Episode 165: Snoop Joins The Olympics, Redheaded Giants, & The Return of Chuck E. Cheese

[00:00:01] 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.

[00:00:17] Mites! I know, I know. Welcome. Look, it's Stevie. Well now I have two so I can keep one in the box and one to play with. Yes, welcome. Her legs don't really go up high enough to sit properly.

[00:00:42] Welcome to Mites. Welcome to me toes. Toes are my Spanish termites. Oh my God. Episode 165, it is snowing like crazy in Nashville. There's like seven or eight inches. It's the most

[00:00:56] snow in one day that they will get in an entire year here. I've seen snow here, but not like this. This is like Missouri or further north or New England or and what I'm wearing right now I'm gonna

[00:01:09] have to take it off in a minute because it keeps hitting the mic is a Spangles visor that was brought to the Wichita show by termite. Thank you. I received the visor. I am gonna wear it in the Midwest if I

[00:01:19] golf and just see if anybody notices because this is an employee visor. Spangles for those of you who don't know is a Kansas fast food place family owned. They shoot their own commercials. They're on

[00:01:33] television locally and they look like they've been shot by somebody on somebody's iPhone. Yeah, let's get rid of that for now. But I thank you to the termite who brought this. It did make me laugh.

[00:01:45] They so they have great burgers, onion rings, the bartender told me get the onion rings, which I did. They were worth it. Worth every calorie. But they also serve alcohol like I can't believe that

[00:01:56] this this fast food place like picture like a steak, not even a steak and shake. There's I mean there's in you can eat in there, which I have but I've been there before but I like to go every time

[00:02:06] because they change their change their drink specials. And this time it was a vanilla Jim Beam and Pepsi slushy. Yeah, I got it. Well, here's the thing you can go through the drive through and

[00:02:17] they put it in a vacuum sealed bag. It is such a Midwest thing to go. Now don't drink that until you get home. Okay. And then the person in the car goes okay, and we just trust you're not going to

[00:02:27] do that. I mean secretly I went to a parking lot in front of a pawn shop and opened it but then I thought I don't want to put this on video that I'm breaking the law. So I waited till I got back to

[00:02:36] the hotel. And because that's how paranoid that's what Catholic school will do to you. I mean, no, who's gonna go to the police gonna come track me down and they don't know where I'm staying. I

[00:02:44] mean, but they know where I have a show if they wanted to do that. It was way too sweet for me. But just that they will give you I know Louisiana has drive through daiquiris. That was always

[00:02:56] make me laugh too. But you just don't see drive through liquor that often out of a fast food place. No, I'd like a cheeseburger onion rings and a Jim Beam slushy. What? What? Now they have a

[00:03:05] screwdriver slushy that I really did like I got that last time I think it was a mimosa and a screwdriver slushy. But I like that they trust me. Yeah, don't drink it is vacuum sealed a little

[00:03:15] bit but you can rip it apart. I did. The onion rings are great. Wichita was so cold. It I don't know below zero for felt like 20 below. So I didn't really do much I was gonna go try to see

[00:03:32] the house of the BTK killer because I'm kind of obsessed with serial killers but they wrecked it. And the bartender told me it was he he's in a suburb of Wichita but it was like another I don't

[00:03:42] know 30 minutes from where I was at so I and it's just an empty lot now. You know, but I did that if you don't know who the BTK killer is. You can Google that for the younger. The children if you

[00:03:57] he was a Kansas serial killer. And then if you go his real name is Dennis radar. His daughter has done the most phenomenal job of being the daughter of a serial killer I've ever seen. She's like she

[00:04:08] didn't do nothing for a while. And then she she and unfortunately, she looks exactly like him, which also probably isn't helping her ploy that at one point to be private. But she's just written a

[00:04:18] book. Yeah, she's written a book and she's just being honest and okay, fine. That was my dad. Let's just get this out of the way. Good move on her part. I thought

[00:04:27] Michael Somerville. She moved to Minnesota. Yeah. And you want to get to do keep trying to hide people are gonna find out so just it's a good idea. They just go with it. Right? Oh, look, I

[00:04:38] didn't do it. He did it. Yeah, that bastard. She didn't even talk to him. I wouldn't either soon as I found all that out. Michael Somerville was meant to be very funny comedian also known as the

[00:04:47] beer monster. Wichita first show of the year down in the balls of 101 year old theater. The fire I'm like, no, we just got 1200 people in here. I if I ever start shows late, just so you all know

[00:05:04] I'm there at six it's because I want everybody to be able to get a drink and I don't want to screw over the opening act. I just 10 extra minutes. That's all I asked for. I'm not pulling some you

[00:05:14] know, Kelly was two hours late. Like no, no, no, no. But anyway, I'm done and the fire alarm I'm like, No, we just got everybody in everybody's got a drink. And then I realized like, nobody takes

[00:05:26] fire alarms seriously anymore. Not in hotels. You know how many times I've walked out in a hallway, bunch of other people walk, we all look at each other and just go back in our rooms. I mean, they

[00:05:35] have to come up with a different thing. Because this we did have technically fire five for four fire trucks showed up because the popcorn machine caught on fire out front. Then I went around the

[00:05:48] side I knew nobody could see where I was at. Let me tell you what Wichita single ladies smoking hot firefighters it was like watching Chicago fire or something. Yeah, I was like, wow, the one good

[00:06:00] looking one another good looking one of like, wow, they just keep filing either these trucks all over this stupid fucking popcorn machines. Just throw water on it. The popcorn machine died a sad death was 2024 let's get new popcorn machine. Jesus.

[00:06:15] Yeah, none of that but the people were tweeting me from the crowd going are we leaving? I don't know. I'm 17 floors down in a bunker. But I was also so cold because those old theaters it's not their

[00:06:26] fault. They just don't have eat, especially backstage. Then they put you down heat rises it doesn't go down and the basements are even colder they do they do everything they can they get space

[00:06:38] heaters and all that and it just doesn't. I wore long underwear first time I've worn long underwear on stage top and bottom. Yep. And and it Tulsa to Wow, I sure did. And Tulsa was great too. But let

[00:06:50] me get through these. Isabel who's my unofficial Spanish pronunciation intern and my street team to get me more Mexican fans if possible. I would like them. She sent me some barracho jerky. I've already

[00:07:04] tasted this. I don't know what this is. I've never seen it before in my life. It's really good because it has a kick at the end. It's kind of crunchy. Mm hmm. I'm sure it's all sodium. Sure. That's why I like it. Oh, yeah.

[00:07:17] 500 milligrams. Nice. Yeah. You call it stroke jerky. It's really good though. It's hot. Um, yeah. delicious. All right. Isabel. Go tell your friends to watch me on YouTube. Thank you. Moving on. Um, some stuff backstage. Well from the mail, Heather's a bigfoot sticker, which was I love the

[00:07:43] stickers. They can keep coming. Dan and Carol gave me that visor. That's who did that. I forgot. I did also. Um, they also brought a zombie beer what I'm drinking today though. I bought this when I was in Kansas

[00:07:57] because I love the can as always. I don't even know what that is. But it also says the Wizard of hops. I love it. Central Standard Wichita brewing, Wichita, Kansas. Well done. I like it. Lisa and rusty really made

[00:08:12] the beer monster happy because they brought 18 Bud Lights in a thing like a perfect basket, a plastic basket. I went here, Michael. And he's like, are these I go? Yep, just for you because there's already beer in

[00:08:24] there. But this is your extra beer. And it lasted the whole weekend. So it was great. Some buck bucky beaver numbers, nuggets. Then they brought these Casey pretzels. And these are Casey's is a gas station. I don't know if

[00:08:35] it's out. I don't remember if it was in California. It's mostly I know it from the Midwest. My brother in law me. That's a big Casey's fan. You could put everything anything else a Bucky's loves. He's going straight to

[00:08:45] Casey's. I don't I mean, it's fine. The pizza. Yeah, well, these are their New Orleans style pretzel twist. And nine on 10 times I say don't disturb the original product. This is worth it. Yeah, they're really good.

[00:09:02] Well, yeah, they just wreck stuff with trying to season and a lot of stuff. Oh, that's why it's a tangy combination of salt and vinegar. Sweet barbecue and a hint of spice. Well done. I was hungry. So well done on both of

[00:09:16] those. I'll get these out of the way. Um, Carolyn Ryan. Somebody brought me a bottle of Pinot Noir and these little hot dog candies but there was no card in the thing. Yeah, I don't know. But this is hot dog candy. This looks

[00:09:32] terrifying. But I'm gonna do Oh, it's hard candy. Oh, yeah. Holy shit. Yeah. tastes like a hot dog. Archie McPhee hot dog candy. This tin is really adorable too. Yeah, I'm not gonna eat the whole thing. You won't hear me sucking on

[00:09:57] candy. That's amazing. Huh? I don't know how they did that. Oh, Carolyn Ryan brought some Nebraska amber ale. I was loving amber ale. Yeah, you can't have too many. Eric and Julie brought some Haribo bears. I say it wrong Haribo. Haribo. I

[00:10:20] was a boo. And this beer. So thank you guys for that. And then we moved on down the road to Tulsa. The drive from Wichita to Tulsa. There were no cars. I mean, to the point where you're like, you hate traffic. But then the other extreme

[00:10:38] of that is holy fuck. Where'd everybody go? What happened? Like did an alien come? Like it was crazy for miles. Not a car on

[00:10:48] our side of the road, not a car on the other side of the road. Then we stopped at a gas station in the middle of the night

[00:10:54] and they had a fentanyl test strip machine. I posted a video. Many termites started fighting amongst themselves. I didn't say if I was for or against it. I didn't even understand what it was. I did by the time I left. I'm like, oh, okay. So they're selling test

[00:11:09] strips in a vending machine. And you had to use a q o card. I could qr I don't know if they were free. I don't know if they cost

[00:11:16] money. But you test your drugs for fentanyl. It was a gas station, but it was a very normal get very clean, very bright. It was a

[00:11:25] really nice gas station. So I don't know. I just never had seen that before. And then I posted the video. I didn't know it was gonna cause all that controversy, but they weren't fighting with me. They're fighting with each other. Some people think it's good.

[00:11:38] Some people think it's bad. Some people think I was just like, I've seen everything and I've never seen this. So Oklahoma. I don't know

[00:11:49] what y'all doing down there. But that was in the gas station was really weird. But Tulsa was nice. And I got to go tour. Anybody can go.

[00:11:59] I they just sent me a thing if I wanted to come and I didn't even know about it. So for you younger termites to children, you probably

[00:12:07] won't know who Leon Russell is. Guy from he's dead now. He died not that long ago. He was in the 70s. Old rock guy, but also I don't know

[00:12:17] they call it the Tulsa sound. But there's this studio down there much like Muscle Shoals, this recording studio that he was from Tulsa. And it's

[00:12:25] called the church studio. And it was just the coolest place people still record there. But it's all been redone. But they kept the authenticity of

[00:12:33] the old school stuff. Just Google Leon Russell, you'll know a couple songs. I as big as hit I did not love it was I thought it was creepy. It was called

[00:12:40] the mask this masquerade. Yeah, yeah, I did love the other songs though. And some lady got the money they were gonna wreck it all and she saved it and

[00:12:50] it's gorgeous and super cool to tour and he wrote songs and played for everybody from Elton John to it just goes on and on. So a little

[00:12:58] educational fun in Tulsa. I went over to find the Tulsa driller, the giant most biggest statue of an oil driller in the world took a little video

[00:13:07] outside of there for this thing. And I got a backstage from Rachel a joke writing notebook. Some Montana big sky brewing from Michelle Melissa

[00:13:17] Mary and Cheryl. Chip and Daisy. Thank you for the beer side. Oh, yeah, the beers I had a wine glass was very, very nice. And the last one is a

[00:13:25] Oklahoma beer. And the best one was the jack the gentleman jackalope. I really liked it. Yeah. So that was great. Anyway, so we're moving on.

[00:13:38] I get you know, okay, so the foot the football was on and I always have the iPad backstage because I want to so beer monster can watch while I'm on stage

[00:13:46] and vice versa and all that stuff. And I was very proud to see Charles Barkley who I love. Everybody's mad about peacock that you know, like everybody in the

[00:13:56] world is either at over their parents house trying to do it for them, or calling them on the phone. If your mom and dad likes sports, my mom and dad got to the point

[00:14:05] and then couldn't figure the rest of it out. And I'm like, Yeah, you know, like they're Chiefs fans. Like, it's just so mean. I said it last time I won't go off

[00:14:12] on again. But I was very happy to see Charles Barkley said it was it was a really piece of shit move and Roger Goodell is greedy. And I hope everybody who did it cancels it

[00:14:21] tomorrow, today, tomorrow, whatever you signed up, pay your money. Like, um, Lewis said, Why not just say the game is 599? Right? And leave it on network and just charge

[00:14:33] people. Instead of because my mom and dad know how to do that. It's just mean to old people. It's mean to people with old TVs, because your TV can't download apps properly. Just

[00:14:44] shitty. Um, and the football to watch the Cowboys lose the way they lost and watch Stephen A. Smith this morning of first take I did the problem to me is Jerry Jones. He's Henry the eighth. And if you're

[00:15:01] going to work for Henry, you have to know King Henry is the king and you're not so if are you going to get a super awesome coach? Are you just going to get some guys going to yield to this guy's wishes. So until Jerry's

[00:15:11] gone, I don't see how the Cowboys fix this. You can blame the defense. You can blame Dak Prescott. You can blame Mike McCarthy. But I know then they're never getting what it doesn't matter if Jerry

[00:15:24] Jones dies because his son looks like him. His grandsons look like him. His nephews. They all have square heads. And they're all they look they look like Russian dolls. One pops out of an egg and there's another one and another

[00:15:33] one. It's never gonna end. So my for my cowboy friends, Ron White for it's buckle in buddy. I don't see it. No, because who wants to work for him? He's doing the press conferences. Shut up, dude. You're an

[00:15:50] owner. Nobody needs to see you. The half of the teams in the NFL. I can't even tell you who owns them. Because I don't see him. He's out there. Well, I'm super disappointed. And I think we could have done this and that that's before they interview the coach or the players.

[00:16:03] Yeah, that's gonna have a stroke. Oh my god. They normally they show his box 100 times in a game. They were really, really and I felt the announcers were cheering it on to I I don't know. I was happy to see Green Bay because I like Jordan love a lot. And I just even if I wanted to root on behalf of my Texas friends for the Cowboys, I'm not gonna let myself get involved in that

[00:16:31] disappointment. Every time we're 12 and oh, well, you don't get that excited if you beat the Jets. Okay, really? I'm there's a lot of people that are teams that I think are in college that might be able to beat the people. That's enough about sports. But moving on to we have King News, but no Queen News. Well, Queen News Tay Tay was at the Kansas City game, leading the cheering in the box with Mama Kelsey, the Chiefs. I'm proud of the Kansas City. I don't know if I'm

[00:17:01] proud of them, or they're not smart enough to know better. But I it looked good on TV. All the Missouri Kansas people showed up stadium was full freezing. I mean, I went to the game in Kansas City against Buffalo weeks ago. And it was like 30 and I bought it was like a hot chocolate with some liquor in it. I don't know. Because it was too cold for a beer. So those people props to you the water was freezing. They took it out of the thing and the whole thing just like

[00:17:31] like, wow. They should have just sold like whiskeys and hot things. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. Well, it doesn't matter. No, so Tay Tay was there in her custom made coat. I did like some lady on Twitter posted.

[00:17:52] You know, the people that get mad. They're showing time downtown Taylor Swift and there's pictures on the internet of her in the box and then people go, this is a distraction. They showed Eminem three times on sideline. And some lady took a picture of it. She goes, Oh my god, they're showing him and I'm again, what a distraction. How are we doing? I just mocked it all back at him. But I like Eminem to go ahead show him Barry Sanders was at the Detroit game. I was so happy for Detroit. So I hate the Rams at St. Louis person.

[00:18:20] No, we're just not going along with it. I don't like sorry, LA people. I can go on other sports. I'll go with the Lakers, but I can't not the Rams. And I felt good for Detroit. It's been 31 32. I don't know years all my friends used to have season tickets. They eventually all gave them up now I bet they wish they hadn't

[00:18:42] King News Snoop Dogg is joining NBC Universal's lineup for the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024. The Summer Olympics. He will provide regular sports as a special correspondent in Paris for the Olympics primetime show on NBC and peacock in the USA. Yep, this is because he did it on his own. And it was really funny.

[00:19:07] He will be on site in Paris to provide his commentary. It was the announcement was made during halftime of the Sunday Night Football of the Packers that the thought and then and then he's very excited.

[00:19:21] We're gonna see some amazing competition. I will bring bringing Snoop style to the mix. It's going to be the most epic Olympics ever. So stay tuned and keep it locked. Let's elevate celebrate make these games unforgettable smoke the competition and may the best shine like gold peace and love y'all dig it.

[00:19:37] Good job Snoop. That's gonna make it more exciting because I like the gymnastics and some of the diving but I don't really care about well track and field can be exciting swimming. I like the winter.

[00:19:54] The winter are more they're more dangerous. Yeah, I don't care about the rowing or the boxing or I don't know. I'll find out when the gym that's I think most people it's the number one rated thing.

[00:20:07] No, anything to do with X Games. I'm too old. No, I just look at you like you didn't have parents at home who would drive you to practice for a team. So you had to learn. No, I'd sad. I know but I look at his latchkey kids like the ones who ride the bike the BMX bikes because that if your mom and dad weren't home, you don't get to be on team. So they figured out how to do stuff on their own.

[00:20:28] I do sound like my dad.

[00:20:29] You know, good luck to everyone. How about that? King Jelly Roll appeared before Congress. I love it. He's just a wonderful human being. And he's proof. He said look, I was part of the problem. He was a drug dealer. He was all of it. And he said, but he went to Congress to pass an anti fentanyl bill.

[00:20:50] Take it from Jelly Roll and former drug dealer turned country music star. I wouldn't even call it country. I'd call it clap country rap. Clap, clap. There you go.

[00:21:31] And it's almost a 72% chance that during those five minutes, it will be fentanyl related. Clearly from the gas station in Oklahoma. I mean, I know it's a problem. I don't I don't know enough about drugs really to even be commenting on any of this.

[00:21:46] But I'm glad he did this. Jelly Roll does not have a political affiliation. He told the audience, including Sherrod Brown and Tim Scott, country needs to make more steps to care for people struggling with addiction and prevent more fatal. We do need more addiction. We used to have a lot of addiction centers. My mom worked at one that closed a shit ton closed.

[00:22:07] So if you do have a personal problem, unless you're filthy rich and you can do the $50,000 a week bullshit in Malibu. Yeah, they let them go out to lunch and shit. I'm like, what? What kind of I've had enough relatives in addiction places that that ain't going on, at least in the Midwest. You're not going out for lunch and buying more drugs and coming back here and getting a massage.

[00:22:27] No. America has been known to bully and shame drug addicts instead of dealing and trying to understand what the actual root of the problem is. Fentanyl has caused more than 60 percent of all accidental drug and overdoses.

[00:22:41] So the bill, the passage of Fendoff Fentanyl, the bill introduced by Tim Scott. He's a Republican from South Carolina, seeks to respond to international fentanyl trafficking by imposing sanctions and anti-murdering, anti-money laundering measures in an attempt to target China and Mexico's illicit fentanyl supply chain.

[00:23:02] Yeah, you go. I know now people go argue about this, but I'm just saying what he did. Watching him and Bunny and an ex stripper just walk right in and he's he's got face tattoos. He's got tears, tears of tattoos. He's got a cross on his face. But, you know, he is really cute. Like in real life and stuff. He's a handsome man. Yeah.

[00:23:26] So we'll see if they pass it. I don't know. There's not more in the article about what he said. I believe when I sold drugs genuinely that selling drugs was a victimless crime. But he said he now knows he was part of the problem. I brought my community down. I hurt people. I was an uneducated man in the kitchen playing chemist with drugs. I knew absolutely nothing. That's my old joke about the meth labs.

[00:23:52] Yeah, just like the drug dealers do right now when they're mixing every drug on the market with fentanyl and they're killing the people we love. Yeah, yeah, he's right. I would never do a drug that involves rednecks in science. That's my old joke about meth labs. I'm like, nope. You know what's still sitting at the bar? Bud Light, Miller Light, whatever you want. How about a nice amber ale? I don't need any meth.

[00:24:13] I don't have many updates. So enjoy the few we have. There was a Banksy mural worth over $1.2 million. And it's got the European well explained it but it was of the European the EU logo with the stars on the blue and the stars are yellow. Yeah. Well, they demolished the building. What? Oh, I know. How do you do this guys?

[00:24:40] A mural painted by Banksy which first appeared not long after Britain voted to leave the European Union. So on the mural, he's got a guy on a ladder taking a star off. That's all painted on. Yeah. The artwork said to have been valued around it. 1.2 million first appeared in the coastal town of Dover in 2017, the year after Britain voted to leave the union in a controversial referendum, something they probably shouldn't have done.

[00:25:04] The mural which adorn the castle amusements building depicted a worker chipping away at one of the yellow stars on the blue EU flag by then in 2019, a mural which had become a tourist landmark in the town, a major gateway into the EU disappeared overnight after being whitewashed. What kind of asshole? Yeah.

[00:25:25] Now, despite the attempts at potentially restoring the work on the building which was painted on has been demolished as part of a wider regeneration project. They just said, fuck it. Yeah, we're not doing it. The council didn't want to spend the money. That's too bad because it was super cool looking. Yeah, you couldn't have just somehow cut that part out.

[00:25:47] They should have. Yeah, we have the technology. Come on. Um, that was my only update. I only had one. That's okay. Yeah, some weeks it just there's some well no I have a lot of stuff. It's just that there weren't many updates. Um, this is a news. This is a new friendly news, funny news and some just interesting. Holy shit. They found it. This is from my research assistant. Heather lives in Arizona.

[00:26:17] Yes, she gets excited. I think when she finds them and then it does save me the work. Yeah, I mean, I know where to look but sometimes I'm busy out there on the road freezing my ass off buying long underwear to wear on stage and everybody I know I just I can't get over those old theaters. I know it's probably hard to work on the HVAC and dangerous too because everything is so old but dear Lord

[00:26:39] to space eaters.

[00:26:41] Yeah, well, a huge ancient city has been found in the Amazon hidden for thousands of years by lush vegetation discovery changes what we know about the history of the people living in the Amazon. The houses and plazas in the up and oh area in eastern Ecuador were connected by an astounding network of roads and canals.

[00:27:02] Wow.

[00:27:03] Yeah, we've just never gone deep enough. That's another thing I would do for ransom. If I was the Ecuadorians I'd say do you want to see your new city we found? Well, I have a lighter and I'm gonna set this whole bitch on fire unless somebody sends us 7 billion. Yep.

[00:27:20] Pay off our debt. Yeah, pay off our debt as a nation. Thank you.

[00:27:26] Oh, sure. You can all come down now and look at the city we found. The area lies in the shadow of a volcano. By the way, my Iceland volcano is erupting again. And sadly, the lava has gone into the town of Grindvik if I'm saying that right.

[00:27:38] Yeah, three houses have been wrecked but the people got evacuated again. They'd already been gone for like a month and a half. They let them come home. They thought it was good to go not going to do it and then fissures started and yeah, there's a few tiktokers out there I've seen too that it's just a matter of time till they turn into the lava gets them. Yep. That last video is gonna be really viral because you're just gonna see you turn into a stone.

[00:28:02] Sometimes you just want to grab the children and go, you know, yeah, this. Come come with me and we're gonna watch a video about Pompeii before you decide to keep walking over there with your dumb ass iPhone. Anyway, while we knew about cities in the highlands of South America, much like Machu Picchu in Peru, it is believed that people only live nomadically in or in tiny settlements in the Amazon.

[00:28:25] This is older than any site we know in the Amazon. We have a Eurocentric view of civilization, but this shows to change our idea about what culture is and civilization. It changes the way we see Amazonian cultures. Most people picture small groups probably naked living in huts and clearing land. I didn't picture him naked. They always had someone.

[00:28:44] I don't know. Wow. He went straight to full porn. This shows ancient people lived in complicated urban societies. So it was city was built around 2500 years ago. People live there for up to 1000 years. It's difficult to say how many people live there. But scientists say it's certainly in the 10,000s, if not hundreds of thousands. That's crazy.

[00:29:09] Well, that's what they wrote. Paddles, I can't be responsible. This is a hard article. This is a hard place. It's BB News science.

[00:29:22] Um, they had a central plaza. And then they had units around that. Um, they had ceremonial buildings, roads. It's amazing. I can't wait till somebody sends a video out of here. Let's see what's really going on. Um, oh, they they drank their beer was called chicha. It's a sweet beer. Mm hmm. Anyway, holy shit, they found that. How great is that? Let's wait for a special on that. Holy shit. They found it.

[00:29:57] This one I found. This is crazy if it's true. And it sounds true. 10 foot tall people. 10 foot. They think of how we could change the NBA and make it even better. We got seven foot over seven footers out there now. Some some jackass team shows up with a 10 footer.

[00:30:17] Yeah, whatever. 10 foot tall people discovered by archaeologists in Nevada cave mythology folklore and even the Bible tell us that giants once roamed the earth. And as it turns out, there's evidence to back up this claim. Extraordinary human remains have been found in the US state in the US state of Nevada, with some of the skeletons measuring up to 10 feet tall along their jaw dropping size. The bodies, some of which were said to be mummified, were found to have red hair.

[00:30:43] Wow, they're Irish. Wow, what happened? Clearly my family never got with these people.

[00:30:50] This is fueled the theory passed down through the ages that a long forgotten race of humans once dominated the south, dominated southwestern America. According to the Paiute, a tribe that settled Native American tribe that settled in the Nevada region thousands of years ago, cannibalistic red haired giants called the Sotokow came to the Americ. They came from a distant island.

[00:31:14] They soon made a name for themselves as being taller, stronger and crueler than ordinary men. Then in 1911, while digging for a bat guano, a key ingredient in fertilizer in a cave in the city of Lovelock, Nevada, some miners unearthed a number of strange objects.

[00:31:34] This prompted the launch of two official evacuations, 1912 and in 1924, which thousands of artifacts were recovered. Among the staggering finds were the mummies nicknamed Lovelock Giants, which measured between eight and 10 feet tall. They also found 15 inch long sandals that shone signs of wear and a boulder etched with what appears to be a giant handprint.

[00:31:57] Oh, shit. Yeah. Shortly after the second evacuation. Um, no, I didn't say not excavation. In 1931, an article published in a local newspaper in Nevada claimed that the two giant skeletons had been discovered by a dry lake bed close to Lovelock.

[00:32:15] Those remains measured eight and a half to 10 feet high, respectively, and were mummified in a matter similar to the that employed by ancient Egyptians.

[00:32:23] While all of this may sound far fetched, the legend of these strange people crops up all over the Americas. For example, a Spanish conquistador in the 16th century called Pedro de Leon recorded an ancient Peruvian tale about the giants origin.

[00:32:36] He said that the towering figures came by sea in rafts of reeds in manner of large boats and they were some men were so tall that from the knee down they were the height of a regular man.

[00:32:46] Yep. The Indians, all the Native Americans said it, too. They all say they were giant redheaded people. What the hell happened to them? The Seteca, that's what they were called. If you're wondering how such a strong if they how they disappeared, the Native Americans may have the answer.

[00:33:04] According to the mythology, the Seteca wage war on them and their neighboring tribes, wrecking terror and destruction. After years of fighting, the tribes united against this formidable foe.

[00:33:14] Eventually, the last remaining giants were chased away and sought shelter inside Lovelock Cave, seizing their chance to try and started a fire at the cave entrance, suffocating and burning them alive. Those who were left. Yeah. Think about that next time you're in Nevada. Yeah. Look around the casino.

[00:33:33] See if you see anybody. Speaking of out west, just letting you all know if you live in Arizona, a wild Jaguar, Jaguar, Jaguar is what we would say in the Midwest was spotted on camera in Arizona.

[00:33:50] So if you're out golfing and you want to go look for your ball, just remember you get a little too far off. There's a Jaguar. Uh huh. The officials in southern Arizona confirmed the recent sighting captured on a trail came in December and hit.

[00:34:05] This thing is awesome. Southern Arizona. That's all they say. They probably won't say exactly where because some jackass will go try to haunt it. But maybe I don't know, is it supposed to be there? Oh, well, I'm going to tell you where it's in the Pukachu Mountains.

[00:34:23] Pukachu Mountains. Yep. The Federerun trail cams captured the elusive creature while the images are not yet to be publicly released. Well, it is. It's in this article. A conservation advocate said the southwest had viewed them. The significance in the sighting lies in a contribution to Jaguar conservation efforts.

[00:34:42] So they're trying to, you know, whether this latest one is the same one photographed last year remains uncertain. All of them in the southwest have been males. The gender is of this one is newly the newly sighted one is yet unknown, laying another layer of curiosity.

[00:34:57] Just be careful. I don't go look for a ball in Arizona if I golf. No rattlesnakes, scorpions, tarantulas, javelinas, jaguars. The very most your ball cost was three dollars. Mine aren't that expensive. Mine are more like a dollar.

[00:35:15] Do you want to encounter just a rattlesnake for one dollar? No, no. Just let it go. Let let it go. The sphere in Las Vegas. So you two is going to phase out. I saw they're going to stop.

[00:35:33] I know. You don't like I would go to you too. But we I think I may have talked about this on here. My friend Dorf went like if I was going to go to the sphere, it wouldn't.

[00:35:41] I can't go. It's the it's the round ball in Vegas venue. If you don't know, I'm talking about they were going to build one in London. And now it's a political football. Now it's not happening.

[00:35:50] It's so sad. London, you're not getting one as of now. They've canceled it. Well, no, it's some political thing. They won. Party says yes. The other one says no. Anyway, you two like I might have gone. They're fine.

[00:36:06] I don't love you too. Like I wouldn't buy a ticket if I got a ticket. I had nothing else to do. I'd probably go. But somebody put on Instagram or something. The moment we all realized none of us really liked you to that much.

[00:36:19] But so I don't want to go see like somebody I love at the sphere because there's too many distractions. Like my friend Dorf likes to go to Deadhead things and fish things. That would be awesome because you're not really focused on the musicians.

[00:36:33] I don't want to see Stevie there because they also look like ants. They don't know you. I want Stevie like just in front of me. Playing in a band like the way that, you know, I don't know. But this idea I would so buy a ticket.

[00:36:51] Miley Cyrus reconsidered residency at the sphere after MSG doubles back with big money offer because she won't tour. She has said a million times she's never touring again. She doesn't like the road. She doesn't like the buses. I get it. Especially with music.

[00:37:09] There's so many people involved. Comedy. I walk and knock on the back door and I have a purse with bar napkins with notes on it. Just let me in. Me and here's Michael. Yeah, let us in. Do you have beer? Thank you. Let us in.

[00:37:23] Do you have a space heater? Thank you. Let's do soundcheck. It'll take less than four minutes. I swear if you're good at it, it'll only take one minute and then we're done.

[00:37:31] So we are so low maintenance that I could see being in a Miley Cyrus thing like there's just so much going on. I get why she don't want to do the road. But a residency might be a different story, especially if the money is there.

[00:37:43] That might be the issue. They've backed themselves into a corner by paying you to a small fortune to open the venue. Yeah. Yeah. Like Dorf just wanted to see I go, would you go to you too anyway? But he goes everything I can't use him.

[00:37:57] They reportedly received about 10 million for their multi-month residency. Miley's asking for the equivalent or more. She should ask. She could make her anxiously awaited debut to the stage as soon as 2024 after the Cyrus camp recently restarted talks about it.

[00:38:19] They're not they're not saying yes, but that's a good idea because I really like her music. A lot of the songs I really like, but I also don't care if I'm really looking at her. Yeah, I don't care. The initial offer was too low.

[00:38:34] The initial offer was too low. She said, Nene. I mean, other possible successors. Here we go. Beyonce. Maybe. Yeah. Harry Styles. I don't know enough about him. The children love him. The children love Harry. Son of Stevie. Was he in a boy band? He was in One Direction.

[00:38:59] I don't know any of those boy bands. He's Stevie's favorite. I know Stevie likes him. Sometimes I'm bothered by his outfits as a good old person should be. OK, Jack. I know I sound like my dad. Lady Gaga. OK, OK. Dead and Company. Perfect. And Bon Jovi.

[00:39:21] Oh, God. I think everybody can agree, though, that Bon Jovi's fun. Oh, yeah. Would I go on purpose? I did. You did? Bon Jovi, Def Leppard. Bon Jovi, Def Leppard. I was in high school. It's amazing.

[00:39:38] I think John Bon Jovi is adorable, but sometimes the lyrics are so dumb, my brain wants to explode in the car. I usually say some of the country music lyrics are the dumbest I've ever heard. Bon Jovi. We're halfway there living on a prayer. Oh, I'm halfway.

[00:39:55] It just, I don't know. But the songs are fun. Phish will be there for four nights in April. So if you're looking for my friend, Dorf, that's exactly, he probably won't even leave this beer.

[00:40:06] He'll just stay there all day and night, find himself huddled in a bathroom corner somewhere. Get up, Dorf. They're playing again. Utah. This is so great. Now I can't wait to go to Utah, but I don't know where the city is in Utah.

[00:40:24] See the adorable and deadly black footed cat at a Utah zoo. This cat is the cutest thing I've ever seen. Cuter than baby cat. It's, yep, it's the smallest thing. And they say it's the world's most deadliest cat because it has a 60% kill rate.

[00:40:46] Six out of 10 things it attempts to kill, it will kill. Baby cat has a 1% kill rate. Chapo, I'd say has a 70% kill rate. No, he can't be higher than this guy. So I'd say 40. Cato, 50. Cato kills a lot. Jesus. They're both sociopaths.

[00:41:09] Baby cat's the only one that's civilized and refined. Food will come out of the container when my butler arrives. There's no reason to be running around the yard trying to chase a bunny. This thing is eight month old Gaia.

[00:41:23] It's part of a breeding program for her vulnerable species. She's considered to be the world's deadliest cat. Wait, cat, wait till you see her picture if you go to the Chinoads. Black footed cat. She looks like a little tabby cat. She's just got spots and stripes.

[00:41:38] Giant eyes though. It's so cute. Big cats like tigers and lions have earned a reputation for being some of the fiercest predators on the planet. But bigger doesn't always mean better in the Andalou Kingdom.

[00:41:47] Just ask Gaia, the eight month old black footed cat who recently arrived at Utah's Hoagal Zoo. Where is the Hoagal Zoo? Although she may look cute, she's a top notch hunter in the wild.

[00:42:00] They successfully catch their prey 60% of the time, earning them the title of world's deadliest cat. It's in Salt Lake? Oh great. I think I probably have a gig there coming up sometime in 2024 that's not been announced. The animals eat between 8 and 14 meals every evening.

[00:42:18] And just one of the felines can devour up to 3,000 rodents a year. For comparison, big cats have a hunting success rate of around 25%. But they're in trouble and that's where Gaia comes in.

[00:42:30] She's part of a North America breeding program organized by zoos and aquariums that helps to get the numbers cat numbers rebounded. They brought her because they hope she'll mate with a three year old male at the facility named Ryder. We laugh and joke about being an endangered species.

[00:42:47] They're trying to fix it. They're typical than a smaller house cat, weighing between 2 and 6 pounds. Even so, they're some of the most exacting killers on the planet. They hunt at night using their stellar vision and quickly speed to pounce on birds, reptiles, insects, and rodents.

[00:43:02] In captivity, she's eating special food made of organs, skeletal muscle, and ground bone. Plus a few humanely euthanized mice. That's probably her big treat. It's just the cutest thing. It almost looks like a gizmo, the gremlin. It doesn't say. They're from Africa. That's where they normally live.

[00:43:25] So if you're in Utah and want to see it, the deadliest cat, get on down there. Just being picky. Oh my God. Yeah. This happened a while ago, but the report has just come out. This is... Elon... I feel like Elon's out of control. And Twitter...

[00:43:51] You know, I used to get the normal amount of followers and now they just get taken away. I just let it dissolve, I guess. Because I say things... No. Everything I put on Twitter is usually fun. It's not... I don't get serious. I don't get political.

[00:44:09] He's just letting it die. So, I mean, I'll stay and just let it... I'll watch it dissolve. But it's not... Anyway, in the spirit of him being a crazy person, which I think he is, a Tesla robot attacks an engineer at the company's Texas factory during violent malfunction,

[00:44:30] leaving a trail of blood and forcing workers to hit emergency shutdown button. What? The fucking robots are attacking... And yeah, this was... A Tesla engineer was attacked by a robot during a brutal and bloodly malfunction at the company's... Jiga Texas factory near Austin.

[00:44:55] Two witnesses watched in horror as their fellow employee was attacked by the machine designed to grab and freshly cast aluminum car parts. Imagine this big silver thing coming over to you. The robot had pinned the man, who was then programming software for two disabled Tesla robots nearby,

[00:45:15] before sinking its metal claws into the worker's arm, leading a trail of blood along the factory surface. The incident, which left the victim with an open wound on his left hand, was revealed in a 2021 injury report filed to Travis County and federal regulators, which had been reviewed.

[00:45:34] While no other robot injuries were reported in 2021 or 22, the incident comes amid years of heightened concerns over the risk of automated robots in the workplace. Man, if I saw... Now that you know they can do this,

[00:45:48] if I saw one even heading my way, I'd run to the bathroom and lock myself in. Yeah, heading your way. Reports of increased injury due to robotic coworkers at Amazon shipment centers, killer droid surgeons, self-driving cars, and even violence from robotic chess instructors

[00:46:04] have led some to question the speedy integration of the new tech. The injury report, they said that the guy didn't even need time off work. Oh, I'd need a day. Yeah. Yeah. Um, there was a number of injuries suffered at the factory, but they're going unreported.

[00:46:24] Yeah, because you know he'll fire you. Even though he can't, because my dad was at work, was a cop lawyer. He, well, he, he can't. I mean, he can, but you can then sue him back. We gave him a $10,000 bonus and he didn't need a day off.

[00:46:40] This underreporting, this lawyer said, even included the September 28, 2021 death of a construction worker who'd been contracted to help build the factory itself. My advice would be to read that report of the grand assault, the lawyer said. We've had multiple workers who were injured and one worker who died,

[00:46:57] whose injuries or death are not reported in these reports that Tesla is supposed to be accurately completing and submitting to the county in order to get tax incentives. Well, I don't trust him. He's not going to. No, he totally lies. Um, well, I'll keep going on.

[00:47:15] But I mean, just this is all lawyer stuff after that. But just heads up, if you're working at one of those places, if that thing starts coming over, like he's your friend. He's not your friend. No, he's been programmed to do something to something that's not alive

[00:47:30] and he's going to do it to your ass. Jesus. This is where the, you know, he would not think twice about that. I don't think, I don't think he, uh, what's his face would care. He would just be like, well, okay. We have a little restaurant news.

[00:47:43] Yeah. It's quite, it's quite a little segment. So who still knows where a Friday's is? Ooh, they did a whole Jack Daniels thing. Jack Daniels, Jack Daniels ribs. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, here's the thing. When I was like in high school and college, we all loved it.

[00:48:04] Their potato skins were the best. Um, their bar was fun. Their nachos were good. I didn't really eat real food there. I think cause we always got there late. Cause I got off work bartending. Yeah, they do have chicken sandwiches, hamburgers, ribs.

[00:48:19] I just ate the, all that stuff, appetizers. Um, but I haven't seen a Friday's. So last year at some point I did a gig in Niagara Falls on the Canadian side and there was a Friday's and I remember going, Holy shit. There's a Friday's. I didn't know Canada.

[00:48:36] You guys still don't know who shot Jr on Dallas. You don't know what happened at the end of Sopranos. What happens to Tony? Oh Canada, we stand on guard for thee. Um, this is shocking. There's still a ton of Fridays left.

[00:48:57] I don't know where they're hiding them because nobody's on the road as much as me outside of a trucker. TGI abruptly, TGI Friday's abruptly closes 36 underperforming restaurants, sells eight more to former CEO. Now I did go to one, it was somewhere in the Midwest, maybe Iowa.

[00:49:18] I can't remember. I don't know. And it was bad. Like there were no employees, but it was also just out after COVID. So I can't, you know, everything was weird then. I mean lack of employees and so on and so forth.

[00:49:32] But I was like, Oh man. And they had done nothing new. Menu was the same. Sign was the same. Casual dining TGI Friday's abruptly, um, announces closing 36 underperforming restaurants. I would imagine there's a lot.

[00:49:50] Photos on social media showed some of the locations had posted a notice on the door that read, we regret to inform you that Friday's has made the difficult decision to close our doors effective. I think it would have been, if it said effective Friday.

[00:50:04] No, it was effective January 2nd. As part of the closures TGI Friday's is offering more than a thousand transfer opportunities, which represents over 80% of impacted employees. Oh, it's a Dallas based company. They revealed the surprise closure Wednesday.

[00:50:21] It also said previously corporate owned restaurants in the Northeast will be sold to former CEO Ray Blanchett. He served as the chief, uh, the CEO for Friday's for five years. He resigned in may as a restaurant chain creator of the popular loaded skin potatoes.

[00:50:36] Yeah, that was great. Their potatoes skins were great. Their salads were good too. They had good ranch. Um, they're going to go through a new phase of revitalization. Boy, I don't know where you start. I don't know. He's got he's then they say we're the ones he's got.

[00:50:52] They've yet to reveal a definitive list of which outposts in the States have closed. The company is owned by a private equity firm, try artesian capital investors and its financial results aren't released. The website there says there are more than 850 Fridays in 55 countries.

[00:51:09] Look at us spreading potato skins all over the world, making the world fat. 275 are located in the United States. Termites, you have a Friday's by you? Where do you live? Send an email to the team email. I like to know, um, uh,

[00:51:25] a spokesman for Friday's declined to comment beyond what was stated in the press release by strengthening our franchise model and closing underperforming stores. We are creating an, you know, closing the underperforming ones, I guess, fine. They're not, if they're not making money, fuck it.

[00:51:38] But that's not really going to, that's not that money that you're going to save from those six is not going to help the 269 that are left. That is not the answer. Our top priority has always been delivering a superior, superior experience for each and every TGI Friday's guests.

[00:51:54] And we've identified opportunities to optimize and streamline our operations. Do we do ensure we are best positions to meet and exceed on and on that brand promise? I don't know. Can it be saved? What do we think terms? I don't know.

[00:52:10] It would take a lot of money and a lot, I mean advertising. And you're going to have to think a new shit or go old school and go member. Our skeet potato skins, we haven't been seeing you in a while. And then they could specifically go Kathleen.

[00:52:24] If you promise them to be like they used to be, I'll be there. But in a second, they were huge. Yeah. You only needed one or two and then you were full. It was great. Taco Bell, moving on. A lot of restaurant news.

[00:52:39] They have Taco Bell unveils a new value menu with shockingly low prices. All of this reminds me of my nephew Xavier. I could just see Xavier just going, because he's in his twenties and they eat whatever they want.

[00:52:52] And massive amounts of it just they have 10 items worth $3 or less. I mean, is that even food anymore? No. I think gums a dollar. Might be more. Grandma hasn't bought gum in a long time here because grandma has spent bazillions of dollars on implants and crowns

[00:53:11] and gum ain't worth pulling crowns off. No. Taco Bell will launch its updated value menu with 10 items less than $3. The new cravings menu is available at 7800 outlets on Friday and features six new meat ditches and four existing vegetarian items.

[00:53:29] The vegetarian items include, well, I have an old joke in one of my specials about they should every year they should receive restaurant of the year award because they only have four ingredients and they keep coming up with new things. They just put them in different things.

[00:53:43] It's in a tortilla. Now, oh look, now it's on chips. Okay. Their vegan items include the cheesy roll up, the spicy soft potato soft taco. Just potatoes and a taco. Cheesy bean and rice burrito and cheesy fiesta potatoes. They have adult. These are the meat ones.

[00:54:07] Some of the meat ones. Double stack taco, the stacker cheesy double beef burrito. They're just throwing more shit in there, but they're charging less. I mean, I don't, this is all about getting people in and they do it. And they're fast. Their drive through is fast.

[00:54:22] Um, yeah, you can, you can go look what else? Yeah, I'm not going to go through this whole menu. It's ridiculous. Well, this one, I mean a dollar 99 double stack taco to 219 stacker, cheesy beef flavor stack together. You get it. You get the idea.

[00:54:42] It's just shit coming out of our window, but it's good. This one, I don't know why this makes me laugh so hard. Well, because I've experienced it with my younger brother and sister for their birthdays.

[00:54:53] Um, major us food chain may see a resurgence after it almost went bankrupt in 2020. Chuck E. Cheese was the only place for kids in the nineties and early two thousands to have their birthday party. Meaning millennials and Gen Zers have fond memories of the pizza chain.

[00:55:09] So my youngest brother's sister is 10 and 11 years younger than me at their birthday parties. And then their friends' birthday parties. If you could get a Chuck E. Cheese, it was available. It was just, it's like a casino for kids. It's like crack.

[00:55:24] And then you could always ferret out the ad at kids because they'd be like, I don't have any tickets. Give me somebody. Cause the tickets would come. They had a live band. The live band was just phenomenal.

[00:55:36] But I always used to think those are real musicians in those outfits. How has it come to this? Like if you could play the drums, how did you end up in a mouse outfit at show? Whatever. I don't remember. Um, it was fun though. And they had beer.

[00:55:50] I remember that. I don't remember if they had wine. I remember drinking beer. Sales slowed in the early two tens. The animatronic robot and his band appealing less to children. Oh, maybe it was all animatronic. I don't know. I thought there were people.

[00:56:06] Then the COVID lockdowns forced it into bankruptcy in 2020. And although many sites stayed shut, it has slowly and quietly been attracting new customers and getting old ones back. Good for the tiny, tiny children. Your birthday party is back on it, Chuck E. Cheese. The pizza though was awful.

[00:56:20] Like as an adult, you got to pre-eat before you go there. Don't count on the food. But the experience was hilarious. Um, Reuters is saying it's working with investment bank Goldman Sachs after the company showed interest in buying it and returning it to its former glory. That's right.

[00:56:37] It is tipped to be worth one billion. Chuck E. Cheese. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. An auction is expected to attract interest from private equity firms and companies like Dave and Buster's who operate similar businesses.

[00:56:54] Dave and Buster's, I didn't think it would make it and they keep opening new ones. I don't know. I've gone to some stuff there. It's fine. What I think of going it on, you know, no, but I don't like, I don't care about getting video ads.

[00:57:07] I don't like video games. They have no games. Real games. Well, I like Papa shot. That's the only thing I like. Oh, those sports is on. Well, that's fine. Could this mean a reform return to Chuck E. Cheese's glory days? Well, part of the modernization has been. Yes.

[00:57:27] Chuck E. Cheese had glory days. Oh my God. Patrick, my brother, he must have attended 50 birthday parties at Chuck E. Cheese's in his high day. Yeah.

[00:57:35] Part of the modernization has been getting rid of the famous Chuck and his band and replacing them with video screens of the characters and a dance floor. Oh, boy. I don't want to get rid of the band. We're going to put in the show. A dance floor.

[00:57:50] Chuck E. Cheese was mostly for littler kids, not like teenagers that want to dance. Your nieces danced. My nieces danced, but yeah, they did. I can't even argue that. When they were. But like when, yeah, but they went to real bars with us.

[00:58:04] It was so funny because this bar in the Ozarks closed, it's called Pickle Pete's. And they were in the back. They were like three and they were like, that's our favorite bar. And I'm like, you know what I like about this family?

[00:58:16] That you're three and you have a favorite bar because we take you to all the bars. But yeah, they liked to dance. I don't know. I just don't see a date. The video screen's fine. Soon, just one restaurant left will have the full band.

[00:58:31] And where is that located? Northridge, California. The company's remodeling all 400 US locations. And the other roughly 30 with the animatronic characters will lose them. And the phasing out began in 2017. Well, I'm going to have to find some birthday party and get invited and see what it looks like.

[00:58:50] Oh, Chuck E. Cheese. God, God love them. I hope they make it for the children, for the tiny children. It wasn't for like over 12, I think the kids would have felt stupid in there. It was like under 12. I don't have enough money. Maybe I'd buy it.

[00:59:13] Turns out I'm a billion short. Yep. Somebody call the lady from L'Oreal. She's got 100 billion. I'm calling her. Hey, would you be interested in a children's birthday pizza joint? Thank you. I thought you might. Two cruise ship stories. These will be fast. This is where...

[00:59:35] No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Terrifying moment North Sea cruise. First of all, I'm never going in the North Sea. Period. The videos on Instagram of the North Sea and TikTok of boats in the North Sea. It's the most terrifying shit ever.

[00:59:50] This has British tourists on board. Was struck by a roadway, rogue wave. There's videos all over TikTok. If you want to put that in there, you'll see. Sending people sliding around the floor, knocking out power and forcing it to be towed to Germany. Oh my God. Yeah.

[01:00:06] It was a ferocious storm in the North Sea. First of all, the guts you have to have to get in the wintertime on a tourist cruise ship to get in the North Sea in the winter. Why do they have that? Because they're...

[01:00:23] Well, then the other one's going to Antarctica. They're going to see the Northern Lights. They're going to Canada. Get out of an airplane. My sister sees them every day. Paddle sister sees them every day. Outside of Calgary. The luxury cruise ship, which is carrying 400 passengers and a crew

[01:00:41] had started a 14-day Northern Lights expedition sailing from Tilbury on December 9th and was due to return to the Essex port on December 23rd. Dramatic footage. They have footage of this rogue wave. The TV screen went black. The ship's horn distress signal sounded. Oh God. Horrifying.

[01:01:03] They expected it to be a rough ride going over several other big waves. However, this one, everything became undone. Tables, chairs. They said there were no serious injuries except for people like me that probably would have had a heart attack. Exactly. And then it's just other people's videos.

[01:01:21] And then this one, these people, terrifying footage shows 95 foot waves crashing over luxury Atlas World Voyager cruise ship as it makes its way through ferocious storm with 115 mile an hour winds off of Antarctica. Oh my God. 95 foot waves. What? Terrifying footage has emerged from the luxury cruise liner.

[01:01:46] I don't need to go to Antarctica. Go to IMAX. There's lovely movies about Antarctica. You can watch the penguins, March of Penguins. You can watch all kinds of things. There's just, this is crazy. They went through the Drake Passage or movies about people dying in the Drake Passage.

[01:02:02] I mean, I give these people credit for trying if this is your lifelong goal. I'm just saying it's nothing I could ever be. Maybe not this time of year. Right. Well, you're not going to see the Northern, can you see the Northern Lights in the summer?

[01:02:16] No, it's only the winter. Well, then they got to go now, panels. Just fly somewhere and get out and see the Northern Lights. The cruise ship was traversing the Drake Passage, the spot at which the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans converge between the southernmost tip of South America

[01:02:32] and Antarctica when it was caught in a punishing tempest, winds of up to 115 miles. And I whipped the sea into a frenzy and sent 95 foot waves slamming into the luxury yacht during the perilous journey. This is in December of 2023. Tables, chairs, everything was floating around.

[01:02:51] There's water all over the place. Deep water. I mean, the crew managed to navigate it and they reached its destination, Ushuaia in southern Argentina without suffering major damage. I mean, you don't know that they're going to be able to navigate it.

[01:03:11] You could all just, like a shipping container, those shipping container things that get caught in the Indian Ocean and then you flip and you're all dead. Yeah. It's the roughest crossing many of the crew and staff have ever had. You just, the boat's 430 feet long.

[01:03:32] The wave is 95 foot high. Yeah, I can't, that's geometry. I can't do that, but I'm sure that was terrifying. But just saying, it's just not my thing. God love everybody getting on a cruise ship. Those people that went to Canada instead of the Bahamas, I mean, yeah.

[01:03:51] No, the answer is no. Okay, this, well, I'm going to save this one. I'm going to save that one too. Warren Buffett. Me and Warren would not get along that well, I can tell you that. This was the cutest thing I'd ever seen. What?

[01:04:11] You got to do a warm up. I got a new what? I'm going to do Warren. But this was the cutest thing I've ever seen. So this teacher in Texas, she gifted, she decided that for her first grade class, she was going to take everybody

[01:04:31] on a Southwest airline flight to Mexico, but they're not really going. No, well, she can't take everyone's children. No, no. So she made the whole classroom, she rearranged the chairs like a Southwest flight, but first she made them come through TSA.

[01:04:45] She set all this up on her own, like a real experience. They had to have passports, but they're fake ones, but they made their own passports. They took pictures of themselves. They cut them out, like just so wonderful.

[01:04:57] Okay, this is going to be busy work, but it's fun, but it also teaches them how you fly so they understand. And then she even passed out snacks like a flight attendant, each row on the plane. And then she had a video of a plane taking off

[01:05:08] and she's like, here we go. It was the craziest thing. And then the company Southwest, who yeah, sometimes I should talk to them, but they always get where you want to go and my bags have never been lost, so I'll give them their kudos.

[01:05:22] Sadly, I've flown back and forth to see my parents so many times that I made A-list. You're supposed to get excited about that. I was like, oh. It's fine, Southwest is fine. Employees all seem very happy. I like that, so they must like their jobs.

[01:05:38] Southwest, they also gifted all of the first grade teachers and the school principals round trip tickets to anywhere the airline flies to. So this is a- That's awesome! Yeah, she did a video on TikTok. The video was posted by Sonia White, an elementary teacher in the Dallas area.

[01:05:56] Her meticulously preparing for a fun learning, she took pictures of each one for their passport, they had the boarding passes, then she did the safety instructions. Oh my God! She made them feel like they were flying out and then passed out in-flight snacks. They landed, quote, in Mexico,

[01:06:14] they went through customs, they exchanged their money. She taught them how to exchange money. They ate at a restaurant set up in the classroom which included inauthentic dishes of Mexican food provided by some of the students' parents. It got millions of views on TikTok,

[01:06:30] but she said we don't have a lot of money so they have to make up stuff to do. And I'm like, that's a lady who really likes the kids. She's like my teacher of the year. That's cool. The students were greeted by Southwest employees in their headquarter building.

[01:06:46] They got to go to headquarters after this video went viral. Oh, that's right. Yeah. That was great. So go on TikTok, you can see the video, it's very funny. Yeah, it was great. Okay, Warren Buffett. And then I have a super feel-good story. I like that one. Okay.

[01:07:12] Now nobody's mentioning that clearly Warren is on a spectrum. And my nephew's autistic, so I speak with a lot of knowledge about all this stuff. Nothing negative about that when you learn how to work with it at all. But that doesn't mean Warren's ways

[01:07:30] are going to fit everyone who's not on a spectrum. Now I've decided he's on a spectrum. I don't know that he's ever said that. But his routines are very spectrum-y. Maybe he's just tight with a buck though, I don't know. Could be one or the other.

[01:07:48] Sometimes there's no diagnosis for whatever is going on. These are things that he says that we waste our money on, meaning middle class people, and we could learn from him. Okay? Consider these 11 things. He suggested that poor people and middle class people will waste money on.

[01:08:11] You can avoid these financial pitfalls and set yourself up for a wealthier 2024. Number one, your home. The cost of living does not equate to the standard of a living. I wouldn't live better if I had eight houses if I had a 400 foot yacht.

[01:08:25] He bought his house in Omaha 55 years ago for $31,500. And yet despite his earnings, he hasn't seen a reason to move. It's warm in the winter, meaning the house. It's cool in the summer. I have everything I want. Plus it has all kinds of good memories.

[01:08:41] Okay, Grandpa, you know, so people, it's not that I need it. Maybe I just want a different house. Maybe I'm tired of this house. Maybe the memories aren't good in this house. He could have purchased, I've seen it. You can go to the house in Omaha.

[01:08:58] Drove right up. It's on my Instagram somewhere. There's better houses in that neighborhood, I can tell you that. It's a cool neighborhood, but it's very normal. Anybody can drive right up to his house. And I didn't like, it's very dark. I'm like, somebody looks sad in there.

[01:09:16] I don't know. And just because you bought a house 55 years ago, I just, I know what he's saying. You don't need to buy. I do have friends that buy houses that are way too large for what they need. I get that.

[01:09:30] That is kind of a quote, waste of money, but new cars. Okay, I'm with Warren on this. I'm in love with it. I would go get a new car, and if I was going to buy a different car,

[01:09:42] I would buy a new car because I don't know enough about used cars to trust to know what I'm buying. I would just go in and say, here, give me a GMC Acadia. Here's my car. Tell me how much I owe you. I don't even negotiate.

[01:09:56] I don't even, the whole thing is, I was so excited when Saturday came out and said we're just going to do one price. It's on the sticker. Fuck you, yes or no. I was excited about the no negotiation part. Right. He says, don't buy a new car.

[01:10:12] It would probably take me half a day to go through the exercise of buying a car and reading the owner's manual and all that. That's why he doesn't want a new car. He doesn't want to read the owner's manual. I've never read one in my life. I know.

[01:10:28] You only need that when lights come on and the car doesn't work and you're on the side of the highway. That's when somebody goes, get the manual out of the glove compartment. That's the thing that lights up. Is that a battery? It's a wrench.

[01:10:44] If your older car is still working and you aren't pouring money into repairs, put that time and money into something else, he says. Car and home maintenance. Well, you're going to have more maintenance on an old house and you're going to have

[01:10:56] more maintenance on an old car, Warren. True. Learning how to do basic repairs on your home. Ow! Okay. No, I'm not, I'm not learning anything about a car engine. And God forbid somebody let me attempt that. That would be a terrible error on everyone's part.

[01:11:12] He says master basic do-it-yourself skills that could potentially save you money on repairs and tweaks. I wouldn't get in a car that I worked on. No. No. I wouldn't either. For sure something ain't going to work now. If I thought something was broken, it's definitely broken now.

[01:11:33] That is not a realistic tip. No. Dining out. He says we shouldn't go out to eat. It's no secret that eating out, he goes to McDonald's every day, but he sticks to his $2.12 thing. If the stock market is up, he gets hash browns.

[01:11:48] If it's not, he does not. Talk about self-punishment. I can only have hash browns if the market's up. Wow. A little Opus Dei creepy. It's no secret that eating out could take a huge bite out of your budget. Go banking rates recently put

[01:12:04] or reported that a steak dinner cooked at home can cost less than even a cheap fast food meal. Some of us don't have time for that. That means I have to go get the steak, then come home, cook the steak. I could have been through Taco Bell,

[01:12:18] already eaten and been home. Similarly, the cost of meeting friends for happy hours adds up. Like Warren's ever gone to a happy hour. Instead of investors, we recommended hosting small gatherings at home. No. It's a lot easier to say to my friends

[01:12:34] because then I have to worry about is the house clean or whatever. Right. And some happy hours, I mean, I know one here, not far from here and beer is $2. What? Bottle of beer for happy hour. Yeah. Yeah. People at your house, you don't know.

[01:12:56] You invite people over, they could steal shit. All your friends steal stuff. My parents steal the most out of this house. I went in to get a paper bowl and all of them were gone. Like I alone use 75 paper bowls. And I'm like, God damn it,

[01:13:10] I bet she took them. My mom took them. Why didn't you think you'd use them all? Well, how about leave me one? Maybe I won't use 75, but that's the package they came in and it was going to be good for like a year.

[01:13:24] Credit cards, Warren doesn't like credit. I agree with him, that does cause a lot of problems, especially with youngsters. It caused problems with me. My sister goes, do you have a credit card at Victoria's Secret? I said, Patrick, I have a credit card from anywhere that offered one.

[01:13:42] Yes, because in your 20s and 30s, you're like, I get what? $12 off this right now. Absolutely, I'm signing up. There was one, my sister and her friends when they were like in their 20s, one of her friends' older brother was a money guy

[01:14:00] and shit, now I can't think of. Oh, he, she was like, yeah, someone's like having these money problems and I'm trying to get like this and that and they're saying my credit is bad. Can you look at my stuff? So he went and looked through it all

[01:14:14] and he goes, you and your dumbass friends need to stop drinking liquor and doing shots at whatever bar Banana Republic is. He thought it was a bar. Banana Republic. She's like, those are my work clothes. And he goes, oh, okay. Warren says don't gamble.

[01:14:30] Warren, how do you think I get through most weekends of my life if I gamble on shit I don't know about? And that's what makes it fun. He says no lottery tickets. Well, he's never won on a scratch off. You don't know the fun, the fun.

[01:14:44] Oh, risky investments. Well, I'm guilty of that if you consider Bitcoin to be risky, but I only risked enough that I don't care if I lose it. And right now it's worth double. By the way, Bitcoin on fire. Ethereum on fire.

[01:15:00] I haven't talked about it in a while because it kind of went in the tank and I cannot understand these are risky investments. Well, I would agree with that. Always research your business before you invest in its stock and don't be afraid to seek the help

[01:15:14] of a financial advisor or whatever. He says don't buy the latest gadgets. I'm sure Warren's wandering around Omaha with a flip phone. And a VCR. And the tapes work fine. I can watch Jaws again. Watch this. Boom. Warren didn't upgrade his flip phone until it says it till 2020.

[01:15:36] He purchased an iPhone. So I'm sure he's got the first one ever made. He probably doesn't even know if he went online and sold that he could get a billion dollars. And then a lot of guys want the earlier iPhones because they were

[01:15:50] smaller and go better in your pocket. At least so says my brother. Yeah, the tinier because they just keep getting larger and larger and the iPhone like for those who are like me, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like a little bit of a weenie. Yeah.

[01:16:07] Don't buy low quality products. It's a low quality product. I love it. When Donald Trump would call you a low quality person, Chris Christie, a low quality person. I know he loved that thing. Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. But here's the problem.

[01:16:24] Nobody knows what quality quality is anymore or not. Let's say you go to Best Buy or you go to Target to buy a TV. What I learned, though, you should ask the people at Best Buy or Target, is that a 20, 24 model because they have the model.

[01:16:37] They can look that up and they sell TVs in there. The cheaper ones, not a lot cheaper. A few hundred dollars. It's like a twenty, twenty two. Yeah. But that does matter for downloading apps and streaming. And anyway, I learned that the hard way.

[01:16:49] So he doesn't like wasteful purchases. He doesn't really say what that is. He doesn't like unused subscriptions. I have a lot of unused subscriptions. Yes. Everything I do is a wasteful purchase, according to him. Final note. Live within your means. Don't spend money you don't have.

[01:17:09] Everybody does because you gave us credit cards. Warren, before that, I can actually remember I'm old enough to remember when you could not use a credit card for groceries. The first time they allowed that, I was like, what? You always had to pay cash.

[01:17:23] That's what led to my mom going, put that back, put that back. And she had that red little counter that had three little white buttons, like a little clicker thing. And she went, put that back, put that back. That was fascinating. You showed me that.

[01:17:34] Yeah, it was totally fascinating. Live within your means and don't spend money on things you don't need. Well, you don't need all there's. I learned from moving. I got my whole life down to two gym bags. There's all kinds of shit I don't need.

[01:17:48] But you like them, Warren. So. It's your wealth. Yeah. Warren, not so. I'm not into it. I don't want to live with you. I have seventy five bar t shirts and I like each one of them because I had a good time in that bar.

[01:18:06] This is the greatest story ever. And it's your it's your nation paddles. A wild goose was taken to an animal hospital. Later, his mate knocked on the door to find him. No, it's a wonderful story. No, it's not. I know they made for life as if

[01:18:27] as if a Canada goose named Arnold isn't endearing enough. So every time you see geese and you get annoyed that they're going to bathroom on the property, which I do frequently. Just remember, they really do have like a little soul going on there. And they're really sweet,

[01:18:41] even though I've had a few his at me on golf courses. I'm like, whoa, whoa. There is a mean streak. Yeah, they're snappers. They're snappers. They're snappers. They're sweet when they're sweet, but they're not when they're not. As if a Canada goose named Arnold isn't endearing enough.

[01:18:56] His partner who came looking for him when he was injured is warming the hearts and have us root for this sweet feathered couple. Cape Wildlife Center in Barnstable, Massachusetts, stared that shared the story on his Facebook page and what they call the first for their animal hospital.

[01:19:10] It was a can it happened in Massachusetts, but they're Canadian geese. We often have people ask if they can visit the patients they dropped off, but they're not allowed to because they're not allowed to visit them. We often have people ask if they can

[01:19:19] visit the patients they dropped off, but today we had our first animal visitor. For the safety of our patients, we do not accommodate visitation requests. But in this case, we made an exception. He's a Canada goose that lives on a pond near the facility and part in

[01:19:32] the pair is part of the mated pair of wild geese that have been together for several years. The center said the geese usually keep to themselves. And then I can't read that particular sentence. But one of them noticed Arnold was walking with a significant limp

[01:19:48] and kept falling over. They were able to capture him and bring him to the hospital for an examination. A goose visits it upon exam. Our veterinary team found out that he had two option fractures on his foot. That means the tissue in the skin

[01:20:03] would have been pulled away, leaving the bone exposed. Our best guess is that a snapping turtle or another predator attacked him while swimming to save his foot and help him survive. The staff knew they had to amputate one of the digits and suture the other wounds closed.

[01:20:14] The staff took the products and pain meds and prepped him for the surgery. Then his mate came knocking. And there's a picture of it knocking on the front door of the animal hospital. He's banging his beak or she I guess. Today we as we prepared to sedate

[01:20:28] Arnold and get him ready for surgery we heard a faint tapping at the clinic door. We turned to see that his mate had waddled up onto the porch and was attempting to get in. She had somehow located him and was agitated she could not get inside.

[01:20:40] She remained she remained there throughout the entire procedure watching us work never moving from the doorway. Yeah. Surgery went well and when once Arnold woke up the staff decided to let him recover by the doorway so he and his mate could see each other.

[01:20:54] We opened the door and gave Arnold his flow by oxygen in the doorway his mate immediately calmed down and began to groom him through the door. They both seem much more at ease with each other's presence. Oh the article actually says. He seated he needed several weeks

[01:21:07] of treatment in our hospital before he was able to rejoin his mate in the wild. He was kept inside for the majority of the time in order to keep his wound sterile and prevent infection. We'll do him back to get him out

[01:21:17] the doorway as soon as possible so that his mate can be with him. So there you go. Feel good story of the day. Yeah. Isn't it amazing she could probably smell and know where he was. Or maybe she watched him followed him. So there you go.

[01:21:38] There's your feel good story. Yeah. Disney movie. Disney will ruin the movie though because they'll kill somebody's mother. Does that's what the Disney's do. They kill. Oh there goes my Loch Ness Monster. All right termites. Hey we added a show in Anaheim California. The Grove.

[01:22:03] I love that place. It's super fun. So that's been added and here's the list of where everything is happening out on the road this week. I'm going to go ahead and close. Thanks for everybody who kept a ticket. That was when the health thing with

[01:22:17] the parentals broke down and I had to cancel. San Luis Obispo Monterey. That's week after next. Birmingham Alabama Scottsdale Chattanooga. Atlanta. I said Atlanta. Oh I didn't. OK. Atlanta Cobb Energy Center Huntsville Royal Oak two shows Dayton Indy San Antonio Tarrytown New York Wilmington

[01:22:41] Delaware and then Anaheim is April 26th in case you want to head out there and Thousand Oaks is the 27th. So that's a little California weekend. A lot of California weekends. It's far to fly but I usually have fun. So that's it. Oh Dolly quote take take quote

[01:23:00] that we're out of here. Sometimes I forget these random open it up. Through the years this is Dolly. I've always used my femininity to my benefit. I never slept with anybody to get to the top though. If I slept with somebody it's

[01:23:15] because I wanted to not to get from point A to point B. That was discussing men during an interview in Bus Magazine. Tay Tay. Let's see. Yes. This is what she wrote and said in The Daily Beast in 2017. Songs for me are like a message in a bottle.

[01:23:38] You know I'm not a singer. You send them out to the world and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday. Hmm. Depends on what you wrote. Yeah. Because a lot of hers are fuck you. Here's another reason I decided

[01:23:57] you're an asshole. Fantasy football I lost by a half a point to my friend Kathy Lewis. Lewis was in the bottom. I finished second. That just shows you people every point constant fantasy every single week. I literally lost by half a point because Philadelphia fell apart

[01:24:17] and I had their kicker and I had Jalen Hurts. I just you know like different choices next year. Different choices. Yeah. But a second place paid. And right now I'm in the playoff bracket pool and I have won three out of four. There've only been four games and

[01:24:31] there are only five of us who have done that. The only one I lost was I did pick Dallas over Green Bay. I'm sorry Green Bay. I love you. But I just fell for what everybody was saying. Even though. Yeah. Just to watch. The Children's League. I dominated.

[01:24:53] Yeah. There's a lot of sad little fuckers sending me one dollar bills. Yeah. That's too. And my dad came in second. I don't know why he's in the Children's League. I don't even know how he got in there. And I'm like he beat you guys and

[01:25:10] he had just had a stroke. He did good in the adult league too. But now everything's back to normal ish. So his his picks are now they're not as good. OK. So Stevie's gonna say.