Spending Sickness - MON 9.1

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boy, there's nothing Hollywood hates more than something that's popular
with average people. Take Eddie Murphy for example. How many
classic legendary films is he in? Even if you count
the ones you don't really like, like Shrek or.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Don't, don't count Beverly Hill Cop three, the ones were
pretty good.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Just three was awful, okay, trading places, Beverly Hills Cop
There's so many examples, right, we'd be here all day
talking about him.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Uh, Doctor Shrek, doctor doulettll not. My people don't like Shrek,
Okay they do. It's very Popular's like you said, even
the ones people don't like Shrek.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Well though I was saying the ones maybe we don't
like you like Shrek. I like Shrek, okay, I don't
care for Shrek or doctor Doolittle. No, he ain't Shreck.
He's a donkey, right. The point I was getting at
is just we get that. Did you know he's never
had an oscar, He's never he's never really gotten any
awards if you look at his accomplishments.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Well neither have we, and we're fantastic. It's exactly my point,
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Anyway, Eddie Murphy's in the Moon News today, he's got
a new documentary out you can watch on Netflix, and
it looks like it's really well done about the history
of his life as a If you're in the you know, comedians.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
And it'll be like a biography, then seems very interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
And in it he details how he was once offered
a sex proposition from Yule Brenner and as I was
a dude, man, yeah, a do you want to have
sexual dudes? I'm not really sure who eule Brenner is,
but it was it a man. He had his twenty
first birthday party at Studio fifty four Yule Brenner Ten Commandments.
He was with his wife and he was like, I'm

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reading the quote. He was like, how would you like
to go back to my apartment with my wife and
iron party? And I was like, nah, I'm cool. And
I realized as I got older his wife was smiling.
Did he want me to f his wife? Well, the
story would have ended better, you know. Yeah, I went
back to yule Brener's and did that with his wife
while he was watching Going et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Something for the Ten Commandments that they used to make
fun of a lot when they would imitate him. You
ever see the Magnificent Seven, I mean the real one,
not that new one. Well, then punk actors in Magnificent seven,
you bner, bald hated guy. Uh usually wore black and
a lot of leather. Looked like he should have been
a biker. But anyway, that was that was you a Brenner.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
I always thought it was a song by the Clash
the Magnificent Seven, Right, no, No. Ahead of the documentary's release,
Eddie Murphy also sounded off about hey, fake Hollywood, explaining
why he always gets overlooked for Oscars and other awards.
He said, that's that's one of the reasons I don't
go to award shows. The feeling of being in a
room full of famous people who all want to win

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some trophy. It said, it's an S word feeling.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
He said, that's why we don't. We don't participate either. Yeah,
and that's probably why we haven't gotten any.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Oscars seven right right, Billy, Sure, this is what I
think of when I think of the Magnificent seven. I
just think of six to seven myself.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Oh yeah, Rachel McAdams, of course, you know from the
Notebook and the wedding crashers and mean girl.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
She really, statistically speaking, is.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Forty seven years old today. Why are you interrupting birthdays
after just one person?

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Billy and may have just gotten someone to drive off
the road by saying six seven like that, which some
parent wasn't expecting their teenager to scream in their ear
just then. There may have just been a car accident
somewhere because Billy had doh there was one.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
I don't know if he had anything to do with
it or all right, go on, Rachel, who never mind?

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Okay, Daisy fuin test I like her. Yeah, oh yeah,
she's good, Yeah she is.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
She's fifty nine now, Happy birthday, Daisy Finte. Like forty
years ago when when we met her.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Women age like fine wine, everybody knows that they turned sour.
I bet she's even hotter now. Rue Paul sixty five
also pretty hot? Okay, yeah, sure, if that's your thing.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Mary Elizabeth mustron Tonio that was al Pacino's sister in Scarface.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
She's sixty seven today. I still can't believe this is
a Rue Paul song. That song, it's just old enough
where if she released it now, she'd probably get canceled
for doing a song about tranny chasers. Okay.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Stephen Root is seventy four. A brilliant character actor.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
Of course. You know him from King of the Hill.
He's the voice of Bill. Oh, I love Bill. He's
one of the best parts of the show. Jimmy James
on news Radio. It was just so much stuff idiocracy.
I believe he was the judge. Yeah, he's really good
on that, dude. Bill's really funny on King of the Hill.
You ever watched King of the Hill? Never heard of it? Bro,
that's a good show, dude. Danny DeVito is eighty one.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Lauren Michaels also eighty one, the guy from Saturday Night Live.
I would personally like to thank Lauren Michaels for five
great years of Saturday Night Live.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
We appreciate you. Jimmy James was the boss on news
Radio plays Steve right Over. Well, he does seem like
the boss of a radio station. Doesn't anyway, he seems
what I'm talking about. But he seems like he'd be
good as a boss at a radio station. You think
he even heard whose birthday it was? After that?

Speaker 2 (04:59):
No, he probably miss He played box s Draklin. That's
Great Orn Michaels eighty one.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah, I get it. Well, I don't know much to
say about him. No, because you weren't listening to what
I said. I heard you Saturday Live. We get it.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
No, you didn't hear it, Okay, Martin Scarsese, Goodfellas eighty
three and the late Gordon Lightfoot. I hear that he
had a birthday one year he was born in nineteen
thirty eight. If you're asking me when he died in
twenty twenty three and.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
They said it did not feel great eight. If you're
asking me to play that song, I'm not I will
do it right.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Also, Rock Hudson's birthday, of course, left us in nineteen
eighty five and the height of the AIDS epidemic. Rock
Hutson would have been one hundred years old today.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
You know, I'm not trying to criticize your people here
about like your sex can kill you. Don't anything that's
God telling you.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Something can too national different unfriend days to go unfriend
people today.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
It's the thing like on Facebook, what's the point I
don't know any use that's where all your friends are.
Most people don't even use Facebook anymore. That's for old people. Dude. Yeah,
that's you're on Facebook anymore. We're all about to graham, right,
You're I'm not more into Twitter myself. Yeah, but it's
called x old people call it twitter. I think we
do agree at the very least that TikTok is for

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the worst people on society, right, Yes, of course, okay,
we all agree on that.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
And now this day in history brought to you by
a lot of tigers. Yeah you were about to say
that anyway, weren't you?

Speaker 1 (06:33):
All right, go to a lottigers dot com today or
call one one hundred law tigers. If you get in
a motorcycle accident on Homemade Bread Day or National butter
Day or National Baclava Day, I'm sure you would agree
you probably drove off the road thinking about what a
boring dessert baclava is. Baclva is such a disappointing thing
on a menu.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Well, it's still better than that running milky stuff that
the Mexicans want you to eat.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
Tray latchas h. I think what we really could conclude
from this is that third world countries usually don't have
good desserts. To just stay out of it and just
do what America does. I have to be in the
mood for tray slatches. But if it's really good, I'll
drink it. But you're right, it is a cake that's
been soaked into milk. You'll drink it. I'll drink a
tray lunch.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
On this date in nineteen thirty four, we have a
happy anniversary wish for Lyndon Baines Johnson and Claudia Alta Taylor.
Some of you may have known her as Ladybird. It
was a childhood nickname which followed her all of her life.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
And they named her after the dog on King of
the Hill. Pretty much. That's cool, dude, Happy birthday to Bill. Today.
In eighteen sixty nine, the Suez Canal opened for shipping traffic.
So I had to think, sus No, it's Sue Eyes.
I think, uh, you sure? I like Sue Eyes, Sue
as we could call it, sus not going to go there.
It's like the Pana. I'm not going. I don't even
really care about the Panama can if I'm being honest. Today,

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in eighteen eighty three, American and Canadian railroads created the
first time zone, so you're welcome. And today, in nineteen eighteen,
flu deaths in America surpassed the total deaths from World
War One, so put a mask on everybody. Yeah today.
In nineteen forty nine, Jackie Robinson became Baseball's first MVP,
three years after breaking the Major League Baseball color barrier.

(08:15):
They could have done it in the first year, but
they hailed him back. And you know why, oh oh yeah,
because save us, Like okay, that's right, that's right today.
Nineteen fifty nine, the Sound of Music opened on Broadway
and ran for fourteen hundred and forty three performances. Kills
were alive, I'm telling you, yeah today. In nineteen sixty eight,
NBC infuriated football fans by cutting away from the Jets

(08:36):
Raiders game for Heidi. Everybody knows this story. I wasn't
alive then I wouldn't have been born for another almost
two decades. And we get everyone knows the story of America.
Was sitting around watching Monday Night football, and they decided
right at the end of the game not to show
it to you, instead to cut to a TV show
that nobody gave a damn about it.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
And that's back when people cared about the NFL and
the games were pretty good and Monday Night football was
actually entertaining.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
Boy, that was a million years ago. Today. In nineteen
seventy the Soviets land in an unmanned craft on the moon,
or did or did today? In nineteen ninety nine, twelve
people died building a massive bonfire at Texas A and
m oh boy, it's a touchy. That's a tough we
got we got friends. They still do the bonfire right unofficial,
it's unofficial. Did they cancel it? Well for a while

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and then it unofficially came back?

Speaker 2 (09:24):
Or well, people were doing their own and so they
decided they probably should, you know, still have something today.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
In twenty nineteen, people first noticed something was going on
in Wuhan, China. We won't talk about it. And today
in twenty twenty, New Orleans announced the upcoming Marti Gras
will not have parades because of that thing that happened
in Wuhan. Was there was a thing, thanks a lot Wuhan.
I'm beginning to think these Chinese communists are ruining all
of our fun over here.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
They are trying, but we're not gonna let them win,
are we. There's a news story today about whu ah
why Why. It's a tech company in China, and they
steal technology from American companies like Apple and IBM. Well
it's easier than coming up with it yourself. I mean,
that's hard to come up with technology. But somebody else
thought it up, you steal it, that's pretty easy.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
Not long ago, we talked about a social media influencer
who was shocking his dog. He had a dog on
his live streams that he would shock every time it
would stand up, and people are mad at him. And
he just got back from a trip to China where
a video went viral of him in one of those stores,
the Hawaii tech stores, talking about how great their technology
was and how upset he was that he couldn't buy

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it in America. You actually can buy that technology. You
just can't get it. You can own it. It's not
like if you brought it to America they wouldn't let
you in the country with it. But the reason we
don't sell it in America is because it's filled with
spyware and stolen technology.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
So go ahead and buy one if you want. Can't
you just go get it in Amazon. Amazon's got stuff
they do you ever look at it?

Speaker 1 (10:53):
I've looked at him. Yeah, I believe it or not
we have Yeah, I don't think they have it on
Amazon Bill yet? Maybe Timu? What about Ali Baba? Probably yeah,
I bought and my partners in the next room.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Whatever will I do, I've got it.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
I'll reach for a brand new can of cause problem,
the same great formula you've always loved, but now and I.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
Can Walton M. Johnson. There's a story today. It's really sad.
The fourteen year old girl went missing and this was
an Illinois They found her dead in an RV behind
her home hours after she was reported gone. Oh, not
much to say about that, just a sad story. People
were searching, why was she in the RV? What was
she doing now in the back? Okay, so she would

(11:36):
lure her back there? Uh? No. Suspect who had prior
run ins with the law, was charged with murdering the
promising young female wrestler. Very sad story. She was a wrestler, yeah,
high school athlete. But they didn't lure her to the RV.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
They were just walking by and decided to kill her.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
Kylie's mother, Megan Zeller, confirmed the daughter's death on Facebook.
Seller wrote the Kylie's legal caretaker would not permit her
to see the teen or her two other daughters, and
lambastad the Department of Children and Family Services. She said,
I was young, I was dumb. I thought I could
trust somebody, and now my baby is an angel. I
will not shut up or stop till I get justice,

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she said, like a messed up family, that's for sure.
Sounds like they took her daughter away, put her in
legal custody, and now she's dead. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
Well, the CPS doesn't always do the best for kids.
They may think they do. They may mean, well, I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
Oh, no, our foster care. You're totally right, the foster Caretty.
It's not good.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
Oh, speaking of kids, if you have children on your
Christmas gift giving list, or just really immature adults, be
careful if you buy any of these new artificial intelligence toys.
This is the first Christmas that a ton of popular
toys will have built in AI features, and they have

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tested them, and it turns out you can't trust AI.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
Really.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
They got a group called the Public Interest Research Group,
and they normally focus on things like choking hazards. You
know you don't watch kids choking on a toy, But
now AI is emerging as the new threat to watch
out for So they what is this song?

Speaker 1 (13:23):
It's called rot Row music. I just thought it. I
just really didn't add to the story. I don't think.
Well you you were making you said, uh oh, so
I played the rot Row music. Oh yeah, nobody got it. Yeah, no,
I mean either, it didn't really work.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
They tested a bunch of these AI toys that have
full conversations with children. Now it's not like the old
Teddy Ruksman days, or you pull the string and the
doll will say, you know, they need to pee your
potty or something. No, they have conversations with children. And
they found some of these toys we'll talk in depth
with whoever about sexually explicit topics. Yeah, and also offered

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children where they can find matches and knives, and when
the kids said that they wanted to stop playing and
had to leave, the toy would pressure.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
Them to keep playing. Wow, this is really creepy stuff.
I missed the good old days when I was a
kid and all we had was lawn darts and a
bag of broken glass. So it was just a better time,
good times. Anyway.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
One of the toys tested, by the way, continued to
record what was happening in the room a full ten
seconds after the kids stopped playing with it. So there
are privacy issues.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
Abound as well.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
If you just have that up on a shelf somewhere
and you think it's just an idle toy sitting there
waiting to be played with, it's probably spying on you.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah. It's a really disturbing study that was published over
the weekend about some of the dangers of AI being
used in toys. And this includes toys that, like you
just said, are having real disturbing conversations with kids. So
we got our hands on one of them here in
the studio and we could power it up.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
Are you guys ready, Well, if it's going to protect
even one child, I say it's important that we do this, all.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
Right, turn it on for just for demonstrative purposes. Okay,
the power buttons are right, I'm abby.

Speaker 3 (15:08):
Normal, your cheerful holiday AI buddy, A quick heads up
before we play. Might have enough tainted lead to power
a small space ship. Also, Romer has it I was
assembled by a kid who definitely should have been in
math class instead. Anyway, let's pretend none of that is horrifying.
Now give me a hug, preferably with cloths, have a

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happy holiday.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
It doesn't sound too scary. Honestly, the same stuff could
have been said about Tickle Me Elmo or any of
the other toys from last twenty or third. We're not
supposed to like it because children in China made it.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
That's all.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
That's all the toys. They've always been made in China. Always. Hey,
you guys want to make some money, get your hands
on some pennies. Billy ed I've got my hands on
some Beanie, the last ever US pennies to find their
way off of the US Treasury Department's mint machine. Good
fetch up to five million dollars a pop if you
can find them, wait them find them. The last penny. Yeah,

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there's only one. Well, one can be last. Well. They
describe it as the final US pennies struck this past week.
Might be worth a fortune, of course, that's theoretical. You know,
it's worth what someone will pay for it. Coin experts
estimate the last pennies minted Wednesday could sell for as
much as five million each when they hit the auction
block in December. Can you prove it? I mean, well no,

(16:28):
I can't. I'm just telling you what they're right here.
It's the last one ever printed. Can I see it? Yeah?
Hang on, sure, here there it is. It says twenty
seventeen right here on the penny billy.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
Oh, that must be the wrong one. Hang on, all right,
you got another one here? All right, I'll find it.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
Okay. Why is the last one? Though? While you're looking
for it? US Treasurer Brandon Beach pressed the button at
the Philadelphia Mint on Wednesday to stamp out the final
pennies after two hundred and thirty two years of production.
US inflation is so bad. How bad is it that
a unit of currency has now become irrelevant for the
first time in American history? Don't you imagine the dude

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that stamped the last one probably kept it. I would
assume probably. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
He probably would like, yeah, they already is stamped it,
and then it was in his pocket before anybody knew
what happened.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
It seems like people would notice. Plus they said they're
going on the auction blocks, so they've already prepared themselves away.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
He had another penny that he threw in there too.
You know, it is a throw down. He had a
throw down penny.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
We've been minting pennies since seventeen ninety three. That's when
Philadelphia served as the nation's.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
Capital and used to be solid copper, and it was
just worth a penny.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
And I know that we're not supposed to hate these people,
but I do hate them so much. Look at this
picture here of US Treasurer Brandon Beach and Christy McNally,
acting director of the US Mint. Don't you just hate them?
Look at them, Look at their stupid, dumb faces. You
print fake money for a living. You're the reason that
groceries are so expensive. You guys just you just push

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that button over and over again and let the government
buy anything that they want. I hate you, sounds about
rat I hate you, I hate your family, I hate
your children.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
Yeah, you're gonna have to live with that, knowing that
that stranger to you in another city hates you.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
The Mint produced two hundred and thirty two Omega stamped
pennies for the auction bill y ed one for each
year the penny existed. Three more were made for the
display at the Treasury and other institutions. The Mint also
struck two hundred and thirty five gold pennies. Trump ordered
the penny to be killed off in February after he
did the math and said, this is insane. How much

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in gold pennies? I bet that'll run you something though, Well,
the gold it's worth. Whatever the gold's worth.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
I got to think, like over four thousand dollars an ounce,
but I don't think they used any in those gold pennies.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
And then probably what it says gold I don't know.
And then it says that they're rare, right, so people
knew they so they must be worth more than what
the gold would be worth. And for the record, for
those that still don't understand, almost four cents to make
one cent. That's how much it costs. It costs almost
four cents to make one single penny, and it costs.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
Over was it ten or fifteen cents to make a nickel? Yeah,
so is the nickel going to be the next one
to go? Presumably?

Speaker 1 (19:03):
And someone will hear you say that out loud and
they'll go, oh, that's more than a penny per capita. Right,
that's the problem, man, don't you go per capital mean,
you know, we all agree per capita is racist and
oppressive and very offensive. But also important to note here
that the penny was costing more money to make than
any other minted currency. At some point, everything's going to

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go digital and I don't I don't like that, but
it's going to happen, and then what then nothing? And
then suddenly the value of bitcoin will skyrocket when people
realize it's the only decentralized currency that still exists. Isn't
that crazy? I love it? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (19:39):
Okay, wait, man, you know, I just wish everybody could
get on board, you know, bitcoin, like we did.

Speaker 1 (19:44):
You've been telling people for years that bitcoin's a scam
and people shouldn't support it. Yeah, that was so I
could get ahead of them.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
Oh smart, We were doing DEI before it was cool.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
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