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

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Kathleen opens the show drinking a Niagara Premium Lager from Niagara Falls Brewing Company. She shares details of her weekend in Niagara Falls including her experiences on the Behind The Falls Tour, and her favorite activity: The Hornblower boat ride. She reads the documented encounters of people who have survived going over the Falls, including 7-year-old Roger Woodward’s miraculous survival and Annie Edison Taylor’s journey over the Falls with her cat in a barrel. “GOOD BAD FOOD”: In her quest for new and delicious not-so-nutritious junk food AND in continuing her search for the best Ranch, Kathleen samples Lay’s Chili Cheese Frito chips, Cheez Whiz Original Cheese Dip, and her favorite Canadian snack: Hostess Hickory Sticks. THE QUEEN’S COURT: Kathleen reports that Queen Dolly Parton has a new Greatest Hits album “Diamonds and Rhinestones” being released Nov. 18th UPDATES: Kathleen gives an update on Mattress Mack’s new sports website, and the Bed Bath & Beyond CFO’s recent suicide. “HOLY SHIT THEY FOUND IT”: Kathleen is amazed to read about the discovery of a rare fossil on Prince Edward Island. FRONT PAGE PUB NEWS: Kathleen shares articles about the grave of a female vampire discovered in Poland, Burning Man ends with a Thunderdome fight, a Ponzi scheme founder referred to as “Mother Teresa” is arrested in Florida, Britain’s oldest pub is in danger of shuttering its doors forever due to rising energy costs, and a chimp who escaped from a Ukrainian zoo is rescued. SEE KATHLEEN LIVE: See Kathleen live > kathleenmadigan.com/tour See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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[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?

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