56:24):
it served well. I liked the Modela Negro. If I'm
drinking with Mexican food, that's pretty good.

Speaker 4 (56:30):
Yeah, yeah, that's the go to Modela Negro.

Speaker 3 (56:33):
But it's like I don't see it like people at
events or the beach or barbecues. You know, every now
and then somebody will show up with a box. But
I would see Corona a hell of a lot more
than I would And yet number one.

Speaker 2 (56:50):
Oh, by the way, it's not that I'm nd picking y'all.
It's negra with an a.

Speaker 3 (56:58):
You know, it's model which is yes, modelo.

Speaker 2 (57:04):
Does not matter. That's the name what it is. It's
what the termines it is, which is la negra.

Speaker 3 (57:17):
Yeah. But if you're doing it with the name, you
don't go modelo negro.

Speaker 2 (57:21):
No, because you're speaking of the beer, not the name
of the beer.

Speaker 3 (57:30):
I don't get you people. You have like a different
word for everything.

Speaker 2 (57:36):
Whatever, it's negra modelo. Let's move on. It's actually really good.
I like, I like, I.

Speaker 3 (57:43):
Got no gripes about it. I'm just I was brutally
surprised to see that jump to one.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
I just and I like the bottle because it's like fact, it's.

Speaker 3 (57:53):
Gordeau gord that.

Speaker 2 (58:03):
You're gonna hate me after tonight.

Speaker 3 (58:07):
Listen Flakka, Okay.

Speaker 4 (58:10):
You got that one right, brad me and you hosting
this program next week will will ban her for a week.

Speaker 2 (58:20):
Two people, I see how it is.

Speaker 3 (58:24):
But yeah, this is the new people you.

Speaker 2 (58:27):
Alien and you person is that better?

Speaker 3 (58:30):
Wow? This is where I can start to get outraged,
like medi A son that guy man, Holy crap. Everything
I used to think wat A was hysterical.

Speaker 2 (58:47):
Now I think he is. He's in second place now
compared to.

Speaker 3 (58:50):
This character medi His son just cracks me up. Everything's lomaphobe,
got it? Thank you?

Speaker 2 (58:59):
His defense of Mom Donnie's lie for me, it was
like they will he will do anything to defend this guy.

Speaker 3 (59:11):
Any hell, and anybody that dares complain about him is Islamophobic.
That's just the way it goes. I mean, this story
just cracks me up to no end. On Friday, Mom Donnie,
that would be z run Mom Donnie leading candidate to
become the new mayor of New York City. This is

(59:34):
going to be such disaster. They know what this guy
is planning on doing and promising and all this. He
is going to kill New York. I mean, he wants
to give everybody everything. Buses and subway is going to
be free for residents. Okay, thank you for your rolling

(59:57):
home and shelters that are going to take place about
a week of you instituting that policy. But his entire
plan is going to be bankrolled by going after the rich,
who are then going to move to your state or
mine pretty quickly, meaning they will have nothing but budgetary

(01:00:19):
shortfalls and go completely bust.

Speaker 2 (01:00:23):
And I believe that there are people here that are
planning on making like legislation for the state requiring that
people that move in from New York have to wait
like six months to establish residency here in.

Speaker 3 (01:00:43):
Texas before they get the free stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:00:46):
Yes, before they get anything. So I'm like, WHOA, Okay,
I don't I don't think that's going to happen, but
I've heard instacles.

Speaker 3 (01:00:58):
Let me, I think I have a good example of
what's going to happen in New York City that's going
to be kind of like a macroeconomic compared to this example.
This is Gavin Newsom today. In fact, this yeah, Governor Brokrem,

(01:01:18):
who's looking to run for president in two years. He
comes up with this to show that California is proving
there is a better way forward than Donald Trump's recipe
of fear, chaos and increase cost. So this is what
he This is his rundown eleven dollars insulin, twenty dollars

(01:01:40):
minimum wage, for fast food workers, twenty five dollars minimum
wage for healthcare workers, universal pre K, free school meals,
six hundred thousand new apprenticeship programs, the largest civil service
program in the country, universal healthcare, and improved test scores
across the state. So he's giving everything away, right.

Speaker 2 (01:02:07):
Why only twenty dollars for minimum wage? Why not thirty
forty fifty.

Speaker 3 (01:02:12):
I'll tell you why. And this is how I answered him.
And this is based on budget document from the State
of California. California is facing a budget deficit of approximately
twelve billion to fifteen billion for the twenty five to
twenty six fiscal year. This is prompting significant cuts to

(01:02:36):
various programs and strategic financial adjustments. California's budget deficit for
that year is estimated to be in that range, marking
the third consecutive year the state has encountered a budget shortfall. Boy,
so his genius plan is failing in his state and

(01:03:00):
he wants to roll this out in Asia wide.

Speaker 6 (01:03:02):
Oh my god, hell no, I but I mean, this
is what's gonna happen with Madonne, because look what's California
is watching people flood out of the state.

Speaker 3 (01:03:14):
U haul cannot get trucks to rent. The U haul
truck costs you hundreds of dollars because they ain't got them.
They have to ship them in from another state like Texas.
And they've lost at least two congressional seats. I want
to say, I think it was two and should have
been three because of the oops, miscounting of quoting error.

(01:03:37):
And you know, Florida should have picked up too when
it only picked up one or something like that. You know,
like all the people moved to Texas and Florida, we
should have been apportioned more representation as a result. And
businesses are leaving. Oh yeah, Tesla Next moved out Toyota
about five years ago, their entire internet headquarters to Texas.

Speaker 2 (01:04:02):
I don't see how this is going to help anybody
in the restaurant business. If you have a small restaurant
and you have like five servers, you have a cook,
your servers make minimum weight, you're going to pay them
twenty dollars. No, that's going to go away, and people
are just going to shut down and move elsewhere, go
to another state to open up their business.

Speaker 3 (01:04:24):
Or I got you know, friends of mine from Red
State when they'll they'll go out to like in and
out Burger or something like that. He said, I'll get
a value meal and maybe a secondary burger and you're
in like thirty thirty five dollars range.

Speaker 2 (01:04:39):
That's incredible. I have one of my chef friends has
a food truck. He's on Twitter and or x and
he makes beautiful food and you're not paying close to that.
But you know he's over in the east coast southern state.

Speaker 3 (01:04:57):
So well, we saw too. They pulled this move a
few years ago because of the unions. They wanted to
get uber drivers and lyft drivers unionized, and they resisted
because they're all contractors. So they passed a law where
the contract workers were severely limited as a result, and

(01:05:22):
the media in California loved it. You know, it was
the gig economy they were going after, and they were
trying to get these people on and the Vox media,
not Fox but v Vox, they were all on board.
Fantastic news. Here's a two thousand word explainer about how
fantastic this idea is. The week that it went into effect,

(01:05:48):
Vox laid off hundreds of its writers. Yep, because it
turned out. Part of their media empire is that they
had regional people covering sports, you know, all the local
sports teams. They were just well those people. For whatever reason,
contract freelance writers were limited to like six articles a

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month or you'd be in violation, and then the company
had to pair them. So it's like, well, you guys
are all a lot of work now. So the outlet
that promoted this and said it was going to be
fantastic for workers laid off hundreds as a result. Yeah,
and then I mean, it's just this is the kind
of idiocy that you see coming in. Momdannie is the

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same way he wants government housing. Gee, that always works
out as well.

Speaker 2 (01:06:37):
They I saw the little placards while AOC was dancing
around as she was screeching that said free free buses,
and you know, free fast buses. I'm like fast in
New York City? Are you serious with me right now?

(01:06:59):
But the fast was kind of like whatever, But the
free was like, who do you think is going to
be paying for this? And they really do think that
taxing the rich is going to pay for everything. I'm like,
the rich aren't going to stay my cousin, she lives Brooklyn.

(01:07:21):
I think Bronx one of the two to be She
lives in a it's an okay part of town. It's
not terribly wealthy, but it's not, you know, bad part
of town or anything like that. She has lived there
for thirty two years and is now moving back to

(01:07:46):
Puerto Rico. Can't afford. She knows what's coming. And she
is a Democrat, like a livid Democrat, and she knows
what's coming. She's like, I you know, And I asked her.
I was like, you're going to vote for Montommie after all,
I mean, he's ahead and the ticket. She's like, no, no,
I am not. And I said, who are you voting for?

(01:08:09):
And she's like, I'm at the point where it doesn't
matter who I vote for because my vote's not gonna
account for anything. So I'm just gonna start moving. And
I'm like moving, Where are you moving out of town?
It's like I'm going back home. She's going back to
Puerto Rico. And I'm like, okay.

Speaker 3 (01:08:26):
This is like if he gets elected, New Jersey should
take all kinds of legislation moves, yes, remove the homes
that exemption, lower the task, do everything. People would flood
into that state. They would benefit so much. New York

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would suffer, and I.

Speaker 2 (01:08:49):
Just, I really I don't understand how it is that
this guy is so attractive to people. I mean, yeah,
he's saying everything's gonna be free, but he is practicing
takiya all over the place and everybody's like not even aware.
I'm like, he literally got caught in one of the
biggest lives ever. And then he backtracks in and says, oh,

(01:09:12):
it was actually a second cousin that we just called anti,
and I'm like no. And then this is where that
medi Hassan comes in to defend him, saying, you don't
know our culture. We call everybody anti, and I'm like, really,
because I am very aware of cultural nobenclature and that
is not a thing. That is not a thing.

Speaker 3 (01:09:36):
The story has changed so much. So basically, if you
hadn't heard on Friday, what he said was that he
had an ant of his who wore a jab, but
after nine to eleven she would get looks and couldn't
ride the subway as a result. And we're all supposed

(01:09:56):
to feel sympathetic when people were saying there's like twenty
six hundred people that can no longer ride the subway. Ever, yeah,
and we're supposed to be sympathetic towards his.

Speaker 2 (01:10:09):
Anm he did the Norm McDonald tweet. He literally did
it right, And I'm thinking, so I decided, you know what,
let me just listen to the whole thing. So I
listened to the whole thing. Not once, not once did
he mention those who died during the ATTACKO crying.

Speaker 3 (01:10:29):
He can't even get through his sentence because it's people
looked at her. I mean literally, he's like falling apart
at that level.

Speaker 2 (01:10:41):
And it was it was for me. I was like, no,
this is no. And one of the things that really
disgusted me was when he tried to pin down Cuomo
during the debate or whatever about him now not knowing
the names of the mosques or whatever. I'm like, you know,
you've never even been to a mosque. Well, dude, I've
never been to a dairy queen either, But I know

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there exists. I what do you want me to tell you?
Nobody has ever invited Cuomo to go to a mosque.
That would have made news. That would have made news
if he had been invited to go to a mosque
and he went to a mosque or declined going to
a mosque either way, it doesn't matter. There's a there's
hundreds of churches in New York City. You're telling me

(01:11:25):
that he's supposed to know the name of all of them,
the synagogues.

Speaker 3 (01:11:32):
Every time he says something that's like a verbal hand grenade,
the media or somebody else is there to jump on
top of it. Oh that's not what he meant. Oh
he's being mister tripleted and taken out. Oh this is
just racist islamophobia. But it's like, what do we actually
listen to?

Speaker 2 (01:11:46):
What is takia? It is takia and we're witnessing it
live constantly coming from this guy, and most people are
not even aware and whatever I say that you know
he's lying to you. Oh no, no, no, this is
how he's gonna pay. And I'm like, if my cousin
who's a Democrat can see that this is not going

(01:12:07):
to work. And this is a woman that has voted
Democrats since she could vote. She voted for Deblasio, she
voted for AOC. So it's got to be the Brooklyn
Well here was the so you know, I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:12:25):
But this story of his you know, myself and others
were all out there covering this, and people are like
let's check out this hand. Now here's the interesting thing.
The mainstream media was not looking into this story at all.
They were just like, this was just horrific. And then JD.
Vance came out on Saturday and said, yeah, you know,

(01:12:48):
I'm gonna have sympathy for the twenty six hundred people
that died. The New York Times called this an attack
on Mundami. To give you an idea where things go.
They also said, Republicans ounce. By the way, in the article, I.

Speaker 2 (01:13:02):
Thought pouncing was over with. I thought was over with,
And the new one was JD.

Speaker 3 (01:13:11):
Vance And the Republicans pounced quote unquote from the New
York Times while they were just slobberingly sympathetic to mom
Dommie and his dance. So other people, smaller citizen journalists
went around and looked and said, Okay, let's see. Turns
out he's got three ants, two of which are seekh Yes.

(01:13:34):
One is a Muslim. Oh, okay, that's got to be her.
We should ask her about this. Oh, we can't. She
lives out of the country and has all during the
nine to eleven yep, she all of her social media
and bios. She's not wearing a hood job nop on

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top of which her field of study at universities runs
contrary to most of the tenants of Muslim faith. So like,
she's a very hardcore feminist and all this stuff, and yeah,
feminism not that big a deal in Islam. They don't

(01:14:18):
go for that kind of stuff. So this entire story
blew up. And then on Monday he comes out with
the explanation, Oh, no, no, no, this was my father's
cousin something like that. But I called her anti. Okay,

(01:14:39):
but you didn't call her antie in your press conference,
And then people.

Speaker 2 (01:14:47):
Yeah, that's the same thing. And I'm like, no, it's not.

Speaker 3 (01:14:50):
Anybody in our culture knows that extended family. We always
call him anti. People are just racist. Uh huh. I mean,
it just seems like a very convenient explanation of things.
And of course the ante that he was referring to
has passed away, so we can't even go an interviewer,
which is kind of what I was saying for It's like,

(01:15:12):
can we get her impression of things? No, just is
got it. Yeah, this story holds up. But this is
the thing that the media doesn't care. They don't want
to look into the facts. They just have to boost
and promote this guy. It's so pathetic and it's so transparent.

(01:15:32):
But look at across the board and all these elections
that are coming up next week. The Democrats have significant
problems with so many of their candidates.

Speaker 2 (01:15:43):
We got Jenny as the one to watch for ye
right down, because.

Speaker 3 (01:15:48):
In Virginia we got the Jay Jones fiasco where the
more people look into things, the more that comes up
and two questions I have. I mean, it's just to
give you an example. He's got the text messages where
he was calling for the death of political opponents, pissing
on their grave and let's kill their children too, so
they learn a lesson. This is the guy running for

(01:16:11):
attorney general. Yeah. Also, he got busted for traffic infraction
and had one thousand hours of community service that he
served for his own political action committee and raise money
and got credit.

Speaker 2 (01:16:24):
Work he and the way he did it was he
would he kept postponing his appearance in court while he
served those hours. So when he finally got there, he said,
I've already served them, and so they let him. They

(01:16:44):
let him go, and so that way they wouldn't check
where the hours are being done. Now that they found
out that the hours were done for a political action committee,
they don't count. So that's another thing that he is
and you know he violated because it's supposed to be
for charity and this is not a charity. No matter

(01:17:06):
how you look at a political action committee, it's not
a charity. So that's another thing that's been added to
his troubles.

Speaker 3 (01:17:15):
Yeah, and again media supporting him, Democrats supporting him.

Speaker 2 (01:17:23):
Yes, it was his own.

Speaker 3 (01:17:25):
And then let's go to Maine. We're an individual by
the name of Graham Plattner is running for a senate
seat US Senate. This guy's got a boatload of problems.
I mean, he's got so much crap in his past
social media posts that are just Yet he has.

Speaker 2 (01:17:48):
A following people. I mean they were lined up to
go vote for this guy.

Speaker 3 (01:17:52):
And I just had to invent the other day and
there were like hundreds of cars lining the road to
go see this guy speak. And it's like, did you
not get do you not get the news?

Speaker 2 (01:18:01):
Now I will, I will give some people grace because
I would have gone to hear him too. I want
to know my enemy and I would have been there
to forget.

Speaker 3 (01:18:10):
But this is a guy a week or two ago
found out video came out that he had a tattoo
on his chest that is Nazi in origin, not a question,
not interpretational. It was a Nazi amblem and yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:18:29):
That's total. But that's head which you know everybody at
first people were saying, that's not you know, that's not
a that's blah blah blah. And I'm like, that's not
for the for the Nazis, blah blah blah, and like,
yes it was. It was a symbol that was used
for those certain concentration camps. How do you know that.
I'm like, listen, you don't have to be a genius.

(01:18:53):
First of all, if you watched any Twilight Zone at
all when you were growing up, there was one called
Death Had Revisited and it was about this and he
had they showed him in uniform. He had the Death
goal on it. So I'm like, yeah, okay, I can
put two and two together. Why can't you?

Speaker 3 (01:19:14):
Yeah, And he's said some things I guess you could
say were Nazi adjacent or sympathetic, and he's had Communists
commentary in his past. But this whole explanation of the
tattoo was well back when I was at the Maries.
We all got drunk and got tattooed, and I didn't realize.
I just thought it looked cool because I was drunk.

(01:19:37):
Uh huh.

Speaker 2 (01:19:39):
It's been out of the Marine Corps for over twenty years.

Speaker 3 (01:19:42):
Eighteen years ago, you got this, he says, Okay, two
thousand and.

Speaker 2 (01:19:46):
Seven, almost two decades.

Speaker 3 (01:19:48):
No point in time that it dawned on you to
fix it.

Speaker 2 (01:19:52):
Did no one. And this is the thing. I almost
everybody that I know that has tattoos, they picked a
tattoo because it's symbolic. It's a throw back to their history,
it's a throw back to their culture. Whatever, there's a symbol.
This is symbolic, significant significance of choosing a tattoo. If

(01:20:16):
you are drunk and you choose a tattoo off the
wall because it looks cool, later on you figure out, hm,
that was a bad decision, but you try and figure
out what it means because it's permanently attached to your
skin now. But that was another thing that I found
kind of odd that he said, oh, I went and

(01:20:37):
had it covered up, and he showed it, and I'm
looking at it, going, that doesn't look like somebody took
ink to it because when I don't know if you're
familiar with this, I've seen people do this when they're
redoing a tattoo or covering up a tattoo. You're actually
adding more ink. When you're adding ink to your skin,

(01:21:00):
your skin actually has a reaction because it's a foreign object.
So it reacts like it would as an allergy, and
so it becomes reddened and raised. You didn't see that here.
On top of that, when you have a tattoo done,
normally they will put a plastic covering over it and
they'll tape it so that the ink stays and it

(01:21:21):
doesn't get wet, and you have to keep that for
like a week or something. So I'm looking at that going, yeah,
I got it done a couple of days ago, and
I'm like a couple of days ago, and it looks
like that now.

Speaker 4 (01:21:40):
Because this is my neck of the woods. You also
have to add on last week, a new campaign manager
was hired, and that person has already quit exciting. Three
days after taking the job, he found out his wife
was pregnant, so he found a convenient way out of
the situation.

Speaker 2 (01:22:00):
More power to him. No, it's just this completely reeks
of I'm very sure he knew, and he he had
to have been confident enough about it that he chose
to keep it unchanged for eighteen years. But I've known

(01:22:21):
people who get a tattoo and will either when they
find out that it has a bad connotation or like
a can do tattoo that says toilet instead of you know,
something pretty, and Japanese people go and change it. They
I've seen them even to go so far as tattoo removal,

(01:22:42):
which he could have done.

Speaker 3 (01:22:45):
But what cracks me up about all these instances is
where is the normal vetting process. Where is you know,
like the first thing you do is go through their
social media. How did nobody pick up on Grand platners
disturbing past on Reddit? How did nobody go through Jay
Jones past and say, yes, is there anything doesn't We're

(01:23:05):
going to drug job. But Donni, I mean, come on,
this guy's got so many.

Speaker 2 (01:23:12):
Don has a lot of skeletons, But I don't know
if you have noticed those skeletons are being closely guarded.
There there's a lot of his old media that is gone.
It's not even in the way back machine.

Speaker 3 (01:23:27):
Well, the whole reason he even gave that press conference
Friday was because they just found out he's got attachments
to an imam in New York who was on the
terror watch list. Yes, thought to be a co conspirator.

Speaker 2 (01:23:40):
Work pictures are out there and thankfully people took you
know that downloaded that picture and they keep reposting and
posting it and it's a good reminder. But it seems
to me that the demographics that are now in place
in New York City, that have been at play for
the past twenty years, are coming to fruition and this
is why you have But it's.

Speaker 3 (01:23:59):
The New York Times, even when they were addressing this, like, well,
you know, we've reported in the past how this list
was flawed. This was an attack in your city. Yeah,
and you're supporting a guy who's supported by the people
that attacked the city. I'm as I hate to say

(01:24:23):
it in a way, but it's like I almost are
like I want them to experience this guy.

Speaker 2 (01:24:29):
The problem that I have. You know, part of me
wants them to feel the pain, but the other part
of me is like, once this guy's there, New York's
not going to change, It's going to become dearborn. Dearborn
was the foothold, and now we're extending that foothold to
other bigger areas.

Speaker 3 (01:24:46):
But this is what I don't understand about Democrat cities.
Look at Chicago, this this place time. Yeah, I know,
I've got my eye on Chicago's been a fiasco for years.
Their leadership has just been incompetent. Last mayor they had

(01:25:08):
was Lori Lightfoot, and she left office in disgrace with
like a twenty four percent approval number or something like that.
And then they go ahead and elect this guy who
just a couple of years has single digit approval And
it's like, you saw this in the campaign during the primary,
it was like, you don't want this guy. He's a

(01:25:30):
flaming idiot. Now, yeah, right right, you can't say that.
Why racist? This racist? That? Okay, fine, put him in office,
and look what happened to people that have elected him?
Hate him? What do you do with this information?

Speaker 2 (01:25:48):
Just watch it.

Speaker 3 (01:25:49):
He's in favor of illegal aliens. The residents of Chicago
are not getting their benefits as a result, because the
city's going broke taking care of people that don't belong there.
To tell you, try to tell you, what do you watch?
I mean, you get.

Speaker 2 (01:26:05):
Hopefully, hopefully they will vote to no longer feel the pain.
But I don't know. I don't know if Chicago's is salvageable.

Speaker 3 (01:26:18):
I don't either. But just after a while you have
to laugh. Yeah, just who are you complaining to? Because
we try to tell you before.

Speaker 2 (01:26:26):
We tried telling you. We literally tried telling you. This
guy is that news? Oh no, we want him, Okay, So.

Speaker 3 (01:26:33):
Yeah, I think in about two years after Mmdanni's rule, well,
the unforeseen circumstances of New York City, I'm waiting for
that line to come out.

Speaker 2 (01:26:43):
Well, he keeps saying that state taxes will help pay
for all this stuff, that they're going to raise state
taxes for this, and I'm like, the state taxes don't
go to just New York City, and there is no
way that you can raise taxes for these programs without
the aid of the state. So that would have franked

(01:27:05):
the rest of the state. I don't think. I don't
think people understand that.

Speaker 3 (01:27:09):
He's just he's already shown economic idiocy when he was
talking about doing the grocery stores run by the city. No,
there's one hundred and sixty five million dollars fund out there.

Speaker 2 (01:27:23):
This is gonna be no little havana.

Speaker 3 (01:27:26):
But he was. He was pointing out money that doesn't exist.
These were small grocery stores that were getting tax breaks
or tax you know, basically they didn't have to pay
as much. It wasn't money sitting in an account waiting
for him to grab it and go buy a grocery store.
And people had to sit him down. I was like,
here's the way it works. So that's it's actually money

(01:27:52):
going out. It's not money that's there.

Speaker 2 (01:27:54):
You understand now, Well almost, We're almost at the top
the hours, so I guess we're going to have to
wind it up. Brad, you go first. Where can we
find you?

Speaker 3 (01:28:06):
Well, I am playing my trade daily over at townhall
dot com. I've got a media column there called Rift
from the Headlines daily tearing into the press industry, and
also on the front page of Red State where I've
got my diptology column and a number of other things
I do on a regular basis with my twice weekly
media podcast called Liable Sources. And I'm on this network

(01:28:29):
Thursday night. I'm gonna be here with Orty Packard as
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at eight pm, where I come and serve the drink
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(01:29:47):
for joining us everyone, and we hope you have a
lovely evening.

Speaker 3 (01:29:52):
And go raise a glass and look at the ceiling.

Speaker 5 (01:30:10):
I was working in the lab late one light, when
my eyes be there any sight for my monster from
his lab began to rise, and suddenly, to my surprise,
he did.

Speaker 3 (01:30:26):
The monster man, it was