Episode 128: Mardi Gras Zulu Coconuts, Cocaine Hippos, & The Hotel That Beanie Babies Emptied

[00:00:00] Hey everybody, it's me Kathleen Madigan, welcome to Madigan's Pubcast. You grab yourself a drink, pull up a bar stool, let's talk about what's been going on. Turbites! It's Episode 128! How crazy is that? Yeah, what am I drinking? Out of my sloth glass, I love this glass.

[00:00:38] This is called a beignet au lait. It's an imperial blonde from New Orleans. Yes, I love it. What a weekend in New Orleans. So much fun. It's my favorite American city. But yeah, Charleston's second, but Charleston doesn't have the spookiness.

[00:00:57] They have the history, but they don't have the spooky town. I love spooky town. Michael Somerville opened in case some of you were asking who that man was that went up there first at the Joy Theatre in New Orleans. Yeah, crowd was great.

[00:01:13] I went to the St. Louis Cemetery, it's actually called the St. Louis Cemetery, where that tour where Marie LeVeux was buried. Salaries! Yeah, the Salaries Cemetery. Here's a weird thing though. You used to, I remember being able to go in there on your own.

[00:01:30] Then it was, oh now it's only tours. So you had to be on a tour to go through because they're worried about the wear and tear and the plaster and all that shit. I get it.

[00:01:38] But now the Catholic Church was like, yeah, maybe we just do that for ourselves. No way. Yeah, they own the land. No! Yeah, I'm like, so you have to buy a ticket through the one thing or you can't go

[00:01:50] because I went on a walking tour that I thought I was going to get to go in there and the guys like good news, bad news were not going in there. I'm like what? It said it, no, I know. It was like whatever.

[00:02:01] So if you go there and you want to go on that one, make sure you go to the Catholics. Okay. Because Louis goes, do they let Jews in? And I go, do you mean now or to be buried?

[00:02:12] I said, Louis they didn't bury Protestants in there until the late 60s. So I don't think we've gotten to the Jews yet. We're not there. Give us time, Louis! Give us time! We have to okay it.

[00:02:23] And then he was like Marie LeVaux, she was partially black, a part black. She was Catholic. I go, yeah, the Catholics made everybody Catholic. They just reclaimed souls without people's permissions. Nobody gave a shit. It's so crazy though.

[00:02:39] This is a little something, but this is where I do it. So most of the, well all of the tombs are above ground because of the flooding and all that. But you get a family tomb and it's forever.

[00:02:50] Well, unless you all died at the same time, this would cause a problem. So say my grandpa dies, we put him in there. Then a normal lifespan by the time I die because those tombs are above ground because

[00:03:03] of the heat in New Orleans, it can get up to over 200 degrees in there. So basically you're being cremated. So then they go in and they sweep grandpa out with, it's literally called a 10 foot pole.

[00:03:15] That's why the expression I wouldn't go near it with a 10 foot pole came from. Or at least that's what they said. I do feel like a lot of the people in New Orleans are a lot of people, like a lot of people in Ireland.

[00:03:25] They might be winging this. I'm not really sure this is exactly what happened. It's like in Ireland everywhere you go there. St. Patrick was here. Oh my God, that guy got around according to the Irish more than anybody on Earth.

[00:03:37] Yeah, so your family tomb can really, unless you all died at the same time, go on forever because you become dust again within the thing. We go sweep you out, put me in. Grandpa's gone, enter Kathleen. Yeah. So I went everywhere, the French Quarter, it's so much fun.

[00:03:58] I just, me and Michael, when we went to the oldest bar, you know where I'd have been there, but he had the oldest bar in New Orleans. Totally fun. It reminds me of Temple Bar and yeah, it's Lafites.

[00:04:08] It reminds me of Temple Bar that we found Irish Daycare at an Irish bar. The, what was it called? Boondock St. Yeah. That lady was super nice. Everybody worked there. It was just just a great show. And then I got this place called Oceana. Yeah, Gumbo.

[00:04:30] And then I have Michael never had their they have grilled oysters that then they put Parmesan sheet. Like I don't even care about food, but favorite food by far Cajun. And you just can't get it hardly anywhere except South and, you know, Biloxi,

[00:04:43] my friend Trey from Mary Mahoney's and Biloxi, a little plug there for the best restaurant probably I've ever been to. He came over their crab claws. Yeah, but anyway, that's now I sound like Lewis where all you do is talk about the food you ate.

[00:04:57] But Oceana, yeah, the beer, all of it was just a blast. Then at the show, so many things will make this. I'll go through this pretty quickly because we have a lot to get to. We have a Ralphie update. Whoa. Yeah, the little French bulldog bastard.

[00:05:14] Yeah, I got it. It's a great update. It's a great update. So these kids, this was amazing. The children, they were young. I don't didn't ask how old but young to me anyways, that means probably under 40. They took a laundry basket like a round one.

[00:05:31] And threaded the whole thing with beads. Yeah, the venue is going to send it back to me because I couldn't get it. I couldn't. I was afraid if I just tried to smash it and this big luggage piece, it would break whatever. It was covered in beads.

[00:05:43] It was blinking a blinking laundry basket came backstage. And even the security people are like, well, this is a one time only. I'm like, that's amazing. What's in there? One of the things I'm going to eat their names were Ruby and Remi.

[00:05:55] I took a picture with them and met them backstage. It was so much work. And you need a laundry basket. I do need a laundry basket and Babycat will love to play with that. By the way, oh, I didn't bring up the Yoda plant. Holy shit.

[00:06:09] I'll do it next week. The grass grew four inches on Luz Thing. Babycat is, yeah, I'm putting a video up. Babycat loves it. She's going to town on it right now. She's out there like to cry.

[00:06:21] I think she's eating, it's sort of like she's getting the water out or something. Yeah, because she's discarding the empties. Yeah, like beer cans. She eats a stem and then flicks it out. But in the laundry basket, I was like, what is this? This is a Zulu coconut.

[00:06:39] The girls gave me. It's supposed to be very good luck there at the parade, the Mardi Gras Parade, which backtracking one minute. So I walked down to Jackson Square because this is an artist lady who makes these

[00:06:49] wax things that I wanted to find her because I wanted to get another one because the website, I don't know, in COVID whatever, wasn't really up. Didn't have a lot on it.

[00:06:58] So when I went down there, I'm like, why are all these St. Patrick's Day people out here? I mean, there were floats of Irish cottages, blah, blah, blah. And one guy seemed friendly enough, walked in the bar and I go, St. Pat's Day isn't for two more weekends.

[00:07:12] He's like, well, we got to get a practice run in. I'm like, oh my God, these people down here are so serious about their parades. They had a whole practice run and then I was in a bar later and saw it go by. I'm like, I'll be damned.

[00:07:24] They're not kidding. I'm like, I don't know what we're practicing. It's just ready set, go. What? It's just the Irish counter with two reasons to drink. Two weekends that I have to be down there. I have to get down there with my people.

[00:07:40] But anyway, in my laundry basket was this coconut. It's got a Z on it and then 23. So at the Mardi Gras Parade, the Zulu. The first day in Mardi Gras. Yeah. That's for the year. I was like, oh, it's my dad's birthday. How, how the 23rd?

[00:07:56] I'm like, I didn't even write it's 20. But they're supposed to be good luck. But I said to the kids, don't give me your good luck coconut. You should keep it. And they're like, well, we actually caught a couple. I'm like, okay. But this is just interesting.

[00:08:07] So listen to this because I knew nothing of this. I have never been to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. It just seems overwhelming. It's very crazy. Yeah. I think I missed that era like in your 20s when you would have done that. I was working or something.

[00:08:22] I don't know. So these coconuts, it's what everybody wants to walk away with. And they gave me theirs. How sweet is that? Riders loads hundreds of coconuts onto floats ahead of the parade Mardi Gras morning. However, one year every reveler walked away without a decorated coconut.

[00:08:41] History shows that Zulu introduced the golden nuggets as they were known in the early 1900s, but it's not so distant history. Not one single coconut was thrown to the crowds. Sad. Of all the throws to rain down on Mardi Gras, the Zulu coconut is of the highest demand.

[00:08:55] The coconut made its debut in 1910 in adult form, natural and hairy with no gold or glitter. Because I said, is this real? Yeah. It is real. It's a real coconut. It's more than Amy, the lady working backstage with us goes,

[00:09:10] I don't know if there's milk in it or anything. I'm like, well, Amy, I wasn't going to drill a hole and see if I could drink coconut milk. Zulu, Historia and Emeritus Clairs back now explain the coconut came because they couldn't afford to buy beads.

[00:09:21] So a guy by the name of Lloyd Lucas and some others went into the French market and they purchased a sack of coconuts and that was thrown. That was all they threw in the beginning. It eventually looked more like what we see today,

[00:09:32] but they were much more labor intensive to create. In the past we use these coconuts in the raw farm. And if you notice, they make a little natural face. So we took a sharp object and they started decorating them. Then they shaved the hair off.

[00:09:43] It took a blow in 1987 after lawsuits from people claiming they were injured by throwing coconuts. They're not that heavy. I mean, it's heavy. I don't want one thrown at my head. Well, also right heads up. Whose fault is that?

[00:09:59] You're drunk and looking at the ground and get whacked in the head by a coconut. That is on you. Look up. Zulu couldn't get insured that year. Thus the time Trishish went away. It was a very different vibe. Guys like Clarence did little colored walnuts.

[00:10:17] Nobody wants a walnut. After the state legislature passed the coconut bill to clear the club from liability for alleged injuries, the coconut came back. But still more changes were needed to ensure safety. About seven years ago, no coconut. Riders of, they would say now they can toss them.

[00:10:36] Or you could put it in a plastic bag and like hand it. Each rider typically gets 100 to 200 coconuts to decorate and throw. It's fantastic. Now I want to go because now I want to see that. I'll put up with the crowds if I can see that.

[00:10:55] And the Zulu float. I'll just tell you one little thing because I found it interesting. Inspired by a play, there's a Zulu organization was formed in 1909. And they crowned William Story the first Zulu king. The group was officially incorporated as a Zulu social aid and pleasure club in 1916.

[00:11:12] Apparently they raised tons of money for charity. And they do all kinds of fun stuff. So good for them. Yeah, the float is crazy. They have a picture of the first one. It was fairly small when it started. There weren't many floats around.

[00:11:27] There was no real route back then. I don't think people really had their whole thing going on like we do now. But it's still going and I got a coconut. So lucky me. They also had in that bag, I'm going to taste these. What are we trying today?

[00:11:42] Evil eye. Oh right. There's the cheese wheeze. Cheese wheeze, barbecue cheese New Orleans kind. Wow. They're really good. It's Elmer's New Orleans kiwis. Barbecue cheese girls. If you like barbecue, spot on. They're actually really good. I'll have another.

[00:12:09] I think in my past life I was somewhere in the deep south. Not like Tennessee or Kentucky. Like deeper New Orleans. I've been to all of them. The thing is too if you Google Anne Rice House there's like a hundred in New Orleans. She owns so much chip.

[00:12:28] I'm not sure I did but I told myself it was. So what the hell is the difference? They all look alike once you get into the garden district. There's so many tours if you like history and the history is so complicated.

[00:12:39] Because the French were there, the Spanish were there. There were free people of color. Just a whole like a lot of that wasn't going on anywhere else. It's got its own little deal going on. Heather sent me pralines, got them. And she said your mom might like them.

[00:12:57] And she said my mom's straight to my mom. Pralines is another big thing. They're super. Teresa sent a nice card just saying that she lost her fiance in December of 2020. The pubcast was a true way and true crime.

[00:13:14] She likes to help me feel not so lonely during a terrible time. Yeah. And she introduced me to her mother-in-law too. So boom, way to go. I think the one security guy thought it like me or Michael, I kept blaming Michael. I'm like, Michael's the one drinking 8%.

[00:13:32] Not me. I'm just sitting here with a milk ultra right now because I have to work. That was a good time after. Turned my Geraldine brought a bunch of beers backstage. Oh, and her sister-in-law was a cemetery guide. I could have jumped on that. Next time.

[00:13:50] I mean the one I went on was fine. I didn't particularly like the tour guide. At least he didn't try to be over the top funny or make us engage. I hate those tours. Where are we at? And then we all have to go. Thank Lewis, cemetery.

[00:14:02] Like just information. That's what we're here for. Yeah. This is Geraldine and Cedric Barker. I got all the beers which was great. Michael's a beer monster too. And then somebody made me this little to go tar man. It's coming with the basket. Here's a tiny banjo.

[00:14:22] Oh, it's a banjo. Yeah. We've seen it three times in the last nine months. Oh my gosh. Dottie and Karen Dallas, Texas. Got it. Don't you guys think this stuff doesn't get backstage? And then this one really made me laugh.

[00:14:35] I love how the security guards just wait for your reaction. Midge and Laurie said, I don't. Well, I was like, huh, nobody's been back with anything. It's fine. But it was noticeable.

[00:14:44] And then I hear bam, bam, bam on the back door and it's a dude with a trolley. He's like, this is all for you. You're supposed to get this home. Don't you worry about that. I got connections. These two are from St. Louis, Midge and Laurie.

[00:15:00] Got you some Schlafly Park Lager to try. Brood to support Tower Grove Park, which is a great park. My sister used to play softball down there. By the way, this made me laugh so hard. This is very strictly St. Louis.

[00:15:11] So by the way, this is what I call a weirdo beer because if it's an Anheuser Bush product, it's a weirdo beer. That is exactly how I grew up. Don't you bring one foreign thing in here?

[00:15:22] There better be Bud Light or Bush Light or Bush or Bud in that cool. Like you'd pull something out of a cooler. It was usually the 20-something nephews would go, hey, have you tried this? And we're like, no, I don't think you understand what the fuck is that?

[00:15:36] Get that out of my cooler. It's happy, safe, catch and stay. Very funny. And last but not least, James and Rachelle sent a beat of the Amber Lager, which I had two of after the show. Yes.

[00:15:48] And then I shared the cruise always very happy because they get to, um, yeah. So there we go. That was New Orleans moving on. Oh, I got to try my swap. So there's, there's a lot of hot sauce stores.

[00:16:03] There's also the Marie LeVau Voodoo Shop and I did buy two T-shirts. Yeah, I don't know how I feel about Voodoo as an older Catholic who doesn't go to church enough. If I went, if I had a church like the one in Jackson Square in New Orleans,

[00:16:18] I'd go. It's beautiful. It makes you feel insignificant and just tells you nothing matters. Just gonna die anyway. The hell cares. But, um, I bought two, a couple T-shirts. I don't know about the Voodoo. That, what, yeah. You can wash them a lot.

[00:16:35] Yeah, well, I wear my other one. I have to decide if Voodoo is good luck or bad luck. Because as a Catholic, you're told to not open any portals. I'm a big fan of shut all portals. No Ouija board.

[00:16:46] I get why people play with it, but I saw the exorcist. I'm never going to get over it. That's what let all the problems in. I mean, tarot cards? Uh-uh. I don't care if people do it, but I don't, I don't know. I'll have to do some more.

[00:17:01] Which one of you guys termites think? Do we do good or bad? Or is it somewhere in the middle? This swamp dragon made me laugh because it says it has no nutrition. None. Um, so many hot sauce places. If you're in the hot sauce, just fabulous.

[00:17:18] There's nothing I don't like about it. You're moving to the archipelago. I would move to the archipelago. I'm not sure how safe it is. Hot sauce. Really hot. Wow. Does it taste like bourbon? No. It's very hot. This is the problem. That's why I like the pepper palace.

[00:17:39] Have you guys ever been in a pepper palace? No, there's one in Charleston. There's one in New Orleans. They're all over the place. I love the pepper palace because they have every single hot sauce and a little thing that you can try so you're not burning

[00:17:52] something that's going to burn your face off. That's hygienic. No, they do it really. Classy. It's really classy. There's little tiny ramekins, plastic things. Yeah, and then you can walk anywhere with a drink. I walked right in with a beer. Nobody cared. Uh-huh. Oh my God.

[00:18:14] All right, so what are we watching? Before we get to updates. We're watching. Oh, what? My evil eye of voodoo chips. Wow, they look hot too. Whoa. Look at that color. Wow. Wow. They're really good. Zaps. They're best used by July 2023. New Orleans kettle style evil eye.

[00:18:47] I love it. Oh, and if you watched American Horror Story, Coven, you can go see where they filmed a lot of that. Really? Super cool. And Madame Delphine Lalarie, the crazy lady. It's Cathy Bates. Uh-huh. You can go look at that house. You can't go in.

[00:19:11] Someone lives in there. Or they own it anyway. They're not letting tours. That would be a scary tour anyway. Your honor is filmed there. Go watch your honor. It's so good. Every time it's over on Sunday night, I'm so sad. I'm like, God damn it.

[00:19:28] Just release them all. You can't do this to addicts. You can't do this. Um, I also watched while I'm rewatching the Waco thing that's on because a new Waco thing was coming out called the aftermath. I don't know. It's supposed to be good.

[00:19:43] There's another one called The 12th Victim. It's Charles Stalker or something. And this Stalker, no. No. Google it. A guy and his girl killed 13 people in Nebraska. This was like in the 50s. How have I never heard of these people? The show's called The 12th Victim.

[00:20:07] And Charles Starkweather. Starkweather. Starkweather. Yeah. Lewis knew about him. He's like, yeah, Kathleen, that's what the whole album, Badlands, that Bruce Springsteen did. And then there was a movie with Charlie Sheen and Sissy Spacic when she's young. I'd miss the whole thing. But go watch The 12th Victim.

[00:20:27] I think it was on Paramount Plus, but I can't tell anymore because they keep now they jump shit around where they're like, well, it's on Showtime, but then it's on Paramount Plus. Well, just Google it. But it was phenomenal.

[00:20:40] The other thing I watched was Full Swing because I like golf, but it was not good. And if you're not a golf person, I don't even understand why you would watch more than four seconds of it. They needed a story editor.

[00:20:53] Yeah, they've got like they give, there's a young guy, Matthew Fitzpatrick, good golfer. And the British kid, I think, is he Brit? I think nice enough. But he didn't need an hour. Combine him with two other young guys that nobody really knows a ton about.

[00:21:10] They get their little, here's your 10 minute segment, 12 minute segment, and then we move on. I don't know. I didn't really understand it and I am a golf fan, but it didn't work for me too slow. All right, update. Ralphie the jerk, the little Frenchy, is making progress.

[00:21:32] What does that mean? Well, they said I told you they're going to put him through a training program. Niagara Falls, New York, there's an update on Ralphie the jerk. We first told you about Ralphie who was up for adoption at

[00:21:43] the Niagara SPCA, but Ralphie came with some challenges. They had a hard time getting him adopted. Shelter back in January shared that at first glance he's an adorable, highly sought after young dog. People should be banging down doors, but in reality he's a jerk.

[00:22:01] According to the shelter for an SPCA person to say that, then he got adopted, then he was returned and they wanted to ensure that he was ready for his next. They've enrolled him in an intensive six-week board and training program. And after the first week of training,

[00:22:18] things are looking up for Ralphie. They posted a video of Ralphie training and learning to get accustomed to the vacuum and the mop, which he has not been fond of. Oh. He's also learning to not be reactive in his crate. Oh, I bet that got weird.

[00:22:37] Because I've heard mustard runs Frenchy when he growls and shit. It's like a possessed tiny piglet. Like he's just like, it's not normal dog sounds. No, it's all signacy. He's also, um, he already knows some basic commands. Training has been relatively easy and Ralphie is treat motivated.

[00:23:02] The shelters, the determined to find a great home. And here's who they recommend not apply. Believers that all Ralphie needs is love. He will exploit that. Those who think our restriction of no other animals and no kids do not apply to them just know.

[00:23:21] Ralphie has a bite history. You do not want that for your child, two-legged or four-legged but possibly three. Yeah. Uh, oh, his board, board, uh, boarding and training is six grand. They're hoping to raise the money. I know. Surely there's a Frenchy lover out there that has time.

[00:23:46] Yeah, but Ron, yeah, he's retired, but Ron doesn't even monitor his own dog's behavior. I mean, I don't think, yeah, I don't think Ron's the guy that's going to be up for some serious training. Update. Oh, this is a long update.

[00:24:02] I'm going to test your memory termites to remember when we talked about, cause you know, I'm obsessed with drug lords Pablo Escobar's cocaine hippos. Yes. Yes. Well, here's an update because they keep reproducing. He brought them over. They're not obviously indigenous to South America.

[00:24:21] Move over cocaine Bayer cocaine hippos are taking over the spotlight in one South American country. Columbia wants to move 70 hippopotamuses that live near Pablo Escobar's former ranch to two other countries as a part of a plan to control the booming population.

[00:24:37] The animals descendants of four imported illegally from Africa during by the late drug lord in the 1980s have spread far behind the house in the Nepalese ranch about 120 miles from Bogota along the Magdalena river. Now, if you watch the Pablo Escobar stuff on Netflix, there's a scene.

[00:24:58] So he had these hippo hippos are mean and dangerous and he had four of them floating around like a pond somewhere on his property. And if you didn't behave and stuff, boom, you got thrown to the hippos. Yep. Environmental authorities estimate there are 130 hippos in

[00:25:15] the area and their population could reach 400 within the next decade. Hippos are territorial. They weigh up to three tons and they're one of the most aggressive animals on earth. According to National Geographic, they can snap a canoe in half with their powerful jaws and they kill about

[00:25:32] 500 people a year in Africa. I think they kill more things than anything on earth. More people. Yeah. The herbivore mammals do not have a natural predator and scientists say they're a potential problem for the biodiversity since their feces changed the composition of rivers.

[00:25:49] They also say and could impact the habitat of animals like the manatees. Oh, God. Yeah, manatees eat everything. If all goes as planned, the hippos would be transported to Mexico and India. Well, why would you do that to Mexico? They don't have any, right? I don't think so.

[00:26:11] No. The idea to move them out has been forming for more than a year. The plan is to focus on hippos living in rivers surrounding the ranch, not those inside the ranch because they're in a controlled environment. Ecuador, the Philippines and Botswana have also

[00:26:23] expressed interest in relocating the hippos to their countries. How do you do it? Here's the plan. They will be lured with food into large iron containers and transferred by truck to the international airport in the city of Rio Negro about 90 miles away from there.

[00:26:40] They're flown to India and Mexico. 60 hippos go to the green zoo, a logical rescue and rehabilitation in India and 10 go to zoos and sanctuaries in Mexico. Okay, so they're not just letting them lose. What zoo can afford 10 hippos? What should cost to feed those beasts? Yeah.

[00:26:59] Yeah, because my friend Kevin, the vet, his official name is Kevin. Dr. Kevin Fischeld in Denver. He always said, were these people who raise these exotic animals and then they don't want them anymore or they realize, oh shit, I shouldn't have a lion in my apartment.

[00:27:13] The problem is the zoos don't have enough space or funds to take all those. So I don't know. It's a more humane alternative proposal than the alternative proposal of the zoo. So I'm going to go ahead and get to that. So, yeah, let's start moving them. Update!

[00:27:33] This is a sad little update. Well, did you guys watch it? I told you guys, told you termites, if you're interested, the Leonard Skinner documentary on Netflix was phenomenal. And I'm going to be your, I would say I'm your amp. I'm going to be your amp.

[00:27:50] I'm going to be your amp. I'm going to be your amp. And I'm going to be your, I would say I'm your average Leonard Skinner fan. Yeah, like a lot of it. I wouldn't be like in depth. Like I will be with Queen Stevie.

[00:28:06] Anyway, if you watch Zach and Mary, there's a bearded man in their name, Gary. And he was the last original member of Leonard Skinner and he has died at 71. I know. And my sister goes, what do you die of? I go, when you're in Leonard Skinner,

[00:28:20] I'd say general wear and tear. They don't really say that's the crazy part. Like he had a triple bypass back in the day. Back in 2003, oh, Quinn, temple bypass. And then he had emergency heart surgery in 2021. You know, you're in Skinner. You've done everything and you escaped death

[00:28:42] in a plane crash. Yeah. He, so, you know, shout out to Gary Rossington, the last surviving one who died. Sad time. But that's the end of it. Sad story for his family. He was a cool dude in the documentary. He was likable.

[00:28:57] He just, I loved that he had no answers. When they're like, hey, how come you guys did this? He'd be like, oh, man, I don't know, you know, you just kind of go with it. He's a smart guy. He just, that part didn't really seem to resonate. Update!

[00:29:12] Here's our little sucker perk up. I'm gonna go get him. I'm gonna get him. I'm gonna get him. I'm gonna get him. Here's our little sucker perk update. Yeah. After losing billions of dollars on the Metaverse, Mark Zuckerberg, he's launching a top level team

[00:29:29] at Meta to develop AI products for WhatsApp. Do you use what? I don't even know what that is. No, Lewis does. Lewis says he uses it when he's in Europe. Whatever. What does that mean? Yeah. Get it. It's a messaging app. It's a message, like Snapchat? Yeah.

[00:29:48] Like text messaging. Well, what's the appeal? Why not just text? Oh, you don't have to pay for it. Oh, that's why he uses it in Europe then. So he's gonna develop AI products for WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram. Oh, Mark. Listen, listen. The children have moved on to TikTok.

[00:30:12] They like Instagram. Like my nieces always like my videos I post. I see they're always, but they prefer the tic-tac-y. Yeah. After chasing the metaverse meta is now buying into the AI hype, the tech giant will be creating a new top level product focused on

[00:30:30] generative AI, AI that can create content. Well, why would really to focus on building delightful experiences around this technology into all of our different products over the longer term will focus on developing AI's personas that can help people in a variety of ways. He added.

[00:30:48] He didn't specify in the post what top level meant because he has no idea what he's saying. Right. Um, yeah, he's, I mean, they've lost billions on the metaverse. It cost him 13.7 billion in 2022. Whoa. Yep. And by the way, he just caught the price of his Q-verse.

[00:31:12] What are those things called? You know, the goggles. This is why you shouldn't have a young child. Where are your goggles? What? Get your goggles. We're going to come on. What is the headset? It's like the virtual reality headset VR has it.

[00:31:33] He's cut the cost almost in half because no one was going to pay it. No, my nephew Kevin's running around with the knockoff. It's totally fine. It was so real. I mean, I almost vomited on his quote roller coaster

[00:31:45] and it's like, I'm like, I hadn't even been drinking. Um, they laid off meta laid off 11,000 people in November and they promised 2023. That's what my coconut says is going to be a year of efficiency. They're looking to monetize more revenue streams.

[00:32:06] It's a launch paid subscription for Facebook and Instagram called meta verified. He's ripping off Elon's idea that didn't work either. How what if you're going to hack somebody take what worked steal the idea that was good. Not the one that everybody was like, what?

[00:32:24] You want me to pay for a blue check? Okay. Well, do I have one? I already have one. Um, it starts at 1199 a month of purchase via web browser Zuckerberg now it's last Sunday. The move which is similar to the Twitter blue could rake in 2 billion.

[00:32:40] Do you think my parents are going to give a shit about being verified on Facebook? No, right. Unless you're going to prevent people from doing that. And then you know what you're going to have quitters. Right. People like this lady. If you make it harder, I'm out.

[00:32:57] It's hard enough that this all got set up. Holy shit. This is great. Okay. Easter Island. I know those crazy weird. I think they're called more or more. I never knew how to pronounce it. They look like giant, giant mini. The thing Greg Brady found on the island.

[00:33:25] I have no idea what you're talking about. I know you didn't get the Brady Bunch in Canada. You shouldn't be allowed to be in America. I mean, it's ridiculous if you can't quote the Brady Bunch. Little Tiki. What are those called? Not totem poles little Tiki. They're tiny.

[00:33:42] Oh my God. Well, this is a global thing. It's not an American thing. Like in Hawaii, the little tiny, it looks like... Torches. Not a Tiki torch. No, it's like a carved out little symbol of a God. A Tiki God. A Tiki God.

[00:33:56] All right, we'll go with that. This pub guest doesn't guarantee any information is right. But they have extremely large ones on Easter Island and nobody can figure out what the fuck, what they were, what they are, what they mean. Fascinating looking. A new Moai, M-O-A-I.

[00:34:14] That's all I'm saying. It was found. A new one. You've never heard of that. A new Moai. Google it. M-O-A-I. You'll know what I'm talking about when you see it. We call it the Tiki Men. The recent Tiki Men. It measures five foot tall. It's my height.

[00:34:30] You should see there's people in this picture. There's more than 900 across Easter Island. Was it just art? Were they tombstones? Oh, yeah. I see them. Yeah. The tallest one measures 33 feet. The statue's way between three to five tons. They represent the history of the Rapa Nui people.

[00:34:50] They were the Islanders, deified ancestors. They're iconic worldwide. Not just in America. We don't have any Canada. No you don't. You have totem poles. Because you had your first nations also known as Native Americans. Native Canadians. They represent fantastic archaeological heritage of the island.

[00:35:11] It's because of the drought, they found it in a riverbed. Yeah, just now. Uh-huh. They didn't even know that one. Some were damaged because there was a forest fire. That's sad. Given the current weather conditions and likelihood of further evacuations, more Mui discoveries are all but certain.

[00:35:30] We finished a lot of mapping and documentation of the quarry between 2018 and 19. What we found is there's a lot more evidence of more quarry on the outside than we originally thought. 100% there's going to be more. So they found a little guy, a five foot tall guy. Oh.

[00:35:44] I mean the tallest one's 33 feet tall. So this was like a baby one. But it's cool they found it. I think it's great. Yeah. Thank you for the lesson. There's a little something. You'll know one when you see them. Everybody knows the picture. I did. Oh okay.

[00:35:58] Yeah, it's in the notes. Um, this is crazy. This is the only shit they found it. Back in 2012, only with this, this is why, in a way, we laugh because this all happened at a Walmart where all freakish things of nature happen at a Walmart.

[00:36:16] Usually in the freezer section. The freezer section or the parking lot. My mom was walking. She was snuck up to Walmart. She's not supposed to be there. My dad doesn't support it. She had to win in for something and these redneck hillbilly Ozark guys

[00:36:29] and they were like just miles full of dip, spitting in a can. They, I won't say how they said it, but they asked my mom if she wanted to have sex. What? No. Oh God.

[00:36:42] They had the flatbed open on their truck and they were just sitting out there drinking beers. She said, at first I was so shocked because they said it in a much cruder way than that but they were laughing.

[00:36:58] So she's, but she said I couldn't tell if they meant it and I said, I turned around and I said, she said something along the lines of what the fuck is wrong with you? I'm 76. Oh, crazy things happen at Walmart.

[00:37:14] I'm like, well, what an exciting trip to Walmart mom. Back in 2012, Michael's Kavala was running to Walmart in Arkansas for milk when he spotted a huge insect on the side of the building. Its wingspan was nearly two inches across and he studies insects.

[00:37:30] So he took it home and forgot about it. But then in 2020, he showed it to students in his class. Then they realized it was something far more expected. A giant lace wing. He found a bug that hasn't been seen in Eastern North America for 50 years.

[00:37:47] Of course it would be at the Walmart. We all realize that this insect was not what it was labeled. The wide wingspan was the clue that him and his students spot. He kept, keeps bugs in a thing and then he shows people his collection.

[00:38:04] It's gratified to know the excitement doesn't dim. The wonder isn't lost. Here we are making a true discovery in the middle of an online lab course. Oh, they did it online. It was once widespread this bug but it mysteriously disappeared from Eastern North America sometime in the 1950s.

[00:38:21] They suspect that disappearance may have been due to pollution. Artificial non-native predators or a number of other factors. How about that truck that used to go through our selfish and just throwing bug spray out over everything that we, and we're rolling around in the grass.

[00:38:38] Lick it! See what it tastes like. Maybe that shit killed them. It's the first time it's ever been found in Arkansas. It suggests there might be really populations of this large. It's a Jurassic era insect yet to be discovered. Arkansas Walmart is located in the Ozark Mountains.

[00:38:57] There is understudied as a biodiversity hotspot. That's pretty cool. Yeah, it's a big old thing. It looks like something honestly every time I've been in Houston. Houston is where I can honestly say I've seen the biggest bugs in my life.

[00:39:12] Like shit that will fly at you on a golf course we have to duck. A bug. Yeah. Just a winged, giant winged ass. Holy shit, they've got... See these things when I say when, just remember they're just releasing the articles now.

[00:39:29] So it's not that we're behind termites. We're on time. Don't you worry. I got you good. In the summer of 2022, a team of archaeologists made an extraordinary discovery in a remote region of China. The team led by Dr. Ling Chen. Yeah, never good at that.

[00:39:45] Liang, Liang, Liang Chen has been investigating a site in the Yunnan province where they stumbled upon a cache of bones that appeared to belong to a creature of immense size. Dragons. T-Rex. Nope. An initial analysis of the bone suggested they were the remains of a dragon,

[00:40:04] a mythical creature that has been part of Chinese folklore for centuries. But Dr. Chen and her team were determined to approach a discovery from a scientific perspective. In other words, we're not going to do the Kathleen Madigan route and go, I fucking found a dragon! Hide it!

[00:40:20] We're going to do a little science and slow this down. I'll be like, don't slow it down! Tell people! And they were set about collecting as much data as possible in order to determine the true nature of the creature that had left these bones behind.

[00:40:33] The evacuation was a grueling process, requiring the team to work in extreme heat and challenging terrain, but they persevered using a state-of-the-art equipment to carefully extract each bone from the site. As the bones were removed, they were transported to a lab for analysis

[00:40:45] where the team began to piece the puzzle together. First surprised when the bones were radiocarbon dated. The results suggested the creature had lived around 1,500 years ago, a time when dragons were believed to have roamed the Earth! 1,500 years ago, ain't that long? Not really.

[00:41:03] As they dug deeper, they began to realize that the creature had uncovered was unlike any dragon described in myth or legend. For one thing, yeah! For one thing, the size of the bones was truly staggering. The creature appeared to have been about 60 feet long. Oh my God!

[00:41:20] They could get one of the largest animals to ever lived. Its bones were also unusually heavy and dense, suggesting the creature had been incredibly strong and powerful. It appeared to have had wings that were much smaller than those of a typical dragon.

[00:41:34] This led the team to hypothesize that the creature may have been capable of flight, but in a different way than the mythical dragons of folklore. I'm telling you, they found it real goddamn dragons. A T-Rex dragon! It was also covered in scales,

[00:41:48] but not the kind of scales that would have allowed it to breathe fire. Aw, boo! Are other supernaturals' abilities? Instead, the scales appeared to have been designed for protection, suggesting that the creature may have faced serious predators in its environment. They began to discover...

[00:42:05] come up with a new theory about the creature. Rather than a dragon in the traditional sense, they believed that the bones belonged to a previously unknown species of giant petrosaur, a type of flying reptile that lived during the same period as dinosaurs. Well, that's a dragon!

[00:42:20] A flying reptile, to me, is a dragon. Right. Unless, like, iguanas are going to start flying. And then they're tiny dragons. They've continued their work. In the end, they've decided that it's probably... It's because they have no other word for it.

[00:42:41] The giant petrosaur, I'm saying that wrong, I'm sure, represent them. It's a reminder of the importance of curiosity and open-mindedness. And that's what this pubcast is about. Maybe it's possible. Dr. Chen and his team had shown it was only by challenging and doing so we believed

[00:42:57] we gained a greater appreciation. And I have one more holy shit they found here. I have a lot this week. Some weeks, you never know. This one's pretty cool. I'm kind of obsessed with the Great Lakes. I mean, I like little lakes, man-made lakes,

[00:43:14] but the Great Lakes kind of freak me out because they're huge and they can turn into ocean-type... lakes. Yeah. There's the science! Yeah, there's my science. This lake, at any minute, might turn into an ocean lake. Now what is an ocean lake? Exactly. Here we go.

[00:43:36] But like so many large, large, large boats have gone missing. I mean, sunk, not like Brimini or Triangle, things in the Great Lakes. And then they're never found. And I'm like my friends Mary and Tommy live in Oswego, New York. And it's on the lake.

[00:43:54] And in the winter when the waves come up and they freeze on the rocks, it's just so violent compared to what a lake would ever do. But then in the summer, you know, I'm like hi, I've got my kayak. You know, come February, anyway. 1869 shipwreck vessel

[00:44:12] with a checkered pass found in Lake Superior. Okay. 144 shipwreck searchers... Wait, 144 shipwreck searchers are calling a bad luck bar and queen, teen, was found underwater in Lake Superior. 44 foot long shipwreck. That's a big ass boat. A ship known as the Nucleus, sank for good on September 14th, 1869,

[00:44:44] but it had a checkered pass said Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in its news release Wednesday. It sunk twice before that incident and it left it under water in Lake Superior in 1854. It rammed another ship in Lake Huron. Who's driving this thing? God dang.

[00:45:02] It must be a drunk, right? Um, these ships were popular in the 1800s with three or more mast that used specific style of sails. The ship was apparently carrying a load of iron in September 1869 when it was caught in a bad storm, began to take on water.

[00:45:18] The crew abandoned ship after the leak became too severe. Okay, well, September the water's not that cold. But it's cold! Yeah. Especially in the ocean lake. The crew was later rescued and no one died. It's one of the older ships to have gone down along Lake Superior's

[00:45:36] quote, Shipwreck Coast. The wreck was found under 600 feet of water using the sonar using sonar. A remotely operated vehicle owned by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society helped positively identify it. It's in good condition. Waterfall! Yeah, now here's a question. How long was it? 144 feet.

[00:46:00] The Titanic was 825 feet. The Titanic was 800 feet. Well, my boat's only 27. It's a quarter of a size. Well, the mast make it look bigger. The question is do you leave it? Nobody died! So I don't think of it as like a burial spot.

[00:46:18] Nobody died so I say we bring it up. Yeah. If a lot of people died... Carefully. Here's some news. News, news, news! We're moving on to news. A lot of you might be interested in this. In the United States murderers stand a 50% chance of getting away with it.

[00:46:36] Not in my court. Well that might change your mind about maybe killing somebody. You got a 50-50 chance of getting away with it? Everybody assumes people are going to get caught. Because I read in Washington D.C., I read this a long time ago something like 75% of murderers

[00:46:54] are not solved. So I wanted to pitch a TV show where we are the police department that never solves anything. Like, and we go up to like, say it's like some crack house and we know the evidence is in there.

[00:47:06] If me and you are the cops, I go I ain't going in there. I make $85,000 a year. I'm not walking in a crack house. And that's how the murderers don't get solved. But then in my show one time of the season to keep the show interesting

[00:47:18] they solve one. But it's by accident. Like somebody comes in and just tells them. We got a confession! Ring the bell! That counts. Unprecedented increase in U.S. homicides are being met with the lowest ever clearance rate leaving at least half of the killings unsolved.

[00:47:38] Analysis of the FBI data shows that a 71% of homicides were deemed solved in 1980, dropping to an all low to only about 50% in 2020. The last time the data was compiled we're on the verge of being the first developed nation with the majority of homicides to go unclear.

[00:47:58] A graph by the group shows that the clearance rate was even higher in 1980 seemingly as high as 90% in 1965. 90% were solved. And they didn't even have the tools or technology. They didn't even have data and have DNA. Well, think of the population. The bigger the village the more idiots.

[00:48:20] Our village is much larger. Speak of that we have to talk about Murdoch next. Just know so I don't need to go through all those stats but if you want to kill someone if there's anybody on your list it could also be the standards for making a rest

[00:48:39] have gone up. Some of the tricks they were using in 1965 are no longer available. Yeah, to an extent but I say it's a tradeoff. They could just do whatever they wanted back then the cops for the most part and now they can't. But you also have DNA

[00:48:55] and a database of fingerprints that before didn't exist you'd have to go in your town and then blah blah blah It's a lot. A lot happened. I wouldn't criticize them because as a cop I wouldn't want to do all that but I would never be the detective lady.

[00:49:11] No. I would never be the cop who has the easy gig. Like what's the easy gig? I'll go down on parade day and make sure the traffic's good. Okay, thanks. Speaking of news I forgot I was going to do this up top but the Murdoch

[00:49:29] what's Alec? Alec, however you say his name Boom! Guilty guilty guilty I've seen some of the jurors interviewed apparently when they went back 10 10 was guilty out of the gate 2 2 were no and 1 was undecided somehow in 45 minutes they wrapped it up and told those people

[00:49:51] get on board retired being here just come on who the fuck else would have done it big shout out to Mandy Matney I'll stop singing Mandy's praises but she'll find something else she still got lots on this what about the boy that died on the street

[00:50:09] the housekeeper that we're still gonna I just sounded like my dad the maid, the stewardess the gal Friday exactly those are all still ongoing the housekeeper's death the kid and then there's another thing well whose financial crimes and now we're on a buster watch

[00:50:31] yeah, I don't know, buster I don't you can't talk shit about the only kid left alive I can you can? well apparently him and his father went somewhere in South Carolina and got super hammered at some bar 2 months after supposedly all this happened

[00:50:51] that does not make sense to me and then people go, well you can't judge you don't know I'm just saying, I'm judging here I am sitting here doing what you say I can't do but I had it on the phone cause I was like oh my god

[00:51:05] and then Michael were in that bar and getting food and I was like oh the verdict, the verdict and I learned, I'm pretty proud of myself that I learned quickly how to go to it on youtube live and there it was um hill appeal

[00:51:23] oh and then the judge, this was the creepiest thing ever, the way he said it to the way he spoke, he goes I believe that Maggie and Paul are right from the sun that he shot who shoots their own kid? I mean meth heads don't even do that

[00:51:39] that's a real sociopath but he goes, I believe they visit you at night and they visit you in the day and remind you of the last look that they had in your eyes before you did this and they will continue to do so it was the way

[00:51:59] he said and they will continue to do so he just knew it, like he was god himself, not in an arrogant way just like he believes I'm like I'm with you dude I'm with you Alex like yes, yeah they do moving on to people that should not be

[00:52:21] talking out loud anymore Alec Murdock, he should have never taken this stand but most narcissists want to um Prince Harry I should have a royal update but they don't really do enough to count as a segment of this show he's got who is advising him

[00:52:41] nobody, no I don't think Megan's doing it because at this point it's not positive and I think she's a pretty good she can guide herself through the waters of how to make shit look good this guy I cannot I want to sit down with him and go

[00:52:59] Harry, whatever your last name is I don't know, you're just Prince Harry do they have last names they're all Germans everybody forgets that that's all my dad hollers it to TV when they're on and I mean I don't really like any of them, they're royal

[00:53:17] it's ridiculous as an Irish person I can't get on board whoa that's his full name Prince Harry Duke of Sussex Henry Charles Albert Henry Charles Albert those are all still first names stop repeating Duke of Sussex stop repeating Duke of Sussex Earl and Dunbarthin

[00:53:37] Earl and Duke of Kill Kiel well then not one of those things was the last name the house of Windsor is his last name Windsor Baren Kielke bullshit no it's not it's not Harry Baren Kiel what it is I'm going to put it in the shelves

[00:53:57] this is on their website formerly Prince Harry of Wales on their website alright I will do some serious research into his last name termites Harry did a special event this is why I want to sit down and it won't tell Harry Harry all of us have problems

[00:54:19] all of us have issues but there's a reason therapy is private the reason is we just want to hear about your shit we want you to take care of it and then we hope you're happy and you move on unless you're in group therapy

[00:54:35] and then it's not private but it is private because it's only within that tiny group oh he won't he will not move on this was crazy Prince Harry this happened over the weekend and I printed this out before

[00:54:49] is set to unpack his experience with a controversial trauma expert on Saturday during a virtual event a virtual event in which you can submit questions to the former royal to answer um he will join Canadian doctor and author Gabor mate for an intimate

[00:55:07] for an intimate conversation to which royal fans can purchase tickets for $33.99 this is what you've come down to you're hawking your own therapy for 34 bucks online the publisher random house that and then he talks about his mom dying dude we all know like I'm very sorry that happened

[00:55:32] trauma trauma yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes sorry about that and I'm not even good to do the comparison thing no because you do live in a $15 million mansion in Montecito your whole life could be a whole lot worse in a

[00:55:48] mobile home in the Ozarks trust me because I know people that live in those houses but some mobile homes are getting nice just for the record but um uh no they are um he did this you get a copy of his book no thanks I'm good

[00:56:06] um me you know they're not he's gonna become his great uncle and how do you not see that there are movies made about the man whole movies you can go watch go huh what my relatives do huh then breaking news in the royal front Charles whatever

[00:56:26] his last name is he kicked him out of frogmore cottage I love the name frogmore I don't know why I'd have merch well I'd open a bar I'd open I'd make part of it a bar and then go you're drinking it frogmore cottage would you like a frogmore

[00:56:40] shirt and then I'd have a t-shirt that had tiny frogs all over it drinking tiny tiny beers he's a victim the couple believed it's cruel because they said they used their money to renovate you don't have any money you

[00:56:56] it's like when I hear my nieces and nephews goes they'll go well I use my money on that that is their money it's their first communion money it's their it's everything they save their money their birthday money yes you do

[00:57:08] Jack you have X amount Kevin you have X amount Harry you have money from working in the military where'd that go that's already spent Megan had whatever money from being on suits or whatever that show was um he's talking about his mother's money

[00:57:26] Diana died he got a shit ton of money and then he said well my father has always controlled the purse strings you're like 40 can't stay in the military you should get a paycheck and a meal now that now here's the thing

[00:57:47] if you want to count it as your money you spent 2.83 million redoing it then Charles you give him back the money and go here's your fake money that wasn't your money to begin with but I'll give it back to you because you spent it on this and he

[00:58:01] there's rumor as he wants to move Andrew bad boy Andrew into the cottage and Andrew's having none of it and they've been invited to the coronation as of yesterday will they go oh yeah she'll go on the 11th hour she's not gonna miss that

[00:58:19] oh they're not gonna be treated like William and Kate because they're not William and Kate and it has nothing to do with what your personalities are or what it's the it's the role that's the deal this is Disney you were assigned the role of Tatiana and you left

[00:58:35] you abandoned the dragon I just love how any of us get involved in any of this like they're they're Disney characters I why I'm amused by at all I don't really care about him or her or whatever I hope their kids grow up better

[00:58:51] like a normal it's not gonna be a normal life not if you're raising a $15 million mansion in Montecito I didn't even get to go to Montecito till I was like 45 I had my own car and I drove up to my friend Ron White's house

[00:59:07] and I found a key under the mat and went let myself in yeah that was fine yeah okay this is news this is so bizarre and it's happening in the state of Tennessee right here Tennessee Governor Bill Lee okay bill lee is on TV all the time

[00:59:33] and he is your quintessential southern he wears one of the like lumberjack shirts what are those called like no not car heart yeah he wears those shirts yeah lumberjack he wears those in the ad and he's always like a down home talker and I'm Governor Bill Lee

[00:59:53] and I want to keep this state with the family values I grew up with and then you see him walking around the woods smoking a pipe smoking a pipe they have corn cob pipe banging spoons on his legs no I'm kidding he's not playing the spoons he's just

[01:00:11] very very like this isn't really about politics that's why I'm doing it I'm not because there's so many politics and everybody's tired of it including myself but he signs the first of its kind bill restricting drag shows and me and my sister were like okay we

[01:00:34] don't understand why there would ever be a drag show at a school anyway but we went to Catholic schools and we didn't know what's going on with these public heathen people hey did you ever have a drag show in a Canadian grade school no

[01:00:52] I would have liked it I think it'd be great but I can understand why Paris okay but we're not talking about school because I said is he talking about you know what here's what he's talking about Governor Bill Lee

[01:01:10] and you know what for the record one of the greatest shows I've ever seen is the drag show in Las Vegas at senior frogs I forget what it's called but if you ever go to Vegas no it's not RuPaul's Drag Waste I don't think it is no

[01:01:27] no that's at Harris right whatever senior frogs drag show you can go like at 10 or 11 or 12 and they have champagne built into the tables it's the drag brunch just whatever one of the greatest shows I've ever seen one of the more amusing drag shows

[01:01:45] I've ever seen in my life was if you go into East St. Louis drinking late which you should be careful if you do that there was a bar over there it was like a everything bar I don't know but they would have a drag show

[01:01:59] on like weird nights like Tuesdays or whatever and me and my friend Ralph went over there I didn't even know where I was going to see this but it was like closeted drag guys they were like farmers from Southern Illinois yeah so it was super

[01:02:11] strange and they would come out go hi my name is Bill I'm a farmer over in Bellevue and tonight I will be performing Ethel Merman I'm like what is going on and then he would come out and open the show with God Blossom America and I'm like

[01:02:27] yeah that is right God bless America that Bill can do what he wants to do on a Tuesday in East St. Louis but anyway I just don't see anything wrong with the drag show I not to politicize something I just do not understand

[01:02:44] I don't think it should be in a grade school but I don't think you don't get your own shows in grade school any kind of shows no nobody ever came and performed at my grade school lip syncing is of the devil um oh my god

[01:03:00] he signed into Bill a law last Thursday that will criminalize some drag performances and the first of its kind of legislation will ban adult cabaret entertainment on public property or in locations where it can be viewed by minors so that means parades that means pride parades that means

[01:03:20] um public property does that well you could still have it in a private bar right such entertainment according to the measure listen to how old the people are who wrote this according to the measure includes topless dancers go-go dancers really dad go-go dancers exotic dancers strippers

[01:03:47] male or female impersonators or similar entertainers the law takes effect calls for first fine offenders to be slapped with misdemeanors subsequent offenses would be classified as felonies and could result in prison sentences for up to six years wow cause you dressed like the opposite sex who cares

[01:04:07] yes on the list of shit to care about oh my god um they're saying the supporters say it's necessary to safeguard children where are these children seeing this stuff at a pride parade did you accidentally run into a pride parade like were you just

[01:04:27] out for a walk I went oh shit my kids can't see this the pride parade is pretty well over every every city where you know where it's gonna be and when you don't want to get caught up in traffic if it's not your thing traffic

[01:04:39] it's all doors down this bill gives confidence to parents that they can take their kids to a public or private show and they will not be blindsided by a sexualized performance come on weird where do they think this is happening I mean my whole life

[01:04:59] I never got blindsided by a sexualized performance where the fuck are you going bill it's supposed to protect children how did I make it through my whole life till I was 21 and went and went and went off to the east side never got blindsided by a drag queen

[01:05:17] or if they were if I did get blindsided by a drag queen they were so good at it I didn't notice which and I'm sure that's happened but then here's the greatest and then the people against it have all the reasons that I'm basically

[01:05:33] I'm saying plus our shift on more but then here's the ultimate ultimate irony oh bill Tennessee governor to restrict drag shows as photo appears of him in drag yeah he say he wants to make it for anyone to engage in adult cabaret performances

[01:05:53] on public property or into places where children might see them I don't know but I'm putting it out there there's a year book photo circulating online and it appears to show him in high school in 1977 dressed up as a woman the photo prompted some local democratic politicians to

[01:06:17] activists to accuse the governor of having a double standard oh he said it was just an innocent powder puff thing I don't care what you want to define it as you're dressed like a chick and you were in public you did it you already did it

[01:06:33] it's okay if I do it that whole bullshit um he was asked if he remembered dressing a dragon 1977 he said it would be ridiculous to conflate something like that to sexualize entertainment in front of children I have to find out what happened what caused this

[01:06:51] this is not normal something spurred this something happened no I mean did some drag queen show up at a grade school uninvited you shouldn't punish all for one no you have to sit down and explain to that person this is for nighttime this is for night time well

[01:07:18] you just said you're like a drag brunch well I do like a drag brunch but it's night time it's classified as adult entertainment and the food's always good and it's dark in there right I don't know I'll giggle it I'll find out termites I'll get into it this

[01:07:40] um get a load of this Adidas has 500 million dollars worth of Kanye West sneakers and no good options no before Kanye went on his racist anti-semitic rant I did buy my nephew a pair of Yeezys and he still has them they were too expensive

[01:08:09] I mean we bought them before he did that it's my whole things if Stevie Nicks was accused of eating a baby would I still go if I already bought the concert ticket well it depends on when she's supposed to eat the baby mhm mhm they believe it destroyed

[01:08:27] this after Michael Vick they had to get rid of the air zoom Vic why would you destroy him when there's tons of kids in underdeveloped countries that do not have a shoe okay it's terrible whatever these people did Michael Vick, whoever, whomever

[01:08:43] that does not outweigh the fact that kid needs a pair of shoes and I think even the groups that were targeted I would think I'll call Lou I'll call my Jewish opinions Louis since Kanye West seems to but Kanye's also just flat out crazy like ah

[01:09:07] Adidas has a similar dilemma with the Yeezy line observers say except on a scale unseen in the fashion industry months after cutting ties with the rapper and the fashion designer Kanye West over his flagrant anti-semitism the German company on February 9th warned it would be looking at

[01:09:19] massive losses that couldn't sell its inventory well here's the other thing you could do Adidas the nice thing would be to give them away right it's a lot of money I get it five hundred million but make them half price because they're not cheap to begin with um

[01:09:35] raising questions about its option for the now tinted tainted brand including including literally burning the shoes that would be what in Catholic school I would thought would be a sin I don't care what happened with those shoes people need them and you just um

[01:09:55] they thought they could recoup the vast majority of the losses by rebranding the distinctive shoes which retail roughly from two hundred to six hundred and selling them at a discount the predicament offers a glimpse of what happens when the fashion line meets a sudden end

[01:10:09] they don't know what they're gonna do because it's it's half a billion dollars um Adidas was the slowest one to move to when he did that which as the Germans maybe you should be the first ones just saying that's what I am

[01:10:27] they could sell it at a discount without the label and then they'd be called zombie Yeezys then the kids would want those Adidas could still move forward they have a plan to sell the merchandise at a discount without the label transforming them into what he calls zombie Yeezys

[01:10:46] I like that but that's quite a risky proposition it could backfire on them from a PR perspective it would still look like they were profiting off of a collaboration with someone who made blatant anti-semitic statements you know what I would ask the Jewish the Jewish leaders

[01:11:04] okay get meet with them do you guys think it's a good idea then we just give it to underdevelopment nations I think they would agree why can't you just sit down with the people that were offended talk this out that's what you people need another option is

[01:11:20] destroy the shoes no no no I'll let you know I forgot I have an update too I didn't print it out the Girl Scout cookies the raspberry what was it called? raspberry their new one well there's some dirty birds out there raspberry rally

[01:11:44] they're described as raspberry thin mince from what I read that's the newest one well they're sold out and some of the moms or dads whatever or maybe drag queens let's blame them for that too they're being sold online a box is going for a hundred bucks worth it

[01:12:10] I don't care for raspberries so it ain't my thing but if there were no thin mince left and there was one box online for it yes I would be like I have to do it I have to yeah so I don't know the Girl Scouts are super pissed

[01:12:26] I'll read you the story next week but that's an update on that if you didn't get them I told you here on this podcast tourbikes they're available go get them so hopefully you did if you wanted them raspberry cookies just don't sound right they were

[01:12:44] I went up to my grocery store and the kids didn't have any well I don't really ask maybe they had some I don't know I just bought thin mince they ordered them months ago when the kids got their stuff I bet yeah alright tourbikes

[01:13:03] do you want to hear a weird story before we go yeah I love a weird story this is very very weird and I am only familiar with this because Ron White my friend became successful and bought a house in Montecito

[01:13:19] I don't even think I'd ever been to Santa Barbara I knew it was up there but I didn't care to go I always just went past it I thought it was rich people and that's fine but you know there's only like three hotels I have gone

[01:13:33] don't want to brag to the San Ysidro Ranch and I only went there cause there's a bar it's like the Angel Bar something then Ron and I went there's like famous people there so like Harry and Meghan have been on this slumara

[01:13:45] but I don't even know why people would pay the property is nice but the rooms I was like oh my god not my thing Plough and Angel that's the name of the bar but anyway there's a four seasons up there

[01:13:59] I one time had a corporate gig and I stayed there and it was very nice by the water but I did not know remember Beanie Babies did we talk about this on the show already? No yeah I did because remember I told you

[01:14:15] I was the one who was in charge of searching for him in airports but not about the boat buy and tell you about him for nearly three years an ignomadic billionaire has kept one of the most beloved and sought out properties in the world closed the four seasons

[01:14:33] resort the Biltmore in Santa Barbara he owns it the Beanie Baby Guy, Ty Warner remember that name guys? Ty Warner call it the house that Beanie Babies emptied now former employees Santa Barbara residents and vacationers of a certain stature are starting to wonder when Ty Warner

[01:14:57] is going to release his stranglehold on the coveted space you may have already heard of Warner but even if you haven't you know who he is you can search for the peanut the elephant on ebay or attached his signature Ty emoji to a message to denote thank you

[01:15:13] you probably somehow have been influenced by the Chicago based Beanie Babies Tycoon Chicago he's from Chicago he's a midwest guy acting bizarre and not in a positive way Warner who's worth an estimated five billion he last granted a long form interview in People Magazine in 1996

[01:15:37] that's the last time anybody has spoken to this man from the press 1996 this is where I think he's getting hard huesy and now I'm into it besides an incident in 1997 when he threw out a pitch at a Cubs game he threw out the first pitch 97 so go to 2007

[01:15:57] plus that math 2017 that's 20 years it's been 25 years since anyone's heard from him that was pretty fast for me and it was correct yeah and I didn't do it I didn't do it like that I was going 1719 920 I did it without moving my fingers um he was

[01:16:17] uh he's keep such a freakishly low profile that nearly every article about him the word reclusive pre precedes the mention of his name which has surfaced more often than not in recent stories of tax evasion convictions and high stakes relationships squabbles yeah so perhaps it's come

[01:16:37] as no surprise that the exclusive tycoon decided to shutter the most beloved property in his portfolio and continues to offer no explanation or reopening to this day that's disgusting I would never pay for that four seasons because it's crazy it's like $800 a night or some shit I mean

[01:16:55] it's ridiculous when you can just go find a Marriott Courtyard in Galena just go up to town whatever but I mean rich people do they're very very very rich but whatever you could still go in the bar and have a drink and I like their bar

[01:17:11] and it's right on the ocean kind of I mean like outside on the ocean but you're very you can hear the water it was great and he's just you know give a shit first opened in 1927 the 206 room hotel has 22 beach side acres which

[01:17:25] abuts the ocean front walkway of channel drive blah blah blah it resembles something of a Gatsby goes west coastal retreat known for its sprawling gardens and redbrook walkways that connect the Spanish revival cabanas hidden around every corner the hotel's not the kind of place where you bump into

[01:17:41] business travelers clad in lanyards and dress sneakers trailing airplane be a trailing airplane be oh from wrestling carry on coach who wrote this yeah no this is a place of something so anyway they want to describe the four seasons we don't need all that

[01:17:57] and then it's the history so a decade after its completion in 1927 allied properties purchased it and ran it for 40 years from 36 to 76 allied then sold the property to Marriott which ran it hotel until 1987 then they sold the four seasons for 55 million dollars

[01:18:19] billionaire Warner picked up the resort in 2000 for 150 million so he paid 150 million for it now remember he has 5 billion so they say all is I gotta google it is it all off the beanie babies and then I think why can't we think a shit like that

[01:18:39] what if I just sold tiny frogs they're just funny cause frogmore cottage I don't know this would be the crown listen to what he owns this would be the crown jewel of ty warner property's santa barbara portfolio he owns sandpiper golf club I've golfed there a million times

[01:18:58] I love every young man and there's a couple women but mostly it's dudes that works there they're all awesome Albert my friend Albert if he's still there shout out Albert I don't live out there anymore so I don't go it was always reasonably priced

[01:19:16] it was pretty well maintained it wasn't private it's a public course anybody can go so he owns that he owns the sanny cedro branch I mean oh my god monoceto club I don't even know what that is Ron might and he owns the four seasons in New York

[01:19:36] wow yep uh while his other properties remain open both the four seasons hotels both four seasons his subordinate operations indefinitely in march and they have not yet reopened it on covid but come on everybody else is open right now there's no

[01:19:56] timeline to it we're actively moving on improvements but the timeline is still to be determined the closure mystery begins to unravel slightly when warner's four seasons properties or views as a set while all of the billionaire's properties were first shuttered in tandem only the four seasons

[01:20:10] remain closed it's been reported uh that they're in some kind of rift I mean that is so sad because not everybody can afford to stay there but everybody can afford to go in and have a drink and it's a Spanish like mission in type thing the tile everything

[01:20:30] um but he's just a freak I mean why won't they um there have been a lot of sad stories about a lot of employees losing their houses uh divorces at least one suicide the company takes a position they're still employed and will

[01:20:44] come back at some point but we're not seeing evidence of that it's been close to a thousand days already well I don't think so so but if you're not fired you can't collect unemployment if you're not let go and if you quit you can't collect you cannot

[01:21:03] collect unemployment so they're screwed well somebody should sue them somebody but then again this is what we're talking about talk about housekeepers and bartenders they probably think I can't afford a lawyer but they should go get a lawyer and ask that guy to take the case

[01:21:19] off or nothing or that lady um on a recent run I stopped by to peak at the property while it still carries this albified air of forced emptiness that immediately brings it one back to the early days of the pandemic shut down the buildings

[01:21:35] the pool and the grounds are maintained so someone's maintaining it um the beloved property remains meticulously landscape and smells like prim rosed mulched with shredded money huh it's just I never thought about the beanie baby guy I didn't I know I'm gonna be obsessed

[01:21:57] cause now I think he's a Howard Hughes freak he's also been in divorces I'll go further on this one I'll do a Mandy Manny deep dive on the on the well those beanie babies were the bane of my existence for a while

[01:22:09] cause everybody knew I flew and then they knew I was in airports and apparently there are super rare ones in airports and then I got into it myself and then I became addicted to the search and I became a thing for like a whole

[01:22:21] fucking year every gift shop I wouldn't I never even got to like enjoy a drink at a beer bar in an airport cause I was just in gift shops looking for beanie babies do you have the tiny elephant come on I know you did

[01:22:41] alright sir my I am off this week to red bank and Huntington New York there's a few is there a few I thought we were sold out alright oh they released them ok yeah so that and then I'm gonna stay in New York and do some

[01:22:57] podcasts and stuff for a couple days I get to see Lewis very excited gonna make him go to this brunch I found and then Memphis after that I'm fired up about Memphis Graceland soundstage case you're wondering where that would be taking place there and then after that

[01:23:17] Milwaukee and was a was a was cotton yeah Milwaukee's on Friday was on Saturday then Foxwoods in Boston we added to show in Boston a later show and there's tickets left for that one there's nothing left for the early show

[01:23:43] and then I always think do I really want to be up that late and that's why I well you know in my younger days I did two three shows at night but then you get tired Jamie Lee Curtis said she didn't attend the Academy Awards

[01:23:55] because she goes to bed at 7.30 and I thought I would too if I were you if you can just snuggle right in and watch 11 episodes away go oh yeah the t-shirts we haven't forgotten to we would do it but very busy new websites

[01:24:15] launching I'm pretty proud of that I'm very grateful to the kids that have helped with all that the August and there will be a new t-shirt on there and I can't wait to show you the video I'm gonna put it up our baby cat eating that grass

[01:24:35] some other term I had that thing what are the odds yeah she said oh my cat loves it this is what should look like and the stems were crazy and I said well I said to Lou here's the thing I've never grown anything successfully

[01:24:49] so this will probably not work because I can't read instructions properly because there's something wrong with my mind well I did it and four days I was going these things are like this high they're like six inches high I was like what the

[01:25:05] anyway because I was checking everything in the house because power went out and stuff and these termites too that brought me there's three things in this box and it couldn't sell my personality up more big foot per president moth man for president

[01:25:21] not a lot of people don't buy moth man and a Loch Ness monster pin I'll be using all three and the box is adorable all the termites have been rating oh please go rate the special it means stuff thank you you're doing it okay

[01:25:39] I'm not going to put you in time out today you can do that alright I'll get you a beer I like the YouTube I like to read stuff sometimes people are mean but for the most part nice what I do like now is somebody's mean it's a termite

[01:25:57] the other termites attack them yeah attacking termites oh you're free to say whatever you want nothing matters at the end of the day and I didn't get to watch the Chris Rock thing I'm going to try to watch that to see the Will Jada yeah I mean

[01:26:13] I don't know all I know is you shouldn't be slapping people period in a Catholic school if you slap somebody nobody cares what you got damn reason is you're the one in trouble yep alright termites um that's it

[01:26:31] St. Patrick's Day is coming up and I will be a Memphis Memphis Memphis Memphis and I will be off on Friday so I will be carousing about because I'm going early well not I was going the day before if I have a show but I'm doing it

[01:26:47] I'm getting down there I know where I'm going and uh that's it I might go find a wonderful place for my coconut yeah it's so pretty anyway thanks to Will and thanks everybody and ready