Episode 114: World Cup Restrictions, Taylor Swift’s Ticket Fiasco, & The Running of the Mink

[00:00:00] Hey everybody, it's me Kathleen Madigan, welcome to Madigan's Pubcast. You grab yourself a drink, pull up a bar stool, and let's talk about what's been going on. Termites! Blyah! Welcome to Episode 114. Isn't that crazy? Happy Thanksgiving! By the time...

[00:00:33] No, when you hear this it won't be Thanksgiving yet. But um, we're on our way to Thanksgiving. And what am I drinking? Well, I had got so many things backstage in Minnesota I need to wait until next week to sort it all out.

[00:00:46] Because some of it's being sent back too. So I don't want to get into all that but I am drinking and I'm a Paul Bunyan glass in honor of Minnesota. And it's a spotted cow which I got a ton of those which was mulled over from Wisconsin.

[00:01:02] In case you don't know, Spotless Cow is the greatest beer in the whole world. And you can't, you're not supposed to take it outside of Wisconsin. In some termites mulled it over to Minnesota for me. Yes! First of all, well and I'm having a little wine. Whoa!

[00:01:19] Since it's a nighttime episode. Plus the beer, I got the beer and the wine. That's my chaser. Kind of it's dark out. It's only 4.44. Spotty cow chaser. This is spotted cow chaser. I know, that's a heavy chaser too. Anyway, Minnesota, what am I going to taste here?

[00:01:39] This was just bought at the grocery store and it's just called Bacon Horse Radish Dip. What's called Hell of Good Dip. Hell of Good Dip. Hell of a Good Dip. Hell of a Good Dip. I've never really thought about bacon or horse radish. It's probably great.

[00:01:55] Because I like them both. Total winner. Really? I don't know. Wait, at the end. I don't know. What do you mean you don't know? Well, it's a lot of horse radish at the end. I don't know. I don't know. I think I'd rather just have onion dip. Okay.

[00:02:18] Yeah, I can't recommend that. And then look they have bugles that are ranch. Oh! Yeah, I'm not a bugle. I know it's very loud. Sorry to remind you. Is that bothering anybody? Is that bothering anybody? I'm never a bugle person. But... No. No. No? No.

[00:02:46] Hidden Valley makes these too. No. It tastes like chemicals. Sometimes when they try to flavor stuff, it just comes out tasting like dust. Chemical dust. All bugles do? That's probably why I don't eat bugles. Yeah. Let's talk about Minnesota though.

[00:03:08] I'm going to talk about a wonderful six degrees outside. So pretty. Those Minnesotans though, they don't care. They all just came piling into that casino. And I went up early to a casino called Treasure Island. It's about an hour outside of Minneapolis.

[00:03:24] And once you get outside of the Minneapolis airport, which could take up to eight hours, it's a very, very expansive airport. And my good friend Kelly McFarland was opening the show for the weekend. So then we got in a car and we went to Treasure Island

[00:03:38] and went early to go see who my friend Tater Salad, Mr. Ronald D. White, he was headlining Friday night. And I would say there's probably only maybe three to five comedians where I would sit in the crowd and watch their whole show.

[00:03:59] Because I just drift out too much and I don't want to sit... I can't sit that like that in focus. But I can sit for his. And it's the last time I'll probably ever see him because he's retiring. That's right. Any Ron White fans, that's it.

[00:04:11] New Year's Eve, Kapooey, he's out of here. It was very good. And he closes with Tater Salad, that famous joke. And there's not many comedians that can start a joke and then the audience keeps the joke going. Like a song. Like he goes,

[00:04:27] I was not drunk in public. And then they all go, I was thrown in public. They know that it's like weird, like music. That happens with music, but not so much with comedy. And then I gambled a little. I played some video poker. And then Saturday night,

[00:04:46] my good friend, Louis Anderson, who passed away last January, his sister, Lisa came. She looks exactly like him. You should go to my Instagram and look at the picture of me and Lisa. I mean, it's like Louis and baskets except it's Lisa and she's there.

[00:05:02] So I did a little tribute to Louis at the end. Told some stories and gave her a shout out. So that was all very nice because Minnesota, some states have a lot of comedians that come out. Others, not so many.

[00:05:16] Minnesota, every single person is weirder than the next, but I liked them all. I like Nick Schwartzen, Maria Bamford, Mitch Hedberg. I mean, they are definitely one of the women backstage goes, it's probably because our minds are frozen.

[00:05:37] And I said, well, I don't know what the reason is that you're very peculiar people, but bat in a thousand sending comedians out in the world. Minnesota is doing a very good job. Yeah, compared to some other states where you just don't see that many.

[00:05:52] I don't know Minneapolis, but that's also because they have a very good club in Minneapolis where you would start comedy, act me comedy club that I used to work years ago. Anyway, that's enough comedy talk folks. I don't have any Queen news.

[00:06:05] I did get wall at the restaurant. I ate with Ron and his little buddies. It's called the Tato Steakhouse and they had fresh walleye. It was delicious. That's one of the main reasons you need to get to Minneapolis. I don't have any Queen news,

[00:06:20] but my friend Cindy and Cleveland went to see Shaka in Cleveland and said she was fantastic. I didn't even know Shaka was going to be there. Dolly is wearing in honor of paddles the Canadian World Cup hat. I'm wearing the American World Cup hat.

[00:06:38] We will talk about that in a minute. I watched the game today one to one. Wales tied us. And I don't have Stevie's add more dates with Billy Joel. I just want to vomit. Don't do it. No, no, no, no, no. Oh, like, I don't know.

[00:06:55] My sister goes, well, you wouldn't go see Billy Joel. I said if little dwarf, my friend handed me tickets and I happen to be standing right outside the venue. Yes, I would go in. But what I pay, I liked his early stuff.

[00:07:09] And then that, and then I kept hearing it in the casino this weekend. She's a nap time girl. Yeah. And then there's like four more that are no. No. And I know Stevie's going to have to cut her set short because she's splitting the gig with him.

[00:07:22] They both can't do an hour and a half. Right. Oh, I guess it could, but I don't think they would. I don't know maybe they would anyway. Don't like those tickets are available.

[00:07:33] I've been checking the arenas and Stevie and Billy are not causing nearly the amount of havoc. Our little, your little Tay Tay, your Queen Tay Tay caused. We're going to be talking about that because wow, what a shit show.

[00:07:49] And I have a tough time speaking completely freely on this matter because ticket master does work hand in hand with me a lot. And Live Nation too. And I love my guys.

[00:08:01] I mean, I don't think though that like, so let's say I do Dallas, the majestic theater, like, and that's a can be a live, a live nation thing or San Antonio. I don't know that my guys are the same people that Tay Tay. I really sincerely doubt it.

[00:08:17] Maybe I don't, I don't know if they all work different size venues. Obviously mine or not. Mine are like 2000 seats, maybe 2500. Tay Tay's are 7 million. So I don't know how all that really works, but I will tell you about my little experience with that too.

[00:08:35] But first let's talk about the World Cup. Before I even go into an update only because the World Cup is happening right now. I think FIFA is worse. No equally as horrible as the IOC International Olympic Committee whores sellouts. Terrible, terrible, terrible.

[00:08:54] Because if you're playing in this World Cup or even if you decided to go, I don't, I'm sure as a Midwest person, I'm not saying it right. First I was saying Qatar and then I heard Qatar. I don't know what it is. I'm going with Qatar.

[00:09:10] It's a Q. Q is in Queen. Qatar. Budweiser spent 75 million to be a sponsor. And then they said we're not selling beer at any of the venues. It's the World Cup soccer. No I want a beer and it's hot out there now. It's like 90 degrees.

[00:09:30] So everybody is sitting out there sweating their asses off. I don't know why you give it to these countries that do, to pull this bullshit.

[00:09:38] And then you act like, like those poor people that had to go to the Russian Olympics and then they were showing the, where, when he had them in, where was it in Russia? The last one. Yes, so she. What a dump.

[00:09:50] I'm like, you know, you're in these door, you probably go to the Olympics once. The World Cup, I mean as a participant. World Cup maybe two or three in your whole life if you're David Beckham or something.

[00:10:00] But there were so many Welsh fans because I watched the Wales United States game. I don't know. The World Cup supposed to be a party in a box. And here's how much this is not a party in the box. Here's, this is an article.

[00:10:16] Here's some things from the World Cup that you're restricted to do. First of all, the first thing was beer. And if I'm Budweiser, but here's the problem. You entered into a deal with the people, the government of Qatar. You think you're getting your 75 million back? Good luck.

[00:10:32] How do you think you're going to get that back? They took the money and now they're not selling beer. You can get it though if you're in the exclusive corporate box. What kind of bullshit is that? The whole country, there's just too many. Billionaires? Yeah.

[00:10:50] For a sign of how dramatic the shift in Qatar is, consider that FIFA successfully pressured Brazil to change its federal laws to allow alcohol sales in its stadiums before it hosted the World Cup in 2014 overturning a ban that had been enacted because of violence. I get that.

[00:11:07] It's like hockey games sometimes say we're not selling beer after this second period. But this is just not at all. So Budweiser makes the deal with them. And then at the very last minute they go, yeah, we're not doing that.

[00:11:19] You could get it at tents outside somewhere, but even those I've seen them, they're not really enough. Regular fans won't have access to alcoholic matches. Only spectators in high stadiums, high-end luxury suites will have access to booze.

[00:11:33] Outside of the stadiums, fans can still drink at special World Cup gatherings, spaces or a special license or restaurants bars. In general, the public consumption of alcohol is illegal in Qatar. Yes, an offense that can bring six months in prison and a fine of more than $800.

[00:11:49] This is how stubborn my Irish can be. If they put me in jail for six months for drinking a beer, all I would do for six months is look at my jail person and go, as soon as I get out I'm drinking another one.

[00:12:03] Go ahead, let me out. I'll do it again. Like so childish, so stubborn. But that's what I would be thinking. You know what's going to make me want a beer? Being in this shithole for six months. As soon as you let me out I'm going to drink more.

[00:12:19] Anyone smuggling alcohol into the country can face up to three years in prison. Wow. Now how many of these little Scots and Englishmen and little... I saw a Welsh plane in a Brazilian plane.

[00:12:31] Welshmen... Oh my God, there was a video of a plane of Brazilians going over there and there was one guy that was not into it. Right. He wasn't being mean, but he was like on a plane with Brazilian soccer fans. He was Brazilian, but he's like soccer fans.

[00:12:43] And they were just like singing and it was insanity. And I thought, oh boy, that's what earbuds reports are. Where's your earbuds? Your earbuds in the sleep mask. Islam is the official religion anyone found to be proselytizing for other religions or criticizing Islam may be criminally prosecuted.

[00:13:02] It's not safe to assume you can practice your faith openly. It allows some non-Muslim religious practices in designated areas like the Doha's religious complex, but all faiths are not accommodated equally. I mean, yeah, you cannot bring pork products in. Right.

[00:13:23] Well, it's a good thing I like beef jerky. Right. How about beef? Right. I mean listen to all this bullshit. Does it count what you're making? Moo. Yeah. Speech that's deemed critical of the Qatari government could trigger an arrest.

[00:13:42] Those lies apply to both spoken word and social media. And while past world cuffs have brought a heaping of argy-bargy, I don't know what that is, scenes of rival crowds yelling or even singing obscenities at one another, open conflicts can big problems in Qatar.

[00:13:58] For example, arguing with or insulting others in public could lead to arrest. I mean, what? This isn't fun. Especially in soccer you're supposed to be able to yell. And wear makeup. Homosexuality is criminalizing Qatar. Some guy went in with a rainbow shirt on.

[00:14:14] Today he tried to get in. T-shirt with a rainbow on it. Boy, yo-yoing. Kicked him out. Now how do you know the man doesn't just like rainbows? Right. I mean yeah, it could be associated with gay, but it could also maybe he just likes Judy Garland. Right.

[00:14:31] He's gay? No. Not necessarily. And yeah, he got kicked out. I think you're crazy though to wear it. Like, I wouldn't challenge these people. No. I think we've seen enough with the Brittany Griner case. Let's not push the envelope in foreign countries with very strict laws.

[00:14:46] Let's just either not go, my vote, or go and behave. Um, what else can't you do? You can't be gay. I've got six months imprisonment for anyone found to have committed immoral actions or gestures in public and up to seven years in prison

[00:15:05] for having sex outside of marriage. Public debauchery. Mmm, Ron White would be in a lot of problems in this category. Can also carry a sentence of three years. Just for debauchery. Debauchery. Define that. Right. If a pregnant fan goes to Qatar for the World Cup,

[00:15:24] they should be prepared to show a marriage certificate if they need prenatal care there. Um, their oppressive heat forced the tournament to move from the summer to November and December, but fans who find it hot there should limit on how much skin they show.

[00:15:42] Dress codes in many public areas require both men and women covering their shoulders, chest, stomach, and knees and tights. Leggings be covered by a long shirt or dress. As with alcohol, clothing standards can shift according to the neighborhood or venue the caters to foreigners.

[00:16:01] I mean, it just doesn't sound fun. No. Nope. And you know what? Really, screw FIFA for picking them. Horses. You're just whores. Yeah. It shouldn't be here. If you can't drink a beer and watch soccer, that's tradition. Right. No, I was only going to call it.

[00:16:19] But I also don't want to get arrested. You know, what's debauchery? Like, it's just, that's just not a fun, fun atmosphere. No. Anyway, we'll still go ahead and watch. But there's a lot of empty seats in the game before the American

[00:16:36] game, whatever one that was, I'd say half the stadium was empty because you said you read something where their tickets weren't coming up on their phones when they tried to get in. Their tickets weren't downloading. The FIFA app went down. The FIFA app went down. Jesus.

[00:16:49] I don't know how people get end up. It's like, you know, Olympic kidney. How do these people get? There's some FIFA thing on Netflix. I don't want to watch it yet because I was busy watching the crowd.

[00:17:00] We'll talk about that when I get to what we're watching about. But first, we have an update. Just in case anybody besides me cares and I don't think anyone does, but I'm doing it anyway. I'm really interested in what's going to happen to Boris Becker.

[00:17:22] Jailed former tenor says, Borat Becker, he will be deported to Germany in time for Christmas. He's been approved for a fast track scheme under which foreign cons are sent to their home countries to ease the pressure on British prisons. I know.

[00:17:42] The ex-Wimbledon champ, 54 years old, was sentenced to two and a half years in April for hiding $2.5 million in assets while bankrupt, but sources say he will walk free next month. One prison source says he signed up to a scheme that

[00:17:55] means the disgraced star has spent seven months in some Hunter Cone prison. He's been accepted onto the early release scheme. They keep saying scheme like it's not legal, which allows any foreign national serving a fixed sentence whose libel

[00:18:09] for removal from the UK to be removed from prison had deported up to 12 months before the earliest release point of their sentence. Offenders benefit by cutting up to 13 days from their sentence if they agree to go home. Seems like a lot more than that.

[00:18:25] His former spokesman said we're very pleased for Boris that he may qualify for an early release, maybe if he travels to Germany. I'll be a England has been his home for many, many, many years. So his home ain't even in Germany anymore.

[00:18:36] It will sure mean a lot to him to be united with his family for Christmas. Look, if I get out of prison I'll go to any country. So will anybody else? Except Qatar. Except Qatar, right, because what's the fun of

[00:18:47] getting out of prison if I can't have a beer? I'll just have a beer and get sent right back to prison. That's all I would say. And then what is wrong with me? Like I am old enough to know about her, but that's

[00:18:57] what I would say to the guard as soon as you let me out I'm drinking again. Just the same fuck you. Speaking of which, update, update two, I didn't even have to print it out. Elizabeth. Elizabeth Holmes. Theranos, because I was talking to my dad and

[00:19:20] he's like who's she? I'm like, dad, the blood thing. And then my mom said it like a Greek person, she goes, Theranos. I'm like what? Who are you? Who are you, Theranos? I go, Theranos! The blood deal. And then they were like oh, right, right, right.

[00:19:37] She got 11 and a half years. They're going to appeal it. She didn't have to go to the popo right away. That's what I wanted to know. Are they taking her away today? No. They're going to let her have her baby. Yeah, well they would never do that to

[00:19:49] people without money. You know how many people or women have babies in prison shit tons because I watch that prison show sometimes. Yeah, no they're going to let her, April and then she'll appeal all this bullshit but April 23rd I believe

[00:20:04] 11 and a half years I say she'll serve eight. And she's only 38. So that she'll be 46 when you're out. That's not old. Plenty of time to start a new con. Plenty of time to think of some other bullshit bullshit to sell people that ain't a thing.

[00:20:26] I couldn't find any videos. I think they had pretty locked down courtroom though. Yeah, but usually California is the most liberal with all that. Hello, look at the OJ trial. That's what made my dad so mad because my dad was a judge for a while too and

[00:20:41] he's like I shouldn't film any of this shit. This Edo person wants to be a star. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Like okay. Well people do act differently when cameras are on but it's been a long journey to our mice with Elizabeth Holmes.

[00:20:53] And everybody sent me all the stuff. Thank you, I get all that on Twitter and Instagram and she was crying. But even her speech, fake crying, even her speech was I'm sorry I failed. It was all me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me. Not a word about.

[00:21:11] You know I tried to make the world a better place and I, I, I, I'm like oh my god she still doesn't get it. No. And then the judge said it's a shame because you're a brilliant woman. What defined brilliant? Do you mean a brilliant manipulator or a

[00:21:27] liar? Because I don't really know, she quit Stanford. How am I supposed to know you're smart? You didn't even finish. I finished four years, albeit it was you know not Stanford. I didn't get in there. It was University of Missouri in Southern

[00:21:41] Illinois which by the way I next when I have time to go through stuff I have so much stuff. My alma mater sent me some really cool SIUE stuff which SIUE is not the one everybody goes oh you're a silookey I'm like no that was the cooler school.

[00:21:57] Nobody knows what a silookey is. Yes people in the Midwest, people in the Midwest know what a silookey is. What a silookey? It's some form of dog. A silookey? Yeah Google it it's like a husky. Oh my god. That sounds totally made up.

[00:22:12] Well even weirders is saying it was Billikens. What's a billikon? It's a monster. It's a little monster. It's a silookey. Well they're ugly dogs. They're ugly dogs but I wasn't a silookey. What is that? It might be made up. Is it fictional? What's doing now? I don't know.

[00:22:31] Silookey. Silookey Southern Illinois Carbondale that was the funner school. I didn't go to that one and that's why I'm saying funner because I didn't go to the better one. I went to the one I could drive to. Update! We're moving on. Okay. We're moving on. Banksy!

[00:22:50] Kind of obsessed with Banksy. I'm trying to think if there was anything else about the Elizabeth Holm thing, Holm thing. She gets to have the baby outside. So you know it's only, it's November, December, January, March. She still has four more months of freedom. I don't trust her.

[00:23:09] I don't trust her not to leave. I don't know. I just, I don't, they wouldn't do it to poor people. Did they take her passport? I don't know if they took her passport. The poor? I don't know. Banksy. Okay, so we talked about it

[00:23:26] that his things have been popping up throughout Ukraine. Somebody caught, now you're kind of right because I said somebody caught a man on camera painting a thing and it's probably Banksy. They shouldn't do it. I agree with you even though

[00:23:41] I really want to see what he looks like. He doesn't, clearly doesn't want to be seen. So I think people should honor that. Yeah, I know you don't want to ever be seen. You will never be seen. You are welcome. I could totally snap a picture

[00:23:57] of you right now and put it up there. Go this is the only. Some people don't like attention or that kind of fame. CCT footage appears to show an anonymous street or Banksy painting one of the artworks he created in war torn Ukrainian towns.

[00:24:15] Works features people doing daily task against war torn buildings in Homsville, Harenka and Borodynka. And there's a guy. Yeah, I don't know. He's doing them all over Ukraine and they're flipping awesome. Awesome. Uh huh. It was uploaded by Ukrainian tiktok user so and so.

[00:24:37] Yeah, and he's putting the final touches on it. I'm sure it's him. You can't really see though. It's very greeny so he's still retained. Then he he told everybody in London to go shoplift from the guest store. He tells shoplifters to steal from guests

[00:24:56] saying the company says the company helped themselves to my artworks. So go help yourselves to their clothes. Yeah. The anonymous and unconventional graffiti artist Banksy posted an unusual request on Friday asking any potential shoplifters among his fan base to visit the Regent Street

[00:25:15] guest store in London and help themselves. Could we just talk about the fact I don't even know where you'd get a pair of guest jeans right now. No idea. Is that still going on? Guests? No, in London. Do we have any British Charmites? Any Charmites living in London?

[00:25:35] Is guest still a thing? I don't even see it like a TJ Maxx or places where it would be last call. Marshall? Nope. He wrote the pro shoplifting message on Instagram in response to some of the iconic designs being used in a guest clothing collection. Dillards and Macy's.

[00:25:53] Dillards and Macy's? Yeah. Alright. The collection features t-shirts and jackets imprinted with Banksy's thug for life bunny displayed in front of a blown up backdrop which featured the artist's famous image of a looter throwing a bouquet of flowers. On Instagram he wrote, attention all

[00:26:16] shoplifters, please go to guests on Regent Street. They've helped themselves to my artwork without asking so how can it be wrong for you to do the same with their clothes? It's unclear how serious Banksy's post really was or if the artist was personally

[00:26:30] interested about the clothing line before it went into production but the offending guest collection is in partnership with a company Brandalives which reportedly has a license to commercialize and use Banksy's artwork on goods. Well, he should look at that beforehand. Yeah. Or have a manager do it.

[00:26:49] Well, yeah not him. He's gotta have an agent or a manager. It makes these people work for a living for Christ's sake. Um, they said it looks like he might have had a genuine outburst of annoyance on social media but maybe somebody licensed it.

[00:27:07] I would think that'd be quite a um, quite a leap to do that without permission to just go yeah we're just gonna put this shit all over our clothes. I mean, maybe the guy working for him forgot to tell him hey buddy I licensed some of this stuff.

[00:27:25] Don't go ape shit on social media too late now, huh? Um, that's all my updates. Yeah, it wasn't a big update week. Um, well since we talked about Taylor as a potential queen I know people update it. I like the song about the lead from St. Louis.

[00:27:47] Um, let's talk about as it will call it a baby update. It's not a full update. From baby queen? She's not a queen in this house yet. These are the queens. Well in your house but this is not your house. So I'm considering it.

[00:28:07] I'm gonna let baby cat choose. Oh no. And now baby cat had to go outside. She was so talking if she's up here going I'm like hey I got shit to do baby cat. Um, the Tay Tay situation This is where I turn into an old person.

[00:28:25] Remember when they used to just say tickets were going to go on sale and you just went to the venue and camped out? Why can't we do that anymore? That's for people who really cared. It was fun too. I used to do it for cardinal games

[00:28:35] like when we got into the playoffs and World Series and stuff we would camp out but I was in college and then we would have like three campsites. Campsite one and two would go drinking. Campsite three would guard one and two and then we'd switch

[00:28:47] out and then you'd pass out and sleep for a few hours and then switch again. It was a great time and it was usually falls to the weather time. No, we had tents and shit and they let us do it but this whole system ticketmaster saying

[00:29:01] because here's the thing if you weren't a member of the Tay Tay fan club you're not even getting in on the presale This is a good opportunity to explain to termites too. When I have a presale for instance, people always go well what is that special club? No

[00:29:15] I don't even require you to be in any fan club or nothing. It's just this is the day X amount of tickets are going to go on sale that are super good seats they're probably going to be more expensive than the cheaper seats

[00:29:31] and you just put this code in whatever like Myles Ranch or Wine or whatever and then you can just buy them that day if you're really into it and if you want to do it it's usually on Wednesday and then Friday is

[00:29:45] all the tickets are on sale. But if you want the better seats, you go buy presale because I don't have any hit songs Mine are not you know no requirement like for Florence and the machine one time I had to join the fan club and buy a CD

[00:30:03] What? Yeah, it wasn't that long ago five years ago maybe buy a CD. I don't even fucking want a CD Worth it? Well it was worth it because I really like Florence and I would buy the CD but the actual it was still a CD

[00:30:17] it was still a little card whatever I don't require any of that but I am not Tate Tate says you got to be a member of the fan club so they thought that X amount of people would go in and then the whole thing

[00:30:29] broke. I know one person it blew up she broke the internet she did it again and now she's really upset and then I read a thing then Ticketmaster said well we didn't know the ticket thing was going to be this high

[00:30:43] and Tate's issued a bunch of statements going she assured me two or three times because you got to give her credit Nashville she's doing three shows so as much as I think Garth Brooks can be cheesy he does a million shows and then everybody can go

[00:31:01] it takes away the demand and Tate is trying to do that a little bit three shows in one town a lot and like Pittsburgh too I looked at the whole schedule but she broke the internet but if the internet isn't prepared then you can't sell tickets like that

[00:31:17] I know one person my friend Lucy she got two tickets and she's not even sure how she had her husband doing it at the same time and then I tried for the kids I was 2000th I can't even say that it said you're number 2000 I'm like

[00:31:39] guess how much I like my nieces a ton, guess how much I like to sit here for that close the computer I'm not sitting here for 2000 fucking people this is crazy and then immediately they're on stub hub so what is that saying, who bought those

[00:31:57] that's not true Tate fans that's bullshit that's bots or something because if you did get your Tate tickets you're not putting them on stub hub I don't believe that, not unless you were dramatically ill something Elizabeth Holmes did what put them all on stub hub

[00:32:17] she probably had to put hers on stub hub because depending on what date she might be in a pokey she won't be able to attend I think I have an article about it somewhere here yeah she said it was excruciating for herself

[00:32:33] and I actually believe Taylor Swift does give a shit yeah I did too I liked that show I saw her on Netflix or whatever I thought she deserves to be a queen I know it goes without saying I'm extremely protective of my fans

[00:32:49] she wrote on Instagram, it's really difficult for me to trust an outside entity with these relationships and loyalties and it is excruciating for me to watch mistakes happen with no recourse they said to meet demand she would have to do 900 shows 300 shows 300 shows 100 years every night

[00:33:13] she blamed ticket master for this snafu noting that there was a multitude of reasons why people had such a hard time getting tickets I'm not going to make excuses for anyone because we asked them multiple times if they could handle this kind of demand

[00:33:27] and we were sure they could it's truly amazing the 2.4 million people got tickets but it really pisses me off that a lot of them feel like they went through several bear attacks to get them well most people, you don't even know Taylor how many people just quit

[00:33:41] I quit well I wasn't doing it for me I'm doing it for the children I even tried to call in the big guns in Los Angeles I don't have her ask for favors but I was like well often they were like nope how about George Strait what?

[00:34:01] do you want tickets to bill it? no I don't want to go see bill it I'm going to figure out how this situation can be improved on moving forward this is the thing you're Tete you have the opportunity to create something awesome as far as ticket buying goes

[00:34:19] I don't know what it is I'm not a business person on Thursday ticket manager announced the sale to the general public which was scheduled by Friday the pre-sale all the tickets were gone they had no tickets to sell on Friday it's like the worst bake sale ever

[00:34:37] they had to cancel due to extraordinary high demand on ticketing systems an insufficient remaining ticket inventory to meet that demand to those who didn't get tickets all I can say is that my hope is to provide more opportunities for us to get together and sing these songs

[00:34:49] Swift added take her a couple years mmhmm a verified fan platform was created in 2017 to help ticket manager handle situations of enormous demand well, it didn't work no no but you know what they'll get away with it for regular shows they do fine my shows they do fine

[00:35:21] they do a good job but when it's shit like this it's going to go bananas and there's no rhyme or reason and think of all those kids like I just shot the computer and walked away I'm like I don't really give a shit

[00:35:31] I thought I'd give it a whirl but for those kids it did get up and sat there to be too because that has happened to me where I've kept it on, Florence and the machine didn't happen and then the thing came on they go there's no tickets left

[00:35:45] you didn't even get a chance it just I don't know they got to figure out something for the super this shit does not happen with my stuff but oh wait there's another update in here what did I miss well okay holy shit there's a grave home owners

[00:36:14] found 137 million dollar caravaggio oil painting in their attic depicting judith beheading holiferness what did you just say well this is a problem with being catholics here paddles we don't even know what any of that means no it's something from the bible um this 400 year old painting

[00:36:36] had been in the attic for at least 150 years wait a year this shit imagine if you will find yourself if you will yourself finding a painting in your attic valued at well over 100 million dollars sobering isn't it what is also sobering is the chilling image

[00:36:54] in the painting of a young woman with one hand pulling a screaming man's hair and the other gripping a huge sword slicing his slicing through his neck while he while she takes off his head oh my god we'll put the painting in the schnauz

[00:37:10] I don't want this painting in my house look at the detail in this extraordinary work of art look at the cold look on judith's face the aging skin of the old woman the anguish face of holiferness whoever that guy is and the use of color shading

[00:37:24] lighting contrast and realism down to the curtains now imagine finding this in your house and thinking about how to be worth a fortune the painting is the second version of the artist's painting of judith beheading holiferness and then there's the dimensions all of that

[00:37:40] it's the creative work of italian painter Michelangelo maricisi de cavaglio born in 1571 in Milan during the spanish empire most of his artistic life was spent in Rome during the baroque cultural movement era he died at 38 he looks sad and sick and like he didn't have a comb ever

[00:38:04] nobody ever gave the guy a comb um the backstory of judith beheading holiferness supposedly originates from biblical accounts again why we would have no knowledge of that this is right there however the book of judith was excluded from the hebrew bible yeah i don't know any

[00:38:22] book of judith or judy golden judy tenu'da would have used it as a joke of some sort and therefore does not appear in the king james bible as it is not sanctioned by protestant denomination it is however included in this sub to guignet catholic and eastern orthodox christian

[00:38:44] old testament bibles i don't know i'll take their word for it um it was a house in toulouse in the west of france toulouse it housed the painting for a century and a half it was found by its new home brand new homeowners

[00:39:05] they went up into the attic to find out where water was leaking into the house through the roof when they went up to the attic they found a locked door which they forced open because they didn't have a key to it

[00:39:17] once inside they found the dust covered painting in amazingly good condition here you can see a picture of the attic the last piece was found the new homeowners called experts to their home to appraise a large canvas which was valued to be approximately worth $170 million $137 million imagine that

[00:39:37] one of the experts said the painting was recognizable as a caravaggio because the energy and light and typical of caravaggio paintings and that it had no mistakes showing it was done with a sure hand and pictorial stuff which speaks to authenticity wow

[00:39:51] I don't know what they're going to do with the money it is curious though that a painting that appraised at $137 million was left sitting in a house for somebody to break in and take it

[00:40:01] it would seem they would have had to have it in a more secure place nonetheless this piece of art history has seen a lot in its 400 years and those homeowners as well as the art world are richer for this discovery yep

[00:40:14] all I've ever found is like I found a raccoon skeleton once mouse droppings gross what do you think is going to be an enatic old Christmas lights that don't work never found anything like that this is a holy shit they found it this is exciting scientists rediscover

[00:40:39] lost bird that hadn't been seen in 140 years it's quote like finding a unicorn and wait till you see it not as cool as the unicorn no it's not as cool as the unicorn scientists have rediscovered the black nape pheasant pigeon wait he's it's awesome look it

[00:40:57] a rare bird that was last sighted 140 years ago in Papua New Guinea black nape pheasant pigeon pheasant pigeon both looks more like a pheasant it's orange and black discoveries made in Ferguson Island off the east coast of Papua New Guinea in September researchers' cameras caught

[00:41:23] it was first as it was first described in 1882 to find something that's been gone for it been gone that long you're thinking someone's distinct and then to figure out that it's not extinct it feels like finding a unicorn or bigfoot it's extraordinarily unusual

[00:41:39] the research team is part of the search for the lost birds a collaboration between bird life international and bird conservat conservacy which financed the trip here's another thing I didn't know was a job to be a bird conservator a bird conservator

[00:41:57] or my whole life is going to be devoted to looking for birds we haven't seen in a hot minute that'd be fun the black nape pheasant pigeon is the size of a chicken and among 20 quote lost birds have not been sighted for over a century

[00:42:13] it's one of the four pheasant pigeon species found around New Guinea and lives only on Ferguson Island they tried to locate it in 2019 but they failed the last expedition was unsuccessful this year the team found success in the villages on the western slope of Mount Kilikarin

[00:42:31] the island's highest peak yep it was the final hours of the search go look at a picture of it see people say this shit doesn't exist anymore and then boom there's one just wandering around shaking his little pheasant pheasant tail we're moving on oh what are we watching

[00:42:52] we gotta talk about just for a minute so I watched the Jerry Falwell movie about on Hulu about the pool boy yep it was fabulous Giancarlo um he was so cute and he's so honest and his sister it reminded me if Patrick

[00:43:10] would have done something like this where I'm like what? like she's supportive and non-judgmental but at the same time she's like dude what did you do I mean and I know people could say all the things the Catholics have done and there are

[00:43:24] many many many things we could talk about that are all not good we have done our share but the level of hypocrisy because somebody wrote to me it seems like if you have something against evangelicals in particular not the ones that are really

[00:43:40] doing what they do it's the ones that aren't doing what they do because they have more hypocrisy built in because they tell you you can't the Catholics don't say you can't drink the Catholics don't say you can't gamble the Catholics don't say as a matter of fact

[00:43:52] that's all the things we have at a fish fry that's how we attract people gambling smoking right we're like mattress Mac of religions come to the fish fry there will be gambling there will be bingo um there will be tons of booze um but like at Liberty University

[00:44:08] they're not allowed to drink they're not allowed to dance they're not allowed to smoke all this bullshit the Jerry Falwell juniors out there fucking preaching every day and then he's doing all of it I still the and then they

[00:44:22] got mean and they threatened him you gotta go watch the show on Hulu also highly recommend Netflix the Leonard Skinner documentary it's just phenomenal I was texting Ron because Ron loves Leonard Skinner and I'm like dude you gotta go watch this thing those guys

[00:44:38] I mean their story is so back asswoods Jack and you know what this how naive I am I think because of the song sweet hall of Alabama I was out there from Alabama yet Jacksonville Florida yep yep yep nope um also started Yellowstone you know I don't know

[00:45:03] what I love it okay but it's just a bad not bad it's just a soap opera I mean it's ridiculous to like how many people have they murdered I mean eventually there's gonna have to kill one another there's gonna be nobody left and they don't want progress and

[00:45:23] some of the speeches are right because I do know some rich California people that have gone to Montana and they had there's an area there and I can't think of the name of it um because a friend of mine went to go see a friend

[00:45:33] of our mutual friend of ours at this area um and yeah there's a lot of California people moving in outside of Bozeman um Montana where have I been I've been to Billings no Billings is the city that's fine I don't I didn't see

[00:45:54] the Montana they're all talking about but I came up Helen as a capital I came up through Wyoming me and my friend Stephanie make you the other comedian um but Yellowstone's everything you wanted to be um I do and you know what if you really want

[00:46:08] a cheesy cheesy cheesy delicious pleasure watch monarch wait here's what's crazy I know for the record that Susan Sarandon is bad shit crazy okay message received so don't tweet me that don't I mean she's a terrible person I don't even care I like her acting

[00:46:32] but she's only like in one episode and I there's no spoiler alert here because you're gonna find out episode one so then she's dead and she ain't in anything else except in flashbacks it's like the it's like a country music soap opera and then my my fan um

[00:46:50] Trace Atkins um because one time somebody called now was doing a gig in natural and they're like he would like to say hi to you he really likes you on serious radio and I'm so bad with country music is that the one who sings about a

[00:47:04] boot in my ass or something and they're like what what are you talking about Kathleen some song about a boot in your ass they're like no that's Toby Keith I go okay well then they're like Trace and there they showed me this picture

[00:47:18] I'm like alright that guy okay okay uh uh uh uh uh what is it by Don Goodong yeah and he's like six foot He was so sweet, he came backstage and I was like, I guess let's get our picture taken. It's super weird.

[00:47:34] I'm five foot nothing, you are 11 foot tall and his voice is real deep. But anyway, he plays Susan Sarandon's husband but Susan Sarandon dies. I also don't know how they're affording the music they're paying for in this show.

[00:47:50] I mean, they're using every song you've ever heard that are giant hits of everything. I don't know. He plays Albee. He plays Al. Albee Roman. Alba Roman. We're Romans. It's fun to watch even though it's cheesy. That's my review.

[00:48:08] It's a guilty pleasure of, it's like a giant country music video really. And I don't even know enough about country music to be judging any of this at all. I've tried to learn country but it's a slow process. Monarch and then the crown. Yeah. Crown's great too.

[00:48:29] Yeah, I do not have the empathy for Princess Diana that everyone else does. I don't. Careful. I don't need to be careful on this. Here's the thing. She grew up super rich. She grew up super rich in a castle with rich parents.

[00:48:44] She swam with Charles like when they were kids. She wasn't, they always make it out to be like she was this kindergarten teacher somewhere in a shitty neighborhood in South London and somebody he met her and she got plucked out of obscurity and poverty. It's all bullshit.

[00:49:00] So when she married him, here's the deal. I don't like Charles either. I understand that you don't like Charles. He seems like a whole shit ton and no fun. I don't. No. I even think the queen would be more fun because she likes dogs and horses.

[00:49:20] So I have something in common with the queen and she liked her drinks. So if I said, hey, let's let's bust those corgis out and then five corgis come around and yeah, and I have a martini. Everything's fine. Everything is fine.

[00:49:32] She, yeah, she likes her gin and tonic. I don't like gin, but I would drink it if the queen said that's what we're doing today. We're drinking gin and tonics playing with corgis and then we're going to go see my horses out at the bar.

[00:49:42] I could get on track with all that. Charles, no. But my thing is, Diana, you knew what the gig was. Then you get the gig and now you're miserable and you're going to pout and whine.

[00:50:02] There's a scene where Philip comes in and he basically tells her, look, we're all what my word is. They're Disney characters. Okay. You are now a Disney princess and just play the role and you can do whatever you want. But he was like, I thought you knew that.

[00:50:19] I would think you did not come from the middle class or the lower class. You were upper, upper, upper, upper class. You know what this involves. So why do it? Why say yes? Because she wanted to be the queen. She would never be the queen.

[00:50:37] He's going to be the king. She'd be the queen mom, darling. No, darling. You're the queen mom, like the queen mom of the queen mom. She can't ever be queen. Well, queen light. Queen light? Okay, Canada. That's it. You should know better.

[00:50:53] You are from a system which still has these people as part of your money and everything else. Nope. I love the crown and I love whoever playing princess die that lady. She's doing a great job.

[00:51:05] And the lady who's playing the queen, the guy who's playing Prince Charles is way better looking than Charles. I got to shout out to that man, dude. You are way better.

[00:51:14] Like if they picked me to be Prince Charles, I'd be like, fuck, I thought I was cuter than that. Amelda Stanton is the queen. Amelda Stanton, what else has she been in? She looks very familiar. I don't know, but I'll look. Elizabeth Debicki is Diana. Elizabeth Debicki? Yep.

[00:51:32] I thought it was like that American lady. Nope. No? Elizabeth Debicki. Well, she's doing a wonderful job. All the acting is great. The little boy who plays Prince William. Great. I love the show. I just don't understand the sad sack of Diana. What does the matter with you?

[00:51:49] Of course, I just don't. I don't know. You know the gig, you take the gig and then you're like, oh, this sucks. Well, of course it sucks, but you have to make your own good out of it. The queen lady? Yeah, she's 66. She's 66 years old.

[00:52:04] Yeah, she's been in all kinds of shit. I do recognize her. All right. Well, highly recommend it, but you have to like the crown. My dad wouldn't make it to one episode. No, he'd kill my mom. I'll have to go.

[00:52:18] I'm going to watch it on Thanksgiving with my mom. I'll save my episodes for her because he won't watch it. He'll say no. All right. We'll move it on to news. Lung distance. I did say lung. I didn't say long. Chainsmoking grandpa runs marathon in 3.5 hours.

[00:52:44] This is a Chinese grandpa redefines smoking the competition after running an entire marathon in just 3.5 hours while puffing away on sigs. Images so the chain smoking athlete lighting up Weibo. Oh, that's the Chinese social media platform. Weibo. Weibo. Never heard of it. W-E-I-B-O.

[00:53:06] Let's see if we can get on it. As fans praise the respiratory fortitude, the 50 year old runner known as Mr. Uncle Chen accomplished the breathtaking feat at the Zinezhang Marathon in Zhinde running an entire 26.2 miles while either smoking or lighting up a sig.

[00:53:28] Smoking might seem like at odds with long distance running. However, the tobacco loving grandpa reportedly managed to complete the event in an impressive 3 hours 28 minutes and 45 seconds. A quote good marathon time. As a result, he plays 574th out of 1500 runners. That's pretty good.

[00:53:45] Middle of the pack and you're chain smoking and they're not. They got pictures of him just lighting up sigs the whole way. Social media fans were impressed that he managed to finish the race while smoking

[00:53:59] and without running out of cigarettes but he's got a guy next to him who's got his sigs. That guy hands him sigs and he lights them while he's running. The man who's running the marathon. There's a man running with him. With cigarettes.

[00:54:11] Yeah and he hands him sigs so yeah and then he lights them. The guy, the old man, lights them. However the others accused him of harming other competitors with secondhand smoke. Well you know what? That's your fault because you should blow past that man.

[00:54:25] If you're behind a chain smoking 50 year old, that's on you. If you should be able to beat him. This isn't his first rodeo. 2018, the Sigi loving marathon man finished the Gang Zhu marathon in 3 hours and 36 minutes.

[00:54:41] He also completed the 2019 Zim Men marathon in 3 hours and 32 minutes proving that not only is smoking not hindering his performance but it actually may be improving it. I am not saying smoke. If there's any children, the children do not interpret that as a pro smoking ad.

[00:55:00] That's a funny story. Here's something gross. You want gross? Gross! This is probably one of the grossest things. Like somebody paid $218,750 basically with taxes and shit at the auction house would be $220,000 for Steve Jobs used Birkenstocks. Gross! Gross because I have Birkenstocks. I like my Birkenstocks.

[00:55:35] Mine have a bit of a heel built in. They're like a high rise. It's hard to explain. Even I think my Birkenstocks are gross because your feet kind of meld into them and create your own pattern. You can see your own toe prints in there.

[00:55:50] It's almost like clay. It's not like saying, here's a, what are the boys that my nephews have? Those slides. Like here's a deed of slides. There's nothing imprinted in there. It's just okay. I could steal their slides and just wear them and be fine.

[00:56:06] So they were worn by Jobs in the 70s and 80s and saved from the trash by Mark Sheff, S-H-E-F-F, a chef who managed one of the technologist properties in Albany, California in the 80s. Gross! Gross! What do you want? It's disgusting. Yeah, that's pretty gross.

[00:56:27] He wore these sandals during many pivotal moments in Apple's history. In 1976, the chef made all that up. In 1976 he hatched the beginning of Apple Computer in Los Altos Garage with Apple's co-founder Steve Wozniak while occasionally wearing these sandals. I mean they look beat to shit too.

[00:56:47] I just, this is like stuff that on auction where you're like... He only has one pair of Birkenstocks. I only have one pair of Birkenstocks? I mean I'm not Steve Jobs. I'm not comparing myself to Steve Jobs but... You also don't have nine homes.

[00:56:58] I do not have nine homes. No, I do not. So I don't know, once you get a good pair of Birkenstocks broken in though. They're hard to break in. They hurt for a while. Here's something not gross and totally cool. Okay?

[00:57:15] But you're gonna have to go online and watch the video. I can't do it any justice unless you go and do it. So we have talked about before BAMF, B-A-N-F-F for the Americans that don't know. A national park in Canada, Western Canada in British Columbia. Outside of Calgary?

[00:57:35] Outside of Calgary. It's in Alberta. In Alberta. One of the most... Yeah sorry I said British Columbia. One of the prettiest places I've ever been in my life, BAMF. And there's a... We've talked about him on this show before.

[00:57:48] There's a grizzly bear up there known as The Boss and he's the biggest and the bad-ass, most badass grizzly bear in the national park. I bought Louis Black, my little comedian friend, a t-shirt that says The Boss.

[00:58:04] It just says The Boss in little letters and then it's just... It's a picture of the grizzly bear but it's a very artistically cool. Not like a cheesy tourist thing because I went to a special store. Yeah. Oh yeah. Oh! I sure did.

[00:58:19] Because they said they had special boss t-shirts and I'm like well I want to see those t-shirts right? Right. Grizzly bear... So a photographer found him and took videos of him just now. Yeah like last week. Oh yeah! Yeah. Because he's hard... For the catch.

[00:58:37] Well nobody wants to catch him. They're not going to catch him but... Catch him, Phil. Yeah, to capture. Yeah. A photographer recalls his encounter with the legendary grizzly bear. Simply notice The Boss in BAMF National Park. Jason Leo Bantel tells Petapixel about his exhilarating encounter with the

[00:58:54] boss earlier this month who eats other bears and has survived being hit by a train. He's been hit by a train more than once. He goes on the train tracks looking for food that's fallen... Anything that might have fallen off the train.

[00:59:07] That's why he likes but then he gets hit. He is legendary here given his history of eating a black bear one year before he went into hibernation. He dug it out of its den. Wow! You imagine you just go to hibernate, you're like I'm done with summer.

[00:59:23] I'm going to go hit the hay. All of a sudden somebody's pulling you by your hair out of your den and it's another bear. It's like another person, like what are you doing? You crazy thing.

[00:59:33] He's been hit by the train that travels through the National Park and survived. He's most likely the father of 70% of the cubs in the Bow Valley area. That's where in the Bow Valley where I saw the moose if you follow me on Instagram

[00:59:46] I had that moose video I had. The boss is believed to be in his mid 20s and he's achieved longevity in an area with a lot of human density. Grizzly bears are known to be sensitive to human presence and they tend to die in densely human areas.

[00:59:58] He the boss is probably the largest bear is possibly estimated weight of 600 pounds. His nose looks like a shoe. I mean it's so yeah. The enormous bear can be recognized by his right ear which is missing a

[01:00:18] portion of the top and distinguishes his from all the other grizzlies in the area. He spends a large amount of time on the train tracks foraging for grains spilled from the railcars are foraging off other animals that may have been struck and killed by trains.

[01:00:29] Yeah he's looking for carcasses. When it comes to bears safety is key. This guy's saying don't do what I did. He had a telephoto long telephoto lens and images captured over 100 meters away. You don't want to take chances stay far away. You should go see the video though.

[01:00:48] It's super awesome and you know what some years the boss is not caught on camera. So this is a lucky year. He's a legend. He is a legend. Here's another thing are you in Ohio? Ohio termites do you know there's thousands of minks running around Ohio right now?

[01:01:04] Yes. We're in animals. We're in animals. We are in animals right now. Thousands of minks. They're not called no they're just mink. Thousands of mink fled their cages when vandals broke into an Ohio mink farm. This is crazy.

[01:01:27] Thousands of mink were released from their cages at a Northwestern Ohio farm in an overnight breaking I was just in Ohio I could have been looking for these things. I didn't know. Why not? Well it hadn't happened yet.

[01:01:39] In an overnight breaking and entering episode between 25,000 and 40,000 mink were let loose after a suspect or suspects broke into a into the lion farms USA mink farm in I can't say this Hogan Township Ohio and destroyed fencing sending the animals out of their cages sometimes

[01:01:59] overnight sometimes overnight Monday into Tuesday. In an update the sheriff said that many of the minks stayed on the farm and some were corral by employees. Okay. Corral minks. Probably minks. First of all they look to be the size of a ferret.

[01:02:13] I don't really know how big they get but so it's estimated that there are 10,000 on the loose out of the 25 to 40. A bunch stayed on the farm. Yeah they're probably scared chill as they don't know what to do. They're domesticated.

[01:02:30] They don't it's kind of mean you know I'm sure these are animal rights people that say this is terrible. Okay maybe it is maybe it isn't not going to get in that argument but you shouldn't

[01:02:39] just let them loose if they don't know how to live in the wild they're just going to get killed. Mink are carnivorous mammals that primarily eat fresh kills the sheriff's office warned

[01:02:50] as a result they can be a little tiny rat's little tiny super soft rat's super soft as a result they could be a bothersome pest for homeowners livestock owners and property managers mink have proven to be especially costly and problematic for poultry ranchers

[01:03:10] as well as homeowners with ornamental ponds filled with koi and other fish these make are considered domesticated animals livestock domesticated mink generally will not survive in the wild because they lack natural survival skills yeah there's 10,000 but I don't know

[01:03:29] do they bite like I don't know they use the carnivores we have a would they bite me if I picked one up to try to save it well then you got to get a cat cage and trap them

[01:03:43] like how I trapped the cats when they were wild to go get them fixed they're wild kind of kind of wild let's talk about hush puppy this is really an update these transitions

[01:04:03] are crazy a man who flaunted private jets and luxury cars on instagram gets 11 years in prison for money laundering now we have talked about hush puppy before on this show it was a long time

[01:04:17] ago he's a Nigerian Instagram like a super super superstar the least in his own mind and you could tell he was doing bad things I just didn't know what and they finally caught him a Nigerian

[01:04:31] social media influencers who flaunted a lavish lifestyle of private jets and luxury cars has been sentenced to 11 years in prison over charges related to a multi-million dollar scam that targeted companies in the United States and overseas Ramon Abbas known to millions of his Instagram

[01:04:48] followers as hush puppy wait for her hush puppy is great yeah cuz you know I am hush you have to say it like that though what's your name yep no this is even this is not even enough wine to do

[01:05:11] anything um he pleaded guilty in April last year to conspiracy to engage in money laundering in addition to the prison sentence handed down he was ordered to pay 1.7 million dollars in restitution to two fraud victims and a spectacular downfall for hush puppy age 40 who's June 2020 arrest at

[01:05:29] his gilded perch in Dubai made headlines worldwide before sentencing he was held in federal detention in Los Angeles his once filibubian social media account gone quiet despite gaining 5500 thousand dollars since his arrest 500,000 followers since his arrest his targets included a US law firm

[01:05:47] a foreign bank and an unnamed British professional soccer club among others according to federal sentence sentencing memorandum from the US Attorney's office in central DC California money laundering and business email compromised scams so remember there was a while there there were all

[01:06:04] those Nigerian scams coming through on email like hi I'm in Nigeria and if you could just send me this money like well no but it was like there's money waiting for you and I found it but you

[01:06:17] gotta send me this and yeah a lot of Nigerian based off I don't know if that was all hush puppy I can't be blaming all that just on him maybe there is shared guilt he was a

[01:06:32] co-conspiracy co-conspirator fraudulently fraudulently induced a New York law firm to wire him nearly $923,000 meant for a client's real estate refinancing to a bank that they controlled a paralegal at the firm received the fraud fraudulent wire instructions after sending an

[01:06:50] email to what appeared to be legitimate bank email address was later identified as this food address so he was just emailing people as a bank no I the children my mom and dad yeah

[01:07:07] don't even get me started one time I was somewhere in Atlantic City on a boat with a friend and my mom called hello they always sound like they're falling down a well I'm like what's up mom we've

[01:07:20] been hacked what we've been hacked I go what I'm on a boat having margaritas I'm not the person you should call anyway I have other siblings that are techies do that call them well that email there

[01:07:38] was an email and we called a number and he's in our he he it's a Chinese person and we talked to him and he's in our stuff looking at us he could see us she kept saying that I'm like who who could

[01:08:00] the Chinese man we need to change everything right now oh my god they and I could see where some of the stuff I get does look pretty real from Apple and it's not but I get my mom and dad

[01:08:26] actually did the thing they want you to do though they actually called the number like they didn't even email back my parents were like hello they just immediately peep peep bum bum be bum bum hi um it's vicki madigan

[01:08:43] what time would you like to come over and steal all our stuff okay well we go to bed at nine so hush puppy yeah the dog will be at daycare if you need Maggie if you want to steal Maggie

[01:09:02] she's worth 1200 dollars um okay there's a new person with the highest IQ in the world and it is not me and it is not you and it is not hush puppy his name is usuf shay

[01:09:21] okay yep he's a youngster he has a 160 IQ I never took an IQ test did you yes really yes is in school yeah how are you gonna go to college what yeah that's how you get seated

[01:09:40] that's why you eat and ask for that University of Missouri didn't ask for that what never taken an IQ test I don't think so maybe I was so bad my parents didn't tell me but I don't

[01:09:52] know I took the Iowa basics test like a good middle American child and then I was always scared to go to Iowa because I'm like god damn they're so smart they make the test stop like us

[01:10:04] there's no Missouri basic it's the Iowa basic test you take it like in fifth or sixth grade and it's horrifying when you're that age unless you're like a super nerd you're into that if

[01:10:14] you're not bad Thursday um now I have no idea what my IQ is I would be terrified to find out because I can't do math or science so that's half the shit on the test I would assume what was your

[01:10:28] IQ well maybe let's go online and take one all right yeah yeah parents of you chef shay said we did what we were already doing nothing specific for the IQ test their son an 11 year old sixth

[01:10:41] grader has just scored 162 on the men's IQ test now you serve IQ has surpassed the IQ of Einstein and Stephen Hawking what yep Einstein was estimated to be around 160 despite those estimates it's not certain whether Einstein's IQ was ever truly tested although it may seem outlandish to

[01:11:01] estimate IQs have passed intellectual giants Catherine Cox published estimates of IQs of 301 historical figures including Charles Dickens Stephen Hawking's IQ presents a similar mystery he never revealed his IQ but his IQ has also been estimated 160 although initially predicted to live

[01:11:19] only two years following his diagnosis Hawking went on to live 55 more years now with use of Shay's recent score achieved on the IQ test questions are likely to arise regarding the accuracy of the estimated IQs assigned to Albert Einstein and Hawking whatever I mean give the

[01:11:34] kid the honor just let him have it nevertheless Shaw says it feels special to have a certificate when he's not studying he's cute there's a little picture of him with a rubik's cube he enjoys um

[01:11:46] his free time solving um puzzles and rubik's cubes his recent achievement has made his family very proud his mother santa states that you said was the first person in the family to take the

[01:11:57] men's IQ test although she was concerned about him being intimidated by the adults she was ecstatic that he did brilliantly for him here's what's crazy though what if you're this kid

[01:12:07] and you decide you want to be like a stand-up comedian i mean you can't you're not gonna be well you don't know there have been some super super super super super smart comedians and then

[01:12:18] there's the rest of us but like to have an IQ that that you should do something more substantial right like go cure cancer or something like something for reals like just leave the

[01:12:28] comedy up to us who went to um you know state schools yeah all right we're gonna round this out with a feel-good story so when you guys hear this it won't be Thanksgiving yet but i hope you

[01:12:46] guys have a good Thanksgiving oh my blanket fell down my day of the dead blanket um i hope you guys have fun i'll be in the i'll be in the Ozarks i'll be in the Ozarkians yeah um that's it

[01:13:00] that's all you're gonna say what are you gonna do i'm gonna go out to the farm i'm gonna go hiking in the woods down to the creek um mainly um go help my dad with whatever he wants done out there i

[01:13:16] don't know things he wants things and then my mom's like take him take him take him i like no problem the nieces and nephews yeah i'm gonna hang out with all them but they're all very busy with

[01:13:29] their practices and they're it's volleyball now and basketball and football um they have schedules yeah no i don't want to go to their practice i'm only here for the big money games where is

[01:13:47] okay i know ant cat ain't coming to your practice that's not happening i'll drive you and drop you off but i don't know um this is super wait do you see the picture it's the cutest thing i've ever seen

[01:14:01] this our feel good story the new york zoo i'm not sure i will tell you which one in a minute but it's not in the headline announces historic birth of twin asian elephant babies oh my god twins

[01:14:15] nice twins account for less than one percent of elephant births worldwide and prior to last month's delivery no us zoo had ever welcomed surviving elephant twins that's a good thing right the world full of shitty news sometimes there's good stuff oh the syracuse you know syracuse

[01:14:33] new york facility well next time i go to swig on see my friends marry joppa i'm gonna go see these twins um announced thursday that it's asian elephant molly gave birth to twins molly like i mean

[01:14:46] ally uh it's especially notable because none of ever survived truly historical moment for our zoo in our community i couldn't be proud of our exceptional animal care team the support of the veterinary staff and the tremendous dedication uh to molly and the twins the important research

[01:15:01] happening here at the zoo will help have a significant impact worldwide on behalf of this magnificent endangered species uh that's really cool yeah uh they're perfectly healthy oh my god they're 220 pounds when they're born that's ron white they had two ron whites wow that's a lot of weight

[01:15:28] step this poor elephant the mom was walking around with 440 pounds of baby yeah oh the second one weighed 237 that's ron when he's had a lot of mexican food he's a lot of tacos but he was not as strong as his brother but he made it

[01:15:46] yep um the zoo will closely monitor his babies for eehv a lethal strain of herpes believed to occur among elephants in a dormant form i just said herpes elephant herpes well how about feline

[01:16:00] aids i had to pay for that shot i'm like what you want to get him back son i did for feline aids i said i don't i don't want to answer any more of these questions i just give them the platinum

[01:16:11] package they'll take everything here's my credit card this is my delta american express please charge everything there so i get miles and you fly away from here um the zoo said the virus can become active without warning and it's the leading cause of death among young elephants

[01:16:31] herpes elephant herpes the their names are batu and aj aj aj aj aj aj aj aj aj aj aj aj aj aj aj aj aj aj aj aj aj aj aj

[01:16:51] i made him foreign well he's not from america you know that he's from um asia he's from asia where else do they have elephants africa india who else has them i don't really know

[01:17:09] the most exciting thing i am i'm excited to eat is my mom's dressing but like i said i think i said this on the podcast since they've gotten older now it's just the two of them in their own house

[01:17:19] she doesn't understand proportions anymore she'll like bring over two tiny cups of Tupperware dressing well here i made it um there's 38 people here the hell's the matter with you mashed potatoes if nobody fucks those up well my favorite is to see my dad look at strange things

[01:17:38] and ask what they are that's my favorite part um anybody that brings anything remotely healthy into the house will be immediately reprimanded for being weird and california yeah he'll blame a lot on california specifically yeah what is this some sort of california thing i don't know dad

[01:17:57] it's just salad salad what are your thoughts on pumpkin pie i don't like pumpkin pie no i don't care for it i don't know i don't like pumpkin i'm sick of people shoving it my beer

[01:18:10] i'm sick of people shoving pumpkin everywhere i'm not a pumpkin person i'd rather have my mom's chocolate pie if we're having pie i think dietitizing pie is stupid but i don't have a sweet

[01:18:19] tooth either so i don't really care i fruit pies yeah cake makes sense okay pie to me you just took a bunch of fruit and dumped it in a crust and then baked it that doesn't really count as cooking

[01:18:39] baking i don't know i prefer cake i don't really i don't know my brother will try and fry a turkey in that what is it that silver oil it's called a fryer a fryer um i would say his fried turkey

[01:19:00] i always find it it's exhilarating because i always think there's a really good chance we could blow up out in the driveway um because like he's always very hesitant like he's like yeah this

[01:19:10] is gonna work and then it gets weird it's like playing with fireworks um remember when he forgot the peanut oil and ched his other oil oh he forgot the peanut oil and then me the only thing that was open

[01:19:21] was walgreens and i went and bought all of their oil the lady at the front desk looked at me like what's up methi she just i think she thought i was cooking meth or something i'm like this is not

[01:19:30] all for me uh his fried turkey gets better every year i'm not saying it's as good as a real like a turkey cooked in the oven he's getting better at it though i do get it and it's fast

[01:19:45] yeah because my mom would bitch all the time how long it all took and it is faster it's fine the first year no if you overcook it and it's very easy to do it gets so dried out it's just

[01:20:00] like jerky out of a fryer which is turkey jerky's fine but that's not what you're expecting on thanksgiving no not enough gravy for that nope they're what even enough the first year so all right

[01:20:12] and then i'm gonna go through this stuff i got a lot of stuff backstage in minnesota i just haven't had time to deal with all that but i will because there were so many nice things sent and even the

[01:20:19] guy at the casino goes you have officially received the most items ever backstage and i'm like yeah and he's like do all these people know you like beer i'm like yes yes yes yes and then somebody

[01:20:34] got turned down at security and told me on twitter another i called down to the casino and i'm like you tell those people they accept all gifts all gifts we accept everything no they were trying

[01:20:44] to be sweet and they're like well you know we we'd like to go through it i can you go through it you're just gonna find beer can after beacon ranch bottle ranch bottle laze potato chips yeah where

[01:20:54] are you going after that i'm going to elca horn at riverside california and spokane a casino called northern quest that's first then i'll go i'm so glad to go where it's warm after minnesota

[01:21:09] and there was snow everywhere in minnesota like i like winter some what the bald eagles well the bald eagles were amazing because i was sitting in the room my little casino room and i'm like

[01:21:20] holy shit that's a bald eagle and then i watched it and watched it it didn't move forever for like over an hour i took videos and then boom a second one lands yeah and that's what i'm like all

[01:21:33] right i'm gonna go out make a video see if i can get them and then at the end of the video it flew away like michelle vomahan yes like i directed the film yeah i googled it because

[01:21:43] they're so huge i'm like that thing's really far away and it looks humongous their wings man is six to seven and a half feet that's ron white laying down that's crazy that's its wingspan yeah all right

[01:21:59] termites and happy Thanksgiving and drive carefully and the grand termite put a message for you guys out online on my socials if you want to see the grand termite yeah my sister calls he needs a haircut

[01:22:13] i said no his joke on stage is he fell asleep during covid and he woke up and he looked like moses or one of any of their surviving members of the almond brothers

[01:22:26] he could pass free the one he'd be a great moses we've never had a southern moses we need to do a show where there's a southern moses ish from texas make the whole bible southern how fun would that be oh my god come on yeah let's go monarch

[01:22:44] i'm telling you go watch it for fun there's so many things that don't make sense in it and i love it and trace is good as what he's supposed to be old southern guy don't say much he just says

[01:22:57] what he needs to be said they drink a lot of whiskey and bang glasses down and and then the children are fighting and uh it's it's not gonna teach anything and it's not gonna make you a smarter person or a better person but it's fun