Episode 143: Reopening Tupac’s Murder Case, Taylorgating, & Formula 1 Holds Vegas Hostage

[00:00:00] Hey everybody, it's me Kathleen Madigan, welcome to Madigan's Pubcast. You grab yourself a drink, pull up a bar stool, and let's talk about what's been going on. That lights! Episode 143 is gonna be fire! So many crazy stories. So many things.

[00:00:32] I am back from New Hampshire, and I can honestly say, I actually said out loud, uh, too much. Well, I said to my sister, I had the greatest weekend ever in New Hampshire. Now that is not a sentence that usually comes out of a Midwest person's mouth,

[00:00:47] because I don't even know when I'm in New Hampshire. I don't know when I'm in Vermont. I do know when I'm in Maine, because that's the top. But those little states, it's like they got crazy. Rhode Island got nothing. New Hampshire only got 18 miles of shoreline. Terrible.

[00:01:01] I call bullshit on that. It's like they got super lazy when they went to the Midwest. They go, just put all that as Missouri. The other states are so tiny. And then I think they got lazy. Look at the size of California. Lazy.

[00:01:13] Look at the size of South Dakota, North Dakota. Like they didn't chop us up into... I'm sure there's a better explanation for that than laziness, but that's what I'm going with. You were just late. You got tired of it. People just got tired of it when...

[00:01:25] Make that whole space Ohio. Ohio's huge. People forget. Kentucky not so huge. They got ripped off in the beginning. Yeah. Yeah. Tennessee, Tennessee's flat and thin. Tennessee's thin, flat. Kentucky, thin. Meaning flat, not flat in real life. Yeah. Because Tennessee... New Hampshire was so fun.

[00:01:45] The beach, Hampton Beach, the casino ballroom that I worked in and I've never done it. And my friend Taylor is in charge of all that. And she's great. And I know when she's at the gig everything's fine and perfect. No problems. No issues. It's fun.

[00:02:00] It's like a giant bar. I mean, but it seats like, I think 1400. But more than that? I don't know. We sold it out. So thank you Termites who came. I know people came from Chicago. Almost 1800. Almost 1800. Is that what it was? Yeah. It's very long and deep.

[00:02:18] And then there's bars everywhere. And then you see all the people that work there. Usually backstage you're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But this was like Duke Ellington, Janice Joplin. And then I met the owner, Fred and his wife. They were so fantastic.

[00:02:33] And he's going to keep it exactly the way it was. And you should never, ever, ever mess with that. That's the mistake people make. They go, well, let's just upgrade that. No, no, no, no, no. It works perfect the way it is.

[00:02:44] And it was the crowd was explosive. Michael Summerville was the opener. He's always funny. But he was extra funny that night. I don't know why. I don't know why. He doesn't sleep. I think he was looking forward to go gambling.

[00:02:56] Because he was going to the Borgata after that. We went out and drank at a bar called The Goat. If you're ever in New Hampshire, Hampton Beach, I would recommend The Goat. That is my pint glass right here. Right there. The goat. Yep.

[00:03:11] And I don't think Michael listens to this podcast, which is totally fine. And what he doesn't know is I'm going to put that in the mail and mail it to him as a surprise one day. I met some termites at The Goat.

[00:03:23] Got my picture made with some termites. Yeah, I was rounding the bar to see if we could get some soap act. And there they were sitting right there. So that was fun. Yeah, it was just you.

[00:03:35] It's like an hour from Boston for people who don't know the East Coast, which I still don't. And I go there all the time. It's just weird to me. You can be in Massachusetts and then boom, I'm in New Hampshire. In a second. In 45 minutes. Yeah.

[00:03:49] Yeah, it was crazy. I saw your steamers too. Yeah, I got some steamers. It's a lot of it's it's the boardwalk there. It's kind of time trapped, but not in a bad way. Feels like 1970.

[00:04:03] It's a lot of, you know, T-shirt shops and fried everything fried clams fried this fried that. But if you just lean into I'm just going to get fat this weekend. It's great. Yeah, the beats is great. Yeah, you know it's beach stuff. The actual beach itself is gorgeous.

[00:04:21] It's a weird little town though. Like sometimes I felt like I it looked like Ireland. Other times I felt like it looked her most of beach. And then some parts I was like, that's Atlantic City. It's a combo. It's a combo package.

[00:04:34] And I looked at all the license plates. Most of the people there are from New Hampshire. So the Massachusetts people aren't boogieing up. I don't maybe they only go to Cape Cod. I don't know. But I would think Cape Cods too expensive. Yeah. Pricey. Pricey.

[00:04:49] I got beers from there. Well termites brought me beers. This is my favorite one. The Von Trapp. Right now I'm not drinking that one. I'm drinking that one. This is the Von Trapp Brewing. It's in Vermont, a little of Austria after the Von Trapps. The real Von Trapps?

[00:05:06] Yeah, there's a mountain goat on it. Yeah. And it's made in Stowe, Vermont. Stowe, I don't know. Von Trapp Brewing. I've always wanted to go to the Von Trapp family mansion and I'm going to go. I'm going to figure out a way to get there.

[00:05:23] You've never been there? I've only been to Vermont once. I was in Rutland, Vermont. I did a show. It was great, but I had to leave because I had to go somewhere else up there in the small states and go figure out another show.

[00:05:36] So I didn't get to hang out. Plus it was winter so it was freezing. It's the last time I've been there. Then the other, well, yeah, but I'm not a skier. I don't care about snow skiing. No, no, no, no, no. I don't know what she's snow skiing.

[00:05:51] I'm not going to be a bus people that are good at that. It's not our thing. The cats meow New England IPA great can. I'm going to, it's not cold. I'm going to try this later. This was given to me by another termite.

[00:06:05] Eight out of 10 cats say their owners prefer it. What? Yeah, we love beer. We know you do. We're proud to have the opportunity to share the please enjoy responsibility with other friends. I want to see it's in from Massachusetts framing him. Massachusetts. Yeah, it's a great can.

[00:06:24] I'm a sucker for a great can. No question about it. Some of you termites may have noticed a new clock behind me. Yes. Yes. This is from Chris. Chris, I won't say last name. Well, I don't know if this person does this for it.

[00:06:41] Well, I don't use people's last names, but Chris, I got that. It's awesome. It lights. She put instructions on the back. Pull this and you'll have fire. And then an LED light came on Christian termite. We accept Christian termites. No problem. All termites.

[00:06:58] The best Christian I know, honestly, Jeff Foxworthy. Yeah, because he is all Christian. He, you know, he does Bible study and all that. And then one time Ron goes, I think he just went to Bible study because he wanted to meet Chipper Jones from the brights.

[00:07:14] I said, oh, don't be so petty. Jeff Foxworthy could find a way to meet Chipper Jones other than sitting in Bible study. But most importantly, Jeff goes down frequently like once a week and he'll talk about this, but he doesn't make a thing out of it,

[00:07:29] which is what I love. He just does it. He goes down to the men's homeless shelter in Atlanta and he does all that and he does Christian things without like, Yeah, he doesn't he doesn't pontificate about it all. He just does his thing.

[00:07:45] So yeah, so the clock is awesome. I love it. It took a while to get back here. It came at the Borgata, but I couldn't bring it on the plane. So it got mailed. Shout out to my friends in AC who mailed it to back to me,

[00:07:59] which was great. That be Davey and Carol. Yep. I don't know who actually took it to the UPS store. But thank you for that. All right. Well, that's what we're drinking. What are we eating? These came from termites. This is a chocolate covered pretzel called flip flip. FLIP.

[00:08:22] It says state fair. I don't know what that means. They're good. A little sweet for me. Yeah, these are going to straight to Vicky Madigan and she'll love them. And then she'll be on my ass to go find him again. And they're probably an East Coast thing. Yeah.

[00:08:44] Hey, can you go get those again? No, mom. I can't go back to New Hampshire because you need a goddamn pretzel. I don't know. I can't read the packaging because it's blue writing on a blue package. They're good. Flip. Yeah. I don't mind.

[00:09:03] It's more of my mom's alley though because it's sweet. And then we're going to us is UTZ. That's the East Coast chips. Oh, Hanover PA. I have never had the red hot though. The termite brought these. Yeah. There was a lot of stuff.

[00:09:19] Well, no, they're way hotter than barbecue. They're good. And the good news is you're only going to eat a few. You're not going to plow through these like a bag of ladies because you're tongue and fall off. They're good.

[00:09:40] I think the red hot that hot is more for the children. Not for me. Yeah. All right, we're going to go over some termite things and then way to hear all the queen news I have. It's just amazing. Everybody's active. Oh, everybody's super active this week.

[00:09:59] I don't know why because I'm not going to get a lot of attention on it. I'm not going to get a lot of attention on it. Everybody's active. Everybody's super active this week. I don't know why because in summer usually they're not.

[00:10:11] Holly and Guy sent me beer called summer nights backstage. And I do get these things. I want you to know if I don't mention them. Michael, play Michael. Michael is the beer monster. I won't even. People talk about famous people's writers and stuff like the crazy shit

[00:10:32] about the big shit. Mine is a six pack of beer. I don't care what kind and two waters, one for me and one for the opener because they'll call and then they'll go, um, is there a sheet we're missing? No, but if Michael comes, I double it.

[00:10:47] I eat 12 beers at four waters. And they don't mind doing it. These are main termites. I do want to come back to me and then I just sent an email to my agent. Heidi, I'll say her name. So if you would like to write a letter of complaint.

[00:11:06] You just got an email. It's all happening. Really? Portland? Yeah. Great. That's where I wanted to go. And I want to go in summer because tourists are there and I want to stay for the week. Yeah, I want to become one of those old people performers

[00:11:21] and just do a show like at four o'clock on a Saturday. And then I stay the entire week and then I just spend the money I made in town. And then I consider it a giant exchange of, you know, resources. Here you go. Here's my money.

[00:11:35] I'll do a show. Everybody's happy. Ann sent me. This is a Zen Bigfoot. Ann sent that backstage with a very funny card of a dog. From one leader to another, please excuse my organizational skills.

[00:11:48] I could have bought a gift bag, but who doesn't love an old travel laundry bag? It made me laugh. Got her through some rough times of, um, best year in your family. Ann, so she sent a lot of Bigfoot stuff, Annacuzzi and fun stuff.

[00:12:03] Shout out to Shalom and Terry. They sent the flips, cheerios. And then we take pictures a lot of this because I... Cheerios. Cheer, what did I say? Cheerios? I didn't even know what a churro was, so I was like 29. They would have... It's just not happening in Missouri.

[00:12:23] And then I went to California and then there was like a street fair and I'm like, what's a chur... Cheerio. Cheerio. Delicious. So I got their stuff. Um, they listed the podcast. That's great. I don't think those are the termites I met in the bars though.

[00:12:39] Uh, Amy and Maureen, they brought gold, old bay goldfish, which I already ate on the, um, plane. I already ate that. Delicious. And a ranch, uh, squeeze me dog toy, which I gave to the guy at the venue because he has

[00:12:51] three labs and a baby new one and a new puppy. He needed a toy. He needed a toy. So thank you for bringing that. It's gone to very good use. And this lady gave me catnip in an envelope. Um, she brought the odds of these things too.

[00:13:06] This is Holly. Look, there's real catnip in there. The catnip I have looked that I bought looks like pot. This kind of looks like pot. Yeah. Yeah. I've already given it to them. They love it.

[00:13:19] I have to hide the envelopes for baby cat and El Chapo from your feline friends in being down, mango and a Ouija or a Livy Ouija. Oh, and the black olive dried cat. Yeah, that was great. They loved it. They went crazy. So oh yeah.

[00:13:38] And this T shirt, a Fenway. So if I ever go to a Red Sox game and I can root for them because they're in the American League, so it doesn't have any do with my shitty Cardinals. No. My dad's still with that.

[00:13:54] Well, you know, in 1922, the Cardinals were out of first place by 75 games and game. It's not happening, dad. Stop it. Stop talking about that. Jackalopes on the men too. So it's been quite the experience. Here's what I do know about older people.

[00:14:14] Doctors are trying to keep them alive. Insurance companies trying to kill them. Now this is just not working. We need to decide are we keeping them alive or are we killing them? And we need, right, we don't give them all this medication to keep them alive.

[00:14:27] And then you go, yeah, well, we're not going to pay for that shit. Well, we need to have a meeting and go, what, what do we do with the over 80 somethings and then put up their stats and then make decisions like this is

[00:14:39] just so frustrating to deal with all that. But maybe someday I'll do a show about old people and healthcare. Wouldn't that be exciting? Super fun. So hilarious. Most importantly, last announcement, new pubcast shirts. It's my favorite one ever, ever, ever, ever.

[00:14:57] I'm going to do a video about it too. But the front says Madigan's docking bar. We just made that up. And then it says Madigan's pubcast sevens 2020 on the back. Yeah, it's my favorite so far. Great summer shirt.

[00:15:11] So if you guys want them, they're going live on the website today now, whenever that is now. Yeah, and I may just order a second batch just to give away for fun because I love them when you get the non-existent T-shirt gun.

[00:15:24] Well, you know, you make fun of my non-existent T-shirt gun, but I may buy it for myself for my birthday. Just maybe I'll do that. Just a present to me. Yeah, so I can just shoot shit out. OK, queen news. Dolly has released a sing her.

[00:15:46] So she did a rock and roll album because she got inducted to the rock and roll all of it. That will not be released till November, the album, but she released. She has done her version of We Are The Champions mixed up with We Will Rock You.

[00:16:00] You can go watch it on YouTube for free. I've paid my dues time after time. It's crazy fun. Yeah, I've had my share of it. Love, I don't even know the words, but I've committed no crime. I've made mistakes. I've made a few. And then it goes crazy.

[00:16:26] So worth it. It's so worth. Yeah, and then she goes into We Will Rock You. She is telling everybody the singles out. You go listen to it for nothing on YouTube. You don't want to. So the third she has a 30 track project coming out and the full list.

[00:16:41] So she's collaborated with all these people. Rockstar, I guess she wrote some special guest, Richie Sambora. Number Track Two World on Fire. Track three, she does every breath you take. Stop it with sting. I've been watching you for open arms with Steve Perry.

[00:17:04] Wow, Magic Man with Ann Wilson. He's a magic man. Your opening song. Yeah, that's the opener's intro on the road, whoever goes with me. Long as I can see the light with John Fogarty, I don't know it either or with Kid Rock.

[00:17:23] I want you back with Steven Tyler. What has rock and roll ever done for you featuring Stevie Nicks? But I don't know that song. Maybe she wrote it. She does purple. No, Prince is not involved. It's just purple rain. Baby, I love your wave. Peter Frampton.

[00:17:46] Baby, I don't really. I can't remember that. I hate myself for loving you with Joan Jett. Night moves was she does night moves. The Bob Seager song with Chris Stapleton. Oh, she does wrecking ball with Molly Cyrus. How great will that be? I can't wait for this.

[00:18:05] I can't get no satisfaction with Pink and Brandy Carlaw. Keep on loving you. That's the guy from R.E.O. Kevin Cronin, who I have met at many charity events and is the nicest man. And his voice sounds exactly like it did 30 years ago. And he sang high.

[00:18:20] It's amazing because I've seen some of these 70 bands where you're like, oh Lord, this is mostly a charity gigs. They pop up. They'll have a comedian, a band or whatever. He's he's something else. And then you think, oh, do I really care about R.E.O.

[00:18:35] And then yeah, you do. You do you care real real quick, like Heart of Glass, Debbie Harry. Don't let the sun go down on me without John. Try to rock and roll me featuring Melissa Atheridge. I don't know that song.

[00:18:48] Oh, she does just stairway to heaven featuring Lizzo and Sasha Flute. Oh my God. My blue tears featuring Simon LeBone. What's up featuring Linda Perry. You're no good featuring Emmie Lou and Harrison Cheryl Crowe. Heartbreaker with Pat Bannatar.

[00:19:08] Bitter sweet featuring Michael McDonald of the Doobie Brothers of where my neighborhood Florescent, Missouri, AKA St. Louis, Missouri. But my I had a Russian lady that used to have my pants because I can't sew. And she only had two pictures on her wall.

[00:19:26] Famous people with me and Michael McDonald and I wasn't even famous. She she was I told her, she's like, what do you do for a living? Because you come here in the day, you don't have. She was very upset. I didn't have a day job.

[00:19:37] No matter with you, some of us work at night, man. Just simmered down. I don't know what's going on in Russia, but I don't I'm gainfully employed. I can pay the six dollars to him these pants. But anyway, me and Michael McDonald were the only two people.

[00:19:51] There was no one else in the area that had a headshot. She does let it be featuring Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr with special guest Peter Frampton and Mick Fleetwood. And then she does Free Bird. No, I must be traveling now. Now, I can't wait for this.

[00:20:10] I really can't. This is just going to be like an evening. It's just explosive. I Oh, November 17th. We're going to get a lot of babies. Oh my God. Time after time. I've had my share of it. But I've committed no crime about mistakes. I've made a few.

[00:20:34] All right, I'll stop. This is where I annoy my siblings. Um, Queen News moving on. Share broke the Internet and she's not kidding. She's ready to turn out something even sweeter than music. She's launching her own frozen treats. There's a share a lot. Oh, as in gelato.

[00:20:54] Love it. Food truck running around LA. She wrote, yep, this is real. I'm launching my gelato in her latest post. And there's the truck and it says, watch out LA. And Pete Twitter people were very excited. Now somebody said she's been serving us for decades

[00:21:14] and now she's serving us gelato. I would take I would take a new song instead because I'm not really a gelato person, but, you know, good for her for doing something weird. Please have melon, somebody wrote please have melon.

[00:21:28] I cannot find melon gelato anywhere but Spain and Italy. Aren't you snobby snobs team? Thanks. Once that's said, I hope you have a vegan option goddess. I'm sure she will share smart enough to know. Queen News. We should have the Queen's walk on music when I do that.

[00:21:50] But we're probably getting trouble. That's why I can't play the Dolly Parton song because then you two thanks. I did sing it pretty good. Let me see the real words because I've listed now my phones off. I listed to it like 10 times.

[00:22:02] I'll sing the whole thing next week. Oh, wonderful. Can't wait. In Super Alto. This is speculation. Fleetwood Mac could reunite with Lindsey Buckingham for one last reunion draw. Little by little, the 70s bands are planning for a farewell reunion tour.

[00:22:22] Is the Eagles are getting ready to embark on one? I don't really. The Eagles are fine. I would go if Dorf got me a ticket, put it that way. Or if Dorf said it's like a Tuesday and it's less than 100 bucks, I'd go.

[00:22:42] If I had nothing, it's just not, they've never been a band that I was like, I gotta get down there. But I know a lot of people do feel that way. So good for them. Elton John just wrapped up. His story, Paul Simon has already dotted his eyes

[00:22:55] and crossed his t's. I'd go see Paul Simon. Was it boring? You saw him? It's fine. It's not take-take. Of course it's not take-take. The dude's 80 something. He can't hear anymore. You don't wanna hear bridge over troubled water? I do.

[00:23:18] Well, I'm gonna see if he has any more shows and you will not be invited. Okay, cool that. This person writes, this is from Showbiz 411. I don't really even know what I just saw. Now I'm hearing Fleetwood Mac being that Mac's. Here's the thing.

[00:23:33] If they wanna go out as Fleetwood Mac, Christine McVie is dead. John McVie doesn't wanna perform anymore so that leaves Stevie, Mick and Lindsay. If you don't take Lindsay, now it's Stevie and Mick and that is not Fleetwood Mac. Now it's just Stevie.

[00:23:48] So she doesn't need to bother with that. But if you could, but this is if Stevie's going to allow Lindsay, it's up to Stevie. Do you wanna do arenas or Stevie? You wanna go with Billy Joel and then play outdoor venues that are 8,000 seaters?

[00:24:05] I'd go alone but, but comedians spend our lives alone. We don't work like this, these bands. It's so complicated and they fight. You gotta wake up and think is Lindsay mad at me? No, it really be is Lindsay mad at me? You'd have to say it like that.

[00:24:22] As Lindsay being another his asshole self today. There's even talk sources per Mc Fleetwood and Mick saying this of reuniting with Lindsay was fired from the group a couple years ago. But with the passing of Christine, it makes sense that Buckingham get back in the fold.

[00:24:41] He and Stevie Nicks fight once the tour is over and then there are nursing homes, frankly. Right. Oh my God. It's a larch. Yeah, it's a larch. And let's not forget John McVie retired from touring. Fleetwood now just be making Stevie and da da da.

[00:24:59] A Mac attack in 2024 would be an easy sell out for arenas. A solid big name younger act would be a good opener. Mac can fill three hours without a doubt. And then they'd have a memorial tribute to bring everyone to tears. Oh God. So hang on Mac fans.

[00:25:12] The only question is when all these groups who will take their places? That is a good question. Once he's 70 bands, you have to have the lifespan. Now there's the dead and widespread panic. Dorf likes all that stuff, but you have, that's a cult. Yeah.

[00:25:26] It's not to mean a bad way. Right. It's just, you know, I don't know who the air of classic rock is ebbing away. This guy's not wrong about that. Well maybe children don't want it. Maybe they don't care about all that. Nope. Dorf had the best idea ever.

[00:25:45] Stevie Nicks should go with what? Oh, I shouldn't say what his idea? Well nobody's doing it. It's a secret. He had a great idea for Stevie, but whatever she doesn't need Dorf's ideas. No. I don't think she's ever called in the hatch fund

[00:26:05] and said hello can I speak to Brian Dorf man? Hello little Dorf do you have any ideas for me? A little Dorf. Little Dorf doesn't have good ideas. This is more queen news than we're moving on to updates. This made me laugh so hard.

[00:26:19] I was in New Hampshire and this shit show started. Levi's Stadium, so that's where the 49ers play and all that it's in California. It's not really in San Francisco. It's south of San Francisco and it's quite a way south of San Francisco.

[00:26:32] I feel like they always, they always, every town on like Monday night football or whatever they'll go oh well we're here in Boston but the stadium isn't anywhere near what they're showing. Nashville did it. You know, for the NASCAR thing. They're like we're here in NASCAR.

[00:26:49] It was out in Lebanon. That is 45 minutes from downtown, maybe 30 with no traffic but it's not close and they're showing tootsies. I'm like no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Just say where you really are. Stop the bullshit. San Francisco.

[00:27:03] Okay this is where it's coming. The story's coming out. Are you ready for it? In one week's time what would consider, some would consider the concert of the generation will take place at Levi's Stadium, Taylor Swift's The Era is Tour. Taylor Swift's song, Swift fans are not allowed

[00:27:17] to bring friendship bracelets to the Era Tour's concert. What? After a controversial bet I read that and went oh no, no, no, no, no, no. You don't know what the children are capable of. The children can collapse your stadium. They can collapse your stadium.

[00:27:33] They can collapse your weekend economy. They can do whatever they fucking want. Yep. They'll start it up. But wait to see what happens. Originally so a lot of cities like my friend Dory she told her kid I'm not, I don't have $2,000

[00:27:48] for a ticket for you so you go down outside with the other kids at the parking lot and have fun there and she had a blast. They're letting them tailgate Nashville. They were all in the pedestrian bridge and they're all having fun.

[00:27:59] Well Levi's Stadium said tailgating is prohibited for this Taylor Swift concert and there will be no designated viewing area outside of Levi's Stadium. Fans without event tickets will not be permitted to congregate in parking areas or in the streets.

[00:28:12] That's so mean too because these kids are not drunk. They're not on drugs. They're not gonna cause shit. They're just happy kids. Well they said then they tweeted out, hello, bracelets are not permitted in the stadium at Levi's Stadium. Yeah, however it appears Levi's Stadium

[00:28:32] has now reversed its decision on the bracelets tweeting that they're now allowed. Friendship bracelets will be permitted at the Taylor Swift concert. Why would you have done that in the first place? What is, and you know who picked up the phone? I'm sure.

[00:28:45] Tay Tay had said I'd like to speak to the mayor. And if I can't speak to him or whoever it is right now. It will not be going tonight. There's gonna be a riot and I'm gonna tell you where and when and the children will do it.

[00:28:57] You can't believe that I have 73,000 soldiers and they do exactly what I tell them. So the kids then they revert then their Twitter feeds at friendship places will be permitted. We are enchanted to see you one week from today. What jackass in an office put that out there.

[00:29:20] Swifties have been making and trading friendship bracelets at concerts to simply to link themselves to the others who share the experience. Its origin comes from the lyrics in Swift songs, your on your own kid from midnight and the lyrics are cause there were pages turned with bridges burn.

[00:29:35] Everything you lose is a step you take so make the friendship bracelets, take the moment and taste it. You've got no reason to be afraid. And the bead industry blew up. That kinda hurt my head. Yeah, the tiny beads? That's what I have on.

[00:29:49] John Merr sucks right now. It's the tiniest beads. I have to put my glasses on to read what I have on. That's when you know you're too old for the Taylor Swift concert. When I'm like, oh what does this say? I don't have my glasses. Totally.

[00:30:06] Now that they don't call it tailgating either they call it Taylorgating. Oh, love it. Let the kids come. What? What does the matter with people? It's like wood stock every night. Yeah. So great. So anyway, that one made me,

[00:30:21] as soon as I read that tweet I was like, oh you don't know what you just did. You do not tell the children they can't bring their braids. And I don't know why you would have done that. I Googled it there's no reason. No, more on to.

[00:30:37] Speaking of Tay-Tay we should ask if the termites like the bonus episode. Did you turn my to like Tay-Tay? Did you enjoy the bonus episode? I'm thinking about doing one of the Gilgo murder guy, a bonus episode. Cause there's so much information

[00:30:51] and I don't wanna become a true crime podcaster. But I'm just throwing this out there. I do not understand how the wife did not have an inkling. I'm not saying she did it. I'm not saying she accompanied. But if all of a sudden I'm married

[00:31:06] and my husband's digging up weird shit in the backyard over and over and I don't ask a question. Or could you tell me he abused you and you were scared to? That's an excuse. That's a reason. I'm gonna be a murderer if you want me to. Well. Please.

[00:31:21] Hey, why do we have a locked room in the basement and you won't tell me what it is? It's my man cave. My man cave bullshit. Open your man cave. You don't do that. I don't know. But that's not my only problem with it.

[00:31:32] I have a lot of, but it's not really funny. So I don't know, I may not do it. But anyway, update! Move it on. It's a harder subject. But I watched that thing. This is my murder. By the way, before I do updates of whatever I do,

[00:31:48] what are we watching? Quarterback on Netflix about quarterbacks. Pretty good. Man, you know. But I already, I watch a lot of football and I play fantasy football. So I kind of know the things. They say that Kirk Cousins has reinvented himself. Kirk Cousins has reinvented himself.

[00:32:04] He dresses terribly and then his wife's like, well, it's just middle-aged man and dad. And she's proud of it. They're funny. They're both funny. You really do like him. He still doesn't seem like a dude who should be a quarterback, but whatever. And then I watched

[00:32:23] whatever happened to Edward V and Wallace Simpson. I think it's on Amazon. It says whatever happened to Edward. That's the actual title. And you know who should watch that? Harry, Prince Harry. You want to do it? Guess what you're going to be?

[00:32:40] Because I asked my mom a day a long time ago, well, whatever happened to that guy that quit being king to marry the American divorcee? And my dad goes, they were grifters. They just ran around to other rich people's houses and camped out until they got kicked out.

[00:32:52] Well, guess what, Harry? Go, you should have watched that movie before you got involved in all this, but it's still not too late. Maybe, maybe, maybe. You're young. Maybe. It's kind of fascinating to see how their life went after getting, because they were exiled.

[00:33:08] And Harry, you're already exiled. So what is your, what's the plan? Well, they're already talking about moving to Malibu and who told you they would not say Encino? This lady did. They will not say I mean, Montecito, because it's too far, you're in a prison,

[00:33:25] a 14, well, be a $14 million prison. You've locked yourselves in. There's nothing going on up there. That's why people like to go for the weekend. It's quiet, it's nice, it's peaceful. There's a little golf, you can go down to the ocean. But as far as like stuff, no.

[00:33:40] It's rich people, most of the time are not home. And then it's just the staff. Ron had a house there and I got to know the gardener next door. He was my drinking buddy. I would take, because if Ron wasn't there, I'm like, I'm bored.

[00:33:54] What, waiting on Ron? And I'm like, I'm bored. And there were two Mexican guys doing all the gardening. I went out and talked to them about how they shaped the trees. And I was like, you guys want some beers? And they were like, oh yeah.

[00:34:03] And they didn't even care, they were working. And I'm like, good for you. Those tools aren't engine based. Right, there's no gasoline tools here, we're fine. And then Ron's like, what'd you do the whole time you were waiting on me? I said, I made friends with normal people.

[00:34:18] People who work for a living. Ron, that's Miguel and his friend Juan. And they love it here. They're very nice. Update! This headline, Missouri is gonna get a few shout outs on this podcast that are not necessarily putting us in the best of light.

[00:34:36] Missouri Man, this is a trader update, who brought Pitchfork to the January 6th riot charge with five felonies. He brought a fucking Pitchfork. You know what? It's probably historic in his family. It might be a family heirloom. Yeah, his great-granddaddy, Baled Hay,

[00:34:54] back when the dust bowl rolled through Oklahoma. What a bag tag on it. Missouri Man who marched up to Capitol with a Pitchfork. What do you think you're going to do? That's the most hillbilly weapon I think I can think of that's legitimately like a weapon.

[00:35:11] Like, I'm not counting like a brick. I'm, or... He walked up to the Capitol with Pitchfork, zip ties and duct tape. He twice grabbed a Capitol police officer who will make his way into the building. He's been charged with five felonies

[00:35:25] in the U.S. court, district court and D.C. Christopher Brian Rowe, 39, is from Raytown, Missouri. Just outside of Kansas City. Kansas City, this is on you. This is not on St. Louis. This is on... Notice a lot, just saying. The insurrectionist is apparently K.U. Proud.

[00:35:46] He loves kids. It's J.Hawks. He's a J.Hawks fan. Oh yeah. In addition to his farmer-approved weapon, he wore a Kansas sweatshirt while allegedly committing his litany of felonies in a few misdemeanors. That includes assaulting, resisting or impeding officers, civil disorder, entering and remaining

[00:36:02] in restricted buildings or grounds with a deadly dangerous weapon, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building. It goes on and on and on. He was arrested at his home Tuesday, July 18th and made his first appearance at the federal court in Kansas City. Yeah. They said...

[00:36:21] He said he attended the South Deseal rally. Then he made his way to the Capitol and approached the police line. Pitchfork in hand. When he pushed an officer and grabbed his arm, another officer pepper sprayed him. The J.Hawks fan, that's Kansas. Rock of Sockham? Yeah.

[00:36:34] Would not be dissuaded. Charging documents says he twice breached the Capitol was twice expelled. He tried twice and got kicked out. They pepper sprayed him. He grabbed an officer's arm. He also tried to grab his baton. After his second expulsion,

[00:36:51] he used a bike rack as a battering ram in an attempt to force his way in a third time despite being a part of a group that caused an estimated $980 of damage. He did not succeed in getting back in. At one point, he told the cop,

[00:37:07] you are protecting traders and treasonists. They committed treason and you just shot one of us. That's bullshit. Put your baton down and fucking join us. Parentheses, the officer did not join him. You know what, buddy? I'm not joining a group whose leader brought a pitchfork.

[00:37:25] If that's the best weapon you could find, you're outdated and you're not up with the times. Mandy Matney is a J-Hawk fan. Mandy Matney is a J-Hawk fan? She's a J-Hawk fan. Yeah. She's from Kansas City. She might be just Mizzou.

[00:37:44] I'll have to text her and ask her. Another trader update are Shaman, the one with the horns and the fabulous outfit. He said, yeah, the vegan, he wanted the vegan meals in prison. He said he was gonna go to court and he did and I have the result.

[00:38:02] He's gonna go to court to reverse his January 6th guilty plea. Yep, he came into the Capitol bare-chested wearing a buffalo headdress. He told the BBC that he's heading back to court to reverse his felony guilty plea. The once profusely apologetic convicted writer

[00:38:20] explained to the BBC that he's incredibly remorsable, not about the events of January 6th though, because he pleaded guilty. Regrets only weigh the mind down. They're like sandbags on a hot air balloon. He was released from his halfway house following prison two months ago after pleading guilty in 2021

[00:38:35] to obstructing an official government proceeding. When he and other writers attempted to, we know what he did. So he's gonna go back and attempt to take his plea back as risky criminal expert so-and-so said, defendants who may have to undergo a new trial

[00:38:51] and that could end in the same or worse result. In order to change his plea, he must convince the judge that he received ineffective representation from his original lawyer. He said his statements, his lawyer made an attempt to mitigate his crimes weren't true.

[00:39:05] I never said I was duped by Trump. He told the BBC, I never denounced Q or the Q and on community. And I'm not schizophrenic, bipolar, depressed or delusional. And then it's just a parenthesis. I just like to dress up like a buffalo. Okay, all right.

[00:39:22] He's a Bill's fan. Yeah. So he took his case. And the judge immediately shut him down and said, no, no, no. A federal judge denied Q and on, Shaman, Jacob, Chansley's request to reverse his guilty plea. Yeah, he didn't even really spend time saying why.

[00:39:42] He just went, get out. Just I'm tired. This docket is full. I don't have time for bullshit like this. You already served your sentence. Stop it. Holy shit. The remains of a Portuguese ship that disappeared on its way to India, laden with gold and other treasures

[00:40:03] about 500 years ago, been found in Nambia's desert coastline. This is the kind of cool thing about droughts. We are finding a lot of shit. Not saying it's healthy. But there's some fire, but look at all the fun stuff we're finding. Come on. Yeah.

[00:40:20] Workers at the Namdeb Diamond Corporation who joined operation between De Beers and the government were the ones to find the vessel known as Born Jesus, also quote, good Jesus. Yeah. Since the miners did not know what they had hit

[00:40:35] when they discovered the pieces of metal, wood, and pipes, they called in archeologists so-and-so, but even he did not know how big the fine would be. Fast forward, the team led is now able to say that thousands of mint conditioned pure gold coins

[00:40:48] from Spain and Portugal were found and they indicate the ship was found was the one that disappeared in 1533. Wow. How awesome is that? They're gonna try to turn it into a museum. I hope they do. Holy shit, they found it. This is crazy. Crazy awesome. In 1674,

[00:41:13] Francisco de Burgl, a historian of the storied Dominican order religious sect that would be Catholics, wrote of a vast labyrinth under the ancient ruins of Mitla in Mexico and the Zapotec people. I've never heard of the Zapotec people, but they existed.

[00:41:32] Saw this as an entrance to the underworld. Now a team of researchers have proven the legend to be true by using modern tools to finally discover this sprawling underground temple of La Oba, which is Zapotec for place of rest beneath the ancient site.

[00:41:52] Mitla was inhabited as early as roughly 2000 years ago and was of religious significance for the people at this time when Spanish colonizers, including Catholics like de Burgl invaded, they wrecked the site and drove away its inhabitants. As a blog post detailing findings, they reported a fantastical underground component,

[00:42:11] a vast subterranean temple consisting of four interconnected chambers containing the tombs of high priests and the kings of Tezot Patlan, I know the N area of Mexico. From the last subterranean chamber, a stone door led into a deep cavern extending 30 leagues below the ground.

[00:42:30] The cavern is intersected by other passages like streets. Its roof supported by pillars. Today a Catholic church stands where this ancient center was once thrived and that there's an interdisciplinary team of researchers from several Mexican institutions and government decided to look for signs

[00:42:46] of the ancient underworld during a 2022 exhibition. The missionaries had all the entrances to this underground lab are sealed, leaving only the palaces standing above ground. To uncover it, they used radar, blah, blah, blah. They found a large void and they found it.

[00:43:04] They identified it's a portal to the underworld. So I will report back to tell you what's in there. Yeah, kind of cool though. You're told you there's this whole underground thing and then you think, nah. And then you go, moving on to news.

[00:43:21] I don't know if this is gonna work. This is testing my hillbilly slash redneck decision making. Does it involve a basketball? No. It's a new $2 billion theme park is opening in the United States, two billion. But not in Florida or California.

[00:43:44] The 125 acre theme park was designed by a team including more than 20 former Disney park builders involved Disney Imagineers. Actually, I agree. Imagineers, I like it. Right. Yeah. Yes. Arkansas. Arkansas would be a great place for it. No, no, no. Arkansas doesn't get any love

[00:44:07] and they should, it's a beautiful state. It's really beautiful. The Ozarks go all the way down there. They're mountains, they have lakes, beautiful. They just never had an industrial economy so they never got a ton of people there. Like I worked Little Rock for years.

[00:44:22] I worked at the comedy house in Little Rock. I always had a blast. Anyway, no, not Arkansas. Not Arkansas. No. Kentucky. Not Kentucky. They have Noah's Ark. Come on. They have the biblical, the reenactment. My Jewish friend Ron and good. So I went to the North Ark.

[00:44:39] It was one of his jokes. You know, I'm Jewish and I'm from Kentucky and they said it was like, you know, $35 a tour and I was like, well, is it less if you're going through ironically? I only about half the people in the crowd

[00:44:55] would get the joke but I liked it. Anyway, a massive $2 billion Americana themed amusement park is opening in 2026 and it's thousands of miles from the typical theme park hubs. The American Heartland theme park and resort will include an amusement park, comparable to size of Disney World's Magic Kingdom

[00:45:14] in Florida or Disneyland in California but it won't be in either state. Instead, the park and resort are planned to be built on a thousand acre property in the heart of Northeast Oklahoma just off Route 66. Stop it. Well I've had my share of fun in Oklahoma

[00:45:34] but I Tulsa, I've done the hard rock. I've had lots of fun in Oklahoma but I've driven through Oklahoma many, many times and I just don't know. Torneo Alley. If I had to bet, like if I could invest, like do you think this will work?

[00:45:50] I'm on the fence and usually I can gauge what Oklahoma or Missouri Arkansas would do. I don't know. Oklahoma's excited to welcome American Heartland theme park and resort, Oklahoma State so and so said, located on historic Route 66, west of Grand Lake, the development will attract visitors

[00:46:09] from all around the world and experience and celebrate rich cultures and hometown values. When I hear that, I'm like, oh what does that mean, hometown values? The plans for the park include our own music classic amusement park rides, live shows, family attractions, waterways, restaurants that are collective created,

[00:46:29] collectively to create an Americana themed environment. The state of Oklahoma was selected for location because of its business friendly approach and innovative partnership efforts. We're thrilled to make Oklahoma theme. No, no, no, no, no, no. They will, okay so they're gonna have a 300 room hotel.

[00:46:46] They're also gonna have- Got out of campgrounds. They're gonna have a large scale RV park which will be able to accommodate 750 RV spaces and 300 cabins with, that's cabins extra with amenities. The 300 acre three ponies RV park will become the largest campground in Central USA.

[00:47:09] It'll create 4,000 jobs and expected and the expected tourism impact on Oklahoma is significant. I gotta Google how far is it away from a major city? Meaning Tulsa or- It says north of Route 66. Northeast Oklahoma just off Route 66. So west of Grand Lake.

[00:47:35] I guess there's no city there yet. Maybe this will be the city. Oh. I don't know. I don't know if people are gonna drive, this is kinda not, it's not like saying Dollywood. We're three hours from Nashville. Or you could fly into Chattanooga or Knoxville. I don't know.

[00:47:55] I'll find out exactly. We'll talk about it next week. Grand Lake area, let's see, driving Grand Lake- Where's Grand Lake? Northeast or Northwest Oklahoma? My mom and dad used to go to some golf resort in Oklahoma. It was very nice. Oh, oh, it's nowhere near that. No.

[00:48:12] Where is it? Grand Junction is Colorado. About two hours. Two hours from where? Tulsa? All right, maybe. I still- It's by Veneta. By Veneta? Never heard of it. Nope, nobody else has either. All right. Maybe they'll put a Buc- I'd go to a Buc-

[00:48:40] before I'd go to this theme park. Yeah. Moving on news! Did everybody see just versus aside, the idiot at Lake of the Ozarks, my lake who drove his Formula One power boat, I'm not a fan of the power boats, throwing it out there.

[00:49:04] If you have one, God bless you. But I think they're loud. I think most people, not most. I'd say 25% at least of people driving them do not know how to drive them. He had three outboard motors, 300 horsepower piece. I've seen up to four in the Ozarks, ridiculous.

[00:49:22] 900 hours of horsepower. You don't need that ever. Even if you wanna go fast, the 300 is plenty. But it's like a, you know, it's all about being, have a bigger boat than the next guy and the next day is he's out of control at the lake.

[00:49:36] Old school people like me are never gonna be on board with all that because it's loud, it's dangerous. Well this idiot, he was drunk. He hit a house. Now that is very hard to do when you started on a lake. You started in water

[00:49:57] and you ended up on land. It was nighttime, it was right before midnight. He's totes drunk. He's got eight of them are in the boat. They all fly out. The boat then, he hits land, it flips and hits a house. Then nobody ever talked about what I have.

[00:50:15] Google it too, what about the people in the house? They haven't released anything. They haven't released anything. It was like 1130, so they were home. It was late, well maybe they weren't home, maybe they weren't there that weekend, it's usually a lot of,

[00:50:26] I mean my parents are down there full time, but a lot of people are not. He was at the one mile marker basically at the dam so if you like people, you know where they're at. The driver, 47 year old Adam Ramirez from Huntington Beach, California.

[00:50:43] Why are you in the middle of Missouri? I know our lake is the biggest man-made lake in the country so a lot of the power boat people come because you can just go full out. But this is, if I was water patrol, this is how old I'm getting.

[00:50:56] I'd pull everybody over at night because I know most of you are drunk and it's so dangerous. I mean Christ, you can't even relax in your house. So. So Jack Straw could hit this land and end up on our living room and sure enough.

[00:51:13] Yeah, there were four women and four men on the boat. A lot of them were seriously injured. They were taken to Lake Regional Hospital or as my dad jokingly calls it. Well, I won't say that right now. Just nothing but high praise.

[00:51:35] Adam Pratt who was originally his partner, they had pictures of them all day drinking and they're all, you know, he looks super douchey. A lot of selfies of himself that they're printed in the article where he's ripped. He's totally in shape and he can't get enough

[00:51:52] of just selfie after selfie like that crowd. And all eight of them got flung. They're lucky they got flung because otherwise that boat would have collapsed on them and they'd all be dead for, if not dead, paralyzed forever. So.

[00:52:10] Well yeah, if you live on any lake in America that's got any kind of anything going on, there's a company called Toe Boat USA. And I got them for the old Hickory Lake in Tennessee because I don't really feel like there's other,

[00:52:22] like the Ozarks are so many people you can call. That Toe Boat USA got right out into every interview. Well, you know we came out as quick as we could do. We don't need you. We got a text message. Yeah, you don't need to tow this boat.

[00:52:35] This boat needs to be lifted and craned out and taken to a dump. It's not gonna float. Yeah. Anyway, Missouri just really did not do well this week in the news. We got a guy with a pitchfork. We got drunks, hit and land. Formula One Racing.

[00:52:57] Now I'm just gonna tell you, I don't know crap about Formula One Racing. It's getting big here. Well it's a Euro thing but it's very big here now. I think it might be exciting. I don't know, I've never been to one. I don't really care about car racing

[00:53:14] but is it big in Canada? It's much at all. Montreal, well that's like going to Europe. That's cheating. That is Europe. It's still Canada, they forget. Montreal's Europe. I have to stop it. I always tell Midwest people, if you don't feel like going all the way to Europe,

[00:53:31] go to Montreal, you won't know the difference. You can act like you're in Paris. Bunch of people speaking French, a wonderful food. It's delightful. You can go see the church where Celine Dion got married. Isn't that exciting? Ha ha! Neva, where are you?

[00:53:49] So here's what I do know though. Because I work at the Mirage. I headlined the main room there and my friend Kana who's worked there for ever and ever and ever and a day and she's my quote on handler.

[00:54:02] I love it how they act like I'm a lion at a zoo. Who's my handler? Who's gonna know? But she's in charge at the Mirage of all things comedy anyway. And she's been telling me how the Formula One racing

[00:54:18] and like the Mirage where the volcano is if you know what I mean. So I looked up the map, then the race is gonna go down the strip and then turn around down. I call downtown the end of the strip. It's really the north that I think.

[00:54:30] I get it backwards, whatever. It's gonna turn around right around downtown and then go behind the strip and back up and around. So if you're on the strip, you got a great view as far as you think, right? Yep. I think these Formula One people are really mean

[00:54:49] and I would not wanna be in business with them but I think you have to be because this is what they're doing. So Kana told me that the Mirage was gonna erect all these bleacher things where the- By the volcano.

[00:55:01] By the volcano so that you can sit out there and watch cars go by like that close. Vegas hotspots are waving the red flag at Formula One claiming its executives are threatening to block views of the posh car rates unless they fork out millions of dollars in fees.

[00:55:17] I know, they're totally just blackmailing these people because I guess they can erect any kind of obstruction if they want and say, well, it's for safety but really they're just being jerks and cutting off your view unless you pay them off. The Red Hot Racing League has demanded

[00:55:34] that the venues along the 3.8 mile circuit slated to run through the heart of Sin City during November's Las Vegas Grand Prix pay $1,500 per head for licensing rights. According to the letters to the venues they put this in writing. For a restaurant or club with 1,500 seats

[00:55:51] the tab would soar to a whopping 2.25 million regardless of how many guests can catch views from their roof decks, terraces and dining areas. Wow. Now there's a thing they're gonna talk about in here beer park. If you go down the strip, it's like across from Bellagio.

[00:56:09] You can go up and have a beer out in this thing but let's say you got a ticket to go into beer park it's like up two levels so you have a good strip view. Only like when I sit on the railing and have beers and people watch

[00:56:23] only the railing is gonna be able to see. Yeah. So the rest of the people- It's all elevated seating. Well maybe they're gonna make elevated seating. I don't know, I don't know how you would. But anyway, if clubs and restaurants refused to pony up

[00:56:40] sales reps for F1 owned by billionaire John Malone's Liberty Media have warned that obstructions like barracade stands and light stanchions could end up ruining the race for their company. So they're just gonna block them. They will obstruct views unless you pay them.

[00:56:57] That one hacked off casino owner told the strip on the strip told the post. It seems insane that they are asking for money for a public event that is taking place in the streets. Well, it's their race. Sources claim that sales people working for Renee Wilm,

[00:57:13] the Las Vegas Grand Prix CEO in Liberty, et cetera, have even threatened that lights will be shined towards the viewing areas of unlicensed venues, blinding guests trying to get a sneak at the- Oh, it's a nighttime race. Yeah. Nighttime? Yeah, cause you can light it up

[00:57:29] and then you see all the lights of Vegas and be cool. Jesus Christ, who threatens? I'm gonna blind your ass if you don't pay me. I'm gonna laser focus in- The mafia! Yeah, the mafia could learn a thing or two from these guys.

[00:57:45] There's a real chance of obstructing views with stands and barricades won't close. I know the hotels are upset about it and they're gonna try to figure out if they'll play along. The letter was sent to Planet Hollywood and black tap craft and burgers and beers

[00:57:57] which are along the race route comes with a subtle threat worthy of Vegas pioneers, mobster, bubs, Zeckel. This is what they said. Las Vegas, they put this in writing. Las Vegas Grand Prix will use reasonable efforts to maintain sidedness from licensees venues to track race.

[00:58:16] The license fee will include equal the maximum occupancy of the licensees venue per fire code multiplied by 1500. Oh my God. The big worry is that Vegas venues will be forced to pass along the fees to their high-rolling customers in the form of stratospheric cover charges

[00:58:33] that could soar past $2,000 ahead. Oh wow. Wow. While Formula One may charge similar fees at other street courses like Monaco, Las Vegas, venues want high rollers to come and gamble several times a year. If the customers spend too much on this money on this trip,

[00:58:49] they might not come back. The Vegas executive added to his direct knowledge of a venue that in recent days told Formula, it would not pay for licensing. In response, they're pressuring, F1 is pressuring the Las Vegas Grand Prix sponsors to get the venue to cough it up.

[00:59:07] There's a certain line they are crossing by telling someone who has spent billions on their property that you are shutting down the strip for construction and asking them to pay for the seats. They are trying to limit people's ability to capitalize on the race.

[00:59:20] Hotels like the Venetian and Wynn, those are both nice, are already paying roughly between two and 10 million to be official response that are not being asked to pay for more for having rooms that face the course. Oh, they are being asked

[00:59:34] to pay if you have hotel rooms facing the course. I mean, it goes on and on and on. They figure in 300,000 people will tend the average ticket price for the three-day package is $6,651. Almost more 50% more expensive than the $4,600 price for the Miami Grand Prix,

[00:59:54] according to King Casino bonus. So there's a bar too on the strip called Heineken House, I've been to it. They're gonna charge $8,000 a person. That's what it's gonna cost if they wanna make this deal. I don't know if they'll do it, but yeah.

[01:00:11] Run of the mill hotel rooms for that weekend are charging $1,000 a night. Add the $6,600 average race tickets, you could easily spend $15,000 for the weekend before even gambling. I mean, this John Malone guy of Liberty, the owner boy, he doesn't look happy, friendly, not at all.

[01:00:34] I just, I don't know. I wouldn't do it. You know what? I would have a fuck formula one party and I'd have all the big screens up and I would black ourselves out. I put up black screen so we can't see it

[01:00:49] and go la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, I would become so juvenile and I'm good at that. I'm very good at just becoming a juvenile idiot. So you guys gotta go look at this painting from 1860. It looks like the girl is holding a cell phone.

[01:01:10] I mean, it couldn't be anymore, but I also don't know what a tiny prayer book looks like. Maybe. Because you have a giant prayer book. I don't have a prayer book. Catholics aren't issued one. It wasn't issued to me in grade school, I don't have it. No.

[01:01:30] It's called the expected one by a painting a painting by Austrian painter Ferdinand George, Waldmueller. And if you go look at it, we're just gonna put it in the schnotes. It could be either or. But I do believe in time travel

[01:01:46] because that Charlie Chaplin clip, if you go online, black and white film, there is a lady talking on a cell phone. An older heavy set woman. I swear to God, what else would it be? It's a famous thing online, everyone's seen it. Everyone who's in the no paddles

[01:02:02] has seen the Charlie Chaplin time traveler lady. I do believe in time travel. I don't ask me to explain it, I just believe it. Now me and my dad used to talk about what if all time is only the measurement of change

[01:02:17] and the measurement of change is only judged by mankind, human beings. What if all time is happening at one time? And then sometimes we just slip dimensions and that's how you see a ghost or that's how you have deja vu. It's all happening simultaneously. What are you doing?

[01:02:34] I'm gonna Google time travel. Oh there's so many videos. There's a lot of videos. Look at the Charlie Chaplin movie. That lady is on a cell phone. Or she has like lice in her ear. And then back then either could probably be true.

[01:02:52] You gotta go look at this, man. Because you do not have the same... I go down route holes way too much and time travel is one of my favorite subjects. Wow, the Christian Science Monitor did it. She's a, here's the other thing.

[01:03:09] If you go look at this painting, everybody's focused on the girl with the prayer book. Maybe she has an iPhone and she's texting about the little creepy fucker that's sitting in the woods waiting for her to walk down the trail. Go look at the painting.

[01:03:22] I would have been like, heads up. I see a redheaded elf in the left of me in case I don't come back. Weirdo trying to hand me flowers. Look at the whole painting before you judge. Just saying on that. Next week I'm gonna do some deeper investigation

[01:03:40] because I think it deserves it. They are two-packed, two-packed chaker. They never... Two-packed. I call them two-packed from the Midwest. Did you go see two-packed out at the gig? He's like two six-packs to me and that's how ripped his abs were. The police have never closed the investigation.

[01:04:03] They have not. But I have a lot. They raided our Vegas home this weekend. I need to do more research on this before I get down to it with you guys because it's quite complicated. And I watched the whole show. What's for this? I don't know. Another tip.

[01:04:21] But Christ, it was 1996. I think what probably spurred it is something we don't know about yet. There's gonna be another show. I mean, there was already one show and then I only saw it one season. I don't know. I gotta check on that.

[01:04:35] He was in the Wu-Tang one too. He's in the Wu-Tang one. I liked that Wu-Tang show. That was great too. But those were COVID shows and then they never came back. Sharp Objects with Amy Adams. The crazy people in Missouri. That never came back. Wu-Tang was on Hulu.

[01:04:49] Wu-Tang was on Hulu? Okay. How about the guy lost at sea for three months? Can we talk about him? He was rescued, Tim Shaddock. Rescued off the coast of Mexico alongside his dog Bella after helicopter accompanying a tuner trawler spotted their cat, Moran, last week.

[01:05:05] He was found healthy and in good spirits. He was completely skinny. Three months he was lost at sea but he brought fishing equipment with him so he could fish for tuna. He ate sushi and drank rainwater. I mean, I believe the guy too. Extraordinary images had emerged.

[01:05:22] I love that we've made it sushi. That's what he called it. Well, fresh fish is sushi petals. There's no other definition. And he was eating sushi. Now did he have soy sauce and wasabi and a nice server and a nice Sapporo? No, he did not. No.

[01:05:43] And what did his dog eat? Dogs don't like fish. I've never seen dogs eat fish and I've thrown a million fish on the bank fishing and the dogs go over and they get all excited and they go, ooh, and they walk away.

[01:06:01] The guy lost like a million pounds out there, obviously. Here's his deal. They departed from La Paz along the Baja, California Peninsula in Mexico in April to go on a 6,000 kilometer solo voyage across the Pacific Ocean to French Polynesia. They left three months ago.

[01:06:24] However, two weeks into his voyage, his storm destroyed electronics on his boat leaving the bay without communication to the outside world or wait and navigate the open ocean. So I was lucky enough to brought fishing and survival equipment along for the trip which both provided him and Bella

[01:06:37] an opportunity to survive the ordeal. Mike Tipton, such and such and such said his survival was a mix of luck and skill. I'd say a lot of skill. How are you catching? Yeah. He said he would be lucky when rainfall would restock his water,

[01:06:54] his knowledge to create shade during the day to stave off heat stroke and strict rationing rules increased his chances of survival. Yeah, I would not how to make shade. Well, I mean, hide under a blanket but I'd still have a heat stroke. The pictures of him beforehand

[01:07:07] and then I mean this should be but it would be another movie. Like what's the Tom Hanks one with the volleyball? You'd probably get bored. Castling. Yeah. You'd get bored of the movie I think. He gave his dog a one. Did you know that?

[01:07:23] He gave the dog to the rescuers. I couldn't do that. No. No. It's weird. It's not the only body of transformation Mr. Shattuck has undergone having dropped a large amount of weight after a stage four bowel cancer diagnosis. The Sydney man was an IT expert in the 90s

[01:07:40] and weighed as much as 120 kilograms before receiving his diagnosis, a far cry from his physique today. He claims that the raw diet helped curb the growth of the cancer cells and saved his life, having not eaten and cooked meal for seven years in an interview in 2013.

[01:07:59] My stomach had cancer. I had stomach cancer years ago, but I'm healed of that. He told the fisherman on the tuna thing. Who don't care? Well, he received small amounts of fame for his claims of raw diet cured cancer. I don't know about all that.

[01:08:17] You should be careful about that. Yeah, one should be careful. Well, you could write your experience and say here's what I did. You want to try it? Go ahead. But I don't know. You should say that we cure it for everyone. No.

[01:08:28] We're gonna, well, there's two things before we go. Little Dorf is going to Huntsville, Alabama. And I've given him one mission. KIV, the governor of Alabama. If you've ever seen my live shows, you know I talk about her. She has a new sweet tea inspired Alabama beer

[01:08:51] sold in cans depicting KIV as KFC's Colonel Sanders. Stop it! Ah! I told Dorf you get your ass in every gas station. Oh my God! What do you combine, do when you combine sweet tea, beer, KIV and Colonel Sanders? A Huntsville small batch brewery took inspiration

[01:09:13] for the South Disabled to produce KIV sweet tea sour, a beer fermented with local honey and cold conditioned with black tea and fresh lemon zest what out sail last week. Cans of the sweet tea. Yeah. And I don't know why would you make her Colonel Sanders?

[01:09:32] It's sold out its first batch. And I told Dorf, don't ever come back to my house without it. If you return from Alabama and you don't, are there any Alabama termites? Have you seen it? Yeah. I'm gonna get, show you guys a can of this.

[01:09:55] Um, here's our last story for this episode. Lana Del Rey. Here's why I love Lana Del Rey. For you older termites, she's one of the children. She's like a Billie Eilish type. The same kind of Maggie Rogers.

[01:10:18] They're all in that group of the same age people kind of. Lana Del Rey though is super weird in a throwback way which I kinda like. She's nowhere to be found on social media. Great. Yeah. Every one of her albums gets these rave, rave reviews

[01:10:36] that she's like a genius person. I find it all sad. I don't know why the children are so sad. It's like, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh. Like a lot of ethereal, but maybe I'm just not sad. She's clearly very talented. And then she lost her computer.

[01:10:52] She left it in her car on Santa Monica Boulevard with the door unlocked. Anyway, Lana Del Rey gave her fans quite a surprise Thursday when she was spotted wearing a wager at the Waffle House in Alabama. What? The singer, 38 years old,

[01:11:08] stepped away from the stage as she was seen pouring coffees and taking orders at the restaurant chain. She was dressed in the company's blue uniform and wore a yellow name badge as she kept busy behind the counter and appeared to be waiting tables. What? I don't know.

[01:11:22] She's so weird. I love it. Well, then people are like, oh, what is this for a music video? Well, you would know that. First of all, the goddamn Waffle House be closed if it was for a music video.

[01:11:32] They close that shit up, they turn off the air conditioners, they don't want noise, and you'd see at a minimum five cameras. And you'd see giant poles with microphones, sound people. It's amazing that somebody in Alabama. I was a little shocked at somebody in Alabama

[01:11:51] because Lana Del Rey is very cute, very pretty, but she also just looks like a normal person. Her hair's darker. She kind of flips the color sometimes, but I don't think I'd know it was her. And I've seen her picture many times online.

[01:12:10] She was also seen chatting to some very surprised customers before sweetly posing for photographs with eager fans at the restaurants. It's not known when she was working at the venue, but fans were quick to flock to social media to show her appearance. Taking to Twitter, one fan wrote,

[01:12:23] Lana Del Rey randomly working as a waitress for the Waffle House is iconic. And then somebody wrote, Waffle House employee of the month, Lana Del Rey. Another joke, it's all silly. They wrote on Facebook, they were so excited to meet her. Despite this way, despite being hugely successful

[01:12:43] Global Star with nine studio albums, Lana keeps a low profile in her everyday life and doesn't have any presence on social media. Do you know how hard that is for a 38 year old? And I'm sure her record company is like,

[01:12:54] bam, bash head and wall, bash head and wall, bash head and wall. Please will you do something? No. Yeah, no, it's my joke from my act. Yeah, no. In the past she's also told how she likes to pursue other job opportunities as well as music.

[01:13:13] She wants to be flexible in her career and a Waffle House waitress is in that belly wick already. She keeps a low profile outside her concert and releases and passes express an interest in following career opportunities outside of music.

[01:13:27] Sometimes that has taken me super far away from music into other mediums and job opportunities. I have nothing to do with the arts at all. I'm very flexible and I've come to understand that if you follow what you're interested in,

[01:13:38] you'll end up being the most creative in that field. Lana, the range of creativity at Waffle House is pretty limited because there's only about eight ingredients. I don't know what you wanna do with a waffle mix, eggs. Pretty cool. Ketchup. Cheese. Cheese? Yeah, they smother your stuff. Potatoes.

[01:14:03] Well, I'm gonna tell you and this is to make everybody. I don't know, a Waffle House is everywhere in the United States. I've never really noticed. They're everywhere I go, I guess so probably in Asia. Right. If you've never been to one, you should go.

[01:14:20] I'd get there before midnight if you can. No, it gets interesting. Well, it gets very interesting but it could also get wacky. You just gotta sit by the door. Sit by the door and don't sit with your back to the glass. Now we're just in a mob movie.

[01:14:35] It's crazy. This is why I like the youngsters. This is why I like young people. This is why you should appreciate it every time you go to a Waffle House. This lady is a journalist. She said, I got a job as a Waffle House server

[01:14:52] that pays $2.92 an hour and now realize why there's a labor shortage. Every single person I meet, we all end up talking at some bar about how come there's not enough staff anymore? Anywhere, right? Anywhere. The airport, not enough. The hotels, where'd everybody go?

[01:15:09] The only good explanation I've heard was a lot of 60-somethings had jobs like that and then when COVID hit, they were just like, I have fucking an ant going back. Okay, so we lost a 60-somethings. But that doesn't explain, that maybe explains a third.

[01:15:22] Where'd the other two-third of the people go that are now part of the half that's missing? Well, this lady went to war, now I don't know. When I waited tables, minimum wage was 201 an hour. That's it. 201. Now, that was 185 years ago during the Civil War.

[01:15:38] But moving on, this lady gets a job. Is there a little diary? So now you'll appreciate the fact that anybody is in a waffle house when you're hungry and you show up, be nice to them. As a new server at Waffle House,

[01:15:52] I earned 292 an hour plus tips, $3 an hour. So let's say you work eight hours, you made $21. If you didn't get tip. Remarkable, that is remarkably, that is above the minimum wage for tip workers which sits at 213 an hour. And so it's only gone up 12 cents since I was 16.

[01:16:13] Great man. But Waffle House is just a side gig for me. When I'm not a waffle house, I'm a freelance writer and strategy consultant. During a cross country road trip, I noticed an increase in roadside restaurants desperate for workers.

[01:16:25] It made it seem like no one wanted to work anymore. So I became curious and I started looking for a part time job. Searched for a couple months, Waffle House gave me a chance, I started working there. The money isn't much but what shocked me

[01:16:36] is the most serving about Waffle House, this isn't the pay, the cost of the employment itself. There's so such a thing as a free lunch, not even a Waffle House. Even though I make $292 an hour, I'm docked $315 a shift for a meal credit

[01:16:50] regardless of if I eat anything or not. I basically work for one hour of my day free because remember she was only making $292 and they just charged you for your meal. The non-slip shoes I had to buy, I had to buy those when I worked at the restaurant.

[01:17:05] Cost me $28. The 14 mile round trip to commute to my restaurant comes to 943 and unrealized, unrealized commuting expenses each shift. Each week about 375 is taken out for taxes. These expenses add up over time. In some ways I'm paying for the privilege of working in a restaurant.

[01:17:24] I make about $75 on average during a seven hour shift. Well if you can make 100 in a seven hour shift and you work five days seven times five, $350 for the week. It's poverty if you do it for a year. During my first four training shifts,

[01:17:52] I made, she had four training shifts. I made $11 in tips. I knew I wasn't gonna make much money during those shifts because I was basically helped my trainer run her section. I practiced taking orders of living food and did most of the dishes.

[01:18:05] Aside from the $11 which a customer gave directly to me. So like when I would bust tables, sometimes people would just tip me instead of the server because they thought I did a better job and then that gave me incentive to really bust my ass. Yeah.

[01:18:21] Which is why you got your pen. You're calpin. After all this was my trainer's livelihood. She wasn't mad about that, not mine. And after I completed my training, I was allowed to 10 mile on my tables and keep 100% of my tips. In total I worked 54 hours spread out

[01:18:37] across 8.5 shifts and I earned about $343 cash tips. This includes a couple pennies I found on the floor. Come on, that's a lot. This is my first time working solely for tips and it's confusing. Well, lucky you. But I don't know I liked working in restaurants.

[01:18:55] I mean, I like bars better. Thirsty people are nicer than hungry people can be so mean. Jesus Christ. Thank you. Mm-hmm. God, that is not me getting well. I've worked in the service industry before but not solely for tips. In America, servers are legally compensated

[01:19:12] for actual poverty wage. Yeah, at an actual poverty wage, correct. The justification is that customers are expected to tip the wait staff but that's not always the case. Restaurants are supposed to pitch in with a tip credit to bring servers to the unofficial minimum wage

[01:19:27] that varies by state. Also just throwing in there, we used to report our tips and of course we didn't tell the whole truth. But then when I was like 18, they said we had to automatically, 15% was the rate at the time, report 15% off our sales. That is bullshit.

[01:19:48] Because half the time I never got 15% in tips. It was just awful. I'm like, oh, that's why America's fallen apart. The waiters and waitresses are scooting out with 2% extra a year. I mean, if that's where we're at, you know. My pay stubs have shown different pay rates, 292, 319 and $12.

[01:20:08] I think it's confusing. I think the $12 was my training rate. Either way it was told, I'd never make less than 1150 an hour. Another thing that surprised me is that I'm not always tending to customer. There's other work that has to be done.

[01:20:20] I have to sweep floors, clean my own dishes, refill, yeah, refill, do your side work. Dirty floors and stacks of dishes that didn't leave tips, correct. To be honest, I dreaded the idea of it's ever but it's grown on me.

[01:20:32] I know the names of the regulars and they know mine. I like taking their orders and chatting with them. Believe it or not, I like doing the dishes too. This is all fine. It can be fun but it's not why, and then she wrote at the end.

[01:20:45] My Waffle House coworkers are some of the hardest people we're ever going to have met. They've worked there for years and love their jobs but I'm fortunate that Waffle House isn't my source of livelihood. I became a server because I was curious.

[01:20:54] I got tired of listening to people tell me about the labor shortage was all about, whoa, what it was all about without experience because it's for them for themselves. Based on how much I've made in tips, I think some jobs cost more to show up than they're worth.

[01:21:06] Okay. Amanda Claypool, well done. Yes! So now. Is she a child or she wanted children? She's wanted, she looks, yeah, I don't know. Probably wanted the children. She wanted children. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, probably. Great. All right, termites.

[01:21:25] This is a long one today but I had extra time today. We gotta go read about the- Sorry, is it too long? We're getting out. Is it too long? No, it's perfect. I gotta go read about Tupac, Shaker. Tupac, Shaker. Here's where I'm coming for shows.

[01:21:41] Cape Cod, Melody 10. Boise, Idaho. I have a favorite Irish bar there. Reno, Nevada. You don't have one there. Yes, I do. I have a spot, Reno. Hershey, Pennsylvania? Yes. Pittsburgh, PA. Yes. Cleveland, Ohio. One of my favorite bars in the whole country. Eau Claire, Wisconsin? Honestly, never been.

[01:22:07] But now my cousin Mike lives there and I can't wait to see it. My cousin Mary's coming up. Yeah, we're gonna have a big chindig night before. Madison, Wisconsin. Chicago, Illinois. Richmond, Virginia. Charlotte, Nalkela. Des Moines, Iowa. And Kansas City, Montana. Boom! And the list keeps going.

[01:22:28] And the list will keep growing because now apparently emails are coming in for all that. All right, termites. I hope you had a good time. Thanks for everything. Thanks for all the presents. Go listen to Dolly. Time after time. I've had my share of it.

[01:22:46] And I've committed no crime. It's fascinating. I can't wait for this album. I'm gonna take the whole day off. I don't even care if it's a Saturday. It'd be great. All right, that's it. Show us a t-shirt again. I'll show you a t-shirt one more time.

[01:22:59] Then I gotta go. We didn't do a lot of these. Baby cat's very mad at me. It's too hot out. She wants to come inside. That's why it's a white shirt. Baths are back. It's got paddles for paddles. And then the front, little thing.

[01:23:13] I don't like it when fronts are too busy. I like, but people are willing to say what you want on YouTube. Tell me what you really, really want and maybe I'll do it. But just know I'm not a big fan of a front

[01:23:25] that says, you know, I'm with stupid. I don't like the giant things. I like it to be clean on the front. The back can be wacky. That's not even wacky. That's just cool. But whatever. Yeah. All right. That's it. My night tour might.