Episode 106: Russia’s Dolly Gets Mouthy, Indian Cheetahs, & Patagonia Saves The Earth

[00:00:00] Hey everybody, it's me Kathleen Madigan, welcome to Madigan's Pubcast.

[00:00:12] You grab yourself a drink, pull up a bar stool, and let's talk about what's been going on.

[00:00:18] Turmites!

[00:00:24] Fire!

[00:00:25] Episode 106!

[00:00:26] And it's still hot as shit outside.

[00:00:33] I'm sick of 90 something.

[00:00:35] Texas was like 95.

[00:00:41] What are we drinking?

[00:00:42] Let's start out with that.

[00:00:43] Nido Bandito!

[00:00:44] Haha, look at that can.

[00:00:47] That is from Dallas, Texas.

[00:00:49] Where was I this weekend?

[00:00:50] Dallas and Austin.

[00:00:51] Bo shows, super fun.

[00:00:57] But most importantly, and I'm going to get to some of the nice things that were left backstage,

[00:01:00] I got to go to Bucky's, put a video up on Instagram, and on Twitter, it's already

[00:01:05] had 30,000 views.

[00:01:06] I think there's a lot of people that haven't been, they haven't had the pleasure of

[00:01:10] going to an on a Saturday.

[00:01:12] Somebody put, it's a shit show trying to park.

[00:01:16] But and it is to try to get a gas pump.

[00:01:20] But once you get it, you're golden.

[00:01:21] And it's worth it.

[00:01:22] Trust me, I would normally say I'm out of here.

[00:01:27] It was so crowded.

[00:01:28] But they move it so fast.

[00:01:31] Everything goes fast, no complaining, your sandwich.

[00:01:33] And then the guy, the promoter of the show, he drove too.

[00:01:36] He stopped and got, Eric got himself a burrito and lunch.

[00:01:42] He got brisket too.

[00:01:43] I've never thought why don't I get the breakfast thing and then get lunch later too.

[00:01:47] But why?

[00:01:48] Why do you need that when you're going to Mantel Rancho?

[00:01:51] I love it.

[00:01:52] If you ever go to Austin, it's just a little bit outside of downtown.

[00:01:56] It's called Mantel Rancho.

[00:01:58] And oh, I think I have their glass.

[00:02:00] Yeah.

[00:02:01] And I actually paid for this.

[00:02:02] And I stood in a line for it.

[00:02:03] I didn't steal it.

[00:02:06] But they have a margitini there.

[00:02:08] It's just a margarita, but you get a shaker full.

[00:02:11] And then they put a little olive thing in your tiny margarita.

[00:02:15] It's a martini glass with salt.

[00:02:17] And normally I say no to salt, but there's something really good about the salt outside.

[00:02:23] And I always end up sitting, I went with Kelly McFarland, my friend who is also opening

[00:02:28] the show for me.

[00:02:30] And there's always angry children out on that patio.

[00:02:34] But they're so angry.

[00:02:35] I've heard a bullet came down a little bit.

[00:02:37] They're so angry that they're like entertainingly angry.

[00:02:43] Like I wouldn't even know what they're not necessarily crying.

[00:02:47] They're just like, and then they stop and then it'll go again.

[00:02:52] But you always go there.

[00:02:53] And then in Dallas, I went to El Phoenix, which is downtown super old school.

[00:02:58] Because yeah, the Ozarks in Nashville are not big on Mexican food.

[00:03:02] So when I'm in Texas, watch out.

[00:03:05] Well, and then like Mexican guys helped with stuff around the house in Nashville.

[00:03:11] And then I was like, well, where do you guys eat good Mexican food?

[00:03:14] And he goes at home.

[00:03:16] I'm like, oh, well, yeah, I get that.

[00:03:19] I mean, did your wife have a lunch special?

[00:03:21] Can I come over?

[00:03:23] What time's lunch happening?

[00:03:25] Baby cat.

[00:03:26] Sorry, the cat's up here.

[00:03:28] It's never been up here.

[00:03:31] About ready to knock over all kinds of shit.

[00:03:32] But that's all right.

[00:03:33] I'm proceeding on.

[00:03:34] It's proceeding on termites.

[00:03:36] Um, it's not a feral cat.

[00:03:39] Not at all anymore.

[00:03:40] I don't think it could survive more than five days without me.

[00:03:46] What am I eating?

[00:03:47] This was left backstage by Susan.

[00:03:52] I got so much stuff backstage.

[00:03:54] It was overwhelming.

[00:03:55] And even Eric, the promoter, was like, do people always bring beer

[00:04:00] and chips?

[00:04:00] I'm like, yes, that's what they bring.

[00:04:03] And then the boy guy came back.

[00:04:04] He goes, somebody says they have barbecue.

[00:04:06] Are they allowed?

[00:04:06] Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

[00:04:11] And then there was somebody else backstage this guy.

[00:04:14] And he goes, do you ever think like people might put fucked up shit in your food?

[00:04:17] I'm like, no, but now I will.

[00:04:19] No, I never thought that a million years.

[00:04:21] But um, Uts were left.

[00:04:23] These are the potato things I was talking about, the skinny things.

[00:04:27] Now in the Midwest, it couldn't have been Uts though,

[00:04:29] because this is an East Coast thing.

[00:04:31] So but these are exactly what I'm thinking of little tiny.

[00:04:35] They're like, you hear that cat?

[00:04:39] She's over there.

[00:04:40] Meow, she's so loud.

[00:04:42] Meow, stop complaining.

[00:04:44] We're doing a show.

[00:04:46] These are wonderful.

[00:04:47] I don't know if I should even keep these in the house.

[00:04:50] And then I got you can taste them.

[00:04:54] What a burger has their own ranch.

[00:04:57] This was up. I've never had it.

[00:04:59] I don't know why I would need ranch at Water Burger.

[00:05:03] Fries for the children, for the children.

[00:05:13] I don't love it.

[00:05:14] I love what a burger, but.

[00:05:19] It's too tiny.

[00:05:21] Stick with ketchup.

[00:05:23] Other fries.

[00:05:24] Yeah, maybe they have salads.

[00:05:26] I don't know.

[00:05:26] I've never looked.

[00:05:27] All I've ever gotten is a cheeseburger.

[00:05:32] And look at my Bucky bobblehead.

[00:05:35] Right there, if you can't see it, you got the bobblehead.

[00:05:38] Bucky was not there.

[00:05:39] Sad times. No, it's a Saturday.

[00:05:41] I don't know how many Bucky's they have, but.

[00:05:44] A lot of people were sending me their pictures with Bucky

[00:05:46] at the gas station.

[00:05:48] It's not a gas station.

[00:05:49] It's a lifestyle and it's all adults.

[00:05:52] That's what cracks me up.

[00:05:53] The kids could care less.

[00:05:54] They're like, oh, look, it's a giant rat or beaver or what?

[00:05:57] I mean, I know it's a beaver.

[00:05:58] They may not want to know what it is.

[00:06:00] No, it's the adult stick it.

[00:06:01] Super excited.

[00:06:02] I told when I met him, I went back because I didn't like my first picture.

[00:06:06] Yeah, I'm like, oh, no, no, I'm going to get that little beer over here

[00:06:09] and you're going to do it again.

[00:06:11] Bucky, he's going to hate my guts by the time I leave here.

[00:06:13] But God damn it, I don't know when I'll see him again.

[00:06:18] So many great things.

[00:06:20] Susan left, I think these.

[00:06:23] Um, I had a Nessie like chili ladle.

[00:06:28] That's the word.

[00:06:28] Yeah. So I got all that stuff.

[00:06:32] Chili scooper.

[00:06:33] Sean, I got your note.

[00:06:35] Very nice.

[00:06:37] Sean found me.

[00:06:37] He liked the Mormon temple joke.

[00:06:40] It's somewhere on YouTube, I guess.

[00:06:42] I don't even know what's on YouTube.

[00:06:43] I should go find out at some point.

[00:06:45] Well, there's too many other things I'm supposed to keep track of.

[00:06:48] Right now, I'm still trying to get back on serious radio,

[00:06:50] working very, very diligently for those of you who care.

[00:06:56] And then Reba left some stuff backstage in Dallad and little temptations,

[00:07:00] which are treats for who?

[00:07:03] Baby cat.

[00:07:04] And that's the kind I already buy.

[00:07:06] But these are tiny.

[00:07:07] She's well, yeah, she's yelling for that.

[00:07:08] She probably doesn't like me being up here.

[00:07:10] She wants me downstairs and she can go to her spot.

[00:07:13] She didn't like this rearrange it.

[00:07:15] Whoa, whoa, whoa.

[00:07:17] Yeah, this one, she left a hoodie.

[00:07:19] That was wonderful.

[00:07:20] Some vodka.

[00:07:21] I got a hoodie too.

[00:07:22] Great.

[00:07:22] Paddles got a hoodie.

[00:07:24] Fit perfectly.

[00:07:25] Mine fit perfectly.

[00:07:26] And then this is the, um, I did not know this existed in Austin.

[00:07:32] Crimson Creek Smokehouse.

[00:07:34] I'm usually a North Carolina barbecue person, but they brought back up

[00:07:39] and and just shout out the staff.

[00:07:41] I left it for the crew and stuff too.

[00:07:42] I mean, I hate to shit load Kelly a lot.

[00:07:45] Um, it there were jalapenos, cream cheese stuffed jalapenos

[00:07:51] with bacon wrapped around.

[00:07:52] What?

[00:07:53] And then brisket and turkey.

[00:07:57] I was a brisket person.

[00:07:58] I didn't even a chicken.

[00:07:59] Yeah, I'm never chicken's fine, but it's not my favorite.

[00:08:02] When I see the brisket, I'm like, okay, I'm all in.

[00:08:04] Um, Amanda brought me beer.

[00:08:07] I didn't check luggage so I could only sneak that one can.

[00:08:10] And I don't even know how I did that.

[00:08:12] Like I'm shocked.

[00:08:13] I wasn't, I don't want to say that.

[00:08:16] Yeah, I drank these at the venue after the show.

[00:08:20] And then Jan and Beth from Waco.

[00:08:22] Thank you for this stuff.

[00:08:23] Oh, the do it for Dolly stuff.

[00:08:24] Yeah, I was like, what else?

[00:08:26] And the Bucky, where's Bucky?

[00:08:27] Who's behind me?

[00:08:29] Oh, he's up on the clock.

[00:08:31] It's a Bucky's, um, plane head, but it's called a critter pillar.

[00:08:36] Like a pillow.

[00:08:37] I don't think it's Bucky, but it looks exactly like Bucky.

[00:08:40] Yeah, so good enough for me.

[00:08:42] If it's good enough, if it looks like Bucky, I'm in.

[00:08:45] So, all right.

[00:08:48] And then rub.

[00:08:48] Somebody, oh, the Crimson Creek people brought me a barbecue rub.

[00:08:53] It's delicious.

[00:08:54] I already tried it.

[00:08:54] Yeah.

[00:08:55] One minute, I just ate it out of the jar.

[00:08:57] I didn't put it on anything.

[00:08:58] Well, I tasted it.

[00:09:00] It's great.

[00:09:01] What a burger.

[00:09:01] What happened there?

[00:09:02] I don't love that ranch.

[00:09:03] That's, um, all right, moving on.

[00:09:06] So do I look a little tired today?

[00:09:10] Probably because I got up at five to watch the Queens funeral.

[00:09:14] Oh my God.

[00:09:15] I did.

[00:09:16] I, and so once in a lifetime event, um, and I, I picked CNN, I don't know why,

[00:09:23] but Anderson Cooper should just move there.

[00:09:25] I mean, he should, he just go back and be a Vanderbilt.

[00:09:28] I've never seen anybody so like into it.

[00:09:30] Like he's so, he's so into it.

[00:09:34] But also it was a lot of lazy reporting on CNN.

[00:09:37] Well, how old are the children of William and Kate's fucking Google it?

[00:09:41] What are you saying?

[00:09:42] How old are they?

[00:09:43] You're the news people.

[00:09:44] You're just telling us a lot of laziness when it comes to that.

[00:09:48] Lot of lazy reporting.

[00:09:50] I think people are having Justin Trudeau, your man paddles.

[00:09:55] They have video of Justin that I before in the lobby bar singing

[00:09:59] Queen songs and maybe there was a little drink involved.

[00:10:02] I'm staying what they're saying.

[00:10:04] I said, how do you know he's drunk?

[00:10:06] Maybe he just likes Queen and wanted to do some piano singing in the lounge bar.

[00:10:10] You know, I've done it.

[00:10:11] I can't sing, but if I could, I would.

[00:10:14] He sounded fine.

[00:10:16] Um, yeah, but it wasn't a good look.

[00:10:20] But he looked fine at church.

[00:10:21] He didn't look hungover.

[00:10:23] Baby cat.

[00:10:24] Can you hear this cat?

[00:10:26] I don't know if she's so loud.

[00:10:30] Sorry, guys.

[00:10:31] Come here.

[00:10:32] Come here.

[00:10:32] Come on.

[00:10:33] Come here for real.

[00:10:34] Yeah.

[00:10:36] She wants to be on the show.

[00:10:39] Here, baby cat.

[00:10:40] I'll just tell story.

[00:10:41] It's holding baby cat.

[00:10:43] She wanted up.

[00:10:43] She gets up.

[00:10:44] See everybody.

[00:10:46] So feral.

[00:10:48] OK, I forget I'm actually doing something I'm trying to.

[00:10:53] I am.

[00:10:57] Do you hear that?

[00:10:58] She's being.

[00:11:00] Oh my God, turn it to the target that you are.

[00:11:02] Attack her.

[00:11:03] Attack her.

[00:11:04] All right, get down.

[00:11:05] Um, so I did get up because I wanted to see the whole thing

[00:11:09] because it's once and it's never going to.

[00:11:11] Well, it might happen again in our lifetime

[00:11:13] because King Charles might not make it that far.

[00:11:14] His hands are a little puffy.

[00:11:16] I don't know if anybody else has noticed their red and

[00:11:18] they're puffy and I don't know.

[00:11:20] He just doesn't seem to have the hood spa that his mom had.

[00:11:24] Even at the end, he was crying and biting his lip.

[00:11:26] And I'm like, I get it, but you've had this funeral for a week

[00:11:30] and you're the new king.

[00:11:32] Buckle up soldier.

[00:11:34] Well, who wouldn't be excited to get the crown?

[00:11:37] I think Sapphire is September.

[00:11:38] I think I'm a Sapphire.

[00:11:39] That's the coolest Sapphire Sapphire I've ever seen.

[00:11:44] And I wanted to see the president of Ireland

[00:11:45] because he looks like a real life leprechaun

[00:11:47] and he waddled on it.

[00:11:48] His wife's way taller than him.

[00:11:49] I bet he's five four.

[00:11:51] He said I wanted him to raise Bernie's mountain dogs,

[00:11:53] but he did not.

[00:11:54] He brings them to all official receptions and cocktail parties.

[00:11:57] And then they just run around and scare the shit out of people

[00:12:01] because they're so big.

[00:12:02] But they're so sweet.

[00:12:04] Jill and Joe Biden were there.

[00:12:06] But then they were like all these other people and CNN hashtag fail.

[00:12:11] Who are these people?

[00:12:12] They were not identifying them like, OK, coming in now

[00:12:16] is the king and queen of Sweden.

[00:12:19] Somebody identified the

[00:12:23] die in charge of Wales.

[00:12:25] Yeah. And his wife.

[00:12:28] Well, I don't think it's he's not the president.

[00:12:30] I don't think it's premier.

[00:12:33] And I don't think it's prime.

[00:12:35] I it might be it's no, it's called First Minister.

[00:12:37] Something strange.

[00:12:39] Something I never heard of. Yeah.

[00:12:42] Yeah, I don't know.

[00:12:43] I mean, it was something to see for once in your lifetime, I suppose.

[00:12:46] We might see it again.

[00:12:48] King Charles dies before us.

[00:12:52] But I did print this out

[00:12:57] as a I don't know.

[00:12:59] I mean, you know, you're either all in for the monarchy

[00:13:02] or you're not.

[00:13:04] I'd be in if they let them just stay there.

[00:13:06] The Commonwealth thing.

[00:13:09] But then I think it'd be great if I was a kid in Canada

[00:13:11] and I can go work in Australia.

[00:13:14] You did. That's part of that.

[00:13:15] That's a good deal.

[00:13:17] But, you know, the rest of it,

[00:13:20] it's a soared history, if you will.

[00:13:24] A lot of violence.

[00:13:26] And some of it was fairly, you know, recent.

[00:13:29] I mean, it wasn't like saying the Vikings that are no longer.

[00:13:34] They had a good 600 year run.

[00:13:36] And then it was over a long, long, long time ago.

[00:13:38] This is what so Prince Charles.

[00:13:41] OK, so the Queen had a staff.

[00:13:44] Charlie's got a staff.

[00:13:45] I'm sure William and Kate have a staff.

[00:13:50] So it would make sense if the Queen dies.

[00:13:52] Some of those people might get let go.

[00:13:55] Because she doesn't need them all and he's already got people.

[00:13:59] But he let them know last week.

[00:14:04] They're they're sad.

[00:14:05] They like the lady.

[00:14:06] They've worked for over 50 flipping years.

[00:14:08] Yeah, he told them all gigs up.

[00:14:10] I mean, it's going to take a few months.

[00:14:11] Did you have to?

[00:14:12] You couldn't wait until this was over

[00:14:14] and couldn't you keep some of them on?

[00:14:16] Don't you need people at Windsor Castle just in case somebody stops by

[00:14:19] for a crumpet or tea?

[00:14:22] What if somebody wants tea?

[00:14:24] What about the bagpipe player who plays a wake or wakes her up

[00:14:26] every morning playing bagpipes out her window?

[00:14:30] Now, I'm wondering if I can get somebody to do that for me.

[00:14:33] And I think it would be a wonderful way to wake up.

[00:14:36] But eventually you'd want to kill that.

[00:14:37] It's just like any other alarm you set.

[00:14:39] That's why I'll never pick.

[00:14:40] I'll never pick one of my queen songs, meaning my queen,

[00:14:43] Stevie or these people as my alarm

[00:14:46] because you'll eventually grow to hate it and become angry at it.

[00:14:49] And then I thought, eventually I would have a pellet gun

[00:14:51] and I'd be shooting at that bagpiper's feet just to get him to stop.

[00:14:56] But it was real sad at the end

[00:14:57] because he walked down the corridors of Windsor Castle

[00:15:00] and he just walked away like he was just going out forever.

[00:15:03] Like he was dying to.

[00:15:05] Oh, God, yeah.

[00:15:07] And I've been to Windsor Castle,

[00:15:08] but I haven't been since I was like 20 something.

[00:15:12] I need to go back, I guess now that the queen is.

[00:15:15] But London, it's just so expensive.

[00:15:17] It's so, so crowded.

[00:15:19] And then I go, why would I go there

[00:15:20] when Ireland's right over there?

[00:15:22] Um, this is some of the.

[00:15:24] So anyway, the staff was a little pissed off that Chucky cheese did that.

[00:15:30] So clearly a couple of people with a little bit of anger

[00:15:34] released some of his ridiculous demands every day.

[00:15:39] His pajamas are pressed.

[00:15:41] Charles is first of all, if you watch Downton Abbey,

[00:15:47] I don't need to explain it,

[00:15:48] but it was a show about a royal family.

[00:15:50] They weren't the king and queen.

[00:15:51] They were just lords and duches and whatever the hell those people out

[00:15:55] in the countryside are right.

[00:15:56] But every night their valet and then whatever you call her,

[00:16:00] her first maid, I don't know what you call the lady,

[00:16:03] they would wait up there for someone to come put on their pajamas.

[00:16:06] You're 50.

[00:16:08] What do you?

[00:16:09] I can't even imagine going, well, I can't go to bed.

[00:16:13] Yep. Sarah didn't come in and put on my pajamas.

[00:16:16] How am I supposed to figure this shit out?

[00:16:18] There's a there's a especially for a woman.

[00:16:21] There's something I put over my head and then I'm done.

[00:16:24] I don't know.

[00:16:25] You tell me how you get it out of this.

[00:16:27] It's like a space suit.

[00:16:30] Anyway, so I did not find it odd that his pajamas are pressed every morning.

[00:16:36] But I did find this.

[00:16:38] Are you kidding me?

[00:16:39] His shoelaces are pressed flat with an iron.

[00:16:42] Shut up.

[00:16:43] I'm serious.

[00:16:45] The bath plug has to be in a certain position.

[00:16:48] Do you not find it creepy that you're an adult and someone's running you a bath?

[00:16:51] I mean, unless I was crippled, like, well, you know, if I don't know,

[00:16:58] I couldn't do it, then maybe.

[00:17:01] And the water temperature has to be just tipped.

[00:17:04] Oh, dear Lord.

[00:17:06] And it can only be half full.

[00:17:09] Who does that?

[00:17:10] Yeah, that's right.

[00:17:11] I feel that bathtub up.

[00:17:12] I have probably destroyed so many hotel bathroom floors

[00:17:15] because it's called my baby seal act.

[00:17:17] There's just water everywhere.

[00:17:19] They're giving it to you.

[00:17:20] Use it.

[00:17:21] The king even has his valets squeeze one inch of toothpaste on his toothbrush

[00:17:27] every morning.

[00:17:28] I mean, come on.

[00:17:29] First of all, and a lot of people on my Twitter account commented,

[00:17:33] that's way too much.

[00:17:35] An inch.

[00:17:36] Yeah, you need that much to know you don't.

[00:17:40] It's imperial.

[00:17:41] See, they used imperial math.

[00:17:43] Mm hmm.

[00:17:45] After getting ready for what?

[00:17:48] For what?

[00:17:49] You don't have a job.

[00:17:50] You're a day.

[00:17:51] After getting ready, King Charles' strict morning routine

[00:17:53] has continued through the breakfast.

[00:17:55] He has a healthier option.

[00:17:57] He'd have homemade bread, a fresh bowl of fruit,

[00:18:01] fresh fruit juices.

[00:18:04] This is a former member of the Whirl Staff.

[00:18:06] Whenever he goes into the world, the breakfast box goes with him.

[00:18:08] He has six different types of honey,

[00:18:14] some special muesli.

[00:18:16] Muesli.

[00:18:17] Muesli?

[00:18:18] Yeah.

[00:18:19] Is that like oatmeal?

[00:18:20] Granola.

[00:18:21] Granola.

[00:18:22] Dried fruit.

[00:18:23] Mm hmm.

[00:18:24] Oh, fuck if this is what I'm skipping it.

[00:18:27] I'll see you at lunch.

[00:18:28] And anything that's a bit special that he's a bit fussy about.

[00:18:33] It's all of it.

[00:18:34] He supposedly insisted his cheese and biscuits be warmed to a certain temperature

[00:18:38] at the end of meals and makes his staff keep a warming tray nearby.

[00:18:41] So he's particular about everybody the royal insider said.

[00:18:45] Even brings his own toilet seat and Kleenex velvet toilet paper wherever he goes.

[00:18:49] Oh, come on.

[00:18:50] Oh.

[00:18:51] I mean, you...

[00:18:57] It would also make me think you're not like a man-man.

[00:19:02] You're like a child, a man-child.

[00:19:04] You're like...

[00:19:05] You're a man.

[00:19:06] Yeah, a man-child.

[00:19:07] A man-child.

[00:19:08] Yeah.

[00:19:09] You're very attractive.

[00:19:10] It's not an attractive quality in a man to go, I can't go to bed, nobody's put on my

[00:19:15] pajamas and I can't brush my teeth because nobody put toothpaste on my toothbrush.

[00:19:19] I'm so stuck.

[00:19:20] I am just completely fucks it in here and I can't go to bed until somebody, you

[00:19:24] know, whatever your opinion is, I will say the funeral was a sense of occasion

[00:19:33] if you will.

[00:19:34] There are so many words they use that this one really cracked me up.

[00:19:38] What the queen was?

[00:19:39] It was some little white man.

[00:19:41] It was definitely a display of white power though.

[00:19:43] I haven't seen that many white people in charge of shit in a very long time.

[00:19:47] Wow.

[00:19:48] And London has so many different nationalities now and races now and they

[00:19:54] did not seem very well represented in the on-going.

[00:19:59] But he said, what the queen was, was she was a sense of continuity?

[00:20:07] And I thought, wow.

[00:20:08] What if you're her?

[00:20:09] You wake up every day and go, my job is to be continuous.

[00:20:13] I can't quit.

[00:20:15] I have to be here.

[00:20:16] And I have to be.

[00:20:17] And she did the job, I will say.

[00:20:19] She did it well.

[00:20:20] And she stayed married to Phillip.

[00:20:22] I'll bet she looked at Sarah Ferguson and Diana and Megan

[00:20:25] Markle and went, look, hoes, do you think I wanted to stay married to this

[00:20:29] Jacks for all these years?

[00:20:31] Fuck no, I didn't.

[00:20:33] But I did it because that's the gig.

[00:20:35] He's got girlfriends, I'll find boyfriends.

[00:20:37] I don't think she went for boyfriends.

[00:20:38] I don't think she went for horses instead.

[00:20:40] Not to have sex with them.

[00:20:41] I mean, that was how she spent her time.

[00:20:43] You go, go ahead.

[00:20:44] Sleep with all you want.

[00:20:46] I mean, she put up with so much shit.

[00:20:48] And then the younger ones are like, I think he's texting people.

[00:20:53] I'm with her on that.

[00:20:55] Buckle up, stiff up her lip.

[00:20:57] This is the gig.

[00:20:58] Or if you don't like it, Polah, Harry and Megan

[00:21:00] are like that old guy George with Willis Simpson, the guy who quit.

[00:21:05] I asked my parents, but my dad's never

[00:21:07] wanted to ask a super Irish Catholic person.

[00:21:10] I go, whatever happened to that guy that quit that married

[00:21:13] the American divorcee?

[00:21:15] He goes, oh, they just ran around the world

[00:21:17] and sponged off rich people who wanted to say,

[00:21:20] oh, the royalties stay at our vacation home in Destin, Florida.

[00:21:24] I go, Dad, I don't think they were in Destin, Florida.

[00:21:27] Well, you know what I mean.

[00:21:29] I think you mean Tahiti or Turks and Caicos.

[00:21:34] Yeah, they're down in the Ozarks.

[00:21:40] She made the best of it.

[00:21:42] Things could be worse, right?

[00:21:44] You could have no job.

[00:21:45] You could have no money.

[00:21:47] I'm not the biggest fan of royalty or monarchy,

[00:21:49] but she particularly did the job that was asked for.

[00:21:53] All these young ones.

[00:21:58] Diana, you're married to Charles.

[00:22:00] Do you want to sleep with him?

[00:22:02] No.

[00:22:03] Let him sleep with Camilla and go get a boyfriend.

[00:22:06] I'm sure the queen was like, why can't we

[00:22:08] work this out?

[00:22:09] We've been doing this for hundreds of years.

[00:22:11] No one here is in love for Christ's sake.

[00:22:14] What does that even mean to you?

[00:22:15] I'm a sense of continuity.

[00:22:18] That's what I'm here for.

[00:22:19] Continuity to be a continuous ebb and flow of energy.

[00:22:26] I wouldn't blame her either.

[00:22:28] I'm with the queen.

[00:22:29] Quit your bitching.

[00:22:31] You got a gig.

[00:22:31] It's a good gig.

[00:22:34] The weather is a little weird, but fly out when you don't like it.

[00:22:37] Yeah, right.

[00:22:38] Spain, all the Irish go to Spain.

[00:22:40] Go to Portugal.

[00:22:41] Go to Spain.

[00:22:41] Lou loves Portugal.

[00:22:42] My sister loves Portugal.

[00:22:44] Good on out.

[00:22:45] So that was really all my thoughts, hun.

[00:22:48] I was very tired, but I set my alarm.

[00:22:52] There were a lot of uniforms and then all of a sudden

[00:22:54] out of nowhere, I was like, ah, there's

[00:22:57] the beef eater gin guys.

[00:22:59] Now, I don't know what their real job is,

[00:23:01] but they're the ones on the front of beef eater gin.

[00:23:04] I was like, they're fucking real.

[00:23:05] I didn't know that.

[00:23:06] I mean, there still exists.

[00:23:08] They were part of the thing.

[00:23:10] Canada, you showed up.

[00:23:12] Canada, your Mounties were riding right along in that parade,

[00:23:16] looking very hip with their sort of pseudo Western hats.

[00:23:23] Oh, they're right.

[00:23:24] They're guards to the people in the Tower of London

[00:23:26] because I went to the Tower of London.

[00:23:27] I remember those were the guys there.

[00:23:29] And they protected crown jewels.

[00:23:30] But the crown jewels are in the Tower of London,

[00:23:32] but there's no prisoners in the Tower of London anymore.

[00:23:34] So what are they really doing?

[00:23:36] Nothing.

[00:23:38] You know what they're doing?

[00:23:39] Talking to idiots like me that go,

[00:23:40] is anybody still staying here?

[00:23:43] And then they're like, no.

[00:23:45] No one's intuned here.

[00:23:49] The Mounties look great.

[00:23:50] And I like their because their hat's a little Western.

[00:23:52] It's kind of a mix between a cowboy hat

[00:23:55] and a true Western hat.

[00:23:58] The Red Surge was wonderful.

[00:24:04] I can't think of, there was one lady

[00:24:06] seeing and I had on too in her voice.

[00:24:08] Well, I won't even say it

[00:24:09] because it's probably me and maybe something's wrong

[00:24:10] with her voice, but it sounded like Bobby Kennedy

[00:24:12] or it was like, I can't.

[00:24:14] Oh my God, stop it.

[00:24:15] Get someone else.

[00:24:17] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:24:18] And then I flipped around.

[00:24:19] Even the local news had sent somebody.

[00:24:21] I'm like, okay, we don't need to do,

[00:24:23] yeah, we don't need a live reporter on the ground.

[00:24:27] There's plenty of people over there.

[00:24:29] We don't need that, but.

[00:24:32] And then, oh, and then how about at the end

[00:24:34] the guy that snaps the wand?

[00:24:36] Is that your only gig?

[00:24:40] He's the head of the household?

[00:24:44] Oh, so he's got fired?

[00:24:48] Oh.

[00:24:51] Well, I guess to be on TV and he was all,

[00:24:53] a lot of the Queen staff are old.

[00:24:55] Maybe they'll be happy to retire,

[00:24:56] but it also made me cry, almost cry,

[00:24:58] almost cry because they had the two Corgis waiting for

[00:25:03] the dogs when the casket showed back up.

[00:25:05] And I'm like, no, I don't know.

[00:25:06] Now you're gonna confuse the dogs.

[00:25:08] And then why are you giving them to Andrew?

[00:25:10] Nobody likes that guy.

[00:25:11] Well, for Sarah, I don't care,

[00:25:13] leave him at Windsor Castle.

[00:25:14] That's their house.

[00:25:15] They like it there.

[00:25:17] They've texted me.

[00:25:17] They love Belmoral.

[00:25:23] But if you didn't get to see it

[00:25:24] at the very end of the funeral,

[00:25:25] there's like this wand and he comes out

[00:25:28] and just goes spit and then puts the wand

[00:25:31] on top of the casket.

[00:25:33] And then they lever her into the ground,

[00:25:35] but they're taking her back out of the vault tonight

[00:25:37] for a special ceremony.

[00:25:39] Yeah, we're not invited to that.

[00:25:40] No.

[00:25:41] You're not.

[00:25:43] Oh, it's a sense of occasion.

[00:25:45] I'm never gonna stop saying that now.

[00:25:49] Invite my sister over.

[00:25:50] Why would I come over there

[00:25:51] on a Thursday for no reason?

[00:25:52] No, it's a sense of occasion.

[00:25:54] Come on, please.

[00:25:56] All right, we're gonna move on

[00:25:58] and talked about that for too long.

[00:26:00] There's other things that made me laugh though.

[00:26:02] I just can't remember them

[00:26:05] because it was a long morning

[00:26:06] and I was very, very tired.

[00:26:08] And then I thought maybe I should have a Bloody Mary

[00:26:11] instead of coffee,

[00:26:11] because the coffee was not working.

[00:26:13] I was not waking up.

[00:26:14] And I'm like, oh,

[00:26:16] and then they started doing the mass.

[00:26:18] And I was like, oh, yeah.

[00:26:21] They put Harry behind in their second row,

[00:26:23] Harry and Meghan.

[00:26:24] But some of the people were saying,

[00:26:26] well, this is a slight to them.

[00:26:27] No, you quit.

[00:26:29] Sorry, you quit the gig.

[00:26:32] You didn't quit the family, I get it.

[00:26:33] You're still with the family.

[00:26:35] You're just not in the front row.

[00:26:36] We're us schmucks that have to go

[00:26:38] to every stupid, boring ribbing,

[00:26:39] gutting in this country

[00:26:41] and smile and shake hands with people.

[00:26:42] We gotta go do that shit.

[00:26:44] I would be so mad if I was William.

[00:26:46] If my siblings did that to me,

[00:26:48] I'm like, if I only had one.

[00:26:50] And they're like, yeah, I'm quitting.

[00:26:51] I'm going to LA.

[00:26:53] What?

[00:26:54] No, no, no, no, there's no quitting.

[00:26:55] There's no quitting in our Disneyland characters.

[00:26:59] We're continuous.

[00:27:00] No, and didn't you hear the people on CNN?

[00:27:03] All right, update.

[00:27:05] Moving on.

[00:27:07] If I think of the other things I'll tell you.

[00:27:10] That made me laugh.

[00:27:11] Michigan man, trader, writer, trader, trader.

[00:27:15] He gets five years in prison

[00:27:17] for his role in the Capitol riot.

[00:27:19] He was sentenced to five years

[00:27:20] in a federal prison for his role.

[00:27:22] And yet he, when he was part of the mob

[00:27:25] that attacked the Capitol,

[00:27:29] judge Burrell Burrell Burrell.

[00:27:32] Wow, wow.

[00:27:34] This is in the state of Washington.

[00:27:35] Burrell Hall, he also sentenced Anthony Robert Williams,

[00:27:38] 47 to three years of supervised release

[00:27:41] after his prison term

[00:27:42] in order to be paid $2,000 of restitution

[00:27:44] and a $5,000 fine.

[00:27:46] In June, he was convicted of obstructing

[00:27:50] a felony count of obstruction

[00:27:52] and they had asked for five years and four months.

[00:27:55] So he got the five years plus that.

[00:27:57] In a Facebook post, this is where you just go,

[00:28:02] do we need to have a class for rioters and traders?

[00:28:05] I go look if you're gonna riot

[00:28:07] and you're gonna be traders,

[00:28:08] we're not gonna post on the facial book.

[00:28:11] We're not doing it.

[00:28:13] Yeah, he did.

[00:28:14] He posted operation swamp storm veteran

[00:28:17] and referred to January 6th

[00:28:18] as the proudest day of his life.

[00:28:20] He added that he felt like the founding fathers

[00:28:22] were smiling down on us in that room.

[00:28:23] And I guarantee my dad, my gramps would be proud.

[00:28:27] His participation was purposeful,

[00:28:30] extensive, enthusiastic and remorseless,

[00:28:34] said prosecutors in accord filing.

[00:28:36] Outside the Capitol, he stole water bottles

[00:28:38] that the police intended to use

[00:28:39] for decontaminating themselves with chemical spray.

[00:28:42] Jesus.

[00:28:44] I thought he was gonna say

[00:28:45] because he was hot and he drank them

[00:28:46] and I'm like, well, you know.

[00:28:48] They said he entered the Capitol with his Senate wing

[00:28:50] and joined other rioters

[00:28:51] and overwhelming the police officers in the crypt area.

[00:28:54] He advanced to the rotunda

[00:28:55] where he celebrated with other rioters and smoke pot.

[00:28:58] What?

[00:29:03] When they tried to force him out of the rotunda,

[00:29:05] he joined with other force

[00:29:06] who've actively resisted and mocked the police.

[00:29:11] Yeah, his attorney said he's learned from it

[00:29:12] his experience and listening to the testimony,

[00:29:14] he had to trial

[00:29:15] and he will not become involved

[00:29:17] in something like this ever again.

[00:29:19] Well, let's hope there's not a thing

[00:29:20] to become involved with.

[00:29:22] In the riot part.

[00:29:23] Yeah.

[00:29:24] You know what I'm doing with?

[00:29:25] Rioting.

[00:29:26] You're 47, sir.

[00:29:28] You know what?

[00:29:33] I did go to the grassy knoll

[00:29:34] because Kelly had never seen it.

[00:29:36] Speaking of the most cute.

[00:29:37] Yes, Dallas.

[00:29:38] Yes, I did not see any cute people.

[00:29:40] It was a very low key day on the grassy knoll.

[00:29:42] There was no one out.

[00:29:45] You know, the Texas Schoolbook Depository,

[00:29:48] at least the last time I tried,

[00:29:50] you can tour that.

[00:29:52] There's all kinds of shit in there.

[00:29:53] It's super cool if you're a history person.

[00:29:55] But once you're done with that,

[00:29:57] it's just a road.

[00:29:58] I mean, it's kind of cool to stand there

[00:30:00] because if you've seen this Zabruder film,

[00:30:02] as I have, 7,859 times,

[00:30:05] you do get to see like,

[00:30:07] okay, could there have been a guy over here

[00:30:11] and then somebody over here

[00:30:12] and could he really shoot?

[00:30:16] Yeah, we drove down where Kennedy's car

[00:30:19] would have gone underneath the viaduct

[00:30:20] and then off on the highway

[00:30:21] and then back around.

[00:30:23] And then unless you're gonna do the whole tour,

[00:30:26] which we didn't have time for,

[00:30:28] wire it or done it.

[00:30:29] Anyway, there's nothing else to do.

[00:30:31] Yeah.

[00:30:34] Go get Mexican.

[00:30:35] Yep, that's sort of...

[00:30:37] This update.

[00:30:41] This is getting more and more bizarre.

[00:30:47] It's the Brinks mystery in California.

[00:30:50] Well, the timeline, my whole thing is,

[00:30:54] first of all, nobody goes into Flying J for 30 minutes

[00:30:56] unless you have diarrhea.

[00:30:58] That's the only reason that I would accept is valid

[00:31:01] or you were sick to your stomach

[00:31:03] and you were a projectile vomiting.

[00:31:05] There's just, anyway, it's been more than two months

[00:31:07] since the multimillion dollar heist of jewelry

[00:31:09] from Brinks Brig-Rig at the Great Vine Truck Stop,

[00:31:12] yet key, a Flying J by the way,

[00:31:14] yet key facts about the high profile crime

[00:31:16] remain in dispute.

[00:31:18] Somebody's hiding something

[00:31:20] and I have said this since the beginning.

[00:31:22] Either the drivers are in on it

[00:31:23] or the company's in on it, just my opinion.

[00:31:28] We don't know if it's anywhere from 10 million

[00:31:30] to $100 million worth of jewels that were stolen,

[00:31:33] the questions are swirling around the timeline

[00:31:36] in a Brinks legal filing

[00:31:37] and Los Angeles County Sheriff's Document Department,

[00:31:39] which suggests an almost impossibly swift journey

[00:31:43] for the tractor trailer.

[00:31:45] This much is known.

[00:31:46] The Big Rig was loaded with tons of jewelry.

[00:31:50] They departed a jewelry show in San Mateo County

[00:31:53] and they were headed 370 miles south to LA.

[00:31:57] From there, players in the case disagree.

[00:31:59] Brinks said in a lawsuit that its two drivers

[00:32:01] made the 298 mile trek from San Mateo

[00:32:05] to the Flying Travel Center in LeBEC

[00:32:08] in about two hours, four minutes,

[00:32:10] even fitting in a stop along Interstate 5.

[00:32:13] To diverse that quickly,

[00:32:15] the vehicle would have had to drive at speeds

[00:32:17] of upward 140 miles an hour.

[00:32:20] Wow.

[00:32:21] No it didn't.

[00:32:23] You ever see if this is the same kind

[00:32:25] of Brinks trucks I see,

[00:32:27] they don't even look like they could go 90.

[00:32:30] They look like souped up mail trucks.

[00:32:34] It would take more than four hours

[00:32:37] driving their route if you were doing the speed limit.

[00:32:40] So their timeline makes no sense.

[00:32:42] But this is Brinks saying that.

[00:32:44] Why are you lying?

[00:32:46] We can find out.

[00:32:47] Because of insurance.

[00:32:49] I think it's insurance.

[00:32:50] I'm not, well let's say we're not telling the truth.

[00:32:53] I don't know if you're purposely lying.

[00:32:55] Why aren't we being told what happens

[00:32:57] when one of the clients said,

[00:32:57] our clients or one of the lawyers said,

[00:32:59] our clients deserve an explanation.

[00:33:01] The victim suffered a life altering theft

[00:33:03] and they are given a set of facts

[00:33:04] that doesn't add up.

[00:33:06] It's unclear whether the improbability

[00:33:08] of the timeline laid out by Brinks

[00:33:09] and the Sheriff's Department could be attributed

[00:33:11] to a simple misstatement.

[00:33:13] Okay maybe.

[00:33:14] Or another mundane explanation.

[00:33:16] I don't think you're gonna get this shit wrong

[00:33:18] when your answer, it's the only thing that matters.

[00:33:21] The time.

[00:33:22] And then what the hell did you do with the flying J?

[00:33:25] Somebody's really asleep for a half hour

[00:33:27] in the front cab and one of you's in there.

[00:33:29] Yeah.

[00:33:31] Similar caveats apply to questions

[00:33:33] about the timing of the authorities' responses to crime.

[00:33:35] In which the thieves stole 22 bags of booty.

[00:33:38] Of booty they actually said that.

[00:33:40] While according to Brinks,

[00:33:41] one of the drivers was asleep inside the sleeping berth

[00:33:44] and the other one was at getting food.

[00:33:46] It doesn't take you 30 minutes to get food in a flying J.

[00:33:49] That's what's great about a flying J

[00:33:51] or a Bucky's or a Love's.

[00:33:53] It takes no more than five minutes.

[00:33:56] Maybe 10.

[00:33:58] They said that both drivers told the deputy

[00:34:00] that their vehicle left San Manteo at midnight.

[00:34:04] Information also noticed by Brinks legal filing.

[00:34:08] So they agreed.

[00:34:09] At 205, the big rig arrived with the flying J

[00:34:12] and the driver who went to go get his meal

[00:34:14] upon his return 27 minutes later at 232.

[00:34:18] So that makes sense if you're not lying.

[00:34:21] Brinks said the driver discovered

[00:34:22] that an 18-wheeler had been compromised

[00:34:24] and newly released issued by the sheriff's department

[00:34:26] said the theft occurred at the same time frame.

[00:34:29] But they're saying to be there in that about a time

[00:34:31] they would have had to go 140 miles an hour.

[00:34:32] Yeah, it's not happening.

[00:34:34] No.

[00:34:37] Forgiveness.

[00:34:37] Yeah, I'm not gonna go, I'm just saying

[00:34:40] recently two times journalists made the separate car trips

[00:34:43] down that 50 mile stretch of Interstate 5.

[00:34:46] One took 46 minutes.

[00:34:48] The other completed in traffic

[00:34:51] that at times was very ever took an hour and a half,

[00:34:54] hour 21 minutes.

[00:34:55] So again, your timeline is bullshit.

[00:35:01] The timeline was first disclosed

[00:35:03] in an August 4th lawsuit filed by Brinks

[00:35:05] against the affected jewelry companies

[00:35:06] whose merchandise the company was transporting to LA.

[00:35:09] The complaint is part of a wider legal dispute

[00:35:11] between the Richmond Virginia company

[00:35:13] and the jewelers over the size of the stolen haul.

[00:35:17] Yeah, there are going about how much was really worth it.

[00:35:19] I can't believe you don't know that.

[00:35:20] Somebody had to have known that.

[00:35:22] Hey, how much money worth of jewelry are we taking?

[00:35:26] So we're insured for it.

[00:35:28] Right.

[00:35:28] Ah, I don't know.

[00:35:32] The sleeping driver said that he did not see you

[00:35:35] committed the burglary or didn't hear anything unusual

[00:35:38] or noticed that they were being followed.

[00:35:40] But it said that thieves left something behind,

[00:35:42] metal fragments at the base of the trailer's locking mechanism.

[00:35:46] The incident reports of the tractor's cargo,

[00:35:49] which included watches, jewelry and other precious gems

[00:35:51] and items was contained in orange marked Brinks bags.

[00:35:54] It also said that the blue Volvo big rig.

[00:35:58] So it was a big rig.

[00:35:59] That's another reason you're not going 140.

[00:36:02] I don't think they can.

[00:36:03] I'm not sure.

[00:36:04] Do we have any big rig drivers, termites?

[00:36:07] Trucker termites.

[00:36:08] Trucker termites?

[00:36:08] Yeah.

[00:36:09] Can you go 140?

[00:36:11] Without getting over.

[00:36:13] Well, or without the back, you know, going,

[00:36:16] especially some of those roads in the grapevine up there.

[00:36:19] And yeah, I've done that drive.

[00:36:23] The report does not mention an alarm on the door

[00:36:25] that brings trailer or cameras anywhere on the vehicles.

[00:36:27] Another thing I don't understand.

[00:36:29] Where's all that?

[00:36:33] The president of the jewelry show always thought

[00:36:37] there was an alarm on the door,

[00:36:38] but he certainly never checked it.

[00:36:40] I wouldn't either.

[00:36:40] I would trust Brinks.

[00:36:42] Who else are you gonna trust?

[00:36:44] Or, well, or just send it with someone

[00:36:48] unsuspecting like my mom.

[00:36:52] They'd have to know if you don't know I did it,

[00:36:54] you would never follow my mom.

[00:36:57] Right.

[00:36:58] Take a Brinks truck.

[00:36:59] Hi.

[00:37:00] She's actually doing 42 in the fast lane,

[00:37:05] but you get the Brinks truck as the decoy.

[00:37:08] So if anybody is stalking you, these imaginary criminals

[00:37:11] that I don't even believe that

[00:37:12] are their friends of these people

[00:37:13] or somebody's all in on this, but I think,

[00:37:16] but then maybe you get the Brinks truck

[00:37:18] and then you really put all the shit in my mom's car.

[00:37:21] And off she goes in a GMC terrain with 10 million dollars.

[00:37:25] Shit.

[00:37:26] Can we stop an exam?

[00:37:32] How do I turn on serious radio?

[00:37:36] Just turn it on, mom.

[00:37:38] Can we get podcasts through the car

[00:37:40] or just through your dad's phone?

[00:37:42] Where do I find it?

[00:37:44] Update on the drought.

[00:37:48] Right before I came onto how weird is this?

[00:37:51] Mexico had an earthquake.

[00:37:54] September 19th is the date today.

[00:37:57] It had two other ones in 1985

[00:38:00] and I forget the other year, some 2000 year,

[00:38:03] also on September 19th.

[00:38:05] And today they had a giant drill

[00:38:08] so everybody could practice.

[00:38:10] And hour later it actually happened.

[00:38:14] Yeah, they had a national drill

[00:38:17] cause they're like, well, we've had two on this date before.

[00:38:20] The drill was over, everybody's like, ha ha.

[00:38:23] They go back to work.

[00:38:25] That was fun, I got to come out and smoke a sig.

[00:38:31] The upstream water used to keep Lake Palo float

[00:38:33] is running out.

[00:38:37] Upstream reservoirs in the Colorado River

[00:38:39] may not have enough water to keep Lake Palo

[00:38:41] above a critical threshold.

[00:38:43] And definitely federal officials have warned

[00:38:44] and reasoned weeks as the West's ongoing mega drought

[00:38:47] saps water from across the West.

[00:38:49] The Flaming George River, Gorge River.

[00:38:53] On the Green River,

[00:38:55] South, the Green River where the Green River killer was.

[00:38:58] That was just second.

[00:38:59] Is it?

[00:39:00] Which this year is releasing a huge amount of water

[00:39:02] downtown streams to help Lake Palo

[00:39:04] maybe only have enough water left

[00:39:06] for two or more similar emergency releases.

[00:39:10] Yeah, they told everybody in May

[00:39:13] to use water from an upstream reservoir.

[00:39:15] So they did and they're gonna have to plan for more

[00:39:18] but it's gonna fall too low

[00:39:20] to generate hydro power at the Glen Canyon Dam.

[00:39:24] The dam is a key source of energy

[00:39:26] in the region generating power

[00:39:27] for many 5.8 million homes and businesses

[00:39:30] in seven states.

[00:39:31] Lake Palo's water level,

[00:39:34] 3,500 feet as of Thursday, that's 24% full.

[00:39:40] Yeah, I mean just an update,

[00:39:43] shit's getting super duper weird.

[00:39:47] Once again, I'm sitting here eating

[00:39:50] potato sticks and drinking a Nido bandito.

[00:39:57] There is someone trying to help global warming

[00:40:01] and I'm gonna say that at the end is a feel good story.

[00:40:03] Yeah, get ahead of yourself guys.

[00:40:06] I just saw it.

[00:40:08] Update!

[00:40:09] That's a tiny up, tiny update.

[00:40:13] Cause you guys know how I feel about it.

[00:40:17] Zuckerberg.

[00:40:19] Yeah, I'm not stopping till he's destroyed.

[00:40:25] Mega Platforms Inc is sinking down the ranks

[00:40:28] as one of the largest US companies.

[00:40:30] Mega Platforms Inc?

[00:40:32] Meta, sorry did I say Meta.

[00:40:34] Meta is now ranked 10th by the market value

[00:40:40] as of Tuesday's close,

[00:40:41] falling behind Visa for the first time

[00:40:43] since the start of August.

[00:40:45] Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram

[00:40:47] ranked fifth among US companies

[00:40:49] as recently as December, fifth.

[00:40:51] Now they're 10th.

[00:40:53] According to Dow Jones market data

[00:40:56] and joined by four other big tech companies,

[00:40:58] Apple, Microsoft, Google parent, Alphabet, Google,

[00:41:01] blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

[00:41:04] Yeah, the rest of this is super hard financial stuff

[00:41:06] but it's sliding.

[00:41:09] The children aren't buying into it.

[00:41:11] They don't like the Meta.

[00:41:12] They like the Tic-Tac

[00:41:14] and I don't know what he's gonna do about that.

[00:41:18] His psycho world isn't that stupid, whatever,

[00:41:22] metaverse, it's not serious.

[00:41:25] Artari Pong was better.

[00:41:26] It was more real.

[00:41:27] It's not working.

[00:41:30] That's all in my updates.

[00:41:34] Holy shit.

[00:41:39] Discovery of ancient Maya city

[00:41:41] with more than 300 buildings

[00:41:44] halts ongoing railroad project in Mexico.

[00:41:49] Can you imagine?

[00:41:50] 300 buildings, Jesus.

[00:41:53] And how well were they built that they're still around?

[00:41:56] Efforts to construct the $8 million Maya train project

[00:41:59] you have yet to embed again thwarted

[00:42:00] by the discovery of an ancient Maya archaeological site

[00:42:03] comprised of more than 300 buildings,

[00:42:06] according to the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

[00:42:09] Last Thursday at a regular news briefing

[00:42:11] held by Mexican president André Manuel Lopez Abrador,

[00:42:16] the INH director Diego Petro confirmed

[00:42:20] that an archaeological survey

[00:42:22] along section five of the project

[00:42:23] between Playa del Carmen and Tulum

[00:42:26] has uncovered a significant archaeological site

[00:42:28] more than 300 buildings have been found.

[00:42:30] Some would just stand over 26 feet tall.

[00:42:33] Holy shit, like that's a real building.

[00:42:35] Yeah.

[00:42:39] Engineering adjustments are remain

[00:42:41] to the second part of the section

[00:42:42] in order to protect an impressive archaeological site.

[00:42:47] Additionally, over 25,000 immovable assets

[00:42:50] have been uncovered along the sections.

[00:42:51] As far as the railroad is traversed so far,

[00:42:53] this includes ancient roads,

[00:42:55] 431 ceramic pots and 423 bones from human burials

[00:42:59] the site is set to be protected

[00:43:01] as an ecological and archaeological corridor.

[00:43:03] The unearthed artifacts are expected to go on view

[00:43:05] through museums throughout the country.

[00:43:08] So the trains delayed.

[00:43:09] Sorry for those of you who are excited about the Maya train

[00:43:11] that won't be given till December 2023.

[00:43:13] Uh oh, sorry, found a village.

[00:43:15] Sorry.

[00:43:17] At least they're building trains.

[00:43:19] This country's not.

[00:43:20] How about a new train?

[00:43:21] Anybody?

[00:43:23] Holy shit, they found it.

[00:43:25] This is great.

[00:43:27] It's so pretty.

[00:43:28] I'm gonna put the pictures in the show notes

[00:43:30] for you people to know.

[00:43:32] Palestinian farmer discovers rare Byzantine era mosaic

[00:43:36] while planting an olive tree in Gaza.

[00:43:40] Last spring a Palestinian farmer,

[00:43:42] they're just announcing this today.

[00:43:43] It's not like I'm reading you guys old shit.

[00:43:45] He was planting a new olive tree

[00:43:46] when his shovel hit a hard object.

[00:43:47] He called his son and for three months

[00:43:49] the pair, by themselves, the pair slowly excavated

[00:43:54] an ornate Byzantine era mosaic.

[00:43:56] Experts say the discovery of the mosaic,

[00:43:58] which includes 17 well-preserved images of animals and birds,

[00:44:01] is one of Gaza's greatest archaeological treasures.

[00:44:04] Wait till you see how perfect they are.

[00:44:06] I like that a farmer took it out.

[00:44:07] Just some farmer.

[00:44:08] Yeah, he just hid it.

[00:44:09] He was like, God damn it, these olive trees aren't growing.

[00:44:11] What is the problem?

[00:44:12] Cause they apparently were successful

[00:44:14] in other places in his little farm or whatever.

[00:44:17] The discovery has set off excitement

[00:44:19] among archeologists and the territories.

[00:44:21] Hamas rulers are planning a major announcement

[00:44:24] in the coming days.

[00:44:25] But it also is, but it's also drawing calls

[00:44:30] for better protection of Gaza's antiquities,

[00:44:32] a fragile collection of sites

[00:44:34] threatened by lack of awareness and resources.

[00:44:37] They don't have enough money on that side

[00:44:39] to deal with all this.

[00:44:40] So isn't there like some international

[00:44:45] archeological deal you can call?

[00:44:49] Google it.

[00:44:50] I'll text you guys.

[00:44:51] These are the most beautiful mosaic floors

[00:44:53] discovered in Gossums, both in terms of the quality

[00:44:55] and the graphic representation

[00:44:56] and the complexity of the geometry.

[00:44:58] He said so-and-so, Renee, Eltiere,

[00:45:00] an archeologist from the French Bibliquid

[00:45:02] and archeological school of Jerusalem

[00:45:04] never have mosaic floors of this finesse,

[00:45:07] this precision in the graphics

[00:45:08] and richness of colors

[00:45:09] have been discovered in the Gaza Strip.

[00:45:11] The colors are amazing.

[00:45:13] There's like a flamingo that is pink, pink, pink, pink.

[00:45:15] Like yeah, I didn't even know

[00:45:16] how they painted shit back then.

[00:45:18] He said the mosaic dates, pavement dates

[00:45:20] back to the time between the fifth

[00:45:22] and seventh centuries,

[00:45:23] but he said a proper excavation

[00:45:24] must be conducted to determine when exactly it was built

[00:45:27] and whether it was part of a religious or secular complex.

[00:45:31] This guy who's also conducted other research in Gaza

[00:45:33] has not been able to visit the site,

[00:45:35] but he's viewed a series of photos

[00:45:37] taken by his local research people.

[00:45:42] It was discovered just a half mile

[00:45:44] from the Israeli border.

[00:45:46] He said the discovery is an immediate danger

[00:45:48] because it's close to the Israeli separation fence

[00:45:51] and then there's always kind of fighting around there too

[00:45:53] where people are launching shit at each other.

[00:45:56] That would be terrible, like it's perfect.

[00:45:59] And some of them look like Celtic knots.

[00:46:02] It's weird, yeah.

[00:46:05] Maybe we hacked them.

[00:46:06] Maybe we stole the Celtic knot.

[00:46:11] Such areas along the fence

[00:46:13] are often the scene of intermittent clashes

[00:46:15] or Israeli incursions.

[00:46:17] Just last month,

[00:46:18] Israel and Gaza's Islamic Jihad militant group

[00:46:20] fought a fierce battle,

[00:46:21] a three-day battle there that included Israel,

[00:46:24] Israeli shelling of militant posts

[00:46:25] and landing on some of the mis-fired Palestinian rockets

[00:46:28] in the area.

[00:46:29] They also worried that excavations by inexperienced people

[00:46:32] could damage this site.

[00:46:33] Right.

[00:46:34] Like if I found one,

[00:46:36] I wouldn't call my brother and say,

[00:46:39] bring a toothbrush.

[00:46:40] We're gonna really get down on this shit

[00:46:42] at a shovel, Pat.

[00:46:44] Do you have a hoe?

[00:46:45] Could you bring that?

[00:46:47] It's imperative to quickly organize

[00:46:49] an emergency rescue intervention.

[00:46:51] Yes, I agree.

[00:46:56] But the pictures of this thing are phenomenal.

[00:46:59] And then I think, you know,

[00:47:01] this guy was nice enough.

[00:47:02] Him and his son took three months trying to figure out

[00:47:05] he finally called whoever you're supposed to call.

[00:47:08] I don't know who that would be.

[00:47:09] And,

[00:47:12] you know, is he gonna get any money?

[00:47:14] It's his land.

[00:47:16] And now he can't plant stuff there

[00:47:18] and I'm sure he's not rich.

[00:47:19] He's a Palestinian farmer.

[00:47:21] I'm sure this guy does not have any money.

[00:47:23] A grant?

[00:47:24] Yes.

[00:47:25] I'll take it.

[00:47:26] Go find me.

[00:47:26] All right, this was bullshit.

[00:47:28] Next story.

[00:47:29] I saw this live.

[00:47:32] So back to King Charles for a minute.

[00:47:34] So they went out to talk to the people

[00:47:37] and some guy heckled.

[00:47:38] I was not aware of what he said.

[00:47:40] And I saw the cops pounce on him.

[00:47:43] And then like arrest him.

[00:47:45] And I was like, what the fuck?

[00:47:47] What year is this?

[00:47:49] The year, you know, 10

[00:47:51] where the king can chop my head off

[00:47:53] because you don't like what I said.

[00:47:54] You're in public.

[00:47:56] You're on a public street, King Charles.

[00:47:58] I mean, maybe he owns the streets.

[00:47:59] I don't know about it.

[00:48:00] All of a sudden somebody can't heckle.

[00:48:03] Well, this guy,

[00:48:05] I wouldn't do it.

[00:48:06] I think it's rude.

[00:48:07] But we talked about this the last time

[00:48:09] but this guy, so here's what happened.

[00:48:11] While thousands of people have taken to the streets

[00:48:13] of the United Kingdom to remember Queen Elizabeth

[00:48:14] following her death last week,

[00:48:15] critics of the monarchy have used the opportunity

[00:48:17] to protest holding signs such as not my king

[00:48:20] a reference to the new King Charles III.

[00:48:22] Police have intervened and in some cases

[00:48:24] arrested protesters raising serious questions

[00:48:26] about the way in which some forces

[00:48:28] are cracking down on dissent descent in the country.

[00:48:32] That's what I'm saying.

[00:48:34] They didn't do anything violent.

[00:48:35] Liberty, a civil rights group expressed concern

[00:48:38] saying it's very worrying to see the police

[00:48:39] enforcing their broad powers in such a heavy-and-punitive way

[00:48:42] to clamp down a free speech and expression.

[00:48:45] That's gonna happen if you have a parade.

[00:48:47] Every time I go on stage,

[00:48:48] somebody could yell shit at me.

[00:48:50] I mean, you're not getting arrested.

[00:48:52] You probably get thrown out if I don't like it,

[00:48:55] but I get to do that because it's my show.

[00:48:57] This is his show, but you can't get arrested.

[00:48:59] You may not like it.

[00:49:00] The other thing is buck up, man.

[00:49:03] It's one heckle.

[00:49:04] There's millions of people

[00:49:06] focused on the people that like you.

[00:49:10] The man does not squeeze his arm too.

[00:49:11] Because I'm sure he's like,

[00:49:12] someone's yelling at me.

[00:49:14] What should I do?

[00:49:17] This guy, Simon Hill from Oxford

[00:49:20] was on his way home from church.

[00:49:21] 45-year-old Tula Sian and at the roads

[00:49:23] in the city center had been cordoned off

[00:49:25] for their procession,

[00:49:26] making it hard for him to get through the crowds.

[00:49:27] Realizing the ascension was about to be

[00:49:30] co-occurring by local officials,

[00:49:31] he decided to lizard rather than pushing to get home.

[00:49:34] They started reading out loud about Elizabeth

[00:49:36] and expressing grief for her death.

[00:49:38] I certainly wouldn't interrupt that.

[00:49:40] I never intruded on an act of mourning.

[00:49:43] That's not something I would ever do.

[00:49:45] Okay, fine, good manners.

[00:49:47] No one should do that, I agree.

[00:49:49] But when King Charles was declared

[00:49:50] to be our only lawful and rightful liege lord,

[00:49:55] L-I-E-G-E?

[00:49:57] I don't even know what that means.

[00:49:58] Lige lord.

[00:50:00] Lord of liege.

[00:50:03] He said he yelled out, who elected him?

[00:50:08] Well, that's a good point.

[00:50:10] Having the right to fuss.

[00:50:13] Is liege having the right to feudal allegiance?

[00:50:15] Or service.

[00:50:16] Or service, okay, well.

[00:50:19] This guy screamed after they said

[00:50:22] he was declared our only lawful and rightful liege lord.

[00:50:25] This guy, Simon, said who elected him?

[00:50:28] And I would all have a problem with that

[00:50:31] because the answer is no one did.

[00:50:33] Only people nearby could have heard me.

[00:50:36] A couple of people told me to shut up.

[00:50:38] I responded that a head of state

[00:50:39] is being imposed without our consent

[00:50:42] and I found it something hard to stomach.

[00:50:45] I don't disagree.

[00:50:47] I don't either.

[00:50:48] He said he was gobsmacked.

[00:50:50] That's a word I don't use enough.

[00:50:52] I'm gonna have to figure out

[00:50:53] how to put that in the language I like it.

[00:50:55] I was cobsmacked by what happened next.

[00:51:00] He was pushed back by security guards,

[00:51:01] then the police intervened, grabbed a hold of me,

[00:51:03] handcuffed me and put me in the back of a van.

[00:51:05] There was probably no more than five minutes

[00:51:08] since I screamed out, yelled out, who elected him?

[00:51:11] He said once he was in the police van

[00:51:12] he kept asking what he was being arrested for.

[00:51:15] What law was he being arrested under?

[00:51:16] They didn't seem to be sure,

[00:51:17] which is quite worrying.

[00:51:19] Such surely arbitrary arrest

[00:51:21] is not something we should have in a democratic society.

[00:51:23] He said he was given conflict and reasons for his arrest

[00:51:26] as police were unsure whether or not to take him into custody.

[00:51:29] After a lot of the police talking to each other

[00:51:31] and their superiors on the radio,

[00:51:33] the police in the van told me

[00:51:35] that I'd been de-arrested and taken home.

[00:51:38] Oh, come on.

[00:51:39] Yeah, that I would be contacted

[00:51:41] and asked to give an interview at a later date.

[00:51:43] He said I would still be charged with something.

[00:51:45] Even at this point, they hadn't answered my questions

[00:51:48] about under what law was I being arrested?

[00:51:51] He told the police officers on the drive home

[00:51:53] that he'd been arrested under the...

[00:51:56] He said he was told by the cops

[00:51:57] that he was been arrested under

[00:51:59] the Police Crime Sentencing Courts Act 2022,

[00:52:02] a controversial speech of legislation introduced last year

[00:52:06] which widens police powers to clamp down on protest.

[00:52:10] Then some other guy told them

[00:52:11] it was a different section

[00:52:13] that he was in offense causing harassment,

[00:52:15] alarm or distress.

[00:52:17] Well, I'm sure it alarmed Charles

[00:52:21] because this is a man who has some other man

[00:52:25] put his pajamas on and ironed your shoelaces.

[00:52:31] Speaking to CNN, see, this guy had a good point.

[00:52:36] Somebody for the civil rights said,

[00:52:37] we could equally say someone holding up a sign

[00:52:40] saying we love the monarchy

[00:52:42] is being seriously annoying

[00:52:43] to someone who doesn't like the monarchy.

[00:52:45] Where does this end?

[00:52:47] Right, oh, it's supposed to end

[00:52:49] when you do something violent, not words.

[00:52:52] Well, maybe a threat, I guess, you could do that.

[00:52:57] He said he did not wanna interrupt

[00:52:59] expressions of royal mourning.

[00:53:00] He did not travel to Buckingham Palace

[00:53:02] where people were paying their respects.

[00:53:04] Rather, he went to Parliament Square,

[00:53:06] a traditional site of political protests in London

[00:53:08] and the House of Parliament.

[00:53:09] He stood alone and held up a blank piece of paper

[00:53:11] within a few minutes a police officer came

[00:53:13] and after my details, he said if I wrote

[00:53:16] not my king on it, I would probably be arrested

[00:53:18] because it's offensive under the Public Order Act.

[00:53:21] I couldn't actually risk writing it

[00:53:23] because I couldn't get arrested

[00:53:24] because I had to represent a client.

[00:53:26] Client, he's a lawyer.

[00:53:27] In a tribunal, something this morning.

[00:53:29] The point is even the threat of arrest

[00:53:32] has a very chilling effect on free speech.

[00:53:34] Yeah.

[00:53:35] Yeah, that's just bullshit.

[00:53:41] What?

[00:53:42] It used to be had people.

[00:53:44] These people used to be had people?

[00:53:45] Yeah, well, right.

[00:53:46] You.

[00:53:47] Right, Tower of London.

[00:53:48] And then we're gonna chop your head off.

[00:53:50] Just because you say I don't like the king

[00:53:51] or he's not my king, now I get arrested?

[00:53:53] I mean, that's really rolling the clock back.

[00:53:56] This is a democratic society that happens to have

[00:53:59] a monarchy that's symbolic.

[00:54:01] They don't even do anything.

[00:54:02] Ribbon cuttings, hospital openings, funerals.

[00:54:06] It's a kingdom.

[00:54:07] It's a kingdom!

[00:54:09] Do you know what kingdom?

[00:54:11] Burger King.

[00:54:13] Uh-oh.

[00:54:14] Wants us back.

[00:54:18] I guess everybody's left-bock at Burger King.

[00:54:19] Now, I like Burger King's.

[00:54:22] I just like their regular burger.

[00:54:24] I've never had a Whopper in my whole entire life.

[00:54:27] It just seems like a lot of shit on there.

[00:54:28] I'm not gonna eat half of it anyway.

[00:54:32] I think the problem is nobody's thinking

[00:54:34] about Burger King anymore.

[00:54:36] Here's what happened.

[00:54:38] Here's what they're gonna do.

[00:54:39] Let's see if you find it all.

[00:54:41] If you think this trickery will work on you.

[00:54:45] Past few years, but it's tough for Burger King.

[00:54:48] Mist steps during the pandemic caused a chain

[00:54:49] to lag behind competitors over the past few quarters.

[00:54:52] Burger King has been playing catch up

[00:54:54] and now the company is hoping a major investment

[00:54:55] in restaurants and advertising will help spark growth

[00:54:58] and propel it ahead of its peers.

[00:54:59] In the next two years, Burger King,

[00:55:01] which is owned by restaurant brands

[00:55:02] and our national, in case you'd like to buy their stuff,

[00:55:05] is planning to invest 400 million in improving the brand.

[00:55:08] 250 million will go towards updating research tech kitchens

[00:55:12] and remodeling.

[00:55:15] How do they get right care?

[00:55:16] We don't care what the kitchen looks like.

[00:55:20] Right, you're supposed to be flame-browning.

[00:55:23] I must see fire back there.

[00:55:24] Fire!

[00:55:25] And 150 million dollars to advertising and digital products.

[00:55:30] Franchisees will also invest on improving brand.

[00:55:33] Oh God, I wouldn't wanna get stuck with that bill.

[00:55:35] That's like an HOA fee.

[00:55:37] What we need a new roof?

[00:55:38] Fuck off.

[00:55:41] One key part of the plan, reminding customers

[00:55:44] what Burger King is all about, the whopper.

[00:55:48] What we really wanna do in the short term

[00:55:49] is reintroduce America's love affair with the whopper.

[00:55:52] You know what if they really wanted to do?

[00:55:53] You wanna get my mom and dad?

[00:55:55] You take that McDonald's soft serve ice cream

[00:55:57] that they serve for a dollar, go 75 cents.

[00:56:00] Oh, Jack and Vicky be two-wheeling it in there.

[00:56:03] Ah!

[00:56:06] And the dog gets one.

[00:56:09] Mm-hmm.

[00:56:11] They're also going to lean into advertising

[00:56:14] at Signature Burger.

[00:56:15] I don't think we've talked about it enough.

[00:56:16] We haven't celebrated it enough.

[00:56:18] The whopper.

[00:56:19] Is this, oh go to the cell, man, is this a vacation?

[00:56:21] They made it to their sauce.

[00:56:23] Everybody has that sauce now.

[00:56:24] Their sauce?

[00:56:25] Isn't it like Thousand Island?

[00:56:26] I never get it.

[00:56:27] I know whenever whatever special sauces are,

[00:56:30] you keep it special.

[00:56:31] You keep it to yourself.

[00:56:32] I don't want any of it.

[00:56:33] And I'm looking forward to putting it back

[00:56:35] in its rightful place.

[00:56:36] Burger King wants to remind customers

[00:56:38] that the whopper is flame grilled and customized.

[00:56:40] They have a great burger.

[00:56:41] It's one of Wendy's.

[00:56:42] The question is if I see Wendy's Taco Bell,

[00:56:45] well, first of all I'm always going to Taco Bell or Arby's.

[00:56:48] If I'm in a burger mood, I'd go to Wendy's.

[00:56:52] I like their burp.

[00:56:53] I don't think about burp.

[00:56:54] They are right, we have forgotten.

[00:56:56] I have.

[00:56:57] I don't, I don't think about it.

[00:57:00] If I want super, super drunk tacos,

[00:57:04] jack in the boxes.

[00:57:06] They just come with a pile of grease on the bottom.

[00:57:08] You have to be drunk.

[00:57:10] If you're drunk, they're the greatest things

[00:57:11] you've ever eaten.

[00:57:12] I know Taco Bell.

[00:57:13] Now Taco Bell's perfect sober.

[00:57:18] Or drunk, but I'm just saying super drunk jack in the box.

[00:57:26] We're a little bit of a can't,

[00:57:28] we're a little bit in the cap if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

[00:57:31] So they want to keep the whopper, okay, I get it.

[00:57:35] During the pandemic this is what went wrong.

[00:57:36] Restaurants had to address quickly

[00:57:38] to business model, their business models

[00:57:39] to contend with the disruptive supply chain

[00:57:41] closed dining rooms and a spike in demand

[00:57:44] for delivery.

[00:57:44] Burger King didn't adapt very well

[00:57:46] over the last few years during the pandemic

[00:57:48] and coming out of a big pandemic.

[00:57:50] Burger King didn't do a great job

[00:57:51] of adjusting our business to the environment.

[00:57:53] We didn't simplify.

[00:57:55] Well, look at him being honest.

[00:57:57] Here's what's went wrong.

[00:57:58] Yeah, we were terrible.

[00:58:00] In the pandemic many restaurants quickly slimmed down

[00:58:02] menus in order to simplify kitchen operations

[00:58:05] when delivery orders suddenly went through the roof.

[00:58:07] Workers scrambling to fill online orders

[00:58:09] at least to avoid complicated preparations.

[00:58:13] We in fact complicated things.

[00:58:15] They went the opposite way.

[00:58:16] We added more menu items during the pandemic.

[00:58:19] Oh my Lord.

[00:58:22] Why would you, even Taco Boa would be like,

[00:58:24] we're out of cheese, meat and lettuce.

[00:58:29] All right, what else you got back there?

[00:58:32] Tomatoes, fajita wrap, that's fine, I'll take two.

[00:58:37] Okay.

[00:58:38] Everybody was running out of ingredients.

[00:58:40] You can't, don't put more shit.

[00:58:43] Specifically he's talking about the chicken,

[00:58:47] a hand breaded chicken sandwich

[00:58:48] that they introduced last year.

[00:58:50] I still haven't tasted one.

[00:58:51] The product created tons of bottlenecks operationally.

[00:58:56] The issue set back Burger King as competitors advance

[00:58:59] and the second quarter sales at Burger King

[00:59:00] remained open at least 13 months

[00:59:03] but grew by just 4%.

[00:59:05] Not to mention there was no chicken in the pandemic.

[00:59:07] Chicken, no, there was no chicken.

[00:59:10] They're gonna work on other menu innovations.

[00:59:15] Don't, they're gonna open 800 restaurants

[00:59:18] over the next two years.

[00:59:20] What?

[00:59:20] Uh-huh.

[00:59:22] They're gonna make their restaurants look more modern.

[00:59:24] They've already started upping the image

[00:59:25] to brand change its logo last year,

[00:59:27] switching packaging uniforms and signatures.

[00:59:29] I'm gonna go, try them.

[00:59:32] You got last?

[00:59:33] I'm gonna go to Burger King.

[00:59:34] Your new logo looks like a 70s logo.

[00:59:35] A 70s logo?

[00:59:36] I'm gonna go in a town

[00:59:37] where there's nothing specific to eat in that town

[00:59:40] so I don't really care what I'm gonna eat.

[00:59:42] Yeah.

[00:59:43] Mm-hmm, Burd Amp.

[00:59:45] The company also wants to make it clear

[00:59:47] easier for customers to use the Chains mobile app,

[00:59:50] revamp its rewards program

[00:59:51] by offering customized digital deals

[00:59:54] and make delivery and to go orders more convenient.

[00:59:57] Oh man.

[00:59:58] Well, I'm just saying,

[00:59:59] the reason we do this on this little podcast

[01:00:02] is so that when you drive by

[01:00:03] and see your new Burger King,

[01:00:05] you're in the know.

[01:00:06] I'm on their website.

[01:00:08] Their website needs to update, let alone.

[01:00:09] Their website needs to update?

[01:00:11] Is it bad?

[01:00:21] A croissant which?

[01:00:22] Yeah, it sounds good.

[01:00:23] Better than an Egg McMuffin.

[01:00:25] After 75 years,

[01:00:29] Cheetos are returning to India

[01:00:31] in a grand experiment.

[01:00:33] Cheetos.

[01:00:34] Cheetos.

[01:00:35] Cheetos.

[01:00:36] Yes, they've been without Cheetos for 75 years

[01:00:39] and they're very sad, sad people.

[01:00:42] I'd be sad if I didn't have Cheetos

[01:00:44] for the rest of my life.

[01:00:45] Cheetos once prowled India

[01:00:47] among lions, tigers and leopards.

[01:00:50] They appear in ancient Hindu texts

[01:00:52] and in cave paintings

[01:00:52] and are woven into centuries old tapestries.

[01:00:55] The Mughal Emperor Akbar

[01:00:57] kept a thousand Cheetos in his stables.

[01:01:05] Well, I don't wanna handle them.

[01:01:06] I'm just saying.

[01:01:08] You know, there was an old German.

[01:01:13] Now what did they have?

[01:01:13] Not an emperor or a king.

[01:01:15] What happened to a king in Germany?

[01:01:17] He was super into toxins

[01:01:18] and he had like a hundred.

[01:01:20] Doxins?

[01:01:21] Doxins, it's a German dog anyway.

[01:01:23] My brother's always had doxins

[01:01:24] and I do think they're hilarious

[01:01:26] and they're super snugglers.

[01:01:27] So nothing to not like

[01:01:29] but they can be very bad too.

[01:01:30] Like they're vindictive

[01:01:32] and they like, I know for sure

[01:01:34] sometimes my brother's dog

[01:01:36] would just go to the bathroom

[01:01:37] because he's angry.

[01:01:39] Like you left or left him too long

[01:01:42] because he'd go right in the middle of the bed.

[01:01:44] Like crazy things

[01:01:45] but anyway, anyway, anyway.

[01:01:47] When that king, I can't remember.

[01:01:48] I'll have to King Wilhelm Kaiser,

[01:01:52] one of the Kaisers

[01:01:53] when foreign dignitaries would come,

[01:01:55] he'd bring them all in the main castle room

[01:01:57] and then he'd go, release the hounds

[01:02:00] and a thousand doxins would run in.

[01:02:04] I would be in heaven.

[01:02:05] A lot of people I think would be disturbed

[01:02:08] but to have a thousand Cheetos,

[01:02:13] imagine if you let them go

[01:02:15] because they can go 75 miles an hour.

[01:02:16] That's why I love them.

[01:02:17] Not to mention, I just like any kind of cat

[01:02:19] but for 75 years, the entirety of its existence

[01:02:23] as an independent nation,

[01:02:25] India has been bereft of Cheetos,

[01:02:27] the world's fastest land animal.

[01:02:29] That changed on Saturday

[01:02:30] when eight Cheetos arrived in central India

[01:02:32] after a flight from Africa

[01:02:34] imitating, initiating a great untried experiment

[01:02:37] for the world, whether a top predator population

[01:02:40] can be brought back to life

[01:02:41] in a place where it was long ago

[01:02:42] hunted to extinction.

[01:02:45] Yeah, I don't really,

[01:02:47] I can't say any kind of educated opinion

[01:02:49] on whether we should be doing this or not

[01:02:51] because I don't know enough about food chains

[01:02:53] and predators and all that shit

[01:02:55] but I would love to see a cheetah in the wild.

[01:02:58] I get excited about a bobcat on a golf course

[01:03:00] and a cheetah, imagine if you were driving along the road

[01:03:03] and you saw a cat going faster than your actual car.

[01:03:06] I mean, they can't go very long that quickly.

[01:03:10] The big cats arrived in India

[01:03:12] on a Boeing 747 from Nambia.

[01:03:15] A military aircraft took them to their new home,

[01:03:17] Kuno National Park in a lush river valley

[01:03:19] where butterflies fluttered over miles of greenery

[01:03:22] in the state of Madhya Pradesh.

[01:03:27] A huge convoy of politicians and supporters traveled

[01:03:29] along the remote park to welcome the cheetahs.

[01:03:32] It's the only large animal,

[01:03:33] it's the only large mammal India has lost.

[01:03:36] It's our moral and ethical responsibility

[01:03:38] to bring them back.

[01:03:39] Well, there might be some local farmers

[01:03:41] and stuff that might be, but they're in a park.

[01:03:44] Yeah.

[01:03:45] That's fine.

[01:03:46] Can you get out though?

[01:03:47] I don't know.

[01:03:48] Like Banff National Park, those animals don't leave.

[01:03:50] No, there's grates.

[01:03:55] Grates, they can't leave?

[01:03:57] Some places, no.

[01:03:58] I don't know, everywhere.

[01:04:00] Mm.

[01:04:01] The plan to return the cheetah dates back to India,

[01:04:04] dates almost to the time of their extinction

[01:04:06] in the country and it represents a bold

[01:04:08] and uncertain attempt to ensure their survival

[01:04:10] by redistributing them from Africa

[01:04:12] where their population is in sharp decline.

[01:04:15] That sucks too.

[01:04:17] The project also reflects the muscular nationalism

[01:04:20] of Prime Minister Narendra Modi,

[01:04:24] who's bringing back,

[01:04:26] who is bringing to bear India's growing wealth

[01:04:28] and scientific knowledge.

[01:04:30] The cat's entry was time for his 72nd birthday.

[01:04:33] Oh, for your birthday you got eight cheetahs.

[01:04:37] That's fabulous.

[01:04:38] He celebrated Saturday by releasing them

[01:04:40] into a soft enclosure at Kuno.

[01:04:42] The cheetahs scurried out of their cages appearing disoriented.

[01:04:48] Along with these cheetahs,

[01:04:49] the nature loving consciousness of India

[01:04:51] has also awakened with full force.

[01:04:53] The cheetah dates back around 8.5 million years ago

[01:04:56] and they were once found in great numbers

[01:04:57] across Africa, Arabia and Asia.

[01:04:58] Now they live exclusively in Africa,

[01:05:01] other than a few in Iran.

[01:05:03] That's weird.

[01:05:04] Aren't they like a cat?

[01:05:05] Don't you have like four or five kittens?

[01:05:07] You would, I don't know.

[01:05:09] The population has estimated to be fewer than 8,000 down half

[01:05:12] over the last four decades.

[01:05:14] With their habitat loss and dangers

[01:05:15] leaving cheetahs vulnerable to extinction in Africa,

[01:05:18] many conservationists argue that it is wise

[01:05:20] to resettle some of the animals.

[01:05:22] India's government will spend roughly one million bucks

[01:05:24] with the support of the Indian Oil Corporation

[01:05:26] over the project for the next five years.

[01:05:29] The eight cheetahs were a gift

[01:05:30] from the government of Nambia.

[01:05:32] The plan is to translate batches of cheetahs

[01:05:34] from Southern Africa until India achieves

[01:05:36] a population of around 40, then what?

[01:05:40] Exactly.

[01:05:41] I don't understand.

[01:05:42] Apart from cheetahs in South Africa's national parks,

[01:05:45] some of the 500 animals are managing privately owned

[01:05:48] reserves as their numbers have grown.

[01:05:50] They've been exported to other African countries.

[01:05:53] What cheetahs more than anything is protected space.

[01:05:55] India offers a wonderful opportunity

[01:05:57] for cheetahs to be in a protected space.

[01:06:01] Still some experts wonder if India has enough

[01:06:05] for the cheetahs to survive.

[01:06:07] And then it goes on to an argument

[01:06:09] that we don't need to get into.

[01:06:14] The idea of reintroducing them popped up in 1952 year,

[01:06:18] five years after its independence from Britain

[01:06:21] when India had its first wildlife meeting

[01:06:23] but then they said, nay-nay.

[01:06:25] So it's a very old idea and they're bringing it back.

[01:06:28] That's crazy.

[01:06:29] Yeah.

[01:06:30] What are we gonna do when there's 40?

[01:06:37] I guess not.

[01:06:38] It's gonna take them a hot minute.

[01:06:39] We'll do an update once I find out if they got to 40.

[01:06:41] Right now, they're at eight.

[01:06:43] They're at eight.

[01:06:44] Nice.

[01:06:46] Let me see how I'm doing here.

[01:06:47] Okay.

[01:06:48] 105.

[01:06:50] All right.

[01:06:51] Oh my God.

[01:06:52] This is perfect.

[01:06:54] Absolutely perfect.

[01:06:57] So, I read this thing that there's this pop star

[01:07:03] in Russia and they said she'd be the equivalent

[01:07:07] of America's Dolly Parton.

[01:07:09] Well, I went and looked on Ella Pugacheva's YouTube channel

[01:07:15] and I'm not seeing at all.

[01:07:19] I thought they meant musically

[01:07:21] and hers are like, what would you do

[01:07:24] if I could like war songs?

[01:07:26] Or the ones I saw.

[01:07:28] Well, they are still at war.

[01:07:29] They're always at war in some way or form

[01:07:31] but they're like smoky.

[01:07:33] It reminded me of like a smoky World War II

[01:07:37] bar with some lady.

[01:07:41] I don't get it, but I admire her

[01:07:45] because she's come out against Putin.

[01:07:48] Now I hope she doesn't stand near windows

[01:07:50] or go near the don't go to any rooftop parties.

[01:07:54] I'd say don't do that.

[01:07:55] You're probably gonna get thrown off.

[01:07:58] Yeah, the show biz star.

[01:08:02] One of Russian's most popular singers, Ella Pugacheva,

[01:08:05] has called on the Russian authorities

[01:08:06] to declare her a foreign agent in solidarity

[01:08:09] with her strongly anti-war husband, Maximum Gallak.

[01:08:14] He's also a show business star.

[01:08:16] He was labeled as a foreign agent on Friday

[01:08:19] after condemning Russia's attack on Ukraine.

[01:08:22] See, I don't think I'd have the balls for this.

[01:08:25] I would be too scared.

[01:08:26] I would pull who was it?

[01:08:30] Who's Mikhail Brezhnevkoff?

[01:08:33] Yep.

[01:08:34] The ballet guy.

[01:08:35] I would just leave.

[01:08:36] And that sucks,

[01:08:37] because you're probably leaving family.

[01:08:40] Baryshnikov, right?

[01:08:41] He came to St. Louis once

[01:08:43] and I had to go as part of some school thing,

[01:08:45] I fell asleep.

[01:08:46] He was on Sex in the City.

[01:08:47] He was?

[01:08:48] Yeah, I never watched it.

[01:08:50] On social media, she called her husband

[01:08:51] a true incorruptible Russian patriot

[01:08:54] who wants to end our lads dying for illusory aims.

[01:09:00] She's been a big star for decades.

[01:09:01] She said the Kremlin,

[01:09:04] they're trying to make our country a pariah

[01:09:07] and the lives of our citizens extremely difficult.

[01:09:11] Her husband, a comedian, TV presenter and singer

[01:09:15] wanted prosperity for his motherland peace

[01:09:17] and free speech.

[01:09:19] The label foreign agent has been applied

[01:09:21] by the Russian government

[01:09:22] to various media organizations, campaign groups

[01:09:24] and individuals openly critical

[01:09:27] of the Kremlin's policies.

[01:09:29] See, I also wouldn't do it right now

[01:09:31] because I think he knows he's losing in Ukraine

[01:09:34] and he's psychomad.

[01:09:35] Yeah, he'll be okay.

[01:09:36] Like I don't wanna,

[01:09:37] but look at Brittany Griner, the WNBA girl.

[01:09:39] I know you shouldn't have had a vape pen.

[01:09:40] I get it, I get it, I get it.

[01:09:41] But I mean do we need to throw a vape pen kid

[01:09:44] in a gulag?

[01:09:45] I mean, come on.

[01:09:45] And she's not a kid, she's 30, but whatever.

[01:09:48] This lady,

[01:09:50] I mean, a huge amount of respect

[01:09:53] but I couldn't,

[01:09:55] she doesn't perform anymore.

[01:09:56] She's 73 years old.

[01:09:58] She's 73 years old.

[01:10:01] Her and her husband went to Israel

[01:10:02] in late March, a month after the Russian invasion

[01:10:07] and she returned to Russia late last month

[01:10:10] with her three children.

[01:10:11] See, I don't know if I'd have gone back.

[01:10:14] In early September,

[01:10:16] Putin's spokesman said of her husband,

[01:10:19] our paths have clearly diverged.

[01:10:21] He has made very bad statements.

[01:10:26] Galchen condemned Russian troops alleged atrocities

[01:10:30] and said there could be no justification

[01:10:31] for the Ukraine invasion.

[01:10:33] Pugachev, who's pop stardom goes back to Soviet times.

[01:10:36] That's what it sounds like.

[01:10:37] Soviet World War II music in a smoky bar.

[01:10:41] Maybe there's more fun videos.

[01:10:43] Maybe I started too far back.

[01:10:44] I don't know.

[01:10:45] I don't know.

[01:10:50] She's the biggest pop star in Russia in the past 50 years.

[01:10:54] Her fame is monumental.

[01:10:55] She's a legendary figure.

[01:10:56] I think this is something

[01:10:57] that so many people have expected her to do

[01:10:59] some time ago because her husband, Malcolm Galchen,

[01:11:03] Maxim Golkin, he made a Zeyhete war statements

[01:11:06] already many times in several months ago.

[01:11:08] I think this is her first strong political statement

[01:11:10] and this in and of itself, of course,

[01:11:12] is quite shocking for the Russian people.

[01:11:13] I think she's not the only one

[01:11:15] who may turn the public opinion.

[01:11:17] The obvious wrongdoings of the Russian army

[01:11:19] and the offensive of the Ukraine army

[01:11:20] and the worsening economic situation and so on.

[01:11:23] All of those factors, they work against Putin

[01:11:25] and the Putin war.

[01:11:26] But I think morally and emotionally

[01:11:28] this statement of Allah Pukacheva

[01:11:30] is maybe one of the strongest efforts

[01:11:32] in these directions.

[01:11:33] And then that says what Russia claims they're doing.

[01:11:36] Now see, here's another way you could do it.

[01:11:38] Go to Israel, you were already there.

[01:11:40] Stay and then just make videos

[01:11:43] and put them all online and say you're,

[01:11:45] but then you'd be safe.

[01:11:47] Maybe I'm being selfish,

[01:11:48] but I don't know that I'd wanna go back.

[01:11:51] If I know he's gonna kill me.

[01:11:53] You may never get out.

[01:11:54] You may never get out

[01:11:55] and he doesn't have a problem

[01:11:59] getting rid of people.

[01:12:02] What are our feelings on the $2 bill?

[01:12:06] I have one because I thought we were supposed to save them.

[01:12:09] I have no bills, I have no feelings.

[01:12:11] You have no bills, you have no feelings?

[01:12:13] No, I have no bills.

[01:12:15] You have feelings about the Buffalo bills?

[01:12:19] Mm-hmm.

[01:12:20] Inflation has made it,

[01:12:21] oh, don't put this on inflation.

[01:12:24] Come on, inflation's made it hard to buy

[01:12:26] much with the dollar these days.

[01:12:27] Maybe come by anything with a dollar 40 years ago.

[01:12:30] A dollar pizza has disappeared,

[01:12:32] dollar stores aren't dollars.

[01:12:34] They haven't been dollar stores in years.

[01:12:35] Ask my nieces.

[01:12:37] The one is a dollar store and the other one isn't

[01:12:40] and then I make the mistake when they were little

[01:12:41] and took them to the one that wasn't

[01:12:42] and then we had to do math

[01:12:43] and I was like, I'm gonna blow my brains out in this store.

[01:12:46] Wouldn't it make stars a sense

[01:12:48] paying bills with $2 bills instead?

[01:12:49] If you had a $2 bill,

[01:12:50] Perfect said Heather McCabe,

[01:12:52] a writer and $2 evangelist who runs the blog

[01:12:56] to Bucca Roo chronically her spending

[01:12:58] with twos and people's reactions.

[01:13:00] It's very useful thing to pay for a small amount.

[01:13:03] Yet the $2 note is the unloved child of paper currency.

[01:13:07] It's considered a curiosity.

[01:13:09] Yeah, somebody did give me one about a year ago somewhere

[01:13:12] and I was like, huh,

[01:13:13] but then I always just give them to the kids

[01:13:15] like keep it man, save that.

[01:13:17] It's worth my, I didn't think there were that many,

[01:13:21] many Americans think $2 bills are rare.

[01:13:23] This American is one of those people.

[01:13:25] And they're not printed anymore.

[01:13:29] I've gone out of circulation.

[01:13:30] Yes, I thought all of that wrong treasured environment.

[01:13:35] They'll print up to $204 million, $2 bills this year

[01:13:38] based on an annual order from the feds.

[01:13:41] There were $1.4 billion, $2 bills in circulation in 2020.

[01:13:46] Where are they?

[01:13:51] Somebody's hoarding them.

[01:13:53] Absolutely.

[01:13:55] I mean, I guess I'd use them,

[01:13:57] but they gotta flush them in.

[01:14:00] You gotta put tons of them

[01:14:02] and then you gotta start taking the dollars back.

[01:14:05] You can't leave the dollars floating around.

[01:14:09] God, they first issued a $2 bill in 1862.

[01:14:13] Alexander Hamilton's portrait was on the two

[01:14:16] until a new series printed in 1869 with Jefferson.

[01:14:20] It was unpopular and it never gained a foothold.

[01:14:23] The main reason the $2 bill was considered bad luck.

[01:14:26] Superstitious people would rip off the corners of the bill

[01:14:28] to reverse the curse, making the bills unfit to use.

[01:14:32] What kind of asshole would rip up their own money?

[01:14:35] Yeah.

[01:14:39] He who sits in a game of chance with the $2 bill

[01:14:41] in his pocket is thought to be saddled with the jinx.

[01:14:44] That's what they said in the New York Times in 1925.

[01:14:46] They have been avoided as ill-starred.

[01:14:51] Who talks like that?

[01:14:52] The two were also known for keeping controversial company.

[01:14:57] It's associated with gambling

[01:14:59] where it was the standard.

[01:15:00] Yeah, a $2 bet at the racetrack.

[01:15:02] I never thought about that.

[01:15:05] You can't do a $1 bet.

[01:15:08] $2 your starter bet.

[01:15:13] It is a racket.

[01:15:14] Maybe that's what they were doing to get the twos out.

[01:15:17] Corny, a crony candidate frequently used $2 bills

[01:15:21] to bribe voters in the early 19th century.

[01:15:23] Someone holding a $2 bill was thought to have a solid,

[01:15:26] have sold a vote to a crooked politician.

[01:15:29] Ooh, so many superstitions.

[01:15:31] Treasury department tried unsuccessfully to popularize it.

[01:15:34] It never worked.

[01:15:35] It gave up and discontinued printing them in 1966

[01:15:38] because of lack of public demand.

[01:15:40] But a decade later, the treasury designed a new $2 bill

[01:15:43] series with a portrait of the signing

[01:15:45] of the Declaration of Independence on the back.

[01:15:46] The aim was to cut the number of $1 bills

[01:15:48] in circulation and save the treasury money

[01:15:50] and production costs.

[01:15:51] But the relaunch in 1976 failed too.

[01:15:54] People viewed the collect as a collector's item

[01:15:56] and still hoarded them instead of going out

[01:15:57] and spending them.

[01:15:58] Yes.

[01:15:59] I am a dumb American and a hoarder.

[01:16:04] I've learned from this article.

[01:16:11] Well, the press and the public now tend to link

[01:16:13] the $2 bill with the Susan B. Anthony dollar, the coin.

[01:16:17] Well, here was the problem

[01:16:18] with the Susan B. Anthony coin.

[01:16:20] It was almost the exact same weight and look as a quarter.

[01:16:27] Do you remember the suit?

[01:16:28] No, Canada doesn't know about this.

[01:16:31] Well, for a while we had a $1 coin

[01:16:34] and Susan B. Anthony was on it.

[01:16:37] But unlike like coins in Ireland or England,

[01:16:40] which are awesome because they're thick

[01:16:42] and when it's in your pocket you feel like you're super rich.

[01:16:44] They're heavy.

[01:16:46] Like you could hurt somebody.

[01:16:47] Well, I'm talking about the old Irish pounds

[01:16:49] and English pounds.

[01:16:50] Like if I threw it at you, it would hurt.

[01:16:53] Yeah.

[01:16:54] If you got too many in your pocket,

[01:16:56] but as an American you were thinking,

[01:16:58] man, I don't have much money left

[01:16:59] and then you pull your change out of your pocket

[01:17:01] or your purse and you're like, fuck, that's like 30 bucks.

[01:17:04] You can't believe those are worth that.

[01:17:06] So it was kind of cool.

[01:17:07] So we did the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin.

[01:17:11] It was silver.

[01:17:12] It was about the same weight as a quarter

[01:17:15] and it looked like a quarter.

[01:17:16] So I'm like, well this is never gonna work.

[01:17:19] It did not differentiate itself enough

[01:17:22] and people were just like, fuck it, I ain't doing that.

[01:17:25] There's no rational reason why $2 bills

[01:17:28] aren't as popular as other bills.

[01:17:30] So-and-so said some professor.

[01:17:32] But people exhibit a preference for multiples of one in five.

[01:17:36] Another reason $2 bills never took off cash registers

[01:17:39] invented in the 1800s were never designed

[01:17:41] with a place to hold them so the cashiers

[01:17:43] didn't know where to stash them.

[01:17:44] Okay, we're a little bit beyond that.

[01:17:46] I don't even know why we're still talking about cash.

[01:17:49] What are we doing?

[01:17:50] Really?

[01:17:51] Hey, could you Venmo me a $2 bill?

[01:17:53] Hmm, hmm, hmm.

[01:17:56] Um.

[01:18:02] Since the 1970s, fans of clubs

[01:18:04] and university Tigers football team

[01:18:06] have paid in tip with $2 bills.

[01:18:07] Tiger twos in other cities, restaurants, bars,

[01:18:11] and shops in a hotel.

[01:18:12] The tradition started as a way to prove

[01:18:14] to Georgia Tech in Atlanta that it would benefit

[01:18:16] the city to schedule games against cleansing.

[01:18:19] There's a degree of popularity to them.

[01:18:21] There's a sense of excitement.

[01:18:23] Not really.

[01:18:25] Oh, there's actually a film.

[01:18:27] In 2015, this guy made a documentary

[01:18:29] called the $2 bill documentary

[01:18:31] and he made it his mission to educate people

[01:18:33] and enlighten them and start using $2 bills in their life.

[01:18:36] How specifically driven do you have to be

[01:18:39] to go that's the documentary I'm doing?

[01:18:42] I mean, there's a lot of topics.

[01:18:45] Oh, he says they're underappreciated

[01:18:48] and it's a way for strangers to meet and engage.

[01:18:51] You will get remembered if you use a $2 bill.

[01:18:55] It has the ability to connect people

[01:18:57] in ways that other bills don't.

[01:18:59] I don't see it.

[01:19:00] They gotta flood it and take all the ones back.

[01:19:02] If that's what they want to happen,

[01:19:03] they need to take control and that's on you,

[01:19:07] US governmental.

[01:19:08] That's on you.

[01:19:09] That's not on me.

[01:19:11] All right, we're closing away the feel good story.

[01:19:15] Well, this is not a political statement.

[01:19:19] I told you I'd tell you about this art guy

[01:19:21] in Las Vegas but I'm gonna have to do that next week

[01:19:23] because I'm gonna have to read a little bit more.

[01:19:26] I lost time on that one.

[01:19:27] But the gist of the art one,

[01:19:33] this guy spent 50 years building this freakish thing

[01:19:36] in the desert in Nevada.

[01:19:39] Yes, 50 years.

[01:19:42] It's finally done.

[01:19:44] You can only go there on foot.

[01:19:45] I don't know, I'm gonna find out if he's crazy.

[01:19:47] Yeah, now I don't even like to be,

[01:19:50] I don't even like to leave the mirage

[01:19:52] to walk across the street to Harris.

[01:19:56] I'm like, oh, I don't know, it's so hot.

[01:19:59] Oh, this is like I complain frequently

[01:20:06] about super rich people in this country

[01:20:08] because I don't see the generous gifts

[01:20:14] that to the general public that used to be made.

[01:20:18] For instance, the Rockefellers.

[01:20:23] There's museums all over the place.

[01:20:25] The Carnegie's.

[01:20:27] Oh my God, did they?

[01:20:29] In Pittsburgh, but all over the country.

[01:20:30] The Carnegie's gave away public museums, libraries, parks.

[01:20:36] They donated and donated and donated

[01:20:38] and didn't get nothing back for it.

[01:20:40] I don't feel like rich people these days do that

[01:20:43] on the level that it used to be.

[01:20:45] Oh, Hershey, the chocolate guy in Pennsylvania,

[01:20:49] Hershey, Pennsylvania.

[01:20:50] Holy shit show that guy gave away some money.

[01:20:52] He created a wonderful, wonderful,

[01:20:54] the whole town is him.

[01:20:57] Of stuff to educate people, the general public.

[01:21:00] Just anybody, you didn't have to work for Hershey

[01:21:03] to go to the whatever.

[01:21:06] So I just feel like there's so many rich people

[01:21:08] and you don't see that kind of stuff anymore

[01:21:10] where boom, here's a whole museum that's free

[01:21:14] or whatever, five bucks.

[01:21:17] And provided to you by the Carnegie Mellon, whatever.

[01:21:22] Or the, well, I don't know that the Vanderbilt's did it.

[01:21:25] Those kind of families.

[01:21:27] I don't know.

[01:21:28] Well, Patagonia is stepping up.

[01:21:32] Three billion dollar corporate gift.

[01:21:36] They're giving all the stock away.

[01:21:38] Wow.

[01:21:39] How much?

[01:21:40] For climate change.

[01:21:41] B?

[01:21:42] B.

[01:21:43] Billion.

[01:21:44] Yup.

[01:21:44] No, it's also a convenient way to avoid taxes.

[01:21:46] But, yeah.

[01:21:49] But that's okay.

[01:21:50] At least she's doing it for a good reason.

[01:21:52] Yvonne Chonade.

[01:21:55] Who started Patagonia in 1973

[01:21:58] and turned it into an iconic

[01:22:00] three billion dollar outdoor apparel empire

[01:22:03] just gave away almost all of the private stock

[01:22:05] in the family owned company

[01:22:07] to a non-profit that will use the proceeds

[01:22:09] to fight climate change.

[01:22:12] It is completely awesome.

[01:22:13] I mean, I don't even know if you can fight climate change.

[01:22:15] There's part of me that's like,

[01:22:16] I don't know, I think we jumped the shark.

[01:22:19] I think we wrecked the house.

[01:22:22] The party got too crazy.

[01:22:26] But it's nice that an outdoor company

[01:22:29] wants to save the outdoors, if possible.

[01:22:31] It's a masterful bit of corporate maneuvering

[01:22:33] that will allow his family

[01:22:34] to effectively maintain control of Patagonia,

[01:22:37] direct billions towards climate advocacy,

[01:22:41] and almost entirely avoid taxes in the product.

[01:22:43] Most of Patagonia's shares, 98%,

[01:22:46] are going to a non-profit,

[01:22:48] meaning that Chonade will not have

[01:22:50] to pay taxes on that gift.

[01:22:52] That's great though.

[01:22:53] It's wonderful.

[01:22:55] I mean, there's people that are like,

[01:22:56] well, that's kind of,

[01:22:57] what if some other company did it

[01:22:58] and they gave away all their money

[01:23:00] to oppose climate change?

[01:23:04] Okay.

[01:23:04] Well, we can start that fight.

[01:23:06] You guys wanna get in that war?

[01:23:08] Find somebody with three billion.

[01:23:09] Find somebody with three billion

[01:23:11] who's got a cool jacket.

[01:23:14] Who was the one,

[01:23:15] which was the outdoor company

[01:23:17] where the guy actually died?

[01:23:19] In a river, in a kayak.

[01:23:22] Columbia?

[01:23:23] I'll have to Google it for next week's talk.

[01:23:26] It was like a Patagonia, but not.

[01:23:27] It was like, it might've been a Patagonia.

[01:23:32] Yeah, he's still alive,

[01:23:33] so he didn't die.

[01:23:34] But could've been the CEO or something.

[01:23:36] Yeah, I'll find out.

[01:23:38] Update!

[01:23:39] Update!

[01:23:40] Okay, termites.

[01:23:41] Well, I lost my paper clip on that one.

[01:23:44] So, Tarte, when you hear this,

[01:23:46] I'll be coming to Chattanooga.

[01:23:48] Did you know you can stay in the Chattanooga

[01:23:50] choo-choo train?

[01:23:51] Yes, you can.

[01:23:51] Are you staying in it?

[01:23:52] No, I have stayed in it.

[01:23:53] I'm not gonna be staying in it this time.

[01:23:56] And then Knoxville, Tennessee?

[01:23:58] I'm just barreling straight down that road.

[01:24:02] Knoxville the game, the Tennessee game.

[01:24:05] I can't get away from these college games.

[01:24:07] My God, downtown, Austin was psycho.

[01:24:10] With Texas longhorn people everywhere.

[01:24:13] I mean, it's a fun atmosphere.

[01:24:14] I wish I was going to the game,

[01:24:15] but I was going to work.

[01:24:16] And still people came in that traffic to see me.

[01:24:19] I was shocked.

[01:24:21] They get extra round of applause for that, Austin.

[01:24:23] Because they had a...

[01:24:24] But Dallas did too,

[01:24:25] because my cousins came to that show

[01:24:27] and they had to battle the Michael Buble traffic.

[01:24:30] Uh-oh.

[01:24:30] Okay.

[01:24:31] What? Wait, what?

[01:24:32] Michael Buble was also in downtown Dallas.

[01:24:34] I'm gonna stop it.

[01:24:35] I owe...

[01:24:36] My age theater is like $14, $15 seats.

[01:24:39] He's like probably the American Airlight Center

[01:24:42] or something like that.

[01:24:44] He's my friend, Lareen's mom's favorite singer.

[01:24:47] Just for the record, Michael Buble.

[01:24:49] Anywho.

[01:24:51] So the Tennessee game is on Saturday.

[01:24:53] My show is on Friday night in Knoxville,

[01:24:55] but everybody's getting in,

[01:24:56] because I was Googling and I'm like,

[01:24:58] what the fuck are hotels in Knoxville for $195,000?

[01:25:04] And I'm like, oh no.

[01:25:07] So if you got nothing to do on that Friday,

[01:25:08] you come on down and see a little comedy show

[01:25:11] if you'd like to battle the crowds.

[01:25:12] And then...

[01:25:13] Then I'm still going down the road.

[01:25:15] Asheville.

[01:25:17] Fine.

[01:25:18] Yep.

[01:25:21] I love Asheville.

[01:25:23] I like the craft beers.

[01:25:25] I love going to the Biltmore,

[01:25:27] but I'm becoming like my mother.

[01:25:28] I go in these places and I'm like,

[01:25:30] I've never seen this shit.

[01:25:31] And I know I've been there 13 times.

[01:25:33] I'm like, but they'll tell me a story.

[01:25:35] It's like brand new.

[01:25:36] Oh really? Then what did the Vanderbilt's do?

[01:25:38] And then the Vanderbilt's and then the Vanderbilt's.

[01:25:40] It really is an amazing, amazing place

[01:25:42] if you've never been.

[01:25:43] And then I like to go to what used to be the Grove Inn

[01:25:45] and I think is now an Omni.

[01:25:47] And they have the coolest fireplace in there.

[01:25:50] I mean, it's not cold right now, but they'll still light it.

[01:25:52] And then you can have drinks out on this really cool...

[01:25:54] It's like an old castle.

[01:25:55] Pretty much a castle in the mountains, if you will.

[01:25:59] It's also where F. Scott Fitzgerald stayed for a long time

[01:26:02] because Cuckoo Bells, his wife was in the nut house

[01:26:05] down the street.

[01:26:06] Zelda. Yeah, sadly that's what she died in.

[01:26:11] I know we were trying to end on a happy note and I ruined it.

[01:26:15] My Fancy team,

[01:26:17] I'm very disturbed by this news that Giselle is in New York.

[01:26:22] I don't like it.

[01:26:24] Tommy still won, but he didn't get me that many points.

[01:26:27] And then Mike Evans and our one receiver got in a fight.

[01:26:30] Now he's suspended.

[01:26:33] I'm not losing my face in Tommy.

[01:26:35] Tommy Salami does no wrong.

[01:26:38] I was also thinking about doing a podcast

[01:26:40] just for you sports people

[01:26:41] who would like to learn how to do a fantasy league.

[01:26:43] Does anybody want that?

[01:26:44] I'll make it like a 20 minute thing.

[01:26:46] I'll have up,

[01:26:47] well I'll show everybody how to do it.

[01:26:49] You can do it now.

[01:26:49] You don't have to start the beginning of the year.

[01:26:52] But it's only for people

[01:26:53] who want to start a super beginner league

[01:26:56] because I'm well aware

[01:26:56] because of my brother and brother-in-law

[01:26:58] and all that, there are super duper complicated ones.

[01:27:00] This is not.

[01:27:01] This is dumb proof.

[01:27:03] But I'll show you guys how to do it if you want

[01:27:05] because some people seem to be interested.

[01:27:07] If not enough people care, that's fine too.

[01:27:09] I won't do it.

[01:27:12] I'll explain the flex position.

[01:27:14] I mean come on, if my nine year old nephews

[01:27:17] can understand anybody can.

[01:27:19] The amount of joy I took in beating a 12 year old

[01:27:22] was just, yeah I did.

[01:27:25] Yeah, yeah baby she mad again,

[01:27:27] destroyed powerhouse.

[01:27:28] I forget what he's called.

[01:27:34] Otherwise, everybody's fine.

[01:27:37] I'll be going to see Florence and the machine tomorrow night.

[01:27:39] I'm very excited.

[01:27:40] Outside so she can be her normal witch self.

[01:27:43] The Sauron St. Louis one time at the opera house

[01:27:45] which is the same place I work.

[01:27:47] And the crowd wasn't really getting into it

[01:27:49] and in my mind I thought she doesn't know

[01:27:52] that we are Midwest people and we're in the opera house

[01:27:54] and we think we can't stand up.

[01:27:56] We think we'll get kicked out.

[01:27:58] It's a matter of thing.

[01:27:59] We're like you can't stand up in here it's the opera house.

[01:28:02] Look around, fuck face this is fancy.

[01:28:05] And so finally she's like it's okay

[01:28:07] if you'd like to get up and then we're all like

[01:28:09] she said we could.

[01:28:13] Don't blame me.

[01:28:14] The performer said it was absolutely fine

[01:28:16] for me to stand up and go crazy.

[01:28:20] But yes the fantasy is going well.

[01:28:24] And the pick and pull I'm in the 13th place

[01:28:28] but there's like 39 people.

[01:28:31] I'll take it.

[01:28:32] It's not horrible.

[01:28:36] You're suffering.

[01:28:38] Derek Henry is not doing it for you.

[01:28:41] Josh Allen is nobody on the bills disappoints nobody.

[01:28:47] There's a lot of disappointments on some other teams.

[01:28:50] I don't need to go into my hate list.

[01:28:52] I won't do that.

[01:28:53] Cause everybody's trying really hard.

[01:28:55] But you know what?

[01:28:57] I did pick the Arizona to beat the Raiders.

[01:29:01] Not many people did.

[01:29:02] All right that's enough tough

[01:29:03] cause a lot of people don't even care about the football.

[01:29:07] But if you guys wanna learn how

[01:29:09] I'll get a chart out here

[01:29:10] and then I'll do the app on the phone

[01:29:11] you can follow along.

[01:29:13] I'll make a whole thing.

[01:29:16] And it would not be part of the podcast

[01:29:18] in case you people are worried like fuck

[01:29:19] I don't wanna hear that shit for 25 minutes.

[01:29:20] It'll be separate, totally separate.

[01:29:22] All right turn right.

[01:29:23] You are now officially fall turn right.

[01:29:26] So get out there enjoy fall, enjoy September.

[01:29:29] What's my birthday month?

[01:29:31] What what what?

[01:29:32] What are you doing for your birthday?

[01:29:33] For my birthday?

[01:29:36] Golf, I'm gonna go to a cardinal game.

[01:29:39] I wanna see Yachty.

[01:29:41] The cardinals right here.

[01:29:43] Eight games in first place.

[01:29:48] And go fishing.

[01:29:51] If who will be there?

[01:29:54] Yachty might be playing.

[01:29:55] I think it's Adam Wayne right bobblehead night though.

[01:30:01] So he'll be pitching.

[01:30:03] Or I might have a confused.

[01:30:04] It might be Yachty's bobblehead.

[01:30:05] It's bobblehead in the weekend.

[01:30:06] I don't know.

[01:30:07] I don't really care about the bobblehead.

[01:30:11] Well I care about Fred Bird.

[01:30:12] That's not a bobblehead.

[01:30:13] That's a beer drinking stein.

[01:30:16] I have a bucky's bobblehead.

[01:30:17] Yeah, but bucky is more real to me than actual cardinals.

[01:30:23] I've met him.

[01:30:24] I've met him.

[01:30:26] All right that's it.

[01:30:27] Night night turbines.