Episode 163: Gingerbread Buc-ee’s, An NFL Heist, & SFO Airport’s Therapy Cat

[00:00:01] Hey everybody it's me Kathleen Madigan welcome to Madigans Pubcast. You grab yourself a drink, pull up a bar stool, let's talk about what's been going on. Hermites! In the words of Stevie Nicks, welcome. I actually went to the UPS store

[00:00:31] by my house and the lady opened the door for two ladies in front of me went welcome and she said oh that's for my favorite podcast and I was standing too behind that lady and I thought about saying something but then the lady was

[00:00:41] gone I mean she worked there but she was in the back or something so I didn't say nothing but it was a very flattering shout out from a termite. This is it for 2023 termites this is it. This is the last time you'll see me in the Buc-ees

[00:00:54] outfit until you know next season. It's the season. This leg by the way if you're not if you're listening and not watching is a giant leg on a stool that had alcohol in it that's from Tinseltown in Kansas City. The Tinseltown

[00:01:11] Tavern that's so far the greatest pop-up bar and I've been to a bunch in Nashville nothing competes with Tinseltown and nope Kansas City nailed it there I must say. Speaking of well what are we what are we drinking? I'm drinking

[00:01:24] a little Thunder Ann beer because I've been in Nashville all week and they have delicious well I'm a sucker for the can but the cans just interesting. The more shit, well I love the beer it's Jekyll Brewing they make all good beers but the

[00:01:37] more shit you put on a can the more liable I am to buy it. This is it 2023 it's crazy. Whoa the leg here's what's crazy so if you go to Vegas I don't know

[00:01:54] if they still do this I think they do at the Paris Hotel they have an Eiffel Tower that's like this big a plastic Eiffel Tower and they fill it you buy it's like

[00:02:04] I don't know a hundred bucks but you get like four shots in there and then all the everything that's just gonna make you vomit but yeah they wear them on a string around their neck like their cattle I mean I don't I just I all I

[00:02:16] don't like the colors of all these things all I think of is vomiting all of it back up but at some point in the night and I was sitting there were these young guys they were like in their 20s and they got the bartender made them

[00:02:27] each their own Eiffel Tower whatever and the kid so the bottom of the tower was filled with alcohol but once you got past where the viewing area would be on the Eiffel Tower there was no more alcohol and the kid got upset and he was

[00:02:40] like dude you didn't fill up my top Eiffel Tower and the guy goes first of all it would be illegal for me to do that it would take like 20 shots alcohol

[00:02:49] he goes and second of all if I did that and you drank it you would die the kid was just like all per plate I mean dude you know much liquors in the bottom of

[00:02:59] your Eiffel Tower like a shit ton and then he wanted that all the way to the top I'm surprised I don't know I bartended we had rules about all that like just I Vegas there's no rules whatever you could do what I don't even

[00:03:11] know if they still do it but they did they I've seen the Eiffel Tower is not that long ago yeah so if you're looking for a giant drink that you can wear around your neck like you're a cow yeah and a little Evan Williams eggnog

[00:03:26] because yeah I know that um the kid who puts all the chemicals in the pool just came over and I went out to say hello in this outfit and I had a beer in my

[00:03:39] Bucky's glass the look on his face I don't know I don't know how he received all that but I gave him a really great tip so he was very like Bucky Santa has come to deliver your Christmas present thank God you're here at the same time

[00:03:53] it's well working out and before we go on to Queen news I did attend the Titans game for a little sports talk well I'll save that for when I get into it because we have a little sports talk this week apparently some people like it

[00:04:05] I'll never make it too long because I know some people if I say sports day segment and you don't like it you can just fast forward how about that we're gonna try just for the sake of trying these mini Cheetos I do love a Cheeto I've

[00:04:18] never seen a mini no no I went in a Piggly Wiggly by the way I don't know I don't know how many of you have a Piggly Wiggly by your house I needed bread it's not where I would normally choose to shop it doesn't it looks pretty

[00:04:31] there's a lot of report of meth homeless people in that particular parking lot so I don't like to park there and then there's those creepy people and the store it's a little sad but everything in there I remember from being a kid cuz

[00:04:44] it's a shit we ate I think the whole store should be called we don't give a fuck about preservatives everything everything where I'm like oh that was good don't tell me hamburger helper is not good it's delicious I haven't seen

[00:04:55] it 20 years but here it is mini Cheetos oh they're tiny little Cheetos in a Pringles can they must be the same company you can't just rip that off can you it's Frito-Lay yeah Plano Texas well done Plano people sometimes talk shit

[00:05:13] about Plano Texas that there's just a bunch of kids out there doing drugs well somebody's making Cheetos yeah I've been there I thought it was fine I didn't know what's anything where these are really good this inferior Cheeto person could be

[00:05:28] gone in one sitting dangerous yeah let's see how many count oh my god sodium 330 that's why I like it yeah it's all salt 15 carbs only what they call serving serving size one ounce 63 of them there's three point three and a

[00:05:48] half servings in this can so if you ate the whole can I can't do that math who's getting and then these look turkey stuffing potato chips the term I brought these backstage in Florida and I forgot I saved them for well thanks no it was

[00:06:02] after thanks sorry I know that's loud I usually do it beforehand I forgot I was talking well my friend outside mmm these are made from Clancy gobble gobble wavy potato chips turkey stuffing mmm no okay if you handed me one and said what does

[00:06:30] this taste like I would not know the chips are good and they're fine I just don't understand where the turkey stuffing parts coming in it tastes like potatoes yeah no which is fine yeah we'll just put that aside with the mini

[00:06:48] Cheetos and I'll be eating later and okay so well first we'll do a little shout out a Twitter termite is so you be it won't be be a termite was just having

[00:07:00] a bad day so I'd give you said I'd give a shout out to Bambi I hope whatever's wrong is better here's to 2024 that's a reason to drink why not mm-hmm nutmeg is on top of here in which I did Lewis has a whole video online he was

[00:07:15] recently in Connecticut somewhere and it's the home of nutmeg and he is it it's the nutmeg state he it was just off the cuff I don't know he posted her online but he was just there and well nobody ever says would you like a

[00:07:34] Connecticut nutmeg or perhaps another state I mean who they even hot what is it is it on a tree Google what is nutmeg is it is it a like a nut I don't

[00:07:47] know I just thought it was not Meg and why does Connecticut have all of it it's their trees Wow how can they make money people only eat this was a year it's a spice seed mmm well I don't know how they're staying in business it's like

[00:08:15] watching a Hallmark movie and they even a maple syrup for him I watched one about a maple syrup for him what who knew all this is I've been at Connecticut a lot I didn't know all this

[00:08:33] was going on out there secretly you people are how are you making money people how much like I bought a thing on nutmeg it's this big that will last six years it's like my old friend Tom Ryan's joke about baking soda you just

[00:08:44] move it from house to house how do they then they've tricked us and baking soda they told us this is part of his joke where he's like they weren't selling enough because think about it every apartment I ever had I just moved

[00:08:52] the baking soda to the next refrigerator and you're supposed to have it open per my mom I don't even know if any of that's true but then they were like shit we're not selling a baking soda so they told every to remember what they told us

[00:09:03] to all pour it down the drain it'll make your drain feel better so they actually just had us dumping out baking soda to sell more baking soda it's pretty brilliant though and we all did it I did it I was like oh I didn't know I had to

[00:09:15] do that so right your fridge in your drain all right so there you have it Queen News it never stops okay it's it's like Rosie on tic-tac-tic-tac you don't stop deli you don't stop she's bringing a 60,000 square foot restaurant and show

[00:09:38] to Florida that will create 300 jobs wait wait does this lady sleep I mean I know she's not doing it but her whatever she's it's still her money somebody's got to tell her hey hey crazy legs what are your thoughts on a pirate show in

[00:09:54] Florida yes yes yes um she owns the Dollywood theme park yeah she owns Dreamore and Resort Spa Dollywood part and stampede around your neck so people go you're from Hawaii that's crazy the stampede was fun I guess but it was

[00:10:13] like North and South they were still doing Civil War stuff she's that stopped I think that was like five years ago they moved on to holiday one is very cool there's flying angels I didn't like the no alcohol policy I gotta say

[00:10:28] well and I didn't like that there was a thing that looked like a bar and then I went up in order to drink and was told they don't have any alcohol and then then don't stand behind a bar that get behind a lemonade stand or whatever fattening

[00:10:42] shit we're selling here full Pepsi no diet Pepsi I'm like oh come on there was a banjo I was totally getting my hillbilly vibe and I thought you know what a nice glass of red breasts would really turn my hillbilly on and then I

[00:10:56] was told there was iced tea or some shit anyway she owns all that and she owns the Pirates voyage dinner and show so we're moving on a pirate so we're actually moving backwards in time from the Civil War we're going backwards to

[00:11:10] pirates that's fine she's gonna bring one to Florida oh right now it's in Myrtle Beach it's South Carolina it's part of the Dolly Parton Company you are entertained as pirates such as Blackbeard and Calico Jack they battle

[00:11:29] in a variety of scenarios you also see birds and mermaids as they enjoy a four-course feast that includes chicken ham corn on the cob potatoes and apple pie I did not think the food was that good at the Dollywood Stampede not that

[00:11:43] I was expecting it to be good and you eat with your hands the whole place smelled like horseshit quite frankly because there were live horses there so it's gonna smell like horseshit so I don't know I'd rather can we just drink

[00:11:55] through this I don't want I think that's the Christian touch we need she needs to do one for Catholics and Jews and Methodists and Lutheran people that they're Catholic light the people that drink yeah and um yeah whatever it's an

[00:12:12] experience in a meal it's fun to take the kids and it's 69 bucks for an adult 34 oh well you can get an adult ticket for 69.99 at 34.99 but I mean 300 jobs good for her yeah it's gonna be in Panama City Beach construction will start in

[00:12:33] 2024 completed by 2025 many pirates many pirates it's gonna be in a 60,000 foot square indoor theater with a thousand seats oh it's gonna cost 60 million dollars and we'll bring 300 jobs yeah it's just amazing the panhandle does

[00:12:51] have its highlights for sure but and it's not as people go well yeah but you won't move to Florida go to the panhandle because it's not really warm in the winter it's warm and more than anywhere I mean it's hoody weather would

[00:13:05] they want hot like people my parents age want like shorts and a tank top and they want to come back tan and show everybody a brag oh I was in Florida okay so Dolly there's there was something else I think oh no I we're

[00:13:20] moving on to Cher this is so great Cherdole oh and I forgot my jelly roll thing dang it well I'll just tell you about jelly roll he filled up two giant tractor trailers with toys and brought

[00:13:34] him to this place in Nashville and just gave him away so good for where's Jelly at Jelly's over there good for him a giant toy drive yeah all free and Cher Queen Cher Queen Taytay by the way was it the she the other the Chiefs against

[00:13:54] the Patriots and yeah they did boo her but I think it's cuz she was root for Kansas City I think we shouldn't boo her right I mean what do you care but but that's you know football whatever they showed her because one of the Patriots

[00:14:10] did knock boyfriend Travis to his ass and now that she understands football she was very upset about her boyfriend they still won so whatever it's all fine Cher went on the Kelly Clarkson show and she told I'm gonna cuss here that

[00:14:32] bothers anybody so cuz Cher said it because she's never been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame she said they can go fuck themselves yeah and she wouldn't do it now anyway yeah Cher amends no words while discussing the

[00:14:46] Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for failing to induct her for yet another year on today's episode of the Kelly Clarkson show she said you wouldn't accept the honor at this point even if was offered a million dollars she's um because she's

[00:15:00] out there promoting her Christmas song which I love DJ play a Christmas song it's just it's the best new Christmas song I'd like that my entire house to blink to that like the gay guys did when I lived in West Hollywood they had the

[00:15:12] Mariah Carey one but I'm over that song it's just played too much the Mariah oh um she's had a number one hit in seven seven different decades Cher has right and you can't I know she's not rock and roll but neither is Dolly they induct

[00:15:31] all kinds of people that aren't tech you know clinically technically rock and roll people um she pointed out that she's only one of two artists who have done this the others would be the Rolling Stones yep it took four of them

[00:15:44] to be one of me and I'm not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Clarkson along with the rest of the audience was shocked to hear Sheridan hadn't been included in the yearly ceremony despite her many contributions to the music industry

[00:16:02] Kelly Clarkson said wait are you serious and Cher said I'm not kidding I'm not kidding you I was about to say shitting you but she said that anyway so you did she said you know what I wouldn't be in it now if they gave me a million dollars

[00:16:16] I'm never gonna change my mind they can just go fuck themselves imagine 70 she's like 77 or 78 years old I mean I'm sure she doesn't give a shit like there's some age where you're just over trophies it's just a trophy I mean I mean oh

[00:16:32] it's an honor right but like are you ever gonna go to Cleveland Cher to look at your display no so who cares I go in there every time I'm in Cleveland because there's so much to see if you love music I mean you should go once

[00:16:47] it's an awesome place and then you should go to my bar the Harbor Inn get in an uber it will take you five minutes maybe I'll write a travel book with my favorite bar some tonight's have said that I know Cher had one last one last

[00:17:02] mic drop drop moment as she reminded Clarkson that she changed music forever with her 1998 album believe which won best dance recording it was nominated for record of the year at the 42nd annual Grammy Awards good for Cher you

[00:17:18] get out there there's a picture of her meeting Prince William which was very cute she did some Royal shindig thing I don't know what that was all about speaking of royalty we have a royal update Prince Harry and Meghan I don't know why he

[00:17:38] can't go on YouTube and watch the movie about his great uncle no the exact same thing is going to happen to you sir like if I could just sit him in a room and go dude yeah I just yeah well there well they were voted most like

[00:17:58] second most hated by the Hollywood reporter celebrities oh the lady that was first was that one that fought with Johnny Depp the divorce I didn't follow any of that yeah yeah I have to yeah I mean the money's gonna run out like and

[00:18:18] I asked my parents I go what it is George Gary and Wallace Simpson I don't remember any of that and you know they're old cuz most of the movies are in black and white and it's just them both chain-smoking there however they go

[00:18:29] they're just chain-smoking and I'm like well you can't say they weren't fun they always have a cocktail and a cig and they're just but you just become until you can make money on your own and you spend all your money now it's just

[00:18:42] you're grifting which somebody already said that's what they are that I think this modified guy or I don't know somebody somebody's um you know and there's no reason to hate these people I don't even know these people and I don't

[00:18:53] even root for the royal family as an Irish Catholic they've all done some very bad things historically as a unit I'm not saying individually I'm sure Prince William is a very nice person or whatever and it may be I think Harry when

[00:19:06] you watch the crown you're like he's always been a little shit yeah that's fine you're the second kid you're supposed to be the little shit but this whole plan that they're trying to carry out it's not working and their

[00:19:28] foundation I don't even know how you say it Archie well our arch well arch well why do they add the e Archie well it's here's your first problem there's a lot of people I went to college I finished and I don't know what your thing says

[00:19:45] Archie well arch well but it's not even spelled like Archie a RCH ie it's arch a RCH e we that's their foundation well the donations have plunged after a rocky year well you're both crazy you go into Oprah and say all there are a

[00:20:06] bunch of old white racist which I think a lot of people would expect Chris Rock does a big joke about it I'm not lifting material I'm just saying we all thought that every single family most likely there's gonna be one relative where you

[00:20:18] brief somebody before you go over there and go uncle so-and-so every now and then is liable to just I don't agree with the statements it's just too late to change and it's part of the deal right um yeah so anyway um they're trying to be

[00:20:38] producers and renowned philanthropist but 2023 prove rocky for them well the sociopath part two comes in you go on Oprah and call these people a bunch of racist that's what I said and then Harry says we didn't say that dude it's on

[00:20:51] tape you've implied it at the very very and Oprah let them all get away with it and then she said all our kids aren't getting security because they're black no it's because King Charles wasn't King Charles yet he can't know there's actual

[00:21:06] rules somebody should have fact-checked that on the Oprah show and said wait here's the royal rules open okay I wouldn't care if I was over either so their annual report um they have an 11 million drop in donations they received

[00:21:26] 2 million in a charitable contribution in 2022 but in 2021 they received close to 13 million so we're dropping like flies yeah well I'd have to say what are you spending the money on show me what you've done maybe they have done things

[00:21:40] I don't know they do have chickens I know why would people get that rich they act like they're poor again yeah right I can show you chickens all over Tennessee and Missouri and those people need those chickens those are not props those are

[00:21:54] not joke chickens those are chickens that somebody is like I counted them and I have eight and there better be eight out in the morning if there's not my friend Andrew had chickens right till something got in and ate the chickens

[00:22:05] Andrew did not secure his property well enough well hello baby cat are you coming up for the podcast you want to see the people oh your voice is back for a whole week she didn't when she would open her she'd

[00:22:18] go but nothing would come out and I called the vet who's my neighbor and I'm like Curtis I don't know what this means cuz I haven't had a cat since I

[00:22:27] was a kid hi baby cat you know come on but my cat is opening her mouth to meow and nothing's coming out like ditch then I googled it oh my god don't do that RSVP she's got some lung infections should be dead by Friday and he goes well

[00:22:43] Kathleen maybe she don't feel much like talking well but she's trying come here come here come on she's trying to talk but her voice is back it took a week I think she ate the mangled bird there was come on come on come on she won't

[00:23:03] come up all right she's gonna distract me she likes to zoom there's a lot of zooms in matter of fact I'm gonna post one today where we talked about Theranos a podcast I forget the name of it but it was super fun and my friend

[00:23:16] Heather McDonald she came in too she was on there and baby cat you'll see her lurking a lot come on come up here she won't like that yeah she doesn't like change she hates the Christmas tree she hated the entire process all right go

[00:23:37] back down anyway so nobody's giving him money Harry and Megan he did win some lawsuit in the United Kingdom I saw about hacking phones it's 2003 2007 should the press be doing that it's Rupert Murdoch it's a daily mirror

[00:23:55] appears more and all that shit can't you just help Foxy's people like I would tell him here's what you want well here's my phone number go ahead tap it and then I get a different goddamn phone right even if you have to do walkie

[00:24:08] talkies go backwards in time matter of fact act like my parents do have an answering machine one time I went my mom and dad's basement that's where the answering machine was located so I know no one's doing anything and I clicked on

[00:24:24] play and they said you have a hundred and thirty messages I didn't know there was that much tape in that thing and the one guy was like hey uh I've been trying to get a hold of Jack now for a couple of years years and I'm like don't

[00:24:37] have that on if you're not gonna answer messages for years people think you're dead they're checking Facebook we don't care they don't care they just don't know they're like reaching pioneer people it's still point now I

[00:24:50] have to physically go over there to get someone to answer a question well you never call oh my god I call 17 times a fucking day a lot of times it goes beep the caller you are trying to reach and then it's been disconnected I don't

[00:25:06] know what they do um their their Archie well is centered around Sussex dedication to leading cause-driven lives it's very cause-driven what is my cause my cause is to provide entertainment in a Bucky's outfit winner I don't know I

[00:25:29] just think they've played all their cards wrong you should have come over here quietly mark my words they will move to Los Angeles she will grow bored of Montecito and I'm not blaming her I unless you have Ron white as your best

[00:25:42] friend and want to go golf every day and pretend like you don't have children like Ron and I do not we could just go golf and drink and frolic the day away on yeah on Ron's dime too he did though any had his little jet and then he

[00:25:59] painted shark teeth all over the bottom of his private jet because he wanted Oprah to think that his plane was gonna eat her plane and I'm like well the problem is I don't think you've seen the size of Oprah's plane it's just

[00:26:10] about seven planes bigger than yours so and his was terrifying I didn't know yeah so that's that's your royal update yeah 11 million dollar drop in donations that's not good I don't know what the answer is they need a new media

[00:26:24] consultant they need somebody to go first of all I think they need to shut up shut up we're so sick of hearing about we know the complaints they've been lodged everyone's made a decision we're good what's the what do you got to talk about

[00:26:35] next and apparently she's gonna write a book yeah she you know I don't know I don't think they played their cards right though and just go watch the movie in history repeating itself there's a million movies on YouTube about George

[00:26:55] and Wallace Simpson didn't pan out then he even tried to buddy up with the Nazis just to get a little press yeah I didn't go well when you're out having cocktails with Hitler all right moving on to news we got to do holy shit they

[00:27:12] found it we have two hundreds of rare baseball cards from night the 1920s discovered in a closet including Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb this guy is so lucky so lucky a California man made the discovery of a lifetime when cleaning

[00:27:32] out his late father's home in a closet he found more than 600 rare vintage baseball clubs including Shoeless Joe Jackson and Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth they were stored in an early 1900s Pedro cut plug tobacco tin so they're still in good shape yeah auction monthly released news cuz

[00:27:55] they're gonna sell the cards he said his father began collecting cars as a kid growing up in Oakland California in the early 20s I couldn't believe it was inside the old tobacco tin when I first opened up the lid and noticed more than

[00:28:06] 600 pre-war baseball cards all well preserved in the box when I opened it I was surprised to see iconic names like all the ones I mentioned Walter Johnson Christy Matheson I began to imagine what it was like to be a kids in the 20

[00:28:18] chasing the games current greats it also includes hundreds of rare Hall of Famers he has almost all the 1919 black socks the white socks the cheating team um this scandal whatever you want to call it um how great would

[00:28:36] that be right I root through my mom and dad's house and I find electric bills from the 80s it's not really that exciting hey do we still need this well what if we get audited you don't work anymore dad stop it nobody's getting

[00:28:50] audited you know seven years that's all he'll scream out seven years the IRS can go back seven goddamn years okay well this bill says 1984 so how about can we I feel like I'm dealing with hoarders where you show them a piece of paper and

[00:29:09] go can we get rid of this well and then we have to have a discussion about some bullshit thing this is kind of cool a six-year-old girl who thought sonar detected an octopus may have found a hundred fifty two-year-old shipwreck

[00:29:24] yep Tim Wallach and his daughter Henley were fishing on Lake Michigan when their sonar picked up what archaeologists now may believe now believe may be a ship that ran aground during the deadly Peshtigo fire was kind of this is in

[00:29:38] Green Bay Wisconsin archaeologists are crediting a man and his daughter with discovering the remains of the ship they were fishing on Lake Michigan in the Bay of Green Bay near Green Island when they're in August this happened in

[00:29:52] August when their sonar picked up they thought was an octopus would there really be an octopus in Lake Michigan well no well there's a lot of goldfish everywhere so maybe go you think a goldfish is the same as an octopus oh

[00:30:06] you think someone dumped an octopus I thought they were only in salt water all right are there fresh or there's some in the Lake of the Ozarks I gotta go check that out that is there salt in Lake Michigan no one think so maybe

[00:30:28] there is I don't know I've been in it the ship may be the hundred twenty two foot long George L Newman the ship was hauling lumber from little Sumiko on the evening of October 8 1871 became it became enveloped in thick smoke from the

[00:30:45] Peshtigo fire and ran aground on the southeast point of Green Island the keeper of the island's lighthouse rescued the crew but the ship was abandoned and eventually covered with sand and forgotten they're gonna serve

[00:30:56] her the wreck again in spring of 2024 and they may push it to the list of National Register of Historic Places well I think they should put this little girl's picture up there yeah she said it's um he goes I don't know how we top

[00:31:10] it today I said I told her I'm pretty sure there's no one else in her school that has found a shipwreck that nobody ever recorded before I guess we'll just have to fish more so if we can find more shipwrecks that's adorable yeah good

[00:31:21] job good job little fisher lady good job good job moving on to news in the Christmas spirit yeah this this couple from Texas made a Bucky's gingerbread house there's even tiny customers it is so perfect well I'm gonna post post post

[00:31:45] it in the show notes or you can go google it yourself just google Bucky's gingerbread monument Texas couple has made National Gingerbread House Day extra special by creating a cookie model of one of their favorite places Bucky's

[00:31:58] Dina and Paul vaders of Georgetown about 30 miles south of Austin created a gingerbread replica of Bucky's located about an hour from their house in Bastrope a place where they always stop that kind of gets our vacation

[00:32:10] started yeah they purchased all the vehicles and we got all the candy and tried to make it happen I've never seen anything this great I mean I wouldn't have the patience for it for even five seconds they even bought the little

[00:32:23] people that make up the village so they were completing tasks like changing a tire charging their Tesla giving their dog a chance to stretch their legs the details are insane they have all the gas pumps people are getting gas people are

[00:32:36] fixing their luggage it's a travel stop on your way to vacation to make matters worse make matters more festive they pipe frosting all over the store fuel stations and on the ground in the trees to give the illusion of snow Santa and

[00:32:48] his reindeer were also included on top of the store preparing for takeoff it's it's amazing there's tiny little people all the people they use paper clips to stick them on so they're incorporated into the village so there you go that's

[00:33:07] a wonderful little Christmas Christmas surprise also here's a wonderful thing if you're traveling are you going through San Francisco are you afraid of flying well go up to any guest services thing and say you're scared to fly you

[00:33:21] would like to speak to Duke Duke is a tuxedo cat if you don't know what a tuxedo cat it's a black he's at the airport he's there to calm travelers his name is Duke Ellington Morris he's joined the WAG brigade to calm anxious

[00:33:36] travelers he's old too and so I'm sure he's calm he's been hired as the newest employee of the US Airport the appointment of the 14 year old black and white cat was announced by the airport's Twitter account please welcome

[00:33:53] the newest WAG brigade member Duke Ellington Morris he has a tiny pilots hat on he's there to soothe anxious travelers they already have other ones I've seen him in some Airport but it wasn't San Francisco I think I saw him

[00:34:09] in Seattle not a cat I've only seen dogs initially the scheme was limited to dogs but over time it's been expanded to include cats rabbits and even the world's first therapy pig Lulu mm-hmm Lulu Lulu they're selected for their temperament

[00:34:27] behavior must be certified by San Francisco's SPCA and they must have completed all of their therapy programming I guess they take him to classes I don't know Oh a Duke was initially rescued from a

[00:34:41] feral colony in 2010 when he was still a kitten he was adopted by a five-year-old girl and her mother who had him as a certified therapy animal yeah so if you're going through San Francisco I would go ask even though I'm not afraid

[00:34:54] of fly I would just lie and say I'm afraid to fly can I please see Duke bring Duke bring Duke to me let's go into sports for a second okay um there's I have a few here because this is crazy some people like sports there's a lot of

[00:35:14] footballers I went to the Titans game well you know it was it I always have fun there's a lot of whiskey tents moonshine tents it's a fun atmosphere I'm a bunch of friends that are down there I know where they're all said I can

[00:35:31] find people and stuff have a good time but it was a beautiful nice day for winter was like 52 Sun was out but they're so bad and then my friend Ryan and I were talking and he's like I don't even know what they're so bad I don't

[00:35:48] know what's wrong it reminds me of every science experiment I tried in high school that would fail completely and then the teacher would say Kathleen where do you think this went wrong fuck if I know all of it all of it I hate

[00:35:59] science I shouldn't be forced to be in here let me go to history I don't like this cuz I don't know it could be the first thing I did the second third fourth

[00:36:07] that's how I feel about the Titans is it the coach I don't know could be is it the offensive line coordinator maybe how about the players well I don't know some are good DeAndre Hopkins Derek Henry feel terrible for Derek Henry we don't

[00:36:20] there's not a quarterback that's really solid it's just a mess um and they lost and I don't even care if at this point if they win or lose you just want to see football happen and it kind of happened the moonshine was great the hot dog was

[00:36:39] great yeah they have normal food so that's a good thing but I if it wasn't for NFL revenue sharing I don't know how these teams exist the bottom bowl was probably three forceful the next layer which would be like the 200 seats half

[00:36:56] and then the 300 seats maybe a third full I mean and you're gonna build a new stadium and then they had the balls to put up on the thing season tickets there's an increase when coming for 2024 you don't have anyone here that is not the

[00:37:09] message to put up right now oh my god but if you this is even this one even beats it hold on I gotta find it I did not wear my chiefs hat I have a Titan

[00:37:21] sweatshirt I will just because they need extra fans but if the Chiefs are in town I wear all my chief stuff yeah if I'm here or better for me Kansas City yeah of course Michy so you can go so if you don't follow football the worst team

[00:37:35] right now is the Carolina Panthers and they're not even smart enough to just be horrible don't win at this point just don't because you're gonna get the best draft pick tickets were 45 cents what to an NFL game and then if you went on

[00:37:53] StubHub at Ticketmaster they were $56 but on the resale sites they went anywhere from 45 cents to $5 then there were pictures of the game starting I mean it's my old job I used to have a joke where I'm like the the other the

[00:38:13] Rams were so bad at some point you know it's a bad game when there's people going hey get out of my section you have a ticket no no I'm in 320 I got all this the Carolina Panthers are valued by Forbes at 4.1 billion the team currently

[00:38:34] has a hundred and forty one million dollar payroll for the 2020 season so it could surprise some people to see that their tickets have plummeted to 45 cents now they're not even getting in people for to see the opposing team like it's

[00:38:50] not real easy well Nashville's a destination city Vegas a destination city yeah Charlotte Charlotte's not easy to get to either Southwest will get you there but I mean it's an American hub yeah I'm in love with American Airlines

[00:39:10] I don't know about that yeah they're 1 in 12 you should have never won that one game nope don't do it 45 cents um it's just I don't know how we keep these horrible teams there needs to be me you can't have teams this bad I mean I guess

[00:39:32] you can that's what it costs meanwhile another team that's doing fine the Jacksonville Jaguars Trevor Lawrence one of their employees stole 22 million from the team yep nobody noticed there's a comedy club I won't mention the name

[00:39:55] because I don't want to embarrass my friend but one of the employees stole like two million dollars I'm like how do you not have like when you bartended at least when I bartended so if you had your money drop that night you had it in

[00:40:11] a bag and then I'd have to say there's you know thirty two hundred dollars in here and then there'd be another bartender that would have to sign out and count on that that way I couldn't but like the one the comedy club that

[00:40:24] that happened to it was just a lady so the bartender would say hey there's an account in here and he'd say whatever there's three grand in here she'd say there's 2,500 and keep the 500 well that's a lot of cash back then too but I

[00:40:39] mean this happened now a former Jacksonville Jaguar employees accused of stealing 22 million from the franchise from 2019 to 23 by exploiting the organization's virtual credit card program and then he used the money to buy among other things two vehicles a condo a designer watch worth $95,000 he's also

[00:40:57] he also purchased a bunch of crypto and he placed bets I'm gonna tell you how bad of a better he was his name was Amit Amit Patel he worked for the Jaguars for five years the team terminated his employment well right how'd you how do

[00:41:16] you how does this happen though you guys how did the years this went on I mean I am NOT good at math but eventually when you're like I don't know we seem like a few million short don't you have a little meeting and look around I mean

[00:41:30] yeah his titles during these years were coordinator financial planning and analysis and then manager financial planning and analysis yeah he was making fraudulent transactions I don't it doesn't really say how he got busted in

[00:41:48] the end but he was a legendary bad better they said and are you betting are you using your real account are you using he was well known for terrible gambling prowess biggest loser ever on fan duel and legendary bad at sports

[00:42:07] wagering accord at ESPN's David Purdum a second fantasy player told it that Patel would often submit lineups with players who weren't starting the game and at times wouldn't submit a lineup at all that's not how you play fantasy

[00:42:22] football you have to pay attention yeah he entered several that had $24,000 buy-ins and bet nearly $500,000 on fantasy tournaments over the past six years per worldwide leader whatever that is he was charged with nine wire fraud and illegal monetary transaction and it for an embezzlement scheme that

[00:42:44] took place from 2019 to now I mean he lost 99% of the stolen money through gambling and daily fantasy how bad are you at fantasy nobody in our league the leagues that we all have established no one's this bad it's like on purpose and

[00:43:07] then he was trying to chase the money yeah Wow Jacksonville you what I I don't know you got to fire a lot of people don't let this happen you got it a lot this is the last thing this isn't really sports so I follow on Twitter there's a

[00:43:28] thing super sports 70 it's so funny I love it it's all old sports stuff but it's usually just silly like funny you know pictures of people in the NFL players in the locker room drinking beers at halftime smoking cigs nobody

[00:43:42] cared so 50 years ago in 1969 if that's 50 years I don't know not really ish at the Minneapolis Vikings game the Minnesota Vikings in it was in Minneapolis they for the halftime show if you go back and look at old halftime

[00:44:02] shows I mean people's expectations are ridiculous like one of the the displays at this halftime show was to get one of those giant like a trampoline type thing and they just bounced a person up in the air and we were supposed well that's

[00:44:15] what we thought was entertaining back I guess I don't know I mean this is even before me but they put a kid in a hot-air balloon his parents owned the company the mom got in the balloon and then the mom she saw a rope break and the

[00:44:32] mom got out of the balloon and the boy got in it he's 11 it's her son and then all the ropes broke and the hot-air balloon took off with the kid and I'm gonna read you the interview with him he's now older and a lawyer and all this

[00:44:46] he lived but it there's if you go online to that well I'll get the link it it passed the stadium lights which would have burnt the balloon to pieces burnt him to death so he got lucky and he went out of the

[00:45:00] stadium and then they just continued on with the game like yep yep you know yeah this kid so he kept flying and flying and he landed in some frozen River in Minneapolis and he swam to shore like 25 in a snowsuit so which is gonna sink

[00:45:22] you and he said the whole time well I'll tell you what said but he got to land and just started walking until somebody found him but then they found the balloon in the river without him and they thought he died I mean this is a kind of

[00:45:36] halftime show I need more of I want to launch children ones that agree I'm not saying against their will Billy Tommy were you getting a balloon I don't know where you're gonna land it downtown it is downtown Minneapolis law office

[00:45:52] attorney Rick Snyder recalls the big event as little boy I was in shock he said looking back these many years one clearly sees that there are special moments in everyone life's everyone's life that defines us seeing the ground

[00:46:04] drop away from underneath me I'd never been on a balloon that high before Snyder said it was an the old Metropolitan Stadium in Minneapolis December 14th 1969 so it's freezing in Minnesota at this point I didn't know

[00:46:20] enough to be scared I was only 11 the Minnesota Vikings were playing the San Francisco 49ers they had won the game 10 to 7 and soon to be headed to their first Super Bowl game against Kansas City Chiefs all these years later so

[00:46:31] that Snyder still has a large scrapbook recalling that fateful day he would be part of a Vikings halftime show that would go terribly indigenously wrong his parents owned a hot-air balloon and they were there to take part in the show

[00:46:43] that was gonna promote the upcoming st. Paul winter carnival they were gonna launch the hot-air balloon about 200 feet on a tether so it was gonna be tethered like he wasn't supposed to just leave the stadium and they were gonna

[00:46:56] take it up with somebody in it take it down the length of the field and just pull it back the plan that was the plan anyway when the balloon didn't lift off the frozen metal Stadium field with Snyder's mom inside she soon jumped out

[00:47:09] but her kid jumped in it was frozen to the thing they didn't figure that the basket was frozen to the thing so she got out and then the kid got in it just melted I guess that worked it certainly went up I guess when he jumped in he

[00:47:24] pounded it off the ice the problem is it kept going because the rope connected somehow failed that's when this native stadium snow-covered fans watched as Snyder flew solo in the hot-air balloon basket up up and away the flight was

[00:47:37] just seconds old when he narrowly missed the scorching hot stadium lights which would have spelled certain disaster stadium spectators thought this was all part of the show and that the balloon was supposed to fly out of the stadium

[00:47:50] unfortunately the 11 year olds troubles were only just beginning not only was he flying into the path of oncoming air traffic at Minneapolis Airport but he disappeared this had to be so terrifying if you were a parent because I had one of

[00:48:11] my nephews I was the Grand Marshal of the st. Louis Mardi Gras parade and he yes well don't think it's that big of an out of the year before that it was a bulldog yeah it was a bulldog yep they just picked random funny things the

[00:48:26] Mardi Gras I want to say that was the second biggest but anyway I lost my nephew he got out of the convertible on a whim and I it was horrifying I'm in the car and I turn around and he's gone and there's 200,000 people maybe a sea

[00:48:43] of people and he has red hair thank God super red hair but I was like where the fuck I can't lose that kid it's not my kid to lose oh my god I don't anyway I

[00:48:57] found him but this had to be terrifying for these people the FAA took immediate action to close all air traffic while Snyder's wayward balloon proceeded to the southeast after a three-mile flight he was able to release some of the hot

[00:49:15] air how smart is this kid and the balloon quickly descended directly into the frigid and slush filled waters of the Minnesota River that's when the basket tipped throwing Snyder into the river without his weight the balloon then flew away unpiloted Snyder remembers landing in the river it was

[00:49:36] filled with slush so I was swimming swimming through slush he said with his waterlogged snowmobile suits boots and helmet he swam 25 yards to shore to his good fortune a photographer was in the area and soon snapped a photograph of

[00:49:48] this stunt boy climbing on to the riverbank the man would bring back Snyder back to Met Stadium where the Viking team doctor checked him over and put his wet clothes in a dryer so nice hey buddy could you do me a favor I

[00:50:01] know you're busy they were out searching and following the path of the balloon and not realizing it had landed and taken off again his folks finally spotted the balloon resting in a snow-covered farmers field my poor mom

[00:50:17] and dad wandered onto the field through the deep snow only get to the balloon and I wasn't in it they lost it at that time he said with the help of CB radios the parents back at parent panic parents were soon told the good news their son

[00:50:28] Rick was alive and well at the Vikings locker room they would soon be reunited with the happy ending being told in newspapers across the country looking back at the monuments events from 50 years ago he smiled and said I feel like

[00:50:39] I dodged a lot of bullets through that situation light poles planes clouds they keep a fabric of the balloon if you're interested in the Vikings it's on a halftime history in Minnesota aviation lures now a permanent display at the

[00:50:58] Wings Museum of the North this is what I want for Christmas I want 11 year olds put in hot air balloons without any steering and that's our halftime show though the 60s bad news for King Charles and I don't mean the royal one I mean

[00:51:23] Charles Barkley and I love Charles Barkley this is why everyone at CNN should be fired um first of all nobody cares about Anderson Cooper's grief anymore okay could we stop with that I know his mom was glory of it but she

[00:51:35] made jeans and I'm sorry she died but I just don't she made good jeans I had to have a pair in high school everybody did even my mom I'm sick of that but also

[00:51:46] that CNN decided it'd be a good idea to have Charles Barkley and Gail King do a show Gail King is fine for the morning everybody knows she's she was Oprah's friend so I'm sure she had a career of some sort I have no idea what she did or

[00:52:00] what she didn't do but nobody really like I love char people love Charles Barkley or hate Charles Barkley nobody has that strong feelings about and don't put him in a suit and don't put him on that set I taped it cuz I thought it was

[00:52:14] about King Charles the other one though well I did cuz I like to keep up on my royal things I like to keep an eye on those people yeah I'm trying to make sure they behave after watching the crown oh my god we'll talk about that

[00:52:31] too but um so it's just stupid like the whole concept that would went no one's gonna watch this cuz Charles isn't really getting to be real Charles he's in a suit the set is horrible Gail whatever I know you have a show on

[00:52:48] Sirius good for you morning show morning she's a morning show person this is um it's our the shows already on the rocks despite unprecedented pre-launch fanfare the premiere of the talk show was a total flop because I recorded a

[00:53:00] thing it was something about King Charles and then I turned it up first of all terrible name don't name the show King Charles because we already have a King Charles and the crown is on it's all too confusing on the show's premiere

[00:53:11] garnered more than less fewer than 500,000 viewers yeah Charles can talk about politics he can talk about whatever he wants I love him he should run for office I'd vote for him but this is not the venue for him CNN had bet

[00:53:25] bizarre this bizarre combos current events talk show to help raise the rating no insiders claim or it's the wrong partner Charles can be on but we got to think of somebody else yeah not Gail Gail's overexposed anyway right

[00:53:39] she's on everything it's like Hoda and those other people I you know oh my god how did they do that for four hours in the morning I would Charles and Snoop would be great or get somebody super funny with Charles it would have been

[00:53:55] great if my friend Dick Henley was still alive because he knows Charles because they went to Auburn and he could be like that well here's what we're gonna talk about any guy that's other thing you know he used to talk really fast like

[00:54:04] that fashion talker from the South Averman everybody made himself talk epic um Gail considers herself a serious journalist well I consider myself a serious person do I look like it um I don't know I mean Charles I'm not I

[00:54:22] would never tell somebody stick with sports cuz I hate when they tell me stick with comedy if you just try to even say something about something else people absolutely batshit Charles could talk about whatever he wants I don't

[00:54:31] care I'll watch but this Gail tells Charles he should really study up on serious topics they discuss on their King Charles show and really pour over producers notes he's not gonna do all that but Charles is like I gotta be me

[00:54:46] that's right yeah nobody tells Charles Barkley how long Charles Barkley's gonna be funky it's just a bad combo it won't be on long I mean I don't know who's in charge of CNN but you know what also CNN sucks I've been waiting for the Iceland

[00:55:06] volcano to erupt cuz I follow it cuz I'm a weather freak and I yeah I even stopped talking about here cuz it didn't erupt it's been like a month and those people had to move I don't know I've assumed the Scandinavian companies yet countries

[00:55:20] have that all figured out cuz I'm like where do you send a whole town and say I don't know how long it's gonna be but I think those countries have that kind of

[00:55:26] shit oh this is a case of the volcano we have all of them you have a home you'll be staying with the Andersons you will be staying with the Gustavsons for an unlimited amount of time we have built extra homes behind homes for events just

[00:55:38] like this happy Christmas so I turned on CNN and the Weather Channel my favorite well I turned on all the news is nobody has a volcano because it's pre-taped shows BBC is always the greatest one and it has no opinions

[00:55:57] about American politics so they'll just tell you flat-out what happened I like all that I don't need a panel of 50 people telling me what they think I don't even know who these people are anymore when they started panels this is

[00:56:09] how old I am for instance Pat Buchanan used to be on a panel now do I agree with Pat Buchanan no but do I respect Pat Buchanan for his experience and and his knowledge on these subjects yes I do but now they're just like here's some

[00:56:24] wingnut who's gonna talk about I'm gonna have to google these people then why am I listening to you all right I'm going too crazy on this subject but bottom line is the only place I could find volcano stuff was social media and then

[00:56:36] the media wonders why they're dying because you need a headline news again headline news just news headlines what's happening right I need to be if something happens I want to be able to turn on TV and see it nope you forced

[00:56:48] me back to you right my phone and Zuckerberg and all the people here's why we I should have been born in the wrong country in the wrong decade up until 1956 French children attending school were served wine on their lunch breaks

[00:57:07] each child was allowed up to a half liter a day happy merry Christmas and there's a picture of a child who appears to be about four holding a half a glass

[00:57:20] of red wine and she has a wet she has a bottle on a tiny table next to her she's sitting on a really nice chair like this kid yeah a half liter you're four you know well yeah good for them the French just know I'm speaking of the

[00:57:45] French speaking of the French Marie Antoinette had a chair and it jail out of chairs yeah in Versailles Versailles as we say at Missouri that's the next town down from Osage Beach well it's like three towns more but it's I used to

[00:58:04] play them in sports in high school we'd have to go to Versailles there are so many towns in Missouri named with French names because we had a lot of French settlers and boy have we just mangled them after two years of high school

[00:58:19] French I was like oh my god this whole city is saying everything wrong Creve Coeur or Creve Coeur. Versailles or Versailles. Marie Antoinette chair sells for 2.8 million dollars and let me tell you what I'm looking at it it doesn't even have

[00:58:39] arms it's not comfortable this is a very uptight get your back right kind of chair it was at Sotheby's in Paris it set a record for a single 18th century chair the sale was the first in a series of four physical and online auctions

[00:58:57] being held this month featuring the collection of the late Hubert Gourian Hermé a fifth generation descendant of Terry Hermé founder of the French luxury house yeah the Louis 16th gilt waltz walnut chair made circa 1784 85

[00:59:16] ignited a flurry of bidding it was one of 60 pieces sold who has this shit in their house to sell it right they had a thousand other items to being auctioned off oh can you imagine that 2.8 million for this chair this is the chair you

[00:59:37] just get your picture in you cannot have Kathleen give me your wine why you're in the chair you're in the expensive cherry you can't have any drinks in the chair what if it's a clear drink what if it's Chardonnay there you

[00:59:53] have it 2.8 what's sad is I can't see what color it is because I printed this out in black and white cuz I'm tired of using all my ink yep you got a cut is it's budgetary reasons it's not even the budget I just don't like getting

[01:00:09] ink it's a pain in the ass you want to get a manicure by a robot I saw the video it's fucking amazing yeah this is a target now I love Target my sister said it's your pants have everything in there okay where we're gonna go Walmart no I

[01:00:30] don't Walmart's just gonna make you sad it's a sad even at Christmas I go in now here's the thing they do have good avocados but I also don't like going in there cuz I don't think they pay their people right yeah well in the south it

[01:00:49] makes no sense to me but their produce sucks it makes no sense because we're not that far away from produce compared to say Connecticut Florida Georgia right yeah I like Target it's happier consider your go-to Target shopping trip

[01:01:10] a few groceries and beauty products cat food a new dress you definitely didn't need and a robot manicure for some Target visitors the future of nail art is just a target runaway the big box behemoth is rolling out new robot

[01:01:24] based manicures they're gonna liberate us from the everyday mundane task one task is the minicure which uses both AI and 3d technology for the meticulous mess free application you should see the machine goes around your fingernail it

[01:01:41] draws a line and then it painted it yeah it's only available at six targets all right termites here you got it here you go um one in including one in Minnesota's uh in Minnesota Minnesota is the home base of Target now people who don't

[01:01:58] travel would not know that I know that because I've been I stay in downtown Minneapolis when I have shows and then when kovat hit that's what really hurt downtown Minneapolis because all the target people were staying home and

[01:02:08] there's a lot of them down there so there goes your happy hour crowd your lunch hour crowd yeah it had a tough time through that but anyway if you didn't know it that's where Target is bait it's their home deal um there's gonna be

[01:02:20] there's already three in Texas and two account in California your first visit is only $8 and 10 after simply book online and show up with bare nails for your appointment and voila isn't it crazy way to see the machine if you look at the

[01:02:34] show notes or just google it it's amazing tick tockers have been documenting the experience of course they under robot hashtag robot manicure so if you want to go on tick-tock hashtag robot me so you can see um it's

[01:02:49] not a hundred percent foolproof yet a human attendant must be remain nearby to make sure the machines don't get clogged or paint outside the lines when it be pulled your hand back and there's just

[01:03:04] if you don't live in one of the six existing locations it may be a bit of a wait this is a small test and learn initiative well get it out there I'll try it if you do live in one of those places check your local listings that's

[01:03:19] all I'm gonna tell you do that I would totally do that yes totally fantastic well you know what I have we're gonna um well we'll sign out with what are you watching but this one this makes me laugh who's a morning person

[01:03:36] pa moi you paddled your morning person well you and Dolly Parton me and Stevie are sleeping in Stevie doesn't even roll anywhere till about three which I think is a bit crazy I can't do that I'm up by nine yeah nine if you are morning

[01:04:00] person you might have your neanderthal genes to thank for that what the answers of the morning people in new study suggests and some humans who like getting up early might credit genes that they inherited from their neanderthal

[01:04:12] ancestors a new study compared DNA to humans genetic material retrieved from Netherland fossils turns out I'm sorry neanderthal it turns out neanderthal carried some of the same clock related genetic variants as do people who report

[01:04:27] being early risers now you decide what that says about you since the 1990s studies of neanderthal DNA have exposed our species intertwined histories about 700 years thousand years ago our lineages split apart most likely in Africa while the answer says of modern humans stayed largely in Africa the

[01:04:47] neanderthal lineage migrated to Eurasia well then my people stayed in Africa yeah I don't know how they got to Ireland that was a very long lost walk about 400,000 year the popular years ago the population split into two the

[01:05:06] hominins who spread west became neanderthals their cousins to the east developed into a group known as the Denisovans the two groups lived for hundreds of thousands of years hunting game and gathering plants before disappearing from the fossil record about 40,000 years ago by then modern

[01:05:24] humans is expanded out of Africa sometimes interbreeding with neanderthals and Denisovans so I'm one of the other group I'm part of the Denny's I'm not part of it yeah then it goes into science things that are way

[01:05:43] too hard just trust me if you're an early if you are genetically inclined to wake up early you're a neanderthal and you can live with that I'm a Denny think about it do you really want to be that person yes I tried to look up for you

[01:05:58] guys as a year-round wrap-up thing Nostradamus and Baba Vanga predictions for 2024 here's the problem they're not specific and it's just what I would consider now it's a lot to say that they predicted these things a long long time

[01:06:13] ago because how would they know what would be happening now but what they predicted is already what's happening climate change I'm hacking there wasn't anything like you know bad weather famine but I mean back then how would you known of hacking like so I give him credit

[01:06:33] Nostradamus he gets credit Baba Vanga the lady flew around and then was blind yeah but they don't really say the only thing Nostradamus is predicting is that Prince Harry might become king well I know this is where he's gonna hashtag

[01:06:50] fail one of the passages in his long text says the king of the Isles will be driven out by force some things Nostradamus is referring to King Charles another passage supportedly about Charles says soon afterwards after a

[01:07:03] disastrous war a new king shall be anointed who for a long time will appease the earth well the Kings don't have the power for that anymore no he didn't see that coming either I wish there was something more yeah climate

[01:07:20] disaster a new Pope I like this Pope but I mean as far as Popes go we can only expect so much liberal activity a very conservative group he's awfully old though let's see how old he is how old's Pope Frank that's who we call him in my

[01:07:41] house my dad loves calling him Pope Frank I'd say 86 87 yeah December 17th he just had a birthday Nostradamus says through the death of a very old pontiff a Roman good age will be a Roman of good age will be elected of him it will

[01:08:13] be said that he weakens his CSE but long he will sit Pope Francis has been having health issues to Pope Frank is on the downside I think he had to skip the UN he looks happy and he looks friendly yeah I didn't like that German one he

[01:08:34] had beady eyes yeah you're out and by the way a termite on Twitter or somewhere told me he died I didn't realize he died that guy this year Nostradamus predicted the coming of the Antichrist as well as a full-blown World War three

[01:08:49] so if you were looking for the Antichrist he's probably coming this year of course according to no yeah yeah the Pope had to skip the big thing so before we go I'm just gonna tell you guys if you want to watch because I

[01:09:04] hadn't sometimes I miss this segment because it's right after Queen News um okay so a bunch of termites told me to go watch mother of God it's on HBO or it might be child like mother it's a cult thing cult of God cult of mother it's in

[01:09:21] Colorado and one of these just you know shit show out in the middle of nowhere trailers junkie houses you don't know what's going on out there H no I know it's on HBO what's it called the cult of mother got Lewis

[01:09:39] watched it too he made it through all three episode what oh right well my friend Bronson told me to watch it too every there was a lot of hey why aren't

[01:09:47] you on this this lady um first of all I'm not sure if we can call it a cult if you only have like 20 followers I mean that's like an AA meeting let's it's a bad open mic night um but she has this board of cutout heads of celebrities

[01:10:06] that she says speak to her the main one being Robin Williams and I know I knew Robin Williams and I'm here to tell you he was too smart to be talking to that lady and then these people it's just amazing how many lost people there are

[01:10:23] they gave her all of their money and then like to these parents are like I don't know what's wrong with my kid um but there's a tipping point where you can't get them back and you're then they they have to call cult experts and the

[01:10:35] cult experts to say tell him don't say anything bad about the cult or then they're never gonna talk to you but then you gotta appease all this bullshit this is where my Irish would get up and I'd be like no you're not talking this

[01:10:45] lady's an alcoholic anorexic who's not speaking to Robin Williams I guarantee you that but she had like David Bowie I just want to take a picture of that board Trump I mean it's just all over the the gamut she runs the gamut from

[01:10:59] Celine Dion to did like who how but anyway you'll see it in the opening thing so it's not a spoiler alert they kept her body she also drank that colloidal silver which turns you blue and I only knew that because I watched

[01:11:15] Oprah back in the day and she had a blue man on he was the first blue man group I'm kidding joke yeah he's the grandpa and he drank that was it like a cure-all

[01:11:25] thing I don't know in the 80s 70s I don't know and if you drank it too much you turn blue and it doesn't unturn itself you stay blue well they kept her dead body in the house and the FBI and cops trying to flashlight and there's a

[01:11:40] corpse has been laying there they said she was at rest I don't know that it deserved three episodes on HBO because 20 people is not a cult to me 20 people is a fucked-up gathering of people that have lost their way and they're gonna

[01:11:56] give all this money to this lady but worth the watch if you like cults or if you're into and this one was so so strange that I vote yes two thumbs up don't think it probably deserve that I finished bye-bye Barry about Barry

[01:12:14] Sanders if you like sports or it just want a human interest story why does someone quit their job when they're at the height of their job and and could break all the records in the world and he just walked away it's it's a great

[01:12:26] well I think the father has a lot to do with it when you watch it so those two basketball players the ball brothers and their father did the one that overtakes it's it's like for a while there Venus and Serena's father that it wouldn't

[01:12:38] shut up and he's taking over interviews and sometimes you get that parent that just won't at the Hall of Fame Barry Sanders father went up first and no grandpa sit down and he gave a big speech and didn't even really

[01:12:53] congratulate Barry he said the greatest René Brown of all time Jim Brown name somebody out like where oh then he said he was the best in the world well of course and the crown so great great ending and the ending with Philip the

[01:13:11] guy who plays Philip he's the guy from Thrones I just love that actor guy whoever the hell he is some old British guy um shit in the shame scene he was part of that weird religious deal and thrones he says at the end nobody on

[01:13:27] the outside knows why we're even still here and we on the inside don't even know he said we're a dying breed meaning her and him here's your role and now what is it it was just a great ending they did the whole Prince Margaret thing

[01:13:42] of her and oh yeah well you know she she was a party girl yeah that's why whenever they say well 50 years of cigs and whiskey can do this I'm like I think the hard liquor is harder on you I'm not sure that there's no scientific proof in

[01:14:03] my mind of that I'm just throwing that out there and so that was wonderful if you love the crown and the Gilded Age so picked it up nailed it um just great and there you have it termites well I've watched some good Hallmark ones well I

[01:14:27] told you guys go watch it's called laughing all the way it's about a comedian I couldn't even I don't I don't understand even there was what about a pop star she's like half half Mexican half American it was cute enough but I

[01:14:43] don't know why they don't consult like just call an agent any agent music agent in Los Angeles and go what would be the proper terms like at one point in the show they go we're gonna throw a tour I mean we don't throw a tour what kind of

[01:14:57] language is that like like a party like we're throwing a tour I'm like oh my god normal people not Hollywood people would know that non-musicians would know that the Heidelberg one was good I can't remember there's so many and

[01:15:14] there's so many there's a lot of orphans a lot of widows I get them confused after a while but it they there been some okay ones and well I'll be in the Ozarks for Christmas and I've already made six dozen cookies for my dad and he

[01:15:33] will eat them all he's not even fat I don't even understand it yeah it took me from three o'clock till time football came on four and a half hours yeah but I put them in the freezer yeah they're great they'll last forever they can take them to Florida

[01:15:50] that's all gonna work what do I know I'll be in those and then next year New Year's plans in the works yeah I don't know you yeah I don't really I don't work on New Year's because after y2k all the clubs which thank God I

[01:16:13] don't have to do the clubs anymore it's just too hard to sell a hard ticket on New Year's Eve people want us now people stay home and have house parties that's the thing which is smart and I don't want to go to a bar on New Year's

[01:16:26] Eve I'm with the general public enough like if I go drinking it's day drinking and that's my thing if I'm out at night drinking there's a specific reason that I've been chosen to or have been summoned to by a little

[01:16:42] dwarf Mattie you gotta get down to the club and see this guy dwarf I don't care if y'all go I'll go a tick tock and find these videos I don't need to go down there and but in the new year here's where I'll be going Wichita I haven't

[01:17:00] been there forever Tulsa I haven't been in quite a while Santa Rosa Wheatland make updates for when I had to cancel apologies again for that wasn't my doing but I did it uh San Luis Obispo Monterey Lewis will be a

[01:17:14] Monterey right after I am in Monterey in case you would like to see Louis Black there's a little plug Birmingham which by the way if you go watch Lewis's rant cast I sent him some Christmas lights he's Jewish but he'll

[01:17:28] still celebrate Christmas if I make him and they are shotgun shells that light up yep they're light up shotgun shells and if you know his act it's for his joke about Jui Jui's gun shop Birmingham Alabama yay Atlanta the Cobb Energy Center I'll be yeah that's gonna

[01:17:50] be great um Scottsdale love it gamble gamble gamble Chattanooga Chattanooga's so on the uprise if I didn't have to fly every week I would choose it over Nashville there I said it out loud it's just more

[01:18:07] mountainy the lakes it's prettier it's a very the youngsters are doing great things down there they have a Westin what else do you need to know okay I don't know it's just more woodsy yeah Nashville's getting Nashville's great

[01:18:23] but it's getting kind of crowded Huntsville I love it two nights in Detroit Austin Royal Oak but Detroit March 1st and 2nd so here's the thing the Saturday is sold out but then they keep releasing marketing cops so you can go

[01:18:37] on there and look and a row will just magically open up I don't really understand exactly what's going on but seems to be keeping people happy Friday there's some tickets left Dayton Ohio Indianapolis straight to st. Elmo's best

[01:18:54] shrimp cocktail in the country San Antonio I will go to Rosario March 22nd I can go on the Riverwalk all I want not sweat my ass off Austin Texas love it maybe maybe the Tater will come by but now he's unretiring mr. Ron White is

[01:19:11] unretiring I love that he just doesn't even talk about it yeah he retires and then he unretires and people are like why are you dude he just goes I changed my mind okay Marietta Ohio Cincinnati Ohio I'll go to my bar up on the hill

[01:19:29] Tarrytown um Meredith Vieira I'm gonna be on um I hope I won't she asked me if I would be on one of her game shows she likes my comedy it's very flattering yeah every once in a while something just drops into your email box you're like

[01:19:43] oh I love Meredith Vieira yeah that's how I became friends with Greg Gumbel like just random people I've watched my whole life it is amazing to me that as a Midwestern person laying on shag carpeting watching all these shows that

[01:19:58] then they're in my email box I'm like yeah Meredith's coming to that show Wilmington Delaware and Thousand Oaks California and there's a bunch of dates gonna be added and these are not the fall days or the summer dates I just keep

[01:20:15] people like why don't you just say because I can't say it till they're on sale because then people call the venue and bother them in a good way I don't even bother but there they have questions and then people the venue gets

[01:20:26] irritated so I can't that's why people do that because you can't do it till the tickets are actually on sale yeah I can give hints though Canada I'll be making two cities two cities yep and I'm gonna ask not to be paid because then I don't

[01:20:43] have paperwork I'm being stalked by Iowa for $58 they threatened to throw me in prison I swear to God I don't know all these taxing said people don't understand I get taxed in every state I work in it's a nightmare and then I have the

[01:21:02] greatest accountant in the whole world and Sherry makes it all easy as easy as easy can be but then things come into the post office box and I'm like a certified threatening letter from Iowa I love you Iowa what are you doing to me

[01:21:18] all I do is promote you and you want to throw me in jail it's either I don't know I transpose numbers it's either $38 or $83 I'm like I have it just simmer down up there maybe Sherry missed it or I missed it but boy they're

[01:21:33] fucking you lady lady you got five hours call this number and talk to Bob we're coming we're coming wherever you're at I'll serve you we'll serve you on stage you're going I wonder which city am I going to prison in because I've been to

[01:21:47] every city in Iowa and I have my favorites can I pick which prison how am I supposed to go to my favorite store in the whole world raygun if I'm in prison it would give me a lot of time to write some greeting cards though that

[01:22:02] I've been thinking of doing all right termites well happy 2023 it's kind of sad it's over but 20 I always like even years better for the most part yeah I'm not an odd number person I like even numbers this was a weird year work-wise

[01:22:19] it was great my parents you know they're just getting old and they're like old cars we just keep patching them up and see if it runs I don't know turn the key

[01:22:29] does it work oh my god oh my god it works oh my god and then you're like well okay we're good for till the next incident a yeah and so that was weird

[01:22:42] that was a big part of a lot of time but we've turned the corner they're at the casino it's all you need to know I would have never thought that would happen last May I would not have looked at the situations I saw I went I don't

[01:22:56] worry about it they'll be back at the casino by Christmas nope there they are yeah Merry Christmas termites have a new year termites and there will be no podcast next week cuz I will be on available doing things in the Ozarks

[01:23:13] yeah it's gonna be warm ish for the Midwest I will have fun and I will see you all in the new year 2024 welcome goodbye to 2023 Stevie will be back out of the road because she's clearly a crazy person and I'll be going going in

[01:23:36] 2024 I think to the New Orleans show yeah how great would that be Stevie in New Orleans yes which is everywhere