Episode 131: Celebrating Masters Week, Cracker Barrel Sangria, & Visiting the Holy Toe

[00:00:08] 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! Fire! Fire! Fire! Episode 134!

[00:00:29] 131, sorry. I don't know what possessed me to say that. I really don't know what possessed me to say that. 172! Uh, 199? Whatever. I don't think anyone's actually keeping track of what it says online, so... So many things! Termites! Back from Boston. And, uh, Faxwoods, the casino.

[00:00:51] Um, what are we drinking? Well this is a beer that they say in Boston is like their PBR. It's called Nargans. It's actually Maiden Road Island. Pawtucket. Wherever it- Po-tucket? Pawtucket. Pewtucket. Pawtuck. I can't read that. You know why? Because I have on Lewis's reading glasses.

[00:01:09] Because I stole them. Because I went to his house and I didn't have my glasses, and I couldn't read nothing. So I said, do you have any reading glasses? Because he always wears real prescription eyeglasses. And then he came out of his room and he's like, these are $50.

[00:01:23] And I said, well I will pay you to rent them. I'm going to give them back. But then I liked them so much I'm like, no, I'm not getting them back. I'm not paying you, Lou. You make enough money. You don't need $50. Who buys $50 reading glasses?

[00:01:37] Mine foster grants from Walgreens. Sometimes on sale for $14. Excellent. Exactly. So that's what we're drinking. So much fun, some shout outs from Fox Woods to so much stuff backstage. It makes the ushers are always like, does this happen all the time?

[00:01:56] I'm like, yes, just keep bringing it back. Heather and Kristen bought some chips and to box wine. I take pictures of everything because sometimes I leave the stuff for the staff if I can't get it home. Or I want to share it. Or Dave Drake. Right.

[00:02:11] Fox Woods, Billy and Jen, they brought the Guinness Salt Shakers. Oh yeah, they're right here. See? Look how adorable. If you have YouTube, see here I'll show you. They're split. It's again a split and half salt and pepper. Adorable.

[00:02:23] Yes. And a flower pen that somebody had to tell me was a pen because they didn't understand. I picked it out. I'm like, what is this flower? Pam and Deb and Melissa, New Hampshire termite. No, they brought together New Hampshire termites. They brought...

[00:02:38] That is so great because like Midwest people, I can't believe going to Fox Woods from Boston. I went from Massachusetts to Rhode Island to Connecticut all within an hour and 20 minutes. In the Midwest, you ain't leaving your state for at least...

[00:02:53] It's so confusing to me. Like if you kicked me out of a car without a phone, I would just be like a time traveler lost. I wouldn't know what state I was in.

[00:03:04] They brought a lot of stuff. That was a Foxwood. That's a wonderful casino gig and it's a wonderful casino. If I lived up there, I would definitely be there way, way, way too often. Guaranteed. It's a lot of fun. It's a DraftKings casino.

[00:03:18] Yes, they have a DraftKings bar now. Yeah. And the staff there runs like clockwork. I walk in, soundcheck takes five seconds. Same with the Wilbur in Boston. I was there Saturday for two shows. Sarah Silverman, I guess had been there before me.

[00:03:34] Taping something for something. I don't know if those are secrets so I won't spill them. But Boston, they brought this beer and all kinds of other treats. Lots of cat treats. That's a shout out to Ashley and Mike because they brought cat treats.

[00:03:49] And those are easy to get home. And Babycat's so excited. Yeah, so is Chappo. He's not as expressive. And then Kato always gives me the kind of fuck off. I'll eat him later. Just leave him there. Don't come near me. Don't come near me.

[00:04:05] Yeah, Babycat loves them. The greenies. But there's other things to purée. That is like throwing icing on something. And I could put just anything out there. But if I put the purée on it, they're all in.

[00:04:19] Karen and Greg, they brought the beer dip recipe. Appreciate that. We're going to make that. Well, if I could be home for more than a goddamn nanosecond. Maybe you can make it for Master Sunday. This summer, what? I hope you make it for Master Sunday.

[00:04:36] I did take that off because it's also Easter. And I don't know Easter weekend now. It seems hard to sell the same amount of tickets as a normal weekend. I think people do family stuff or whatever. I don't know.

[00:04:47] Oh, I got Cheetos popcorn. This from Heather and Sean. I think are Sean, Sean, Sean, Sean. Yeah. The El Chapo book. They brought me a book on El Chapo. Can't wait. Great plain reading. Goldfish. Yeah, I already got into those because they're red hot.

[00:05:02] Frank's Red Hot Goldfish. Yes, the best. Danielle and Jeff, a cigar, which I'm going to save for Ron. And then I'll just take puffs off of it. I don't want to waste it on me. Nice pint glass. Wicked crack. Irish ale. Wicked crack.

[00:05:18] Oh my gosh, there's so many. Shelby from Vermont. See how do people in Vermont end up in Massachusetts? I don't even know if Vermont is, is Vermont connected? I don't even know. Do they border one another? No. No? Okay.

[00:05:33] That's why I never know where I'm at. Oh, Maine's in the middle. No. And I've been to all these places. I know, but that's how they must feel in the Midwest. Like they don't know if they're in Kansas or Iowa or Missouri.

[00:05:46] Brought a lot of Vermont stuff. Vermont beer, Vermont jerky and stuff messy right here. Oh, what? A lot mess. I'm going to go scare this shit out of baby cat with it. Blah. She does have this. Yeah, she'll freak out.

[00:06:02] We're almost through this. And then we're going to get to some crazy news. Boston Caroline termite. Oh, brought the t-shirt. This t-shirt it says fire. She made her own shirt. Look, whoa, there goes a lot in those ones there. It says fire.

[00:06:15] It has a termite on the back. Drinkin' a beer. It's better than any termite I've ever seen drawn. And it, it look, cause it looks super. Its teeth are crazy. Crag it like. Get ready. Well, that's what they do. Did you know termites can fly? What?

[00:06:30] I didn't know that one time, a long time ago at the beach in Hermosa Beach in my apartment, I was like, what are all these bugs flying around? I mean, I don't know. I'd never, and then my other neighbor came down and he's like, fuck, that means there's

[00:06:45] termites in the whole building. I go, termites, what? Those are flying? What? I guess I thought they crawled like ants. They can fly. I didn't know that. So all of you termites out there just know you can fly too. If they can fly, you can fly.

[00:06:59] Um, and then, oh yeah, this one was a good one too. Tatos. I love Tatos. There, it's the Irish snack. They were Worcestershire sauce. Worcestershire sauce. Worcestershire sauce from Joe and Patty. Cat treats from them. Yes. Yes. Joe and Mary. We got Goldfish. More cat treats to puree.

[00:07:17] God, they go, who knew? I haven't had a cat since I was like, well, we had one at the lake in the Ozarks, but it was just an outdoor resort cat. It just ran around and there was so much activity. It didn't even care to come inside really.

[00:07:31] I mean, occasionally. Lynn and John brought this marshmallow fluff. This is a big thing up there. At least it's very sweet. Yeah, it's very sweet. I tasted it. It's gluten-free. Those I'm going to send it to my sister and go, here you weirdo.

[00:07:44] Here, here you can eat this. It's still, it's good. It's just very, very sweet. My mom would like it. Yeah. Maybe I'll give it to my mom when I use her. No, I'll give it to my sister. Yeah. Well, that's what I'll see him.

[00:07:59] So, Lynn and John, marshmallow fluff, Cape Cod, chips, beer. This sauce that I'm trying, it's called Asso Sauce to make Chinese style barbecue ribs, pork and chicken. Now it looks sweet, but I'm not against sweet if it's cooked. I'm against sweet if it's raw. Raw? Yeah.

[00:08:20] Like there's some barbecue sauces that are sweet. Raw sweet. Wow. Holy God. Nah, nah, nah, nah. That's got to be cooked. Oh my God. No. Beer chaser. Jess and Macarena, if I'm saying that right. Wow. They got some cat stuff. Oh my God.

[00:08:43] Oh, and these, the Port City pretzels. These are from, technically I read it, New Hampshire. Is New Hampshire bordering Massachusetts? No. No? Way north too? Yeah, the backboard is back. Oh my God. Ranch dill pretzels. Ranch dill delicious though.

[00:09:03] You know, I read online and a couple people sent it to me too that Old Smoky Moonshine was going to, oh my friend, Loreen sent it, make ranch moonshine, ranch whiskey. Yeah. And I forgot it was April Fools.

[00:09:19] I hate April Fools because no matter what, if somebody says something's going to happen, you might get excited and then it's not happening. And then bad news, you think it's bad news for five minutes so you figure it out. Either way the experience was shit.

[00:09:33] It's just, I never have been, I've never been a prank person. I don't like those shows where we just, it's just mean. I don't, I mean I wouldn't want it to happen to me unless it was funny at the end and most of them are not.

[00:09:46] But it'll also have to be a little laugh. I believed it, the ranch whiskey and I thought, I would try it. They shouldn't pay attention to their social media response because we're all like, okay, all this is fucking awesome. Mm-hmm. So excited. And it was all bullshit.

[00:10:01] Boston, John and Chuck, clown shoes, clown shoes. Clown shoes beer. Oh, the clown shoes beer. Yeah. Yeah. Michael, I had Michael the beer monster summerville with me. This was a bonanza weekend for him. Oh my God. And then I, because I left him with some too.

[00:10:20] Oh, the voodoo kettle zaps potato chips were great. That's Boston, Maria brought those and Castle Island beer and the pint glass. And then I'm drinking out of this one that actually, yeah, I'm not going to say how I procured this.

[00:10:37] It says Boston Red Sox, it's got the Red Sox and Sam Adams and my neighbor is a huge Red Sox fan, her and her husband. So I'm going to, I'm going to mule this over there.

[00:10:48] I just wanted to show you that I may or may not have stolen something. Oh, all right. So that was a thank you, thank you, thank you for everything that came backstage. We got it all and the children backstage, everybody at the Wilbur.

[00:11:06] If you live in Boston, always support that venue. Taylor in charge of it is one of the most wonderful human beings and super fun. They're all fun. They jump out of the alley. Hey, Kathleen was so glad to see you. Welcome back to Boston.

[00:11:20] I'm like, hey, John, even if they're acting, I believe them. Like some venues, you get some of the older guys and they're nice and they know what they're doing, but they're not, they're over it. You know, they're 65. They're just counting the minutes till they're out of that place.

[00:11:36] They've seen everybody and everything and nothing's exciting anymore. And I get that too, but it's nice to go someplace where everybody's super decided and having two shows. And Aaron in the box office wanted a children, but one of the super smart children. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:11:52] It was nice to meet her and James is always great. And that's it. That's a shout out for all that. Let's move it on. Queen news. Oh, Tanya Tucker going in the country music hall fame. Boom. I would have thought she would have been in there years ago.

[00:12:09] Honestly, after Delta Dawn, she should have been in when she was 14 because she did that at 13. Yeah. Well, I guess she wasn't. I watched the CMT awards. Well, I thought I was watching the CMAs and the only reason I wanted

[00:12:25] to watch cause I thought Dolly was hosting Queen Dolly with Garth. Well, I'm watching the wrong goddamn award show and I watched it for an hour and a half where I'm like, then in my head, I'm like, this is bullshit.

[00:12:38] Now they just hook you in and say, Oh, Dolly's hosting with Garth. And then they just come out and do the first thing and then they leave. So it's not really hosting your, your show starter. I made up that whole thing in my head.

[00:12:52] None of it was true. I'm watching the damn wrong award show. And then I wanted to watch as a PBS thing. I didn't, I didn't record it where it's a PBS. I forget what it's called, but it's a tribute to Joni Mitchell.

[00:13:06] So if you wanted to Google that and Annie Lennox sings, I saw clips on Instagram. She sings both sides now. Apparently there was a big thing who was going to sing that one. Cindy Lauppers on it. Yeah.

[00:13:20] It so if you want to go, you can go stream it. I read that if you're interested in the tribute to Joni Mitchell and all kinds of PBS.org or PBS something. I don't know. We'll find out and put it in the schnoz.

[00:13:33] So that's some Queen news there. You can still see Dolly on the CMAs because those haven't aired yet despite what I watched. And speaking of watching succession, still fantastic. Every episode, I can't wait to see my friend Mark Lynn Baker in the election one whenever that happens.

[00:13:53] He hasn't appeared yet. I never know like actor people. So to see somebody on TV other than a comedian where I'm like, oh my God, that's my friend Sparky Mark. It's very exciting. Very exciting. Yeah. And I'm watching Yellowjacket season two, but it's jumping a lot of sharks.

[00:14:11] It's scary. Yeah. Yeah. It gives me weird dreams, but I would put up with the weird dreams. Yeah. It's very scary. I would put up with it if it's just getting, I don't know. I'll keep going, but I feel like it's really spun out of control

[00:14:28] because maybe they didn't have a plan. Yeah. I thought after the plane crash and they're rescued, eventually they go back to their lives and then we'd see how their lives unfold. And now it's just more insanity that I'm like, that couldn't happen to one lifetime.

[00:14:42] That couldn't much happen to one person. So anyway, this is an update, but it's more informational. Thank you to the children who found it for me on Instagram. You can follow Robbie the demon dog and the videos are great.

[00:14:59] This man is a saint, whoever took this dog and the videos are hilarious. So if you want to, I said we would find that out and we did and we'll put it in the shows. I think it's just at, I don't want to start my phone back on,

[00:15:11] but I think it's just at Robbie demon dog. Put it in the show. Put it in the show. Definitely worth a follow on Instagram update. Oh my God. So remember, I told you about the guy, the Kansas City Chiefs football fan

[00:15:28] and he dressed like a wolf every game. He is his name is they nicknamed him chief of holic. Well, turns out he was robbing a bank in every city the chiefs played on the road. And that's how he could afford to go to the chiefs games.

[00:15:44] That's kind of a creative plan. You know, instead of robbing one bank, just rob a bank in each town for tiny amounts. Just enough for, well, he had been caught and they put an ankle deal on him and he's escaped.

[00:15:58] Back in December, Twitter was shocked by the news that chiefs superfan chief of holic real name Xavier Babadar had been arrested for allegedly robbing a bank in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Babadar who attended chief games all over wearing a wolf costume was released from JLS month on 80,000 bond

[00:16:19] and was told to stay in a Tulsa hotel until his next court date in eventual eventual trial. Who's paying for that hotel? Yeah. I don't know about that and what hotel? How many stars is it on the bed? Is it on the bed bug registry?

[00:16:35] You know, you can look up all hotels on bed bug. Yeah, I wish I'd never known that. However, the saga took a well turn this weekend when he apparently cut off his ankle monitor outside of Academy Sports in South Tulsa on Saturday and he's gone missing.

[00:16:48] Missing a court date and leaving both his attorney and Bales bondsman in the dark. I wouldn't want to be that guy because then he's got to hire a dog the bounty hunter to go find this moron. Right, this dog.

[00:17:00] Yeah, Michael Lloyd, the bail bondsman who paid the 80 grand bond to secure his release from JLS month said units tamper alert went off around 8 30 p.m. Lloyd went to Barb, uh, Babadar's hotel though Babadar lives in Kansas City.

[00:17:17] He was required to stay in the hotels of condition, but his room was empty. I don't know anything about it. I reached out to him and I've not had a response.

[00:17:24] It's never good sign when your lawyer issues that kind of statement on the record and it doesn't help your case to prove the innocence when you cut off your monitoring ankle in the woods disappear at Miss Accord date. Um, why was why would he fleet fleet fleet?

[00:17:41] Well, there's an array of reasons. He answered it as unclear. We truly want the best for Xavier. I've got to know him and I really truly want to help him. This is the lawyer.

[00:17:49] Um, I don't know if they turn he can turn himself back in and get his legal things back on track. I would really think about that Mr. Chief of Hall like if you're listening, I would go back and say sorry.

[00:18:03] You're going to be in more trouble because you did bad things, but I don't know how old he is old enough to get a hold of a wolf costume. It's a really good one too. There's a picture of it on here.

[00:18:16] Yeah, he's got his chiefs kingdom hat on. Well, all this, I mean the chiefs are good, but come on update, update, update on the Tennessee drag world. Apparently there's a famous drag queen. Follow me on Twitter. Trixie some Trixie Mattel. Yes. Yeah, I don't.

[00:18:38] Well, I might have seen her in Vegas and I do sometimes on the road watch RuPaul's drag race, but I forget there's so many on that RuPaul deal. I just forget who's who.

[00:18:50] I don't even remember the name of the one who emceed the greatest drag show of my life and that guy was phenomenal girl woman, whatever as the drag queen.

[00:18:58] But then I looked up his the account where she is he whatever he was a great emcee his emcee and skills were fabulous as the drag queen that he she became. This is bad for you bill Lee the governor of Tennessee.

[00:19:16] I don't I'm not moin into politics but now everybody's in on this story so I'm going in I'm going in because I see yes the drag show should stay. I don't understand.

[00:19:27] I still don't really understand why everyone's so upset that they, but what I do know for sure is I read Billy's proposed law way too vague way too bad. I tell you a federal judge agreed with me. Yep.

[00:19:40] But first of all, Reba McIntyre slams Tennessee anti drag law blesses Queens in high heels. Reba doesn't ever get involved in politics. She has made it a point to say I don't do it. I don't talk about it blah blah blah.

[00:19:55] She's got we got real problem in this country and to be worried about man wanting to dress up with women God bless him to wear them high heels. Whoa. Yeah, they're so but hold on. Um, let's center our attention on something that really needs attention.

[00:20:14] Drag queens have often impersonated Reba. Yeah, there's a lot of Rebas. She said they should spend more time and energy on feeding the homeless children. That's right. Um, yeah. So now the next update federal judge blocks Tennessee law restricting drag shows and it's a Trump appointed judge.

[00:20:35] Yeah, so it's not like there's some liberal, you know off the wall Tennessee judge. This is what he said. He blocked the law the day before it was set to go into effect. By the way that little Marin Morris that country singer she real mouthy I like it.

[00:20:57] One time I saw her in the parking lot in national the airport. She's even I think shorter than me. Yeah, very tiny person very tiny. She was on stage shooting in holler in the I'm gonna dress like this and come and fucking arrest me and like my mouth.

[00:21:18] Well, the young country singers are crossing all the lines. Um, she Texas. She is she why was I thinking that other ladies from Texas. Well, there's probably a lot from Texas.

[00:21:31] Yeah, yeah, it's a big state US district judge Thomas Parker granted a temporary restraining order blocking law enforcement of blocking enforcement of the law for two weeks finding that it was both vague and overly broad.

[00:21:45] Right, Bill, get your shit together before you started going here's a new law. It was it was unintelligible. The law signed by bill Lee last month criminalized drag shows that take place in public. What the fuck does that of course they're in public.

[00:22:01] Otherwise I'm just a crazy person in my house doing it for my own self, which is also fine. I mean, if you want to just dress up. That's a lot. Yeah, they take hours to get ready. Yeah, there's a lot of effort to not go anywhere.

[00:22:16] Like just walk into your family room. Baby cat would look at me like what the fuck. Yeah. Um, so that's the law if they take place in public or where they could be seen by children.

[00:22:30] So I guess that means like, um, I don't know a park or a parade or or or or or right. Parker agreed with friends of George's the Memphis based LGBTQ theater group contesting that the law this language could mean just about anywhere. Exactly.

[00:22:53] How does a citizen's private residence count? How about a camping ground? Well, I don't know any respectable drag queen that's at a campground. They have elevated it to at least where I can get a bloody Mary and maybe mimosa. Yeah. Or a national park.

[00:23:13] That's what I said a park. What if a minor browsing the worldwide web who still writes that out from a public library views an adult cabaret performance Parker said in Friday's ruling. I love it too.

[00:23:25] There's the they interviewed some of the old guys on the news down here and there and a lot of the guys were like, I ain't never seen a drag queen in my life. I thought or maybe you didn't. They were just that good. Exactly.

[00:23:36] You don't know you didn't know. Yeah. Um, Parker said in Friday's ruling ultimately the statute's broad languages class classes with the first amendment. The first amendment's tight constraints.

[00:23:51] The judge acknowledged that the temporary restraining order represents an extreme remedy noting that he does not take such actions lightly if Tennessee which is to exercise its police power and respecting speech it considers to be obscene.

[00:24:04] It must do with so within the constraints and frameworks of the United States Constitution. The court finds that as it stands the record here that the legislator passed this statute. Um, it missed the mark. So they can't so you can't do it anyway right now.

[00:24:19] So there's better reprieve. Somebody else did a drag thing to support them some straight guys in a band, a famous band and now I can't remember who but I saw it update. And remember our shaman our January 6th trader. No, yes. No, he got out of jail early.

[00:24:44] He's at a halfway house. He is no longer dressed in his shaman outfit.

[00:24:50] Jacob Chance Lee the capital writer known as Q and on shaman is arguably the most recognizable January 6th defendant has been transferred from a federal prison complex to a halfway house in Arizona several months before he was initially set to be released.

[00:25:04] Federal prisons indicate the chance he is currently at a residential reentry management facility in Phoenix with the release date of May 25th. He was originally projected to be released in July 2023. So he's out a few months early.

[00:25:18] But the federal prisoners can earn reductions and sentences over the course of their time behind bars. So he's out. Oh, according. He did say it. Well, yeah, he said, yeah. Mike Pence is a effing trader. He wrote this on the piece of paper he left behind.

[00:25:37] It's only matter of time justice is coming. He's waiting for him to sell me. Yeah. He says he's not a dangerous criminal. I'm not a violent man. I'm not an insurrectionist. I am certainly not a domestic terrorist.

[00:25:51] He told the judge, I am nothing like these criminals that I've been incarcerated with. No, I don't think you are either shaman. I think you're a special kind of crazy and it's not not within the realm of a normal crime for sure. Update. This is another Carol Baskin.

[00:26:14] Come on. We're rewinding the clocks back to COVID Tiger King. Everybody remember Carol? That's why Joe Exotic is in jail because he tried to supposedly cooked up a plan to kill Carol.

[00:26:26] You know, all these people with these crazy private parks are going to be real sad about that Tiger King thing because it's exposed all this and it has brought it all to light of what's really going on out there.

[00:26:37] Well, Carol Baskin is going to close her Florida Animal Sanctuary called Big Cat Rescue and she's moving her big cat to the Ozarks. But not to my Ozarks. Not my Ozarks. My Ozarks is a Missouri Ozarks which does include Branson, which needs a lot of help these days.

[00:27:02] The downtown I mean, not the golf, not the big city lodge, but she's going to the Arkansas Ozarks. When people say what are you talking about? Ozarks Mountains are a mountain range and they go down into Arkansas or come up into Missouri,

[00:27:17] whichever way you like to view it. Arkansas is more than welcome. They're more than happy. Most of the big cats that are from the Sanctuary Center profiled in Netflix's Tiger will be moved to the Sanctuary in Arkansas. They've entered into agreement with Turpentine Creek Wildlife Rescue Unit.

[00:27:34] They've accredited Sanctuary and Arkansas to move most of the big cats to Turpentine Creek where we will continue to fund their care for the rest of their lives. Howard Baskin, Carol Baskin's husband said in a memo, once all the cats have been moved, the proceeds will go

[00:27:51] and the property is sold because they're selling the property in Florida. The proceeds will be used to fund these species saving projects in the wild. Well, I don't know about that. Yeah, I'd like to see some receipts.

[00:28:07] I think they're going to sell it and run with the money. I mean judging by past behavior, we've always said our goal was to put ourselves out of business. Oh, bullshit. Meaning there will be no big cats in need of rescue

[00:28:20] and no need for the sanctuary to exist. Supporting our cats in larger enclosures in Turpentine Creek at a much lower cost per cat than we incur by continuing to operate Big Cat Rescue

[00:28:30] will free up resources to let us do so much more to save big cats in the wild. Well, here's the problem. In 2021, the US House of Representatives passed a bill called the Big Cat Public Safety Act to prohibit unlicensed people

[00:28:44] from owning tigers, lions, jaguars and other wild animals. They should. It should have been in place. You should have to know what you're doing. Lawmakers introduced the legislation after Tiger King, the popular doc, doc, doc, docu-series about an eccentric keeper of the cats in Oklahoma

[00:29:00] drew attention to the issue. With the passage of the BCPSA Act, we expect the need for rescues to decline over the coming decade. If the need were going to continue at the pace we saw until a few years ago, we'd be making a different decision. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:29:15] And also people don't want to support her anymore. I don't think they're coming there. No. Because everybody knows you're all doing bad kind of, yeah. You seem like you're doing good things, but we don't trust you anymore. No. I don't trust you.

[00:29:27] I'm not paying to go to Carol's place. No. Nope. Nope. But this turpentine is going to take them. There's 35. That's expensive. Oh my God. Think of what they eat every day. Yeah. Christ, baby cats plowing through treats down there like they're free. Love's up your head.

[00:29:42] She's the tiniest cat of all. Imagine a giant, giant baby cat just sitting there waiting on raw meat to be thrown into a cage. Yeah. Update. Oh my God. This is an Elon update. Oh God. Well, it's very, very confusing.

[00:29:57] I'm just going to go out on a limb and say, I think Elon maybe has some sort of mental issues and sometimes doesn't take his meds. Maybe. Maybe. Because the behavior is very erratic. Yeah. So for those of you guys who don't know about Twitter or whatever,

[00:30:19] I think you're going to have to go to the next one. If you guys who don't know about Twitter or whatever, I'll make this short and brief. If you're a verified person, meaning you're a public figure or a company or whatever, you were issued a blue check mark.

[00:30:36] Like I said, I don't even remember how I got mine, but I was issued one. Now they want you to pay eight bucks, but people who just want one can get eight bucks. You don't have to be a public figure. You don't have to be.

[00:30:48] So he ruined the whole point of the blue check mark. Also, somebody had a good point on my Twitter feed. I looked up all these other Kathleen Madigans. They're all wonderful. We have done a good job representing this name. There's one lady in Ireland. She seems like fun.

[00:31:07] She's one of the children. The smart one, my friend that I've met many times now, the other Kathleen Madigan, is a financial, writes about financial things all over the globe. She's very, very smart. Then there's another lady who really likes horses.

[00:31:20] You can follow any Kathleen Madigan and enjoy yourself. But the thing is, let's say you termites out there are following me. You're not following any other Kathleen Madigans most likely. So if I tweet, you know it's me. So the blue check mark and LeBron James

[00:31:39] and all these people were like, we're not paying him eight dollars. It's also so petty. Are you that broke? You need eight bucks from me? My nephew's asked for more. Like, hey, you got 20 in your purse, ain't it, cat? You're like, eight bucks? And you think that's gonna...

[00:31:56] He claims that 11, they've made something like $11 million off just regular people that have bought the blue check mark. I do not believe that. I haven't seen check marks by normal people's. Anyway, Saturday, but again, that was April Fool's so I don't know.

[00:32:12] But he did strip the New York Times. He took away their check mark. He hates them. He hates them, that's why. Yeah, he hates them. Mine's still there. But then LeBron said I ain't paying him five. I'm like five. I thought it was eight. What's the five about?

[00:32:29] So this was supposed to start on Saturday. Many Twitter accounts will lose a check mark under modifications made by Elon, the social media company's owner. Individual users must buy a subscription to Twitter blue service, which costs $8 a month to obtain the badge. Businesses that are currently unverified

[00:32:48] will have to pay $1,000 a month if they want a gold check mark verifying their account. Nobody's doing that. No one's going no, no, no, no. He's, I think, deep down. Okay, let's assume Elon's smarter than all of us and always has a plan.

[00:33:04] That's what we're kind of told to believe. Well then I think his plan is to destroy Twitter. I mean, because that's what he's doing. Blow it up. Why? I guess because he saw it as a liberal enclave gathering of liberals, maybe, because he's not. I don't know.

[00:33:24] I don't see it even half the time. I follow ESPN, the Cardinals, other comedians. I follow some of the termites back that I, you know, if I look at their thing, it looks fun. I'll follow them back. Stevie Nicks, I mean, it's not even,

[00:33:39] it's not liberal depending on what feed you build. But now that he's taken it over, I don't know how it's happening, but every day I have to see shit from Marjorie Taylor Green. And I'm like, you know, you can put some conservatives in my thing

[00:33:53] and I won't mind it all, but not that lady. Not that lady. Wow. The move which will help Twitter generate revenue by making certain features exclusive to subscribers. Here's the other thing. I don't need any more features than I already have. I like it the way it was,

[00:34:11] but I don't like change either. I'm probably not the one to ask. I'd have a flip phone if I could. I'm not a change person. But anyway, for those of you who primarily use Twitter to follow celebrities and news sites, this policy will affect what you see

[00:34:29] and read on the service. You may see fewer tweets from accounts that you care about in your timeline, but for instance, because individuals who choose not to pay for Twitter blue will become less visible on the site. Why? Why am I less visible?

[00:34:43] Is he going to start taking away my followers? Mark Cuban said he's losing a thousand a day. I don't know that. I don't know. It may be harder to discern real people from phony accounts. No. No. And if there is a Kathleen, somebody makes up a Kathleen Madigan.

[00:35:03] Of course, when this started, there were like 10 of them that were fake. And I just, I got... You can also see when that account was created. All right. If check marks are removed from the accounts of celebrities who are unwilling to play for blue, for example,

[00:35:16] it can become difficult to distinguish their accounts from impersonators. Musk said only posts from paid accounts and blue checks will be visitor. Oh, it'll only be visible in the For You tab. I've never even checked to see if I'm visible there. I don't care.

[00:35:31] I'll just here to speak to the termites. Right. And then other people. I got so excited because I'm a golf nerd. Eamon Lynch is my favorite guy on the golf channel. Irish guy. And he followed me on Twitter. Nice. Yeah. It was very exciting.

[00:35:47] You should follow each other on Instagram. Yeah, I should follow him on Instagram. I don't know. I just saw it on Twitter and I was very excited. But anyway... He's cool. Smart. It's... So anyway, Saturday, when do you have to start paying for your check mark?

[00:36:00] You're just regular termite. You can go buy one if you want. I don't know why you would. No, eight bucks. That's for companies. The thousand dollars. New York Times said it wouldn't pay for it and he yanked it. Other Twitter users may choose to pay for it.

[00:36:18] Why small businesses that use Twitter want to market their services and reach broader audience? No. No. No. Among social companies such as Metta and Snap, Twitter is the smallest social network in company. Company continues to shrink in size and relevance. He's not going to like to hear that.

[00:36:42] Yeah. Oh, that's why he's mad. This article was in the New York Times. Mr. Musk has shed much of Twitter staff leaving the company with fewer than 2,000 employees down from 7500 when he took over in October. The Steitzel has problem with bots posting spam and imposter

[00:37:02] accounts impersonating public figures. Security issues, glitches and bugs are piling up. Some influence and journalists are migrating to other platforms including Mastodon, LinkedIn. LinkedIn isn't new. And that's work. That's serious people. I can't play in that sandbox. New York. I'll go on LinkedIn as a corporate.

[00:37:25] Well, I am the president of my company. Right. I'm the CEO. Technically, I sign papers that and I laugh every time I do it. And then my brother's like, just sign it. Do you have to sign it like that? I'm like, would you prefer president or CEO Pat?

[00:37:41] I prefer ruler. Queen. Queen ruler. Update. Update. Update. So I'll keep you updated so far. He has not taken away my check mark. As a press time. Yeah. So, remember I was telling you guys about Ruzha Ignatova, the crypto queen. Well, she disappeared five years ago.

[00:38:09] As we, if you listened to last week and if you didn't listen last week, she made up a coin like Bitcoin. She made one up. Everybody sent her all this money. She ran away with all the money basically. Well, this is crazy.

[00:38:23] They may now at least know she's alive because of this. I thought the theories were she went away on a yacht and then I said, you know, eventually you get tired of that though. She'll surface or this drug guy,

[00:38:40] a drug dealer cartel person had given her a bunch of money and then she didn't have it to pay it back. And I thought I was voting mostly that she had been killed by them. They don't fuck around. But I was wrong. Maybe, maybe.

[00:38:54] The listing of a property in the heart of London has brought a notorious cryptocurrency fugitive who ran a four billion Ponzi scheme out of the woodwork. Bulgarian born German citizen Ruzha Ignatova, 42 years old and a business partner called Sebastian Greenwood,

[00:39:10] con-crypto enthusiast by claiming their crypto token one coin would be a Bitcoin killer. They started pitching it to potential investors in 2014, promise a five-fold tenfold return and referred to their investors as idiots and crazy. However, I know, I know, and then the people still give them money.

[00:39:31] However, in 2017, the scammer completely vanished as authorities circled in and she hasn't been seen since. She's now on the FBI's 10 most wanted fugitives and is currently the only woman on the list. Police have warned that she likely had plastic surgery or her appearance with hopes that,

[00:39:50] with hopes low that she would ever be caught. But earlier this month, Ignatova reportedly came out of the woodwork to claim one of her properties. As a result, um, yeah, okay. As a result, lawyers representing Ignatova made a formal claim on the property listing her

[00:40:07] as the apartment's beneficial owner in a filing with the UK's financial regulator. A change in the rules of company house, UK equivalent of ASIC here, forced Ignatova out of hiding as she had to be named in full rather than just her shell company. That is a great rule

[00:40:27] because so many shell companies are buying shit all over this country. They're ruining cities, expensive cities like New York, as ever since going to Chicago because it's somebody's fifth flip in home. They're ghost ships. They actually call them ghost ships. These buildings where normal people could be,

[00:40:42] well, you'd have to be kind of rich. But someone could be living there. Anyway, previously it's a good rule that somebody has to actually be the person. You can't just keep putting shit in shell companies and corporations' names and corporations that have no... They're not even real. Right.

[00:40:59] Previously the property belonged to a company called Abbott's House Penthouse Limited based in, um, Goom-e-see. Goom-e-see, I never heard of it. A well-known tax haven with very little government oversight. It meant Ignatova was kept out of the public records and land registry deeds until now. Prestige property seller,

[00:41:17] Knight Frank advertised the property but swiftly took the listing down after it emerged that Ignatova had links to it. It suggests she is still alive and there are documents out there somewhere which contain vital clues as to her recent whereabouts. If nothing else, it should make her easier

[00:41:33] for the authorities to freeze that asset and maybe even start getting money back to victims. Yeah. If you sold this thing... Right. It's worth $14 million. Wow. Give some of the people their money back. Yeah. If nothing... The U.S. Department of Prosecutions has charged Ignatova with conspiracy

[00:41:50] to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, also wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and conspiracy to commit securities fraud and securities fraud. They actually said that twice. I don't understand why. The FBI launched... They're desperate to get her hands. There's a $100,000 reward. That's not enough, guys. No. No.

[00:42:10] She'll give you 100 grand and not say where she's at if she's got all this money. She's possibly traveling on a German passport. She's possibly in the United Arab Emirates, Germany, Russia, they don't know. She's in a portion of the world. Yeah. Her co-founder also fled.

[00:42:30] He didn't stay free for very long though. He was arrested in Kos... Samui. Don't ask me. Thailand. And was extradited in the United States where he pleaded guilty. He'll be sentenced in April and could receive up to 20 years in prison.

[00:42:44] She also left her brother out in the cold. He took over the operation. He was arrested in Los Angeles at the airport in 2019 when he tried to get on a flight to Bulgaria. So everybody's been caught but her. Wow. And she ain't helping. No. Yeah.

[00:43:00] That's an update, though. I guess she's probably not dead. She needs... Why would she need money though? Unless she doesn't have access to all the money she stole. It's a lot. This is part of the... This is part of the Elon one. There were two articles.

[00:43:21] This one just says why he's screwed himself with this whole idea of how this is Twitter is gonna make money. The LA Times is not paying for it either. He thought that he could turn verified badges into a key source of new revenue for making Twitter profitable.

[00:43:39] A goal that's surely growing more difficult as advertisers have fled Twitter en masse after Musk took over the company. But now key demographics that he would have hoped to have secured for paying the service, journalists, famous celebrities, and government workers might be checking out altogether.

[00:43:55] And that's because Musk unraveled the purpose of the very thing he wanted to make money off of. As I've explained before, Musk fundamentally misunderstood or disregarded the true value of verified badges to most people who had them. Their original purpose was for Twitter to confirm

[00:44:11] the public figures who were who they actually said they were in order to combat impersonation and misinformation. The key was a feature that made Twitter a reliable news source. Verified accounts help separate trustworthy statements and reporting false claims, blah, blah, blah. That's more for the news people though.

[00:44:29] You know, whatever, CNN, Fox, whomever. He decided that the reason verified badges were important was not because they could verify identity because of the way they signaled social clout. Nobody cares. Nobody cares about that. And he could cash in on this

[00:44:49] by trying to get a bigger network of people to pay for them. So now under his paid verification service, users' identities are not confirmed and blue checks can be distributed to anyone willing to open up their wallet. In other words, he has hollowed out their meaning

[00:45:04] by keeping the trappings intact. But he's hollowed out their meaning but keeping the trappings intact. Yeah, it's just... I don't think he understood Twitter. Like he bought it like a toy. Or unless he's the smartest person in the room and his whole thing is to destroy it.

[00:45:22] I don't know. Holy shit! Long lost ship found in Lake Huron confirming tragic story. Even for the Thunder Bay Area, a perilous swath of northern Lake Huron off the Michigan coast that has devoured many a ship, the Iron Tins' fate seems particularly cruel.

[00:45:48] The 191-foot cargo vessel collided with a grain hauler on a blustery night in September 1894, sinking them both. The Iron Tins' captain and six sailors clabbered into a lifeboat but it was dragged to the bottom before they could detach it from the ship. Two crewmen survived.

[00:46:09] The gravesite has long eluded shipwreck hunters. Now the mystery has been solved. Officials with the Thunder Bay Marine Sanctuary in Michigan said Wednesday, a team of historians, underwater archeologists and technicians, they located it but they haven't told us till now so don't think I'm this out of date.

[00:46:29] They located the wreckage in 2019 and deployed remotely controlled cameras to scan and document it. The sanctuary plans to reveal the location in coming months and is placing a mooring buoy at the site. Well, now people are going to go look for the mooring buoy.

[00:46:46] But there's also a lot of those out there. Yeah, they've kept a secret, the location secret to prevent divers from deserving the site before video and documentation is finished. Video shows the Iron Tins sitting upright on the lake bottom hundreds of feet down. No human remains were seen.

[00:47:04] Well, I don't think they're going to be intact from 1894. The lifeboat remains tethered to the bigger vessel. Oh, God. A poignant confirmation of what witness accounts from 128 years ago. Archeologists study things to learn about the past but it's not really the things we're studying, it's people

[00:47:24] and that lifeboat really connects you to the site and reminds you how powerful those lakes are and what it must have been like to work on them and lose people on them. Yeah, I would be scared shitless, especially at night. So, I mean, on the fateful night,

[00:47:41] the Iron Tins and another schooner, Barge Moonlight, were being towed up northward from Lake Erie town of Ash to Bula, Ohio, blah, blah, blah, blah, you don't care about all that. No, but anyway, they found it. I can't wait to see it. Nat Geo will do it.

[00:47:58] They will do it. That's great. I love Nat Geo. You know, they have the magazine for kids. I send it to all the nieces and nephews under age 13. I'm sure they think I'm a geek but I don't give a shit. Yeah. Holy shit, they found it.

[00:48:16] Brothers discover million-dollar painting in a basement under their ping pong table. How did you not notice you set up your ping pong table on top of a painting? I will never, ever forget my brother-in-law, one of my brother-in-laws going,

[00:48:36] Kathleen, before you go on down to your parents house, you want to help me set up a ping pong table for a kid that's a Christmas present? And I said, sure. I thought it would be like, I don't know, at the most an hour.

[00:48:50] We flip it out, it's got four legs and we have to attach a net. What? Well, he opened the thing that has all the pieces in plastic compartments and then it has a cardboard back and he ripped it open and they all flew everywhere

[00:49:07] and I looked at him and I go, what the fuck is wrong with you? We needed those in those compartments to know and he bought a good ping pong table. It is not just in that, you got to put the legs on,

[00:49:18] you got to put the wheels on, you got to put, oh my god, ping pong is not what it used to be. These kids have fancy ping pong tables. Anyway, the story of the Landau brothers and their unexpected inheritance is a fascinating tale

[00:49:30] of how treasures can hide in plain sight. I guarantee you we did not put this ping pong table on top of a fancy painting. The brothers, natives of Teaneck, New Jersey were surprised to learn that a painting sitting under their ping pong table in their basement

[00:49:45] was worth millions of dollars. It began with their grandparents' estate where their mother had kept a few items including an old painting that had always creeped out net. After their mother's death, the brothers held a garage sale but kept the china silver and a few paintings

[00:49:59] they thought were worth something. The painting of the men reviving a woman, the woman made it into the boxes which went straight into Roger's basement. Four years later they called in a state sale guide to value the items. The painting was valued at a few hundred bucks

[00:50:13] and the brothers were happy with that. The brothers missed the auction because it fell on Yom Kippur and they didn't expect much from it. The painting of the men reviving the woman started at 250 and it worked up to 800. Suddenly a phone bidder from France joined in

[00:50:28] and the price jumped to 100,000. What did that person know? And how do you know it? Eventually a German bidder answered every bid by the Frenchman and the bidding went up to $450,000. Ludlow's German bidder explained after the French buyer won with a $1.1 million bid

[00:50:49] that the painting was a Rembrandt. No! And he had been looking for it his whole adult professional career. The German guy. It would take a little longer before the Landau brothers learned about their strange inheritance when they called up to ask how the auction went

[00:51:06] they found out the painting was one of Rembrandt's earliest works, part of a lost series on the five senses from the early 1600s. The Landau's grandfather had unknowingly purchased the quote, sense of smell from an equally clueless seller at an estate auction before the Depression.

[00:51:22] The story of the Landau brothers in inheritance highlights several important lessons. Firstly, that's not a word, it's first. Firstly? First! Firstly? It shows the importance of valuing the items we have and consulting with experts when necessary. The brothers in the estate sale guy organized the painting's true value

[00:51:44] which ultimately led to it being undervalued. Secondly, it highlights the potential for treasures to hide in plain sight. The painting was the family's in the possession for decades unnoticed and undervalued, blah blah blah. The painting that freaked out young, young Ned Landau every Thanksgiving has become

[00:52:01] his all-time favorite work of art. Oh, I'm sure it is. That's very cool. And it's a Rembrandt. It's not even like sometimes you can find these so it's not as exciting. Even though if it's worth a lot of money, that's cool but it's not nearly as exciting.

[00:52:17] Here's just a little something. It's sort of news. Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have discovered a new species of ancient beaver in their fossil collection and they named it and something... they named it Buckeys after the gas station. After the pop...

[00:52:38] I'm sorry, Texas Travel Center chain. Yeah, so an ancient beaver now got... Bucky got his namesake. Yeah, it's great. Things are not so happy at Disney. It's not the happiest place on Earth especially not the next few weeks and I feel very bad for any employees

[00:52:58] that are up there. Yep, make contingency plans. Bob Iger is coming after you. The brutal layoff emails Disney CEO Bob Iger sent to employees today. This was five days ago. He said that employees... informing them of the mass layoffs. They lay off 7,000 people. That's terrible. They're gonna be...

[00:53:24] It already began in February but they're gonna put the pedal to the metal. As I shared with you in February it made the difficult decision to reduce our overall workforce by approximately 7,000 jobs as part of the strategic alignment of the company including important cost savings measures

[00:53:38] necessary for creating more efficient coordinated and streamlined approach to our business. He goes on to say that effective employees will be notified beginning this week with leaders communicating to effective employees over the next four days. Then they say a larger round of layoffs is coming in April

[00:53:54] with the goal being 7,000 cut before summer. I don't know what's going on and they keep raising prices to get in and that's not helping. This is corporate but they're not laying Mickey Mouse off. We're not that bad. We're not that bad off. But still you keep raising prices

[00:54:17] and people are like maybe they're not gonna want to pay that. Maybe they're not. This is bizarre. Well I'm gonna save this for the business because it's attached. Well I haven't done the business yet. No. Well I've been busy but I'll give it some thought. I'm gonna

[00:54:45] take a flight to Atlanta and get a car and go to the practice round of the masters. Yeah, so I will think about it in the car driving. This is what I've been waiting to understand. It's a tiny sports segment.

[00:55:03] Stick with me even if you don't like sports. I know but some people don't give a shit about golf and I understand that but there's the PGA and then this new thing Live Golf created by Greg Norman the angriest little man on the planet

[00:55:15] backed by the Saudis with all their dexter money and blood money and whatever I kept saying, they kept it announcing very curious if you're even just any kind of sportsman they'd say oh I'm gonna go to the movies and Greg Norman and the Live Golf have decided

[00:55:33] to give Brooks Kepka $200 million whatever the figure was. It was always crazy, I mean Pat Perez my brother Pat is better than Pat Perez and then Pat Perez got like a hundo, $100 million for Pat Perez that's why I know you're not organized and then you didn't

[00:55:49] take John Daly and you said that you want to be a people person well nobody's got more fans than John Daly so you're full of shit on that level too sell tickets, get John Daly out there you know I don't care if he's 50-something people like to see

[00:56:03] he can still crush the ball he's up in my golf course all the time he plays barefoot, he's got a stick hanging out of his mouth and a giant drink of coke and so does something and he's very friendly but anyway when they would say

[00:56:17] the amount, they never said how long is this contract for what happens if you want out of your contract like football this single news breaking news says okay somebody else has picked up Ezekiel Elliott and the contract is for one year the terms of the thing

[00:56:37] is he an eagle? yeah Ezekiel Elliott's an eagle? oh boy I missed that I've been too busy trying to get my master's bets in you were in the black rose I was in the black rose, that's my favorite bar in Boston if you ever go to Boston

[00:56:55] I have so many favorite bars in Boston but shout out to the black rose, they're clam chowder and their Guinness is the closest I've tasted to Ireland ever because Guinness doesn't travel well and the further it gets away from the motherland the thinner it gets

[00:57:13] yeah it just doesn't they've tried everything to make Guinness travel they put ping pong balls in the bottle the cans one time, my uncle explained the whole thing I ain't working, I don't know what y'all thought was gonna happen but

[00:57:25] but anyway I found out the answer to my question for those who for those who have played in the Saudi back live golf circuit if they want to break their contracts this was my thing, what if you regret your decision they the penalty is two

[00:57:41] to four times their signing bonus right so if you got a hundred million it's gonna cost you two hundred to get out maybe four hundred or you can face the Saudis who you made the agreement with and go in a room and hope they don't dexter your ass

[00:57:57] like they did Jamal Khasoggi wow and the contracts I'm sure they take Bitcoin yeah I'm sure they, you wouldn't call Rujignitova except one coin which is totally made up and the contracts go to 2025 so these live golfers will remain in obscurity for a minimum of two more years

[00:58:25] so that's all you people out there um, that signed up yeah and I think some are regretting it you think so? yep I do yeah but that's finally I finally found some terms like what is the deal is that why you're going to the Masters

[00:58:41] uh no I'm going to the Masters because I really like to just sit at the driving range and watch them hit balls I mean I walk the whole course too and Ron will go my friends will be down there and the beer is cheap

[00:58:55] and they have the best egg salad sandwich in the entire world and I like the practice rounds because I'm too short to ever go to the real matches because I can't see even Ron couldn't see yeah he's like I'm six foot two

[00:59:05] and I got out of there I went to the 18th hole and went this is goddamn ridiculous because unless you go to that chair at five in the morning say whenever they open the gates at eight then you have to sit

[00:59:15] and wear the long comfortable chair all day and what if I have to go to the bathroom which is going to be for every beer I drink I have to go to the bathroom and then I got to get out of that crowd

[00:59:25] I'd rather watch the real golf on TV but I like going there I just I like the atmosphere I like the cheap beer I like all of it um well I like the old guys I mean I doubt it he didn't play in the part three last time

[00:59:47] I always get excited to see Jack Nicklaus and he's prowling around there like the old golden bear that he is um yeah I like I mean I like the young guys too but I'm always amazed when it's a super old guy like well this is too

[01:00:01] inside baseball but like one time Al Guyberger he's the only guy that ever shot 59 and he's got it on his bag and he came out I could not believe he was still alive and he's super duper tall so he can't be mistaken he's tall tall tall string being

[01:00:15] tall and his bag said 59 I've never shouted at anything in my life but I got so excited I went 59 and he turned around thank you man yeah I was like oh that was so exciting I didn't mean to hackle you sorry I just got over stimulated yeah

[01:00:33] moving on to some crazy news for St. Louis I like the pimento cheese sandwiches they're white it's too rich for me too much and then I don't know one time Ron goes can you put this in your backpack you'll only allow certain backpacks and I had one

[01:00:51] and I put it in the backpack and then like three hours later he goes can I have my cheese sandwich it hit me it was so hot and gross I'm like dude you can't eat this this is gonna make you so sick

[01:01:01] you have to eat it all at when you get it St. Louis Catholics have obtained St. Louis as holy toe yep what I'm not kidding like a foot a toe off a foot the relic a piece of toe bone came to the Archdiocese of St. Louis from Sicily

[01:01:21] there's a new relic in town and it may be the holiest digit to grace this city of sin the relic now in position of the Archdiocese of St. Louis was purportedly a piece of toe once belonging to St. Louis St. Louis the 9th

[01:01:39] the French king for whom St. Louis was named yes his toe they have the papers authenticating the alleged toe and the Sicilian Sicilian cathedral has good reasons for its claim after all King Louis the 9th was on the shores of Tunisia

[01:01:57] in an ill-fated crusade when he died of dysentery in 1270 this thing is from 1270 but wait the it is really funny I know after that his body was dismembered ever heard of Teutonicus it was a thing no I haven't and his heart and entrails were interred

[01:02:17] at the cathedral Mon Rial easy to see how a bit of toe might have left behind even the rest of his remains were sent on to the St. Denis Cathedral in Paris which I've been to it's beautiful and now here the toe bone is in its

[01:02:33] possessors namesake city the Archdiocese hasn't made plan for toe showings to the public those which in for their own glimpse of the holy toe should keep keep an eye out in your local bulletin they have it in a this ornate thing gross like people don't like feet anyway

[01:02:59] oh my god can you see the holy toe well I'm gonna make my sister go gross yeah we gotta hold the holy toe but this is where the Catholic Church like we don't need all that let's stop all that I said I'd tell you about Jeff Bezos

[01:03:22] by the way Jeff Bezos is yacht the one this is kind of an update because remember it was in the Dutch Harbor and he wanted to dismantle bridges to get it out and all this crap um he named it KORU KORU code named Y721 it's finally sea

[01:03:38] ready it was spotted in the North Sea after leaving Rotterdam yep he's out there it has three decks including one with a swimming pool it requires a 250 foot support vessel that houses a helicopter landing and pad for the blue origin founder Bezos meta yacht created controversy

[01:04:00] last year after Dutch officials would have had to dismantle the historic coning shavings bridge because the 130 foot steel structure wouldn't allow the vessel and it's 299 mass to pass through following an uproar we covered all this that's why you need this podcast this is where the real news is

[01:04:18] you want to know about a holy toe I got you stupid uh it costs 25 million dollars to run this little party in a box 25 million yeah I don't even know if that counts gas maybe you ask all your people for gas money when they get on

[01:04:38] it's a pleasure it can only accommodate 18 guests this big requires a crew of 40 sailors I think Jeff has it many friends I don't know I don't know enough about his personality like you are forced to know about Zuckerberg and the rest of them

[01:05:00] it's far from the world's most expensive yet that dubious honor is reserved for the 4.8 billion history supreme a gold and silver yacht vessel featuring a tyrannosaurus rex bone wall made of meteoric stone it was bought by an anonymous Malaysian businessman according to the

[01:05:20] quote richest I don't know what that is he's got a wall made out of T-rex stuff I know people lose their god damn minds with too much money literally lose their minds this is going to be in the schnotes in case anyone wants to go look at it

[01:05:40] I was fascinated this rare footage of the world's last remaining wild red wolves broke my heart and in it I know but don't worry I have a feel good story at the end red wolves used to roam freely from Texas to Pennsylvania

[01:05:54] however widespread hunting led to the death of many of the species it became the first species protected by the endangered species of 1967 it's a heart breaking tail made even more so because a video of wild red wolves captured at a wildlife reserve is probably the only time

[01:06:06] any of us will see these beautiful animals so we'll put the link I watched the video it's hard to tell the difference sometimes the red ones between them and a fox at a distance I would not know I would guess although it's taller

[01:06:20] but they're very, it's a pretty red conservationists helped tried to help provide the red wolf population several years ago however the revival didn't work as planned experts estimate that only 17 adult red wolves live within eight found in North Carolina alone while the video itself is mundane

[01:06:42] the fact that I know only 17 total in the world while the video itself is mundane the fact that these animals have been persecuted so intensely it makes it gut-wrenching to watch the red wolf is another example of how humanity has gone too far

[01:06:56] and hunts down and destroys the animals that we share the planet with blah blah blah yeah so if you want to see a video there's only 17 left I thought I should tell you where it is and we'll put it in the schnotes we're gonna go

[01:07:14] let's see what time I'm gonna save this for next week I'm gonna tell you about the happiest countries in the world next week because and then Finland it always ranks number one so that's not a shocker they're gonna let 10 people come to learn how to be happy yeah

[01:07:32] swear to god but I'm gonna save this one for next week because I haven't done my business I should say business for the common man business things that you need to know because you're seeing it looking at it every day

[01:07:46] haven't I told you about bad bath and beyond and then you're gonna see the thing and go holy shit mama termate was right JC pennies they're gonna close even more stores in 2023 as it continues to struggle with financial issues who's going to JC penny

[01:08:06] I don't even all I remember as kids that's where our Catholic school my brothers pants were you could get green or blue navy or green and then my mom would scream in a horribly embarrassing way how do they fit in the crotch from anywhere in the store

[01:08:20] and then my brothers would run away and but at the same time if I was bored with their pants shopping right across the hoop the hoop the aisle would be like chainsaws and maybe a washer dryer yeah you didn't have tools and stuff in pennies

[01:08:38] I keep calling it pennies and they keep saying pennies we call it pennies there's none in Canada really I know you about to be company I don't know penny I just don't think of it they were closing this comes after the company closed hundreds of stores since 2020

[01:09:05] they have a strategic the closure is part of a strategic man to optimize and reposition it storefully to have a mix of mall and off-mall locations as well as invest in digital platforms and customer experience I'm telling you malls are done too

[01:09:19] they're just hearing that from me I don't have any proof for that except that I travel the country every week and I see a lot of abandoned malls and me and Rocky the port one time somewhere in Pennsylvania they turned their mall into a paintball war thing

[01:09:33] it was so much fun the whole mall so it became a strategic playground I mean it was really cool and you got a zone so like you're not like I need I'm hunting Rocky or Rocky's hunting me and you don't want the whole mall

[01:09:51] because he could just go run and hide in the old pennies and I'm down at Spencer's gifts trying to find they gave us his own it was a really good use of them all I thought of a dead mall these malls are just

[01:10:05] I think they got to think of something else pennies is going away that's your business thing you need to know Portland Oregon what is going on I would have to text my cousin Tommy you're losing your cracker barrel just when they got a liquor license get it together

[01:10:21] Portland cracker barrel becomes the latest company to flee Portland well maybe I'll ask Bob and Clark Clark's family is from up there amid rising crime retail theft they just got a liquor license I couldn't believe when that server came up to me she's like welcome to cracker barrel

[01:10:39] I had Louis was with me and she's like would y'all like to try our sangria oh what stop it I'm like you got a liquor license I just tried a master sangria holy shit show they have over 600 locations nationwide cracker barrel they blame COVID-19 pandemic

[01:11:03] for its decision to close its final eateries in the Portland metro area eatery yep but it's retail theft come on you guys got to get it together Portland who's stealing from cracker barrel crime and homelessness has been a growing issue in Portland over the last couple years

[01:11:21] over 2600 downtown businesses has fled a change of address with the US Postal System last year a Nike store in Portland abruptly closed after a string of brazen shoplifting incidents is it Portland? some other chip I thought it was Seattle for Nike Beaverton Oregon right right alright

[01:11:47] another thing animal wise I like animals I got an animal thing that's a good feel good but this one this is really weird so all we do is talk about McDonald's is closing its corporate offices for an entire week yes this week

[01:12:05] because they're going to lay people off corporate layoffs not like normal people they're temporarily closing its US offices this week as it prepares to inform corporate employees about layoffs undertaken by the fast food giant as a broader company restructuring the CEO said they don't need to have

[01:12:21] 50,000 chicken sandwiches and then they show globally the ones they have there's damn a lot of chicken sandwiches I mean but they are restructuring but at the same time this article I read 8? yeah but I mean you got to streamline that I'm not sure they're all chicken

[01:12:48] I don't know in some of these countries if they're chicken or not um the CEO is really pissed that they have too many chicken sandwiches well that's on you buddy here's our opinion he needs to cut back a lot of cost blah blah blah

[01:13:06] but at the same time McDonald's announces this Canada hey no no this is on you okay finally a way to release McDonald's Canada there we're closing our offices to figure out how to save money down here you wackadoodle or the nurse you plan to open adult only playgrounds

[01:13:30] at your McDonald's yeah no thanks last thing I want to do is get in an adult plastic ball pit finally a way to release our inner frustrations are they licensed? I don't know they're going to be opening 20 new playground adults across the country within the next 4 years

[01:13:50] now that's something you didn't see coming that's what the article says I didn't say that in an unexpected announcement it plans to open a select number of adult playgrounds within its already established restaurants so there are cities include Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary not to be confused

[01:14:06] with the kids only play place this will be solely for this is listen how cheese ball this is no you can't get drunk no you can't the new upgrade Simmer down will be for kids who are adults for kids at heart in an effort to promote its continuously

[01:14:29] push for healthy active lifestyle chain the hopes to bring new and exciting ways for adults to let loose and heal their inner child look if somebody's going to go here heal their inner child that is fine but McDonald's is not where it's going to happen

[01:14:41] you need to find a therapist and put real work into that what's going to be we at McDonald's Canada understand how much Canadians value having an active and healthy lifestyle well you're at McDonald's you've already contradicted that not only have we updated our already

[01:14:57] delicious menu to include more healthy forward choices but we are now taking the mindset that one step further with our new adult playgrounds why do children get to have other fun we pay the bills we're the ones stuck in traffic and McDonald's deserves some nice unproblematic fun

[01:15:13] customers 18 and older are required to make a purchase you'll have to get a combo meal before entering the playground yeah they must finish their meal before entry and save the receipt to show the attendant well why would you want to to ensure everyone's safety

[01:15:33] you must present your ID before entering once they're inside they have the opportunity to enjoy the adult playground for up to two hours what adult in their right goddamn mind Kathleen you were supposed to be here at six where were you oh I'm sorry

[01:15:50] I got tied up at the McDonald's playground I was there for two hours two hours that's the max here's what it has it has an arcade space featuring Nintendo and PlayStation games stands just like when we were kids whatever I mean

[01:16:08] you can go find those in bars I don't that's weird the playground setup will differ depending on the location some may include trampolines oh my god that is the biggest insurance because my dad was a lawyer every year I would beg for a trampoline do you understand

[01:16:24] how quickly someone can become a paraplegic on a trampoline Kathleen I'm not paying the insurance of a trampoline they may include a ball pit a soft serve station which is under a wheelchair I'm termed by one of the McDonald's employees soft serve ice cream and a few

[01:16:44] may be equipped with a mini bar only a few do you have a liquor license? in Canada do you need that? although we have yet to know other locations we will experience a new upgrade we do know of one infamous spot Toronto's queen McDonald's location

[01:17:06] It will see the removal of its second floor dining space to make room for the new playground fully equipped. And then what are you supposed to do with your kids? I mean, the reason I'm at McDonald's is either because I have my parents or little kids.

[01:17:17] I love to see your mom in a trampoline park. Oh my God. They're not. That is just... That is not a good idea. Look at Tor. Yeah. Hey, an adult playground is called a bar. Right. That's what it's called. We don't need a trampoline.

[01:17:35] What adult in their right mind? I mean, defined adult. I don't know. Let's ask the termites. Termites, would you do it? I have a feel good story and I have an animal story. This is awesomely and we're going to put the link into this one.

[01:17:48] A photographer has captured the image of the elusive black panther in like, Kipia, Kenya. The black panther is my favorite, I think, cat of all the cats. Sometimes I wish baby cat was black, like my sister's black cat, Chacha. Because then I picture that it's a real panther.

[01:18:08] Wow. That's a picy start. Yeah. The two-year-old female panther dubbed Giza by trackers was first spotted around the Iwaso Naruk River more than six months ago by excited locals. Photographed at close range, it marks the first time the black panther,

[01:18:25] also known as a melanistic leopard, was snapped without camera traps in Africa. So they don't... Just so people know, their coloring isn't black. They just have too much melanin and it covers the spots. They still have... But anyway.

[01:18:39] Getting the opportunity to track and photograph a black leopard at close range alone in the wilds of Likipia, the park, Likipia, whatever, was both incredibly and thrilling, the photographer said. Only 11% of panthers have this specific coloring and sightings are very, very rare.

[01:18:58] They're also nocturnal, so it's really weird to see one in the day. And we'll put this link in the schnotes. It's beautiful. It's just gorgeous. They used to have one at the St. Louis Zoo, they may still...

[01:19:10] First thing I wanted to see as a kid, take me to the black panther. Because it's just like so. Just the way they walk. Giza, however, is used to people and has become more comfortable with having people and vehicles around her.

[01:19:22] Rare black panther was one of the two cubs born to the more commonly colored and regularly seen spotted leopard. The rare all-black coloring is due to an excess of melanin, which is the opposite of albinism, which only occurs in animals, not humans, which causes a darker skin pigment.

[01:19:39] Yeah, she's just led by Ranger the team to observe the giant cat. And it's an natural habitat and it's attempt to document and understand more of the cat's movement. They watched her cross a river at sunset to begin hunting. Yeah, that's what Babycat does.

[01:19:55] Babycat's got a lot of nocturnal things going on. I'll never forget it. My sister's house one time. It was like two in the morning and I was sleeping in the girls room and I kept hearing this noise and I go, what is going on in the family room?

[01:20:10] Like who's awake or what the fuck is that? And the girls were like, oh, that's Coco. She plays golf all night. Yeah, they have a fat cat, a blush colored one with like a light orange Coco. And she's totally overweight. Chacha looks like a panther. Chacha's perfect.

[01:20:28] And she, my brother-in-law's got the fake putting thing and she just lays there because she's lazy and fat. She just hits the ball and then it bounces back to her. Yeah, all night.

[01:20:39] They're night. They get going on it. Anyway, it's not the first time a rare cat has been spotted. A similar sleek animal was snapped in India's taboo. We talked about this in 2021. That kid took a picture of it.

[01:20:53] The last known instance of a wild black panther being caught on film was 2019 by wildlife photographer Will Barad Lucas who spent six months trying to capture the melanistic cat in Kenya, eventually photographing it by using camera traps. Well, that's fine. Yeah.

[01:21:09] All right. And then here's our feel good story termites. Don't worry if you're getting to be an old lady. If you are, you should move to the Philippines. The Philippines. Mm-hmm. 106 year old indigenous Filipino tattoo artist becomes Vogue's cover model. She looks better than I do at 57.

[01:21:35] She looks bananas great for 106. 106? Wow. They released its April issue on Friday and its newest cover model is a 106 year old indigenous Kalinga woman, Apo Wang Odd also known as Maria Oge. Oge. Oge? Oge. She's from a small mountain village.

[01:21:58] She's become famous for mastering the thousand year old batuk technique, tattoo technique which uses traditional methods utilizing charcoal and a sharp stick. She began learning the tradition at 16 years old. They said the the Philippine Vogue Philippines wrote in a tweet.

[01:22:18] She symbolizes the strength and beauty of the Filipino spirit. Harold is the last mama, wait, mem-ba-batuk of her generation. She has imprinted the symbols, signifying strength, bravery and beauty on the skin. Yeah. That's really cool. Yeah.

[01:22:39] Sure, her artwork has driven waves of tattoo tourism to Philippines where people from all over the world visit her and receive one of her legendary designs. She has passed on her knowledge to her grandnises. She's also true as she's trained in the art of tattooing for several years.

[01:22:52] Her work has inspired a new generation of batuk. I'm sure I'm saying that wrong. Artists in the Philippines, the magazine reported. When visitors come from far away, she said I will give them the tatuk buscalan for as long as my eyes can see. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah.

[01:23:08] Why do you see her? Yes. She's adorable. And she's funky looking. She's got like funky necklaces and there's your little feel good story termites. There's a black panther out there somewhere. There you go. Now where am I going? Well, Durham before we get out of here.

[01:23:26] Well, I announced all the 2023 shows, all the fall shows that's all on sale. Super. Yeah. If I get one more text from one of my relatives, why are your tickets are $195? They are not. You are on some freaky resale.

[01:23:40] If you see them and they're too much, it's not true. Don't just go to my website and all the links I have on mine will go to the correct one because then I go check. I'm like, is this real? No, it's not around.

[01:23:53] No, the tickets for you depending on where I'm at. They're anywhere from 35 to 45 to 55. If they go higher than that, that's a platinum seat. That's on you or you're on a resale site. Durham two shows. You know, there's really a place called Niceville.

[01:24:11] I didn't know it's by Destin, Florida. Yeah, go in there. Ponte verra two shows. Charleston. I think that one sold out Santa Rosa, Santa Rosa and Wheatland, which is really Sacramento, the hard rock. But Durham we added the Saturday show.

[01:24:27] So if you went for tickets on Friday, which was sold out where there's now a show on Saturday. Great. Yeah. And then if you want to see what's happening the rest of the summer in the fall going website,

[01:24:36] Kathleen Madden brand new website and brand new pubcast t-shirts on there for sale. A lot of termites already had them in Boston available today is the new short sleeve one that has yeah, no union emblem on it. Yeah, it's a good one.

[01:24:53] No, I met four termites in Boston because they just looked excited and they were down on the floor and trying to take it. Yeah, the people I'm like, can you go get those people and I could say thank you for buying those shirts. They were so excited.

[01:25:07] It was a grandma and mom and then the kids there were four of them. Yeah, they didn't know why they were being asked to come backstage and then I popped out around the corner. It's super fun.

[01:25:16] Yeah, it's fun to just rock somebody's world for five minutes for absolutely no effort on my part. Okay, that's it termites. For you golf fans, it's a big week. It's the biggest week ever. I don't know. The British Open is pretty cool too.

[01:25:31] But the Masters is just, is this yeah. And I can make fun of Jim Nance all week, which I love. Hello friends. All right, here's who I think might win. Scotty Schaeffler, Jordan Spieth. He's been on a tear lately and my third. I'll take Roy is my third.

[01:25:54] I do feel though Roy's had a lot of pressure dealing with all this live crap and all this stuff that I don't know that he's 100%. He's got it in him. It's just as he focused enough. I don't know. There's been a lot of distractions.

[01:26:08] I probably I gotta go look at the list of favorites. I think Roy is this and it's going to be weird because Roy has been super mouthy about it.

[01:26:18] I agree with everything he says and I salute him for saying it, but now you have to confront these people. They're going to be on the driving range. They're going to be there's going to be a lot of stare offs and it's not.

[01:26:29] I mean, they've said really shitty things about one another. It's not just a polite gentleman's disagreement. No, it's gone to a whole different, you know, bone saw blood money like. Oh, correct. Great. All right, termites shout out to Tanya for making it. Stevie's out on the road.

[01:26:50] You can go see her a million times shares been quietly and happy Easter. It happened. Yeah, if you're in St. Louis, try to make an appointment to see the toe. It's not just sitting out there. So don't get excited. Check your local bulletins. All right, that's it.

[01:27:11] I like to.