Episode 155: Pickleball Violence, Taco Bell’s New Nuggets & Bidding Farewell to the National Pandas

[00:00:00] Hey everybody, it's me Kathleen Madigan. Welcome to Madigan's Pubcast. You grab yourself a drink, pull up a bar stool, let's talk about what's been going on. Mites! Wow that sounded crazy didn't it? What? I still have a cold. It's lingering but it's much better. Much better. Termites!

[00:00:33] Oh so many things termites. How was your week? How was everybody's week? Good. We need to right out of the gate, we need to vote on a new queen. I'm not retiring Tanya but she's semi-retired because she just does her road things but

[00:00:50] she doesn't bring enough news to the table and nor should she have to. She's older, well some are these other people, some are these other people but Stevie and Sherry never gonna shut up.

[00:01:01] So we need to vote on a new queen. It could be a dude, doesn't have to be a woman. Um gosh I've rolled through some in my head and I'm not, not picking up anything just yet. I even search Twitter and Instagram.

[00:01:17] Yeah I don't know. Okay so while just saying let's get the vote going come on throw some suggestions you guys are part of this let's help help help me out. All right uh where were we?

[00:01:29] We were in Virginia Beach. Me and um uh well my friend and well my friend Kelly McFarlane an emergency came up so she couldn't come so I got Andrew Stanley and he came

[00:01:42] to DC but I couldn't get anybody in Virginia Beach so I did the whole show by myself. So the termites Sarah got an extra 20 minutes of me. It went great they were a great crowd.

[00:01:50] It's a stand-up performing arts center it's like in one the funny bonus I call them fake cities I don't know what you want to call it but one of those areas where you know it's the same

[00:02:01] town to town it's the same there's the Irish pub the fake Irish pub well it's real but I mean yeah the pf I love pfj I like everything in there yardhouse love it love the yardhouse great chicken

[00:02:12] sandwich um so there I received some hot sauce from Leslie that's gonna be shipped I didn't think I could get that through even Delta even Delta Schmelter I think would be like lady

[00:02:25] I don't know about that um Daisy brought me a very nice candle and some peanuts Dale uh brought old big goldfish hot sauce and these cookies that are famous in Baltimore you're supposed to heat them up I did not do that burgers burgers cookies from Baltimore how come

[00:02:40] Lewis hasn't told me about these he's from Baltimore well actually Lewis is from Silver Springs Silver Spring Maryland that's what Stevie's song is about Lou didn't even know that no she said that they were riding by one day and it said Silver Spring Maryland she thought that

[00:02:55] sounded like a lovely place so then she wrote the song about Lindsay you could be my Silver Spring meaning my wonderful place but you didn't Lindsay did you no you fucked it up yeah yeah

[00:03:09] Lou 75 years old you didn't even know that well even when I said that he's like I don't understand what this means come on Lou get with the program oh these are really good really no well they're more

[00:03:22] my mom tastes like a brownie mm-hmm but sweeter than a brownie yeah those are going my mom because she loves the sweet um and then I met um some uh gay guys from Lake of the Ozark

[00:03:38] well they have a place at Lake of the Ozarks they're very nice so they're gay lake termites so technically they're germites but they try they're trying to upgrade me on my gummy bears

[00:03:50] these are called Albany she said in our they said in our house these are fancy gummy bears just in case you hate them we got some hair boost too I got a lot of bears yeah all right

[00:04:07] no not enough high-frocious I appreciate you guys buying them because I wouldn't have bought them because I'm too loyal to my hair bow I think I'm supposed to be saying Bob that they told me yeah

[00:04:17] hair but I always said booze whatever hair is called Mary's um yeah no I don't know gluten-free maybe that's the problem well I'm are they I appreciate and they were fun to talk to um so that was super

[00:04:38] fun shout out to Virginia Beach and everybody that was there I think there's everyone that was John and Jacob the germites yeah and I know where their lake house is but it's kind of far from my

[00:04:49] but I could meet them halfway at a place called Papa Chobbys um it's lake talk it doesn't matter then moving on to DC um the Warner theaters one of my favorite places it's one of what I call

[00:05:05] my marquee gigs where you're just like you can't even believe you made it that far in your life and it was sold out no problem I don't know it sees like 2,500 people I guess and Andrew was there

[00:05:16] he's so funny a lot of people asked who was the opening act his name is Andrew Stanley you can go look him up online he's very funny he's a homeschooler I love the homeschoolers

[00:05:27] he got homeschooled one of his jokes is so basically I know everything my mom knows yeah I never thought about that like that that they wouldn't well they would know more I guess

[00:05:40] but anyways funny he's a funny guy and I was glad he could do it and I'm sorry for my friend Kelly emergencies suck it just a lot of things on the road lately a lot of people myself included with

[00:05:52] you know parents and I saw Leanne Morgan had a cancel shows because her um her little precious daddy I just love her southern talk she's balling her eyes up but she still has time for these

[00:06:04] adjectives like my little precious daddy he's in the hospital y'all I gotta go home I was heart breaking but I'm like yep these are the calls on the road where you're like full stop let's go back

[00:06:16] what have you guys done now um so that I'm drinking this it's called brunch crunch it looks like fruit loops it's from Maryland again but it was brought to me by Cam and Melissa who also

[00:06:30] brought some old bay chips old bay chips are hard to find and I did happen to give one of the bags to the lady that works the door the backstage door you would have thought I handed her a pot of gold

[00:06:44] because she's like you can't find these anywhere they're not even online they're all sold out I'm like I don't know about all that but my termites are finding a lot of them uh based on Paula

[00:06:53] from Pittsburgh came from Pittsburgh they brought um this moonshine which uh will be through all the thank yous quickly so don't worry you can fast forward and we'll get right on up to tall pines distillery 2014 handcrafted moonshine um and some barbecue sauce Lisa Kira and Anita

[00:07:14] again is pint and again is blonde beer which I already drank that was delicious it is delicious and people should know if you think Guinness is too much go for a blonde yeah yeah um made in

[00:07:26] Baltimore yes a lot of things sneaky things going on in Baltimore Lewis that Lewis isn't telling me about yeah he was all excited about his orials and he won't he won't accept the Ravens Lewis will

[00:07:41] not accept them his fanship he's going all in on the commanders which is even sadder yeah he should the Ravens the commanders are a mess they messed up my whole pool um Ruth and Kevin brought me

[00:07:57] a bucky's bag which I actually brought home you wouldn't believe like if you carry a bucky's thing on a plane people just smile it brings happiness everywhere yeah and I have a little stuff bucky

[00:08:08] on my carry on and people go mm-hmm buckies they just they don't even say hi they just go buckies doesn't matter if you're a famous person or not you get a smile at everybody um Austin and Rowan

[00:08:20] brought some more hair but those guys kept Ruth and Kevin brought more fancy bears I'll give it to my mom she don't know the difference I know I'm just no I mean just being honest there's something

[00:08:31] weird I know they're fancy I think some airline gives those out I'm thinking of those fake ones American or is it Delta well shout out to Delta all the flights are great this weekend um and then

[00:08:47] Austin and Rowan made me my little Haribou pencil holder and brought the pencils which I'm fresh out of which is all I can write in that's what I write in my roadbook um Temple brought some

[00:09:01] Guinness Vellant Diane um she has toffee which I'm sending to my mom I can't eat it tubinium plants can't risk it yeah but my mom will review it I'll have my mom that lady started her own candy company it's like a hallmark movie who does that

[00:09:20] all right this is a this is a side story and I haven't even taken any cold medicine and I hope he won't he won't get mad that I said this one time when it when it said uh candy company

[00:09:30] it I always think of this story so Ron White one of his sisters one Christmas he gave him some cash because he was like the blue colors that was exploding and he gave him some cash and the one

[00:09:42] sister um was really upset because she thought that he was gonna buy her a toy store what she was like you've known forever that I want a toy store somewhere in Colorado like and he was like

[00:10:01] no I was not aware that you wanted to have a toy store nor would I have bought you a toy store but it's just such a crazy thing for somebody to go you knew this about me a toy store it's a throwback

[00:10:15] uh Kelly got me the termite drive street sign uh that is also being shipped there's a lot of things being shipped I think the people backstage are sick of my ass because I'm like hey do you

[00:10:24] mind mailing all this back and then there's just a table full of stuff uh Karen brought a big foot playing cars bloody merry mix which was wonderful um team at really good box wine

[00:10:36] set some red box wine and Melissa invited me to her son's new brewery in Patoskey Michigan which I love I love Patoskey and they have a wonderful boat show and that's where I saw the boat that I bought

[00:10:48] yeah I saw it there and then what's crazy is down mine was up on land where the cheaper boats are and then I went down and there were boats down there that were priced at like one

[00:10:59] million but they put the price up I thought that was I'm like if it's over a million you don't need a sign one million point two nine eight four seven and seventy seven cents and then the next one be

[00:11:12] like two million I'd never seen people put a price tag over a million dollars just right there that's the price like a car like here's your sticker price one million anyway and then DC

[00:11:24] because we gotta talk about well I got to go to the old ebbard grill if you ever go to DC it's my favorite restaurant there get the oyster sit at the bar the places but then across the street

[00:11:33] is the Hamilton which is really good too and that place goes way way deep back you can't believe what's in that place um but more importantly I got to go to the zoo and see the pandas we're gonna learn a little something about pandas termites

[00:11:47] with um yeah because they're leaving I know they're leaving and it's very sad there will only be pandas left in Atlanta that's it well I'm gonna get to that but first we're gonna move on

[00:12:02] both crowds though we're just insanely good and I had taken some cold medicine and I thought this can be difficult um and it wasn't because sometimes the crowd just makes it easy like yeah

[00:12:13] it just yeah uh no yeah just raced right through I mean not in race right through that if we did the real show um but you know so thank you to everybody that came out and then this week

[00:12:24] heading on down to Fort Worth it's supposed to rain now when I want to go see the I want to go see the um the cattle thing when they bring the cattle drive in at 1130 every whatever I don't know how

[00:12:36] many days a week they do it but I want to go to that but I don't know that that's gonna happen um I don't know if they do it when it rains anybody termites do you know

[00:12:47] I love seeing the longhorns they're fascinating um all right let's start with some queen news queen news Cher's first holiday album Christmas has arrived it features 13 songs including her take on holiday classics like Santa baby can't I do not like that

[00:13:07] song I hate it it's creepy it reminds me of like the 20s or something all that weird music back then and run run Rudolph I don't really love that one either but if Cher sings them they'll be fine

[00:13:21] um there's four original tunes she said I never say this about my own records but I'm really proud of this one it's one of the most amazing highlights of my career I remember my dad used to judge people

[00:13:33] on he'd go well do they have a Christmas album no dad Metallica has not released a Christmas album yet but I'll certainly try to email their people and see if they can do that was always the judge

[00:13:45] you hadn't made it till you had a Christmas album she's also recruited special guests for the record including Darlene Love who joins her for Christmas baby please come home a 17 year old share actually sang background on Love's original which she recorded with Phil Spector wow stevie wonder

[00:14:01] also joins her how old is stevie wonder a million can you giggle that the duet of what Christmas means to me I don't know that song either um 73 he's 73 that's all yeah huh smoky Robinson's 83 smoky Robinson is 83 he still looks great too yeah other guests include Cindy Lauper

[00:14:25] yay Michael buble yay and tiger tiger tiger tyga tyga isn't tiger the rap person tiger is an tiger tiga I thought it was supposed to be tiger like isn't it I'm a tiger he's 33 he's 33 here's the

[00:14:45] track list DJ play a Christmas song what Christmas means to me run run Rudolph baby please come home angels in the snow home drop top sleigh ride please come home for Christmas I like Christmas

[00:14:58] Christmas ain't Christmas without you Santa baby put a lot of holiday in your heart with Cindy Lauper so there you go termites go get your share you can download it right now and in other

[00:15:08] things you might want to download dolly parton has released wrecking ball with her godchild Miley Cyrus it's just so great to hear the first part when she's like uh uh how's it the first part

[00:15:21] go uh don't you ever say I just well away I will always love you and then you just wait for it to go and in other queen news Tay Tay once again is at the chief's game she's at its house he has upgraded

[00:15:45] his house from one to six million dollar house in a matter of weeks i'm sure he was what if he even knows what her house looks like he's probably like I gotta clean this shitty little apartment

[00:15:54] even though it's a one million dollar house she was probably like oh this is cute this is so cute but I mean I don't know how long he planned on buying that six million dollar house but

[00:16:05] I certainly hope it's not for love because it's gonna be super weird if you're stuck with it and she b-bops off to the rest of the globe and never comes home he's going with her

[00:16:16] still he can't go with her till after the super bowl he can't go anywhere the chiefs won't allow it andy reed will take his fat ass and stand behind the car

[00:16:27] you can't leave you can't leave no so she was at the game and she's doing all these old things with britney my homes and their dad was in the box I think mama went to philly I think she's had

[00:16:39] enough for the cray-cray for a moment I mean not it's not terrorist fault she's just crazy it's an insane thing I've never seen anything like this in our lifetime not even maybe Michael Jackson

[00:16:51] I keep trying to think who I know they say the Beatles I don't know for once I'm too young to know but really I mean just an individual yeah no and the chiefs won so and he really caught a

[00:17:06] lot of passes I'm sure he was like yeah yeah I look great today I look phenomenal and then the one time I thought he caught it but it was the other tight end and the that guy dropped it I'm like

[00:17:16] oh tate don't forget the words or songs you can't be dropping balls it was the other guy at one day I'm sitting there causing shit and it's not even happening that's what my fantasy team was so awful

[00:17:30] I'm requiring them to all go on steroids immediately everyone anyone on my team has to take steroids I don't even care if you're the kicker it's steroid up this is getting critical

[00:17:41] so the pandas at the zoo I never knew any of this everybody always wants to shit talk Richard Nixon but nobody ever gives Richard credit he's the one who got the pandas here to the United States in 1972 it's called panda diplomacy I'm serious

[00:18:10] the national zoo's three giant pansas and I read how to pronounce it but I don't remember it was on the sign Mee Zhang Seng Seng and their cub Zee Qi Gee they're set to return to early China

[00:18:24] in December with no public signs at the 50 year old exchange agreement struck by Richard Nixon will continue we I don't think they're gonna let us have them anymore but that I saw the one was

[00:18:35] out I only saw one and you forget how big they are there when it starts walking like it sits there it looks like a giant stuffed animal then when it walks you're like oh right it's a bear I mean

[00:18:44] use but he's got the little rounded ears he's too cute they're there they can be really violent they don't even let the zoo people in there with them ever nope they're deceiving though national zoo officials remain tight-lipped about the prospects of renewing or extending the agreement

[00:19:01] and repeated attempts to gain comment on the state of the negotiation did not receive a response however the public stance of the zoo has been decidedly pessimistic treating these remaining months as the end of an era yeah the potential end of the national zoos

[00:19:17] diplomatic tensions running high between Beijing and a number of western government China appears to be gradually pulling its pandas back from multiple western zoos so there were one or two in Memphis they got sent back Atlanta still has them they're gonna have them the longest if you

[00:19:31] want to go see them these guys in DC are going back in early December Atlanta sometimes in 2024 I'm gonna go in Atlanta I usually go to the aquarium in Atlanta because it's a wonderful

[00:19:43] aquarium the DC zoo was pretty good but for the national zoo I gotta say expect a little bit more and then some of it I just think I don't should we do this anymore like I don't want to get into

[00:19:54] the argument I'll tell you a funny joke about it though because Ron one time my friend Ron the comedian one of his wives I won't say which one said he wanted to take his mother to the zoo

[00:20:08] and because she wanted to go to the zoo and mother gets whatever mother wants when you're a southern man if mother wants it we're doing it well she got mad because she's anti-zoo and she

[00:20:19] said zoos are like prison cells for animals jail cells for animals well that is utter bullshit because I have been to jail and nobody decorated my cell to make it look like my apartment nobody

[00:20:32] gave me a mate to mate with because I was bored and we needed tiny Ron Watts I've been to jail it's not as good as the zoo so anyway I don't want to get in that argument I won't respond to anything

[00:20:47] regarding whether zoos are good or bad I don't know right now I know they're still here and I wanted to see a panda bear and and I got to um Beijing currently lends out 65 pandas to 19 countries

[00:20:58] through cooperative research programs and with a state of mission to better protect the vulnerable species the pandas return to China when they reach old age and the cubs are born or sent to China around age three or four oh the San Diego zoo returned its pandas in 2019

[00:21:16] and the last bear at the Memphis zoo went home earlier this year probably a little too hot in Memphis yeah yeah they got a giant fur coat on the departure of the national zoos me the only

[00:21:27] giant pandas left her at the Atlanta Zoo and that uh agreement expires late next year the Chinese could possibly be just sending us a signal oh don't be so juvenile uh if you're not gonna be nice

[00:21:41] fans I'm gonna take my panda back um yeah so but here's the one this is how it started it's kind of crazy um that's too much that's too many hard things in that article uh the first ones were

[00:22:01] Lingling and Sing Sing they were here from 1969 to 1972 oh no that's when they were born like the present they were given to us as a gift um following Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972

[00:22:16] well is it a gifted if it has a timeline no it's a lease it's a loan you've loaned you pandas and then they switch them out they were the first one though Lingling and Sing Sing um

[00:22:29] they were captured in the wild oh that's not good no uh first lady Pat Nixon mentioned her fondest for the species which to which the Chinese premier zoo and lie said oh I'll give you some wow that's all

[00:22:48] Pat Nixon had to do was drop that at dinner love a panda great send me one no problem they had five cubs the pair between 1983 and 1989 but none of them survived past a few days

[00:23:01] if you watch panda uh videos on instagram they're not the brightest of the bears no they're really funny but it's usually from little disasters um Lingling died from heart failure in 1992

[00:23:15] she was the longest living giant panda outside of China um oh and and Sing Sing lived age 28 died of kidney failure so now you know if you want to go see him that's all for them yeah yeah it is all

[00:23:31] also they do they do a lot of dating they're very clumsy like the instagram videos are funny because they're just constantly like they're strong though because the one that was sitting out

[00:23:40] broke a bamboo branch but like just went and it was this giant thing i'm like oh shit right you forget there actually a bear right um all right moving on to update update update i only have a couple

[00:23:53] updates i don't know why some weeks not a lot Banksy the artist he's in Gaza no yeah he's in Gaza Palestine and he painted the cutest thing i've ever seen it's a kitten with a red bow on its neck

[00:24:13] it's a giant kitten i mean it's an enormous painting but we're gonna get to something else about Banksy in a second in the rubble stream strewn streets of Gaza an uninfected figure emerges a playful

[00:24:24] kitten adorned with a sassy red bow this gem this street art gem is none other than then Banksy signature touch adding a splash of amusement to a landscape of devastation Banksy's kitten with its

[00:24:36] wildfire uh wide eyed curiosity feels like a tongue-in-cheek nod to the resilience amidst chaos it's if the kitten is saying i've got nine lives and not even rubble can faze me yet the ruins tell a deeper

[00:24:48] sadder tale of his city bearing the scars of conflict i don't know maybe he's just like cats you know people i saw there were cats in Gaza they were like just be glad your cat is in in

[00:24:59] Gaza it was sad yeah i was on instagram whatever our tick tock i don't know but um maybe he just likes cats people read a lot of shit into this stuff that you don't know that's what he was thinking maybe he just thought kitten would cheer people up

[00:25:15] and there's a bunch of Banksy things over there though and a lot of a couple of them there's kids on a swing set like one of those swings were used to the whole thing swings a ride like

[00:25:29] so now here's the thing is that really Banksy or are there a bunch of Banksy's well yeah he did like six of them how does he how's he doing these in Gaza with

[00:25:45] missiles being fired and well here's the thing we might find out who Banksy is and i hope we don't ever find out but an upcoming defamation case could finally unmask the famous street famous street artist Banksy the graffiti artist known as Banksy might be unmasked in an upcoming

[00:26:03] defamation case over his use of instagram to invite shoplifters to a guest store because it had used his imagery without permission i remember that we talked about that yeah now see though if

[00:26:16] he's going to start suing people you're gonna have to say who you are and it's a matter of public record well i don't know about in England but here it would be the case is seen as

[00:26:24] an attempt to force Banksy to relinquish his anonymity which many say has been important to his success over the years the speculation that he's believed to be by many bristles rob robin googenham now the the bookies are taking bets in england yeah there's some other people in

[00:26:42] the running but i've always thought it was this guy he's named as the co-defendant in the defamation suit well it's not been confirmed that Banksy is gunningham pointing this is no way this is in no way revelation moreover trying to find out his identity ultimately does not matter

[00:26:57] no it should stay a mystery that's why it's fun yeah nobody's able to absolutely link gunningham and Banksy short of his admission complete certainty is unlikely but if Banksy's identity is revealed police forces around the world would bring vandalism property destruction

[00:27:15] criminal mischief or worse charges against the individual it's another reason to hide right if he revealed himself it would destroy the banks Banksy mystique he is not likely to snitch on himself or damage the brand yeah but then people are saying maybe

[00:27:31] it's a collective they said at one time there was one Banksy who had a graffiti career and a famous beef in the subculture with London graffiti legend Robo Robo that time is gone Banksy is now a collective of artists who work together to produce thoughtful provocative

[00:27:49] and subversive pieces and installations I think it's a bunch of people because once you know what he does or he sends you the things and says you go out and paint them yeah the ideas um

[00:28:03] I don't know we might find out though that's about so I don't know when this is coming to Fager Banksy fakes are everywhere you could also do the fakes but I don't know

[00:28:18] is how do I would have gotten into Gaza you know I don't think you can just wander in there right now with buckets of paint right I don't know those are my only updates isn't that sad

[00:28:34] I don't know yeah nothing really a lot of Queen news yeah um and I didn't get to watch anything so I don't have what are we watching and the podcast um I listened to in the car was murder murder

[00:28:50] apartment 12 yeah I think I already said that though sorry turn right so it's still taking a little cold medicine holy shit they found it yeah this is really cool all the world may be a stage

[00:29:05] as Shakespeare once famously said but a recent discovery may have yielded the most famous stage yet literal theater floorboards dating back to the Elizabethan age which are believed to have been trod on by none other than the barred Shakespeare himself no yeah

[00:29:23] the discovery was made at st. George gildhall in Norfolk during a renovation the 600 year old planks were located underneath ones put down in the 50s and another layer believed to have been

[00:29:36] laid in the 18th or 19th century there are 12 inches in width six inches thick and held together in lieu of nails with wooden pegs wow experts are now confidently saying these are the floorboard

[00:29:50] Shakespeare Shakespeare would have trodden who uses that word trodden trodden they told the paper it makes this building important nationally and internationally when the building began life is a religious meeting house as confirmed by a royal charter in 1406 it hosted its first

[00:30:09] theatrical performance in 1445 several pieces of evidence suggested the barred himself performed at the venue but we don't even know who Shakespeare is right they've never identified that guy there's like I don't know five guys in the running London theaters were closed due to an outbreak of

[00:30:27] the plague from night from 1592 to 9593 records indicate that Shakespeare's company was on tour in Kings Lynn and a count book shows that his company was paid to perform there wow you could really

[00:30:41] sell some tickets now I wonder who I wonder why they even dug that deep um we could date the floor by construction type these boards are pegged to secure them which is a medieval technique

[00:30:53] we also had some sampling done which provided us with a tree ring date and the growth rings in the timber at in the timber and it's an early 15th century floor that's really super cool you should

[00:31:05] see the theater it's got like um the be the the beams above the thing and it's a very deep theater there's a one two three four like 10 seats in a row but it goes deep they don't say how

[00:31:20] many it seats maybe I'll do a show there somebody find out how many seats what's it take a price thank you oh maybe the British comics could go uh holy shit they a pair of 9500 year old sandals discovered

[00:31:37] in a Spanish bat cave they are officially Europe's oldest shoes and let me tell you what looking at them you might have been more comfortable without them I I don't I don't know these look awful like picture

[00:31:55] walking on old timey boat ropes yeah I don't know my fan Andrew's always barefoot just get your feet hard like his feet his feet are basically shoes yeah um the cave of bats it's no

[00:32:11] it was first discovered in 1857 the actual cave by miners who stumbled upon a group of mummified corpses years later archaeologists determined it was a hunter gather a berry site based on blah blah blah now archaeologists have used the latest dating technology to show the caves

[00:32:26] items are the oldest evidence of sophisticated basketry ever found in southern Europe this includes the sandals oh cool mm-hmm you can go on we'll put it in the schnoch you can look

[00:32:36] at a pair and decide if you want them I would say some flip flops online to be a lot more comfortable they were woven out of asparto a type of grass native it doesn't look like grass they uh they made

[00:32:50] twine by crushing the asperado then dried it for 30 days and soaking it for 24 hours so that the grass was pliable a traditional technique the article notes that endures to this day

[00:33:01] there you go you can go look at them yeah no thanks I think I'd rather just go on um we're gonna yeah all right that's a hard one um I'm looking for oh this is very exciting

[00:33:15] all right this is a big point of argument okay yes and I I know people on both sides of the argument I don't have a side yet because I have never played pickleball I want to

[00:33:33] and the golf course up by my house put it they made brand new pickle pickle ball courts my friend Nicole plays all time um well people are getting really pissed off about it

[00:33:49] I guess it's loud I why is it more loud I don't understand it's tennis more muted yeah it's lowering people's home values it's a hard ball it versus tennis though that doesn't

[00:34:03] bother anybody no oh my god this is well and they say those people the picklepult people show up like at 6 a.m and it goes to like dark stop yeah well I wouldn't want to live right next door

[00:34:22] to one from everything I've read no 6 a.m the day you got to beat the old people the super seniors right they won't come like about 4 30 that's their dinner time we're not 4 30 there's a sour side to pickleball oh you know somebody waited all week to write that

[00:34:41] sentence the game's rapid rise between 2020 and 2022 it saw 113 increase in 13% increase in participation okay are you any of you termites out there pickleballing um it is made for ugly turf wars furious noise complaints violence lawsuits and even potential criminal charges now I did see a

[00:35:09] thing I'm like I don't know if it was 60 minutes or something where these people were like we can't stand it we're going insane in our own house because theirs happens to be and then I did hear

[00:35:23] but I don't know I don't know it's weird hearing on a tv I don't know but anyway I've had to go over our recreational sports center and tell 70 year old men if you threaten to hit our sports center

[00:35:33] director with the paddle again I'm going to kick you out these are old people that's in glendale Colorado he never anticipated his job might including lecturing senior citizens on how to play nicely but nothing has been off limits since the the picklers short for pickleball

[00:35:52] players began showing up in earnest in the Denver enclave a couple months ago a group of fierce competitors all over the age of 60 refused to leave the city's outdoor tennis courts when asked

[00:36:03] by maintenance staff oh my god the courts were scheduled to be resurfaced but the players stood there ground and yelled you can't make us until the cops arrived oh my god why I think this is so

[00:36:17] in September the glendale city council ended up passing a first of its kind according to USA pickleballs managing director of facilities development and equipment standards Carl schmitz ordinance after community tennis players grumbled the picklers had taken over the courts from

[00:36:33] dawn to dark it is now a misdemeanor for people to bring pickleball and that's onto the tennis courts to draw pickleball lines on them shovel snow off them or place chairs on their

[00:36:45] surfaces cameras will be trained on the repaired tennis courts to catch violators who would face up to a thousand dollar fine well it seems like it'll be worth it to these people if there's four of

[00:36:58] them let's divide it right the 250 bucks a pop it's the scarcity with pickleball venues side so and so people feel like never feel like there's a lack of basketball courts

[00:37:13] I don't know I never look never looked for one of those in New York City picklers have tussled with parents after setting up courts in children's play areas in the west village but mostly it's tennis players who are having their territory encroached upon roughly 35 percent of the nearly

[00:37:34] 45 000 pickleball courts in the United States and Canada were converted from tennis courts leading some to cry fall there's so many sports little analogies you can weave into this story oh martin is weighing in if pickleball is that popular let them build their own courts said martina

[00:37:55] never to lova she wrote that on twitter last year oh my gosh she would just dominate a pickleball that left hand I would run away I wouldn't even go out there with her I no way no way no I don't

[00:38:07] want to get injured the United States tennis association maintains that the sport of kings is booming and the number of people playing tennis is more combined than the number of people playing pickleball badminton racquetball and squash first of all I do not believe that I think the United

[00:38:20] States tennis association making that shit up because nobody they want it to be a thing you had your heyday in the 70s with mac and roe and christie everton yeah it's still a thing but I

[00:38:33] mean let's go through the names of who's playing when you're watching wimlin well I should ask my friend lorraine because she she actually subscribes to the tennis channel she loves tennis she played

[00:38:43] in college um yes um she was very good um but every subdivision I've seen in Missouri or Tennessee I'm seeing pickleball people and I'm not seeing tennis people and then the old people

[00:39:01] quit tennis eventually because eventually they fall down and get hurt I mean come on everybody knows that I and also tennis association you can't throw badminton in there badminton is what you play in

[00:39:13] a family picnic it's not something you structure I've been alive a long time I've never had a friend go do you want to go play badminton later no I mean if we're drunk we'll do it in my cousin's

[00:39:24] backyard racquetball that stopped with woody allen nobody's playing racquetball anymore it was a thing Elvis still if you go to Graceland that he still had a racquetball court because it was popular

[00:39:35] that squash I don't even know how you play termites I don't know I didn't really know how to play racquetball I have played it back when I was like 12 but I don't think I knew the rules it was

[00:39:53] just as a kid it was fun to just bash a rubber ball and then it bounced off all the balls and it was violent I like that a 2023 national tennis participation report found that nearly 24

[00:40:07] million people played at least once in 2022 where's all this happened yeah pick a ball a different report said as a fastest growing sport in America participation doubled in 2022 increasing by 85% year over year and by astonishing 158% over three years by comparison the tennis participation

[00:40:29] only increased about 4% in 2022 um this is guys at salesman he sells picker he knows how to make the pickleball course in the last three years I just won't call it good is I want to convert my

[00:40:44] tennis court into a pickleball or am I I'm looking at putting in new pickleball courts my location he a pickler himself he anticipates the courts eventually becoming as ever present in certain communities as backyard as backyard pools in March the associate of pickleball

[00:41:00] professionals reported that 48 million adults had played pickleball at least once in the past year it was originally viewed as a game among seniors but as we've talked about on this podcast Tom Brady owns a team now and then I watched this whole special about the a mom and

[00:41:16] a daughter and they're making bazillions of dollars in sponsorship um I'm gonna get my mom out there for the over 80s um the average player is now 35 years old but pickleball causes more of a

[00:41:31] racket than other racquet sports the hard paddle and prefer it I can't say it perforated plastic ball used to play the game make for louder impulsive noises as acoustic engineers call them which can travel over longer distances than noises from tennis balls and rackets dozens of

[00:41:50] lawsuits have been filed now it let's say your subdivision did that and your house is right next to that if I went house shopping and I saw that I'd be like oh no fuck no I can't live next to

[00:42:02] it's a harder noise though yeah it's like a um yeah like giant ping pong balls does a lot of the bump and noise concern on Cape Cod shout out to my sister law Amy

[00:42:18] um an injunction barring pickleball is placed at certain outdoor courts of course in the town of Falmouth, Massachusetts because of noise complaints Dustin Fouth who lives with his wife and two and two children a couple hundred feet from the pickleball court set in and David that the constant

[00:42:35] pop pop pop of the game comes to the windows of walls of his home forcing his family to play loud music where noise cancelling headphones close windows or leave home to go elsewhere we just can't take it anymore it's driving people slowly crazy Falmouth officials have tackled ongoing

[00:42:52] pickle concerns at their meetings for years and despite the injunction that was placed over the summer pickleball players some say primarily from out of town still riled up neighbors and concerned town officials by climbing the fence make an electric Lance Willis principal acoustic

[00:43:09] engineer for such and such which handles noise studies used to do two or three jobs a year primarily around Arizona at 55 and older communities now he's typically has had four or five pickleball related jobs at one time and they're across the United States and places such as

[00:43:23] Minnesota Vermont Massachusetts as well as Canada I've been involved in several legal actions I don't know um and March the city put a six month moratorium on constructing new outdoor pickleball courts in San Francisco socialite Holly Peterson who's married to hotwire.com founder

[00:43:44] Carl Peterson headed up a campaign in august petitioning the city to immediately shut down the course in her upscale neighborhood as a prosciutto heights residents the relentless pickleball games on prosciutto wall courts are damaging to our peace and quiet the noise

[00:43:58] just isn't grating it's altering our way of life and the wildlife of our cherished prosciutto prosciutto I would say that wrong she wrote the endless racket threatens our fragile ecosystem it sounds like a fragile your fragile nerves not the ecosystem this isn't just about us it's about

[00:44:16] preserving nature for future generations beyond that home values within 500 foot radius are sinking deterred by the unyielding noise this just isn't isn't just a hit to homeowners it's a blow to our local economy she's been trying to sell their 36 million dollar mansion which

[00:44:33] which features a karaoke room that opens onto its own pickleball court oh my god you don't care about the economy you are the economy I'm surprised you even let cars go up there how do you people

[00:44:46] get up there one real estate agent said I've been selling real estate for over a decade never had anybody asked me about tennis but I've had people ask me about pickleball so that's got to say something I'm gonna ask my friend Nicole because there's one in her neighborhood

[00:45:01] I don't know how close it is to their house because I haven't had time to go over um where her and Mark live but I'm gonna find out if all this is a thing do you have 50 million

[00:45:11] dollars not yet whoops nope I don't but there's a 17 carat blue royal fancy vivid blue diamond and they think that's what it's gonna sell for no it's a the always popular falchineva jewelry

[00:45:27] auctions I like how they write that like always popular like who the hell knows no no normal person know that it's a 17.61 carat it's the largest internationally flawless fancy vivid blue gem to ever appear at auction Christie said in his statement but Christie seems to say that about

[00:45:47] every diamond that comes up that it's flawless it's gonna it's gonna go oh it's at the four seasons hotel it would be its estimate is 35 to 50 million if the stone achieves it would be among the top

[00:46:02] five fancy blue diamonds ever sold at auction yes I will keep you it updated on how much it goes for nice I am curious people with so much money like it just I don't even want it I just

[00:46:13] am curious as to what people spend their money on crazy this thing's beautiful but what are you gonna do you can't wear it out someone will murder you I mean you can't you have to have you'd have like

[00:46:23] I have to have 20 body guards to go hey I'm wearing that necklace tonight can you tell Joe and Bob and Steve and whomever this is a weird thing going up for auction and then I think huh

[00:46:37] huh why don't they act like a normal family Queen Elizabeth's $110,000 mile 110,000 mile range rovers heading to auction a Range Rover didn't the grand kid call that I mean that's how it works everywhere like if you know if grandpa dies I call his truck like somebody isn't there

[00:46:59] doesn't anybody want it's hers who does it's the one that she always saw her in yeah I have no allegiance towards the Queen but I don't understand a third generation Land Rover with a unique

[00:47:11] instrument is now up for auction how heartless are these people well I would keep it let's get into Ireland well it's the one you always saw her in in the videos when she had her little scarf on

[00:47:24] and she's tooling around Scotland or whatever whatever part of the world she owns that particular day the 2004 Land Rovers features some distinct modifications she wouldn't usually find in products the rear door windows each have two switches so that one person in the back can operate

[00:47:41] both without leaning to the other side it also has grab handles for the rear seat passengers that work with the side steps to assist with entry and exit it's an Ebsom green rain rover and it has

[00:47:52] a sand hide interior that the Queen protected with front and seat rear covers oh she's an old lady put plastic on stuff oh well mom it also has a dog guard separated the passenger compartment

[00:48:06] with the cargo with the cage that was for the Corgis she also has a modified front grille with covered lights and mud guards to keep the Queen's ride clean I know somebody that I can't believe

[00:48:21] no grand kid was like well fuck I'll take it even if nobody wants it you know we're gonna put it up for auction what do you need how much money do you think you're gonna get um uh queen Elizabeth

[00:48:32] she reigned for 70 years she was spotted multiple times driving herself off and behind the wheel of a landlord although she was spotted in 2021 piloting a green jaguar wagon around Windsor Castle her love of driving resulted in a poor condolences from automakers around the world yeah I'll let

[00:48:50] you know who but who I just think is weird you wouldn't keep that in the family yeah especially how much she drove it well at least the clips I saw maybe there were a bunch of Land Rovers maybe I don't even know what I'm talking about maybe um

[00:49:07] home of cartney there's a lot of things for auction yeah do you have 1.2 million am I getting closer the bottle of the most sought after Scotch whiskey to come under the hammer at Sotheby's in London next month oh it's the most uh it's a 96 year old bottle

[00:49:29] of single malt from the distiller mcallon the mcallum adami 1926 will come under the hammer advanced bidding begins November 1st a version of it was sold in 2019 for one and a half million pounds

[00:49:46] a record for any bottle of water but then what do you do do you drink it do you just show it to people it seems childish hey do you want to see my job

[00:49:58] want to see my super bottle expensive of Scotch and then you just show it you don't offer it to people you save it for some special occasion I don't I mean what I don't know Sotheby says some of the 40 clients were offered to mcallon

[00:50:17] well anyway this one's going up for sale I don't know that's the question I would drink it yeah but you know you can't just do that on a Monday just watch a Monday night

[00:50:27] football you got it's got to be like a thing um um there's also um I already did one okay this is gonna be a little bit hard termites but we're gonna get through it let's have a little bit of beer

[00:50:43] let's have a drink yeah but it's this is what it's complete bullshit I already drank that one I've moved on why and I feel like every year we go through this this is why all of us termites are gonna

[00:50:59] settle this right now okay why does the United States keep daylight savings time well I call it savings that's what we say in the Midwest it's daylight saving time we always said daylight saving time one saving twice a year I didn't know that because I drive to the

[00:51:19] top of my street in winter and I see children standing out in the dark waiting on a school bus and it's also freezing and I think and then you wonder why they're angry little bastards

[00:51:29] and just start shooting such shit because look what you're doing to them it's freezing I'm in the car and I'm whining because the heat hasn't come on enough I don't want to go to the airport

[00:51:38] it's almost time for clocks to fall back one hour yeah well first November first Saturday November so it's in two weeks from whenever you hear this I don't don't count you check your local listings

[00:51:51] I don't know when you listen to this it's time for most clocks to fall back in one hour on the second Sunday of March at 2 a.m clocks in most the United States and other countries

[00:52:02] move forward one hour and stay there for nearly eight months in what is called daylight saving time no west midwest people on the first Sunday of November at 2 a.m clocks fall back to an hour

[00:52:16] to standard time so we'll gain an hour right yes spring you lose an hour spring back fall forward okay what weekend is that that's the weekend of my show in st. Louis so I'll need that extra

[00:52:30] hour because I'll be in the bar I wonder how the bars do that it doesn't count right you can't go it's not last call we've changed the clocks in an hour the current march to November system that

[00:52:52] follows the us began in 2007 with the concept of saving daylight is but the concept of saving daylight is much older daylight daylight saving time has its roots in train schedules we couldn't

[00:53:06] decide what time it is can we just have a meeting but how are we gonna we can't even get us bigger of the house jesus more or less decide what time it is I did think that I don't really talk about

[00:53:18] politics on here because I know everybody gets sick of it I get sick of it myself but jim jordan became the psycho boyfriend that wouldn't stop taxing are you sure you are you sure you don't like me please let's vote again answer me again let's vote again

[00:53:30] and then every time it got worse and it's like finally as the person that's being stalked by some of you like look I was trying to be nice at first and I said it's just me I don't really

[00:53:39] gel with you then the second time I'm like look I really don't like you now you're forcing me to say I fucking hate you like what are you not getting it got worse every time I don't know who

[00:53:53] not to mention I just health wise I think jim jordan's a strange color I think he should go to a doctor there's something wrong with his coloring um let the little guy in the bow tie have it I don't

[00:54:03] know that guy who kept going we're coming to order we're gonna have a vote again Patrick somebody fine let him do it let's just move on with the country's he's an irish red Patrick McHenry

[00:54:14] yes the bow ties a little much for me but it it's a work for the purpose of identification um it was train schedules that's where its roots are but it was put into practice in Europe and the

[00:54:25] United States to save fuel and power during world war one a lot of people said this was all about farming and then I read all this other stuff that says no that was according to the US

[00:54:35] transportation Bureau of Transportation statistics pro tip it's daylight saving time with the singular use saving not savings thank you bashing midwest people my they might say it everywhere but that's what it the US kept daylight saving time permanent during most of world war two

[00:54:53] the idea was put was put into conserve fuel and keep things standard as the war came to a close in 1945 gallup asked respondents how we should tell time only 17% wanted to keep what was called war time

[00:55:09] yeah wish my grandparents were still alive they would know the answer to this during the energy crisis of the 70s we tried permanent daylight saving time again in the winter of 73 to 74 really did we went termites we got any older termites I wasn't either starting senior termites

[00:55:27] what was that like the idea was to conserve fuel it was a popular move when Richard Nixon signed the law in 1974 but by the end of the month Florida's governor had called for the laws

[00:55:37] repeal after eight school children were hit by cars in the dark what it's not funny the children were hit by cars but I it's funny to me that it was eight like the one got hit nothing the second

[00:55:50] one got hit well that's shouldn't be out there schools across the country started delaying start times until the sun came up well they don't do that anymore I see them standing out there in

[00:56:00] the dark waiting on the bus by summer public approval had plummeted and in early October congress voted to switch back to standard time in the US states are not required by law to fall

[00:56:13] back or spring forward it's not even states this is why it is a comic Arizona and for a while Indiana they didn't participate either so you think it's a certain time and then you arrive

[00:56:27] in their state and they're like jokes on you we don't play that what you guys opted out you opt I thought this was a national state right um they're not required to Hawaii most of Arizona

[00:56:41] and some territories in the Pacific and Caribbean do not observe daylight saving time Alaska um the twice yearly switcheroo is irritating enough to lawmakers of all political stripes that the US Senate passed legislation in March of 2022 to make daylight saving time permanent

[00:57:01] why in Arizona well then Arizona and Nevada there's the Colorado River is all that stands between them and I worked at a casino on the Nevada side and they put us up in a hotel across the river it's

[00:57:13] just across the bridge in Arizona I didn't know what time it was anywhere I just showed up like five hours early and then I would just ask people do you know what time it is this is

[00:57:21] before cell phones because I was so nervous I was gonna miss the show I'm like well I'm going now and the other comic be like Kathleen it's noon I know but it could be four o'clock over there

[00:57:30] I don't fucking know what time it is no one knows what time it is it was the most confusing week of my life the uniform time act of 1966 the uniform okay well the US Senate passed legislation in

[00:57:43] March of 2022 to make daylight saving time permanent the bill passed by unanimous consent it would need to pass the House of Representatives and be signed by Joe Biden to become law

[00:57:51] well let's get on it Joe well let's get on it yeah he's busy but this is a side thing you could do on a plane I do bullshit I do bullshit work on planes bullshit work give me bullshit

[00:58:04] this is a softball this is easy easy easy house lawmakers failed to vote on the bill in 2022 probably because we can't get people as speakers that we don't fire or have to tell them 18

[00:58:16] times we hate your guts go away however on March 2nd a dozen senators forming a bipartisan group introduced legislation that would end clock switching in favor of date permanent day late saving time this was introduced by rep representative Vern Buchanan a republican from Florida in the house

[00:58:33] good job Vern why do we need it studies say that over what day late saving over the last 25 years have shown that the one-hour change disrupts body rhythms tuned to earth's rotation

[00:58:43] adding fuel to the debate over whether it's a good idea in any form the issue for every argument is the counter argument there are studies that say we have more car accidents when people lose an

[00:58:52] extra hour of sleep we're not going to lose an extra hour if you make it permanent that's just called life then right what am I missing here oh there are studies that show robberies decline

[00:59:03] when there's an extra hour of sunlight at the day great we also know that people suffer more heart attacks at the start of daylight saving time but what about our mental health yes people are happier when there's an extra hour of light why is that so difficult to

[00:59:16] comprehend that's why they have indoor light things for people who live in dark places they're called happy lights i bought one for my mom happy lights yeah well i don't know she's my mom's half banana sometimes what she's like it's just meant so dark and depressing here and

[00:59:32] i think i need more light so i find this thing online is called happy light you just stare at what yeah it looks like one of those mirrors that i would have had like in high school

[00:59:41] it's just a light but it's intense light she says it works um instead the lobbying effort for daylight same came came mostly from different sectors of the country we don't need

[00:59:54] to go into all this but here's the thing um the bottom line it's not clear whether having an extra hour of sunlight at the end of the day versus the beginning is helpful it just depends

[01:00:04] on who you are and what you want and it doesn't look like daylight saving time is going away in the us anytime soon right it gets light out right now about 6 45 a.m which is fine because of the

[01:00:21] cats i know that because of the cats because they know if um they don't like it if i leave in the dark no they don't they get very upset a lot of talking if it's in dark because then

[01:00:31] they know i'm leaving leaving if it's midday they don't know if i'm just going out i did not make that up no i have to hide my suitcase and everything oh they all know

[01:00:42] they all know um but so okay so it gets dark about it 6 45 sun comes up 6 45 sun goes out perfect let's just call that the time let's just make that the time that's light enough till seven o'clock at night well clearly we can do whatever the hell we want

[01:01:05] and make everybody do it it's very difficult in this community to be flying to different first of all i'm in different time zones and then you're not playing you just opt it out

[01:01:13] of the time game you're not participating in time i don't even know how that was allowed um spirit airlines dirty birds i recommend don't fight on spirit uh i'm not a transportation expert

[01:01:28] i'm just saying i see the crowd gathered checking in its spirit it could get weird it's sort of like a carnival cruise ship um meaning but i get why the tickets are cheap so you get a lot

[01:01:40] young people a lot of party people whatever but all you gotta do is look at the plane look at that bright yellow tell me that wasn't a paint color that was on sale i mean it's it's oh my god too

[01:01:53] much anyway they were ordered to pay 8.25 million to customers um hit with surprise bag fees at the airport this is where their dirty birds yeah they tell you the tickets only 69 and then you get there

[01:02:08] and every single thing you're holding costs more money they had to pay back the customers who were hit with the surprise baggage fees the settlement is a culmination of a six-year act class action lawsuit against a company impacted passengers booked their flights on third party

[01:02:22] sites and did not expect to pay for bags well the third party flight site should have said that but i could also see if you don't go to the actual website can you buy a spirit on it

[01:02:38] can you buy a spirit i don't know i don't use those anymore like travel velocity or whatever now i just go straight to the website i don't kayak they booked third party sites like Expedia and they were charged additional fees for carry on at the

[01:02:57] airport per the suit spirit baggage guidelines only uh only a small personal item that fits under the seat is included in the ticket price so if you have a wheelie bag that's going to go up top

[01:03:10] you're paying for that a carry on price changes depending on when and where you travel but at the gate can run passengers from 99 up if you see my act lately you would know he was going to charge

[01:03:20] that girl 100 dollars and that joke i do is all true though the lawyers asked to approve the motion saying it would be it would represent a fair compromise to the plane of spirit is

[01:03:29] consistently ranked one of the worst air lines in the united states and this settlement is not the only issue it's had last week a woman on the airline confused her eczema for mpox and accused them

[01:03:41] of anti-gay discrimination in mid august another woman said she was struck on the tarmac on a spirit flight oh stuck on the tarmac for seven hours without explanation okay well if i'm on a plane

[01:03:55] for seven hours without explanation i'm calling 911 and i'm not kidding no no why can't i exactly that'll get that plane moving yep and i'll just keep calling it over and over and over

[01:04:07] i'll become the old lady that's completely crazy 911 what's your emergency well um i was an idiot and bought a ticket on spirit airline sorry and i'm stuck outside um this is a one in a million

[01:04:26] you're gonna have to go to the show notes or google it yourself okay a main lobster but it's one in a million because it's not the blue ones those are one in a million this is one in

[01:04:39] 100 million it's rainbow colored this one is a cool-looking lobster it's taking multicolored to the next level the video was posted by jake obnall's a fifth generation lobstermen here in main a lobster man fake posted the video recently on his ticked octogen it blew up i guess we can

[01:05:00] call him a cotton candy lobster or possibly a rainbow colored lobster considering he's got all kinds of hues coming out of him the fact that he has a blue caw growing in his he's got a blue caw

[01:05:13] growing in jake points out that other tones throughout the blue lobstones of blue throughout the lobster but it's also called yellows and oranges it's a pretty rare find no question about that how rare well it depends on how you how this lobster is classified assuming it's a rainbow

[01:05:28] lobster or cotton candy then the sources tell you the odds it's catching is one out of 100 million now like makes a lot more sense that jake said he never caught one that looked like that before the

[01:05:37] story doesn't end there because his life is gonna the lobsters life is going to change forever since the lobster was this was of size and not a female he didn't throw it back instead it's coming home

[01:05:46] to live with him kind of it would be living in the tank at his shop for folks to go and see i'll go for him this is just another viral but it had 250,000 views on tiktok yep so go on tiktok

[01:06:01] if you want to see that i haven't gone to the video i only saw the pictures it's beautiful yeah all right um moving on moving on here's another point of contention we'll see how the

[01:06:20] termites feel about this um well this is a huge update i forgot about this fast food update the powers that be at taco bell have chosen one city and one city only as the testing ground for a new

[01:06:36] chicken item yep it's taco bell's new crispy chicken nuggets guess guess what city gets to try them well here's the thing i thought about it i don't want to go to taco bell for mc nuggets but there's

[01:06:51] probably parents that they know that parents want taco bell but the kids always want mc nuggets so if taco bell can offer i'm making all this up in a marketing meeting i didn't attend i don't

[01:07:03] know why they're doing it i'm never going to taco bell for chicken mc nuggets it's never happening but maybe if i'm the mom and i'm like i really want a couple tacos but i gotta feed these monsters

[01:07:14] in the back and they want mc nuggets now i can go to taco bell it's a compromise the chosen city miniapolis miniapolis termites are you out there i know some of you are there get on down there

[01:07:28] and tell us what's happening um we're supposed to taste the mambo sauce too the mambo sauce at mc donald's i hardly ever go to mc donald's um what are our opinions on self-checkout termites

[01:07:42] i love it you love it paddles yes sometimes i'm not yeah do you care that it put people out of work no are you uh are you no okay you can just bring your right wing self right to the table

[01:07:58] fuck people fuck them i mean sometimes i i care that i am doing the job and i don't even get to go in the employee break room can i have a free pomegranate or something i mean what do i get i'm an

[01:08:17] employee targeting walmart turning away from self-checkout after customers backlash and there's an especially annoying factor retailers they're the customers are complaining too much i also think there's a lot of theft right i also think when i self-check myself out of walmart which i don't

[01:08:37] like to go to i'm only forced to a few times for certain things i'll admit it i have to go sometimes uh um no sometimes the groceries the nashville produce is terrible and i don't understand why

[01:08:51] because we're close to the south right um walmart's always got avocados that's just about mine they do have a lot of avocados yeah yep it's good i don't like to but anyway self-check out anywhere

[01:09:06] okay when i walk out with that receipt i do not feel like that person scanning it actually scanned it i don't care i'm not stealing but when they look at it and there's like i got like a hundred

[01:09:19] things on here for a big shop right and they'll go yeah have a good day you didn't fucking read that i know you didn't i don't care i'm not stealing um uh customers online have vocally

[01:09:31] voiced their issues with self-checkout um with the number of when you use it with the number of cash years that have work have working is reduced i don't like the fact that i'm doing a job and not

[01:09:40] getting paid for it well this lady wants a discount well um not all her shopping's having issues using the kiosk what stores are running into their own problems as well well i don't like it if i buy

[01:09:54] beer and then i have to wait for somebody to come check my id it's really slow yeah it can be very slow um any kind of thing over 21 higher rates of theft if you had a retail store with 50%

[01:10:09] of transactions worth were through self-checkout losses would be 77 7% higher customers should not um are not very good at scanning reliably well i didn't have training i mean come on you just threw

[01:10:24] me on the job i'm just it's on the job training um i don't know target announced they're working on establishing anti-theft measures which would make stealing from self-checkout less likely to happen

[01:10:38] low said the secret to their low theft is they have a lot of um employees out on the floor they do but they're all helpful that's why i like nobody has enough well those those walmart revealed is removing self-checkout all together from three stores in albuquerque new

[01:11:01] mexico albuquerque what are you doing dirty birds are you stealing i think you might be um despite the issues with self-checkout two out of three shoppers would prefer over traditional checkout well there you go paddles well i find it annoying if the lines are too long a shopper

[01:11:21] yes yes yes yes um well yeah it gives you something to do rather than just stand there and play on your phone yeah i don't know why this story is so strange to me and then we're gonna wrap it up to rights

[01:11:39] because i have to go do another podcast i don't know it's some npr game show or something i don't do you win money i don't think i win anything no i don't know because katie my publicist will

[01:11:54] tell me i have to somebody's gonna have to run this tech shit i don't know how whenever they send the emails and i'm like it i wouldn't do any of this if i didn't have somebody

[01:12:08] to do it i would just say no call me that's how i'm i do media call me i hate zooms i have to go take a shower and put on makeup right whatever it might be fun a minnesota man has

[01:12:20] pleading pleaded guilty to stealing the wizard of vaas ruby slippers from the judy garland museum oh my god here's what you don't know there's many pairs of those slippers there's yep no a mystery

[01:12:33] surrounding the theft of pair of the ruby slippers that played a pivotal role in the iconic 1939 film the wizard of vaas has come to a close terry john martin 76 years old pleaded guilty to taking

[01:12:47] them from the judy garland museum in grand rapids minnesota where the actor once lived once lived he took him in 2005 i did not know she was from minnesota or she lived in grand rapids

[01:13:01] yep i know um martin used a sledgehammer break through the museum's glass door and display case before making all for the shoes while they were recovered in an fbi sting in 2018 and have since

[01:13:14] been returned to their owner a private hollywood memorabilia collector who had loaned them to the museum the thief's identity long remained uncertain martin was indicted by a federal grand jury in may and maintained his innocence in june but he finally pleaded guilty on friday at the time of

[01:13:29] the crime he believed the shoes were made from actual gemstones he said and when he discovered that their spark was mere tensile tal magic he ditched him i didn't want to have anything

[01:13:42] to do with them he told judge patrick schultz the shoes were insured for a million dollars at the time the fbi put their value at 3.5 million now they're one of five known surviving pairs from the movie

[01:13:53] another one was on display at the smithsonian museum of american history in dc that's where you've seen them there's fraud there's five pairs um he arrived in a wheelchair of the guy

[01:14:08] wearing a mask with an oxygen tank he was trying to ascertain that martin was a sound mind and and understood potential consequences i think he wanted to take responsibilities where he said

[01:14:18] and move on with his life with what little life he has left a trial hanging over your head or doing these things while you're trying to get your end of affairs just didn't seem like worthwhile

[01:14:26] to him they've agreed on a plea deal while the d details have not been made public it but it does the deal does avoid jail time yeah i don't think i don't come on well i have a different opinion

[01:14:41] but where was the wizard of oz one in cancass i went to it that's the museum the museum were the red slippers in there no pictures of them um as wise client decided to plead guilty

[01:14:58] now the attorney said i think was someone is at the end of their life and they're making decisions that are right for their affairs and i mean the short answer is because he's guilty where

[01:15:09] what me go i stopped on the way to salina cancass to see my boyfriend shone cassidy yes she was born in grand rapids and then they fled to california for riches in fame

[01:15:24] her real name was frances gone i know they're letting them go all right termites here's where we're going oh the dvds so a bunch of you guys said you would want to dvd so i'm gonna throw them

[01:15:39] up on the website i didn't know if anybody still use their dvd players i still have one and i have a cd player in my mercury mariner but i thought well a lot of people have already moved on from that

[01:15:48] so at some point soon they will pop up on the website and then you can um and there's not a ton left i mean there's too many for this house i need them out of the house it's taken up room in

[01:16:01] this house the walls are closing in i'll keep one for each niece and nephew and when i'm all dead they can go oh look can't believe this anywhere here's where we're going fort worth boom houston

[01:16:16] boom st louis denver two shows 22222 the villages two shows eugen organ portland organ seattle washington then starting in january witchett taught tulsa santa rosa weatland those are the make up dates and monoray oh san louis abysmal i love saying that salvia abysmal monoray

[01:16:38] birmingham alabama and atlanta georgia birmingham and alba and ala the tickets are selling so great well they're all so good thank you termites for everybody bought one but i wasn't quite expecting

[01:16:49] that it was wonderful andrew will be at those um fort worth in houston i forget who's uh michael palisac he's very funny st louis chris voth denver comic he's flying in denver john novus

[01:17:04] sad these are the opening acts in case you care eugen portland seattle michael palisac which then then i don't remember all after all that it's too much to remember it's written down it's written down somewhere it'll be fun all right termites enjoy the fall it's a halloween week

[01:17:20] no is it oh yeah sag after the union put out my side on the today show put out a thing telling their members not to dress up like popular characters in movie i'm i'm sorry is this for adults

[01:17:32] is this a memo for adults that i'm not allowed to dress up like mario or i mean i just was like really sag after i mean i think i'm a member of that but i'm not an actor so it doesn't really

[01:17:43] matter it doesn't really and oh i got an done two quotes i forgot yeah and the woman who sent it it's your name and i forgot to print it out i'll do it next week i think it was stefany stefany

[01:17:55] all right here's a quote from dolly these are just random oh my god i opened it to the exact same page i did last time how weird is that wow let's try and creepy um i've been fortunate enough to

[01:18:13] see dreams come true in my case i have but i paid my dues i was saying i'm gonna give to god the credit but i definitely want the cash good one dolly and how about tei tei what's tei tei got

[01:18:27] to say today i would very much like to be excluded from this narrative she said that on instagram and then she said on vh1 as soon as i accomplish one goal i replace it with another one

[01:18:40] i try not to get too far ahead of myself i just say to myself all right well i'd like to headline a tour and then i get there and then we'll see my next goal is

[01:18:50] yeah very millennial well i don't i do this i don't set goals i don't like the pressure of it either opera you can just take that speech and give it somewhere else i'm not a goal setter

[01:19:01] i'm up let's go to the bar and see what happens to a lady so anyway enjoy the week turn lights