Episode 111: Halloween In Salem, Santa Claus’s Grave, & Vanishing Snow Crabs

[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.

[00:00:17] Turn right, fire!

[00:00:24] That's pretty loud, right?

[00:00:26] Episode 111

[00:00:29] Ah, ah, ah, back from Grand Rapids.

[00:00:34] Rapido.

[00:00:35] Rapido?

[00:00:36] And detroit?

[00:00:37] Detroit?

[00:00:38] All the shows are sold out. Everybody was so fun.

[00:00:41] And at Grand Rapids, if you're ever downtown, I went to the cottage bar for lunch actually,

[00:00:47] twice.

[00:00:48] Did you?

[00:00:49] Yeah.

[00:00:50] It's the oldest bar downtown. It was opened in 1927 by Earl and Marie Coon.

[00:00:55] Cool.

[00:00:56] Yeah, they made it through prohibition and everything. And it's got a new owner, John

[00:01:01] Verhill, became the third owner of the interior as it changed. It's so cool. It's like

[00:01:05] an old Irish, like the floors are crooked, there's a little fireplace back there.

[00:01:09] That they needed at this weekend. But there was a wonderful little treat. And then Detroit

[00:01:15] I didn't really get to go anywhere because I had two shows.

[00:01:19] But my friends came, the guy who owns the comedy club in Detroit, Mark Ridley's, that

[00:01:24] I've been going to for a thousand years. He came over, my girlfriend Mary, she came

[00:01:28] over and Dick Purton, the voice of Detroit for many, many, many years.

[00:01:33] His daughters and everything was great.

[00:01:37] And then so much stuff backstage. I'm not going to go through everything because I think

[00:01:40] people get bored, but I want you guys to know I do get this stuff. I bring some of it home,

[00:01:45] some of it I eat with the staff.

[00:01:47] Cool.

[00:01:48] And then some of it I give to whatever human dumpster is basically the opening act.

[00:01:54] It amuses me to watch that like Michael Palisac opened this weekend if you're

[00:01:59] wondering who that was. That was like he's so funny. But I've never seen somebody

[00:02:03] eat like that for a being of thin man. Like he's in shape and I'm like, he'll have Uber

[00:02:08] Eats and then my stuff will come backstage and it'll be like, oh, you're going to eat

[00:02:12] these French fries? I'm like, no, you can get it right into it. It's just amazing though.

[00:02:16] It's fun to watch. But I got everything now somebody this is back. This was all from

[00:02:21] Detroit, I think. Yeah, this is all Royal Oak. Constance sent all kinds of stuff.

[00:02:28] But she sent these anti kept ranch fries. Yeah, they're addictive. They would be. Yeah,

[00:02:37] I'll stop or I'm going to eat the whole bag. But yeah, so shout out to Constance for that.

[00:02:42] Somebody and I don't know who sent it Detroit style pizza.

[00:02:46] I know what I don't know who sent him. It's thick. It's like Chicago deep dish

[00:02:54] kind of. It was very good. I had a piece of that and then Michael and some of the crew

[00:03:00] guys Tom three and Tom four from Royal Oak sent beer Oh, and the greenies for the cats.

[00:03:06] They can't I got to I'm giving them like bags a day. It's like cocaine. They love it.

[00:03:11] And they like these these temptations. I can't wait to see him eat these because somebody

[00:03:15] said these backstage in a bag. They're crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside.

[00:03:19] So I'm going to trick them. I want to see the look on their face. They think they

[00:03:22] have a hard one.

[00:03:23] Well, it's human flavored chicken liver and beef flavors. It says tasty human flavors.

[00:03:30] They'll like it. So Tom I got Denise and John sent beer and these potato chips.

[00:03:40] Look at this. Okay. These are from Michigan kettle cooked Michigan cherry.

[00:03:46] If you don't know Trevor city's favorite very famous for of its cherry tree.

[00:03:50] They would giant cherry festival and also cherry barbecue potato chips.

[00:03:55] We'll see. Yeah, it's weird. I can taste cherry for real. Yeah.

[00:04:07] Not sure I want cherry in my barbecue potato chips, but they did it.

[00:04:11] They actually accomplished it. All these other people that say it.

[00:04:14] And then they don't accomplish it.

[00:04:17] Just so they set these aside here from all. Wow.

[00:04:21] I fear a cherry monster. You should go get those three yourselves.

[00:04:25] I yeah, somebody sent me a bad. Oh, Catherine sent me this person named Catherine sent

[00:04:33] classic lays. Thank you, Catherine. Nice.

[00:04:36] And then the potato sticks thing. I gave Michael one kept the other one from his

[00:04:40] up and this viola sent this. So let's try this.

[00:04:44] Now we'll be done with all that backstage stuff because there's a lot going on

[00:04:47] back there. Especially a two show night. It's Fridays Buffalo ranch and wing

[00:04:52] dipping sauce. Now I'm always amazed on the road when there's a Fridays.

[00:04:57] I thought they were kind of yeah, I thought Applebee's kind of took over.

[00:05:01] But back in the day Fridays was great. They were the first ones remember with

[00:05:06] potato skins we're all like oh my God, these are the greatest things ever made.

[00:05:11] Yeah, that's a new reason go Fridays.

[00:05:20] That tastes like old school wing sauce. It's really good.

[00:05:25] Yeah, I don't know what else you put it on. What was just fine on that cracker?

[00:05:29] What am I drinking? I'm drinking a uber beer up a peninsula.

[00:05:33] Yeah, it's called upper hand uber. There were a lot.

[00:05:37] I think there were quite a few Ubers or at least people that go up there at

[00:05:39] the shows because I do that joke about going to the upper peninsula Michigan

[00:05:43] and then they all went crazy. So in a good way crazy.

[00:05:46] Yeah, I don't know if they came down. I doubt they came down.

[00:05:49] The ones that live up there I don't think come down out of their area very often.

[00:05:54] They're very content staying right on up there.

[00:05:58] Okay, let's move into a little Queen news. My friend, Lareen sent this one to me

[00:06:02] because I had not seen it.

[00:06:05] A bill signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom in California is bringing a little

[00:06:09] of Dolly Parton's magic to the state of California. That's right.

[00:06:14] It expands her imagination. The library program to the children statewide

[00:06:19] children under the California kids under the age of five will be eligible

[00:06:22] to enroll in the program to receive a free book every month through a

[00:06:25] direct mail program starting in June 2023. I told Michael get your son signed up.

[00:06:30] He's three. Yeah, it was signed into law on my birthday.

[00:06:34] Which by the way, I have a ton of cards making video.

[00:06:37] I can't go through them all on here. It's too many, but I do appreciate it.

[00:06:39] I got everything after I got yelled at by the post office ladies.

[00:06:42] You gotta get up here more often girl. This box is crazy.

[00:06:47] I'm like, I know, I know, I know. I'll pay for two. How about that?

[00:06:53] So that's good news. California's with little kids sign up.

[00:07:00] Um, well, you know what I'm going to do?

[00:07:04] I'm going to talk about it before I forget if I don't because sometimes I forget

[00:07:08] to talk. What are we watching? Well, I watched the watcher. Did you watch it?

[00:07:13] Yeah, I have mixed feelings too. I feel like I was tricked because then

[00:07:19] I went and Google the real story. Well, a lot of the stuff in the show

[00:07:26] didn't ever happen because it says based on a true story and I half

[00:07:30] the time I love what Ryan Murphy does half the time, I think he's deranged.

[00:07:35] Right? And I go, Oh yeah, I can't watch all this. Like it's too crazy or too

[00:07:40] gruesome and I don't know. I loved who he picked. I love Jennifer Coolidge.

[00:07:46] Mia Farrow was the perfect creepy lady like everybody in it.

[00:07:50] What's her name? Naomi Watch. She's fine. Like they're all.

[00:07:54] I liked the actors, but then when you read the real story first of all,

[00:07:58] I'm not even going to break anybody's heart, but I'm going to tell you that

[00:08:02] what you see if you watch that these people really overreacted

[00:08:06] to letters. Yeah, I mean, you get a letter in the mail that says

[00:08:10] I'm watching you. Okay. I hope you are. I hope somebody's watching this place

[00:08:16] while I'm not here. Is there somebody watching that be great? It was just a very

[00:08:20] seemingly so I think in the movie of the show he had to act like

[00:08:25] there was more stuff happening, but it wasn't really happening.

[00:08:29] So what am I wasting my time for? Based on a true story means

[00:08:33] you're following it mostly. I don't think that means you can add

[00:08:37] whole incidents. No. Like the guy in the dumbwaiter.

[00:08:41] There was never a man in the dumbwaiter and these people in real life

[00:08:45] they never even moved into that house. They did not.

[00:08:49] They did renovations. They did end up selling it for less.

[00:08:53] There's just all kinds of shit when you Google the real story. And by the way,

[00:08:57] the people that live there now are super upset with the watcher because now everybody's driving out there.

[00:09:01] The house you see in the show is not the one, just the real one that somewhere in New York.

[00:09:05] Right. Yeah. Where? Right. Right.

[00:09:09] New York. That's the one they use for the set. Yeah. Well, the one

[00:09:13] in real life is in Jersey and now everybody's driving there.

[00:09:19] So now they're really being watched. You're being super duper

[00:09:23] watched. I don't know. I thought the casting and the

[00:09:27] acting was great. It was enjoyable. I just wish he would have stuck to the

[00:09:31] story, but I think the story is too boring and these people were chicken shits.

[00:09:35] Or put a camera on your mailbox. Yes. What?

[00:09:39] Somebody sent those creepy letters. Put a ring doorbell on a tree that goes towards the mailbox.

[00:09:43] And then you can go, oh, here's the creep who's putting...

[00:09:47] I don't know. I enjoyed it, but then I was creep.

[00:09:51] He's a creeper. He, she, that sounds like a man.

[00:09:55] I don't know.

[00:09:59] It was enjoyable, but I do feel tricked. And had I known all that,

[00:10:03] I probably still would have watched because I love the actors and who's the lady,

[00:10:07] the one that was in the Americans? Not Marge.

[00:10:11] Dark Hair. 60s.

[00:10:15] She played the neighbor, the creepy neighbor.

[00:10:19] I can't think of her name. She's wonderful too. She's great.

[00:10:23] She played the mom and million dollar baby.

[00:10:27] Margo Martindale.

[00:10:31] What did I say? Marge? Close.

[00:10:35] She looks more like a Marge. Anyway, Mia Farrow.

[00:10:39] When I see the character and then I think

[00:10:43] she's probably not too far off. In real life like that.

[00:10:47] Very... I said Jennifer Gullidge. I love her.

[00:10:51] She's so good and best in show. Her and Fred Willard made that all for me.

[00:10:55] But anyway, that's what I invested a lot of time in that.

[00:10:59] And I feel tricked. Yeah.

[00:11:03] And Ryan Murphy usually tells you if you're going to be tricked, I feel like.

[00:11:07] And I didn't feel that I was giving enough heads up.

[00:11:11] I've moved on to the Vatican Girl one episode. So far it's a little slow going.

[00:11:15] It's about a girl that goes missing.

[00:11:19] And then, no, it's a current thing. Not hard.

[00:11:23] Update! On our super yacht thing.

[00:11:31] The one that was in Hong Kong.

[00:11:35] We talked about it. The luxury yacht belonging to a sanctioned oligarch Alexi Mordažov.

[00:11:39] Has departed Hong Kong waters

[00:11:43] and headed for South Africa port of Cape Town.

[00:11:47] The prominent site of the 465 foot multi-deck Nord

[00:11:51] in the cities Victoria Harbor in recent weeks has sparked criticism to the United States

[00:11:55] State Department which questions the transparency

[00:11:59] of the financial hub and warned of reputational risk.

[00:12:03] While a number of Russian super yachts have been seized or denied entry into other ports

[00:12:07] the Nord was left undisturbed in Hong Kong after its arrival

[00:12:11] on October 5th. Valued at $500 million. It arrived

[00:12:15] via a 7 day voyage from Vladstock in Russia Far East.

[00:12:19] Blah blah blah. The pressure got to them. They kicked them out.

[00:12:23] But why is South Africa so fine and dandy with that?

[00:12:27] But I'll bet you they wish they weren't kicked out. Money. You know parking

[00:12:31] feet? You want a slot? You want a boat slip?

[00:12:35] Let's see do I have a boat slip that's 465 feet long?

[00:12:39] But if I did, I would charge you all the money. Where are you going to park it? Have you

[00:12:43] called ahead? Think of how much gas money that's going to

[00:12:47] cost to go from Hong Kong to South Africa.

[00:12:51] Yeah. Right. Why not just go out

[00:12:55] and throw anchor? You know?

[00:12:59] It's a big ass anchor. It's as big as this house.

[00:13:03] That's how big the anchor would be. But they're on the run because they're in trouble

[00:13:07] because everybody's mad. Update!

[00:13:11] Boris Becker is teaching yoga in prison.

[00:13:15] It's going to help him keep fit. Yeah, it will.

[00:13:19] Not even a prison sentence is going to get in the way of the former athlete's discipline.

[00:13:23] So very German of you.

[00:13:27] Former number one tennis player, Boris Becker, who's apparently thriving behind bars as he

[00:13:31] helps his fellow inmates keep fit by hosting makeshift exercise sessions

[00:13:35] at the UK Hunter Comb prison.

[00:13:39] He's currently serving a two and a half year sentence.

[00:13:43] It's just amazing. I mean for the children listening, you don't

[00:13:47] remember but it would be like saying Serena Williams

[00:13:51] and he was that famous in tennis. And he was the

[00:13:55] Zyblon. Zyb-perfect. German.

[00:13:59] He is sharing his life

[00:14:03] experience with his fellow prisoners. He continues

[00:14:07] to do well under circumstances and he has constructively integrated himself into

[00:14:11] daily prison life as German lawyers side.

[00:14:15] So two and a half more years Boris. You get he'll be a whole full blown

[00:14:19] yogi by then. I wonder if the other

[00:14:23] presidents are like no shit the real Boris Becker like for reals

[00:14:27] like yeah there he is.

[00:14:31] This is another update.

[00:14:35] Thanks. Well this is just

[00:14:39] I it's not funny but it makes me laugh.

[00:14:43] An eco mob targeted

[00:14:47] another masterpiece of painting. German climate

[00:14:51] activists throw mashed potatoes over Monet's Les Mule

[00:14:55] at the Barberini Museum and then glued themselves to the floor.

[00:14:59] How do you get mashed potatoes into an art museum?

[00:15:03] I mean it's been so I haven't

[00:15:07] been to Europe well like just Ireland

[00:15:11] but I like France or whatever forever. But even when I can remember

[00:15:15] going into the Louvre Art Museum you went through a whole

[00:15:19] bunch of shit. Many security things and that was even before

[00:15:23] like 9-11 before major terroristic things it was

[00:15:27] they've got a lot of shit there. I don't understand

[00:15:31] here's what I would say to all museum curators

[00:15:35] and people involved in the security if you see

[00:15:39] anyone under 40 carrying food

[00:15:43] the answer is no. No. No tomato soup. They got in mashed

[00:15:47] potatoes like what kind of security this is bullshit

[00:15:51] and this is a Monet worth $110 million.

[00:15:55] It was covered in glass. I've googled it since

[00:15:59] and they've been arrested these two kids and they're mad about climate change

[00:16:03] and I don't disagree that there is bad things obviously happening with the

[00:16:07] weather but this is just

[00:16:11] you're gonna go wreck art. Can't we think of something else?

[00:16:15] I mean we can't ever replace it. They do matter to civilization

[00:16:19] it's like here's the smart shit we did a painting or something

[00:16:23] I don't know music or something but they don't care

[00:16:27] they're very angry but here's my thing. Anybody under 40 there's a separate line

[00:16:31] for you. We're not

[00:16:35] letting you in with backpacks. How can you even get in with that shit?

[00:16:39] I don't either. The police arrested a pair of German

[00:16:43] protesters who had a bid to bring attention to the perils of climate change through mashed potatoes

[00:16:47] Sunday at a Claude Bonnet painting that once sold for more than $110 million

[00:16:51] they're investigating

[00:16:55] for property damage and trespassing after the incident at the museum

[00:16:59] the site of the Brandenburg, the capital of the state of

[00:17:03] Brandenburg about 20 miles southwest of Berlin. Here's what's funny too

[00:17:07] there's a video and it's like a normal time of day

[00:17:11] in the museum and there's a dude, an older man

[00:17:15] and he sees the kids do it and he just runs away. I'm like sir you are not in trouble

[00:17:19] you didn't do it but I think he was just like oh shit's going to

[00:17:23] go down and he just ran away. He's in the corner of the video

[00:17:27] if you watch it. The painting was called

[00:17:31] Grain Stacks which was painted by Monet

[00:17:35] in 1890 sold for $110 million at a 2019

[00:17:39] auction. There's no damage from this stunt as it lies

[00:17:43] behind a layer of protective glass but again the frame

[00:17:47] and trust me they're not framing this shit at Michael's

[00:17:51] 50% off

[00:17:55] stop it Michael's. It's 50% off every time I go in there if I say so. That's how that

[00:17:59] rolls.

[00:18:03] They're being investigated for property damage, video posted to the twitter account

[00:18:07] of the, it's called The Last Generation

[00:18:11] that's what their climate group is called. They claim responsibility

[00:18:15] for the videos of shit. They did it at some car show too. I don't remember where I saw it this week

[00:18:19] when I was too busy to make note of it. They glued themselves to expensive

[00:18:23] cars. This is right

[00:18:27] after they threw, they just made a stupid sunflower

[00:18:31] and then they're screaming in the videos are paintings worth more than life.

[00:18:35] That's not the point. I don't like logic that's illogical.

[00:18:39] What is a painting worth more than the earth?

[00:18:43] That's not the flip and argument. The argument is

[00:18:47] well this is where I'm a defeatist. People my age just go

[00:18:51] you know what people way more connected and everything else

[00:18:55] are in charge of this shit not mean. I can't do anything about it. They're going to do what they do.

[00:18:59] Do what you do, do what you do. We ain't doing it.

[00:19:03] Yeah they glued themselves to the floor. I just, the children

[00:19:07] they need help organizing like

[00:19:11] this is a stunt. I'm talking about it

[00:19:15] so okay you know people talk there's videos

[00:19:19] and you got the word out but the words already out. The word is

[00:19:23] out. This isn't like something that nobody has an opinion on or whatever.

[00:19:27] The question is how do you get people to do something about it

[00:19:31] and who are those people? No I mean the people

[00:19:35] that are in charge. People that are making plastic water bottles are making shit tons

[00:19:39] money and they're not going to stop until somebody makes them stop.

[00:19:44] Yeah they may have to run for office but how can you do that if you've glued to a floor?

[00:19:48] Right. And all you're doing is figuring out how to get mashed potatoes into

[00:19:52] a museum. Now you have a record now you can't run.

[00:19:56] Oh wow just stop oil that's the ones that threw the tomato soup

[00:20:00] they also block famous every road crossing in the same

[00:20:04] poses as the beetle as they blocked traffic in London in their latest climate stunt.

[00:20:08] Yeah somebody's got to help the children. This is not

[00:20:12] you're just pissing people off you're not going to get anybody on your team if you are messing up

[00:20:16] traffic. It's the 23rd consecutive day of protest

[00:20:20] by the group which has caused chaos on the roads of London, southeast

[00:20:24] England last weekend is performing high profile stunts.

[00:20:28] I don't know somebody needs to go help the children figure out a way

[00:20:32] that's better. Update! I have two updates

[00:20:38] on Netflix. Who's ready for it people?

[00:20:42] Who's ready for it? Netflix will now charge

[00:20:46] $6.99 a month

[00:20:50] for its new service but you have to watch ads.

[00:20:54] I can't go back. I tried with the thing about Pam

[00:20:58] that show with Renee Zegwiller because that lady from Missouri I actually know exactly

[00:21:02] where that lady was from and I really wanted to see it. Well it was on network first

[00:21:06] on NBC? No. Because I knew it was going to come out on Hulu.

[00:21:10] I'm like I can't watch a show like this anymore. It's like a lot of commercials

[00:21:14] not just or do it like one at the top, one in the

[00:21:18] middle, one at the end. That's manageable. This was

[00:21:22] old school every 15 minutes a whole new blocker. I'm like oh

[00:21:26] no no no no. So Netflix is a

[00:21:30] pricing it's ad supported service at $6.99 a month which will be $1 less than Disney

[00:21:34] and Hulu with commercials. They will be

[00:21:38] 15 or 30 seconds in length and they will play before and during

[00:21:42] the content. You can't start off as a no commercial

[00:21:46] I don't understand why people don't do more product placement

[00:21:50] product placement. I'm not a business person

[00:21:56] but I'm a viewer and I would not put up with this shit. They'll have

[00:22:03] average 4 to 5 minutes of commercials but they don't say for how long of the show

[00:22:07] they're going to be. Well how much are you saving? How much is the

[00:22:16] not? Oh I'm going to be able to tell you that in a minute. Pricing below. Here's the thing about

[00:22:20] my television. The front page looks like a yard sale.

[00:22:24] I have every app, I'm sure I've paid for all of them like three times. I get

[00:22:28] too frustrated and then I get mad.

[00:22:32] My home page also known as the front page of the TV.

[00:22:36] When it comes on there's like a thousand apps. Sometimes

[00:22:40] I just keep waiting for, I gotta find one of the children.

[00:22:44] I keep looking at the golf course. Anybody under

[00:22:48] 40 want to come over and clean my TV up? Come on, how about a hundred bucks?

[00:22:52] Anybody like, I don't even look at my bill because

[00:22:56] I know I've done it. I made terrible error. I'm going to.

[00:23:00] I keep waiting until the weather shitty then I'm gonna be like okay that's my project for the day.

[00:23:04] You think you can do it the day? This is, yeah I got

[00:23:08] to delete things. Then I don't know the goddamn passwords and then I have to change them

[00:23:12] because my parents are trying a monkey on my back all these things and

[00:23:16] HBO Max is 999 with ads.

[00:23:20] Without it, it's 14. So you're saving five bucks.

[00:23:24] What is your time worth? Um, if you want, Netflix without

[00:23:30] ads is 1549. That is a big difference.

[00:23:34] Seven dollars versus it's an eight dollar

[00:23:38] difference. Well basic without ads

[00:23:42] is only 999. What's basic Netflix?

[00:23:46] They're getting too confusing. Hulu, eight bucks with ads

[00:23:50] 15 without. Seven dollar difference. That's a big deal.

[00:23:54] Paramount plus five bucks with ads

[00:23:58] 10 without. Peacock same. Disney

[00:24:02] eight with ads 11 without ads.

[00:24:06] I think I pay for all this.

[00:24:10] I don't know what a bundle is. I know it's a bunch. I know it's a bunch. But how much is a bundle?

[00:24:14] Why buy the bundle? What if I bought them all individually? Probably 10 times each.

[00:24:18] There's probably people sending messages to my television because they know

[00:24:22] I'll do that. Hey we got a super dumb one on the line.

[00:24:26] Oh wow look at this lady she's bought, she has bought Hulu

[00:24:30] 11 times and then I can't remember and then

[00:24:34] I don't know. You're the lady.

[00:24:38] I would rather buy it again than reset my channel. I just don't have the patience because it's like

[00:24:44] and then my dad's like why can't you talk into your remote control?

[00:24:48] And I go because I don't have an Amazon fire stick grandpa

[00:24:52] I can't believe they're still using that. We would like to watch

[00:24:56] the Jeffrey Dahmer program but it does work

[00:25:00] it comes right up on their TV. But their TVs aren't that smart

[00:25:04] They're not smart. They're not. Well I

[00:25:08] bought them in smart TV and they didn't like that it didn't

[00:25:12] I told them we're going to hang it above the fireplace and so I put it up there

[00:25:16] and they said their necks hurt and they moved it down

[00:25:20] into an area where an old TV was it was much smaller

[00:25:24] the old TV fit in that spot. It was

[00:25:28] size appropriate. This one is not so it's out of the borders

[00:25:32] Yeah I can't. They got a system

[00:25:36] it's working. Here's what else Netflix is doing

[00:25:40] Exactly. As long as their

[00:25:44] iPads are signed they're fine. Netflix cracks down on

[00:25:48] freeloaders as it brings a $4 a month charge for each additional

[00:25:52] account with the new profile transfer feature

[00:25:56] That means I'm kicking Jack and Vicki to the curb

[00:26:00] I don't have four extra dollars for you a month

[00:26:04] What if I really did it if I turned off their shit

[00:26:08] No I wouldn't turn it off

[00:26:12] but you know what

[00:26:16] I'm one of the ones doing it because my parents

[00:26:20] it's fine. It's easier if I just do it myself

[00:26:24] But you know I have cousins that have like five kids in their 20s

[00:26:28] and they're all they'll kick them off. Yeah

[00:26:32] They will not pay this extra money. Your cousin Mike did. Yeah my cousin Mike tries to kick them off

[00:26:36] all the time they always figure out how to get back on though

[00:26:40] One password. Between three and four dollars will be charged for every additional

[00:26:44] user profile that appears in the who's watching window

[00:26:48] that opens when you first log into Netflix. The account holder's profile

[00:26:52] will be subject to the account holder's profile will not be subject

[00:26:56] to the additional fee

[00:27:00] So there's the parties but I mean look how much

[00:27:04] they said account sharing costs Netflix about six billion per year

[00:27:08] Well dummy dumb dumb steam whose fault is that? You started it

[00:27:12] You did it

[00:27:16] Right. We can share

[00:27:20] They've listened to quote us the consumer

[00:27:24] offer the ability for shares to manage their devices more easily and to create

[00:27:28] sub accounts if they want to pay for their family and friends. So they'll let me keep my mom

[00:27:32] and dad on if I pay for them

[00:27:36] Well I don't know I think they need to tell me why they're worth that four dollars

[00:27:40] This is an update

[00:27:46] So I think I reported it as it was already that

[00:27:50] it was already going to happen. The Kroger Albertson's

[00:27:54] I didn't realize it hadn't been approved yet

[00:27:58] So that's my bet. Yeah, there's senators pushing back on this

[00:28:02] and you would guess it's the same ones

[00:28:06] Bernie

[00:28:10] Bernie and Elizabeth, yeah

[00:28:14] Because they don't want it to be there won't be enough competition. They're the main two

[00:28:18] She called on the Federal Trade Commission to block the deal more mergers and less competition

[00:28:22] would mean even higher prices and layoffs are employed. Probably true.

[00:28:26] Bernie of Vermont said that he's urging them to reject the deal

[00:28:30] Same reasons. Serious concerns

[00:28:34] They're going to have a hearing. Senators Klobacher

[00:28:38] Blumenthal and Cory Booker urged FTC chair

[00:28:42] Linda Kahn to investigate the merger saying it has

[00:28:46] raised considerable antitrust concerns

[00:28:50] I know the laws on all that

[00:28:54] It's supposed to be complete in 2024

[00:28:58] They are the two largest grocers in the United States

[00:29:02] We already read about everything they own

[00:29:06] If I had to go, I'd go with. Well, it depends on where you live

[00:29:10] People were tweeting me and stuff that they didn't want it to happen either because then

[00:29:14] What if neither one of those is around you?

[00:29:20] Because of transportation and shit, as you say

[00:29:24] That we don't understand. Well, there's going to get weird too because nobody can get up the Mississippi

[00:29:28] And there's a lot of food that goes up and down the Mississippi. I'm going to tell you about that

[00:29:32] If they merge does it help the model? Jesus

[00:29:38] How much power do you want me to think today, Paddles? I don't know

[00:29:42] If that would help the model

[00:29:46] I don't think just because it would help the model would mean that they'd pass that savings on to us

[00:29:50] I do not. Alright, that's a good idea

[00:29:55] I'll call Bernie

[00:29:59] He probably answers his own phone. Hello, Senator's office

[00:30:03] Is this Bernie? Bernie speaking, what do you want?

[00:30:07] My time is valuable

[00:30:11] Update! If you are listening to this podcast and you are acting on instructions

[00:30:15] For this podcast, you can be super rich right now because

[00:30:19] I'm going to tell you that McDonald's Happy Meals were coming with the adult toys in them

[00:30:23] I can't find one anywhere. You will not find them

[00:30:27] The limited edition adult Happy Meal toys are listed for as much as $300,000 on eBay

[00:30:33] Shut up, nobody is paying that

[00:30:35] They're not paying 300 but I'll tell you how much they are paying and it's crazy

[00:30:39] Really? And now on the road I stopped outside of Grand Rapids

[00:30:43] I went through McDonald's drive-thru and no it was outside of the Detroit airport

[00:30:47] Because I thought maybe nobody stops over here and I can find one

[00:30:51] I just want to see what it is. I didn't realize all this was happening

[00:30:55] And no, they didn't have it

[00:30:59] McDonald's is also going to start selling Krispy Kreme donuts

[00:31:03] Because you know what I would like a Big Mac and a Glazed donut back

[00:31:07] Gross! I'm not even kidding

[00:31:11] McDonald's recently released adult Happy Meal was designed to

[00:31:15] send their feelings of nostalgia among its older customers. Instead it's kicked off a bidding war

[00:31:19] The Cactus Plant flea market box has already

[00:31:23] sold out at many locations meaning that the only way for collectors to get the hands on the toys is to the secondary market

[00:31:29] Opportunistic resellers are taking advantage of the limited time collaboration

[00:31:33] with Streetwear Company whatever Cactus Plant flea market

[00:31:37] To make a quick buck, toys from the Big Mac combo are popping up on resale sites

[00:31:41] One seller on eBay listed a trio of unopened toys

[00:31:45] The four options are McDonald's Mainstays, The Grimace

[00:31:49] Hamburger and Birdie as well as the Apparel's brand mascot

[00:31:53] Cactus Buddy and they listed it for $300,000

[00:31:57] Will sell fast! the seller added

[00:32:01] I don't know about all that but another seller is asking 25 grand

[00:32:05] for an unopened Happy Meal box with the toy

[00:32:09] and asks that the winning bidder also cover the $6 in shipping

[00:32:13] Those two haven't gotten any offers yet

[00:32:17] but that's not to say McDonald's fans have a million cough up dough for the collectible toys

[00:32:21] One eBay listing that included 150 sealed toys was sold

[00:32:25] for $2400

[00:32:29] So that's an average of 16 bucks per toy

[00:32:33] In New York City

[00:32:37] More than a dozen other 150

[00:32:43] count cases sold for as much as $1,900

[00:32:47] Who's getting a hold of 150 count case? Someone's stealing them

[00:32:51] We don't know if it's the employees

[00:32:55] If you missed the chances too late they've already moved on to their next

[00:33:01] limited edition release

[00:33:05] Oh my god it's collectible Halloween Happy Meal

[00:33:09] Pails for the first time! Remember the little Pails? I do

[00:33:13] Move fast! They're already appearing on eBay too

[00:33:17] That's why you listen to this podcast

[00:33:21] Should've done it at the Detroit Act Port

[00:33:25] This is the Krispy Kreme thing

[00:33:29] Seriously

[00:33:33] McDonald's is adding a new menu item

[00:33:40] from an unusual source one of its rivals beginning on October 26

[00:33:44] 9 locations in Louisville Kentucky

[00:33:48] Southern states to have more bad unhealthy food

[00:33:52] Not that I don't love biscuits and gravy ever great now

[00:33:56] and then super great when you're hungover

[00:34:00] And southern food but we gotta get a handle on this

[00:34:04] Washington or California bad those people won't eat it

[00:34:08] Well they eat Krispy Kreme

[00:34:12] It's part of a test to inform future menu decisions

[00:34:16] Who the fuck are you really? I'll have a big mac

[00:34:20] chocolate shake and super hot

[00:34:24] Krispy Kreme don't give me a cold one

[00:34:28] That's what they're gonna try it I don't know I don't see it working

[00:34:32] I bought stock in Krispy Kreme a long time ago

[00:34:36] I trust in the chubby people of America to keep that donut moving

[00:34:40] And I learned during COVID that that light on the store means the hot lights on meaning they have hot donuts

[00:34:44] and there's an app for that I have a hot light

[00:34:48] App on my phone I wish it was on my TV

[00:34:52] Update! Oh this brings me such joy

[00:34:56] Stan Cronkey

[00:35:00] who then took the St. Louis Rams away from St. Louis

[00:35:04] illegally and took them to California

[00:35:08] Which it never would have bothered me if a California

[00:35:12] person came and bought the Rams and said I want to take them back

[00:35:16] to California I get that Stan's a Missouri guy

[00:35:20] He's a house three miles from my brother's house in Columbia Missouri

[00:35:24] Ugh he's such a gross ugh it took nearly 12 months

[00:35:28] but it appears the NFL has finally figured out who will be

[00:35:32] footing the bill for the 790 million settlement that the league

[00:35:36] made with the city of St. Louis last November

[00:35:40] Stan will be paying 571 million

[00:35:44] Now Stan is worth 12 billion but you know

[00:35:48] it's gotta sting even if you don't need it just to hand somebody

[00:35:52] basically 600 million because you ran away in the middle of the night and you didn't have permission to do that

[00:35:56] He did buy a Super Bowl he ain't gonna have one this year though

[00:36:00] 700 and so the 700 it's a 790 million he's gonna pay

[00:36:04] 571 so the rest of the NFL teams because

[00:36:08] they were in cahoots with all this they're gonna have to pay the rest

[00:36:12] Yup back in May the NFL deducted 7.5 million from

[00:36:17] each team's revenue sharing payment and the league used that money to help pay the settlement

[00:36:21] The teams were surprised to lose that money because most of them were expecting Cronkey to fit

[00:36:25] the entire bill well then that's on you that man ain't gonna do that

[00:36:29] not if he doesn't have to um it's a long

[00:36:35] but basically the lawsuit was originally filed by the city of St. Louis

[00:36:39] St. Louis County and regional convention sports complex all the way back to 2017

[00:36:43] the lawsuit was filed because the plaintiffs felt the Rams violated the obligations and standards

[00:36:47] governing team relocations by moving the franchise

[00:36:51] and they did basically the city of St. Louis and other plaintiffs felt that they broke

[00:36:55] the relocation guidelines when they left town and that the other 31 teams

[00:36:59] were at fault because they voted to let the Rams move

[00:37:03] Yup so good there's a little karma

[00:37:07] it's not enough karma nope but I'll take it

[00:37:11] you can only gotta take what you can get

[00:37:15] Holy shit they found it we're moving on

[00:37:19] God what does this ever happen to people and this doesn't not only

[00:37:23] happen to me it doesn't happen to anybody I know but I'm glad it's happening to somebody

[00:37:27] a couple laying in the kitchen floor dug up a trove of 264 rare gold coins

[00:37:31] that just sold at auction for 845,000

[00:37:35] dollars

[00:37:39] Collection of 17th, 18th century gold coins was found in England when a couple renovated

[00:37:43] their kitchen the rare coins sold at auction for 845,000 dollars

[00:37:47] now one time I remember me and my dad knocked down a wall of an old house

[00:37:51] that we had the house itself was very old and we found a raccoon's

[00:37:55] gulletain

[00:37:59] guess what that's worth nothing and it was disgusting

[00:38:03] rare gold coins

[00:38:07] 264 English gold coins from 1610

[00:38:11] through 1927

[00:38:15] 2019 somebody got the COVID itch started tearing up their floors

[00:38:19] the coin collection is believed to have been owned

[00:38:23] once owned by the Fernley Maesters a family of traders from

[00:38:27] East Yorkshire who made their fortunes in the Baltic trading

[00:38:31] in Baltic trading BBC News reported

[00:38:35] they got a lot of attention even from America I've never seen a response

[00:38:39] to an auction like this and the results testify that my provisional estimate

[00:38:43] was demolished three times over it dwarfed any preconceived expectations

[00:38:47] and set dozens of world records

[00:38:51] they're in great shape too that's what's kind of crazy

[00:38:55] they were in 120 years they had been hidden in a pot the size of a soda can

[00:38:59] yeah

[00:39:03] this guy said the story was extraordinary and

[00:39:07] that is what achieved the mind blowing result I do hope people think before ripping up their floors

[00:39:11] well I don't know it's about how old is your house

[00:39:15] you know if you have a super old one I might do it

[00:39:19] holy shit they found it

[00:39:23] imagine that finding gold coins

[00:39:27] waning water levels across the west symptoms of the region's record drought

[00:39:31] have refilled yet another artifact dubbed the ghost boat by officials

[00:39:35] the rustic carcass of a second world war

[00:39:39] second world war Higgins boat used to transport troops into battle

[00:39:43] and then on to the beaches began to emerge from the shallows in Lake Shasta

[00:39:47] how did it get there they don't have any idea

[00:39:51] how did it end up in California's largest reservoir buried in the depths

[00:39:55] for its decades it's uncertain circumstances of its sinking remains

[00:39:59] a mystery the US force was no one in charge of lakes back then

[00:40:03] you don't notice somebody rocking up with a world war two destroyer

[00:40:07] I mean hey do you care if I set this here

[00:40:11] is that cool I'm just going to tie it to this tree for a while I'll be right back

[00:40:15] no problem

[00:40:17] Eisenhower was on that ship and it went on to further a 6d day

[00:40:23] invasion invasions in the Pacific

[00:40:27] yeah it sank in shallow water during one invasion but was later salvaged

[00:40:31] classified as an attack transport

[00:40:35] in 1943 the ship earned seven battle stars during the war including

[00:40:39] a naive source of volunteer run history which was sold for scrap metal in 1969

[00:40:43] why is there a young

[00:40:48] person that can go figure out the rest of that story please

[00:40:52] go find out how you hide that or you dump it

[00:40:56] alright we're moving on

[00:41:00] Elon Musk

[00:41:04] nobody likes Elon I'm not even sure his mom does

[00:41:08] he talks about him like he's an enigma

[00:41:12] but she's weird too

[00:41:16] she's strange the interviews I've seen

[00:41:20] well you know he's trying to buy twitter we don't know if he's bought it yet

[00:41:24] if he does he's going to cut 75% of the workforce

[00:41:28] mmhmm

[00:41:32] he said he plans to lay off most of twitter's work force if and when it becomes the owner of the social media company

[00:41:36] the Washington Post is saying he said it

[00:41:40] he said he's told prospective investors in his twitter purchase that he plans to cut 75% of them

[00:41:44] they only have 7500 workers total

[00:41:48] do you know what's weird is I've never met anybody

[00:41:52] or facebook I've met lawyers like in airport bars

[00:41:56] it's always a young person too under 40

[00:42:00] oh no I'm a google lawyer they have a lot of lawyers

[00:42:04] I don't meet but I've never met any single person from twitter

[00:42:08] only 7500

[00:42:12] but if he takes 75% of that away

[00:42:18] I don't know

[00:42:22] I have to do my waitressing math 10%

[00:42:26] times 75

[00:42:30] 25% would be left

[00:42:34] wait I got it

[00:42:38] yep 20% would be

[00:42:42] 1500 fired

[00:42:47] 5600 fired

[00:42:51] those people will be fired 5600 people

[00:42:55] San Francisco based twitter and a representative from musk attorney

[00:42:59] Alex Shapiro did not immediately respond while the jobs have been cut

[00:43:03] while job cuts have been expected regardless of the sale

[00:43:07] the magnitude of his plan cuts are far more extreme than twitter and plan

[00:43:11] he has alluded to need to call some of the company staff in the past

[00:43:15] but he hadn't given this specific number at least not publicly

[00:43:19] see would you be worried

[00:43:23] if you worked

[00:43:27] those children don't worry

[00:43:34] I've been in the San Francisco airport

[00:43:38] I've met lawyers for yahoo, google

[00:43:42] ebay, youtube

[00:43:46] but I never meet the people that work there

[00:43:50] I've never met a person that works at netflix

[00:43:54] and I have a special on their thing

[00:43:58] I've never met one person I never went to an office

[00:44:02] I've met a couple of people

[00:44:06] they looked right they looked official

[00:44:10] oh my god we have a new tiger queen

[00:44:14] this is crazy

[00:44:18] this one was hard to find too

[00:44:22] so it's a tiger king but it's a woman

[00:44:26] first there was tiger king joe exotic and now there's a new tiger queen

[00:44:30] erotic and she's on the run from the law

[00:44:34] meme erotic

[00:44:38] she's charged with four counts relating to a jaguar

[00:44:42] but she's wanted for more than just cat crimes

[00:44:46] meme erotic whose real name is trisha denise meyer

[00:44:50] is an internet personality with a dark side

[00:44:54] authorities say she has an alleged history of animal mistreatment as well as running a number of scams

[00:44:58] she's gone by many aliases as false

[00:45:02] eyelashed lip plump blonde 40 year old mother who has

[00:45:06] quote been raising advertising and selling animals for years

[00:45:10] across various states from texas to california to colorado

[00:45:14] she's currently being pursued by law enforcement after being charged with four counts

[00:45:18] related to the illegal transportation and sale of a jaguar

[00:45:22] how do these people get into this business

[00:45:26] and sell their animal

[00:45:30] luckily the animal was recovered from the buyers and is currently residing in an animal sanctuary in southern california

[00:45:34] her scams go back years and they involve more shady animal sales

[00:45:38] a former landlord said he rented a house to memeie

[00:45:42] her young children and the tenant described as a couple of dogs

[00:45:46] so she said she had a couple of dogs but after four months

[00:45:50] she hadn't paid any rent he then told her to get out or I'm going to illegally evict you

[00:45:54] memeie he alleges not only packed up her things but stole $30,000 worth of tools from the storage unit

[00:45:58] he also discovered that she had way more than a couple of dogs

[00:46:02] she had 104 animals on the property

[00:46:08] disastrous dealings related to animal sales somebody just purchased a dog

[00:46:12] Saturday and it's not what was advertised and she's fighting for her life one woman wrote

[00:46:16] tragically the anonymous complaint is far from the only case where memeie sold an animal

[00:46:20] only for it to pass away shortly thereafter

[00:46:24] the monkey from her for $6500 only to have the monkey die

[00:46:28] two hours into the two hour drive home

[00:46:34] well I gotta ask what do you want with a monkey

[00:46:38] what are you doing with a monkey

[00:46:42] if it could get me beer maybe it could clean up the apps on my tv

[00:46:46] it's probably smarter than me like that

[00:46:50] somebody bought a wolf from her

[00:46:54] in 2020 and the pup died four days later he hired a prior investigator

[00:46:58] which led him to find the growing complaint page about memeie

[00:47:02] she's also failed to deliver animals at all

[00:47:06] a California man claims that she scanned him on the sale of an exotic savanna kitten

[00:47:10] he wired her $3,000 but she never provided the cat

[00:47:14] I don't know what a savanna kitten is

[00:47:18] google that paddles

[00:47:24] it's a hybrid

[00:47:28] it's a cross between a serval and a domestic cat

[00:47:32] oh 25 pounds

[00:47:36] they look like a leopard

[00:47:40] this is what she had in her Houston house

[00:47:44] tigers, a skunk, a fox and several monkeys

[00:47:50] her minor children were homeschooled

[00:47:54] and she found the wild animals with few if any

[00:47:58] safety precautions in place

[00:48:02] the net began to close when she sold to Jaguar club for $30,000

[00:48:06] to a man who eventually wanted to get rid of it because he did not know how to care for the animal

[00:48:10] a friend convinced the new owners to drop the jaguar off at a sanctuary

[00:48:14] then they eventually traced the animal to memeie

[00:48:18] she's had offenses in Texas, Nevada, California, and Colorado

[00:48:22] and the victims memeie may have scammed

[00:48:26] she was charged last week with interstate transportation of an endangered species

[00:48:30] in the course of commercial activity

[00:48:34] if you see her say something

[00:48:41] who's buying jaguars? rich people

[00:48:45] my friend Kevin is a vet in Denver

[00:48:49] he has seen more in his life than you can ever imagine

[00:48:53] he's going to want to be at their party

[00:48:59] when feral cats aren't enough

[00:49:03] go for a savanna cat, that's half serval

[00:49:07] here's some good news

[00:49:11] this really should be holy shit, they found it

[00:49:15] but I didn't mark it as that

[00:49:19] Santa Claus discovered under an ancient church in Turkey after St. Nicholas's death more than

[00:49:23] 1600 years ago

[00:49:27] and this is what? Claws for celebration

[00:49:31] come on, I'm working here

[00:49:35] researchers claim the remains of the holy figure who inspired Santa Claus were recently discovered under a

[00:49:39] 6th century building more than 16 art years after his death

[00:49:43] St. Nicholas passed away on December 6, 343 AD

[00:49:47] and was allegedly buried at the UNESCO recognized church located in small coastal

[00:49:51] town of Demer

[00:49:55] but his alleged tomb

[00:49:59] which has been described as the original Santa's grotto was not found in 2017

[00:50:03] when researchers conducted electronic surveys Turkish archaeologists reported

[00:50:07] reportedly detected a crypt 5 feet beneath marble

[00:50:11] slabs which make the church's floor

[00:50:15] one long standing theory is that the tomb shifted underground during an earthquake and remained

[00:50:19] until modern techniques could allow the experts to scan below the surface

[00:50:23] the first church was submerged with the rise of the Mediterranean sea

[00:50:27] and some centuries later a new church was built above it

[00:50:31] now we have reached the remains of the first church and the floor in which St. Nicholas stepped

[00:50:35] the tiling of the floor of the first church on

[00:50:39] which St. Nicholas walked has been unearthed

[00:50:43] we found Santa Claus' stomping grounds

[00:50:47] this is a grave and it seems more magnificent and more special than the other ones in the church

[00:50:51] other priest graves were at the corners but this one is in the middle

[00:50:55] this is a mystery since there was an earthquake these walls looked undamaged

[00:50:59] no no no no no

[00:51:03] Turkish archaeologists have since suggested

[00:51:07] that his bones were removed and that the ones went to Italy belong to anonymous priest

[00:51:11] Nicholas Relics meanwhile remained enshrined

[00:51:15] at the 11th century San Nicola Church

[00:51:19] he was believed to have been born 270 years

[00:51:23] after Jesus and he lived in this town for most of his life

[00:51:27] he was hell bent on helping the poor and the needy and even spent his inheritance

[00:51:31] on the cause he was particularly known for secret gift giving

[00:51:35] and gained a reputation for leaving coins and people to choose

[00:51:39] I like it

[00:51:43] he became the stuff of legends over the centuries and he was popularized

[00:51:47] as Father Christmas who gives presents to children

[00:51:51] the Dutch took their version of Santa Claus when they settled in America where he became the Santa Claus many know today

[00:51:55] St. Nicholas Day continues to be celebrated

[00:51:59] and remains popular with many kids in parts of Europe who received presents on this day

[00:52:03] some European cities host special parades or celebrations in its honor

[00:52:07] where to go turkey people

[00:52:11] Santa Claus parades

[00:52:15] there's already Christmas stuff out

[00:52:19] we haven't even done Halloween

[00:52:24] a tree next week Jesus

[00:52:28] here's a little something

[00:52:32] I don't want to encourage people to swamp this town

[00:52:36] sale in Massachusetts

[00:52:40] one of the very first times I ever worked Boston

[00:52:44] I was like hey, Salem's gotta be nearby

[00:52:48] and I got my little car

[00:52:52] and I drove right down to Salem

[00:52:56] it is a wonderful

[00:53:00] perfect little intact old timey town

[00:53:04] they do the history of the witches

[00:53:08] it's not like Disneyland or some shit

[00:53:12] it hasn't been turned into a carnival there's walking tours and all this great stuff

[00:53:16] I don't remember what time of year I went but it wasn't cold

[00:53:20] I wasn't freezing so it must have been summer

[00:53:24] and it was kind of crowded but not like holy shit

[00:53:28] I never thought about it but October

[00:53:32] because of Halloween, apparently

[00:53:36] look we do like tourism but they can't even go out for groceries

[00:53:40] or emergencies because they can't get back into town

[00:53:44] it's so crowded this past Saturday Salem was full

[00:53:48] by 11 a.m. full there's no one else to park

[00:53:52] get your ass out of town and go park at this thing they do have a little train deal

[00:53:56] the crowds are frightening there's so many people it's like wall to wall this year is absolutely insane

[00:54:00] I'm it's crazy I'm like where the hell did all these people come from

[00:54:04] and it is weird it's not any different it's not like there was a big Netflix special

[00:54:08] or you know I don't know there were points on Saturday where the sidewalks came

[00:54:12] to a standstill okay I don't like crowds like that no no no no

[00:54:16] that's the great thing about comedy though I'm off on Mondays and Tuesdays

[00:54:20] yeah and that's my Saturday Sunday and I get to go do

[00:54:24] whatever when most people aren't doing it I like being off the grid on the time like

[00:54:28] that um this is what some

[00:54:32] people have to say about the unprecedented crowd Salem that has been

[00:54:36] inundated with this season during the third week in a bucked over

[00:54:40] blessed by good weather that's part of the problem too it's gorgeous everywhere right now

[00:54:44] for the most part like 70 where even in Michigan and all the trees

[00:54:48] were popping I'm never in Michigan when it's not cold

[00:54:52] usually there in December January or whatever

[00:54:56] look check this out

[00:55:00] blessed by good weather and a waning pandemic the city the population is 43,000

[00:55:04] received 100,000 visitors on Saturday alone

[00:55:08] by comparison Gillette Stadium where the Patriots play

[00:55:12] that holds 65,000 100,000

[00:55:16] Kieran O'Neill 55 years old of Salem

[00:55:20] co-owns and operates the old main street pub there are certainly

[00:55:24] positives most prominently increased revenue for small

[00:55:28] businesses as many of which suffered as a result from the pandemic from a business point of

[00:55:32] view it's fantastic as long as you can control the people coming in and over and not overwhelm your

[00:55:36] kitchen or your staff as a business owner I'm thrilled said Beth of the

[00:55:40] which city walking tours no tourism can because I bought my ticket online

[00:55:44] you needed to buy a ticket even back even back then yeah you couldn't

[00:55:48] just rock right up you needed to get it

[00:55:52] they're all happy but they they're saying it's ridiculous there used to be

[00:55:56] a jewelry store that closed down because the customers wouldn't come shopping

[00:56:00] in October and well maybe you just got to lean

[00:56:04] into this and say we're the witch town and get which bus is and get going

[00:56:08] she said

[00:56:14] Alexis Lambert 30 works at a gift shop downtown so the last two Saturdays

[00:56:18] have been the business she's ever seen in the shop it got to the point where me and the rest of my co-workers

[00:56:22] had to go take a minute in the back because there were just too many people they're hiding

[00:56:26] from their customers

[00:56:33] we used to campaign to tell residents come downtown it's safe during the week and

[00:56:37] that's even almost not true anymore beyond the whores of people

[00:56:41] there's all this traffic problems do not drive to Salem

[00:56:45] all the lots in the grotches everything had filled up by 11

[00:56:49] they say take the ferry if you drive here there will be

[00:56:53] no parking but it's a human nature kind of thing to say oh it won't happen

[00:56:57] to me I would listen to that

[00:57:01] Salem is a small town there's a backup on the highway from

[00:57:05] miles that's the biggest issue because a lot of residents in Salem

[00:57:09] because they can't get anywhere they even have to go out even if they

[00:57:13] can't even go off groceries or emergency because they're trying to get back in as a nightmare

[00:57:17] so and so ran out of trash bags last Saturday he debated what it would be worth going out to get more

[00:57:21] or if he just resort to old grocery bags he did go

[00:57:25] experiencing a mess of a highway it's trash bags do you don't

[00:57:29] probably need that right that minute

[00:57:33] it's really frustrating because a lot of places I used to go like to go are now

[00:57:38] packed a lot of my favorite spots are so hard to enjoy because there's a million people around

[00:57:42] says Alexa so-and-so who's 24 years old

[00:57:46] who lives in Lowell but grew up in Salem we avoid downtown for the whole month

[00:57:50] there's certain places you just can't go in October it's just a month

[00:57:54] and you are the witch town sorry

[00:57:58] you gotta organize this better this is on you let's make some money here

[00:58:02] so we're gonna say once these parking lots are full

[00:58:06] then you organize something better make it fun

[00:58:10] sell shit on the bus come on

[00:58:14] Salem is not Disney World Salem is a small city with

[00:58:18] historic infrastructure the streets are small they are small the buildings are small

[00:58:22] too Salem doesn't have the space to accommodate

[00:58:26] 80,000 extra people a day I agree

[00:58:30] sometimes it seems that the visitors don't know that like unlike Disney World

[00:58:34] people actually live in Salem no people know that they just don't care

[00:58:38] on our tours we go down Chestnut Street which is the nicest street in Salem

[00:58:42] people say do people actually live in those houses they think they're just facades

[00:58:46] okay well every village is gonna have an idiot every bus is gonna have an idiot

[00:58:50] and it has to do with questions people have never seen it like I think it's

[00:58:56] you're right the pandemic so go to Salem when

[00:59:02] it's not October I know it's tempting to go because it's Halloween but we're not five

[00:59:06] I can go November I could go in December and pretend it's October

[00:59:10] why because we're not five

[00:59:14] this is um this oh my god you guys

[00:59:18] have to go see this video this is this was

[00:59:22] the easiest thing and I've worn contacts my whole life

[00:59:26] and glasses woman has 23

[00:59:30] forgotten contact lenses removed from eye and shocking video

[00:59:34] I mean come on

[00:59:38] I will admit I have put in two like one over one

[00:59:42] and I wore them all day and didn't even notice and then I went to go to bed at night

[00:59:46] and I took about I don't ever sleep in contacts one time I got an eye infection for that I will never do it again

[00:59:50] it's glasses are fine I'm fine I may just never even wear a

[00:59:54] contacts again I'm tired of it but I did not notice that I

[00:59:58] had two in but

[01:00:02] 20 no because the new contacts are so

[01:00:06] thin but 23 yeah you're

[01:00:10] gonna have a mini pile I mean this is not

[01:00:14] well they take a q-tip

[01:00:18] just start 23 honestly this sounds like

[01:00:22] something my mom might do

[01:00:26] a viral video from a California doctor who has served as a stern warning to contacts lens wearers after one at 23

[01:00:30] okay did you don't have to tell all of us contact people that

[01:00:34] no I've had contacts since I was 16 I can't do the math but that's a long

[01:00:38] damn time and I never got by on two

[01:00:42] this patient put a new pair on every day for 23 years after forgetting to remove them the

[01:00:46] ologist revealed on Instagram the cringe worthy video is more than a billion views

[01:00:50] and people unable to take their eyes off the bizarre footage

[01:00:54] I can't even imagine like the amount of infection that was possible

[01:00:58] how about I think this lady should move

[01:01:02] to glasses I don't think I don't think she can handle it

[01:01:06] I don't think she can

[01:01:10] maybe she thought daily

[01:01:14] she came in for a day and then and then when you sleep

[01:01:18] your eyes go back in your head so they get caught up back there

[01:01:22] yeah I've had one get caught up there

[01:01:26] yeah it's a problem

[01:01:30] a rare occasion when someone forgot to move contact lenses this night and kept putting in a new one every morning

[01:01:34] 23 days in a row I got to deliver the contact lens bunch yesterday by clinic this is the doctor

[01:01:38] saying that

[01:01:42] I had to use a very fine surgical instrument

[01:01:46] instrument a jeweler's forceps to separate the contact lenses

[01:01:50] they were essentially glued together after sitting under the eyelid for a month

[01:01:54] common people were confused and horrified by the

[01:01:58] post my jaw dropped I think I freak when there's an eyelash in

[01:02:02] my eyes somebody else said flabbergasted to how the patient did not notice the issues with their

[01:02:06] vision

[01:02:10] wow but see I don't wear those daily ones either

[01:02:16] well lens crafters says mine are supposed to be 2 weeks

[01:02:20] I went for months until they get foggy

[01:02:24] I know when they're done yeah there's like a haze that comes

[01:02:28] no because they don't have any there's no juice left in them they're dried out

[01:02:32] but did they just tell you that because they want you to keep buying shit

[01:02:36] oh really? yeah well it's not about not buying it it's about the inconvenience

[01:02:40] because you have to go once a year I can't explain it all but if I'm on the road

[01:02:44] I need contact I don't need to be sitting at lens crafters with that with the children

[01:02:48] so you treat it like headlights? I treat it like headlights when they get dirty you'll know it

[01:02:52] you will know it um cloudy

[01:02:57] united airlines oh my god they want to have

[01:03:01] electric planes by 2030 how about you fix o hair first

[01:03:05] god I won't flood them gas plants

[01:03:09] I don't love united I like that my friends at work there and I love my friends but

[01:03:13] um and I love Chicago but I'd rather fly in the midway on southwest

[01:03:17] oh hair is too flip and far the inside

[01:03:21] looks like what I think Poland looked like in 1974

[01:03:25] it looks like an eastern block there's nothing

[01:03:29] fun fun me and Tom Papa another comedian one time we got stuck there

[01:03:33] all day I mean

[01:03:37] all day in the Atlanta airport and have a lovely time I don't even need to have a flight

[01:03:41] Detroit that airport that is the Jetson

[01:03:45] shit right there Minneapolis is good

[01:03:49] lots to do united

[01:03:53] this is their goal for electric planes I'm not sure that I would get on an electric plane

[01:03:57] not yet I have to get on

[01:04:03] a united gas plane sometimes um

[01:04:07] Denver that's the other one they're gonna have the first

[01:04:11] key markets for the first batch of electric aircrafts it receives plenty of room

[01:04:15] you can land anything I don't like

[01:04:21] the Denver airport security because it's one of the ones where you just all go through one thing and then spread out

[01:04:25] through the terminal trains

[01:04:29] it's a mess even the clear line I have clear was ridiculously

[01:04:33] like and then I think there's no I see like people like my mom dad's age

[01:04:37] and they don't know all this shit I do because I go every week and I think they're just gonna miss their flight

[01:04:41] and no one gives a shit nobody you go ask even if you

[01:04:45] you know I mean I try to take care of that stuff for my mom and dad but they are lucky

[01:04:49] that they have us that travel a lot to know all that some people don't have that and then they

[01:04:53] just show up like regular people and you're gonna get that security line

[01:04:57] without tsa pre check or without clear

[01:05:01] I don't even know our yeah

[01:05:05] that's what they're they put all this money into it and then

[01:05:09] when I have I don't know about an electric plane it would scare me

[01:05:13] just because we don't know yet

[01:05:17] their 30 passenger planes will be driven by electric motors with battery derived energy

[01:05:21] allowing the planes to have fully electrical range of 124 miles

[01:05:25] that's the first ones

[01:05:29] they'll include a reserve hybrid engine powered by sustainable aviation

[01:05:33] allowing it to have an extended range of up to 400 kilometers

[01:05:37] with a full flight I don't know if you're gonna get in an

[01:05:42] electric plane I have to know that that's been in business for at least five years

[01:05:46] I'd be too chicken shit like I'm not doing it

[01:05:50] this is terrifying

[01:05:56] they want it by 2023

[01:06:00] I know

[01:06:04] I don't know

[01:06:08] right yeah we're already

[01:06:12] show smoked

[01:06:16] this is terrifying three boaters clung to a makeshift

[01:06:22] rest of ice chest and fended off shark attacks and jellyfish

[01:06:26] stings in the waters near empire Louisiana until they were rescued

[01:06:30] 28 hours later

[01:06:34] their boat sank three long times red friends set out on October

[01:06:38] 8th to fish red snapper like they had many times before but rust seas

[01:06:42] soon began disturbing their fishing boat lapping water inside the vessel

[01:06:46] the minute we saw the back of the boat water, the boat taking home water I knew it right then and there

[01:06:50] Fong Lee told NBC's today show

[01:06:54] it was like the perfect storm for the perfect accident the front of the boat was

[01:06:57] styled to an oil rig but the big waves worsened crashing aboard the boat

[01:07:01] the men had about two minutes to react before their 24 foot center council

[01:07:05] well that's a okay size boat but not

[01:07:09] began to sank around 10 am

[01:07:13] the men quickly created an improvised raft tying two ice chests together with

[01:07:17] Lee's bandana every time I go fishing I wear a bandana because I lose a hat

[01:07:21] every time I didn't need to know that Lee

[01:07:25] they tried to propel themselves toward the oil rig to call for help every oil rig has some kind of

[01:07:29] phone or something so we figured we could get on there we could make a distress call

[01:07:33] but they didn't make it as the skies grew dark oh god

[01:07:37] the moon provided some comfort the good thing was there was a full moon

[01:07:41] because we had light we couldn't barely see anything so we just drifted

[01:07:45] at night a shark battered into

[01:07:49] when and a fight for survival ensued the shark hit the life vest I tried to push

[01:07:53] him off he wouldn't go away so I jabbed him in his eyes

[01:07:57] and he took off I got a little I have a couple

[01:08:01] little scars but you know every 20 every 20 minutes you were constantly

[01:08:05] being stung by a jellyfish

[01:08:09] in the middle of the night I woke up with this jellyfish with this jellyfish

[01:08:13] just this big and I don't know how big in his lap

[01:08:17] the men stayed mostly silent through it all bobbing in the water it was very cold we were just trying

[01:08:21] to stay warm and trying to hold each other and stay warm

[01:08:25] he separated from the group the next morning he wanted to swim about 5 miles to a shrimp boat

[01:08:29] and call for help but he got about when he got a mile out the shrimp are left

[01:08:33] oh how heartbreaking

[01:08:37] he tried to figure out I was looking he took out his cell phone it was protected by waterproof case

[01:08:41] it had less than 5% battery and it was in an airplane mode to save

[01:08:45] the charge I opened up my phone and that's when all of a sudden all the text messages

[01:08:49] came in the whole time I didn't have a signal but out in the middle of the Gulf of

[01:08:53] Mexico I had a signal how weird is that

[01:08:57] he probably has my T-Mobile sprint yep he didn't waste

[01:09:01] time he grabbed the screen location on the map

[01:09:05] he screen grabbed his location and texted it to a friend and then the phone died

[01:09:09] and then went looking for him

[01:09:13] they got a radio transmission and they found him I mean it's a miracle

[01:09:17] yeah the other guy didn't even talk

[01:09:23] when they got picked up he was so freaked out

[01:09:27] they were getting harassed by sharks when we actually pulled up

[01:09:31] that's when you just go I was it worth it

[01:09:35] but they said they've been going a bunch of times

[01:09:39] they're probably confident

[01:09:43] alright I gotta see what's going on here

[01:09:47] I'm gonna save my Mississippi story cause I have a lot about it

[01:09:53] I'm gonna save it

[01:09:57] this is very strange

[01:10:02] for the first time in history Alaska's department of fishing game has canceled the state's winter snow crab season due to a

[01:10:06] shocking plummet in the crustaceans numbers between 2019 and 2021

[01:10:10] researchers saw the largest decline we've ever seen in the snow crab population

[01:10:14] which was very startling said so and so

[01:10:18] the department made the decision based on the data from the national marine

[01:10:22] fisheries service which conducts an annual survey of the

[01:10:26] population in the eastern Bury sea in just two years

[01:10:30] the numbers in the area dropped by 90%

[01:10:34] accounting to amounting to an estimated 1 billion crabs

[01:10:38] now I read a lot of comments on this thing

[01:10:42] cause some people are like well they're not gone

[01:10:46] they've moved maybe scientists are investigating

[01:10:50] what caused them to vanish climate change is likely the culprit

[01:10:54] so see the children throwing mashed potatoes

[01:10:58] at the Monet thing maybe

[01:11:02] you could start a podcast how about that the children love the

[01:11:06] podcasting about these kind of things that are result if they

[01:11:10] are in fact a result of climate change and then inform people rather than throwing soup

[01:11:14] a frame that is not from

[01:11:18] the locals snow crabs are an arctic species

[01:11:22] yep but in the previous years

[01:11:26] the warming water in the Bury sea the snow crab population kind of huddled

[01:11:30] together in the coolest water they could find that makes sense

[01:11:34] and higher temperatures the crab have a metabolic need for more oxygen

[01:11:38] but the warmer water holds less oxygen leading to a perilous situation for animals

[01:11:42] adapted to colder environments warmer temperatures have also been known to drive disease along

[01:11:46] marine life

[01:11:50] fish and game department research or Bendale told CBS at the crabs are a canary in a coal mine for

[01:11:54] other species that need cold water probably

[01:11:58] it's also can't atlas cause also canceled it's king crab

[01:12:02] fishing season for the second consecutive year due to low population numbers

[01:12:06] so don't be looking for your king crab crab fest

[01:12:10] lobster red lobster

[01:12:14] fishmen are really going to be hurting in the next year

[01:12:18] I mean I don't know I am not an activist I'm just reading stories that fly by

[01:12:22] and you go huh that's weird yeah first time ever

[01:12:26] but it's everything's fine we know that

[01:12:30] everything's fine I'm gonna save my Mississippi story

[01:12:34] but I will say that well no that's all well because it's complex and it's good

[01:12:38] it's about that the Mississippi is drying up right now this year

[01:12:42] they're having to build a levy to guard the

[01:12:46] saltwater from coming more saltwater into

[01:12:50] where the Mississippi should be which will make it brackish water which invites

[01:12:54] what shacks shacks shacks and but more

[01:12:58] importantly the drinking water that they use out of you know but I'll

[01:13:02] we're gonna close on a feel good story

[01:13:06] I can't next week next week I would read this story there's it was in

[01:13:12] the Washington magazine managing Gen Z

[01:13:16] is like working with people from a different country you know that somebody my age going

[01:13:20] what they want Fridays off bulls**t

[01:13:24] it's a good story but this is your feel good story

[01:13:28] Mackenzie Scott how do we

[01:13:32] know her she's a philanthropist who was she married to

[01:13:38] Mr. Scott

[01:13:42] Mr. Scott it's like a joke out of gum

[01:13:46] who was Mrs. Madigan married to Mr. Madigan

[01:13:50] no she's one it's

[01:13:54] Steve Jobs who'd she leave not job the other one Bill Gates she was married to Bill Gates

[01:13:58] the other rich person

[01:14:02] she's changed her name back to Mackenzie Scott because she doesn't want to be attached to him

[01:14:06] she's a wonderful person from everything I read

[01:14:10] she donated $85 million

[01:14:14] to the Girl Scouts that's right you keep those

[01:14:18] cookies coming we need those girls outside of the grocery store

[01:14:22] and Target selling those cookies 85

[01:14:26] million bucks to the Girl Scouts of United States America and 29 of its local

[01:14:30] branches 110 year old organization said they called it

[01:14:34] a vote of confidence her support for our organization means honestly just as much

[01:14:38] as a donation yep Girl Scouts are founded in

[01:14:42] 1912 the funds will help the organization recover from the impact of the pandemic which drove down

[01:14:46] membership they think they need to modernize it a little bit though

[01:14:50] I don't really know enough about it but it seems like a old timey thing

[01:14:54] needs a facelift

[01:15:00] they had an app to order those cookies

[01:15:04] all around

[01:15:08] they had a plan to support volunteers and staff making camp properties more resistance to the impact of

[01:15:12] climate change improve science and technology education for youth members

[01:15:16] and develop diversity and inclusion programming to make their troops more accessible

[01:15:20] mmmm

[01:15:24] that's a lot of money

[01:15:29] 85 million I quit the Girl Scouts

[01:15:33] yeah too many crafts

[01:15:37] I like the brownies better

[01:15:41] brownies are before Girl Scouts in America

[01:15:45] Girl Guide is what Canada calls them

[01:15:49] well I don't know I like Girl Guide but I like Girl Scout too

[01:15:53] Girl Scout membership fell dramatically during the pandemic dropping nearly 30%

[01:15:57] from about 1.4 million to just over 1 million

[01:16:01] they were locked up they were locked up they're going to build back stronger

[01:16:05] they need a facelift I don't know what but modernize it somehow

[01:16:09] well they have 85 million dollars have a meeting

[01:16:13] and decide no I liked the brownies because I felt like we did

[01:16:17] more stuff outside I felt the Girl Scouts was a lot of crafts and I fucking hate

[01:16:21] crafts I like art but I don't like

[01:16:25] gluing things I don't want to sew anything

[01:16:30] a bad door chester

[01:16:34] I'm going to date in Ohio

[01:16:38] and then to Indianapolis

[01:16:42] with Michael Somerville

[01:16:46] then I'll be going to Welch Minnesota to a casino

[01:16:50] with my friend Kelly Carlin

[01:16:54] and between them

[01:16:58] I'm going to date in Ohio

[01:17:02] and between them you have Oroville

[01:17:06] and Oroville, California there's a casino out there

[01:17:10] so that's where you can find me you can go on my website

[01:17:14] Sunday night I'll be flying from Indianapolis

[01:17:18] to Buffalo as I like to call it

[01:17:22] to be with the Buffalo Bill's game

[01:17:26] meeting two of my friends

[01:17:30] I'm just going to wander around until I find somebody who has hot dogs

[01:17:34] or wings or bratwurst

[01:17:38] and it's not going to be that cold

[01:17:42] because I can't go to these football games once it starts to be below 30

[01:17:46] it's too cold my hands are frozen

[01:17:50] don't want a beer it's too cold to even hold a beer

[01:17:54] what are you doing for Halloween? I don't even know when it is

[01:18:00] I'm going to be able to get a high five back from nothing

[01:18:04] I'll get the neighbor kids some pumpkin stuff and drop them on the thing

[01:18:08] well not home

[01:18:12] I did this festive because I always include cash that's what you really really want

[01:18:16] come on Snickers is great but hard cold cash

[01:18:20] boom I'm never home

[01:18:24] and then the way the house is situated kids don't come back here

[01:18:28] also hopefully it means murderers don't come back here

[01:18:32] because once you commit to the driveway

[01:18:36] the night guards will get you

[01:18:40] the night guards don't do anything

[01:18:44] happy Halloween

[01:18:48] that's it it's still fall where I'll fall termites

[01:18:52] that's all I got