Episode 202: Mariah Carey’s Holiday Bar, Crypto Explodes, & Hallmark’s Holiday Cruise Sets Sail

[00:00:08] Hey everybody, it's me, Kathleen Madigan. Welcome to Madigan's Pubcast. You grab yourself a drink, pull up a bar stool, let's talk about what's been going on.

[00:00:25] Welcome. Welcome from Queen Stevie. Queen Stevie did the Michael J. Fox Benefit Foundation thing in New York and Maggie Rogers was there too. I love Maggie Rogers. Lewis has done it a bunch of times. Lou does the Michael J. Fox golf thingy too. I think there's a golf one too.

[00:00:42] But I'm like, of all the times for Lewis to be working and not going to Michael J. Fox, you and Miss Queen Stevie Lewis, plan your schedule better.

[00:00:52] She's right in your backyard and she sang a lot of songs. It wasn't just like a corporate fundraiser one-off.

[00:00:58] Really? No, she did a lot. Yeah. Cool.

[00:01:01] So there you go. That was a little Queen news out of the gate. What are we drinking? What are we drinking here?

[00:01:06] No, first, we're going to introduce two new candles that I found at the Boston Christmas Market.

[00:01:12] Chapel, Missouri's finest, Southern Missouri's finest little mouthy thing.

[00:01:18] Travis Kelsey has been moved over. He's been moved out of the candle arrangement for now.

[00:01:24] He's not scoring enough. He's a fine blocker for a man of his advanced years.

[00:01:30] But, and George Kibbles and Bits, George Kittle was injured and that fucking coach on San Francisco never says it till an hour out.

[00:01:38] And then there's no time for me to get a new tight end. I really don't like that, man.

[00:01:42] And then a new, yeah, this one, this is a baby cat candle.

[00:01:46] Oh, she's the Pope.

[00:01:48] Yes, she's the Pope.

[00:01:50] It doesn't look exactly like baby cat, but it was as close as I could find.

[00:01:54] Okay.

[00:01:56] So, there's our little candle.

[00:01:57] Speaking of candle, the beer.

[00:01:59] Drinking Candlepin Ale from Castle Island Brewing in Norwood, Massachusetts.

[00:02:04] That's from, to remind you, Jodi and her mom, Mary.

[00:02:06] Nice.

[00:02:07] It's quite delicious.

[00:02:08] Good for them. I never heard of it.

[00:02:11] Candlepin.

[00:02:11] I like it.

[00:02:12] I love a pale ale.

[00:02:13] Pale ales are great.

[00:02:14] Aw.

[00:02:16] Never disappointing.

[00:02:17] Sweet water's great.

[00:02:18] Never too much.

[00:02:19] Nope.

[00:02:20] Episode 201, what are we eating?

[00:02:22] We're going to taste the last of Research Assistant Bob and Clark's Korean Lay's Potato Chips.

[00:02:27] The last bag that I got home.

[00:02:29] This flavor, roasted cumin lamb skewer flavor.

[00:02:35] Now, I don't like cumin.

[00:02:37] You better have a chaser.

[00:02:38] But I'm going to try.

[00:02:40] I got a chaser right there.

[00:02:44] Bag smells okay.

[00:02:52] Do you like lamb?

[00:02:53] No.

[00:02:54] Yeah, I like an Eero.

[00:02:56] That's lamb.

[00:02:57] Very different.

[00:02:58] It's really the tzatziki sauce I like.

[00:03:00] Who's getting who?

[00:03:00] Can I have some more tzatziki sauce?

[00:03:02] Thanks.

[00:03:03] More.

[00:03:05] Yeah, there's an acquired taste, clearly, that Koreans have that I don't, of all these exotic flavors.

[00:03:12] Don't go back to the Italian meat thing one.

[00:03:14] That was great.

[00:03:15] Nantucket Crisp.

[00:03:18] South Wharf cocktail sauce chips.

[00:03:21] And then there's a shrimp on the front of here with a hat.

[00:03:25] Fun.

[00:03:26] Yeah, it's from Nantucket, darling.

[00:03:29] Oh, so fancy.

[00:03:31] So, yeah.

[00:03:33] Oh, they smell pretty good, actually.

[00:03:35] Smells good?

[00:03:36] Yeah.

[00:03:41] No.

[00:03:44] No, they're like sour at the end.

[00:03:46] I love the packaging.

[00:03:48] There's little shrimps having cocktails all over the thing, and they have mustaches and hats on.

[00:03:52] Hmm.

[00:03:53] Who's wrong with me?

[00:03:54] Um, um, uh, it doesn't say.

[00:03:59] Oh.

[00:04:00] No.

[00:04:01] Yeah.

[00:04:01] Um, and then there's some Shaq, Shaq, Shaquille O'Neal, Shaq as in Shaq, Shaqalicious gummies.

[00:04:08] I love the bag.

[00:04:09] They gotta get rid of that sour taste at the end, but thanks for bringing them.

[00:04:12] Shaq.

[00:04:14] He has his own gummy bears.

[00:04:15] Oh my God, they're huge.

[00:04:17] I think they're called X-Sales.

[00:04:19] Jesus, they look like my thumb.

[00:04:20] They're as big as my whole thumb.

[00:04:23] It's like his foot.

[00:04:24] It's peach.

[00:04:26] Berry.

[00:04:28] I'll go and pull my crowns out of my hat.

[00:04:30] I'll come.

[00:04:31] Uh-uh.

[00:04:32] Uh-uh.

[00:04:33] That's for the children who still have strong teeth.

[00:04:37] Strong teeth.

[00:04:37] And then the last thing is Martha's Vineyard.

[00:04:39] Look at this.

[00:04:39] It's a lobster cookie.

[00:04:41] How fun is this?

[00:04:42] Martha's Vineyard.

[00:04:43] Cool.

[00:04:44] Yeah.

[00:04:45] Um, I don't think I've ever been there.

[00:04:47] Yeah, you did.

[00:04:48] Have I?

[00:04:48] Yeah.

[00:04:49] That's where John's, the Jaws Bridge is.

[00:04:51] I thought that was Nantucket.

[00:04:53] Well, I don't know.

[00:04:54] Could be wrong.

[00:04:55] I don't know.

[00:04:56] I've been to one of them.

[00:04:58] Let's see the lobster cookie.

[00:05:01] If nothing else, it's really cute for Christmas.

[00:05:03] Totally fun.

[00:05:05] It's okay.

[00:05:06] Yeah.

[00:05:06] With coffee.

[00:05:07] Sugar cookie.

[00:05:09] Yeah.

[00:05:09] Yeah.

[00:05:10] That's fine.

[00:05:10] Okay.

[00:05:11] Not bad.

[00:05:12] Great.

[00:05:12] Yeah.

[00:05:12] I'll give that one an A.

[00:05:14] Ooh.

[00:05:15] Yeah.

[00:05:15] Nothing else got an A this week.

[00:05:17] I'll tell you that.

[00:05:20] Business merch.

[00:05:22] Limited edition.

[00:05:23] Baby cat hoodie.

[00:05:24] For the podcast, that's online.

[00:05:26] There's just like four left of each side.

[00:05:29] Four left of each side.

[00:05:30] All right.

[00:05:31] Upcoming shows.

[00:05:33] This week.

[00:05:34] El Cajon.

[00:05:36] Riverside.

[00:05:37] The following week.

[00:05:39] Chippensburg, PA.

[00:05:40] Ben Salem, PA.

[00:05:41] Then all the way to January.

[00:05:44] What was that?

[00:05:45] We got to speed up.

[00:05:47] You got to fast forward through three weeks.

[00:05:48] Oh, okay.

[00:05:50] January 17th.

[00:05:51] Omaha.

[00:05:51] January 18th.

[00:05:52] Cedar Falls.

[00:05:53] Let's go Cedar Falls.

[00:05:54] I've seen those ticket counts.

[00:05:56] Omaha's kicking your ass.

[00:05:59] 23rd is Spokane, the casino that I love.

[00:06:01] Nice.

[00:06:02] 25th, Scottsdale, Arizona.

[00:06:04] Another casino I love.

[00:06:05] Talking Stick.

[00:06:06] January 31st.

[00:06:07] Huntington.

[00:06:08] Two shows.

[00:06:08] We added a show.

[00:06:09] Fun.

[00:06:10] Did I just kick the cat?

[00:06:11] Oh, no.

[00:06:12] No.

[00:06:12] Baby cats.

[00:06:13] Oh, she loves going onto the coffee table for the podcast.

[00:06:17] Yeah.

[00:06:19] February 1st, Red Bank, New Jersey.

[00:06:21] And then the rest of the 2025 day drinking dates are on the website.

[00:06:25] I won't bore you with all of them.

[00:06:26] Be great.

[00:06:27] But there's a shit ton.

[00:06:28] Cool.

[00:06:30] So episode 202.

[00:06:32] First, let's just talk about a little football.

[00:06:34] Okay.

[00:06:35] Everybody knows that I love how much Stephen A. Smith loves to make fun of the Cowboys and Jerry Jones.

[00:06:41] He's completely delusional.

[00:06:43] And Shannon Sharp.

[00:06:44] Here's my Shannon Sharp impression.

[00:06:46] Tell the other.

[00:06:47] Delusional.

[00:06:47] He's a delusional.

[00:06:48] I mean, nobody even knows what he's talking about.

[00:06:50] I mean, I'm from the rural South, but I don't even know what he's talking about.

[00:06:53] Like, he's so Stephen A. Smith is calling him out.

[00:06:57] Like, he called Biden out way before everybody else did.

[00:06:59] Slippage.

[00:06:59] Calling Jerry Jones.

[00:07:00] Calling Jerry Jones.

[00:07:01] Yeah.

[00:07:01] He's saying like Biden.

[00:07:03] He called that a long time ago and said he's just slipping a little.

[00:07:06] No, nothing horrible.

[00:07:07] This is just what happens when he's 83.

[00:07:10] Jerry Jones.

[00:07:12] I can't explain.

[00:07:14] He owns the Cowboys in case you don't love football.

[00:07:17] This week, if you are against megalomaniac narcissist, it was so wonderful to watch Jerry Jones as the Cowboys.

[00:07:24] They should have put in Trey Lance.

[00:07:26] I don't know what's wrong with Mike McCarthy.

[00:07:28] I agree 100% with first take Stephen A. Smith show.

[00:07:32] And to watch the Jets.

[00:07:34] Yeah.

[00:07:35] Now they fired their GM.

[00:07:36] Is there anybody left for Aaron to fire?

[00:07:39] Jesus.

[00:07:39] God.

[00:07:39] You gave him command of the whole thing.

[00:07:41] He's fired.

[00:07:42] He's hired people.

[00:07:44] He hired as a whoopie.

[00:07:45] Devontae Adams to come.

[00:07:47] I'm sure Devontae should have thought should have rethought that Devontae.

[00:07:50] Kansas City could have used somebody.

[00:07:52] There's all maybe Baltimore.

[00:07:54] Like go to a good team.

[00:07:57] But this morning, Stephen A. Smith turned the corner.

[00:08:02] He's so funny.

[00:08:03] He goes, yeah, I posted that video of me enjoying the Cowboys losing last night because I'm a man of the people.

[00:08:08] He said, but I'm telling you right now, to even make fun of them anymore is an act of cruelty.

[00:08:15] He has gone to the other side.

[00:08:17] And I'm like, yeah, I mean, I do feel bad for the Cowboy fans who bought season tickets.

[00:08:21] I do feel bad for the people that work there because you're not selling as much beer.

[00:08:25] You're not getting as many tickets because the stadium.

[00:08:27] Oh, my God.

[00:08:28] And the stick.

[00:08:28] So part of his roof fell in.

[00:08:30] I saw that.

[00:08:31] And it almost hit production, guys.

[00:08:33] I immediately think, workman's cup because of my dad.

[00:08:36] Oh, my God.

[00:08:37] How lucky are you?

[00:08:38] And Patrick, my brother, goes, they should have a this is what you get, Jerry, for your nonunion labor.

[00:08:44] You get what you pay for and then show an ad of the thing falling through.

[00:08:48] And I'm like, yeah, it did not hit anybody.

[00:08:51] Thank God, because it was a giant piece of metal.

[00:08:53] I mean, it could probably have killed someone, I'd say for sure.

[00:08:56] So that was before the game.

[00:08:58] And even the players like CeeDee Lamb just looks completely not interested anymore.

[00:09:05] Mike McCarthy looks like he could be having a heart attack while the game's going on.

[00:09:09] He's sweating.

[00:09:10] And then his eyes roll back in his head.

[00:09:12] And I'm like, whoa, whoa, is he OK?

[00:09:13] Or what the hell is really going on?

[00:09:15] But this was just a wonderful weekend.

[00:09:18] And the Chiefs lost.

[00:09:20] First loss ever.

[00:09:21] It happens.

[00:09:22] Yeah, it happens.

[00:09:23] But in Buffalo, how fun was that?

[00:09:25] Well, I always make a bet with the guy building the house in the Ozarks who's awesome.

[00:09:30] His name is Mike.

[00:09:31] Mike's lost every week against me.

[00:09:33] No way.

[00:09:34] Yeah, and then he goes the other way.

[00:09:35] I'm like, this one's going to be tight.

[00:09:37] I'll take the Chiefs by three and let you have Buffalo.

[00:09:39] He goes, no, go in Chiefs by seven.

[00:09:42] Mike, you're going the wrong way.

[00:09:42] Do you want to win these bets or not?

[00:09:44] I'm giving you a layup.

[00:09:46] I'm saying because right now he's up to two truckloads of beer.

[00:09:49] Truckloads.

[00:09:49] We started a case.

[00:09:50] Then it went to two.

[00:09:55] Yep.

[00:09:56] Yep.

[00:09:56] I lost again.

[00:09:57] Yeah.

[00:09:57] Well, Mike, make a bigger garage.

[00:10:00] Because I'm not going to have room for all that.

[00:10:01] I'm going to have to buy an extra refrigerator.

[00:10:03] That's good.

[00:10:06] A wonderful fantasy week, too.

[00:10:09] And the one with the older nephews.

[00:10:12] Yeah.

[00:10:13] What did you do?

[00:10:14] Did you crush someone?

[00:10:15] No, I lost to my brother Joe.

[00:10:17] But I'm still so far in first place.

[00:10:19] I mean.

[00:10:19] You're kidding.

[00:10:20] Yeah.

[00:10:20] Yay.

[00:10:21] Yeah.

[00:10:22] Nice.

[00:10:22] And then the other league.

[00:10:23] Who's your quarterback in that one?

[00:10:26] Lamar.

[00:10:27] Well, that's why.

[00:10:28] Yeah.

[00:10:28] Yeah.

[00:10:28] In the league where I'm not doing so well, it's Patrick Mahomes.

[00:10:31] Because Patrick hasn't gotten nearly as many points as Lamar.

[00:10:35] Even if the Ravens lose, Lamar's got like 97 points on his own.

[00:10:40] He just runs the whole ball.

[00:10:41] Anyway.

[00:10:41] That's enough football talk.

[00:10:42] I know not everybody's into it.

[00:10:44] But Boston.

[00:10:45] Two shows at the Wilbur.

[00:10:47] Kelly McFarlane opener.

[00:10:50] If you came and saw it, because people were asking because they really like Kelly.

[00:10:52] Shout out.

[00:10:53] Kelly McFarlane.

[00:10:54] So you could go on her website and see she's always everywhere.

[00:10:58] Over in the schnoves.

[00:10:59] In the schnoves.

[00:11:01] The Wilbur's just such a great thing.

[00:11:02] But Boston itself is so fun.

[00:11:05] It was unseasonably warm.

[00:11:07] They had a Christmas market.

[00:11:09] Makes me so mad St. Louis or Nashville doesn't have one.

[00:11:12] Why can't we have nice things?

[00:11:14] Right.

[00:11:15] It was an upgraded market.

[00:11:17] They even included Jewish people.

[00:11:19] It's a holiday market.

[00:11:19] Such as a Christmas market.

[00:11:20] The Dizzy Dreidel.

[00:11:22] They had all kinds of stuff there.

[00:11:24] But it was like, instead of funnel cakes, it was crepes.

[00:11:28] Like they upgraded everything.

[00:11:30] They had a whole.

[00:11:31] It's at Southport.

[00:11:32] And it wasn't.

[00:11:32] Yeah, Southport is where.

[00:11:34] It's downtown Boston basically.

[00:11:36] It was just.

[00:11:38] I went twice.

[00:11:39] Saw some termites there.

[00:11:40] Took pictures.

[00:11:41] What?

[00:11:42] Yeah.

[00:11:42] One lady chased me down.

[00:11:43] And I heard my name, Kathleen.

[00:11:45] And as I was turning, I'm like, there's probably a lot of Kathleen's in Boston.

[00:11:48] Yeah.

[00:11:49] Maybe she's not yelling.

[00:11:50] Nope.

[00:11:50] It was for me.

[00:11:51] Guess what?

[00:11:52] But when you're from a big family, your immediate response to that is defensiveness.

[00:11:56] I'm always.

[00:11:57] I hear my name and I just go.

[00:11:58] I didn't do it.

[00:11:59] I don't know what the problem is.

[00:12:01] Not involved.

[00:12:02] Just sitting here watching my watching Dateline.

[00:12:05] Fuck off.

[00:12:05] So it was very nice to see people out about.

[00:12:08] Everybody's having fun.

[00:12:09] Fun.

[00:12:10] I'm telling you, if you live in Boston or anywhere nearby, get down there, but get there when

[00:12:14] it opens.

[00:12:14] Because the line to get in, it's all outdoors, but the line to get in when I left was cray-cray.

[00:12:21] Get there at 11.

[00:12:22] And there's Peroni.

[00:12:23] I love a Peroni twice a year.

[00:12:26] One of the booths has Peroni beer.

[00:12:28] They have upgraded beers.

[00:12:30] I'd never had a raclette where they skim cheese off this wheel and throw it on bread.

[00:12:37] Yeah.

[00:12:38] It was great.

[00:12:39] It's amazing.

[00:12:40] And then I went to all my little favorite taverns, my little Irish pubs.

[00:12:44] I went to the Black Rose.

[00:12:44] I went to the Green Dragon.

[00:12:46] Nice.

[00:12:46] The Bell in Hand.

[00:12:47] Those are the oldest ones in Boston.

[00:12:49] And you do feel like Paul Revere.

[00:12:51] Was sitting there.

[00:12:51] I don't think enough people think of Boston as a tourist place.

[00:12:55] Oh, yeah.

[00:12:55] The Northeast people do.

[00:12:56] Right.

[00:12:57] But you never hear Midwest people say, we're going to Boston for fun for a weekend.

[00:13:01] Right.

[00:13:02] And they should think about it.

[00:13:03] Right.

[00:13:03] It's just there's so much to do.

[00:13:05] Even the duck boats were going.

[00:13:06] Cool.

[00:13:06] Yeah, you could go take a ferry to wherever the hell you want to go.

[00:13:10] That's crazy.

[00:13:11] Yeah, I bought stuff at the market, but I can't say what because they're for people who listen,

[00:13:17] I think.

[00:13:18] I don't know if my neighbor listens.

[00:13:20] I'm sitting right here.

[00:13:22] You didn't get nothing, Paddles.

[00:13:23] What?

[00:13:23] There was nothing that's...

[00:13:24] Why?

[00:13:25] No, not there.

[00:13:26] No.

[00:13:26] No.

[00:13:27] Yeah.

[00:13:28] And then, as if everything wasn't great enough, Taylor, who runs this joint, the Wilbur,

[00:13:37] I asked her to bring her dog and she brought her dog.

[00:13:41] Ducky came with the name.

[00:13:43] She didn't pick it.

[00:13:44] And I was like, is Ducky just a very large golden retriever?

[00:13:48] Because his face looks like a golden retriever.

[00:13:51] And then I put it online and everybody was like, oh, we had Great Pyrenees growing up.

[00:13:55] She said, well, I did the DNA.

[00:13:56] It says a Great Pyrenees.

[00:13:57] I'm like, well, then it's the runt of that.

[00:13:59] Right.

[00:14:00] But its face...

[00:14:01] She looked real sweet.

[00:14:02] She was very sweet.

[00:14:03] Yeah.

[00:14:03] She's a bully, though.

[00:14:05] Really?

[00:14:05] Yeah.

[00:14:05] Oh, yeah.

[00:14:05] And she knows the whole gig.

[00:14:07] She knows when the show's going on.

[00:14:08] She knows when she can go around the back.

[00:14:11] She bullies you for treats.

[00:14:13] And then if she nudges you enough and you don't do it, then the barking starts.

[00:14:17] It's just yelling at you.

[00:14:19] Woof!

[00:14:20] Woof!

[00:14:21] Woof!

[00:14:21] And it's loud.

[00:14:23] And I said, Taylor, I said, my sister has an Australian Shepherd who bullies her a lot.

[00:14:27] Like, we'll sit on the couch and stare one inch from your face just going...

[00:14:31] Woof!

[00:14:32] Woof!

[00:14:33] Woof!

[00:14:33] Woof!

[00:14:34] And I said to my sister once, I go, do you ever feel like he has maybe the potential

[00:14:38] to bite your face off?

[00:14:39] Right?

[00:14:40] She said, yeah, all the time.

[00:14:42] But I mean, he hasn't.

[00:14:44] It's just...

[00:14:44] The dogs that are so, so smart.

[00:14:46] Anyway, moving on.

[00:14:47] Thank you, boss.

[00:14:48] It was great.

[00:14:49] We got it.

[00:14:49] Go.

[00:14:49] This is a friendly reminder from a termite, Dana, because we had talked about the gift

[00:14:55] cards for Fridays.

[00:14:56] Right.

[00:14:56] And people forget about this.

[00:14:58] She just wants...

[00:14:59] He, she...

[00:15:00] I'm not sure.

[00:15:00] Wanted to suggest that...

[00:15:01] If Dana's a guy or girl...

[00:15:03] Wanted to suggest that the people can get rid of gift cards through a site like Card Cash.

[00:15:07] Never heard of that.

[00:15:08] No.

[00:15:08] They'll buy cards for a discounted price for cash.

[00:15:11] You can also donate your card to some charities on that site.

[00:15:14] Okay.

[00:15:14] I've used it before and there are others.

[00:15:16] Yeah.

[00:15:16] All right.

[00:15:17] Just a nice little email to the team email.

[00:15:19] Cool.

[00:15:19] Yeah.

[00:15:19] I like it.

[00:15:20] Which I do check, by the way.

[00:15:22] In case people are wondering, does anybody read this shit?

[00:15:25] Yeah.

[00:15:25] This lady reads that shit.

[00:15:27] Queen News.

[00:15:28] We're moving on.

[00:15:31] Queen Dolly.

[00:15:33] Where she is.

[00:15:33] There?

[00:15:34] There.

[00:15:34] Yeah.

[00:15:36] Stevie already said did her thing.

[00:15:38] This is crazy.

[00:15:39] Okay.

[00:15:41] Thanks to Dolly Parton and her new foundation.

[00:15:45] More Nashville children will arrive reading ready to the first day of kindergarten.

[00:15:51] The Dollywood Foundation gave them $4.5 million towards Begin Bright, the Nashville Public Library's early literacy program.

[00:16:02] Oh, nice.

[00:16:03] I should attend.

[00:16:04] I can't read half the shit I read.

[00:16:06] I'm going to go sign up.

[00:16:08] I'll pay, though, so I'm not taking up a spot.

[00:16:10] This is the largest gift in Nashville Public Library's foundation 27-year history.

[00:16:17] Okay.

[00:16:17] $4.5 million.

[00:16:18] She just drops a little Christmas present on somebody.

[00:16:20] That's awesome.

[00:16:22] It's the biggest donation ever.

[00:16:26] Through Begin Bright, every child care center in the country will receive a little library filled with imagination library books along with a slate of Nashville Public Library resources.

[00:16:35] Additionally, a new app will offer on-demand digital early learning training for parents and teachers.

[00:16:42] That's awesome.

[00:16:43] Yeah.

[00:16:44] It's so great.

[00:16:46] Good for you, Dolly.

[00:16:47] Yeah.

[00:16:48] And, Dolly, also, so my sister really likes Kendra Scott earrings for you people who know the jewelry world.

[00:16:55] Yeah.

[00:16:55] Dolly has partnered with Kendra Scott.

[00:16:57] Oh, cool.

[00:16:58] Yes, and they have some nice stuff.

[00:16:59] It's not really my thing.

[00:17:01] I'm not really into pink butterflies on my jewelry, but if you are, just saying, it's high quality.

[00:17:07] Yeah.

[00:17:07] Because I have Kendra Scott earrings.

[00:17:09] As we say, they're going out earrings.

[00:17:12] Oh, going out ones.

[00:17:12] They're going out ones.

[00:17:13] Yes.

[00:17:15] Let's see.

[00:17:16] Chapel's been relatively quiet.

[00:17:18] Tom, they're really coming down on you can't be part owner of the Rainers.

[00:17:22] $370 million contract.

[00:17:24] My prediction right here at Tom Heights, Tom Brady will quit.

[00:17:28] Really?

[00:17:28] Announcing.

[00:17:29] Yeah.

[00:17:30] I don't think he loves it anyway.

[00:17:31] No.

[00:17:32] No.

[00:17:33] It's work.

[00:17:34] He's not used to that.

[00:17:36] Oh, he's totally used to that.

[00:17:38] Oh, he likes to run around and work out and football, but I'm saying this is not as fun.

[00:17:44] No.

[00:17:44] It's not as fun.

[00:17:45] No.

[00:17:46] I know people that have done it for a living.

[00:17:51] He won't calm down.

[00:17:52] He needs an edible.

[00:17:53] He needs an edible.

[00:17:54] He cannot calm down.

[00:17:56] Everything is not as exciting as he's saying.

[00:17:59] Okay.

[00:17:59] Okay.

[00:17:59] The way they ran that play.

[00:18:00] I mean, this is why they got two yards.

[00:18:02] It's a two yard play for Tom.

[00:18:04] Let's talk about the goddamn weather or something.

[00:18:06] Like he's just got to calm down.

[00:18:08] I don't know how you teach people that.

[00:18:09] That's great.

[00:18:10] No idea.

[00:18:11] Tay Tay's wrapping up in Canada.

[00:18:13] Yep.

[00:18:13] Toronto.

[00:18:14] Like a million.

[00:18:15] She's on this weekend too.

[00:18:16] This weekend too.

[00:18:17] Coming up.

[00:18:17] On the Eros tour that never ends.

[00:18:20] It goes through every era of my life.

[00:18:22] She's starting a new year.

[00:18:22] I'll be in my 80s and she'll still be out there.

[00:18:24] Mm-hmm.

[00:18:25] Jelly Belly is going on tour with Post Malone this summer to the big.

[00:18:29] Yes.

[00:18:29] And then my friend Dax, who's the drummer for Cheap Trick.

[00:18:32] Uh-huh.

[00:18:33] Boom.

[00:18:33] They're going with Rod Stewart.

[00:18:34] Yay.

[00:18:35] July and August.

[00:18:37] I want to go to, I want to go see that just for fun.

[00:18:39] And I want to see Post Malone and Jelly Belly.

[00:18:41] Snoop's been quiet.

[00:18:42] He's probably still tired.

[00:18:43] He's done a lot of things.

[00:18:45] He's still saving NBC.

[00:18:47] Yeah.

[00:18:47] Those ads are good for The Voice.

[00:18:49] They are good.

[00:18:50] And you know who's not going to like them?

[00:18:52] Reba Shmeba.

[00:18:53] Reba.

[00:18:54] Because it's more Snoop than Reba.

[00:18:56] And I don't think Reba seems like open to that.

[00:18:58] But that's just, while I'm saying on that, what are we watching?

[00:19:04] Yellowstone.

[00:19:05] Okay.

[00:19:06] I hated the first one.

[00:19:08] You hated it?

[00:19:08] I hated it.

[00:19:09] Oh, I loved it.

[00:19:10] What?

[00:19:10] The fake suicide?

[00:19:13] The fake, well, you got to start it.

[00:19:15] You got to kill off Kevin.

[00:19:16] I know.

[00:19:16] And then he's like, yeah, I'm not really aware of what's going on.

[00:19:19] Oh, stop it.

[00:19:20] You know what's going on.

[00:19:22] Yeah.

[00:19:22] You just don't want to admit that maybe you shouldn't have left that show.

[00:19:26] Right.

[00:19:26] That's that.

[00:19:35] I just wish I'd never seen Yellowstone and you could start from the beginning and fast

[00:19:41] forward to the commercials.

[00:19:42] The amount of commercials on Paramount is ridiculous.

[00:19:45] The show's probably only 28 minutes long when you plow through all that crap.

[00:19:49] So far, I love every single bit of the rattlesnake thing.

[00:19:53] I'm not giving anything away.

[00:19:54] Just saying there's some rattlesnakes involved.

[00:19:56] Freak me out.

[00:19:56] Freak me out.

[00:19:57] Freak me out.

[00:19:58] And I don't know how they did that, but please tell me that actress didn't really have to

[00:20:02] do that.

[00:20:03] Yeah.

[00:20:03] That's where I, actor, whatever.

[00:20:04] I would have quit.

[00:20:05] If she did.

[00:20:06] That's where I quit.

[00:20:07] Yeah.

[00:20:08] It was terrifying.

[00:20:10] But after that, I started a show Landman with Billy Bob Thornton.

[00:20:15] It's about the oil industry.

[00:20:16] And I love Billy Bob Thornton.

[00:20:18] I've never met him, but my friend Ron was in an HBO thing with him that got thrown in

[00:20:23] the trash.

[00:20:24] Really, very sad.

[00:20:25] Lily Tomlin was in it too.

[00:20:26] It was about a Texas oil thing too, I think.

[00:20:29] He loves him.

[00:20:31] Yeah.

[00:20:31] And my friend Dax met him.

[00:20:32] Yeah.

[00:20:32] And they all love him.

[00:20:33] They just say he's a great guy, but I just like his act.

[00:20:36] I don't know him, but his acting is that Landman show is great.

[00:20:41] Thumbs up for that.

[00:20:43] Yellowstone, if you're in, you're in.

[00:20:45] I don't like, I'm too much of an addict though.

[00:20:47] Don't tell me you get one episode every Sunday.

[00:20:50] And it's competing with my Sunday night football.

[00:20:53] So then I have to not be tired enough.

[00:20:54] Can I make it through?

[00:20:56] Oh, yeah.

[00:20:57] Right.

[00:20:57] Yeah.

[00:20:58] Well, probably not.

[00:20:59] You're in a good time zone though.

[00:21:00] Central time zone is the best for sports.

[00:21:03] East Coast too late, West Coast too early, sad clown by five o'clock.

[00:21:07] Everything is over.

[00:21:07] I'm like, aw.

[00:21:09] Should I leave?

[00:21:09] Should I leave Barney's Meanery now?

[00:21:11] I mean, the sports are over.

[00:21:13] Well, you feel like a total drunk staying in hours afterwards.

[00:21:16] Update.

[00:21:19] That's what we're watching.

[00:21:21] That's what I'm watching.

[00:21:23] And I don't think I've really watched anything else.

[00:21:26] Landman.

[00:21:27] Landman.

[00:21:28] I believe that's what it's called.

[00:21:29] All right.

[00:21:29] With Billy Bob Thornton.

[00:21:33] Got it.

[00:21:35] Update.

[00:21:35] Okay.

[00:21:36] The monkeys.

[00:21:38] Oh, no.

[00:21:40] The South Carolina monkeys who I'm rooting for.

[00:21:43] Yep.

[00:21:44] There's a bunch have been caught, but there's still 11 of them out.

[00:21:48] 11?

[00:21:49] Oh, my God.

[00:21:49] A South Carolina congresswoman has called for a full investigation into the primate research

[00:21:54] facility Alpha Genesis after 43 monkeys escaped a little over a week ago.

[00:21:59] Can you imagine if you're the person who forgot to lock the door?

[00:22:03] No.

[00:22:04] Or the cage?

[00:22:05] No.

[00:22:05] And then you get a text in the morning.

[00:22:07] Um, did you lock?

[00:22:08] Hey.

[00:22:09] Hey.

[00:22:11] Hey.

[00:22:11] God.

[00:22:13] The escape, which occurred Wednesday, November 6th, is the latest in a long list of violations

[00:22:18] from this USDA and NIH-funded laboratory, said Nancy Mace from blah, blah, South Carolina.

[00:22:26] So far, they've recovered 32 out of 43.

[00:22:31] That's a levator still at large in Yemassie.

[00:22:34] I'm probably saying that wrong.

[00:22:35] Small town about 60 miles west of Charleston.

[00:22:38] Wow.

[00:22:39] That's crazy.

[00:22:40] I would so fucking be there.

[00:22:42] If I lived in Charleston, I would call in sick and go, yeah, I just really don't feel

[00:22:45] good.

[00:22:46] And then I would drive my hour out to this town and search just to see one.

[00:22:50] Yeah.

[00:22:51] Yeah.

[00:22:52] I wouldn't go too close to it.

[00:22:54] Um, the escaped monkey saga has garnered international media attention, been the

[00:22:59] focus of internet memes, sparked outrage from animal rights organizations, in addition

[00:23:04] to Mace's call for action in recent weeks.

[00:23:08] I don't know.

[00:23:10] I like it.

[00:23:11] Do you think they can make it on their own?

[00:23:12] Yes.

[00:23:13] I think so, too.

[00:23:14] Mm-hmm.

[00:23:14] They're smart.

[00:23:15] They're very, very, very smart.

[00:23:17] Um, this place has a bad history, according to this, according to the reports.

[00:23:22] Oh.

[00:23:23] Um, yeah.

[00:23:23] Oops.

[00:23:24] Why is that stapled together?

[00:23:25] That's a different story entirely.

[00:23:27] Oh.

[00:23:28] Yes.

[00:23:28] Yes.

[00:23:29] Update!

[00:23:31] This makes me laugh so hard.

[00:23:33] So I told you about that smoking hot new Red Lobster CEO.

[00:23:38] Yeah.

[00:23:38] Uh, Damola.

[00:23:41] I can't say his last name.

[00:23:43] That's all right.

[00:23:44] We can Google it.

[00:23:45] Adam Oken.

[00:23:46] Adam Oken.

[00:23:47] It's very long and a lot of...

[00:23:48] You usually make people Japanese.

[00:23:50] He's not Japanese.

[00:23:52] No.

[00:23:53] Um...

[00:23:53] Adam Oken.

[00:23:54] He said he announced that the endless shrimp is never returning because, quote, I know

[00:24:01] how to do math.

[00:24:02] Yeah.

[00:24:08] Yeah.

[00:24:12] Yeah.

[00:24:13] Yeah.

[00:24:13] Yeah.

[00:24:15] Yeah.

[00:24:16] When you look at Americans...

[00:24:18] No.

[00:24:19] We're not skinny.

[00:24:21] No.

[00:24:21] Don't offer us endless anything.

[00:24:23] No.

[00:24:23] No.

[00:24:23] Because there's a reason Golden Corral has a crowd every night.

[00:24:27] Right.

[00:24:28] Yeah.

[00:24:28] And there's a reason they have rules.

[00:24:29] You can't take stuff home.

[00:24:31] Mm-hmm.

[00:24:33] That's hilarious.

[00:24:34] Probably in place because of my mother.

[00:24:37] So Red Lobster.

[00:24:38] This is great.

[00:24:39] This guy is on the ball.

[00:24:41] Tis the season to celebrate.

[00:24:42] If you're a Red Lobster fan.

[00:24:43] Okay.

[00:24:44] Now, truth be told...

[00:24:46] Well, my grandpa used to like it.

[00:24:47] We used to go every Thursday.

[00:24:49] I like Red Lobster.

[00:24:50] I love Red Lobster.

[00:24:51] Mm-hmm.

[00:24:51] But I do save it for when I'm on the road and there's not much else in that town.

[00:24:56] Right.

[00:24:56] It's a go-to.

[00:24:58] Mm-hmm.

[00:24:58] It's solid.

[00:24:59] Yep.

[00:25:00] Biscuits are great.

[00:25:01] Biscuits are great and it's the coldest ranch dressing outside of Longhorn.

[00:25:05] I've never noticed that.

[00:25:06] It's ice cold.

[00:25:07] It's just wonderful.

[00:25:08] Okay.

[00:25:09] I always liked the stuffed flounder.

[00:25:10] Anyway, it probably wasn't even flounder.

[00:25:13] But it's also a Midwest thing.

[00:25:14] We don't fucking know.

[00:25:16] Here, is this a flounder or is this a...

[00:25:18] Is this a white fish?

[00:25:19] I only know that didn't go up.

[00:25:21] That's salmon.

[00:25:21] I know that because it's the wrong color.

[00:25:24] It's red.

[00:25:24] Right.

[00:25:25] It could be cod for all I know.

[00:25:28] So, they have a new menu available.

[00:25:31] Cool.

[00:25:32] Here's what he's adding.

[00:25:34] New lobster, pappadella...

[00:25:37] I can't say it.

[00:25:38] Pappadella.

[00:25:39] Pappadella pasta.

[00:25:41] New wrap...

[00:25:42] Bacon wrap sea scallops.

[00:25:45] That's in the grocery aisle.

[00:25:47] I would do that.

[00:25:49] Lobster bisque.

[00:25:50] Sure.

[00:25:50] I trust them.

[00:25:52] Lemon basil mahi.

[00:25:54] Simply prepared mahi.

[00:25:56] Parmesan-crusted chicken.

[00:25:58] Roasted asparagus.

[00:26:00] And, because he's smart, he's bringing about popcorn shrimp and hush puppies.

[00:26:04] I didn't even know they got rid of the hush puppies.

[00:26:06] That is a sin.

[00:26:07] You can't get rid of the hush puppies.

[00:26:09] Oh, they're delicious.

[00:26:10] I know.

[00:26:11] One of my vegan friends, we went out to eat, and I ordered hush puppies.

[00:26:15] And he said, Kathleen, do you know what's in hush puppies?

[00:26:18] I said, I don't know, Tony.

[00:26:19] Baby dogs?

[00:26:21] I don't.

[00:26:22] If you want to know what's in your food, go out to lunch with a vegan.

[00:26:24] Holy shit.

[00:26:25] I'm like, how about you do your plate?

[00:26:27] We don't need to be looking over here.

[00:26:29] Fries.

[00:26:30] Yeah, just fries.

[00:26:31] Yeah, he's eating a whole thing of fries.

[00:26:33] I'm like, how are you not fat?

[00:26:34] Right.

[00:26:35] He makes me laugh, though.

[00:26:36] So they're also adding fan favorites, snow globe sangria.

[00:26:44] What?

[00:26:44] Yeah.

[00:26:45] Why do the chains always good?

[00:26:48] Cracker Barrel, Red Lobster, sangria.

[00:26:50] Why?

[00:26:51] I don't know.

[00:26:51] Because it's not as whiny?

[00:26:53] Come on.

[00:26:53] It's more in a punch bowl?

[00:26:56] What?

[00:26:56] Is it less offensive?

[00:26:58] It's a lot of things.

[00:26:59] And they also have a festive ruby mule or a mocha espresso martini.

[00:27:05] These seasonal sips are perfect for pairing with any of the new or returning favorite dishes.

[00:27:10] I would never have a espresso martini at Red Lobster.

[00:27:15] No, I'm not having an espresso martini at Red Lobster.

[00:27:18] And I don't like any of those mule things.

[00:27:20] Probably comes in a can.

[00:27:22] Probably.

[00:27:23] Yeah.

[00:27:23] Yeah, even the way they drink appears.

[00:27:26] Canned martinis.

[00:27:28] Yum.

[00:27:29] Yeah.

[00:27:30] There's your update for Red Lobster, though.

[00:27:33] Isn't that exciting, ladies and gentlemen?

[00:27:36] There's another.

[00:27:37] Okay.

[00:27:37] Update!

[00:27:38] Oh, my God.

[00:27:39] Let's talk about it.

[00:27:41] Oh!

[00:27:42] The Mike Tyson, Jake Paul.

[00:27:44] First, I have to say, as Stephen A. Smith would say, I was completely wrong.

[00:27:49] I really thought Mike could still do it.

[00:27:52] Mike looked old.

[00:27:53] Mike looked...

[00:27:54] Sweaty.

[00:27:55] Yeah.

[00:27:55] For the first couple rounds, you're like, okay.

[00:27:57] And then you're like, oh, Papa.

[00:27:59] Yeah.

[00:27:59] Yeah.

[00:28:00] I felt bad for him.

[00:28:01] I felt bad for him, too, because he's kind of laboring around up there.

[00:28:04] And then I don't know, is Jake just being nice?

[00:28:07] No.

[00:28:07] And, well, he said he was.

[00:28:09] And I bet you also look cooler if you say that.

[00:28:11] You know?

[00:28:12] Well, I could have knocked him out.

[00:28:13] Because I'm like, you're 27.

[00:28:14] You can't knock out a 58-year-old in eight rounds.

[00:28:18] Right.

[00:28:19] And it didn't even come on on the East Coast until I got offstage.

[00:28:22] So I got to see it.

[00:28:23] You texted me.

[00:28:23] It's like 1230.

[00:28:24] Yeah.

[00:28:25] I'm like, oh, my God.

[00:28:26] It's just starting.

[00:28:27] Here's the craziest thing.

[00:28:29] I did not sit there all night and watch it because I was working and stuff.

[00:28:33] And even by the time I got to it, there was some buffering issues.

[00:28:37] Well, apparently, it was way worse.

[00:28:40] Baby Cat.

[00:28:41] Lay down.

[00:28:42] It was way, way worse than I saw.

[00:28:46] And Netflix has the live football game on on Christmas Day.

[00:28:51] It's going to be crazy.

[00:28:52] Who I think is the Chiefs.

[00:28:54] The Chiefs.

[00:28:54] Chiefs and Google it.

[00:28:57] Raiders, I think?

[00:28:58] No.

[00:28:58] Raiders?

[00:28:59] Nobody's going to care.

[00:29:00] No.

[00:29:01] That's the Black Friday game.

[00:29:04] Chiefs.

[00:29:05] Can they do it?

[00:29:06] I mean, that's the question.

[00:29:08] You guys couldn't get your shit together enough.

[00:29:10] Oh, my God.

[00:29:11] It's the Chiefs and Pittsburgh.

[00:29:12] Oh, my God.

[00:29:13] It's the Chiefs and the Steelers.

[00:29:14] Jeez, old Bezo.

[00:29:15] Everyone's going to want to watch that.

[00:29:17] Jeez, old Bezo.

[00:29:18] Well, I mean, that's terrible.

[00:29:20] That is terrible to hear.

[00:29:21] Who says that?

[00:29:22] Well, it's better than cussing, right?

[00:29:25] Jeez, old Bezo.

[00:29:26] I don't know.

[00:29:28] Yes.

[00:29:29] They've got six weeks to fix that problem.

[00:29:31] And apparently, it went on all night.

[00:29:34] Here's what it says.

[00:29:36] They describe it as a complete disaster.

[00:29:40] This is awfulannouncing.com, which I love.

[00:29:42] It's all sports.

[00:29:43] But it doesn't matter.

[00:29:44] Like, this is for any live event.

[00:29:46] So I don't want you people who don't like sports to think I'm getting overwhelming here with sports.

[00:29:50] It's the fact that Netflix agreed to something and then was like, oh, shit, we don't have the bandwidth.

[00:29:55] You just found that out during the fight?

[00:29:57] Right.

[00:29:57] Because there were all these lead-up fights.

[00:30:00] Wow.

[00:30:00] Wow.

[00:30:01] They said it could be described more accurately as a complete disaster.

[00:30:06] The broadcast began at 8 p.m. Eastern.

[00:30:08] It did not take long for issues to be reported.

[00:30:11] These are some tweets or whatever.

[00:30:14] Which, by the way, I'm on Blue Sky now.

[00:30:17] As me, Kathleen Madigan.

[00:30:19] I'm going to stay on Twitter a while longer and see how it sorts itself out.

[00:30:23] It's also for work.

[00:30:24] Well, yeah, it's for work.

[00:30:25] But I enjoy all the social media ones, really, except, well, the facial book gets a little long.

[00:30:36] I wish it would shut down so that my parents would stop stalking comments.

[00:30:40] Yeah.

[00:30:41] My dad used to do it a lot.

[00:30:43] Do you understand people are writing things on here?

[00:30:46] Yeah, I do.

[00:30:46] I do, Dad.

[00:30:47] And I don't sit there and read them all.

[00:30:48] You and Mom are welcome to do that.

[00:30:50] But I don't want to hear shit about it.

[00:30:52] Hmm.

[00:30:54] He didn't understand how I could just go, leave it.

[00:30:56] You respond to some of them.

[00:30:57] No, but I mean, I'm not responding to mean ones.

[00:31:00] Like, he'd find one that he thought was too critical.

[00:31:03] Right.

[00:31:03] Which is amazing because he's the most critical person.

[00:31:07] Here's some things people wrote.

[00:31:08] This is awful and ruining boxing.

[00:31:10] Non-stop buffering.

[00:31:14] Some of the pixelation issues were generally resolved quickly.

[00:31:18] Well, that's the fucking picture.

[00:31:20] It should be.

[00:31:23] Or you had to hop out and come back in to straighten it out.

[00:31:28] That is a pain in the ass.

[00:31:30] Yeah.

[00:31:31] No, it's stupid.

[00:31:32] More people.

[00:31:33] So as the night went on, so about the 8 o'clock hour,

[00:31:37] people were reporting some issues here and there.

[00:31:39] But then as it gets closer to the Tyson fight, everybody's logging in.

[00:31:44] Right.

[00:31:44] Right.

[00:31:45] Well, not great.

[00:31:47] I'm getting the picture here.

[00:31:49] I'm getting where the picture freezes, but the audio continues.

[00:31:52] Had to jump out and go back in to catch up.

[00:31:57] It's Christmas Day.

[00:31:58] They have a pair of games.

[00:31:59] Netflix.

[00:32:00] How are you going to fix these streaming issues in six weeks?

[00:32:03] I don't know.

[00:32:04] I'm not a techie.

[00:32:05] No clue.

[00:32:07] That's crazy.

[00:32:08] This guy got kicked off like six times.

[00:32:11] They better work this stuff out if they expect to regularly offer live sports like the NFL and WWE.

[00:32:19] Netflix is finding out in real time how hard it is to produce live TV.

[00:32:24] Exactly.

[00:32:25] Big deal.

[00:32:25] Well, they need my friend Laura.

[00:32:27] They should see if you offer her a bunch of money, maybe she'll leave her job and come.

[00:32:32] She can live produce for you.

[00:32:34] They need to get the mic issues fixed.

[00:32:37] Yeah, that was weird.

[00:32:38] Streaming issues all over the planet.

[00:32:39] Jerry Jones was talking about how excited he was that Netflix and NFL are partnering up.

[00:32:47] So, I don't know.

[00:32:49] If it isn't fixed by December 25th, it will be anything but a Merry Christmas for Netflix.

[00:32:59] People save their $12.

[00:33:03] Speaking of Merry Christmas, hold on.

[00:33:05] I got to – by the way, my Red Lobster article also came from Termite Sandy and Termite Frank.

[00:33:11] So, I appreciate that because I missed that and I did not see that, which was very nice.

[00:33:17] Sometimes you guys send stuff to the thing and it's great.

[00:33:19] But this is what I – I got to find this.

[00:33:21] Give me one second.

[00:33:28] Here we go.

[00:33:29] Speaking of Christmas.

[00:33:30] Okay.

[00:33:30] Okay?

[00:33:31] Well, I have two things for Christmas.

[00:33:34] Mariah Carey.

[00:33:37] Yes!

[00:33:37] What are our feelings on that?

[00:33:39] I love that song.

[00:33:42] How does it go?

[00:33:43] All I want for Christmas.

[00:33:50] When I lived in West Hollywood, the gay guys next to me, we had little tiny houses like 1,200 square feet, 1100 square feet.

[00:33:59] The entire house lit up and played this all night long.

[00:34:03] Fantastic.

[00:34:03] This all I want.

[00:34:04] But the lights went with the thing.

[00:34:07] I mean, and it was kind of before anybody did that.

[00:34:09] And I remember coming home one night going, holy shit.

[00:34:12] Fantastic.

[00:34:13] This is just something else.

[00:34:14] I prefer Cher's song.

[00:34:17] DJ playing a Christmas song?

[00:34:18] Mm-hmm.

[00:34:19] Mm-hmm.

[00:34:20] DJ playing a Christmas song.

[00:34:23] I like that a lot better.

[00:34:24] People have asked where Cher is.

[00:34:26] She's getting repaired.

[00:34:27] Cher's getting repaired?

[00:34:29] Oh, the cardboard cutout.

[00:34:30] Cher, yeah.

[00:34:30] Baby Cat kind of knocked her over.

[00:34:33] Baby Cat slept with her.

[00:34:34] Cher's been out plugging her memoir.

[00:34:37] I don't know, guys.

[00:34:38] You know, once again, if I'm a manager or an agent and I have a superstar, I'm going to call when they're about 65 and go thinking about writing a memoir.

[00:34:46] Can we get that out for your 70?

[00:34:48] Not 80.

[00:34:49] Not 80.

[00:34:50] Do it.

[00:34:52] Barbra Streisand's mad.

[00:34:53] Not out of copies are sold.

[00:34:55] What the fuck?

[00:34:55] Come on.

[00:34:56] Do you think it's going to happen when you're 80-some-odd years old and you're released?

[00:34:59] Here's my memoirs.

[00:35:01] Anyway, Mariah Carey Holiday Bars open across the United States.

[00:35:06] Where to find them and what to expect?

[00:35:08] So excited.

[00:35:09] Uh-huh.

[00:35:10] So this is a little review by Nathan from USA Today.

[00:35:13] Nice.

[00:35:15] Key points.

[00:35:16] Mariah Carey's Black Irish.

[00:35:18] Now, Black Irish means usually they talk about people in Ireland that have darker hair and they're more, they always say, from the Spanish invasion.

[00:35:27] So they're the Black Irish.

[00:35:28] They don't mean like black skin.

[00:35:31] Yeah, they just mean.

[00:35:33] But every year, so it's an old person thing.

[00:35:37] It's not racist.

[00:35:38] But every time Mariah Carey would come on TV, every single time my entire life, my dad would go, now is she black?

[00:35:43] We have gone over this a hundred times, Dad.

[00:35:47] Her mother is white.

[00:35:49] Right.

[00:35:49] And an Irish lady.

[00:35:51] And her father is African American slash Venezuelan.

[00:35:56] Oh, wow.

[00:35:56] This is his response.

[00:35:58] Huh.

[00:35:58] I didn't see that.

[00:36:01] How would you see Venezuelan, Dad?

[00:36:03] You don't know.

[00:36:04] But anyway, I don't know why she's black, Irish, but that's what she's chosen.

[00:36:08] It is a pop-up experience at select Virgin Hotel locations.

[00:36:12] The bar features festive decor, a curated playlist of holiday music, and themed cocktails.

[00:36:18] Tickets include a welcome drink, 90-minute time slot, with prices starting at $20.

[00:36:22] That's good.

[00:36:23] It's coming to Nashville.

[00:36:24] It's coming to Nashville.

[00:36:25] I know.

[00:36:25] I have the city.

[00:36:26] I know.

[00:36:26] I'm totally going.

[00:36:27] I know.

[00:36:29] Technically, it was the night had just started, and there was already a line to take photos

[00:36:33] with Mariah Carey.

[00:36:34] It is funny.

[00:36:35] Technically, it was just a cutout.

[00:36:36] Of course, you're not getting the real one.

[00:36:38] It was enough to cause a stir among Mariah Carey's black Irish holiday bars in Nashville.

[00:36:43] Oh, this is a review from Nashville.

[00:36:45] So Nathan went to Nashville.

[00:36:46] Oh, cool.

[00:36:46] Attendees squeezed into a red and gold photo station where the singer's image stood, posing

[00:36:51] in front of a wreath adorned with pine cones to capture the moment.

[00:36:54] The neon sign above them read, all I want for Christmas is you.

[00:37:00] I like it.

[00:37:01] They transformed a lounge into the Mariah Carey bar.

[00:37:05] It's like a holiday party at her house, or so I imagine.

[00:37:08] More elegant living room or library than decked-out coffee shop.

[00:37:15] The space boasted Christmas trees, both flocked and classic.

[00:37:18] I can never decide if I want the flocked.

[00:37:20] Part of me does.

[00:37:21] No.

[00:37:22] But I don't want to deal with a mess.

[00:37:24] Yeah.

[00:37:24] I like a flock for you.

[00:37:25] Yeah.

[00:37:27] Do you get a gift bag labeled MC?

[00:37:30] Lined sleek with shelving and projections of snowflakes, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

[00:37:35] It's fun.

[00:37:36] The bar got kind of crowded, blah, blah, blah.

[00:37:38] We don't need to read it.

[00:37:38] I'm going to tell you what cities they're in.

[00:37:40] Okay.

[00:37:41] Here's where the—

[00:37:42] Okay.

[00:37:42] Okay.

[00:37:43] $20 in Nashville, Chicago, Dallas, and New Orleans.

[00:37:46] Could be more in New York.

[00:37:48] Duh.

[00:37:49] Fuck New York.

[00:37:49] Of course it's—

[00:37:50] Oh, simmer, pals.

[00:37:52] That's not very nice.

[00:37:53] What, to charge more?

[00:37:54] They have to.

[00:37:55] Everybody pays more for everything in New York.

[00:37:57] Right.

[00:37:58] Yeah, so that's not very spirited.

[00:38:01] Oh, you don't think it's in the Christmas spirit?

[00:38:03] No.

[00:38:03] You think you should keep the—

[00:38:05] and lose money?

[00:38:05] Well, they're also only using her Black Irish liqueur.

[00:38:09] Come on.

[00:38:10] Her—she has a—yeah, yeah.

[00:38:11] So she's going to make—

[00:38:12] She has her own liqueur, Black Irish, but I don't know.

[00:38:16] They serve the same ones in every location, but they offer different foods.

[00:38:19] The food varies city by city.

[00:38:22] Okay.

[00:38:22] New York, it's $30.

[00:38:24] You got $10, pals.

[00:38:27] You know—

[00:38:27] They have higher rents.

[00:38:28] They have higher everything.

[00:38:30] They have to charge more.

[00:38:31] No, they don't.

[00:38:32] They'll also serve brunch in New York Saturday and Sunday starting at $65.

[00:38:36] Oh, more more.

[00:38:36] And it includes a free cocktail.

[00:38:37] Now, a cocktail in New York is probably going to be $27, so there you go.

[00:38:40] Okay.

[00:38:40] You get your money back.

[00:38:41] That's true.

[00:38:42] I'm sorry.

[00:38:43] You're right.

[00:38:44] You're right.

[00:38:44] Nah, I just—

[00:38:45] New York, it's always going to be more, and it sucks, but that's what you get for living

[00:38:49] there, Louis.

[00:38:50] Totally.

[00:38:50] That's what you get, Louis.

[00:38:52] Black.

[00:38:52] You can't go to the Mariah Pack, but Gary Pop-Up Bar, Louis, because—

[00:39:01] Holy shit, they found it.

[00:39:03] Moving on.

[00:39:03] Yeah, we're moving on.

[00:39:06] New paintings found at Pompeii.

[00:39:08] It's the gift that just keeps giving.

[00:39:11] Pompeii, I need to quit this job and get over there and offer my free labor, even though

[00:39:16] I don't know what I'm doing.

[00:39:17] I would just warn them, I don't know what I'm doing.

[00:39:19] Somebody teach me a very menial task, and I can repeat it until my back hurts.

[00:39:24] They've uncovered another house with magnificent wall paintings, nicknamed the House of Phaedra,

[00:39:30] which is like the rest of the city, which, like the rest of the city, was buried under

[00:39:34] volcanic ash during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE.

[00:39:38] It preserved several beautiful wall paintings.

[00:39:42] I'm going to put these in the show notes.

[00:39:43] You have to see.

[00:39:45] It's amazeballs.

[00:39:46] I mean, these people had a lot of time to paint shit.

[00:39:48] They didn't just go to Lowe's and get, you know, summer driftwood, that color that I just

[00:39:54] made up.

[00:39:58] It's crazy.

[00:40:00] But I'll put the link online.

[00:40:02] You can go look at them.

[00:40:03] Here's something very cool.

[00:40:04] Holy shit, they found it.

[00:40:07] 1,200-year-old Viking cemetery with stone ship burials discovered in Sweden.

[00:40:13] Cool.

[00:40:14] Yeah, these sweet.

[00:40:15] If I was a Swedish kid in my off time, that's all I would do is dig for shit.

[00:40:19] Nice.

[00:40:19] Just because there's actual cool shit to find everywhere.

[00:40:22] Yeah.

[00:40:23] It's everywhere.

[00:40:24] Archaeologists in Sweden were expecting to find an ancient settlement, but they were surprised

[00:40:27] to discover a Viking-age cemetery with boat-shaped burial outlines.

[00:40:32] Cool.

[00:40:33] Yep.

[00:40:33] That's awesome.

[00:40:34] They found more than 100 graves in several ship-shaped mounds.

[00:40:37] As soon as the excavation began, we realized that there was a large Viking burial ground

[00:40:41] that we had to focus on.

[00:40:42] We've only excavated 6% of the burial ground.

[00:40:46] Mm-hmm.

[00:40:47] Jeez, that's going to be slow.

[00:40:48] We still got 94% to go.

[00:40:50] That's crazy.

[00:40:51] Yeah.

[00:40:51] Mm-hmm.

[00:40:54] There's a shit ton.

[00:40:55] It's like a graveyard.

[00:40:56] And they buried their animals.

[00:40:58] And metal, ceramic vessels and all this crap.

[00:41:01] I'll put the link, though, if you want to read more about it, because it's very cool.

[00:41:04] Nice.

[00:41:04] Moving on to news, children.

[00:41:07] Let's move on to some news.

[00:41:11] Spirit Airlines.

[00:41:12] Oh, no.

[00:41:13] I guess this should, technically, this should have been an update.

[00:41:16] They have prepared, they have filed for bankruptcy.

[00:41:19] I got an email.

[00:41:20] It's game on.

[00:41:21] Yeah.

[00:41:22] And I'd like to shout out the Delta employee who said that I was right, that Delta would

[00:41:26] shoot back.

[00:41:27] Nobody's shooting at Delta.

[00:41:28] You shoot at Spirit.

[00:41:30] Yeah.

[00:41:30] Yeah.

[00:41:31] I'm always proud of Delta.

[00:41:32] Delta, who got me home in two hours and 15 minutes, straight away from Boston.

[00:41:36] Nice.

[00:41:36] Boom.

[00:41:36] Boom.

[00:41:37] Thank you.

[00:41:38] Thank you, Delta.

[00:41:39] Delta.

[00:41:40] Yeah.

[00:41:41] I mean, this is the thing.

[00:41:42] You can just shoot at Spirit if you want.

[00:41:44] That's what they did in Haiti.

[00:41:45] Here they come.

[00:41:48] Here's the problem.

[00:41:49] People think its price plummeted by 45%.

[00:41:53] Once you declare it, normal people don't go, well, I'd like to have a look at their restructuring

[00:41:59] plan.

[00:42:00] Exactly.

[00:42:00] Like I do, because I'm curious.

[00:42:02] Before I buy a $12 ticket.

[00:42:02] Before I buy this $47 ticket to Guam.

[00:42:06] Yeah.

[00:42:07] Are we safe going over water?

[00:42:09] Probably not.

[00:42:10] No.

[00:42:11] Not even a lake.

[00:42:14] It owes more than $3 billion.

[00:42:17] Wow.

[00:42:17] This is what I love about airlines like this, too.

[00:42:19] They owe $3 billion and they're like, you know what?

[00:42:22] You tell them, jackasses, it's an extra $10 to check that bag.

[00:42:25] Right.

[00:42:26] That is not the answer to your problem.

[00:42:29] No.

[00:42:29] Not at all.

[00:42:30] But people are now afraid that, like, well, the staff.

[00:42:35] I mean, they're going to start quitting.

[00:42:37] Right.

[00:42:37] Yeah.

[00:42:37] Yeah.

[00:42:39] They're going to sell 23 planes.

[00:42:42] I mean.

[00:42:43] They're going to sell them to who?

[00:42:44] Southwest.

[00:42:46] Back to Funjet.

[00:42:47] Going to sell them back to Funjet or Joe's Airline or where the hell they bought them.

[00:42:52] Their stock is currently, well, this is whenever I printed this out, was only $3.22.

[00:42:58] It dropped 45%.

[00:43:00] Wow.

[00:43:01] That's crazy.

[00:43:02] It's going to be a time and place where we all go, yeah, remember, oh, my God, it's

[00:43:06] $3.3 billion debt is due soon, including more than $1.1 billion of secured bonds that

[00:43:11] are due in less a year.

[00:43:13] Well, they can't do that.

[00:43:15] No.

[00:43:15] No.

[00:43:16] Who do they?

[00:43:16] I don't know who they borrowed the money from, but they're fucked.

[00:43:20] They're not going to get it back.

[00:43:22] But people are worried about the routes.

[00:43:24] Yes.

[00:43:24] If I had a, let's say you have a real job and you only get so many weeks of vacation and you're

[00:43:29] going to go home for the holidays or whatever, I'd be, yeah, I would not be comfortable that

[00:43:33] my Spirit Airline would still go.

[00:43:35] My Spirit Airline.

[00:43:36] I don't think it's going to go.

[00:43:37] It doesn't have the Spirit.

[00:43:38] No Spirit.

[00:43:39] Yep.

[00:43:40] Well, it all went, it all went to shit when they were not allowed to merge with JetBlue,

[00:43:44] but I mean, to me, that's like, no, we don't need to put two.

[00:43:48] No.

[00:43:50] Anyway, so here's what you're learning on this podcast at H.R.

[00:43:53] Mites, if you have a ticket on Spirit, think hard.

[00:43:56] Think hard.

[00:43:56] Go shop around.

[00:43:57] You're not getting a refund.

[00:43:58] You're not getting a refund, you know, thing?

[00:44:01] No.

[00:44:02] Well, eat the $89 and just get to where you're going.

[00:44:06] It sucks.

[00:44:07] The timing's terrible.

[00:44:08] It's awful.

[00:44:09] Mm-hmm.

[00:44:10] Here's some great news for crypto people.

[00:44:14] Now, full disclosure, during COVID, I was totally bored and I thought, I'm just going to go buy

[00:44:23] some crypto to see what happens.

[00:44:24] Okay.

[00:44:25] And it's been quite the ride.

[00:44:27] Yeah.

[00:44:27] All full disclosure.

[00:44:29] I was like, you know what?

[00:44:31] The most I would spend comfortably was $1,000.

[00:44:35] Okay.

[00:44:35] Well, then I did that four more times because I was bored.

[00:44:39] I bought Ethereum and I bought Bitcoin.

[00:44:42] You spent $4,000?

[00:44:43] Five total.

[00:44:44] That was my max.

[00:44:45] Wow.

[00:44:45] I didn't have nothing to spend money on.

[00:44:48] I was bored.

[00:44:49] How much cat treats can I buy?

[00:44:51] I mean...

[00:44:52] All of the cat treats.

[00:44:53] So that was whatever, four or five years ago, right?

[00:44:56] But I've kept it the whole time and I've watched it go blah, blah.

[00:44:58] But Elon, as much as I don't like that part, he's a crypto guy and the crypto has gone way

[00:45:07] up since Trump won.

[00:45:09] Okay.

[00:45:09] So it's now that five is worth 28.

[00:45:14] Holy shit.

[00:45:15] Exactly.

[00:45:16] Wow.

[00:45:16] But is this attic going to stop here?

[00:45:19] No.

[00:45:19] We're going to let it ride.

[00:45:20] The whole point is to see how high I can go or until I get back to the five and then

[00:45:24] I cash it out.

[00:45:25] And it was just a fun game.

[00:45:27] Okay.

[00:45:27] But knowing myself, I won't cash out at the five either because I'll think, yeah, yeah,

[00:45:31] yeah.

[00:45:31] It's the same way at the slot machine.

[00:45:33] Oh, well, you know, there's only five left.

[00:45:35] Fuck it.

[00:45:36] Let's go for gold.

[00:45:37] Um, this is how though it's becoming, it's becoming real.

[00:45:41] I get very tired, exhausted of explaining cryptocurrency to my old friends at the golf course who have

[00:45:52] all the money in the world if they wanted to buy it.

[00:45:53] I explain the whole thing and then they go, well, Kathleen, that just doesn't sound real

[00:45:59] to me.

[00:45:59] Okay.

[00:46:00] Well, I'm glad we just spent 15 minutes of my life explaining to you how for now it is

[00:46:07] real.

[00:46:07] Right.

[00:46:07] It could go away.

[00:46:08] I don't know.

[00:46:09] I'm not here to tell you to do it.

[00:46:11] You asked me what it is.

[00:46:12] I'm telling you what it is.

[00:46:13] Then you tell me I'm full of shit.

[00:46:14] Thanks.

[00:46:15] Wonderful conversation.

[00:46:16] Right.

[00:46:18] Detroit is accepting cryptocurrency payments with PayPal's aid.

[00:46:23] You can now pay your taxes in Detroit.

[00:46:28] Next year, Detroit will become the largest U.S. city to accept crypto payments for taxes and fees.

[00:46:33] That's awesome.

[00:46:34] I can't even believe that's possible.

[00:46:38] Detroit, revolutionary in every single way.

[00:46:40] A hundred years ago, they used to have a magnet in the Detroit airport when Detroit wasn't

[00:46:44] fancy yet again and it said the Renaissance city and I'm like, well, this is really helpful.

[00:46:49] But it really is now.

[00:46:51] They made it.

[00:46:51] They manifested it.

[00:46:52] Nobody manifests like men do.

[00:46:54] Nobody manifested like Detroit.

[00:46:56] Detroit really, they concentrated at it and they were like, our downtown will become good

[00:47:00] again.

[00:47:01] Totally doing it.

[00:47:02] That's funny.

[00:47:05] Next year, the feat will be accomplished with the assistance of PayPal, which is good because

[00:47:10] I have PayPal stock socket.

[00:47:11] It sucks.

[00:47:12] Yeah, it's bad.

[00:47:13] Everybody felt, yeah.

[00:47:14] Venmo kind of kicked its ass, I think.

[00:47:16] I don't know.

[00:47:17] I can't believe you gave five grand of crypto.

[00:47:19] That's what I started with.

[00:47:20] You got Dogecoin too, didn't you?

[00:47:22] I had Doggycoin or Dogecoin.

[00:47:24] It was so stupid though.

[00:47:25] I mean, I just was like, and I was on this app, Robinhood, and I don't even know what I'm

[00:47:30] doing.

[00:47:30] I'm just sitting there with a phone going, sure, I'll put money in Robinhood.

[00:47:34] I'll give these people all my information.

[00:47:36] I cashed it out even Steven because I couldn't take the, it was too crazy.

[00:47:43] Here's how it's going to handle.

[00:47:45] PayPal, which will handle the crypto payments and convert them into US dollars.

[00:47:48] Detroit will not hold any digital assets as all conversions will take place before funds

[00:47:54] are received by the city.

[00:47:55] So you go through PayPal, PayPal takes your Bitcoin, switches it into dollars, they give

[00:48:00] it to Detroit.

[00:48:01] Gotcha.

[00:48:02] But they are, I mean, they're accepting it via PayPal.

[00:48:06] They're just not doing the conversion.

[00:48:07] They're trying to be innovative and accepting a variety of payments should make it easier

[00:48:11] for citizens to pay their taxes and fees, said Joel Hoopty Shmoop.

[00:48:15] We don't really care about his real name.

[00:48:19] Detroit is also considering alternate ways for residents to pay taxes and fees, including

[00:48:23] digital platforms like Venmo.

[00:48:26] The city's support for crypto payment is set to launch mid next year with initial options

[00:48:31] including payment via Bitcoin, Ethereum.

[00:48:34] That's crazy.

[00:48:34] Boom.

[00:48:35] Litecoin and PayPal's PYUSD stable coin.

[00:48:40] Did you say Litecoin?

[00:48:41] Yeah, I almost bought Litecoin.

[00:48:43] Litecoin.

[00:48:43] Yeah.

[00:48:44] I've never heard about it.

[00:48:44] They've spelled it wrong here.

[00:48:45] But it's just another coin, another form of crypto.

[00:48:49] Yep.

[00:48:51] Litecoin.

[00:48:52] To meet growing demand, Colorado and Louisiana already allow their residents to pay taxes

[00:48:57] using digital assets.

[00:48:59] Huh.

[00:48:59] I didn't know that.

[00:49:00] And there are some U.S. cities like Miami Lakes, Florida that support crypto.

[00:49:04] Detroit would be the largest city by far to do so, though.

[00:49:06] That's crazy.

[00:49:07] Yep.

[00:49:07] Good for them.

[00:49:08] That's amazeballs.

[00:49:10] If you're into crypto, that's good news.

[00:49:12] My friend Lorene and I send a Bitcoin screenshot back and forth all the time.

[00:49:17] Sorry.

[00:49:18] Hold on.

[00:49:21] Oh, yeah.

[00:49:22] Okay.

[00:49:24] This is crazy.

[00:49:27] So if you've seen my act, I do a joke about starting a fantasy football league for my

[00:49:33] nieces and nephews.

[00:49:33] I think I've talked about it on here, but I have jokes about it, blah, blah, blah.

[00:49:36] Yep.

[00:49:37] Well, in Minnesota, Lakeville, Minnesota, a seven-year-old beats 89 adults in the football

[00:49:45] pool and collects $900.

[00:49:47] What?

[00:49:48] Mm-hmm.

[00:49:48] Wow.

[00:49:48] Wow.

[00:49:49] Christian Amundsen's grandma entered him in the pool.

[00:49:54] The second grader took it from there.

[00:49:56] That's awesome.

[00:49:57] Conceived in the heart of Lakeville, born among the regulars at Babe's Hometown Bar, exists

[00:50:01] a hometown football pool.

[00:50:03] That's great.

[00:50:05] We think it started about 10 or 11 years ago.

[00:50:08] We call it King of the Hill.

[00:50:09] Jane birthed a little NFL pool that's grown to 90 participants who each pay $10 to play.

[00:50:14] The rules are simple.

[00:50:16] You pick a team to win, and if that team wins, you move on.

[00:50:19] These are also called suicide pools.

[00:50:21] Right.

[00:50:21] Yeah.

[00:50:22] But you can never pick them again.

[00:50:23] So you don't want to pick your good people's suit.

[00:50:26] It's too complicated.

[00:50:27] People don't need to understand all this about gambling, but I've played in these pools.

[00:50:30] You've got to do it in your TED Talk.

[00:50:32] Yeah, I have to do my tiny TED Talk for gambling.

[00:50:36] I'm going to explain partly.

[00:50:38] That's...

[00:50:40] So this lady, she has a grandson, Jackson.

[00:50:43] He's 21, and then a little brother, Christian, who's seven.

[00:50:47] They decided that he shouldn't be excluded from the pool, so she threw in an extra $10.

[00:50:51] And at the last minute, she said, you know what I'm going to do?

[00:50:53] I'm going to put Christian in, too.

[00:50:55] Nice.

[00:50:55] He loves sports.

[00:50:56] His room is a shrine to the twins.

[00:51:00] Four twins.

[00:51:01] That's sad.

[00:51:01] Four twins.

[00:51:02] The Minnesota Wild.

[00:51:04] Hockey, they're great.

[00:51:05] Hockey, they're usually pretty good.

[00:51:06] Yeah.

[00:51:07] Timberwolves.

[00:51:07] I don't really follow...

[00:51:08] And the Packers.

[00:51:10] Oh.

[00:51:11] Why doesn't he have Vikings things?

[00:51:14] He's not school.

[00:51:14] He's not school.

[00:51:15] Oh, the latter can be blamed on his grandpa.

[00:51:18] Kathy Sleeth's husband, Kurt, a diehard Packers fan whose influence spread to Jackson

[00:51:23] and then to Christian.

[00:51:24] Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

[00:51:26] The grandma got knocked out week one.

[00:51:28] How can you not pick a winner week one?

[00:51:30] Jesus God.

[00:51:31] I mean, that's the easiest.

[00:51:32] It's supposed to get harder week by week.

[00:51:36] So anyway, he beat them all in the Suicide Bowl and won the $900.

[00:51:41] Good for him.

[00:51:41] Too bad it's not a bar tab.

[00:51:44] Yeah, exactly.

[00:51:45] Oh, I got to find that thing.

[00:51:47] Hold on.

[00:51:47] One second.

[00:51:48] A little disorganized.

[00:51:50] I'm not even...

[00:51:50] I thought I was very organized.

[00:51:52] It's not like I rushed any of this.

[00:51:54] It's raining.

[00:51:54] It's raining.

[00:51:55] Yeah, it is.

[00:51:56] It's all the rain.

[00:51:57] Let's talk about Christmas movies since there's a Christmas theme going on.

[00:52:01] Yes.

[00:52:02] On Instagram.

[00:52:04] Mm-hmm.

[00:52:04] If you're into it.

[00:52:06] I am.

[00:52:06] If you're not, just ignore this segment for a minute or two.

[00:52:11] Here's who's showing Christmas movies so you know where to go look for them.

[00:52:15] Thank you.

[00:52:15] Prime Video.

[00:52:16] Mm-hmm.

[00:52:17] They have a shit ton.

[00:52:18] Okay.

[00:52:19] They have some rated PG, a lot of Gs.

[00:52:22] G means to me no alcohol, no kissing.

[00:52:26] Right.

[00:52:26] Right.

[00:52:27] You just have to insinuate they fall in love.

[00:52:29] Right.

[00:52:30] Yeah.

[00:52:31] Hulu.

[00:52:32] They have a lot.

[00:52:35] Oh, but some are old.

[00:52:36] But if you want to see Miracle on 34th Street or something old, try Hulu.

[00:52:40] Yep.

[00:52:41] They have a few PG, oh, PG-13.

[00:52:45] Disney, they, oh, Home 1, 2, 3, 4, whatever.

[00:52:49] 12.

[00:52:49] Ice Age.

[00:52:51] Yeah.

[00:52:51] There's a mostly re-bought.

[00:52:53] Okay.

[00:52:54] Netflix.

[00:52:55] They have a lot.

[00:52:57] And then they didn't mention, but the Hallmark Channel has a shit ton.

[00:53:03] It has all of them.

[00:53:04] It has the most, yeah.

[00:53:06] But you got to go to Hallmark Murders and Mysteries because those are a little more risque, a little

[00:53:11] more drinky.

[00:53:12] Yeah.

[00:53:13] Yeah.

[00:53:13] A little more everything.

[00:53:14] The Hallmark ones are a little too Candace Creme Brulee for me.

[00:53:19] Yeah.

[00:53:19] A little too sweetsy-smeetsy.

[00:53:21] I don't buy it.

[00:53:22] A little too Christian-y, ee, ee.

[00:53:25] I say that in a loving way.

[00:53:26] I'm going to go with the more Catholic-y way where we have alcohol and make out.

[00:53:31] Get hammered and hugging.

[00:53:32] Okay.

[00:53:33] Nobody's got, oh, Netflix has an R.

[00:53:37] Holiday.

[00:53:38] Oh, I've seen that.

[00:53:40] Holiday?

[00:53:40] Yeah.

[00:53:41] I never saw it.

[00:53:42] Yeah.

[00:53:44] Yeah.

[00:53:44] So there's your streaming cheat sheet.

[00:53:47] Mm-hmm.

[00:53:47] I don't, oh, maybe because Hallmark's not streaming, is it?

[00:53:50] It's just a channel.

[00:53:51] They're not doing the channel because Lifetime has them too.

[00:53:54] Oh.

[00:53:55] Yeah.

[00:53:55] So these are just streaming services.

[00:53:57] Okay.

[00:53:58] All right.

[00:53:59] Here we go.

[00:54:01] Thank you for that.

[00:54:02] You're welcome.

[00:54:03] Are we going to give updates on what we watch?

[00:54:05] I will give some updates on some that I watched.

[00:54:07] Yeah.

[00:54:08] Great.

[00:54:08] I might live tweet if there's a big premiere.

[00:54:11] Oh.

[00:54:11] Yeah.

[00:54:12] Mm-hmm.

[00:54:12] It's the Chiefs one.

[00:54:13] You're going to watch the Chiefs one.

[00:54:15] The Chiefs one, yeah.

[00:54:16] Yeah.

[00:54:16] It's based on Tay-Tay and Travis, I think.

[00:54:20] Mama Kelsey's in it.

[00:54:21] I think people are getting sick of the Kelsey brothers, though.

[00:54:23] I hate to say that.

[00:54:24] Yeah.

[00:54:24] I do like them, but it's too much exposure.

[00:54:26] Let's reel it in a little bit.

[00:54:28] Mm-hmm.

[00:54:28] And I like them, but there are just too many places at one time, and I think this is what

[00:54:34] happens, though.

[00:54:34] Like, when you don't, you're not really in show business.

[00:54:37] Yeah.

[00:54:37] You're in sports, and you need a manager or an agent that's going to say, hey, let's calm

[00:54:43] down.

[00:54:44] This is about it.

[00:54:44] You don't need to be in a Pop-Tart ad, too.

[00:54:46] Like, I made that up, but I mean, it's just, yeah.

[00:54:49] Their cereal is gross.

[00:54:51] The cereal is, yeah.

[00:54:53] And you don't need a cereal.

[00:54:55] What are we doing?

[00:54:56] You're not eating cereal.

[00:54:57] And you made enough money playing football.

[00:54:59] You can be selective.

[00:55:00] Right.

[00:55:00] You've had the, I mean, if Jason wants to go tailgate with people at an Eagles game.

[00:55:05] So fun.

[00:55:05] Totally fun.

[00:55:06] Yeah.

[00:55:06] Right.

[00:55:07] Okay.

[00:55:08] So a lot of people may not know this, but in the Midwest, and I've always been one that

[00:55:14] went, I can't believe they did that.

[00:55:16] There's a whole gas station chain named Come and Go.

[00:55:19] I know.

[00:55:20] K-U-M and Go.

[00:55:21] Right?

[00:55:22] Well, the infamous gas station will be rebranded with a much less amusing name after being bought

[00:55:28] out by its conservative rival.

[00:55:30] Oh.

[00:55:31] Oh.

[00:55:32] Well, yeah.

[00:55:34] The Midwest icon created well before its name came to meaning something else was acquired

[00:55:38] by Salt Lake City headquartered.

[00:55:41] Salt Lake City.

[00:55:42] Oh.

[00:55:42] Does that mean we're not going to have beer?

[00:55:44] Boo.

[00:55:45] Boo.

[00:55:46] Nah, they'll do it.

[00:55:47] The Mormons will give us their beer.

[00:55:49] They just won't drink it.

[00:55:50] Well, they're not necessarily Mormon.

[00:55:52] Well, if you're headquartered in Salt Lake, I don't think you got to the top of the hill

[00:55:57] out there with the doing, that is not a bunch of Catholics or Baptists, God forbid.

[00:56:02] No.

[00:56:03] No.

[00:56:03] No, no, no, no, no.

[00:56:05] They're not having any of that.

[00:56:06] You can live out there and do whatever, but you ain't getting...

[00:56:10] No.

[00:56:11] Maverick is the name.

[00:56:13] Maverick?

[00:56:14] Uh-huh.

[00:56:14] Maverick began renaming outlets in Idaho, Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming, where both chains

[00:56:21] competed.

[00:56:22] And now it confirmed it would do the same in all 400 stores.

[00:56:25] I never even noticed, and I've been to Wyoming and Colorado and Utah, and I never even noticed

[00:56:29] they were there.

[00:56:30] So we're going from Come and Go to Maverick?

[00:56:32] Maverick.

[00:56:32] Yeah.

[00:56:33] The company said it was in the process of rebranding the stores with the intent to unify our entire

[00:56:38] combined footprint under the Maverick brand.

[00:56:42] That sounds stupid.

[00:56:43] Yeah.

[00:56:43] I don't know why I thought it was based in Kansas City.

[00:56:47] That sounds stupid.

[00:56:48] Yeah.

[00:56:49] While we're committed to this vision, we're taking a thoughtful market-by-market approach

[00:56:53] to ensure the best customer experience before confirming each state's rebrand.

[00:56:59] The name change was expected to happen by the middle of next year as loyalty card holders

[00:57:03] would...

[00:57:03] Loyalty card.

[00:57:04] This would be something my brother-in-law, Matt, would have.

[00:57:07] He loves Casey's General Store.

[00:57:09] Stop it.

[00:57:09] There could be a million options, and Matt would be like, we're going to Casey's, Kathleen.

[00:57:13] Why?

[00:57:14] I don't know.

[00:57:15] It's how he grew up.

[00:57:16] Whatever.

[00:57:17] It's how he grew up.

[00:57:17] I don't know.

[00:57:18] There's something in there he likes.

[00:57:19] Maybe...

[00:57:19] People have weird things about...

[00:57:21] Like, I like the Diet Coke from Love's.

[00:57:24] Delicious.

[00:57:24] Yeah.

[00:57:25] I don't want to go across the street.

[00:57:27] Bucky's is good, too, though.

[00:57:29] Come and Go began in 1959 as Hampton Oil, and the adopted, soon-to-be extinct name in

[00:57:35] the 70s.

[00:57:35] Come stood for Bill Krauss, who founded the company with his father-in-law, Tony Gentle, whose

[00:57:40] name contributed to The Go.

[00:57:42] Blah, blah, blah.

[00:57:46] Yeah.

[00:57:46] I really thought it was in Kansas City.

[00:57:49] I just lost my mind.

[00:57:51] Well, maybe that's where they were headquarters, and then they got bought by...

[00:57:54] Well, they got bought, yeah.

[00:57:58] I don't know, but now you know.

[00:58:00] It's really disappointing.

[00:58:01] We created something so fun and cool, especially in the Midwest.

[00:58:03] I'm kind of shocked they would just delete everything without putting a tribute to it.

[00:58:08] Yeah.

[00:58:09] Sad times.

[00:58:09] Nobody cares.

[00:58:10] No.

[00:58:12] Nobody cares about the Midwest.

[00:58:14] Everybody cares about the Midwest.

[00:58:15] Nobody cares about the Midwest, including a lot of us who live in it.

[00:58:18] We're like, it's fine.

[00:58:19] It's fine.

[00:58:21] It's fine.

[00:58:21] Baby Cat.

[00:58:22] Do you like the Midwest?

[00:58:24] Baby Cat likes the Midwest.

[00:58:25] Baby Cat's a Southerner.

[00:58:27] She is.

[00:58:28] Baby Cat was born in Tennessee.

[00:58:29] She's a Southern belle.

[00:58:30] She's a Southern princess.

[00:58:31] Oh, my God.

[00:58:34] So, hold on.

[00:58:37] This is great.

[00:58:38] This is just so...

[00:58:39] Paddles found this article.

[00:58:41] I did?

[00:58:41] Yes.

[00:58:42] Oh.

[00:58:43] Let me see what else I got here.

[00:58:45] When?

[00:58:46] Oh.

[00:58:47] Oh, I got to tell you about the Hallmark.

[00:58:48] Let's go to the Hallmark Cruise first.

[00:58:50] Yes!

[00:58:50] This is unbelievable.

[00:58:52] It's crazy.

[00:58:53] Un...

[00:58:53] I can't even imagine doing this.

[00:58:56] No.

[00:58:57] But I can imagine a lot of people that would.

[00:59:00] Yep.

[00:59:00] Hallmark Christmas Channel Cruise sale one and sale two are sold out.

[00:59:07] Yes.

[00:59:07] And the waiting list for both sailings are full.

[00:59:10] It's 60,000 people on a wait list.

[00:59:11] 60,000 people on a wait list.

[00:59:13] It's crazy.

[00:59:13] This is how much people want to believe in Hallmark.

[00:59:16] They want to believe in Christmas.

[00:59:17] Absolutely.

[00:59:18] If cabins become available before departure, they will be offered to those on the waiting

[00:59:22] list.

[00:59:22] If cabins are available after exhausting the waiting list, the waiting list will be reopened.

[00:59:27] That's insane.

[00:59:27] This is crazy.

[00:59:28] So, this lady...

[00:59:29] They must have a lot of kids.

[00:59:31] She's a youngster.

[00:59:32] She's one of his children.

[00:59:33] Erin Jensen.

[00:59:34] She went on a Hallmark Christmas Cruise.

[00:59:38] That's...

[00:59:38] And they're the size of regular...

[00:59:40] Like a Royal Caribbean.

[00:59:41] Like, it's crazy.

[00:59:42] The cast comes.

[00:59:43] But I like that they still have reporter kids where they send them out because that's

[00:59:46] what I wanted to do.

[00:59:47] From journalism school, I'm like, can't you send me to do something fun and I'll write

[00:59:50] about it?

[00:59:52] The Hallmark Channel hosted its first ever Christmas themed cruise sailing, offering

[00:59:56] festive activities and meet and greets with network actors.

[00:59:59] Oh, my God.

[00:59:59] They're making the actors go.

[01:00:01] They're on there.

[01:00:01] Yeah.

[01:00:02] Oh.

[01:00:03] I've seen the TikTok.

[01:00:03] Is Camus Creme Brulee out there?

[01:00:05] No.

[01:00:06] She went to the Christian Channel.

[01:00:07] Oh, she went to the Christian Channel.

[01:00:09] Right.

[01:00:09] Right.

[01:00:09] Right.

[01:00:09] I mean, you were already on a Christian Channel.

[01:00:12] Well, Hallmark is based in Kansas City.

[01:00:14] Right.

[01:00:15] They didn't give me a job out of college, so I still got a little fork in my head about

[01:00:19] that.

[01:00:20] Fork in your head?

[01:00:20] Yeah.

[01:00:21] I wanted to write funny cards.

[01:00:22] I think mine were too much of a bite to them.

[01:00:26] I think the ones I submitted, I probably should have rethought them.

[01:00:29] So, passengers, many of you who are avid Hallmark movie fans, enjoy the opportunity to celebrate

[01:00:33] the holidays and meet the actors.

[01:00:34] That's fun.

[01:00:36] Hold on.

[01:00:37] Okay.

[01:00:37] Okay.

[01:00:38] So, these people were leaving.

[01:00:39] They were flying out of Houston Hobby Airport.

[01:00:46] They've been calling each other.

[01:00:47] They're so excited, these people.

[01:00:48] It's a four-night sale to the Bahamas.

[01:00:52] Offered passengers the opportunity to do, you can do Carol Oakey.

[01:00:57] Stop it.

[01:00:57] Get it?

[01:00:58] Oh, God.

[01:01:03] Oh, my God.

[01:01:04] DJ, play your Christmas song I want.

[01:01:09] You can do cookie decorating, an ugly sweater contest.

[01:01:14] You can hang with 11 of the network's actors on board during panels and photo ops.

[01:01:20] They sold out one hour after tickets became available.

[01:01:23] With starting prices at $1,115 per person for a four-person interior cabin.

[01:01:29] Now, that's pretty good, though.

[01:01:30] $1,100 for four people to get in.

[01:01:34] Yeah, you're in an interior cabin.

[01:01:36] Per person, it says.

[01:01:37] Per person.

[01:01:38] Oh, on a four-person interior cabin.

[01:01:40] That whole math thing.

[01:01:41] Yeah.

[01:01:41] It's all right.

[01:01:42] Oh, they had to add a second one because of high demand.

[01:01:45] I bet those people have never felt that famous in their life.

[01:01:47] No, these Hallmark actors.

[01:01:49] Here's the other thing.

[01:01:50] If I could recommend a travel tip to the children.

[01:01:54] No.

[01:01:54] Save your money and get an exterior cabin.

[01:01:57] Those interior cabins are terrifyingly claustrophobic.

[01:02:02] Yeah.

[01:02:02] And then when that whole ship lists like this to three-fourths of its capacity, you're going to be like, where the fuck is it?

[01:02:08] Okay.

[01:02:13] People just couldn't sign up fast enough.

[01:02:16] Uh-huh.

[01:02:18] What to expect of a Hallmark?

[01:02:22] One lady was crying.

[01:02:23] She was so excited.

[01:02:24] Really?

[01:02:25] Mm-hmm.

[01:02:25] Wow.

[01:02:26] Yeah.

[01:02:26] That's fun.

[01:02:27] What if you're not a super Hallmark fan?

[01:02:31] This one lady doesn't even know the movies, and she liked it.

[01:02:37] A cruise.

[01:02:39] A fucking cruise.

[01:02:40] That's crazy.

[01:02:40] All right.

[01:02:41] Well, people are doing it.

[01:02:42] That's fun.

[01:02:44] $1,100.

[01:02:45] But that doesn't include your airfare or any of that.

[01:02:48] It's going to end up costing you.

[01:02:49] And then you have to buy the drink pass if they even have them.

[01:02:52] They do.

[01:02:52] I saw it.

[01:02:53] You can have drinks?

[01:02:54] Yeah, but it's festive.

[01:02:55] Festive drinks?

[01:02:56] Festive drinks.

[01:02:57] Okay.

[01:02:57] Yeah, it's bizarre.

[01:02:59] This one's from Termite Cheryl.

[01:03:03] This is just, Marca.

[01:03:05] This is where you just go.

[01:03:06] Marca.

[01:03:07] There should be a whole thing on some show of just dumb people doing dumb things.

[01:03:15] Person dressed in a bear costume to fake attacks on cars for insurance payment.

[01:03:22] Wait until you see this person's bear outfit.

[01:03:25] I mean, officials say they found the bear costume and metal hand tools to stimulate claw marks at the suspect's home.

[01:03:33] The whole outfit's here.

[01:03:34] A head and everything.

[01:03:35] And the bear has a shirt on.

[01:03:38] Oh, God.

[01:03:39] Four people in Southern California were arrested and accused of insurance fraud after they claimed their cars were trashed by a bear.

[01:03:47] Wow.

[01:03:47] Which was actually someone in a bear costume.

[01:03:51] The so-called bear was claimed to have entered and damaged a 2010 Rolls Royce ghost while it was parked at Lake Arrowhead in the San Bernardino Mountains northeast of L.A.

[01:04:03] Video was, they submitted video.

[01:04:05] What?

[01:04:06] What?

[01:04:06] People don't understand what kind of crimes these are.

[01:04:09] Way worse than you think.

[01:04:11] Yes.

[01:04:12] When you're doing insurance fraud, it's mail fraud and insurance fraud.

[01:04:16] You think, oh, you know, it's worse to get caught with a gun in your car.

[01:04:20] Not really.

[01:04:21] This is way worse.

[01:04:23] Video was submitted to the insurance company that alleged to show the animal entering the car.

[01:04:28] Oh, my God.

[01:04:32] But I mean, how?

[01:04:34] Okay, so you need some money.

[01:04:36] Uh-huh.

[01:04:37] All right.

[01:04:37] Yeah.

[01:04:38] Well, let's say, how do you come up with that?

[01:04:40] How many edibles do you have to eat to come up with this idea and go, we're going to get a bear costume.

[01:04:46] Right.

[01:04:46] And then we're going to have an attack on a Rolls Royce.

[01:04:49] And then they won't care because it's an old one, right?

[01:04:51] No, they're going to care.

[01:04:52] A ghost, a Rolls Royce ghost, those are the rare, super rare.

[01:04:55] Right.

[01:04:55] Mm-hmm.

[01:04:56] Yeah, no.

[01:04:58] Upon further scrutiny of the video.

[01:05:00] Oh, my God.

[01:05:01] And I'm sure they submitted it under their own name, own phone number, own everything.

[01:05:05] And that's how the cops immediately.

[01:05:07] Yeah.

[01:05:08] Upon further scrutiny of the video, the investigation was determined, was determined the bear was actually a person in a bear costume.

[01:05:15] The insurance department said in a statement, the group also submitted claims for damage to two other cars, a 2015 Mercedes and a 2022 Mercedes.

[01:05:23] Oh, my God.

[01:05:24] And again, with video and someone in a bear suit.

[01:05:29] These people live in Glendale.

[01:05:31] They were arrested on charges of insurance fraud and conspiracy.

[01:05:34] It's not clear whether the four of them had attorneys.

[01:05:38] They could not speak on their behalf.

[01:05:40] The scam cost the insurance companies $141,000.

[01:05:44] The bear costume with brown fur, a head shaped like a bear's, paws and metal hands to stimulate was found in the suspect's home.

[01:05:50] Video of the alleged damage appeared to be minor groove marks on the seat and the interior.

[01:05:56] Well, you know what?

[01:05:57] I never thought about that.

[01:05:58] I wonder if I could submit the raccoons eating my basketball seat.

[01:06:03] Hey.

[01:06:04] Yeah.

[01:06:05] I don't have proof that it was raccoons, but what else could eat a seat like that?

[01:06:10] Some animal.

[01:06:11] Some animal.

[01:06:11] And it's not me in a raccoon outfit chewing on shit.

[01:06:14] Right.

[01:06:15] Right.

[01:06:16] Let's get on that.

[01:06:17] Oh, my God.

[01:06:18] So there are bears at Lake Arrowhead, but they don't wear costumes.

[01:06:22] The only wild bears in the San Bernardino Mountains or anywhere else in the state are black bears.

[01:06:26] Those bears sometimes can be brown.

[01:06:28] California once had grizzly bears.

[01:06:30] I did not know that.

[01:06:31] But they were hunted.

[01:06:32] They've been hunted to extinction by the 1920s.

[01:06:36] There you go.

[01:06:37] Mirka.

[01:06:37] Let's get our shit together.

[01:06:39] Shall we?

[01:06:39] Mirka.

[01:06:40] Mirka.

[01:06:43] So this week I didn't have as much news and stuff as normal just because really nothing happened.

[01:06:49] I don't know why.

[01:06:50] Some weeks it's just like that.

[01:06:51] It's election hangover.

[01:06:53] Election hangover.

[01:06:54] Football's kind of dominating.

[01:07:00] Well, that's weird.

[01:07:01] I'll save that for next week.

[01:07:03] But we're going to do this, and then I'm going to – this is my feel-good story.

[01:07:07] This is to prove to the naysayers that gambling sometimes pays off.

[01:07:14] Okay.

[01:07:15] So it's not like heroin where the addiction is always bad.

[01:07:19] There's always a bad ending.

[01:07:20] Not with gambling.

[01:07:21] No.

[01:07:21] The founder of FedEx, Fred Smith, once saved his company from bankruptcy by going to Vegas,

[01:07:28] gambling FedEx's last $5,000 on blackjack, and he won $27,000,

[01:07:34] enough to keep FedEx going for another week while it secured additional funds.

[01:07:39] Are you kidding?

[01:07:39] Maybe.

[01:07:40] Maybe.

[01:07:42] Spirit should try this.

[01:07:44] Yes.

[01:07:44] How much do you all have left?

[01:07:46] $27.

[01:07:47] Yeah, $27.

[01:07:48] We're going to start small.

[01:07:49] We're going to start you downtown Vegas where the tables are cheaper.

[01:07:53] We're going to find a $2 blackjack table.

[01:07:55] We're going to turn that penny slots.

[01:07:57] Lou's mom found half penny slots one time at Mohegan Sun.

[01:08:00] Are you kidding?

[01:08:01] No, I'm not.

[01:08:01] I'm like, I didn't even know those fucking existed.

[01:08:03] I go, Louis, you make good money.

[01:08:06] Your mother is over there playing half penny slot machines.

[01:08:09] He goes, I know that.

[01:08:10] I already offered all the money.

[01:08:11] She won't take it.

[01:08:12] I'm like, she's embarrassing us, Louis.

[01:08:15] How do you pay that off?

[01:08:17] But, you know, it would hit a lot.

[01:08:19] But then I was trying.

[01:08:20] I can't do math like that.

[01:08:21] I'm like, 5,000 half pennies is really only 2,500 pennies.

[01:08:26] And then how much is a dollar?

[01:08:29] A hundred pennies?

[01:08:30] Right.

[01:08:31] It's too hard.

[01:08:33] I know.

[01:08:34] It's too hard.

[01:08:34] What about zeros?

[01:08:36] Too hard.

[01:08:37] Too hard.

[01:08:38] We're going to do some thank yous, and then we're going to do some quotes.

[01:08:41] All right.

[01:08:41] And then Baby Cat, who woke up at 4 and was stalking me.

[01:08:48] It's very – she'll climb to the back of the headboard and then pounce.

[01:08:51] Oh, God.

[01:08:52] Yeah.

[01:08:52] Like, it just feels like your kidneys gave out or your liver if I drank too much lately.

[01:08:57] It's just like, oh, God damn.

[01:08:59] And she doesn't want out.

[01:09:01] She doesn't want food.

[01:09:02] She doesn't want to play pickleball.

[01:09:04] She wants me up.

[01:09:05] But I read a thing on Instagram that they – if they're attached to you, they think you are the main hunter.

[01:09:10] And if you sleep too long, they're worried you're dead.

[01:09:12] So really it's all about her.

[01:09:14] Her.

[01:09:14] Because she's worried that if I'm dead, she's going to have to go figure out her own shit.

[01:09:17] Right.

[01:09:18] All right.

[01:09:19] Oh, I want to show this.

[01:09:21] This made me laugh.

[01:09:22] This is from Termite Janice.

[01:09:23] So I said this cup from the Tropicana Bob was cleaning out his mother's stuff.

[01:09:27] Yep.

[01:09:27] She said this is an ashtray from the Sahara in Las Vegas when I found it when I cleaned out my mother's house.

[01:09:33] Probably was once clean, but she smoked three packs a day.

[01:09:36] That's awesome.

[01:09:37] Look at it.

[01:09:38] It's so awesome.

[01:09:39] This is going to the Ozark house.

[01:09:41] It's actually Del Webb's Hotel, Sahara, and it's a yellow-green ashtray.

[01:09:48] Those are so iconic.

[01:09:48] Totally.

[01:09:49] They're so great.

[01:09:50] Yes.

[01:09:50] I was very excited about that.

[01:09:52] So thank you.

[01:09:53] Cat treats, cat meow.

[01:09:56] I want to find out.

[01:09:58] Somebody gave baby cat chinchilla.

[01:10:00] It's on there.

[01:10:01] It's on here?

[01:10:02] Stuff with catnip.

[01:10:03] But that was from Jan and Melissa.

[01:10:04] My Jaws movie book.

[01:10:06] Loved it.

[01:10:06] Cool.

[01:10:07] Got it.

[01:10:07] Yep.

[01:10:09] Got an Amity local beach plum jelly.

[01:10:11] That's from Janine and Bill.

[01:10:15] That's downstairs in your fridge.

[01:10:16] And Bill.

[01:10:17] Bigfoot.

[01:10:17] Okay.

[01:10:18] I got to show you guys this.

[01:10:18] This made me laugh too.

[01:10:19] Bigfoot recyclable washcloth from Bruce and Maureen.

[01:10:24] So they wrote this on the outside.

[01:10:26] Saw this and thought of you and your environmentally conscious friend.

[01:10:30] Amy.

[01:10:30] Her name is Amy Aquino.

[01:10:32] You can follow her on Instagram.

[01:10:33] She's currently starring in the movie Juror Number Two.

[01:10:36] I have not seen it.

[01:10:38] Amy also plays a cop on Bosch.

[01:10:40] If you're interested, that's on Netflix.

[01:10:41] I believe on Netflix.

[01:10:42] Anyway.

[01:10:43] Amy.

[01:10:44] They said they really enjoyed the podcast.

[01:10:46] Thanks for all the laughs.

[01:10:47] So this is.

[01:10:48] This is Amazeballs.

[01:10:49] That's crazy.

[01:10:50] And I'm going to send it to her for Christmas.

[01:10:51] I'm sure she doesn't listen to this.

[01:10:53] She doesn't have the focus for that.

[01:10:55] It's a Swedish.

[01:10:55] Swedish.

[01:10:56] Swede.

[01:10:57] Dish cloths.

[01:10:58] Com.

[01:10:58] Fully rinse with soap and water before use.

[01:11:01] It's composed of a unique combination of 70% wood pulp and 30% cotton.

[01:11:06] It's biodegradable.

[01:11:07] It's huge.

[01:11:08] It replaces 17 rolls of paper towels.

[01:11:10] Wow.

[01:11:11] It's fully biodegradable.

[01:11:12] Dries quickly.

[01:11:14] Good to know.

[01:11:15] Clean on top.

[01:11:16] Oh, you can clean it in the dishwasher.

[01:11:18] Wow.

[01:11:25] What happened to my thing?

[01:11:27] A half penny.

[01:11:28] It can be boiled or microwaved after use on such things as cleaning after, yeah, this cloth.

[01:11:34] And look, it says, I believe it's got a Sasquatch.

[01:11:36] It made me laugh.

[01:11:37] But now I have a Christmas present.

[01:11:39] Because I always find stuff for her husband because he likes Irish whiskeys and golf stuff.

[01:11:46] And then I'm always like, well, can I give Amy that I'm not going to get yelled at about?

[01:11:49] I'm going to get yelled if I send something.

[01:11:52] Right.

[01:11:53] Boston College.

[01:11:54] Oh, a mask card from my dad from Boston.

[01:11:55] In college, from the Jesuits.

[01:11:58] Much appreciated.

[01:11:59] Yeah, he was a big fan of the Jesuits.

[01:12:02] So there you go.

[01:12:03] A beautiful magic wand.

[01:12:06] It's cool.

[01:12:07] It is very cool.

[01:12:08] It was made by Termine Edward.

[01:12:09] Local beers from Marty and Maureen.

[01:12:12] Loved it.

[01:12:12] Gave a few to this crew.

[01:12:14] We always have a few.

[01:12:15] We put them on ice as soon as they come back.

[01:12:17] And you have drinks after.

[01:12:20] Then we have drinks afterwards and get bullied by a great Pyrenees who its owner thinks is a golden retriever.

[01:12:26] Super white.

[01:12:28] The Pack and Heat bar t-shirt.

[01:12:31] That's from Holly and her cat, Oweeji.

[01:12:33] Cool.

[01:12:34] But just pronounce Weegee.

[01:12:36] Not Oweeji.

[01:12:36] Like the Ouija board.

[01:12:37] Some local beer.

[01:12:38] Ranch dressing cat treats.

[01:12:39] Melissa and Doan.

[01:12:41] Or was it supposed to be Joan?

[01:12:43] Doan.

[01:12:44] Doan.

[01:12:44] Yeah.

[01:12:44] Never heard of it.

[01:12:46] Cool.

[01:12:46] Cat treats.

[01:12:48] The chinchilla cat toy.

[01:12:50] That's from Jodi and her mom, Mary.

[01:12:52] And baby cat.

[01:12:53] I do have a video of it.

[01:12:55] Was very interested.

[01:12:56] Really?

[01:12:57] Very interested in the chinchilla.

[01:12:58] Yeah.

[01:12:59] I saw what I gave you.

[01:12:59] I basically threw it right at her face.

[01:13:01] Oh.

[01:13:02] Well, then she's startled.

[01:13:03] Then she wants to attack.

[01:13:04] I want her to get it.

[01:13:05] There's catnip in there.

[01:13:06] There's coca, coca, coca.

[01:13:08] All right.

[01:13:09] Two quotes.

[01:13:10] Then I'll see you kids on the road.

[01:13:11] But I've not picked Freedas too much of a downer.

[01:13:15] How about a little Snoop?

[01:13:17] Yes.

[01:13:20] I earned the right to call my album Ego Trippin'.

[01:13:24] Nine records in 15 years.

[01:13:25] Top 10 every time I come.

[01:13:27] I earned the right to do that.

[01:13:29] Fuck whoever don't like it.

[01:13:31] Wow.

[01:13:31] Yeah.

[01:13:31] See, these are confidence builders.

[01:13:33] That's a confidence building.

[01:13:35] You know?

[01:13:35] Fuck them.

[01:13:36] They don't like it.

[01:13:37] Fuck them.

[01:13:37] Yep.

[01:13:38] Tay Tay.

[01:13:39] That's funny.

[01:13:39] This was in a song.

[01:13:42] This is Our Song by Tyler Conroy?

[01:13:46] Yeah.

[01:13:47] Our Song.

[01:13:48] Oh.

[01:13:48] It's a song.

[01:13:49] It's a song.

[01:13:50] Our Song.

[01:13:51] You heard it in Denver.

[01:13:52] I heard it.

[01:13:53] You damn soon.

[01:13:54] I heard four hours worth of stuff in Denver.

[01:13:58] And I just kept thinking, I hope this era's almost over so I can go to Nallen's pub.

[01:14:03] And I hope my friend John Nallen's there.

[01:14:05] And if he's not, I'm going to tell one of those little Irish bartenders straight off the boat from Ireland,

[01:14:09] and you give John Nallen, tell him his little friend Kathleen down here, get his ass down here.

[01:14:16] She says, be yourself, chase your dreams, and just never say never.

[01:14:21] That's the best advice I could give someone.

[01:14:23] I disagree.

[01:14:25] Okay.

[01:14:26] Be yourself.

[01:14:27] Sure.

[01:14:27] Fine.

[01:14:28] Chase your dreams to an extent.

[01:14:30] Tim Tebow.

[01:14:31] And then just realize some dreams aren't really yours, Tim Tebow.

[01:14:36] God has spoken to you, and he doesn't want you playing professional football.

[01:14:39] Jesus, how many times does he have to tell you?

[01:14:41] Right.

[01:14:42] He's not picking up the phone.

[01:14:44] He's not taking, new phone, who dis?

[01:14:45] No, no.

[01:14:47] I think sometimes you should say never.

[01:14:49] Yep.

[01:14:50] Like I decided in high school, because I saw it on TV, that at 5'1", there was no reason I couldn't do the low hurdles.

[01:15:00] What?

[01:15:00] Yeah.

[01:15:01] Oh, God, I'd pay to see that.

[01:15:03] Oh, we would have.

[01:15:04] Too bad we didn't have phones back then, because it would have gone viral.

[01:15:07] Because I just thought, well, it can't be that hard.

[01:15:10] Just hop it.

[01:15:11] Right?

[01:15:11] There's a lot of them.

[01:15:12] The track in School of the Osage and the Ozarks was just timber and rocks.

[01:15:18] Like, not timber, the black stuff.

[01:15:21] Like, black rocks.

[01:15:23] Not asphalt.

[01:15:23] No, it was...

[01:15:24] Track rock.

[01:15:25] Track rock.

[01:15:26] Is that what you call it?

[01:15:27] Well, we didn't even really have a track.

[01:15:29] No, no.

[01:15:29] I had a jog for track team.

[01:15:31] You had to run to Holiday Inn on Highway 54.

[01:15:34] But we went to other places that had a track.

[01:15:38] Okay.

[01:15:38] But what is the word?

[01:15:39] It's not...

[01:15:40] What do we want?

[01:15:41] What does a track mean?

[01:15:42] What does a track...

[01:15:43] An old school track made out of?

[01:15:44] Now they're nice.

[01:15:46] But I decided...

[01:15:50] Synthetic rubber particles bonded together with polyurethane.

[01:15:52] No, that's the new one.

[01:15:55] Old black rock truck.

[01:15:56] Old school.

[01:15:56] What is that?

[01:15:57] They're little tiny black rocks.

[01:15:59] Oh.

[01:16:02] They won't understand.

[01:16:04] Dirt, grass, sand, rocks, or crushed cinders.

[01:16:06] Cinders!

[01:16:07] Cinder track.

[01:16:08] A cinder track.

[01:16:09] Yeah, that's what I'm thinking of.

[01:16:10] 1964 Olympics.

[01:16:12] 1964 was the last to use it.

[01:16:13] Was the last to use it?

[01:16:15] Well, it was still going on in mid-Missouri when I was a freshman and decided...

[01:16:19] Here's the thing.

[01:16:20] I didn't make the track team in School of the Osage and the Ozarks.

[01:16:23] You could just be on any team you wanted if you were available to come on the bus ride.

[01:16:27] Nice.

[01:16:27] Like, you didn't have to try out.

[01:16:28] Right.

[01:16:29] Everybody got to do it.

[01:16:30] The school was so small.

[01:16:31] It's a participatory event.

[01:16:32] Yeah.

[01:16:32] And I was social.

[01:16:33] You know, I liked going on the trips and all that.

[01:16:35] I probably wasn't suited for hardly any...

[01:16:37] The sports I liked that I was good at...

[01:16:39] Curls!

[01:16:41] I decided this is where somebody should say never.

[01:16:44] To say, never say never.

[01:16:47] That's a poster in a mall.

[01:16:48] In real life, you should say never a lot.

[01:16:51] Like, I should have looked at those low hurdles and went, I'm never doing that.

[01:16:55] And I'm not...

[01:16:57] It's not...

[01:16:57] If I dream it, it still won't...

[01:17:00] Nobody...

[01:17:00] I don't manifest.

[01:17:02] I can't imagine that.

[01:17:03] Well, I got all geared up and I ran fast for me.

[01:17:08] And I don't even know what the fuck happened.

[01:17:13] I don't know, but...

[01:17:14] Did you clear one?

[01:17:15] Oh, no.

[01:17:16] No.

[01:17:17] No, I didn't even clear the first one.

[01:17:18] Oh, no.

[01:17:19] It would have been worse had I, because then I was really off balance and discombobulated.

[01:17:23] Probably would have broke my neck.

[01:17:24] This one, I just hit the thing and it fell forward and then I fell forward and it all

[01:17:30] happened so quickly, because I'm so fast like you, St. Bolt, that all I knew was there are

[01:17:37] cinder rocks for sure in my knees.

[01:17:40] In your face.

[01:17:40] And I was like licking it.

[01:17:43] Oh, no.

[01:17:43] I'm like, fuck.

[01:17:45] This is a rock, man.

[01:17:47] This is terrible.

[01:17:48] And you're only allowed to have water at certain times because the coach guy was super intense

[01:17:52] acting like we were in New York or somewhere.

[01:17:55] I'm like, dude.

[01:17:56] Yeah, but it's bleeding.

[01:17:57] God, I have blood all over me.

[01:17:59] And I get home and my mom was taking tweezers, pulling them out of my knees.

[01:18:02] They got in.

[01:18:03] I mean, I fell so hard.

[01:18:05] They embedded.

[01:18:06] And then she's dumping like, you know, whatever, rubbing alcohol.

[01:18:10] What's the stuff?

[01:18:11] What's the one that foams up?

[01:18:13] All of that because I wasn't going to get impetigo.

[01:18:17] Oh, what?

[01:18:18] Wow.

[01:18:19] Well, that's what she was trying to prevent.

[01:18:21] I'm just saying never sometimes is a very good thought.

[01:18:25] It's a very good thought.

[01:18:26] Don't overthink shit.

[01:18:28] Taytay's a billionaire.

[01:18:29] She is a billionaire.

[01:18:31] That's her advice.

[01:18:31] Here's my advice.

[01:18:32] I'm sitting here with cardboard cutouts of people.

[01:18:35] Now, who are you going to listen to?

[01:18:36] I got a beer.

[01:18:38] She's one of them.

[01:18:38] That's right.

[01:18:39] Yeah.

[01:18:40] Yeah, here's what I think about me doing low hurdles.

[01:18:43] Somebody should have told me, Kathleen, don't ever do that.

[01:18:46] Don't do that.

[01:18:46] I'm never going to be an astronaut.

[01:18:48] You know why?

[01:18:49] This is why I think when they said, oh, maybe we're not going to do SAT scores anymore.

[01:18:53] No, do them.

[01:18:55] It's a dream killer, and that's what you need.

[01:18:57] It's dream realignment.

[01:19:00] Dream realignment?

[01:19:01] No, there's no realigning.

[01:19:03] Let's say I had seen the moon landing.

[01:19:06] I don't think I did.

[01:19:08] And then went, oh, I want to be an astronaut.

[01:19:10] Somebody should say, Kathleen, you're never going to be an astronaut because you can't

[01:19:14] do science.

[01:19:14] You can't do math.

[01:19:15] You're also not interested in doing those two things.

[01:19:17] And those things are important.

[01:19:18] You know, there's just, it's re-guiding dreams.

[01:19:22] Okay.

[01:19:24] Realignment's a word for it.

[01:19:25] Yeah.

[01:19:26] Let's re-guide, go, okay, you know, you're not going to own, you're not going to become

[01:19:31] an astronaut.

[01:19:32] Maybe you could own a catch sanctuary.

[01:19:34] See?

[01:19:35] And then the kid would go, oh, yeah, that sounds better.

[01:19:37] Yeah.

[01:19:37] Yeah.

[01:19:38] Okay.

[01:19:38] So.

[01:19:39] Thank you for that.

[01:19:40] Just a thought on people, never say never, never quit on your dreams.

[01:19:44] No, quit.

[01:19:44] She is a billionaire.

[01:19:45] Quit.

[01:19:46] I mean, she did it.

[01:19:48] Tay-Tay did it.

[01:19:49] Yeah.

[01:19:50] There's another era being constructed as we sit here.

[01:19:53] She needs to just relax.

[01:19:55] She's worked too hard.

[01:19:57] She made some Joe's barbecue.

[01:19:58] Go home to Kansas City and I'll tell you where to go, Tay-Tay.

[01:20:02] You go to Joe's barbecue.

[01:20:03] You go to Arthur Bryant's barbecue.

[01:20:05] You go downtown, get into some trouble down there.

[01:20:07] Have some fun.

[01:20:08] All right.

[01:20:09] That's all I do.