Episode 105: Journey Over Niagara Falls, Mother Teresa’s Ponzi Scheme, & A Polish Vampire Rises

[00:00:00] Hey everybody, it's me Kathleen Madigan. Welcome to Madigan's Pubcast. You grab yourself a drink, pull up a bar stool, let's talk about what's been going on.

[00:00:18] Termites!

[00:00:27] Episode 105. How exciting is that?

[00:00:31] So many things. I don't even know where to start.

[00:00:34] I think we start with, well Canada what I'm drinking. I'm drinking a Niagara premium, well premium lager. Delicious.

[00:00:46] I may or may not have illegally brought this back. Just saying maybe I crossed the border and didn't declare that I had one beer.

[00:00:55] Should I say that? Are they going to look for me next time as a criminal?

[00:00:58] Probably not.

[00:00:59] It's just one beer. It just says Made in Canada Niagara Brewing Company, which is also the glass I'm drinking out of because I went to the Niagara Brewing Company.

[00:01:07] Fun?

[00:01:09] Very fun.

[00:01:11] Because well first I should do, because I have stories about it. We're definitely going to talk about Niagara Falls and wow, do I have a couple stories that are fucking crazy.

[00:01:22] But first we'll do what are we trying. Well actually the casino that I worked, Falls View Casino. Everybody was so nice.

[00:01:31] And it's 33 years on the road, the greatest hotel room I've ever had. That's hard to say. It's hard to meet the Mirage Room with the Volcano View.

[00:01:40] But this one had a view, it was like a suite. It had a little family room and then the bedroom. The family room looked at the American Falls and then the bedroom looked at the Canadian Falls.

[00:01:53] And then they light them up at night and then their fireworks at 10 o'clock. And I came in early so I was able to see all that. Yeah, it wasn't at work at that point.

[00:02:01] And if you've never been, well I'll get into Niagara Falls but people don't seem to understand a lot of people that have never been.

[00:02:06] Well my brother goes so, if I'm in Philly with the kids is that near Buffalo? I go, Patrick do you not know where Buffalo is?

[00:02:16] I go how do you think Niagara Falls is created? Dude I'm busy. I don't know. Oh my God.

[00:02:22] I said the Great Lakes, nothing ringing a bell pat? He's usually pretty good at geography.

[00:02:27] I'm like no, Buffalo is nowhere near Philadelphia. Different trip Pat, different trip.

[00:02:31] Anyway, I had said on this podcast how much I love these hickory sticks and Lila who's in charge of, sorry, Lily.

[00:02:41] Why did I think it was Lila? Because in the beginning it was harder than Lily. Lilliana, right.

[00:02:47] I was like, I'm never gonna remember that. That she put a shit load of bags in the green room.

[00:02:53] I also brought these across the border. I don't know if I was supposed to say that.

[00:02:56] One of the guys said he said fruits and vegetables. Hello, no, but I have tiny bags of hickory sticks. Do you care about that?

[00:03:05] They're like the ones we had as kids in the states. I don't know if they still make them.

[00:03:10] I'm gonna look next time I go to the grocery store. The potato strings in a can.

[00:03:14] Michael Palacak is the opening act. He was very funny. You should go look him up.

[00:03:19] He was the opening act. He knew what I was talking about. He's like yeah I remember those.

[00:03:23] Yeah, so these are delicious. Thank you.

[00:03:28] I never asked for food in the green room because I don't eat before the show.

[00:03:32] Well, I used to ask for it and then the openers would just eat all the food.

[00:03:36] And then I'm like why am I putting somebody through a pain in the ass to feed an opener?

[00:03:40] Nobody fed me as an opener. I give you drinks. Free drinks. Come on.

[00:03:45] I'm not providing you with salami and cheese. No.

[00:03:47] But they put all kinds of free. It was just wonderful.

[00:03:53] We're gonna talk more about that. But what else am I trying before we get out of the food?

[00:03:57] Saw these. Lays Kettle Cooked Frito Chili Cheese.

[00:04:02] And it made me laugh because at one of Ron White's weddings, I won't say which one.

[00:04:08] The food took so long to come out.

[00:04:12] Me and this other comedian Vic Henley were kind of shit-faced by the time any food came out.

[00:04:18] Because it took so long. The first thing he brought out was the chili with Fritos in it, Texas style.

[00:04:24] Frito and that was the best thing I ate all night. I'm just saying I should have stopped there.

[00:04:29] I should have went around to every table and said are you gonna eat that?

[00:04:32] Are you gonna eat that? Are you gonna eat that?

[00:04:34] And then I wouldn't have been because the real food, I don't remember what it was.

[00:04:37] By the time it got there I was like I'm good. I'm not.

[00:04:39] Anyway, now they have Frito Chili Cheese Frito Lays Potato Chips.

[00:04:44] Wow.

[00:04:46] I don't know what made me think of Ron. Let's see.

[00:04:48] I don't know if you should mess with a Lays.

[00:04:51] Mmm.

[00:04:54] Mmm.

[00:04:58] No.

[00:05:00] They taste like barbecue and something else.

[00:05:05] But it doesn't taste like chili.

[00:05:07] Okay.

[00:05:09] I mean Lays is my favorite. I give them an A plus.

[00:05:11] But no, they just gotta stop trying to stop it.

[00:05:15] Stop it. You're wasting money.

[00:05:17] I see those Lays trucks all the time on the road and guess which ones on the side?

[00:05:22] The classic potato chip.

[00:05:24] Yeah, they're not painting that truck with this stuff because they know might not be a hit.

[00:05:29] And then I saw this Kraft Cheese Whiz.

[00:05:34] Which is what I'm sure my mom melted on broccoli and told us it was healthy.

[00:05:38] Just to get, I'm sure she did. Oh this or Velveeta. This is Kraft Cheese Whiz.

[00:05:44] I heated it up but it kind of, I have a monkey in a roundup here.

[00:05:49] Oh my God. No.

[00:05:51] No?

[00:05:53] Way too thick.

[00:05:55] No.

[00:05:57] Maybe I used too much.

[00:05:59] Oh my God. No.

[00:06:01] Cheese Whiz is thick.

[00:06:03] That's on, for nachos thinly.

[00:06:06] It's very thick.

[00:06:08] It needs water. It needs to be mixed up. It's too thick.

[00:06:12] They could save money. Kraft saved money. You could put half the cheese in here but water.

[00:06:17] Yeah, oh man that was not.

[00:06:20] Alright moving on.

[00:06:24] Moving on back to Canada.

[00:06:26] Some lady brought me this but I don't know who so thanks to the termite it's a little beagle.

[00:06:31] It's my favorite dog followed by English Sutter.

[00:06:34] It's a little thing for the doorknob.

[00:06:37] I like to switch these out when my parents spend the night just to confuse them.

[00:06:41] Well I thought there's only three bedrooms in the house. No four.

[00:06:45] One, two, three.

[00:06:47] Well and fourth one it's not really it's a gym.

[00:06:50] So there's only three rooms with beds and they'll still go know my mom will go know which one.

[00:06:54] Which one are you Dan?

[00:06:56] So if I change these she thinks she's in the wrong room.

[00:07:00] Mom, you're said welcome to the Fairmont.

[00:07:03] Remember that?

[00:07:05] It didn't say welcome friends and have a beagle and it did it.

[00:07:08] So thank you to whoever left that.

[00:07:11] And then this lady I felt bad because these people got tricked on a rogue website.

[00:07:17] They bought tickets to the show in Canada because it was sold out and they went,

[00:07:20] they got tricked.

[00:07:22] It's easy to get tricked because if you don't go to the real website or the real person I've been almost tricked.

[00:07:27] Almost got tricked on a Florence and Machinedeal.

[00:07:30] Yeah and those aren't cheap.

[00:07:33] They know helped them out which was good because they're from Silver Springs, Maryland, which is where?

[00:07:38] The childhood home of who?

[00:07:41] Lewis Black.

[00:07:43] Right.

[00:07:45] They were driving around Silver Spring, Maryland listening to you and this and this routine came on the kind of laugh that cures all ills.

[00:07:53] We had to pull over we were laughing on our way to Miss Gogi Lakes for vacation and popping up to see you.

[00:08:01] Oh, for a little spin of the slots that they were coming to gamble to I had made them for you here.

[00:08:06] Go get killed and it's Stacy and Robin from Silver Spring but they brought golf balls and they're really good golf balls.

[00:08:14] They're Cal away with the three lines if you're a golfer know what I mean.

[00:08:17] But even more importantly, I was like, oh my God, these because my dad's like he'll steal them out of my bag.

[00:08:23] He knows the good ones and he's like, oh, where'd you get all these free three line ones?

[00:08:28] I love that lines up my putz.

[00:08:30] But these ones say wrong ocean.

[00:08:32] It made me laugh so hard and a ball marker.

[00:08:34] These will be used.

[00:08:36] Maybe I'll sign them and then I'll tell somebody, hey, I left a golf ball out there if you give a shoot with a signature on it.

[00:08:41] No one will care golf.

[00:08:43] But I care.

[00:08:45] These are not cheap.

[00:08:47] So thank you.

[00:08:49] They even took the price to go off.

[00:08:50] They took the price from my dad because then he'll pick it up and go wrong ocean.

[00:08:53] I don't understand what room they have.

[00:08:55] No, I asked him if they knew what my website was in the video and neither one of them have any idea.

[00:09:00] No, no.

[00:09:02] And then I asked if they ever listen to the podcast and my mom said, what time is it on?

[00:09:05] And I said, it's on at 12 10 Eastern.

[00:09:08] She said, well that's too late.

[00:09:10] Your dad and I won't stay up that late.

[00:09:12] I'm like, I know what's weird is it starts at 12 10.

[00:09:14] I used to tell her it was different times by fractions of time.

[00:09:18] When I lived out in California, she'd go now what time is it out there?

[00:09:22] And I knew if it was like 10 a.m., it was 8 a.m. in LA.

[00:09:27] I'd go, it's 8 14.

[00:09:29] She'd be like, that's weird.

[00:09:32] It's 10 here.

[00:09:34] I'm like, yeah, I don't know where those 14 minutes went by, but it is bizarre.

[00:09:37] Sometimes it's like a half hour and then she'd go, you're lying.

[00:09:40] No, not.

[00:09:42] So thank you to termites moving on.

[00:09:44] This is my flag from going over the Canadian side of the falls.

[00:09:48] I got, I did the hornblower.

[00:09:51] If you saw the videos here's what's great.

[00:09:53] The American falls.

[00:09:55] There's two sets of falls.

[00:09:57] A lot of people on those.

[00:09:59] The American ones are shorter, not nearly as dramatic, but they have way bigger rocks at the bottom.

[00:10:03] It looks a little more.

[00:10:05] Mm, craggy.

[00:10:07] The Canadian falls is the ones that everybody thinks of the horseshoe thing.

[00:10:11] And then if you're on the Canadian side, you get on your boat.

[00:10:12] If you want to go and they take you right to the bottom.

[00:10:15] I mean, you are in a car wash.

[00:10:17] It is amazing.

[00:10:19] And the American side, what I love is the American side, you get a blue poncho.

[00:10:22] Canada, you get the red poncho.

[00:10:24] So we have team jerseys.

[00:10:26] So I was team Canada for the whole weekend because then there's a bar down there,

[00:10:29] outdoor bar where they had music and beers.

[00:10:32] And yeah, people don't think that go down there.

[00:10:34] They think, oh, you have to go on the boat to go to that bar.

[00:10:36] No, you don't.

[00:10:38] You can just walk down there.

[00:10:40] That's a tipster from somebody who knows how to find a beer outside.

[00:10:42] You're just sitting there looking at the falls.

[00:10:44] It's amazing.

[00:10:46] Everybody should go to Niagara Falls.

[00:10:48] It's not really on the way unless you had a reason to go to Buffalo.

[00:10:51] Why don't you go to a Buffalo Bills game and then go over to Niagara Falls?

[00:10:54] I think it would have been so awesome to see it during COVID too

[00:10:57] because it would have been no people and it would have been so quiet.

[00:11:00] All you would hear is the water and you can go behind the falls.

[00:11:04] They take you down like we're all the construction.

[00:11:06] I made videos.

[00:11:08] If you want to go on Instagram, look at that.

[00:11:10] It was just phenomenal.

[00:11:12] I was walking down the street, and it was nothing.

[00:11:14] And I took the tour, and the tour guide.

[00:11:17] It was like nine in the morning,

[00:11:19] and he's like, well, I can't even replicate the accent,

[00:11:21] but he's from Albania, and I guessed it.

[00:11:23] I don't know where I pulled that out of my ass.

[00:11:25] He was really surprised.

[00:11:27] So was I.

[00:11:29] I don't know what possessed me to say that.

[00:11:31] I'm going to repeat through again.

[00:11:33] But lunch.

[00:11:35] There was a third thing.

[00:11:37] No, no.

[00:11:39] Behind the falls?

[00:11:40] Uh, behind the falls, boat lunch.

[00:11:44] And he just kept saying that I'm like, I got it.

[00:11:46] We all got it.

[00:11:47] We're going to go behind the falls.

[00:11:48] You take all these, this elevator down and you are literally the dam is there.

[00:11:52] You are behind.

[00:11:54] Oh, we'll go look at the videos.

[00:11:56] I don't even know how to explain it.

[00:11:57] Um, you're behind the waterfall.

[00:12:00] Yes.

[00:12:01] So you can see the power of the water.

[00:12:05] I mean, I could have sat there all day.

[00:12:06] I could have taken the boat ride 20 times.

[00:12:08] I'm that lady where I just gave up.

[00:12:10] I'm going to go.

[00:12:11] Um, but I didn't.

[00:12:13] That was there's too many people and it was still crowded and it's already

[00:12:17] September and the children are back at school.

[00:12:20] Um, but I would recommend it like go in October because there won't be any

[00:12:26] crowds, the crowds will have dissipated.

[00:12:28] It won't be freezing, freezing yet.

[00:12:30] All of a sudden on territory, people don't mean it's not getting as close

[00:12:33] as it used to get.

[00:12:34] Um, no.

[00:12:36] So this is, there are two crazy stories from Niagara Falls and then we'll get

[00:12:41] the queen news.

[00:12:43] This is the amazing story of a seven year old who survived Niagara Falls.

[00:12:48] The Canadian side.

[00:12:52] Over the years, people have gone down Niagara Falls in a wide variety of

[00:12:55] contraptions, wooden barrels, a rubber ball.

[00:12:57] Now see that's what I was thinking.

[00:12:58] I'm shocked.

[00:12:59] Well, I didn't know if somebody had already did it.

[00:13:01] I'm like, why do, how come the Instagram children or the

[00:13:05] TikTok children, if you got in a giant rubber ball and somehow you could

[00:13:10] breathe in it, I don't know, picture a very thick like ball.

[00:13:15] We used to play bombardment with, um, or dodge ball or anything called.

[00:13:20] And then when you went on the American side, wouldn't you just

[00:13:22] bounce off all the rocks?

[00:13:23] Boing, boing, boing.

[00:13:25] And then well, I guess somebody tried it.

[00:13:29] It didn't work.

[00:13:30] Yeah.

[00:13:31] A kayak, even a jet ski, somebody went over in a jet ski.

[00:13:36] The most impressive descent took place on July 9th, 1960.

[00:13:41] Now I've done the math and that was hard for me, but that was 42 years ago.

[00:13:46] There was a little boy named Roger who was seven.

[00:13:49] No, that was 62 years ago.

[00:13:51] So Roger is now 69 years old if he's still alive.

[00:13:54] I tried to find out I can't.

[00:13:57] Well, yeah, Roger, Roger Woodward, are you alive?

[00:14:01] I've never interviewed anybody on this podcast, but I would make an exception.

[00:14:05] I would love to.

[00:14:07] I know his kids are, his kids talk about him.

[00:14:09] Anyway, seven year old Roger Woodward went over the falls wearing little

[00:14:14] more than a life jacket and he had on like one of those swimming suits.

[00:14:17] Little kids wore boys wore in the seventies, like a little tight, almost

[00:14:21] skin tight with the rope tie.

[00:14:24] He went over the falls in that and he still had those swimming trunks on.

[00:14:27] I'm like, how the fuck?

[00:14:29] Mind fall off water skiing.

[00:14:30] How does he still have his pants get not ripped off?

[00:14:34] It would become known as the miracle of Niagara.

[00:14:37] It began on a sunny July morning.

[00:14:39] This is terrifying in 1960.

[00:14:41] Roger and his 17 year old sister, Deanne had joined a family friend, Jim

[00:14:45] Honeycutt, 40 years old on his 14 foot aluminum boat.

[00:14:50] Wow.

[00:14:52] Equipped with an outboard motor for a trip down the Niagara River high

[00:14:55] above the falls sound safe so far because when you see the river at

[00:14:59] the top up until a point, it's very, it looks like Lake of the Ozarks.

[00:15:03] It's calm.

[00:15:05] It's flat.

[00:15:06] There's no, but then you see where it starts to turn into rapids and then

[00:15:10] you know if you got caught in that, I don't see how you stop.

[00:15:13] You're just gone.

[00:15:15] The Woodward family had moved to the area a few months earlier and

[00:15:18] they thought an outing to the falls would be a nice way to celebrate

[00:15:21] Deanne's birthday.

[00:15:21] None of them knew they would be soon experiencing the mighty Niagara

[00:15:24] from a terrifying vintage point.

[00:15:26] Honeycutt piloted his boat past the Ontario control dam.

[00:15:31] I wouldn't go past the dam.

[00:15:34] Only a mile from the brink of the horse you fall on the Canadian side.

[00:15:38] It provides a flow of water over the falls.

[00:15:41] It's a heart 65 feet, by the way, of the most powerful water I've ever

[00:15:44] seen in my life.

[00:15:45] Not many boats venture past that point, correct, where the friendly

[00:15:49] river turns turbulent, but Honeycutt underestimated the river's

[00:15:53] strength and the danger that came with it.

[00:15:55] Soon the boat's passengers could see goat island.

[00:15:57] That's not good.

[00:16:00] That's the last island you can save yourself.

[00:16:02] Goat island?

[00:16:03] Goat, yeah.

[00:16:05] Dividing the river into two sets of rapids, one going over the

[00:16:08] American fall and the other, the horse you fall.

[00:16:10] So the river divides and you're either going over the short ones,

[00:16:13] but you're going to probably die there because the bottom,

[00:16:15] the rocks are so crazy.

[00:16:17] And then the other one is too high.

[00:16:20] In the distance, oh God, the three of them could see the spray

[00:16:23] caused by the massive amounts of water falling over the falls

[00:16:26] and crashing into the river below.

[00:16:29] The mist in the morning, because I woke up at six,

[00:16:32] one morning, it's so thick you can't.

[00:16:34] That's why I'm like, how come I don't have boats out?

[00:16:36] It's light out.

[00:16:37] Where are the old people usually lined up for this seven o'clock?

[00:16:40] You couldn't see nothing.

[00:16:41] You can't drive into it.

[00:16:42] The mist is still crazy.

[00:16:43] Not realizing the danger, Honeycutt desperately tried to turn

[00:16:47] the boat around and head toward to goat island, which extends

[00:16:50] at the very edge of both the American and horse you falls.

[00:16:52] It was too late.

[00:16:54] The boat was in the rapids now being tossed around helplessly.

[00:16:56] There were two orange life jackets in the boat.

[00:16:58] Remember those life jackets?

[00:16:59] Well, they're still out there.

[00:17:01] Like from the 70s, they had like white ties and their orange

[00:17:05] and they're not much.

[00:17:06] I mean, they're better than nothing, but Roger was already

[00:17:10] wearing his little boy.

[00:17:12] Deanne struggled to fasten hers.

[00:17:13] Water pounded the boat rushing over the sides.

[00:17:16] Soon it capsized and its passengers were tossed into

[00:17:19] swirling water.

[00:17:21] Deanne could make out her brother's orange life jacket

[00:17:23] bobbing further away from goat island towards the falls.

[00:17:26] The girl swam furiously trying to reach the edge of

[00:17:28] goat island where a crowd had gathered looking on in

[00:17:31] disbelief.

[00:17:31] Suddenly a man rushed to the railing.

[00:17:33] John Hayes, a truck driver and auxiliary policeman from

[00:17:36] Union New Jersey.

[00:17:37] Good man, John.

[00:17:38] Climbing over the guardrail, he extended one arm as far as

[00:17:40] he could while grasping the rail with the other.

[00:17:43] But the girl was out of reach, refusing to give up.

[00:17:45] Hayes ran an 18 inch onto an 18 inch ledge.

[00:17:49] A few inches of a few inches above the water.

[00:17:52] Kick harder.

[00:17:53] He screamed, anchoring one foot at the bottom of the

[00:17:55] rail.

[00:17:55] He stretches arm out her fingers clasp his thumb.

[00:17:59] And he was able to stop her.

[00:18:01] But he couldn't pull her out of the violent current.

[00:18:03] Help came from another guy, John Quattro, Rache of

[00:18:07] Pen's Grove, New Jersey, two New Jersey guys who climbed

[00:18:10] over the railing, grabbed her hand and helped Hayes

[00:18:13] pull her to safety.

[00:18:14] Yep.

[00:18:15] She was 20 feet away from bye bye.

[00:18:20] Nine night.

[00:18:21] Meanwhile, her brother and honeycut were still in the

[00:18:23] fight for their lives when they were first pitched

[00:18:25] into the water.

[00:18:26] The bull, the boy was holding onto honeycut.

[00:18:28] But the turbulent water ripped them apart.

[00:18:30] The rapids carried the two away from God Island and

[00:18:32] closer to the center of the falls where they shot over

[00:18:34] the brink into the midst, into the mist.

[00:18:38] Fate was with Roger that day.

[00:18:40] The boy could have been hurled into hundreds of

[00:18:42] rocks jutting from the water surface.

[00:18:44] But because he was wearing a life jacket and

[00:18:46] because of his slight 55 pound frame, Roger rode

[00:18:49] the crest of the falls and was shot beyond the

[00:18:51] pounding water.

[00:18:52] He was so light it just went.

[00:18:56] Oh my God.

[00:18:56] And through him, he rode the crest of the falls.

[00:18:59] He honeycut heavier and weight, the 40 year old

[00:19:02] guy, not wearing a life jacket, dropped straight

[00:19:05] down and was dead within seconds as the current

[00:19:07] sent his body deep into 200 feet deep well.

[00:19:10] Roger was alive but not out of danger.

[00:19:13] Bobbing in the water, he could make out the

[00:19:14] outline of a boat through the heavy mist.

[00:19:17] The mate of the mist.

[00:19:18] That's the one that takes the tourists from

[00:19:20] the American side.

[00:19:21] The hornblower is a Canadian one.

[00:19:23] Taking tourists close to the base of the

[00:19:25] so the mate of the mist is going into the

[00:19:27] into the base of the falls and they see him.

[00:19:30] Captain Clifford Keach was about to turn his

[00:19:32] craft away from the falls when he spotted

[00:19:33] the orange life jacket.

[00:19:35] He maneuvered to pick the boat, pick up the

[00:19:37] boy as he drifted past the boats crew

[00:19:40] flung a life preserver in Roger's

[00:19:42] direction once twice and then on the third

[00:19:44] attempt he was able to grab on and pull

[00:19:46] to safety.

[00:19:46] He was lifted out of the water and placed

[00:19:48] gently onto the deck to the amazement

[00:19:50] of the most passengers many of whom

[00:19:52] didn't realize the boy had come over the

[00:19:53] falls.

[00:19:54] Well, how'd you think he got?

[00:19:57] Do you think he just jumped off side rock?

[00:20:00] Surprisingly, it left him relatively

[00:20:02] unscathed safe as a minor bruising on

[00:20:04] his jaw and around his right eye.

[00:20:06] His sister Deanne recuperating in

[00:20:07] another hospital was equally fortunate

[00:20:09] coming out with just a small cut on

[00:20:11] her hand.

[00:20:11] Jim's honeycutts body wouldn't surface

[00:20:13] for days finally released by the

[00:20:15] current by the current beneath the

[00:20:17] falls.

[00:20:17] Newspapers couldn't get enough of

[00:20:18] the only known survivor who beat

[00:20:20] the mighty Niagara but the blue

[00:20:21] publicity proved too much for Roger's

[00:20:23] parents and the Woodward family would

[00:20:24] leave Niagara in 1962.

[00:20:26] Oh, he lives in Alabama.

[00:20:28] Roger resides in Alabama and his

[00:20:30] sister Deanne went decades barely

[00:20:32] speaking about their brush with death.

[00:20:34] Well, I could drive right to your house,

[00:20:35] Roger.

[00:20:36] The illness is I'll come right on down.

[00:20:38] I want to hear about it.

[00:20:42] Years later when Roger was in high

[00:20:43] school or reporter managed to track

[00:20:44] him down and encourage a boy to share

[00:20:46] his story.

[00:20:46] The people I went to school didn't

[00:20:47] know anything about it.

[00:20:49] Though he kept a low profile for

[00:20:50] years.

[00:20:51] His three sons were more than willing

[00:20:52] to share their dad's remarkable story

[00:20:54] as a survivor.

[00:20:55] As Roger would put it, I was a pretty

[00:20:58] good show and tell piece in school.

[00:21:00] Sure.

[00:21:01] That is crazy.

[00:21:04] There's a whole plaque about it and

[00:21:05] stuff crazy.

[00:21:06] And then here's the other crazy one.

[00:21:08] This lady.

[00:21:10] People.

[00:21:12] This is why when people say,

[00:21:15] you know, our society because of

[00:21:17] internet and cable TV, it's just

[00:21:19] going to hell in a handbasket.

[00:21:20] Well, I'll tell you what, when people

[00:21:22] didn't have cable, they did crazy or

[00:21:24] shit, way crazier shit.

[00:21:28] Annie Edison Taylor, born in 1863.

[00:21:33] She died in 1921.

[00:21:35] She was an American school teacher on

[00:21:36] her 63rd birthday in 1901.

[00:21:40] She became the first person to

[00:21:41] survive a trip over Niagara Falls

[00:21:43] in a barrel.

[00:21:45] Her motives were financial, but she

[00:21:47] never made much money from the

[00:21:48] adventure. She died penniless and her

[00:21:50] funeral was paid for by public

[00:21:52] donations.

[00:21:54] She did this lady.

[00:21:56] Well, I'm going to tell you what she

[00:21:57] was thinking.

[00:21:58] She would go viral.

[00:22:00] In the nineteen hundreds.

[00:22:03] 1901.

[00:22:04] She thought like she could be Annie

[00:22:07] Oakley. A lot of people named Annie

[00:22:08] back then do crazy things.

[00:22:09] And I think she thought she could

[00:22:10] go around and give lectures

[00:22:12] because if you were an explorer or

[00:22:14] an adventure or whatever they used

[00:22:15] to call it, like a daredevil.

[00:22:17] You know, people cared.

[00:22:20] She was born in New York.

[00:22:21] She was one of eight children.

[00:22:24] Her dad owned a flour mill.

[00:22:25] So she was rich and died when

[00:22:28] she was 12, leaving enough money

[00:22:30] to provide a comfortable living

[00:22:31] for her family.

[00:22:32] She became a school teacher.

[00:22:34] Yeah, women back then didn't get

[00:22:35] to go to college.

[00:22:36] So she got an education of some

[00:22:37] sort.

[00:22:39] She received an honors degree in

[00:22:41] a four year training course.

[00:22:42] Yeah, you had to be rich back

[00:22:43] then during her studies.

[00:22:44] She met David Taylor.

[00:22:45] They were married and had a son

[00:22:46] who died in infancy.

[00:22:47] Her husband died soon after

[00:22:49] when she was widowed.

[00:22:50] She spent time moving,

[00:22:52] spent her time working

[00:22:54] in between jobs and locales.

[00:22:56] Eventually she ended up in Bay

[00:22:57] City, Michigan.

[00:22:58] I've been there.

[00:22:59] It's very pretty where she

[00:23:01] hoped to be a dance instructor.

[00:23:04] How logical is that?

[00:23:06] Since there were no dance.

[00:23:07] She's crazy.

[00:23:09] She's crazy.

[00:23:10] Since there were no

[00:23:12] dance schools in Bay City,

[00:23:13] she opened her own.

[00:23:14] Then she moved to South

[00:23:15] St. Marie in 1900 to teach

[00:23:17] music.

[00:23:18] From there she traveled to San

[00:23:19] Antonio, Texas.

[00:23:20] What?

[00:23:22] Why?

[00:23:23] Then she and a friend went to

[00:23:24] Mexico City to find work.

[00:23:26] Unsuccessful.

[00:23:27] She returned to Bay City.

[00:23:30] She'd fallen on times by 1900,

[00:23:32] having been burned out of her

[00:23:33] home and lost a lot of money

[00:23:34] invested with the clergymen.

[00:23:35] She claimed to be only 42 years

[00:23:37] old at times, suggestions she

[00:23:38] could make more money easily

[00:23:40] if she were younger, having

[00:23:42] always associated with the best

[00:23:43] class of people, the culture

[00:23:45] to define.

[00:23:46] She believed she needed money to

[00:23:48] keep her place in the world.

[00:23:50] She declared her year of birth

[00:23:52] is 1860, hoping to secure her

[00:23:54] later years financially.

[00:23:55] She decided she'd be the first

[00:23:56] person to ride over Niagara Falls

[00:23:57] in a barrel.

[00:23:58] She had a custom made barrel for

[00:24:00] her trip.

[00:24:01] It constructed of oak iron and

[00:24:02] paddled with and padded with

[00:24:04] a mattress.

[00:24:05] Several days occurred in

[00:24:07] several days occurred in the

[00:24:08] launching of the barrel,

[00:24:09] particularly because no one

[00:24:10] wanted to be part of a

[00:24:10] potential suicide.

[00:24:13] I'm not going to help you

[00:24:14] with this barrel.

[00:24:15] I mean, unless I don't like you.

[00:24:17] Two days before her own attempt,

[00:24:19] a domestic cat was sent over the

[00:24:21] horseshoe falls in a barrel

[00:24:22] to test it was her cat.

[00:24:24] Who kills her own cat?

[00:24:26] Well, it didn't die.

[00:24:28] Look, I didn't even ask for the

[00:24:30] cats that live here.

[00:24:32] And even the meanest one, I

[00:24:33] wouldn't send it over a barrel

[00:24:35] in Niagara Falls.

[00:24:36] It's still a living thing.

[00:24:38] You can't back then people

[00:24:39] didn't.

[00:24:41] Today she wanted to test to

[00:24:43] see if the barrel would break

[00:24:44] or not.

[00:24:45] Contrary to rumors, it's a time.

[00:24:47] The cat survived the plunge and

[00:24:48] 17 minutes later after she was

[00:24:51] found with a bleeding head.

[00:24:52] She posed for it with Taylor

[00:24:53] and photographs.

[00:24:54] So she posed with the cat on

[00:24:56] the barrel and it's a tiny cat.

[00:24:58] It almost looks like barely a

[00:25:00] year old.

[00:25:01] On her birthday, 63rd.

[00:25:04] No, it's not very nice at all.

[00:25:05] But I don't think people back

[00:25:06] then like looked at animals

[00:25:07] like that as pets.

[00:25:08] They were more like, I

[00:25:11] don't know, just stuff.

[00:25:13] Cats.

[00:25:14] Well,

[00:25:15] that's your opinion, paddles.

[00:25:16] Yeah, I love cats.

[00:25:18] Stop.

[00:25:21] On a 63rd birthday, the

[00:25:23] barrel was put over the side

[00:25:25] of a rowboat and she climbed in

[00:25:27] along with her lucky heart shaped

[00:25:29] pillow.

[00:25:33] After screwing down the lids,

[00:25:34] friends used a bicycle tire to

[00:25:36] pump the pump to pump

[00:25:39] tire pump to compress the air

[00:25:40] in the barrel.

[00:25:41] A hole was used for this.

[00:25:44] Was plugged with a cork.

[00:25:45] So they pumped air in, put

[00:25:47] a cork in it.

[00:25:49] She was set adrift near the

[00:25:51] American shore south of Goat

[00:25:52] Island.

[00:25:53] The river currents carried the

[00:25:54] barrel over the Canadian

[00:25:56] Horseshoe Falls and it has

[00:25:57] since been a site for all

[00:25:58] successful daredevil stunting

[00:26:00] at Niagara Falls, except for

[00:26:01] Rogers.

[00:26:02] It was successful, but it

[00:26:03] wasn't on purpose.

[00:26:03] Roger wasn't a daredevil.

[00:26:05] Roger's probably never gone

[00:26:06] fishing again in his life

[00:26:07] after that shit.

[00:26:09] Researchers reached her

[00:26:11] barrel shortly after the

[00:26:12] plunge.

[00:26:13] She was discovered to be alive

[00:26:15] and relatively uninjured,

[00:26:16] except for a small gas on her

[00:26:17] head.

[00:26:18] The trip took less than 20

[00:26:19] minutes, but it took some time

[00:26:21] before the barrel actually

[00:26:22] opened.

[00:26:22] That'd be even funnier if

[00:26:23] that's how you died.

[00:26:25] Oh no, I made it over the

[00:26:26] falls, but then I suffocated

[00:26:27] because nobody could get the

[00:26:28] barrel open.

[00:26:29] She was helped out of the

[00:26:30] barrel by a friend

[00:26:32] and the first man to run

[00:26:33] the rapids on a raft.

[00:26:35] She told the press.

[00:26:36] Here's what her statement

[00:26:37] was.

[00:26:38] If it was my dying breath,

[00:26:40] I would caution anyone

[00:26:41] against attempting defeat.

[00:26:43] I would sooner walk up to

[00:26:45] the mouth of a cannon knowing

[00:26:47] it was going to blow me to

[00:26:48] pieces than make another trip

[00:26:49] over the falls.

[00:26:52] Well, I probably

[00:26:55] could have figured that.

[00:26:56] She briefly earned money

[00:26:57] speaking about it, but she

[00:26:59] was never able to build much

[00:27:00] wealth.

[00:27:00] She wrote a memoir and

[00:27:01] returned her dagger falls

[00:27:02] to sell it.

[00:27:02] Her manager, she had a

[00:27:03] manager.

[00:27:04] Her manager, Frank, ran away

[00:27:06] with the barrel and most

[00:27:08] of her savings were used

[00:27:09] towards private detectives

[00:27:11] to find the barrel.

[00:27:13] Frank.

[00:27:15] Frank.

[00:27:16] It was eventually located

[00:27:17] in Chicago, only to permanently

[00:27:18] disappear some other

[00:27:19] sometime later.

[00:27:21] She spent her final years posing

[00:27:22] for photographs with tourists

[00:27:23] at her souvenir stand and

[00:27:24] attempting to earn money

[00:27:25] from the New York Stock Exchange,

[00:27:26] briefly talking about it,

[00:27:27] taking a second plunge over

[00:27:29] in 1906, attempting

[00:27:32] to write a novel

[00:27:33] reconstructing her 1901 plunge

[00:27:35] on film, which was never seen.

[00:27:37] Oh, she worked as a clairvoyant

[00:27:39] and she provided magnetic

[00:27:40] therapeutic treatments to local

[00:27:41] residents.

[00:27:43] I know.

[00:27:44] She died at age 82.

[00:27:47] Yeah, she was in turn next to

[00:27:49] English born Daredevil Carlisle

[00:27:51] D. Graham in a stunter's rest

[00:27:54] section of the Oakwood

[00:27:55] cemetery falls and I'm sure

[00:27:56] I should have gone.

[00:27:57] She died penniless.

[00:27:59] Public donations were sought

[00:28:00] to pay the cost of the funeral

[00:28:01] which was held on the 5th

[00:28:02] of May 1921.

[00:28:04] She attributed her bad health

[00:28:05] and near blindness to her trip

[00:28:06] over the falls.

[00:28:07] Well, also it was 1921

[00:28:09] in year 82.

[00:28:11] I think everybody blind by

[00:28:12] that back then.

[00:28:14] Yeah, there's no there

[00:28:15] were there's no lens crafters.

[00:28:17] No, these helping you.

[00:28:18] You're just going blind.

[00:28:19] That's what happened back then.

[00:28:21] So there you have it.

[00:28:22] Termites two stories that I

[00:28:24] was just like moving on

[00:28:29] to the Queen News.

[00:28:34] We're talking about the real

[00:28:35] queen of my queen.

[00:28:36] I'm going to talk about my

[00:28:37] queen, Dolly Parton has a

[00:28:39] new greatest hits album

[00:28:40] Coming Out Diamonds and

[00:28:41] Rhinestone coming November

[00:28:42] 18th.

[00:28:43] It's a collection of her

[00:28:44] favorite songs and yours.

[00:28:46] You can preorder it now.

[00:28:47] Well, I will.

[00:28:48] That's all my Queen News.

[00:28:50] I don't really.

[00:28:52] Stevie posted something about

[00:28:53] the Queen, I should read it,

[00:28:54] but I forgot to do it.

[00:28:57] It's very Stevie.

[00:29:03] We can talk about the Queen

[00:29:04] for a moment, but put a big

[00:29:07] Essex there as an Irish

[00:29:10] Catholic.

[00:29:11] I can't say I'm the biggest

[00:29:12] fan of the monarchy.

[00:29:16] Go watch Braveheart.

[00:29:18] When people go, how come now

[00:29:19] that that wasn't even the

[00:29:20] Irish Catholics?

[00:29:20] That was just the Scots.

[00:29:24] They don't they don't have a

[00:29:25] very clean history shall we

[00:29:26] say?

[00:29:27] Yeah.

[00:29:27] I think there's a hundred

[00:29:28] ninety three nations in the

[00:29:30] United in the United Nations

[00:29:32] and England has attacked

[00:29:35] 173 of them.

[00:29:39] Not a very good track record.

[00:29:41] I like that she liked her

[00:29:42] corgis.

[00:29:43] I don't like that Andrew is

[00:29:44] getting them.

[00:29:45] See, because you either have

[00:29:46] to be like my dad's just out on

[00:29:48] all the drama.

[00:29:49] He won't watch any of it, you

[00:29:50] know, the history.

[00:29:51] If you know your history, the

[00:29:53] Irish Catholics, it's not.

[00:29:55] He doesn't have any time for

[00:29:56] these people, but I'll go

[00:29:57] half in.

[00:29:58] Like I'm interested in the

[00:30:01] whole pomp and circumstance and

[00:30:02] all that stuff.

[00:30:03] And she she personally may be a

[00:30:05] nice enough lady.

[00:30:06] But you know, there were many,

[00:30:08] many times where the Irish,

[00:30:09] especially us Irish Catholics,

[00:30:12] the Southerners were

[00:30:13] referred to as savages.

[00:30:15] And you know that we behave

[00:30:17] like savages, to which I would

[00:30:19] say don't poke the savage.

[00:30:21] Leave the savage alone.

[00:30:23] If it's going to act like a

[00:30:23] savage, don't approach it

[00:30:26] with a mean agenda because

[00:30:27] it's going to get me back.

[00:30:29] Give it a Guinness and let it

[00:30:31] go back to wherever it came

[00:30:32] from.

[00:30:33] To the beehive I was living

[00:30:34] in quite happily.

[00:30:35] If you don't know what a

[00:30:36] little beehive is an Irish

[00:30:37] beehive, it's not a beehive.

[00:30:38] It's a little tiny place where

[00:30:40] people might hide.

[00:30:41] That's why I know I'm in

[00:30:42] the right place where I'm

[00:30:43] in Ireland because there was

[00:30:44] this way of height.

[00:30:46] I'm like, this house is perfect

[00:30:47] if you're five foot tall.

[00:30:49] Love it here.

[00:30:50] And then my brother-in-law,

[00:30:51] Matt would try to go in.

[00:30:52] I'm like, Matt, don't even

[00:30:52] try to come in here.

[00:30:53] Just stay outside your six

[00:30:55] foot two or whatever you are

[00:30:55] three.

[00:30:58] But yes, I have watched

[00:31:00] some of it.

[00:31:01] I don't like the Danju's,

[00:31:03] but also like somebody they

[00:31:04] took her coffin through

[00:31:06] Edinburgh, which is a

[00:31:07] wonderful city.

[00:31:08] It's the prettiest castle

[00:31:09] I've ever seen in my life,

[00:31:09] especially at nighttime.

[00:31:10] It looks like Harry Potter

[00:31:11] shit.

[00:31:12] It's crazy.

[00:31:13] Um, but

[00:31:15] some guy yelled out.

[00:31:17] He heckled Andrew was walking

[00:31:19] behind the coffin and he

[00:31:20] yelled, you know, you're an

[00:31:22] old pervert or you're an old

[00:31:23] sick man.

[00:31:25] And, you know, the cops come

[00:31:26] and throw them on the ground

[00:31:27] and arrest him.

[00:31:28] Why can't he say that?

[00:31:30] Why can't you heckle him?

[00:31:31] You're in public.

[00:31:32] You're on our streets.

[00:31:33] They're in Scotland.

[00:31:35] I mean, I don't understand

[00:31:36] why you can't say it anywhere.

[00:31:38] It's not necessarily polite.

[00:31:40] I wouldn't do it.

[00:31:41] I would just wouldn't attend

[00:31:42] if I felt that strongly that the

[00:31:44] guy is a pervert.

[00:31:45] Right.

[00:31:46] We'll watch some pervert.

[00:31:47] And he's got, I don't like that

[00:31:49] he's getting the corgis.

[00:31:50] I'd rather.

[00:31:51] Well, I still like Sarah

[00:31:52] Duchess of York because I did

[00:31:53] that TV show with her.

[00:31:54] She was very nice.

[00:31:57] Do they live together?

[00:31:58] Is she still putting up with

[00:31:59] his shit?

[00:32:01] I think she bought them.

[00:32:04] She bought the last two.

[00:32:06] There's a corgi that's

[00:32:07] beagle colored.

[00:32:07] That one's my favorite.

[00:32:09] I didn't know they came

[00:32:09] like that.

[00:32:10] He's there's like six.

[00:32:12] You Google it.

[00:32:13] There's a pack of them.

[00:32:15] A pack of corgis,

[00:32:17] a feral pack of not they're

[00:32:18] not fair.

[00:32:21] But yes, I will tune in on

[00:32:23] Monday.

[00:32:23] By the way, people keep asking

[00:32:24] what's wrong with my finger.

[00:32:26] I broke it somehow, but I don't

[00:32:27] want to get fixed till

[00:32:28] it's cold out.

[00:32:30] Six.

[00:32:30] See.

[00:32:32] And a Cocker Spaniel odd man

[00:32:33] out and a doxin ball.

[00:32:36] I would love to see a doxin

[00:32:37] corgi.

[00:32:39] They call it a dorgie.

[00:32:41] Oh, my brother and my sister

[00:32:43] in law, they've always had

[00:32:45] doxins in their hilarious.

[00:32:48] Especially my one brother.

[00:32:50] He's not he died.

[00:32:51] Luke was his name is my best

[00:32:53] worst dog ever.

[00:32:54] No, my brother didn't die.

[00:32:55] The dog died.

[00:32:56] Luke.

[00:32:56] He died.

[00:32:56] They was named after Luke's

[00:32:57] guy worker.

[00:32:58] The Star Wars deal.

[00:33:00] Exactly.

[00:33:03] So, you know, to each his

[00:33:05] own, I will tell you though

[00:33:07] one of my favorite hours was

[00:33:09] scrolling through Irish Twitter.

[00:33:12] Relentless and the black

[00:33:13] Twitter got involved

[00:33:15] and then they teamed up with

[00:33:17] Irish Twitter and it was just

[00:33:19] Oh, my God.

[00:33:20] They post somebody posted a

[00:33:21] picture of Charles and said 73

[00:33:23] year old man finally gets a

[00:33:25] job.

[00:33:28] Mike drop.

[00:33:29] Yeah, there was a lot of

[00:33:31] and then people are like, you

[00:33:32] know, be respectful, which I

[00:33:33] would be, but I can understand

[00:33:35] why people aren't.

[00:33:37] And I'm being calm and

[00:33:40] reserved.

[00:33:41] All right, update.

[00:33:44] Moving on.

[00:33:45] Moving on.

[00:33:46] Moving on.

[00:33:47] I will be watching.

[00:33:48] Mattress Mac.

[00:33:50] Well, let's just talk for a

[00:33:51] minute about fantasy football

[00:33:54] because I'm recording this.

[00:33:55] You guys are going to hear

[00:33:56] this, but today is a Monday

[00:33:58] and I have to do everything

[00:34:01] in my power to destroy a

[00:34:02] 10 11 year old 12 year old.

[00:34:04] He's 12.

[00:34:06] I'm playing my nephew Jack and

[00:34:07] I'm not taking off the gas.

[00:34:09] I'm going to kill him.

[00:34:10] And we I made a league

[00:34:13] for the nieces and nephews

[00:34:15] because they're kind of

[00:34:16] interested.

[00:34:16] They're getting to the age.

[00:34:17] So anybody under 14 with the

[00:34:19] exception of I'm a supervisor

[00:34:22] and a nephew who's two of

[00:34:23] them in their 20s.

[00:34:24] They're supervising the kids

[00:34:25] too.

[00:34:26] And then my one cousin goes,

[00:34:27] well, how much per kid?

[00:34:27] I go, nothing.

[00:34:29] It's for kids.

[00:34:30] And she goes, well, my kids

[00:34:31] won't play if there's no

[00:34:32] money on the table.

[00:34:34] Oh, my God.

[00:34:34] I go, all right, 20 bucks.

[00:34:35] So it's 20 bucks a kid.

[00:34:37] And I am just as I am just as

[00:34:39] focused on destroying a 12 year

[00:34:41] old as I in my adult league

[00:34:43] where I finished great because

[00:34:44] why talk, Brady?

[00:34:45] Let's talk about so many.

[00:34:49] He didn't play his best, but

[00:34:51] they won and Giselle tweeted

[00:34:53] out, let's go Tom.

[00:34:55] And my sister goes, why

[00:34:57] would she tweet that if

[00:34:58] she's not even she came back

[00:35:00] from what Costa Rica and

[00:35:01] she's not even living with

[00:35:02] him?

[00:35:02] I said, well, maybe she has

[00:35:04] a motor fantasy team.

[00:35:05] You don't know.

[00:35:06] Maybe Giselle's got two

[00:35:08] quarterbacks and, you know,

[00:35:10] just because I don't like you

[00:35:11] as a husband doesn't mean I

[00:35:12] don't need to score me points.

[00:35:14] I need you to produce.

[00:35:16] I need you to get out there

[00:35:17] and focus like you're angry.

[00:35:20] Yeah, I did great.

[00:35:21] I got and tonight I have Russell

[00:35:23] Wilson to destroy

[00:35:26] my nephew's hopes and dreams.

[00:35:28] He might beat me though.

[00:35:30] Well, he's got people left.

[00:35:32] I won't get too into it.

[00:35:33] A lot of people don't like sports.

[00:35:34] They don't even know what I'm talking

[00:35:35] about, but here's another one.

[00:35:37] This is how dumb my fantasy

[00:35:39] football league is.

[00:35:42] Now, just by happenstance,

[00:35:44] this doesn't happen to be a bad

[00:35:46] choice, but it's not the reason

[00:35:48] it was chosen.

[00:35:50] My friend Dory was like, how do

[00:35:51] I get a hold of I need to

[00:35:53] trade so and so for Deandre

[00:35:55] Swift?

[00:35:56] I said, well, put put in the

[00:35:57] request.

[00:35:58] But she only picks Eagles.

[00:36:01] Kathy only picks Saints.

[00:36:02] And Kathy was she even Kathy

[00:36:04] even wrote in that blank spot,

[00:36:06] Drew Brees.

[00:36:07] She wrote it with a pen as people

[00:36:08] don't like, oh my God.

[00:36:12] She's Dory said, well,

[00:36:15] I'll tell you why do you want

[00:36:16] somebody that's not an Eagle

[00:36:19] and just a random guy for

[00:36:21] Detroit?

[00:36:21] I think he plays for Detroit.

[00:36:23] Deandre. Yeah.

[00:36:25] He's a good running back, but

[00:36:27] it's just not something I would

[00:36:28] have thought she would.

[00:36:29] She said she watched that show

[00:36:31] School of Hard Knocks.

[00:36:32] I think it's on ESPN.

[00:36:32] It's called Hard Knocks.

[00:36:34] HBO, it's about their training

[00:36:36] camps and she said he had a

[00:36:38] terrible childhood and she thinks

[00:36:40] with the right fantasy manager,

[00:36:41] everything could turn around.

[00:36:43] Oh my God.

[00:36:44] Oh my God.

[00:36:45] I swear to God.

[00:36:47] I'm like, OK, if this is

[00:36:49] how we're picking people.

[00:36:50] OK.

[00:36:52] Do you know how many people in the

[00:36:53] NFL probably had horrible

[00:36:54] childhoods?

[00:36:56] I'm about to give my nephew a

[00:36:58] horrible childhood tonight.

[00:37:00] School of school is

[00:37:03] as.

[00:37:06] Anyway, I'm

[00:37:08] so excited football started again.

[00:37:10] Did you? Oh, you don't know if you

[00:37:11] won. I don't know.

[00:37:12] I got to play tonight.

[00:37:13] I'm waiting.

[00:37:15] The adult league I want my team

[00:37:17] one. Great.

[00:37:18] Yeah.

[00:37:20] Well, we had a meeting.

[00:37:21] I called everybody and told

[00:37:23] them, you know, I'd like to see

[00:37:24] a little more heart this year.

[00:37:26] You know, you don't even have

[00:37:27] to give 100 percent on this

[00:37:28] team.

[00:37:28] 84.

[00:37:29] Can I? How about 84 percent?

[00:37:32] 75.

[00:37:33] Mattress Mac launches new sports

[00:37:35] website covering Houston,

[00:37:36] Louisiana teams.

[00:37:37] How great is Mattress Mac?

[00:37:39] He's amazing.

[00:37:40] He's entering sports journalism

[00:37:42] with Gallery Sports dot com.

[00:37:43] A site covering Texas and

[00:37:44] we know sports franchises and

[00:37:46] collegiate programs.

[00:37:47] Good for him.

[00:37:48] And you know why he's smart

[00:37:49] because nobody does local shit

[00:37:50] like this anymore except for

[00:37:52] local papers.

[00:37:53] Yep.

[00:37:55] He's officially entering

[00:37:57] his with his site.

[00:37:59] Everything Texas, Louisiana.

[00:38:01] It's just great.

[00:38:04] The site will eventually be

[00:38:05] joined by a gallery gaming site

[00:38:07] focused on sports betting, news

[00:38:09] and information to all of which

[00:38:10] have the goal of funneling readers

[00:38:12] towards gallery furniture stores.

[00:38:15] God, he's just the best.

[00:38:17] I just like somebody who likes

[00:38:18] sports as much and he loves

[00:38:19] gambling.

[00:38:20] Should marry Mattress Mac

[00:38:21] long ago.

[00:38:23] Where were you?

[00:38:24] Update.

[00:38:25] Give him a call.

[00:38:26] OK, termites.

[00:38:27] How many other

[00:38:29] pubcasters obsessed with Beth

[00:38:31] beyond?

[00:38:33] None. That's right.

[00:38:35] And I'm not even going to start

[00:38:37] because if you listen to this

[00:38:38] podcast, you know how bewildered

[00:38:41] and complex I am.

[00:38:42] We've talked about this in depth.

[00:38:43] I do not understand it.

[00:38:45] There's seven thousand things

[00:38:47] to buy in there.

[00:38:48] There's one psycho with a

[00:38:49] squirrel dressed like a little

[00:38:50] house in the prairie dress

[00:38:52] and me and him and the lady

[00:38:54] that there's no one by anything.

[00:38:56] What are you buying?

[00:38:57] What am I buying there?

[00:38:59] Well, you know, towels,

[00:39:01] trash cans, stuff like that.

[00:39:04] Sometimes I just like to go in

[00:39:06] there. I like to as on CTV

[00:39:07] seen on TV aisle.

[00:39:10] Half that shit that work, but

[00:39:11] some of it does.

[00:39:13] My mom likes it.

[00:39:15] But Beth and beyond CFO

[00:39:17] jumped out of his high rise

[00:39:19] apartment to suicide.

[00:39:22] Now, obviously, that is not a

[00:39:23] good thing.

[00:39:24] That is not something we would be

[00:39:26] celebrating on this podcast, but

[00:39:28] it explains a few things.

[00:39:29] Maybe he was the subject of

[00:39:32] an insider trading and fraud lawsuit

[00:39:34] before his death.

[00:39:37] Gustavo Arnell was found dead

[00:39:39] on Friday after a quote falling

[00:39:41] from a New York City building.

[00:39:42] By the way, his wife was in the

[00:39:44] apartment.

[00:39:46] He did one of those amada here

[00:39:48] and ran and jumped.

[00:39:49] So they're saying it came less

[00:39:51] in two weeks after he was named

[00:39:53] a federal class session lawsuit

[00:39:54] for insider trading.

[00:39:56] The lawsuit claims Arnell and

[00:39:57] activist investor Ryan Cohen

[00:39:59] collaborated in a pump and dump

[00:40:00] scheme to artificially inflate

[00:40:01] the company's stock.

[00:40:03] Yep, this is what I'm saying.

[00:40:05] How can it have a stock value?

[00:40:07] There's no people buying

[00:40:08] anything. And I have gone at

[00:40:11] all times of day.

[00:40:12] I've never gone at night.

[00:40:13] Maybe it's super popular at

[00:40:14] nighttime.

[00:40:15] I can't imagine that.

[00:40:17] Like I've never gone at eight

[00:40:18] o'clock at night into a bed

[00:40:19] bathroom beyond. I'm always up

[00:40:20] there around noon or whatever.

[00:40:22] Right.

[00:40:24] The incident occurred less in two

[00:40:26] weeks at the time.

[00:40:27] His death comes days

[00:40:29] after bed bathroom beyond announced

[00:40:31] it was shuttering 150 stores and

[00:40:32] slashing 20 percent of its corporate

[00:40:33] staff. We talked about that here.

[00:40:36] The site is suited along with

[00:40:37] activists so and so they fraud

[00:40:39] you know, the fraudulent scheme

[00:40:41] to artificially inflate the price

[00:40:42] of bed bathroom beyond publicly

[00:40:43] traded stock.

[00:40:45] It was filed in the district court

[00:40:46] of the defendant's knowing the

[00:40:48] information they disclosed was

[00:40:49] false, took advantage of the

[00:40:50] inflated stock price and use

[00:40:52] fraudulent and misleading SEC

[00:40:54] filings to sell all of their

[00:40:56] shares and options at

[00:40:57] artificially inflated prices to

[00:40:59] unsuspecting and innocent public

[00:41:01] investors and then retain

[00:41:02] control of the profits.

[00:41:03] That's crazy.

[00:41:05] Yep. On August 18th, Arnell

[00:41:07] and Cohen sold shares of the

[00:41:08] company with Arnell selling more

[00:41:10] than 42,000 shares for an

[00:41:11] estimated one million dollars.

[00:41:13] That's it.

[00:41:14] You're going to ruin your life

[00:41:15] over a million bucks.

[00:41:16] It's a lot of money. I get

[00:41:17] that.

[00:41:19] Right. He's the CFO.

[00:41:21] Why do you need the extra

[00:41:22] million?

[00:41:24] And Cohen selling the entirety

[00:41:26] of his nine point eight stake

[00:41:28] through his firm RC Ventures

[00:41:29] causing shares to plummet.

[00:41:31] So if you're a stockholder,

[00:41:33] these two monkeys are up there

[00:41:34] doing whatever and your stock

[00:41:37] is just going.

[00:41:39] Oh, Cohen,

[00:41:41] who's also the founder of Chewy

[00:41:43] and the chairman of GameStop,

[00:41:45] that guy again approached the

[00:41:46] CFO about his pump and dump

[00:41:48] scheme in March of twenty two.

[00:41:49] He convinced Gustavo that their

[00:41:51] plan would be a mutually beneficial

[00:41:52] one under this arrangement.

[00:41:55] Defendants would profit handsomely

[00:41:56] from the rise and could coordinate

[00:41:58] the selling of their shares to

[00:41:58] optimize their returns.

[00:42:00] Arnell allegedly worked with J.P.

[00:42:02] Morgan. You worked with J.P.

[00:42:03] Morgan. How do you not know

[00:42:06] this is a bad idea?

[00:42:08] This sounds like something you

[00:42:09] approach like a guy at a bar

[00:42:11] and go, hey, man, give me this

[00:42:12] my money. I'm going to turn it

[00:42:13] into a little good.

[00:42:15] Wow.

[00:42:18] He worked at J.P.

[00:42:19] Morgan, which is listed as a

[00:42:20] defendant in the suit on claims

[00:42:22] the bank aided and abetted the

[00:42:23] plan by enabling Cohen to use

[00:42:24] JPM's accounts to effectuate

[00:42:26] such transitions and otherwise

[00:42:28] launder the proceeds in their

[00:42:29] of their criminal conduct.

[00:42:32] Oh, the lawsuit further notes

[00:42:34] that Cohen involved involvement

[00:42:36] similar plans such as elevating

[00:42:37] GameStop to meme stock

[00:42:39] status. Remember when they did

[00:42:40] all that?

[00:42:42] He's historically employed pump

[00:42:43] and dump schemes to raise much

[00:42:44] needed capital and has ignited

[00:42:46] several meme stocks to

[00:42:47] jaw dropping heights.

[00:42:49] So I'm going to keep you

[00:42:51] updated on this.

[00:42:53] So we find out what's going

[00:42:55] on to help. Well, this is

[00:42:56] clearly what was going on a

[00:42:58] little bit most likely.

[00:43:00] Why else would the guy jump to

[00:43:01] his death?

[00:43:04] Well, maybe I will go up there.

[00:43:07] Yep. I'll give him.

[00:43:08] I'll tell my friend, Dorf.

[00:43:09] I'm going to meet you for

[00:43:10] beers and make him go to

[00:43:11] the bathroom beyond.

[00:43:13] He'll be so uncomfortable.

[00:43:14] He'll hate it.

[00:43:16] Yeah. Dorf.

[00:43:18] Here's what we need.

[00:43:22] This is crazy.

[00:43:24] Moving on. That's my only updates.

[00:43:25] I didn't have a lot.

[00:43:27] Holy shit, they found it.

[00:43:29] Oh, shit.

[00:43:34] Woman on beach finds fossil

[00:43:35] from unknown animal likely

[00:43:37] older than dinosaurs.

[00:43:40] What was here before them?

[00:43:41] Just a little tadpoles and shit.

[00:43:46] High school teacher, Lisa

[00:43:48] St. Koo.

[00:43:49] Cormier.

[00:43:51] That's her name.

[00:43:52] Lisa St.

[00:43:53] Koo.

[00:43:53] Cormier was strolling

[00:43:55] with her dog near her home on

[00:43:56] Canada's Prince Edward Island.

[00:43:58] What do we know about Canada's

[00:44:00] Prince Edward Island?

[00:44:01] Always get those oysters.

[00:44:03] And Green Gables is from there.

[00:44:05] And a Green Gables.

[00:44:06] I don't. It's a fable, right?

[00:44:08] I never. No.

[00:44:10] And Green Gables.

[00:44:11] She was real.

[00:44:12] She was a real person.

[00:44:13] Oh, no kidding.

[00:44:14] What'd she do?

[00:44:18] My childhood involved Hogan's

[00:44:19] heroes and speed racers.

[00:44:22] Speed racer, not racers.

[00:44:25] Well, I'll go look it up.

[00:44:27] If you won't tell me.

[00:44:28] Oh, it's a long story.

[00:44:29] It's a long story.

[00:44:32] She's an icon.

[00:44:34] Is Anne Murray there from there?

[00:44:35] No, she's an icon.

[00:44:38] Prince Edward Island.

[00:44:40] Home of Anna.

[00:44:41] Anna.

[00:44:43] Ann. Just Ann.

[00:44:45] Oh, they need.

[00:44:46] OK.

[00:44:48] Seven kids.

[00:44:48] Nobody read the books to us.

[00:44:52] A travesty.

[00:44:53] My dad got his.

[00:44:54] Well, my mom got us

[00:44:55] encyclopedias for free when

[00:44:56] she bought groceries, but we

[00:44:57] were missing a lot of letters.

[00:44:59] Like I was supposed to do a report

[00:45:01] on Hitler and we didn't have an

[00:45:02] H and I'm like, well, how about

[00:45:04] Mussolini?

[00:45:05] I got an M.

[00:45:07] I'll give you an Axis power.

[00:45:08] Come on.

[00:45:10] I know my World War two.

[00:45:12] OK, I had to tell the nun that

[00:45:14] I don't have that encyclopedia.

[00:45:15] We didn't buy that many groceries.

[00:45:16] We did buy that many groceries,

[00:45:17] but some letters were super popular.

[00:45:19] By the time my mom would get down

[00:45:21] there, we'd be left with that Z

[00:45:22] Y X one.

[00:45:23] I'm like, fuck, this isn't going

[00:45:25] to help.

[00:45:28] But.

[00:45:30] This is so Prince Edward Island.

[00:45:32] Always get the oysters if they're

[00:45:33] from the so good when some

[00:45:35] she was walking there when something

[00:45:36] called her eye.

[00:45:38] Cushy.

[00:45:40] There you go.

[00:45:41] She offers fine sea glass when

[00:45:42] she's walking Sammy.

[00:45:44] That's her dog.

[00:45:45] But this day, she spotted

[00:45:47] she thought she spotted a branch

[00:45:48] or a tree root poking out of the

[00:45:49] sand. I saw something about two

[00:45:51] feet long with a strange shape.

[00:45:52] She said she's 36.

[00:45:54] She lives in Charlotte town.

[00:45:55] When I look closer, I realized

[00:45:56] there was a rib cage and around

[00:45:58] that there was a spine and a skull.

[00:46:00] She used to be a middle school

[00:46:01] science teacher.

[00:46:02] She immediately knew it was

[00:46:02] possible she never knew her

[00:46:03] rare old and the excitement would

[00:46:05] develop from her discovery on

[00:46:07] August 22nd.

[00:46:08] Turns out the fossils probably

[00:46:09] 300 million years old.

[00:46:10] It's from a species that no

[00:46:11] longer exists, said John.

[00:46:13] So and so the paleontologists

[00:46:15] from Halifax, Nova Scotia,

[00:46:17] Nova Scotia, the one place I

[00:46:18] really want to go and I'm

[00:46:18] going next summer.

[00:46:20] Yeah.

[00:46:22] It reminds me. It looks like

[00:46:23] Ireland.

[00:46:24] That's just before the Jurassic

[00:46:25] period when dinosaurs roam the

[00:46:26] earth about 200 million years

[00:46:27] ago. There aren't many specimens

[00:46:28] from that period. So it was an

[00:46:29] incredible find.

[00:46:31] A photo of the fossil found

[00:46:33] herself landed on on his desk

[00:46:35] after she took pictures in her

[00:46:36] family being and contacting

[00:46:38] experts about her discovery.

[00:46:40] Something like this comes along

[00:46:41] every 100 years, he said.

[00:46:43] He wrote a book on the geology

[00:46:44] of Prince Edward Island.

[00:46:45] I thought, my goodness, it needs

[00:46:46] to be collected right away before

[00:46:47] Mitz, but before more

[00:46:49] bits wash away.

[00:46:50] That's exactly I would have been

[00:46:51] like, well, shit, I'll be gone

[00:46:52] in the morning.

[00:46:53] They found it's from

[00:46:55] the end of the carbon of

[00:46:57] ferrous period into

[00:46:59] the Permian period.

[00:47:01] It's likely a reptile or a close

[00:47:03] relative, but it could also be

[00:47:04] unknown.

[00:47:07] They dug it up.

[00:47:08] I'm really I was really nervous

[00:47:09] about the tide, so I was glad

[00:47:10] it was there when they arrived to

[00:47:11] think this fossil might have been

[00:47:12] here six 60 to 100 million

[00:47:15] years before the arrival of

[00:47:16] dinosaurs was so excited I couldn't

[00:47:17] sleep.

[00:47:19] Yep.

[00:47:20] So I can't.

[00:47:22] I think I oh, they said

[00:47:24] the fossil was probably

[00:47:26] similar in appearance to

[00:47:28] a Heela monster.

[00:47:30] Oh, wow.

[00:47:32] Ultimately, it'll be up to the

[00:47:33] scientist.

[00:47:35] She now teaches French and

[00:47:36] history.

[00:47:38] So I can't wait to see

[00:47:40] it.

[00:47:42] I guess they were tiny dinosaurs.

[00:47:46] Tiny dinos.

[00:47:48] Tiny dinos.

[00:47:51] They should make a kid's

[00:47:52] cereal called Tiny Dinos.

[00:47:53] Yeah.

[00:47:54] And then you only get four

[00:47:55] tiny ones in the box.

[00:47:57] Yeah.

[00:47:59] If anybody steals that idea,

[00:48:00] is there a lawyer out there?

[00:48:01] I know I got lawyer termites.

[00:48:02] Somebody there's only four in a

[00:48:04] box. So yeah,

[00:48:06] the rest are regular dinos.

[00:48:08] And there's four tiny dinos that

[00:48:09] would make any kid with an

[00:48:10] addictive quality like me go

[00:48:12] crazy and I'd have to have all

[00:48:13] the boxes till I found them.

[00:48:15] I would go that would appeal

[00:48:17] to a certain amount of children

[00:48:18] and then there'd be others that

[00:48:19] wouldn't care at all.

[00:48:20] But I would be obsessed with

[00:48:21] it.

[00:48:23] Holy shit.

[00:48:24] They found it.

[00:48:26] Skeleton of Ice Age,

[00:48:27] Mastodon, cousin of Mammoth's

[00:48:29] Unearthed in Michigan.

[00:48:32] Kent County, Michigan.

[00:48:35] It has been a hot steamy summer

[00:48:36] in Michigan, but road crews in

[00:48:38] Kent County are digging up

[00:48:39] remnants from the Ice Age.

[00:48:40] And with any luck they hope to

[00:48:41] find even more pieces of the

[00:48:42] puzzle. The bones of a really

[00:48:44] unique mastodon skeleton found

[00:48:45] at a road construction site

[00:48:46] Thursday on their way to Grand

[00:48:48] Rapids. I'll be working there

[00:48:49] soon if you'd like to come

[00:48:50] see me.

[00:48:52] Look at that me getting a

[00:48:53] plug in and a serious article.

[00:48:56] They're going to be preserved

[00:48:57] and study at the Public

[00:48:58] Museum of Grand Rapids.

[00:49:00] They noticed they were contacted

[00:49:02] about the bones after they were

[00:49:03] doing work out there.

[00:49:04] It's not often you find a

[00:49:05] skeleton this complete.

[00:49:07] That's what's crazy.

[00:49:08] It's probably about 40 to 60

[00:49:09] percent complete just based on

[00:49:10] initial field assessments.

[00:49:11] So when we got there and

[00:49:12] realized there was a lot more

[00:49:13] of the animal, Mastodon

[00:49:15] refers to a wide variety of

[00:49:16] extinct elephant like

[00:49:17] creatures. They are distant

[00:49:19] cousins of mammoths.

[00:49:20] A team found a lower

[00:49:22] lower jawbone, ribs, vertebrae

[00:49:24] and leg bones.

[00:49:25] They still hope the skull is

[00:49:26] there and Husker found while

[00:49:28] the site is under.

[00:49:32] We don't know how all the bones

[00:49:33] are yet. We've tried we'll try

[00:49:35] to real carbon date them, but

[00:49:36] they're at least over 11,000

[00:49:38] years old because mastodons

[00:49:39] went extinct at the end of the

[00:49:41] last Ice Age.

[00:49:42] We won't know how all the

[00:49:44] particular skeleton is because

[00:49:45] it could be much older than

[00:49:46] that. Trying and studying the

[00:49:47] bones could take more than a

[00:49:48] year.

[00:49:50] It's so slow.

[00:49:51] This is where I would want to

[00:49:52] drop out of that project.

[00:49:54] I know. I don't have patients

[00:49:56] like that, though.

[00:49:57] I would just want to dig and find

[00:49:59] it and then just let me know

[00:50:00] whenever you find out.

[00:50:01] I don't have the who's got

[00:50:02] patients for that kind of stuff.

[00:50:03] There's something this is crazy

[00:50:04] too. This is a

[00:50:06] this is a holy shit.

[00:50:08] It appeared.

[00:50:10] Yeah, because of the drought.

[00:50:14] What drought?

[00:50:18] As water levels drop in

[00:50:19] California's Lake Isabelle,

[00:50:21] a Wild West Ghost Town

[00:50:23] reemerges.

[00:50:25] Now I wish I still lived in

[00:50:27] California.

[00:50:28] Lake Isabelle nestled

[00:50:30] within the southern Sierra

[00:50:32] Nevada foothills in central

[00:50:33] California.

[00:50:35] The telltale sounds of the

[00:50:36] drought are all too visible.

[00:50:37] The shoreline resembles a

[00:50:38] giant toilet bowl ring around

[00:50:40] the lake's edge while

[00:50:41] the

[00:50:43] the deteriorous

[00:50:45] of long forgotten secrets

[00:50:47] in various stages of decay

[00:50:48] poke up from the lake's

[00:50:49] bottom now at eight percent

[00:50:51] capacity.

[00:50:53] Eight eight.

[00:50:56] The man made Lake is revealing

[00:50:57] the foundations of one of the

[00:50:58] Wild West most infamous towns

[00:51:00] and it's all too visible from

[00:51:01] the shore or accessible by

[00:51:03] boat.

[00:51:04] So you can just go to the

[00:51:05] shore and go look at it.

[00:51:06] Welcome to probably walk out

[00:51:08] there.

[00:51:09] How deep is eight percent?

[00:51:11] Can't be that deep.

[00:51:14] Imperial math.

[00:51:16] Welcome to the reemergence

[00:51:18] of Whiskey Flat, one of the

[00:51:19] wildest most storied

[00:51:20] tragedy laid placens ever to

[00:51:21] come out of the Old West in

[00:51:22] the Gold Rush era.

[00:51:23] Never heard of it.

[00:51:24] A place with a history so

[00:51:26] familiar it's stitched into

[00:51:27] American folklore.

[00:51:28] Well, this American didn't

[00:51:29] hear about it, but I don't

[00:51:31] know Anna Green Gables either.

[00:51:33] So I was clearly busy.

[00:51:35] Very busy.

[00:51:38] I do know a lot about World

[00:51:39] War Two every weekend.

[00:51:41] What are we watching on Saturday?

[00:51:43] Well, sports, Wild World of

[00:51:44] Sports and then Torah Torah

[00:51:45] Torah.

[00:51:49] My dad loved it.

[00:51:50] Many it was a victory.

[00:51:51] Many of the troops telltale

[00:51:53] signed and tragedies of the

[00:51:54] West can be traced to this

[00:51:56] long flooded valley.

[00:51:58] Now I want to go here.

[00:51:59] I've never heard of this.

[00:52:01] Located 25 miles northeast of

[00:52:03] Bakersfield.

[00:52:04] The lake sits at the intersection

[00:52:05] of such and such.

[00:52:07] It doesn't matter.

[00:52:09] More importantly, it's been one

[00:52:10] of the chief water suppliers

[00:52:11] for Kern County's agricultural

[00:52:13] operations since the early

[00:52:14] 1500s.

[00:52:17] Towards in 1860 towards

[00:52:19] the end of the Gold Rush, a

[00:52:20] lone prospector named

[00:52:22] Lovely Rogers.

[00:52:24] His name was Lovely.

[00:52:26] I know it's like the Chicago guy.

[00:52:28] Lovey.

[00:52:33] He discovered that the precious

[00:52:34] ore and then what was

[00:52:36] previously unexploited area,

[00:52:38] the phone gold.

[00:52:39] Rogers Mule reportedly got away

[00:52:40] from him and when he went and

[00:52:42] picked up a heavy rock to throw

[00:52:44] at it.

[00:52:45] You throw a rock at your horse.

[00:52:47] Well, you guessed it.

[00:52:48] He had held in his hand a 42

[00:52:51] ounce gold nugget.

[00:52:53] What?

[00:52:54] I am. So anyway, they came.

[00:52:55] I'm going to go Google that town

[00:52:57] and go through it because this

[00:52:59] one's too long to read right now.

[00:53:01] But I have never heard of this

[00:53:03] town. Now I'm now I'm into it.

[00:53:04] And I didn't read enough for

[00:53:06] this article. I've read the

[00:53:07] rest.

[00:53:08] But this was a latecomer.

[00:53:09] We'll save that one.

[00:53:11] But just does that low the

[00:53:12] lakes are getting all over

[00:53:15] in the West.

[00:53:15] Yeah. And then they got rain

[00:53:17] from the hurricane and then

[00:53:18] that will cause the mudslides.

[00:53:19] It's all such a circular thing.

[00:53:22] LA.

[00:53:23] LA is it flooding?

[00:53:25] All I know is my friend

[00:53:28] Heidi had to take her kid to a

[00:53:29] soccer tournament. It was like

[00:53:30] 7000 degrees.

[00:53:32] And that's what I would have said.

[00:53:33] You know what else is fun?

[00:53:34] Volleyball.

[00:53:35] Let's go inside.

[00:53:38] Moving on to news.

[00:53:40] A Brazilian man survives 11 days

[00:53:42] in ocean floating alone in a

[00:53:44] freezer.

[00:53:46] What? I don't know how these

[00:53:47] people do it.

[00:53:48] In a freezer?

[00:53:49] Problem is that yeah, a

[00:53:51] Brazilian man reportedly survived

[00:53:53] 11 days in the Atlantic Ocean

[00:53:55] last month, taking refuge

[00:53:57] inside a freezer after his own

[00:53:58] boat sank.

[00:53:59] The man, Rinaldo

[00:54:03] Rodriguez is a fisherman.

[00:54:05] During a fishing trip in early

[00:54:06] August it was supposed to last

[00:54:07] three days. Cracks in the boat

[00:54:08] started filling in with water

[00:54:09] sinking the vessel off the

[00:54:10] coast of northern Brazil.

[00:54:13] He was able to jump inside the

[00:54:15] floating cooler to stay

[00:54:16] alive.

[00:54:18] And a group of fishermen found

[00:54:20] him 11 days off

[00:54:22] the coast of

[00:54:23] surname.

[00:54:25] Serename?

[00:54:26] I don't know what that is.

[00:54:27] According to TV, he was treated

[00:54:29] at a local hospital and

[00:54:30] detained by authorities for a few

[00:54:32] days because he didn't have

[00:54:33] proper documentation.

[00:54:35] Oh my God, can you imagine

[00:54:37] if you survive that?

[00:54:38] And somebody's like, well, where's

[00:54:39] paperwork?

[00:54:41] Fuck off.

[00:54:43] Oh my God.

[00:54:46] Now he's back in Brazil.

[00:54:48] I was born again.

[00:54:49] I didn't think I'd be telling my

[00:54:50] story to get back here.

[00:54:53] Just because he floated somewhere

[00:54:54] else. Oh, I'm sorry.

[00:54:55] I don't have paperwork.

[00:54:56] I floated here in a freezer.

[00:55:00] I was desperate.

[00:55:00] I thought my end was coming.

[00:55:01] But thank God, God gave me one

[00:55:03] more chance. He said, I

[00:55:04] saw it. I saw the freezer

[00:55:06] wasn't sinking.

[00:55:07] I jumped inside it.

[00:55:08] It fell to one side and kept

[00:55:10] normal.

[00:55:11] He says he doesn't know how to

[00:55:12] swim.

[00:55:15] Sharks were surrounding the

[00:55:16] freezer, but they went away.

[00:55:18] I thought I would be attacked,

[00:55:20] but I stayed on top of the

[00:55:21] freezer. I didn't sleep.

[00:55:22] I didn't eat. I saw the dawn

[00:55:24] in the dusk and I had got asked

[00:55:25] God to someone someone to rescue

[00:55:26] me.

[00:55:27] Eventually, the water started

[00:55:28] creeping in the freezer.

[00:55:29] Oh no.

[00:55:31] And he had to use his hand to

[00:55:32] scoop it out. He didn't have

[00:55:33] food or water.

[00:55:34] I was thinking about my kids.

[00:55:35] My wife every day was thinking

[00:55:36] about my mom, my father, all

[00:55:37] the whole family.

[00:55:38] It gave me strength and hope.

[00:55:39] But at the moment, but at the

[00:55:41] moment, I thought there was no

[00:55:42] other way when the fishermen

[00:55:43] arrived.

[00:55:45] When the fishermen, the ones

[00:55:46] that rescued him arrived, I heard

[00:55:47] noise and thought there was a

[00:55:48] boat on top of the freezer.

[00:55:49] Only they

[00:55:51] thought there was no one in

[00:55:52] there.

[00:55:53] Slowly, Ro pulled up to me.

[00:55:54] My vision was already fading.

[00:55:55] And then I said, my God, the

[00:55:56] boat, I raised my arm and asked

[00:55:58] for help. The freezer was God

[00:55:59] in my life. The only thing I

[00:56:01] had was that freezer.

[00:56:02] It's a miracle.

[00:56:04] I hope they let him keep the

[00:56:05] freezer unless he doesn't ever

[00:56:07] want to see it again. I also

[00:56:08] understand that.

[00:56:09] But I would want to keep it

[00:56:11] because then you just remember

[00:56:12] how yeah, you could be dead

[00:56:15] in a minute. The only thing

[00:56:15] that saved you was a freezer

[00:56:16] and that's just amazing.

[00:56:24] 56 years on earth still

[00:56:27] have not attended Burning Man.

[00:56:30] I will never go to Burning Man.

[00:56:32] If you see me at Burning Man,

[00:56:34] I've been kidnapped.

[00:56:35] Call my parents.

[00:56:38] First of all, I don't love the

[00:56:39] desert as a place to hang out

[00:56:41] for long periods of time.

[00:56:43] I get it.

[00:56:44] I I'm just like a large I

[00:56:46] don't know. I don't feel

[00:56:47] good. It's too hot.

[00:56:49] My skin can't take it.

[00:56:51] I just burn up from the inside

[00:56:52] out.

[00:56:53] It's like you're being stuck

[00:56:54] in a microwave.

[00:56:55] I mean, it's pretty.

[00:56:56] I get the sun sets.

[00:56:58] I do get it.

[00:56:59] It just would I'm not going to a

[00:57:01] concert out there.

[00:57:02] I don't like to go to a concert

[00:57:03] that's outside when it's

[00:57:05] beautiful weather because then

[00:57:07] I'm like, well, where's the

[00:57:07] bathrooms?

[00:57:08] That's always my first question

[00:57:09] now.

[00:57:11] But it has been since I've

[00:57:12] been 20. Where's the bathroom?

[00:57:14] I'm not.

[00:57:15] Burning Man ends with epic

[00:57:17] eight hour traffic jam.

[00:57:18] Huge Thunderdome fight.

[00:57:21] Now if there's any older

[00:57:23] turtles and termites out

[00:57:24] there that don't know what

[00:57:25] Burning Man is a big concert

[00:57:27] in the desert, but you have to

[00:57:28] dress up like in crazy.

[00:57:29] That's the other thing.

[00:57:30] I'm not a visual person.

[00:57:31] So I wouldn't have an outfit.

[00:57:34] I wouldn't. I don't know how to

[00:57:35] be that weird with like

[00:57:37] glitter.

[00:57:38] It's all very visual arts,

[00:57:40] which is great if that's

[00:57:42] what you're into.

[00:57:43] I'm not.

[00:57:45] Just bring Stevie Nicks out

[00:57:46] here and sing landslide and

[00:57:47] the music's definitely

[00:57:51] not something I'm familiar

[00:57:53] with. The first Burning

[00:57:54] Man festival after three years

[00:57:55] of COVID pandemic

[00:57:57] delays ended rather unceremoniously

[00:57:59] as exhausted revelers endured an

[00:58:01] apocalyptic eight hour traffic

[00:58:03] jam in the sweltering heat.

[00:58:05] Now here's the problem.

[00:58:06] There's no gas stations out there.

[00:58:08] It is far, far out in

[00:58:09] the desert.

[00:58:10] I'm one of my first CDs I did

[00:58:12] in Denver.

[00:58:13] The guys that did it, they were

[00:58:14] super fun.

[00:58:15] But then they just disappeared and

[00:58:16] their mom ran the office and

[00:58:18] she was very nice lady.

[00:58:19] And I'm like, hey, have you

[00:58:21] seen Don or any of your kids?

[00:58:23] They were all like in their 20s, I

[00:58:24] guess 30s maybe.

[00:58:26] And she's like, oh, they went to

[00:58:27] Burning Man and I go, oh,

[00:58:29] what's that?

[00:58:30] She's like, I don't know.

[00:58:31] It's some music thing out in the

[00:58:32] desert. I go, OK, well, we haven't

[00:58:34] called me Monday.

[00:58:35] I thought it was just for the

[00:58:35] weekend.

[00:58:36] She's like, oh, they'll be back

[00:58:37] like in a month.

[00:58:39] Yeah, I don't know if people

[00:58:41] still do that.

[00:58:41] But back in the day,

[00:58:43] I don't know.

[00:58:45] That was before rich people went

[00:58:46] though there was no first

[00:58:48] class part.

[00:58:49] Now there's like these tents

[00:58:50] that are like air conditioning.

[00:58:51] Yeah, air conditioning.

[00:58:52] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:58:53] Yeah.

[00:58:55] They did the Twitter post depicted

[00:58:57] the post reverie congestion and a

[00:58:59] bizarre Thunderdome

[00:59:01] style fight style

[00:59:02] fight going viral online

[00:59:06] from the movie Thunderdome

[00:59:08] Mad Max and the Thunderdome.

[00:59:10] It's apocalyptic shit.

[00:59:11] Remember Tina Turner?

[00:59:12] We don't need another hero.

[00:59:15] Well, that song is from there.

[00:59:17] Was it in the other games?

[00:59:18] I did not. It was not.

[00:59:19] It might have been an anecdote.

[00:59:20] I've never seen either one

[00:59:22] or ready the one.

[00:59:23] So I just saw the ads and I

[00:59:25] understand what they mean.

[00:59:26] I did not.

[00:59:27] I don't go to those kind of

[00:59:30] movies.

[00:59:35] Exodus Wait Time is currently

[00:59:37] eight hours burning man's official

[00:59:38] travel account confirmed regarding

[00:59:40] the bash, which saw 80,000.

[00:59:42] They call him burners, the people

[00:59:43] descend on Black Rock Desert

[00:59:46] in Gerlach, Nevada for nine days

[00:59:49] ending Monday, ending Monday,

[00:59:51] considering considered delaying

[00:59:53] your departure until conditions

[00:59:54] improve. What if you're already in

[00:59:55] it?

[00:59:57] Now you're going to turn off your

[00:59:58] vehicle.

[01:00:00] Now it's going to get hot or

[01:00:02] cold at night.

[01:00:03] I don't know if this whatever.

[01:00:05] Now you're going to run out of gas

[01:00:06] though. If you keep doing that.

[01:00:09] Now how many people do you think

[01:00:10] run out of gas because

[01:00:12] they spent half their tank probably

[01:00:13] getting there.

[01:00:17] I guess if you're totally high,

[01:00:19] you don't care if you must

[01:00:21] leave now drive on L Street to

[01:00:22] prevent traffic jams drive slowly,

[01:00:24] watch for road debris, follow

[01:00:26] directions from gate staff.

[01:00:28] That's what the radio said.

[01:00:29] Meanwhile, one burned out reveler

[01:00:31] posted photos depicting 15

[01:00:33] lanes of traffic that were dodged

[01:00:35] bumper to bumper for mild

[01:00:37] dog bumper to bumper

[01:00:39] for miles something out of a

[01:00:40] classic disaster movie.

[01:00:42] Though people love to compare

[01:00:43] burning man to the aesthetic

[01:00:45] Mad Max, the exit from the camp is

[01:00:47] the most mad Max I felt all week

[01:00:49] five hours and two five

[01:00:51] hours. Two more till I reach the

[01:00:52] exit gate.

[01:00:54] Somebody was describing the

[01:00:55] dystopian scene.

[01:00:57] There's pictures of it.

[01:00:58] I mean, I

[01:01:01] guess if you really want to go

[01:01:03] some people had to wait as long

[01:01:05] as 12 hours to leave the pyro

[01:01:06] tactic because they burned this

[01:01:07] big thing at the end.

[01:01:08] That's the only thing I'd be

[01:01:09] excited about because I'm a pyro.

[01:01:11] They said this giant they build

[01:01:12] this big art thing that looks

[01:01:14] like a burning man and then they

[01:01:15] just set it on fire.

[01:01:18] No, it doesn't bring the whole

[01:01:19] time. No, no, no, no.

[01:01:20] Not from what I've read.

[01:01:21] No, it's I think it's a finale.

[01:01:28] I don't know. Last one in first one

[01:01:30] out.

[01:01:31] Maybe you could just go for that.

[01:01:35] Yeah, keep the car running.

[01:01:37] One beleaguered attendee claimed

[01:01:39] when we left at eight thirty p.m.

[01:01:40] last night, the estimate was six

[01:01:42] hours. But half of our group took

[01:01:43] 10 hours and the other have took

[01:01:44] 12 hours to get to the gate.

[01:01:46] Definitely would love some

[01:01:47] improvement on the exit system

[01:01:48] plus estimates plus communication.

[01:01:51] They took me 12 hours to leave

[01:01:53] last night at the Temple

[01:01:55] Burn.

[01:01:57] This wasn't the only disaster,

[01:01:59] which was also beset by a dust

[01:02:00] bowl as sandstorm on Saturday.

[01:02:02] OK, seriously.

[01:02:05] Allegedly obscuring the sun

[01:02:07] and carpeting revelers with

[01:02:09] dust and you don't have a shower.

[01:02:13] So now your actual dust bunny,

[01:02:15] you've actually become a dust

[01:02:16] bunny.

[01:02:18] Yeah, it also caused a whiteout

[01:02:20] that force organizers to

[01:02:22] shutter entrances and exits.

[01:02:24] No, oh my god, they shut the exits.

[01:02:25] Now you're trapped. Oh no.

[01:02:28] Meanwhile, temperatures topped out

[01:02:30] at one hundred and five during the

[01:02:31] week, forcing flamboyantly aired

[01:02:33] entire attendees just dripped down

[01:02:35] to their skivvies.

[01:02:37] Oh my burning man, which evokes

[01:02:41] the love child of Mad Max

[01:02:42] and Woodstock saw smorgasbord

[01:02:45] of pyrotechnic activities

[01:02:46] transpire at the temporary

[01:02:48] metropop, Metropop, I

[01:02:50] can't say it. Metropolis

[01:02:51] Metropolis also known as the

[01:02:53] Playa highlights included fire

[01:02:55] breathing octopus, rhino

[01:02:57] contraptions, Reveille.

[01:02:58] I'm not kidding.

[01:02:59] Reveller's dancing to Bohemia

[01:03:00] and A Rhapsody, well decked out

[01:03:02] in flamboyant costumes befitting

[01:03:03] Brazil's carnival celebrations

[01:03:05] and a stage brawl in a Mad Max

[01:03:08] three inspired thunder

[01:03:10] dome.

[01:03:12] Hi, I don't know.

[01:03:14] Good for the children.

[01:03:15] If that's what you like to do,

[01:03:17] go for you.

[01:03:17] You want to go?

[01:03:19] You want to go in a hundred and

[01:03:20] five degrees sandstorm

[01:03:22] and come out like a dust bunny

[01:03:23] and then you can't get out for

[01:03:25] twelve hours.

[01:03:26] You want to sit in your whatever?

[01:03:29] I think so.

[01:03:30] Oh, oh, oh, oh, we have

[01:03:32] a burning mate. We have a tiny

[01:03:33] burning made of.

[01:03:34] No, it's a lady.

[01:03:37] It's a lady.

[01:03:39] A Florida woman touted his mother

[01:03:41] Teresa.

[01:03:42] Better watch here.

[01:03:43] You're comparing the mother Teresa.

[01:03:45] She ran a hundred and sixty nine

[01:03:47] million dollar Ponzi scheme.

[01:03:49] That's what the fed say.

[01:03:52] M.J. Capital's funding websites

[01:03:54] that its founder, Johanna Garcia,

[01:03:56] she was often referred to as

[01:03:57] Mother Teresa in her community.

[01:03:59] Says who?

[01:04:01] I got to get some.

[01:04:02] I got to get some real quotes on

[01:04:03] that.

[01:04:04] Yeah, as Donald Trump will say,

[01:04:06] many people they say

[01:04:08] she was called Mother Teresa.

[01:04:10] Who are the many people?

[01:04:11] I need individual names.

[01:04:13] But federal authorities say

[01:04:14] Garcia was actually running a

[01:04:15] Ponzi scheme. The site was shut

[01:04:17] down by a court order at

[01:04:19] an archive version is seen here.

[01:04:21] We don't need to see the archive

[01:04:22] version. She's young, too.

[01:04:24] Her picture, she looks young.

[01:04:27] She said she worked miracles,

[01:04:28] not for charity, not for profit.

[01:04:29] Johanna Garcia connected investors

[01:04:31] with companies that needed

[01:04:32] short term financing, promising

[01:04:34] robust returns on their money.

[01:04:35] But federal prosecutors say it

[01:04:36] wasn't a miracle. It was a

[01:04:38] lucrative Ponzi scheme.

[01:04:39] She's accused of perpetuating

[01:04:41] a hundred ninety six million dollar

[01:04:42] fraud through her company.

[01:04:43] The company she started and

[01:04:44] started in Fort Lauderdale.

[01:04:46] I mean, at some point you go is

[01:04:47] anything in Florida real?

[01:04:49] No, her business

[01:04:54] took it large about somebody

[01:04:55] more than a heart.

[01:04:56] Fifteen thousand investors in

[01:04:58] just a year.

[01:05:00] She must be a really good talker.

[01:05:03] She had her ability to help

[01:05:04] regular people generate wealth

[01:05:05] and also provide loans to small

[01:05:07] businesses through a tool known

[01:05:08] as merchant cash advance,

[01:05:10] also known as cash advance,

[01:05:12] which the website is no

[01:05:14] longer active.

[01:05:16] But it is archived online.

[01:05:17] But instead of supporting small

[01:05:19] businesses, the security and

[01:05:20] change commission says that she

[01:05:21] siphoned millions of dollars to

[01:05:23] company and said her didn't use

[01:05:24] investments to prop up bogus

[01:05:26] monthly returns of 10 percent

[01:05:27] an annual rate

[01:05:29] and annualized rate of 120

[01:05:31] percent. Any time somebody

[01:05:32] cares tells you you guarantee

[01:05:33] 10 percent, you walk out.

[01:05:35] How do people still not?

[01:05:42] I'm going to tell you how many

[01:05:43] people what she did with the

[01:05:45] money.

[01:05:47] M.J. Capitol board whose sales

[01:05:50] team shed 70 agents allegedly

[01:05:52] reeled in at least 40 46 million

[01:05:54] for more than 5000 investors.

[01:05:58] She reaped the rewards big time.

[01:06:02] There's a few other people

[01:06:03] involved too.

[01:06:05] But basically spent the money on

[01:06:07] the same junk they all do.

[01:06:09] Junk travel, you know, not

[01:06:11] junk, but I mean, yeah,

[01:06:14] you know, a stupid Lamborghini

[01:06:16] you don't know how to drive.

[01:06:17] Well, that's funny.

[01:06:19] You'll crash that in about an

[01:06:20] hour. Cars.

[01:06:22] Yeah. I'll keep you updated

[01:06:25] though. We're going to find out

[01:06:25] what happens.

[01:06:27] Mm hmm.

[01:06:28] One hundred ninety six million

[01:06:29] dollars. I mean, I'm the worst

[01:06:31] salesman on earth.

[01:06:33] Like I couldn't trick somebody

[01:06:34] out of five dollars.

[01:06:35] But wow,

[01:06:37] this is amazing when people are

[01:06:38] this good at something you have

[01:06:39] this much talent to go raise

[01:06:41] that kind of money and you do

[01:06:42] it all to go buy a bunch of

[01:06:44] shit.

[01:06:45] You know, what do you what is

[01:06:47] the point?

[01:06:49] And they're never nervous.

[01:06:50] They're never nervous.

[01:06:52] Nope. Oh my god.

[01:06:59] A padlock vampire grave found in

[01:07:01] Poland with a sickle over

[01:07:03] neck.

[01:07:04] No.

[01:07:06] Whoa.

[01:07:08] Now it was a woman.

[01:07:10] So back then, if you were a

[01:07:12] woman who talked back to a man,

[01:07:14] they probably said you were a

[01:07:14] vampire.

[01:07:16] Yeah, witch vampire.

[01:07:17] Mowgli.

[01:07:19] Totally Mowgli.

[01:07:21] Archaeologists from the

[01:07:23] Torna and Nicholas Conop.

[01:07:26] Copernicus University have found

[01:07:28] a grave from the 18th

[01:07:30] century, can say containing a

[01:07:31] female vampire.

[01:07:32] There was not mine.

[01:07:34] Buried with a sickle over the

[01:07:36] neck to prevent her ascension

[01:07:38] to vampirism.

[01:07:41] I didn't know that was a word.

[01:07:43] Vampirism

[01:07:47] the concept of a bloodsucking

[01:07:48] spirit or demon consuming human

[01:07:51] flesh has been told in the

[01:07:52] mythologies of folk tales and

[01:07:54] folk tales of almost every

[01:07:55] civilization throughout centuries.

[01:07:57] That's why I believe in them.

[01:08:00] I believe Anne Rice

[01:08:02] was correct.

[01:08:04] Especially one of my New Orleans.

[01:08:06] Anytime somebody sits down next

[01:08:08] to me at a bar, I think it could

[01:08:09] be a fat bar.

[01:08:12] I do.

[01:08:14] You can usually tell by their eyes

[01:08:15] right at the gate if they even

[01:08:16] have potential though.

[01:08:18] If they have super sweet eyes,

[01:08:19] you're like, no, you can't be a

[01:08:21] vampire.

[01:08:22] Look at your eyes.

[01:08:25] I could take a one of my friends,

[01:08:27] ex-wives that I'm sure I really

[01:08:29] believe was of his.

[01:08:31] Well, their sociopathic

[01:08:33] malignant narcissists, there's no

[01:08:34] soul there.

[01:08:35] So they're able to be whatever

[01:08:37] they want to be, whatever suits

[01:08:38] the need at the time.

[01:08:40] Are they actually sucking blood out

[01:08:41] of people worse?

[01:08:43] They suck the souls.

[01:08:45] Yeah.

[01:08:46] Soul suckers.

[01:08:48] One of the earliest vampiric

[01:08:49] depictions stems from

[01:08:52] text by the Akkadians,

[01:08:54] Samarians, Assyrians and Babylonians

[01:08:56] where they referred to demonic

[01:08:58] figures such as

[01:09:05] Lelou and Litu.

[01:09:10] I never heard that.

[01:09:12] Lelou is a vampire.

[01:09:14] During the 17th and 18th century,

[01:09:15] the folklore of vampires, as we

[01:09:16] imagine, became rampant in the verbal

[01:09:18] transitions and lore of many European

[01:09:21] ethnic groups. They were described as

[01:09:22] the revenants of evil beings,

[01:09:24] suicide victims, witches, corpses

[01:09:26] possessed by a male 11.

[01:09:28] 11. They can't say it.

[01:09:30] 11 whatever spirit

[01:09:35] or the victim of a vampire attack

[01:09:37] during the 18th century, vampire

[01:09:38] sightings across Eastern Europe had

[01:09:39] reached its peak with frequent

[01:09:43] zooming of vampires and the

[01:09:45] practice of stalking to

[01:09:47] potential to potential

[01:09:48] revenants.

[01:09:49] This period was the 18th century

[01:09:51] vampire controversy.

[01:09:53] Hmm.

[01:09:55] Archaeologists found the burial near

[01:09:58] some city in northern Poland.

[01:09:59] An anthropologist studied reveal

[01:10:01] that she had protruding

[01:10:03] front teeth, suggesting her

[01:10:04] appearance may have led to the

[01:10:06] superstitious locals in the 17th

[01:10:07] wow just because you didn't have a

[01:10:08] good dentist they were like

[01:10:09] vampire.

[01:10:11] We're killing you tonight at

[01:10:13] eight.

[01:10:14] Wow.

[01:10:15] May have led superstitious locals in

[01:10:16] the 17th century to brand her as a

[01:10:18] witch or a vampire in fear of her

[01:10:19] ascension.

[01:10:20] A sickle was placed around her neck

[01:10:22] while a padlock was tied to

[01:10:24] the toe of the left floor.

[01:10:26] Seriously,

[01:10:29] it explained that the position

[01:10:31] which had been which the

[01:10:33] position would have decapitated

[01:10:35] the individual should they try to

[01:10:37] rise to the grave.

[01:10:39] That's why they put the sickle

[01:10:41] there.

[01:10:42] Despite the morbid nature of the

[01:10:44] grave, the woman was buried in a

[01:10:46] silk cap on her head which was a

[01:10:48] luxury commodity in the 17th

[01:10:50] century suggesting the disease

[01:10:52] held a high social status just

[01:10:54] because you have buck teeth.

[01:10:56] Oh my god.

[01:10:57] Previous burials have been found

[01:10:59] in Poland showing anti-vampiric

[01:11:01] customs such as several skeletons

[01:11:03] with severed heads on earth and

[01:11:05] crack out or burial in

[01:11:07] some other place which had a brick forced

[01:11:09] into the mouth.

[01:11:11] However, this is the first example

[01:11:13] in Poland where a sickle

[01:11:15] has been positioned to prevent

[01:11:17] ascension into vampirism.

[01:11:19] I like that word.

[01:11:20] I do too.

[01:11:21] Vampirism.

[01:11:22] Yes.

[01:11:23] I like it.

[01:11:24] Yes.

[01:11:25] Vampirism.

[01:11:27] Wow.

[01:11:29] Alright.

[01:11:30] There you go.

[01:11:33] Let me see.

[01:11:34] Oh my, that's my feel good story.

[01:11:36] This, we already talked about this pub

[01:11:38] but now I feel really bad for this guy.

[01:11:40] This is news

[01:11:44] from England.

[01:11:46] A pub said to have been serving customers

[01:11:48] for 1200 years is fighting

[01:11:50] survival because of soaring energy cost.

[01:11:52] Oh.

[01:11:53] Yeah, because they were saying during

[01:11:55] COVID it might have to close. It didn't.

[01:11:57] But somebody should do it go

[01:11:59] follow me for this place. I'm not

[01:12:01] organized enough on a computer to start it

[01:12:03] and I don't know how you do that

[01:12:05] but somebody should. It's called

[01:12:07] Yeel Fighting Cox.

[01:12:09] 1200 years

[01:12:11] this place is 1200 years old. You can't let it

[01:12:13] go under. You can't.

[01:12:15] It survived world wars

[01:12:17] and recessions but

[01:12:19] co-owner Sam Walker

[01:12:21] says winter will be the test.

[01:12:23] His general manager Ronan Gaffney said

[01:12:25] added it's outrageously more expensive.

[01:12:27] It's not like at home where you can turn everything off

[01:12:29] but the fridge and the freezer. We can't cut down on energy bills

[01:12:31] but are being charged double

[01:12:33] by all the rates in Europe. Our light bill

[01:12:35] who still says light bill?

[01:12:37] Sounds like my dad.

[01:12:39] Turn off that light. Who do you think

[01:12:43] you're paying the light bill?

[01:12:45] It's ten times more than what it is in the house

[01:12:47] because at home you can turn off all the lights except the one you're in.

[01:12:49] Can't do that pub.

[01:12:51] Winter for a lot of pubs like my own is a quiet season.

[01:12:53] If the pubs don't have the infrastructure or financial backing

[01:12:55] then I can imagine that a lot of them will struggle.

[01:12:57] He called

[01:12:59] on the government to offer help so pubs

[01:13:01] like his and Sade Albans

[01:13:03] will survive. Well, I certainly hope so.

[01:13:05] That's sad.

[01:13:07] Huh?

[01:13:09] I'll go there. How much do you need for your light bill?

[01:13:11] I may have it.

[01:13:13] How many months do we call winter?

[01:13:15] Four? Five?

[01:13:17] I would do it if they let me

[01:13:19] drink in there for free. I don't know how far it is

[01:13:21] from an airport.

[01:13:23] British beer.

[01:13:25] British beer, they'll have good Guinness.

[01:13:27] It travels well to England.

[01:13:29] Alright, alright.

[01:13:31] We're going to end with a feel-good story.

[01:13:33] Great. I like it.

[01:13:35] I think it's a feel-good story.

[01:13:37] I don't know. People could argue the premise,

[01:13:39] I suppose.

[01:13:41] Made me happy though, the picture.

[01:13:43] Okay.

[01:13:45] Escape chimpanzee returns to

[01:13:47] Kharkiv Zoo

[01:13:49] on Keeper's bicycle.

[01:13:51] So in Ukraine

[01:13:53] a lot of the zoos

[01:13:55] are going kind of

[01:13:57] bananas.

[01:13:59] They're poking.

[01:14:01] Stasis are just fucked up because

[01:14:03] they're getting hit by rockets.

[01:14:05] People forget about the zoos.

[01:14:07] There could be shit out there

[01:14:09] you do not expect to meet

[01:14:11] because a blast went

[01:14:13] to the zoo. Uh-oh, the gates are open.

[01:14:15] And we all know

[01:14:17] what a chimp's capable of.

[01:14:19] Hello, Travis the Chimp.

[01:14:21] They could be crazy violent.

[01:14:23] This guy was around

[01:14:25] the town square. I would love to see it

[01:14:27] but I don't want him to see me.

[01:14:29] No. Especially if he's crabby

[01:14:31] or hungry. Or like Travis,

[01:14:33] Travis drank mellow, watched Red Sox games

[01:14:35] and took Xanax.

[01:14:37] And then you wonder why that chimp snapped

[01:14:39] one day.

[01:14:41] I know.

[01:14:43] A chimpanzee that escaped

[01:14:45] Kharkiv's city zoo on Monday

[01:14:47] was persuaded to return

[01:14:49] by a zoo employee who wheeled it back

[01:14:51] on a bicycle.

[01:14:53] There's a picture of a full-bone chimp.

[01:14:55] He's riding a bike

[01:14:57] and he's going home.

[01:14:59] Now I know a lot of people disagree with zoos

[01:15:01] and all that, but I'm just here to say

[01:15:03] at this point, I don't think

[01:15:05] Chi-Chi, that's his name.

[01:15:07] No.

[01:15:09] I don't think he could survive on his own.

[01:15:11] He doesn't need to be running around

[01:15:13] a war-torn country looking for food.

[01:15:15] He's safer at the zoo.

[01:15:17] That's his home. That's where his friends are.

[01:15:19] Staff.

[01:15:21] Staff at the zoo

[01:15:25] in Ukraine's second biggest cities were

[01:15:27] struggling to persuade Chi-Chi

[01:15:29] who'd wandered around streets in an area by

[01:15:31] park to return to the zoo with them.

[01:15:33] But when it started to rain,

[01:15:35] she ran to a zookeeper

[01:15:37] Yeah.

[01:15:39] Who put a yellow jacket on her.

[01:15:41] She has a yellow raincoat.

[01:15:43] The pair embraced.

[01:15:45] There's pictures of it.

[01:15:47] She got a big hug

[01:15:49] before Chi-Chi was put on the seat

[01:15:51] of a bicycle.

[01:15:53] She got a rare moment of joy to a front-line city

[01:15:55] under Dalin bombardment by Russian forces.

[01:15:57] The zoo's director,

[01:15:59] Olinsky

[01:16:01] so and so, confirmed

[01:16:03] to Ukraine public broadcaster

[01:16:05] that the animal was safely back at the zoo.

[01:16:07] Earlier in the war, Chi-Chi had been evacuated

[01:16:09] from the Feldman

[01:16:11] Echo Park

[01:16:13] an outdoor zoo on the front lines of the region.

[01:16:15] The city is faced daily shelling

[01:16:17] with buildings across the northern and eastern

[01:16:19] part of the city left by black and by bombs.

[01:16:21] Hundreds of civilians

[01:16:23] have been killed and injured.

[01:16:25] The city center where the zoo is located

[01:16:27] has been hit less frequently

[01:16:29] since its main administrative buildings were destroyed

[01:16:31] in March. But last week,

[01:16:33] at least four civilians were killed when a rocket hit

[01:16:35] the city center.

[01:16:37] Right. So Chi-Chi doesn't need to be out there.

[01:16:39] Chi-Chi needs to be home.

[01:16:43] Chi-Chi's

[01:16:47] though Chi-Chi still lives in relative danger,

[01:16:49] she was lucky to

[01:16:51] leave her former home at the Feldman's

[01:16:53] Echo Park alive.

[01:16:55] More than 100 animals died before they were able to be

[01:16:57] evacuated according to the zoo owner.

[01:16:59] Wow.

[01:17:01] And a lot of people died too.

[01:17:03] But here's the feel-good part

[01:17:05] she put on her raincoat

[01:17:07] she was happy to see her keeper

[01:17:09] she hugged her

[01:17:11] and she went home

[01:17:13] Wow.

[01:17:15] It's a feel-good story. I like that.

[01:17:17] I'll keep track of Chi-Chi for the pubcast.

[01:17:19] Yeah. She's a big chimp.

[01:17:21] I wouldn't fuck around with Chi-Chi.

[01:17:23] You rip your face off

[01:17:25] in four points, less than four

[01:17:27] points, zero seconds.

[01:17:29] Alright, turn my mind some of this.

[01:17:31] Save the rest for next time.

[01:17:35] I'm going to Dallas in Austin.

[01:17:37] My friend Kelly McFarland

[01:17:39] is going to open these shows.

[01:17:41] We're going to have a total great time.

[01:17:43] Can't wait for that.

[01:17:45] Then, oh my god,

[01:17:47] so then, tomorrow,

[01:17:49] the tickets will be on sale

[01:17:51] for

[01:17:53] the spring.

[01:17:55] Well, January through May.

[01:17:57] Where are you going?

[01:17:59] What's the tour called?

[01:18:01] The tour is called Box Wine and Tiny Van, Joe's.

[01:18:03] I like it.

[01:18:05] Because I have jokes that have that in it.

[01:18:07] Here's where I'm going.

[01:18:09] Well first of all, I'll repeat the fall ones

[01:18:11] next time.

[01:18:13] But this is the list

[01:18:15] before it goes out.

[01:18:17] See if one of these towns strikes

[01:18:19] your fancy.

[01:18:21] Charlestown, West Virginia.

[01:18:23] Fun. Fort Pierce, Florida.

[01:18:25] I don't think I've ever worked there.

[01:18:27] Coral Springs, Florida.

[01:18:29] Yes, I have. Fort Myers.

[01:18:31] My parents will be showing up with a bus with 60 people.

[01:18:33] Yeah, and then they'll go

[01:18:35] we forgot our IDs.

[01:18:37] What?

[01:18:39] Can you get us in?

[01:18:41] I'll never forget when a security guard

[01:18:43] came back to the agency.

[01:18:45] He goes, you got a mama named Vicky?

[01:18:47] I went, oh my god.

[01:18:49] Why?

[01:18:51] Why are you coming back here and saying that?

[01:18:53] St. Petersburg, Florida.

[01:18:55] Orlando, Florida.

[01:18:57] It's going to be a great January for this lady.

[01:18:59] That's great.

[01:19:01] Get me out of the cold.

[01:19:03] Ben Salem PA.

[01:19:05] That's Parks Casino.

[01:19:07] That is a beautiful place.

[01:19:09] Philly, yeah.

[01:19:11] Mirage, Vegas again.

[01:19:13] So great.

[01:19:15] Scottsdale, Arizona.

[01:19:17] Nashville, Tennessee.

[01:19:19] The Ryman.

[01:19:21] New Orleans, Louisiana.

[01:19:23] Now, you will not see a lot of stand-up comedy in New Orleans.

[01:19:25] Why?

[01:19:27] Because there's so much music and a lot of it's free.

[01:19:29] People don't want to sit inside and watch stand-up comedy.

[01:19:31] And I get it. I don't either.

[01:19:33] But that's mostly the tourists are talking about.

[01:19:35] What about the locals?

[01:19:37] All these years but like a comedy club

[01:19:39] they're going to be there once and then closed.

[01:19:41] It's just never, it's not a comedy town.

[01:19:43] Thankfully it's a wonderful music town

[01:19:45] and it's a vampire town in my mind.

[01:19:47] Every person I run into

[01:19:49] I'm like are you part of vampirism?

[01:19:51] Let me see your eyes.

[01:19:53] So I'm so excited because the local people

[01:19:55] might want to see stand-up every now and then.

[01:19:57] That's what I try.

[01:19:59] I took it as a standalone date

[01:20:01] meaning I don't even have anything with it.

[01:20:03] And that's not like me but

[01:20:05] I did it because I want to go to New Orleans.

[01:20:07] I want to go to graveyards.

[01:20:09] I want to go to graveyards.

[01:20:11] I want to go on vampire tours.

[01:20:13] I want to go down and go in those giant churches.

[01:20:15] Okay.

[01:20:17] Red Bank, New Jersey. Huntington, New York.

[01:20:19] Milwaukee.

[01:20:21] Warsaw.

[01:20:23] Wisconsin.

[01:20:25] Foxwoods, Connecticut. Boston, Massachusetts. Durham, North Carolina.

[01:20:27] Niceville, Florida.

[01:20:29] My parents are like, it's in the panhandle.

[01:20:31] You just quiet yourselves down.

[01:20:33] Why wouldn't I?

[01:20:35] Maybe you could come to Sarasota.

[01:20:37] I can't be the house emcee at the Sarasota van

[01:20:39] and weasel place.

[01:20:41] Ponte Vierda, Florida.

[01:20:43] Love it.

[01:20:45] My tour of my friends gave me golf there last time.

[01:20:47] It was a great time.

[01:20:49] Charleston, South Carolina.

[01:20:51] One of my top three cities in America.

[01:20:53] I love it.

[01:20:55] Santa Rosa, California.

[01:20:57] That crowd up there in Santa Rosa is always so good.

[01:20:59] Every time I get off stage I'm like,

[01:21:01] I should have filmed a special here

[01:21:03] and I'm like, I'm not sure if they did.

[01:21:05] Not that I think they'll suck, but they're so good.

[01:21:07] It's like they hit you like a wave.

[01:21:09] And right now for the last one,

[01:21:11] Wheatland, California.

[01:21:13] My dad wore the hell as well.

[01:21:15] Good question, dad. I'm not sure either.

[01:21:17] I don't know.

[01:21:19] Somewhere by Sacramento because I was told by termites

[01:21:21] don't work in downtown Sacramento anymore.

[01:21:23] And the last time I did, I do feel there was an

[01:21:25] apocalyptic feeling downtown.

[01:21:27] It was weird. That crest theater.

[01:21:29] Beautiful theater inside.

[01:21:31] Oh, yeah.

[01:21:33] Yeah, there was a security guy from Missouri

[01:21:35] because he knew my act.

[01:21:37] He's like, I'm from Missouri too.

[01:21:39] And then I don't know, he just left.

[01:21:41] I think. I don't know. It was weird.

[01:21:43] So we're going to, and then where we're going to

[01:21:45] Wheatland to take the place of that for now

[01:21:47] for the time being.

[01:21:49] And then we will add things, termites.

[01:21:51] This is just the majority of it.

[01:21:53] Things will keep getting added as time goes on.

[01:21:55] But right now I'm headed to Dallas

[01:21:57] and Austin and then Chattanooga,

[01:21:59] Knoxville, Asheville.

[01:22:01] Chattanooga doing great.

[01:22:03] Knoxville.

[01:22:05] There's a football game.

[01:22:07] I know.

[01:22:09] I tried to look at all that.

[01:22:11] A lot of shit to consider when you're booking things.

[01:22:13] Oh my God, you know, well are they in the SEC?

[01:22:15] Is their football popular?

[01:22:17] Did you know there's a quilt,

[01:22:19] the largest quilting convention ever

[01:22:21] on the same day you're in Omaha?

[01:22:23] That's why there's no hotel rooms.

[01:22:25] Oh, a rental car?

[01:22:27] No, I'm sorry.

[01:22:29] We don't have any.

[01:22:31] I don't think you understand,

[01:22:33] but Cricket's very popular in Michigan.

[01:22:35] It just got so popular during COVID.

[01:22:37] There's a botchy ball tournament.

[01:22:39] I mean, if any one thing is another,

[01:22:41] but anyway, Knoxville if you're listening,

[01:22:43] come on out.

[01:22:45] And then Asheville is great.

[01:22:47] I love it.

[01:22:49] Yeah, I'm going to stay for a day or two.

[01:22:51] I always go to the Biltmore.

[01:22:53] I can't, every time I, this is how I know

[01:22:55] I've never seen any of this.

[01:22:57] I don't remember.

[01:22:59] They tell me stories. All I keep thinking is

[01:23:01] I wonder, because it's a Vanderbilt old mansion up there.

[01:23:03] I just wonder, can Anderson Cooper come in here

[01:23:05] and just go, yeah, I'm going to go wherever I want?

[01:23:07] I don't really know that it, I don't think it was his mother.

[01:23:09] I know it wasn't. It was a relative,

[01:23:11] like a cousin, but it is the Vanderbilt

[01:23:13] and he is a Vanderbilt.

[01:23:15] I might pull my family card and go,

[01:23:17] yeah, I'm going to have a picnic out there

[01:23:19] in the backyard bringing like 50 Madagans

[01:23:21] and go, yeah, we're just going to be drinking out there.

[01:23:23] Oh, nope. And our dogs are not on leash.

[01:23:25] Mwah!

[01:23:27] And I brought two feral cats.

[01:23:29] They'd like to expect the property.

[01:23:31] Yeah, you should always,

[01:23:33] you should always make a plan to go to Asheville

[01:23:35] someday in your life too. It's a great city

[01:23:37] and they have wonderful, wonderful crazy beers.

[01:23:39] All right, Termite, that's enough of my bullshit,

[01:23:41] my work plugs and I'm going to take this

[01:23:43] cheese well, save those crackers with that cheese.

[01:23:45] I can't believe you don't like cheese.

[01:23:47] It's fine for nachos,

[01:23:49] but it has to be, that's too thick.

[01:23:51] It's not like nachos.

[01:23:53] What else do you want on nachos?

[01:23:55] At a ballpark, that's what you get.

[01:23:57] Real cheese.

[01:23:59] Well in a restaurant, yeah.

[01:24:01] I'm thinking of baseball game.

[01:24:03] Speaking of which, last thing,

[01:24:05] Cardinals eight games ahead in first place.

[01:24:07] Boom!

[01:24:09] To every person who said wild card in July.

[01:24:11] Each shit.

[01:24:13] You can't say that about the Cardinals

[01:24:15] in July.

[01:24:17] We haven't even gotten to August and

[01:24:19] they might be a wild card team.

[01:24:21] It seems like the Brewers are a little bit ahead.

[01:24:23] Two games to us?

[01:24:25] Let me introduce you to Albert Poulhos.

[01:24:27] Shut your trap.

[01:24:29] I'm going to try to go up

[01:24:31] for the Cardinal game on my birthday.

[01:24:33] On my birthday, on my birthday,

[01:24:35] on my birthday. All right, Termites,

[01:24:37] you guys be good, your fall termites

[01:24:39] now. No more white jeans.

[01:24:41] I saw something Canada

[01:24:43] just in Canada.

[01:24:45] It's a little lax.

[01:24:47] It is pretty.

[01:24:49] I put my white jeans away. Everybody else got to too.

[01:24:51] That's the rule we're all running on.

[01:24:55] Canada didn't care.

[01:24:57] Your fall termites?

[01:24:59] For your football termites?

[01:25:01] Good luck tonight.

[01:25:03] Good luck tonight.

[01:25:05] Wish me luck in destroying a 12 year old

[01:25:07] Topes and Dreams.

[01:25:09] Shoot for the stars or ant cats going to shoot you down.

[01:25:15] You have to learn young how to be gracious

[01:25:17] in defeat and not too braggadocious

[01:25:19] in victory.

[01:25:21] I'm starting to find an example.

[01:25:23] He doesn't know I'm saying all this.

[01:25:25] No.

[01:25:27] He's in school where he should be.

[01:25:29] That's it, Termites.

[01:25:31] Ready?