Episode 217: Gen Z Workers, King Tut’s Bar, & The Patron Saint of Dogs

[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. Welcome. Thank you to the Termite Who Sent News, Stevie Stans. I forgot it. Yeah, well, it didn't, I don't know, it got mixed up with stuff, but I did get it. So thank, and there's quite a few, so they can break.

[00:00:38] Follow back in the comments. Yeah, Stevie, welcome to Episode 217. So many things to talk about. It's so busy, it's so busy. I wish it wasn't this busy, I'd rather be golfing. Not the doing this podcast, of course, but just the other stuff. God damn. What's your tour name? My tour name is Day Drinking. And yes, we'll be talking about that in a minute. First, what are we drinking? Well, two things.

[00:01:03] Because I went to Morgantown and Washington, D.C., both super fun, sold out shows, great, thank you. But I snuck on down to the Mountain State Brewing, well, brewery or brewing company, it goes by no, and I had this cold trail blonde ale. Is it like it? So delicious, yes. I never allow myself more than two beers during the day if I'm working. Yeah, and then there has to be a nap, tiny nap of them. But I could have drank seven of them. They were so good, and they weren't thick, so cheers to that.

[00:01:31] What I am drinking is this from Marilyn, Germite, Beth and Marla. It's feral pale ale from Baby Cat Brewery, and they came to the show in D.C. Apparently, I didn't know that I would have said hi to them. I just like the can. Speaking of feral cats, I'm not even sure Cedric can be called feral anymore. He just walks in the house and stares. I don't think he's ever seen the inside of a house, but I got to be able to catch him. And please don't email cat people. I love you all, but I know I will do it.

[00:02:01] He's got to get a little more trust going, because I'd like to keep my eyeballs and my hands. I can't be involved in that. And nobody else, the other cats like him. I keep saying him. I'm not sure why I think that. You feel it. There is an orange cat that pops over here, though, that Baby Cat was actively hissing at from inside. She's not the smartest. She doesn't realize she's inside. That cat can't hear that. She's just sitting there by the bedroom. The windows of the bedroom go all the way up and down. She's just going,

[00:02:32] I know. She never hisses. They never, and they're always welcoming to any other cat, which is why there's fucking too many cats. I know. Well, they know there's a buffet. I got to get that buffet under control. That's my fault. You leave a buffet out all day long. You know, you're going to get me up possums, raccoons. I haven't seen anything else horrific.

[00:02:56] Yeah, there's a big old skunk comes every now and then. Anyway, what are we eating? Let's get, let's do these. West Virginia, Bee Potato Chips. Look at them making their own potato chips. Morgantown is a very fun college town, if you're ever bored, which is also where I got this couch because they burn couches when they win a game. So I received many, many tiny couches backstage. It made me laugh. Yeah.

[00:03:24] Mr. Bee, they're the bee's knees. Proudly made in West Virginia. Started in 1951. Yeah, they're good. They're very good. I'd give those an A. Lays being an A plus. It's got a little bit of spice on there. It's not just a regular flat potato chip. Oh, my couch pillow fell.

[00:03:49] We've got two more things to try. Flavored nuts. Let me see what the, who the, these are from Leslie. Oh, ranch nut duo. Buffalo and ranch. Let's go buffalo. Oh, there's buffalo cashews and ranch flavor. Southern Grove ranch flavored almonds. Oh, these are hot. I do. They're hot. They'll make you lose weight.

[00:04:17] You'll only eat two. Oh, you're going to drink a thousand beers. One or the other. All right. We've got, let me set this here. Eastern. Oh, this is from the youngster. Somebody named Kathleen that's under the age of 500. I think. Wait, hold on. Yes. Oh, no. The potato chips were from termite Kathleen. And she wasn't, yeah. I think she had to have her mom buy me beer. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:04:45] Oh, that's this girl. This is Eastern shore kettle corn. I've never really understood kettle corn. I don't. Is it made in a kettle? That's great. Yeah. It is sweeter than regular popcorn. Yeah. Yeah. Um, this is one of the children. Termite Caroline. I'm delicious actually. Now I, cause sometimes you see in the South, especially roadside stops, just kettle corn. That's all they're selling. And I'm like, huh.

[00:05:13] And I'm really new. Nope. Nope. Nope. See, learn something every day. Gotta research it. And, oh my God. Last thing. Everybody in West Virginia, a lot of people brought me pizza rolls backstage cause it's what the coal miners used to pack in their lunch bag. What's his face? I forget. There's a little one in there. There's a little one? Well, this is a tiny one. Yeah. Because why wouldn't you want what a coal miner had for lunch? Right. Right? Well, apparently they're delicious.

[00:05:42] Some, a whole bakery brought me some, brought me some backstage. Um, and we heated them, heated them up backstage. You were great. Oh, good. Yeah. Mm-hmm. I can see why you'd want it. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's like pizza inside a roll. Great. It's actually very good. Nice. I don't think you could heat it down in the coal mine though. No. That's from Manny and Mason. Cool.

[00:06:06] Um, a Brasino's Italian pepperoni roll from Gypsy, West Virginia. There's a shit ton of Italians in West Virginia and I don't think people would think about that. No. Nope. You wouldn't, you wouldn't necessarily. There's a whole book, The History of Italians in West Virginia. What? Mm-hmm. I swear to God. A long time ago I bought it for a friend who's Italian from West Virginia. I'm like, what are the fucking odds? Boom. Merry Christmas. Here you go. Look at me working it. Like I'm super thoughtful. I just stumbled upon it. Nice.

[00:06:36] I was probably Googling West Virginia. Buy it. Morgantown, super fun. DC, always a blast. Although, it was so windy on Saturday. Mm-hmm. I was going to take a big old walk. Because I stayed over by the African American Museum, which if you haven't been there, you should go. It's fantastic. I think it's supposed to look like a slave ship on the outside. Don't think they hit the mark there if that was the goal. But the inside's fabulous. You got to get tickets online before you want to go.

[00:07:02] You start at the bottom of a slave ship and then work your way all the way up. Cool. Yeah, do the history. That's awesome. It's really well done. I cannot say the same for the Native American Museum. I went with my parents a long time ago. It's pretty slow. Yeah, and it's kind of new agey. My dad was like, I thought we were going to do tribes. I go, yeah, me too, Dad. And then there's drawers that you open and there's an arrowhead. I'm like, my mom has more than this. Literally, her and Jeff Fox were the two freakiest people I know chasing arrowheads all over the place. Johnny Morris.

[00:07:32] Yes, and Johnny Morris, right. Of Bass Pro. But you should do that if you're in D.C. The shows were both super fun. I met some termites after the show at the Hamilton. I like to go there. My favorite restaurant in all of D.C., the Old Ebbett Grill. What did you get? I get oysters there. And then I get their appetizer. They have meatballs. Meatballs? That are delicious. Interesting. Yeah. Well, they have a crab cake sandwich. It's really good, too, if you're into that. Great friends.

[00:08:01] And Andrew Stanley was the opener. In case you people were wondering. Very, very funny. He's got a special that will be coming out that I will plug on his behalf. Upcoming shows. Okay. Now, this is a big deal, Tarts. Because today is the pre-sale for all the fall shows. Well, they call it fall winter. I can't keep it straight. The next block. But basically, September. The next block. Yeah, I know. I'm not the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I won't be taking three years off to fight with bandmates and then do another album.

[00:08:29] It just keeps going until I stop it. Right. I like it. And then everybody that stops, it starts again. Are you still on the day drinking tour? Still on the day drinking tour. And then there will be a special tape in April. And then I'll be on next fall. And then I'll be 98 years old. So that'll be great. Here's the shows. This weekend. Boom. Macon, Georgia. Saturday. Two shows in Charleston. We added that 5 o'clock.

[00:08:58] March 21st, Fort Collins. 22nd, Colorado Springs. 28th, Virginia Beach. 29th, Charlotte, North Carolina. And then April 4th and 5th, New Orleans and Pensacola. The Beer Monster, Michael Somerville will be joining. It's going to be great. Right. Here's the ones we announced. Are you ready? Pre-sales today. Pre-sales today. The code is day drinking. One word. So easy, right? So easy. August 2nd, the Venetian, Las Vegas. And I got moved to the bigger room. Boom.

[00:09:28] Boom. It's going to be fun. Yeah, I don't know what it's called, but just go on my website. Please go to my links. Do not go to fake links. Do not go to off sites. I cannot have my mom yelling at me that my tickets are $500. I'm like, what the fuck are you talking about? No, they're not. They started $39.50. God. And then all Midwest people will frown on me for that. You know, who do you think you are? Well, I don't. I don't think I'm whoever you think I think I am. I don't think that. My God.

[00:09:58] And some of them have dynamic pricing and I can't control that. So if you click on there and it says it's a lot, that's because somebody paid that. That is not me. Come to the show. It'll be fun. The show is going to be great. Yeah. Just try to get tickets on my, go to the link on my website, which I need to double check those. August 16th, Cape Cod. And if you see any mistakes, feel free to sometimes turn my sketch on them. And yeah, they happen and I appreciate it.

[00:10:24] August 16th, the Cape Cod Melody Tent, where I will be seeing my wonderful sister-in-law, Amy and brother Joseph. September 12th, Terre Haute. September 13th, Elizabeth, Indiana. It's a casino gig, I believe. Fun. September 19th, Charleston, West Virginia. And then we have a Northwest run. Great. September 25th, 26th, 27th is Eugene, Portland, Seattle. Fun. October 11th. Oh my God. St. Louis. Oh my God. Yeah. Yeah. That's, uh.

[00:10:53] How many cousins are coming? Oh, there's usually 200 Madigans. That's what you can count on because then it's where are we going afterwards and then it's the fighting about where old people will go or won't go because they think they're going to get shot or their car is not going to be there. So if we're downtown, it's very, I'm over it with the, I'm going to tell you where I'll be. Fun. Yeah. No, they all come. I mean, my cousins are super fun. Like there's no duds. Yeah. No. No. Sometimes you wish there was a dud.

[00:11:21] Just to calm, calm everything down a bit because you see another cousin and that just ups the ante. Do we do shots yet? Oh my God. Guys. It's one 30. We're 60. We're 60. Not quite yet. We're still going. We're in our fifties. Kind of. Let me keep going. After St. Louis. Two shows at the Borgato. October 17th and 18th. October 24th, Monterey. October 25th, Santa Rosa. Oh, November 7th.

[00:11:51] This one's great. Denver, Colorado. Two nights. November 14th, Ithaca and Peak Skills at 15th. I like that run up there. November 21 and 22, Waukee, Iowa, which is kind of Des Moines-y. And then Kansas City. Kansas City, Joe's Barbecue. And then I might run down to Arthur Bryant's too. I might do a whole barbecue run. Barbecue week. Yeah. Go to a mall because everybody fights about which ones are better in Kansas City. It's an ongoing fight. And some places have better things. You can't just say the whole place.

[00:12:20] You got to break it down. Who has the best mac and cheese? Boom. Who has, and I like old school, so I'd go Arthur Bryant's on that one. Okay. Who's got the best ribs? Joe's. Definitely. The dry rub. Anyway, nobody cares. He's got Kansas City. December 5th and 6th, Ponte Vedra, Florida. Where you both golf. Where what? Are you going to golf? I'm going to try and golf. Nice. My brother just sent me, though, if you want to play the TPC Sawcrest course down there, it's now $850. What? For real? Come on.

[00:12:50] What? It's all corporate bullshit. Yes. They buy all the tee times, and normal people are just getting frozen out of courses that you would see on TV, per se. Like, there's, I mean, there's other courses that are going to be $100, but $850? Yeah, it sucks. Why? Maybe. Maybe. For Whistling Straits. Maybe for Pebble Beach. Pebble Beach is. TPC Sawcrest has one famous hole. That's it. And if you see the area. It's very nice. You made a big one. And if you, right, right.

[00:13:20] I mean, it's, I have played it one other time with Lewis, because Lewis was the voice of the golf PGA board one year, and then we got to play places. But, yeah, anyway, that's where I'm going. Pre-sale starts today. On sale starts on Friday. And there you go. Let's get into this. I have a little story to tell about U.S. Bank. Yeah, it'll be sort of brief.

[00:13:49] So I wanted to switch banks just because the bank I had was a little archaic with their online things. And so I went into U.S. Bank. And there's two people in offices. It's as close to your house. It's very close to the house. There's two people. And it seems, it's a medium-sized compare. I looked them up, and my brother told me, like, Chase is number one. And it's in the top five. It's in Missouri and Nashville. And it's in Missouri and Tennessee. So that works out good, too.

[00:14:19] You go in, there's, I mean, they're all different, but the location of my house, there's one, two tellers, one's doing the drive-thru, and one, and I know, I don't usually go into a bank. I haven't been in a bank, I realize, in probably 10 years. There's no reason to unless you're getting home. But I, even that, I would make Patrick do it. Anyway, Patrick's my pseudo business manager. Yeah, here, you do it. Come on, Pat, just call somebody. Can't I talk you sign?

[00:14:46] Come on, why do I have to, I don't have to meet people, do I? God damn. I'm tired. I know. But the old bank, if I wanted to transfer money for a big project, I had to wait till one of the children, as I called it, and, you know, Mindy or Mandy. And then I have to explain to a 27-year-old why I need to give money to Amazon right now for a project. And then, because they were always like, what's it for? What do you think of a drug dealer? Just give me money. They're going to move it over to these people. It's all security.

[00:15:15] They're all afraid they're going to get, you know, hacked and whatever, whatever. So, U.S. Bank, you go in, there's a teller, there's two old people in line, and they have a shit ton of papers, like my parents are. I'm like, oh, God, those are a million checks, and they probably didn't sign them. There's two people in offices with the doors closed, but I could see them. It's glass windows, and they're not on the phone. And I'm not, there's a banner. Those are the bankers. What if you want to open an account?

[00:15:43] There's a banner with a QR code that tells me to make an appointment with one of these two, Hee Haw and Shmee Haw. They're not available for a week and a half. What? Yep. But I did it anyway. Oh, no. Oh, I know. It should have been a red flag. Because my brother, who used to work at a bank, was like, shut the fuck up. I go, no, it's a QR code on a banner. I said, I might be wrong, but I thought the only objective of a bank was to get people

[00:16:11] to give you their money, right? These people couldn't make it more difficult. It's almost like they don't want your money. Like, are you guys folding and not telling anybody? Like, these thoughts ran through my head. Are you trying to self-sabotage? Well, then the account got opened, and then the guy forgot to do that. Tell me I can't pay anybody for 90 days. You can't switch. I can't. So the opening act, I say, hey, I'll just shoot you the money. You can't.

[00:16:40] And it's too much for Venmo. So that sucked. And then I tried to make an appointment to go back, and you couldn't do it for two more weeks. So I made an appointment to just close it and go. This is where I'm slow out of the gate. There's a million red flags here. Right. Just get out. But it took time to set it all up. I don't have two days at home. I don't have time. Blah, blah. Well, I went in to close it, and that child didn't care either.

[00:17:09] She was very nice. Very nice. I don't remember her name. It was something like Elise. Oh, no. It was Emily. Yeah. Very nice. But, you know, didn't really ask why. And there was a good amount of money in there. And yeah, just, okay. Sure. Okay. Oh, well, I'll have everything sent in an email. You got it. Okay.

[00:17:36] And then U.S. Bank this morning sent a thing. Your account is kind of low. Oh, motherfucker, it's below low. It's closed. And you don't even know that. Like, how in the world is there nobody at U.S. Bank, look, an overview person, a boss person going, hey, this lady came in and opened an account, a business and a personal, three weeks ago, and it's closed. It would have been closed sooner if you jackasses would have let me, but I don't think you can walk up to the teller and go, can you close all this? It was just the most bizarre.

[00:18:05] And it's not the children's fault. I mean, they didn't put the QR code up. And that's what I love about the Gen Zers. They're like, okay. Like, they don't give a shit. And I wouldn't either. It's not my bank to go, oh, hey, middle-aged lady, why are you taking the money away? What's going on? Yeah, what's going on? I don't think they give a shit. And you know what? Then don't act like you do. I'd rather at least you be honest and just go, yeah, so like, I don't really hear what happens here. Like, as long as I can bring my dog. Can I bring my dog?

[00:18:35] How about my cat? If he gets to bring a dog, I get to bring my cat. That's hilarious. Anyway, I don't know. U.S. Bank people was at it. But see, then I went to a different location to close the account because there was no more appointments with the two people with the doors closed at the other one. So I went to the other one. And they have the QR code as well. Shut up. No, to make an appointment with a banker. Yeah. I don't know why they don't want to try.

[00:19:03] You're supposed to be tricking me into your bank. Right. Yeah. No. No. Nobody gives a shit. Okay. Mm-hmm. You know what you do? You're forcing me to put it all in crypto. I'm going to start paying all the opening acts in crypto. See how they react to that. Let me see. You did four shows. Okay. That's .89999 of a Bitcoin. And I'm going to get you. Or you could have one Ethereum. Nice.

[00:19:31] Or you could have 24 Litecoins. What would you like? That exists. I own that too. What? Yes. What's a Litecoin? Well, all the coins have made up names. It's L-I-T-E-C-O-R. I've never heard of that. Well, it's like in fourth place. It's not one of the big. It's not one of the big three. Yeah. All right. Moving on. Queen news. Dolly says thank you for all the good wishes. Since the passing of Carl, her husband, very sad. She can't reach out personally to each of you, but just know he meant the world to me.

[00:20:02] She did. Huh? She'd be funny if she did. Hi, Kathleen. She's got the time. Yeah. Hey, Kathleen. It's you, Dolly. Thanks, Dolly. Update. This is so great. This is so great. You only have one queen news? Oh, well, I forgot. Cher performed at a benefit. You can go online. Cher, New York City benefit. I don't remember what it was for. We'll put it in the show notes. And she just killed it. I mean, it was so great. And then, oh, somebody texted me.

[00:20:31] She's in an Uber commercial that's hilarious. Really? It's actually very, very funny. And usually I don't think commercials hit the mark on funny. But Chapel's out there teasing a new album, but. It came out. Did it come out? Yeah, on vinyl. On vinyl? Just one song. Just one song. Yeah, like the old school. Oh, like a little 45? Yeah. Oh, how kvechi. I don't, I don't, I don't. No, don't. Then I got to go get one of those plastic things to put in the middle. Yeah, you'll do it. The fuck am I going to do that?

[00:20:59] Go over to Guitar World, Guitar Center. Tay, do you guys remember? There was these plastic things that looked like spiders. They were usually yellow. No, I'm not. No. No. Tay Tay's quiet. Snoop was performing at one of my favorite bars here. He just got, he just happened to be in there and got showed up at Losers and saying, Jelly Belly's out hitting it hard every, he's everywhere. I can't even keep up with my King news on him. Yeah. Stevie.

[00:21:27] And there was. Stevie's asleep. Now, she's not a queen, but this is an update. Could be a Canadian queen. Oh, okay. A new residency in Vegas. I like to do updates on residencies. Okay. Eight shows. I'll count that. Yeah. If it's less than five, I don't count it. All right. Is it Ann Murray? It's not Ann Murray. I think Ann's done. I think. Okay. Beneath the snowy river. So good. She should have.

[00:21:57] And take that snow back with you. And I can't go on that day. Alanis Morissette is set to perform in Vegas with an eight show residency at the Coliseum at Caesars Palace. The run of performances will take place from October 15th to November 2nd. She's great. I would love to go see her. She's still angry. She's still angry. She's still a... Yeah. Yeah, but she's a mom now. She raised those kids. Good for her. Speaking of Canada... It's been a weird week. It's been a very weird week.

[00:22:26] Here's my question, though. This isn't even political. This is just a question. I don't... Canada is responsible for 0.02% of the fentanyl coming in the United States. Yeah. And then you have China and Mexico, way, way, way higher percentages. Why is Canada being treated like those two? And I'm not saying that because I know you and I have Canadian friends. I just don't understand. It's clearly not the fentanyl. It's something else. Because they're pushing back. They're... And calling him dumb. No, no. I know why he's mad now. I'm saying why pick the fight to start with?

[00:22:55] What is to gain? He says we're going to make American things. That would be great. I agree with Trump on that. Let's make things in America again. But we can't do that overnight. No. We don't have factories. We don't have workers. We don't have anything. He forgot about that. The infrastructure is not yet here. No. You need to build all that up before you pick the fight, I would think. Miller Lite is... Miller Lite is already up $6. That's... Yeah. That's what I know. And that's my go-to, you know, day beer. Yeah.

[00:23:23] I like a fancy beer, but only one every day. You can't do that every day. I like Ultra. Ultra is up $7. It's the cans because of the aluminum. Yep. Which would be fine if we had an aluminum factory here that we could just ignite right now. But we don't. And that chubby man in Ontario of yours, Ford, the one who's the Farley brothers, he says he's turning out all the goddamn lights in Michigan, Minnesota, and New York, and he's not kidding. He's already apologized to people.

[00:23:53] He's already apologized in advance because the Canadians are like... The Canadians are always so nice. It's like, we're going to turn off all your power, but we'll send you some wonderful candles that we make. Yeah. There's always a but. Okay, we're not that bad, but you're starting this shit. Why are you starting this shit? I get white China. I get it. I get Mexico, the drugs. It's kind of crazy. I get it. If that's the goal. The fentanyl. But I have some... Well, anyway.

[00:24:19] I don't know, but I know beer is going cray-cray. I'm going to end up drinking hams just to spite people. Do they still make hams? How about a Falstaff? Can I get a 12-pack of Falstaff? Hmm? Please? I bet you I could in Milwaukee. They did take all the American whiskey off the shelves in Canada. However, here's the thing. In Canada, that's only 1% of Jack Daniel's sales.

[00:24:49] That's what they said. That's what the Jack Daniel's distillery here in Nashville, Tennessee said. So who's drinking all the Jack Daniel's is the next question in the world. Mostly Americans. Euros. They've also renamed the Americanos in Canada as Can-a-dod. Can-a-n-a-tos. How do you say it? Canadian. Canadianos. Canadianos instead of Americanos. And that's their idea of retaliation on some level. Well, fuck you.

[00:25:19] It's our war. Fuck you. We're not going to call it an Americano. You're being mean and picking fights for no good goddamn reason with no warning. No warning. You know, you should call first if you're going to hit somebody in the face. Update. Moving on. We'll see, America. We will see. We will see if this is all going to work or not.

[00:25:45] I'm just disappointed my Bitcoin isn't doing better because I thought all the Bitcoin bros that were part of all this that got elected, I thought maybe, no, nothing. It's actually down. No, it's down. It's down by, well, I can't do percents. No, I saw your launch video. Yeah. You can't do math. You can't do math. Nope. I didn't get that skill. That part of my brain doesn't even exist. Nope. If you saw it, this whole part would be fantasy football and jokes. And then there's nothing over here. Nothing. No.

[00:26:14] History, maybe a little bit of history. You're going to have to go sleep. Oh, my God. I just would like to point out, too. No, I'll do sports later. Okay. All right. Update. This is so great. The Mexicans have said Fyre Festival 2 does not exist. No shit. This is so great. Days after the tickets went on sale, which is allegedly taking place on Isla Mayura. I'm probably saying that wrong.

[00:26:43] I don't know how to say J's. J's or H's. Mayura. Mayura. Mayura. I don't know. Better than your Japanese. It's way better than my Japanese. At least I got Isla. But I only know that from Madonna. What? Isla Bonita. That song. La Isla Bonita. I looked it up one time. Wow. Okay. I know Oprima. I know Oprima Nueve. It means press nine at Walgreens. It's on the hold thing.

[00:27:13] Oh, good. Anyway. Anyway. The local tourism board claim they have no knowledge of the event. They've contacted all the hotels. Edgar Gaska with the tourism director told the Guardian they have no contact with any person or company about it. For us, this is an event that does not exist. Permits have also been reportedly not requested for the event. This festival is not going to happen. Now, this is in June. This is what they claim, right? It's March. Just so people get an idea.

[00:27:43] Like, when we book hotels for the road, we book six months out. Because everything is always full. Even in some town, you think, yeah, nobody will be there. Oh, my God. It's the quilting convention. There's 8,000 quilters here from all over the Midwest. You're going to have such a good time. Like, what the fuck? Why can't I stay at the Marriott? Well, anyway. If you're going to do this event, it's March. You should have this in place, is my point. The festival is not going to happen. The red flag is all over the place. If you go on their website and take the coordinates they provide, then put them in Google Maps,

[00:28:13] it takes you to the ocean between Cancun and this island. You're not even on the island. You're just in the ocean. You've got a floating tent. This comes eight years after the original festival ended a disaster, leaving attendees stranded in the Bahamas in the festival's founder, Billy McFarland, pleading guilty to fraud. But, I mean, if anybody. Yeah, we don't need to go through his history. But, I mean, you all, if you follow this podcast, you know where you can go Google it. But, yeah.

[00:28:43] Update! Update! Sad times here. But you should know the update, termites. Because we're always learning things. So, it's not all shits and grins here. Two men charged in connection with the deaths of the three Chiefs fans in the backyard. Remember? Oh, yeah. After the Super Bowl. I got to give the Kansas City cops a little props. It took them a while. But they figured it out. Well, they've charged two people.

[00:29:12] According to the records, Jordan Willis, that was the man who owned the house, and Ivory Carson, he's the drug dealer, have been charged with three counts of involuntary manslaughter and two counts of delivery of a controlled substance, except 35 grams or less of marijuana or synthetic cannabis. Today's charge is the product of hard work of the Kansas City detectives and prosecutors over many months. The case is a tragic reminder of the dangers of street dogs, but make no mistake, the people who supply those drugs

[00:29:41] can and will be held accountable. Here's what I don't understand either about the fentanyl problem, and maybe a termite can answer this. Why, as a drug dealer, would I want to kill my own clients? Right. I don't. Right. What's the upside? So let's say I have a bag of Coke, and you're going to be my Coke customer. Okay. Okay. You want an eight ball every month, two weeks, depending. If you're Stevie, you used to want it all the time. I always had a gram of cocaine in my boot. What? What?

[00:30:10] I know. Look, I loved my cigs, but I didn't have them in shoes and shit. Grandma Stevie had to hide it. Yeah, she had to hide it. I guess I could just keep my cigs right on the counter. Anyway, so I don't know why, if I'm the Coke dealer, I want to give you a good customer. Why do I want to lace that with fentanyl and possibly kill you? Yeah, I make more money, but I might kill you. A high percentage of possibility I could kill you. I don't know. Whatever. Let's find a Coke dealer. The Kansas City. We'll ask them.

[00:30:40] Yeah, I need to find, I don't know any Coke dealers because I don't work in restaurants anymore. I mean, anyway. The number of Kansas City, members of Kansas City Police Department did not give up. While this happened a year ago, our detectives kept working on the case. And it's so weird because the owner guy went to bed and those three guys were dead in their chairs, like Jack Nicholson and The Shining. I know. Well, he clearly didn't do that. He had Coke out. They did it.

[00:31:07] And then Ivory, the other guy, Carson, supplied the Coke. His DNA was found on a bag of fentanyl. See if they, are they saying fentanyl is the same as Coke? No. It's not. Because it didn't even exist back then. It's an opioid. Yeah. Okay. So that's, they've been charged. We'll see what happened. The whole thing was extremely bizarre. It's because it's a synthetic opioid.

[00:31:35] It's a synthetic, synthetic opioid. Okay. There's a whole thing here from the DEA. We'll put it in the schnotes. Oh. They have a lot of opinions. You want to read more? It's hard. It's hard. We'll put it in the schnotes. It is hard. What are we watching? Speaking of drugs. What? Yep. Well, I tried to watch the Manson thing because I read that it was good. No. It is so Lewis's age group. It is so weird.

[00:32:02] They're saying that the CIA and all these people did these mind control experiments back in the day. Maybe Charlie Manson was part of it. What? And LSD. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was so hard to understand. And then this guy wrote a book called Chaos and was Charlie Manson part of the experiments? And I don't, I didn't even care. If you're into that, watch it. It's a very well done show. Okay. If, I don't know.

[00:32:30] I mean, even if it was true, he mind controlled those girls. Oh, hi, baby cat. I called you up a while ago. Do you want to come say hi to the people? Come here. Meow, meow. Oh, you're scared of her. Well, oh, show up, come back. Um. Meow. A potato chip bag. That's what sissies they are. Yeah. Well, she's in another room screaming, come in this room. Meow, meow. Meow. Um.

[00:33:00] The Manson thing was too difficult for me. And at the end of the day, uh, it's the same result. Yeah. And did the, it was the CIA mind controlling people. No, it's not ridiculous. Lewis told me about all these LSD experiments they did back in the day and all this shit. Um, there was a movie. Oh, Christ. About it. It was a black and white movie. It's that old. Of course it is. Uh, where they try to, uh, command control. Manchurian Canada. Manchurian Canada? I don't know.

[00:33:30] Maybe. I don't know. I'm getting into territory. Oh, no. Absolutely nothing. But I'm just saying I tried to watch it because it got great reviews and I could, it was too hard. Too hard. I did, however. Here's. Don't watch that. Well, I'm saying if you want to investigate that, like if you think the government was doing LSD weird and well, if you're into that, I'm not, it's too hard for me. It was hard. I am off. I don't have time. So, you know what? Boom. I switched it right over to Dateline.

[00:33:56] My boyfriend, Keith Morrison, who had a two hour interview with Lori Daybell, the woman charged with and absolutely, uh, assisted in killing her own two children. And then him and her Chad, her Chad guy killed other people. There's so there. Sometimes I say the cops don't do a good enough job. These cops in Idaho, they killed so many people. I wouldn't know where to start. I would be like, well, I, well, so Lori comes and then I'm like, where do you get hair and makeup in prison?

[00:34:25] Like she came out with bright lips, red lipstick and, and Keith was doing this. Well, Lori, there's been a lot said about you. Well, she turned on him. She is meaner than snake. It just, she's an asshole. Like he wasn't even saying bad things. And she was like, is this where we're going to start? Keith? Really? Is this where you're going to start? Those are things you've heard, Keith. You don't know anything like that. Holy shit.

[00:34:52] And he's like, he's like, well, it wasn't just me that heard them. Here's a list of 37 people. And I was like, oh my God, that is so worth it to go watch the Lori Daybell thing. Last thing as a great, I keep forgetting to mention this as a great backup show. Cause there's a million seasons. If you're out of shit to watch CBS morning show is very good. Jennifer Aniston's good. Steve Carell's good.

[00:35:22] It's just good. It's, it's not, well, it'd be very good. I wouldn't give it great. Like 1923 with Helen Mirren. I mean, stop. It's great. It's great. That's great. But CBS, great fallback show. Also, it was speaking of shows and we can intertwine this with sports. It's free. It's free agency time. The Titans haven't done one thing yesterday before Twitter went down, it started coming out.

[00:35:52] Oh, and then Elon blamed the Ukraine. Like, like, I'm sorry, you lunatic. We're involved in a very serious war right now. I don't have time to check my Twitter account and then figure out how to shut. He probably shut it down. That's my guess. No, I'll probably get kicked off for saying that. He won't listen. Where else can you find this? Oh, YouTube. Oh, you find me? Oh, and everything. I mean, if you keep helping you.

[00:36:22] You help me. You get kicked off Twitter. Well, if I would get kicked off Twitter, I would still be on the facial book for my parents and other people. And then I would be on Instagram and TikTok. How's Blue Sky going? And Blue Sky, it's a slow build. It's, I think people, the thing is Twitter was a time and space and it's gone. I'm not sure we can have another. I agree. You know, it's words. It's not pictures. It's not movies. I mean, they're on there, but mostly it was words in the beginning. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. Smart people.

[00:36:52] Anyway, free agency. You can go pick up people that are available. The Titans have done, have picked up no one. No one. No one. Oh, they gave $82 million to a defensive tackle. $82 million. I'm like, is he the size of four tackles? Because what the fuck would you do that for when you have no quarter? I don't know what, maybe, maybe they have a genius plan, but I think that every year with the Titans and they don't. Guess who else has done absolutely nothing? Your boyfriend. My boyfriend, Jerry Jones. That's right. Dallas hasn't made one move.

[00:37:22] Not one move because he thinks he's already picked awesome. He's like, my people are awesome. Why would I, why would I get involved in these scraps? Why would I? And there's been all these quarterbacks moved, but another break. The NFL draft is April 24th. The NFL draft is April 24th? It's in Green Bay. Oh, it's in Green Bay. Yeah. There you go. See what the time you do. Because that would be so fun in Green Bay.

[00:37:46] If you don't pay attention to golf, the PGA Tour, they created this other thing called Live Golf. Greg Norman was mad. He's always mad at the world and created this thing. And the Saudis paid people crazy money and it divided golf. Well, then Rory and Tiger decided to create this thing called TGL, which I don't even remember what it stands for. I looked it up. But it's golf indoors and they play on a simulator. And I'm like, first of all, I don't even want to play on a simulator.

[00:38:16] I sure as shit don't want to watch myself. What? Tomorrow's Golf League. Oh, how boring. Well, nobody's watching. The ratings are terrible. It's not. Nobody. They don't. Tiger is old and done. He's hurt. We're done. Every once in a while, a sport gets lucky and you enter an era of Michael Jordan or you enter the era of Tiger Woods or it's Babe Ruth. And then sometimes there's lulls.

[00:38:44] Years go by where there's nobody. And here's the problem. Tiger's done. He's done now. He doesn't even think he can walk at the Masters. Like, he can't walk it. That's already been talked about. And do we give him a handicap card because he, you know, his foot hurts? I don't know. They didn't do it for other people. I wouldn't be against it, but people will. So you won't be able to watch that anymore. I don't think. That's going to be canceled. The TGL. Why would you keep? No one's watching.

[00:39:13] Like somebody said, it'd be fun as a one-off, you know, to just do it and go, oh, okay. But the simulators never fucking work right anyway. One of my neighbors has the most expensive one of right now. The technology couldn't be more current as of like an hour ago. And I don't know. It just doesn't feel like golf. Golf needs to be outside. And then they stole the idea from Liv of Team Golf, which nobody likes that idea on Liv. Anyway, that's too much sports talk. I'm sorry, Dermans.

[00:39:43] Too much golf talk because I know nobody really cares. I said we're coming into golf season. Well, it's getting to be golf season, yeah. So those are the things. The last thing, Meghan Markle's show, it got very bad ratings, way less than the Harry and Meghan one. This article said it has all the entertainment value of a hostage video. Oh, God. Oh, shoo, buddy. Wow. Wow. Yeah.

[00:40:11] They need, if you're going to, and then they said, oh, it got picked up for a second season. That is not exactly true. Okay. They'd already filmed all the episodes for a second season. They already put the money in, but that gives them time to edit it or tweak it out or, and then they will release that in the fall. Right. But was it a second season? No. No. Wow. Variety, which is kind of Hollywood's Bible, said, with love, Meghan, it is a Montecito ego trip not worth taking.

[00:40:42] I didn't see many good reviews. No. I don't. I tried to watch it. I tried. But I cooked. But also, your ideas are so, it's for like rich people. And the birthday party idea, oh, give the kids a bag of seeds for their parting gift with a tiny shovel. And then she said for something to do on the way home. You want me to plant shit in this Lexus? You want to watch my dad's head pop off? No shit. You know what would be fun at a birthday party if you really want to have the kids have an experience that they won't forget?

[00:41:12] Rent a bounce house and just on purpose leave like an extra 12 feet of slack. So when the wind comes, I don't want them flying away away. I need to keep them on the property. But wow, pick the windiest day of the week and go, hey, Bobby, your birthday party is going to be on Wednesday. Let's go. But my birthday is on Tuesday. Right. But we don't give a shit because Wednesday is going to be a lot more exciting. Trust me on this. As your mom, trust me, this is going to be a birthday party that is unforgettable.

[00:41:41] It's just, it's a shit show. I can't recommend anything about the show unless you want to see some other famous rich person's garden in Montecito. It's not her garden. It's somebody else's. Maybe Oprah's. Maybe she wandered on over to Oprah's house and said, can I film here? I doubt it. Nope. No, I doubt that. Moving on. This is the biggest archaeological discovery in Egypt since 1922.

[00:42:11] Whoa. What? Nice. Officials in Egypt, they have found the resting place of King Tutmos II, marking what the government describes as the first major discovery since the king of King Tut in 1922. Well, his real name was Tutankhamen, King Tut. He was, that's his real name. Tutankhamen. Yeah. Tut for short. If he's at a bar, he's Tut.

[00:42:41] If he's at home, he's King Tutankhamen. Wow. Okay. They found it. They found the latest ancient tomb in the Mounds of Thebes area west of Luxor, just like the Las Vegas casino and the renowned Valley of the Kings. It's the first time funerary furniture belonging to Thutmose II has been discovered. It's just crazy. They found its main passage.

[00:43:11] They found that like three years ago, but now they found the actual tomb. But see, I'd be terrified to open that shit. Yeah. It's all bad luck. Terrible. It's someone's grave. Uh-huh. But I get it. It's history. We kind of got to do it. Right. I just got to, that's where you just got to play a poker game and loser does it. I mean, yeah. The oldest person. Yeah, that's a good idea. Get the oldest. Well, fuck it. Could be me. No. Don't do oldest people. We've earned the right to enjoy our time not working. God.

[00:43:43] Pretty awesome. Ancient American canoe pulled from Lake Waccamaw in southeastern North Carolina. A thousand-year-old Indian dugout canoe was pulled from Lake Waccamaw near Wilmington Wednesday after three teens discovered it while spending a fun day outside. How awesome would that be if you're a teenager and you're just like, I found a Waccamaw Indian canoe that's a thousand years old? What? The chief of the tribe, Michael Jacobs, said it's rare to find pieces of history like this one.

[00:44:10] The canoe is a symbol of nearly a thousand years of Native American culture in southeastern North Carolina. The canoe at 28 feet long, that's a long canoe, would have carried many a brave. We feel like in our heart it's history. We're still exploring and understand because it's the first time we've had access. It's so great. Some kids are out just fucking off and then you find, that's just wonderful. So there you go. Nice. Moving on to news. Move. This is crazy.

[00:44:38] If you're one of the children, you won't remember this person. What do you define as a child? What do I define as a child? As a children? The children. Anybody under, no. 35? 25. 25? Yeah. I'd say 30. 30 maybe. Yeah. You're still living with your parents probably. It depends on your level of maturity at 27. That would have to be a case-by-case basis. Okay.

[00:45:05] You'd have to come into my judges' chambers and go, I'm going to close an account with a lot of money. Do you have any questions? No. And if they went, no. But they're right. It's not their bank. They're right. They're saying out loud the shit I wish I could have said at every job I ever had. Totally. Wow. What kind of dressing do you have? Read the fucking menu. It's at the bottom. That's it. But see, that's where the Z-ers will go. A lot. Like they're right there. And then they make you feel stupid for asking. But you shouldn't ask. You should have read the menu.

[00:45:35] Anyway, Sally Jesse Raphael was one of the first people with the talk show. And it was actually filmed in St. Louis for a while. And when I worked at the restaurant that I worked at for 100 years, you had to have turns thinking of something to do for all the servers we would go on a Monday or Tuesday. Cool. I arranged for a psychic to come to our house. And we had a psychic party. My friend Judy arranged for us all to go to his taping of Sally Jesse Raphael. She was like before Oprah, right after Phil Donahue.

[00:46:04] She wore big red glasses. And then she moved her taping. It probably did in New York or somewhere. I don't know. It didn't stay in St. Louis ever. Well, anyway, she's turned 90. Oh, my God. There's a picture of her on an airplane going to Paris. Shut up. Yeah. Red glasses? Red. No. I can't really tell from the picture. The big glasses, though. She was going to JetBlue to fly to Paris, France. She was holding a hot pink to-go bag in one hand and assorted mini cupcakes baked by Melissa in the other.

[00:46:34] Wow. It was a girl's trip, birthday girls. And people were like, oh, my God, you look great. And then she took pictures of herself in my favorite museum in Paris, which is called the Musée d'Orsay. I mean, the Louvre is the popular one, but trust me, the other one's got more going on in it. Isn't that great? To be 90 and going, yeah, I'm going to take a transcon flight. Very cool. That's amazeballs. Yep. Very cool. Are you unemployed?

[00:47:02] Many of your federal workers, you guys might be unemployed because Trump is firing a lot. Did you throw that out in D.C.? I did throw that out in D.C. 3,000 people bought tickets to that sold-out show. I'm like, I'm glad you guys bought these beforehand. Like, do any of you have jobs? Is this weird for you? Will you be moving? Are you staying in the D.C. area? Is this where you're originally from? You're fired. No, I'm rehiring you. What do you do? Shit, I didn't mean to fire you. Okay, you're back.

[00:47:30] Well, for all the people, sadly, that might be unemployed if your job's getting cut, and maybe it should have gotten cut. I don't know. I'm not trying to pick a side here, just saying, I have a job for you. Right. They need a full-time Loch Ness Monster Hunter. What? And it's wanted by the Visitor Center. Now, let me tell you what. I have been to Drum Docket. I have been to the Loch Ness Visitor Center. It's not a joke. It is awesome. It's like a history museum of this town. It's a lakeside town.

[00:48:00] It has a wonderful castle. And then the Visitor Center is huge. It's this old, old, old, old stone building. Well, they put in a job listing for an adventurous skipper to take the helm of its deep-scan cruise vessel on a fixed-term contract. The Visitor Attraction is dedicated to the geological formation of Loch Ness. So they do the whole lake thing. Like, it's science in there. It's not just me with a bunch of Loch Ness monster pictures. I toured the whole thing. I made Louis do it, too. Did you have fun? I loved it. Was it cool?

[00:48:30] It was very cool. Okay. Cool. The Visitor Attraction is dedicated to the geological formation of the Loch Ness and the mystery of the Loch Ness monster. The job starts March 31st and will end on November 2nd. And there are two vacancies, both of which pay a salary of 180 euros a day. How many dollars is that? Probably 150, I'd say. U.S.? I don't know what the euro. U.S.? U.S.? Why do I give a shit about Canadian right now? You sound like American. I know. That's why I said it.

[00:49:00] I just wanted to get a row. Yeah. The Canadians, my Canadian termites might need jobs, too. Be careful. I'll unplug this thing. Stop. 196 bucks. 196 bucks? Yeah. All right. Well, 200 bucks a day. I wonder how many hours you got to drive your ship. The skipper will also be responsible for the maintenance of the vessel. Oh, my God. Ooh, I don't know if I can do that. You can't do that. Well, I can call somebody. Who? Maintenance man. I call a maintenance man. And safety equipment need to ensure that all checks are conducted.

[00:49:29] I can do that. And any relevant maintenance is scheduled. See? I just have to schedule it. I don't have to do it. The advert, as they call it, posted at the start of the week on the Loch Ness read, can you be a full-time Nessie hunter? We're recruiting. Here's the thing. You're going to spend your day searching for Nessie while navigating the world-famous waters of Loch Ness. Let me tell you what. Bundle up termites, whoever wants this job. It is flipping cold. Is it cold? Yeah. I mean, March 31st. Even on a summer's day. We were there like in May, I think.

[00:50:00] There's little still chilly bananas out there. Yeah. It's the wind. You're in the highlands of Scotland. I mean, it's the wind. Anyway. The unique opportunity based in the heart of the Scottish Highlands requires a passion for storytelling. I could do that. Yeah. In order to give guests unique insight into famous monster sightings as well as sharing the world of most famous loch. You better get your application in. The window's closing. Oh. Hurry up. Yep. Hurry.

[00:50:29] Maybe you can go with a maintenance guy. Well, here's the thing. I could drive. I could probably drive any boat. Don't know if I can park their deep sea vessel. There's going to be a lot of controlled accidents when I come into the dock. I'm just saying. Grab the rope. Come on. Grab the... Bob. Come on. Sheamus. Damn. This is a flight I would have loved to have been on.

[00:50:56] Everybody talks about planes, doors flying off and planes crashing. How about this? How about this amount of fun? A woman's 25-minute x-ray display forces Southwest plane to return to the airport gate. Southwest flight was originally after a female passenger ran naked up and down the aisle for 25 minutes. Shut up! Way to go, Southwest security. Here's what I've always thought was weird. Wow. Because they always say we have air marshals on some flights. Not many.

[00:51:25] Just a far few between. Their jobs have been cut. When I worked in restaurants and bars and then say I was... Back in the day when I worked in the clubs, the Funny Bone itself, for instance, had bouncers. A couple were still a bar. Right. I do not understand why an airplane who is serving alcohol to anybody with a coupon or six bucks or in first class... And you don't know they could have gotten on drunk. It's easy to hide that. I was thinking that at rental car places.

[00:51:55] People are drinking all day. Everyone's drinking all day while they're traveling because they're either on vacation or they're disgusted or that would be my reason usually where I'm like, God damn it. I'm so tired. Just give me another bit. Anyway, I don't understand why we don't have bouncers on planes and a tiny jail. A tiny jail? A tiny jail. Oh my God. Yeah. Like a tiny seat where we lock you in there. Well, they do. They have the last row. But the last rows are never even open anymore. There's people sitting in them.

[00:52:27] There's people sitting in them now. Let's ask our Delta friends. This is a woman, by the way. Did I say female? It's a woman. Yeah, Laura. No. The moment came... Oh my God. They were going out of Houston Hobby to Phoenix. She's stripped naked. Now, here's the problem if you're bouncers. Because I know from being in the clubs all those years, if there's a group of women that are heckling and misbehaving and they need to be thrown out, it's kind of more touchy

[00:52:53] situation because it's usually male bouncers touching women. Versus if it's guy on guy, we've already eliminated the whole thing. He grabbed my ass. Well, for the most part. So, I'm sure to grab a naked woman is even more precarious. Delicate of a situation. But 25 minutes southwest. How long is the flight? We need to have an employee picnic this summer.

[00:53:19] And we're going to talk about what to do if people get naked and run up and down the aisle. Now, we're going to have a lot of fun. I got bad mitten out here. We're going to have a fun picnic. Pickle ball. Pickle ball. Everything you want. She bared her breast as she gyrated before the cabin of the Boeing 737. Now, see, first of all, I would think it was pretty funny. But I don't like having to go back to the gate. That fucks up your whole schedule. Oh, I know.

[00:53:50] Oh, my God. Getting all this ready. No more free bags on Southwest. What? Yep. Oh, no.

[00:54:19] I mean, it's just no longer a discount airline. I had to buy a one-way ticket Kansas City to Nashville. It's $460. Now, I did not buy the one to get away fare because I actually need to go at this time and blah, blah, blah. Yeah, that's not cheap. No. $460? No. And I don't know where I'm sitting. And somebody could get naked and do a nudie dance, and then we've got to go back to the gate. It's terrible. Oh, my God. She demanded to be let off the aircraft during her son.

[00:54:47] She claimed she was bipolar. She tried to get in the cockpit during the incident. Oh, my God. Mm-hmm. That's where they finally paid attention. Right. Well, and they're just hiding up there, and it's locked. They're not seeing this shit show back here that we're all experiencing. At least it's a funny reason. Yeah. You know, I don't like the ones where it's just whatever, and I don't even get to know why we're going back. Yeah. That's funny. And then people filmed it. Somebody said it was scary.

[00:55:17] Oh, my God. It's not scary. It's scary. Right. Have you never been in a bar? Right. A gate attendant reportedly wrapped the woman in a blanket as she was brought off the plane. Oh, they have a blanket on that plane. Where is your blanket? Yeah. I've never seen a blanket. I bring my own. You bring your own blanket? Always. I'm freezing. I'm freezing. They're cold. They're all cold. Yeah. I've never been on a hot plane, and I'm sure that could be even worse. Oh, in the summer? But no, no, no, they're freezing.

[00:55:47] Laura, my Delta friend, vouch for me here. They're freezing. Kim, too. Oh, sad times for the children. Forever 21 will lay off nearly 700 and close headquarters. Wah, wah. How do they spell? Well, I tried to explain it to you, because you said I don't know what that is. Do you not have them in Canada? I don't think so. It's a mall store, Forever 21. Right. It's always with lids. Yeah, but malls don't really exist anymore.

[00:56:17] Kind of not. Some. There's a good one here in Nashville. Green Hills is a good mall. Um, but I can't really. It was definitely for people like under the age of 25 to me. Uh, and it was like some of the stuff like I would go in for my nieces, but some of it looked kind of whorish, I would say. But that's me judging. Whorish? But then they'd have a really fun sweatshirt, but it would just say weird shit on it, like tomatoes. Why not?

[00:56:47] Why not? Right. Yeah. Grapes. I don't know. USA. Just, I don't know, random. It's like they put a bunch of words in a hat and then just pull them out. I don't know. I don't know. That's why they're going bankrupt. Um, yeah. It's bad. So if, if Forever 21 is your store or you like it, like it was cheap clothes. Like I could see the twins. Like how much is a t-shirt? Oh, cheap. A t-shirt would be like 17 bucks. Okay.

[00:57:16] I mean, Target's cheaper. Target's cheaper. Yeah. And cooler. Uh, yeah. This was like though, you want to get some sequins. Like they were all over the map. Oh, wow. It's like going out. Okay. To the club stuff. To the club. To the club. Um, so sad times if you were into that store. I never won my thing. Um, wait, exactly. Hold on. That's for the same one. Here's one. Hold on. I like your shirt, by the way. My Smashville shirt? Yeah, a lot of people.

[00:57:46] I like your comment on it. Uh, yeah. And you know what? You should explain what it is. Well, Nashville got called Smashville. Um, just because I think everybody's drinking and. Yeah, it's the checking into the boards. Oh, it's the checking into the boards of hockey. And I go to Predators games. I should know that. But here's the thing. They made this shirt and then they just quit making it. Because people have asked, where'd you get it? I'm like, it's in the team store. It's for the, uh, it's for the outdoor game. Oh, it was for the outdoor game? Yeah. Oh. Um, here's somebody the children are going to hate.

[00:58:16] And I agree with the children. Okay. Co-found, Google's co-founder. Yep. Sergi Brin. Where are you from, Sergi? Thinks Gemini employees should be working 60 hours a week. Gemini? That's part of Google. It's their AI deal. All Gemini's should work more than Libra's. Google Sergi Brin. Let's see where he's from.

[00:58:47] Sergei. I'll call him Sergi. Like Sergi-o. He's 51. He's 51? Um, he's the former president of Alphabet. He's worth $138 billion. $138 billion? Wow. Wow. Yep. He, they, they, they, they leave. He's born in Moscow. He's born, I know. He's Russian. Yeah. And he was born in Moscow? Yep. Well, this is.

[00:59:17] He purchased citizenship too last week. He bought, did he buy citizenship last week? I don't know. With one of, uh. I'm assuming that's not. With one of, uh. Gold ticket around the front. Trumpy's, uh, Willy Wonka gold pass. Now, if you want to go to the front of the chocolate factory, I've got a special golden ticket. It's only $5 million. It's going to go directly to Eric, my son. Cash money.

[00:59:43] You can't say, in defense of Trump, you can't say he doesn't have ideas. No. He is an idea man. That guy is up at three in the morning tweeting out shit that I'm like, oh, slow down. Slow down, little partner. Russia. This is a leaked memo. Yeah. Quote, 60 hours a week is a sweet spot for productivity. I recommend being in the office at least every weekday. Um, Sergei? Let me tell you what.

[01:00:11] If you want to hire people like my age, maybe. Maybe we'll go along with this. But if you want to hire the youngsters, um, no, they're going to ghost you. They're going to, they're going to apply for the job, get it, and then not show up. Right. They love doing that. They love it. As soon as they find that out. He said, um, competition for AI talent resources and spending, and spending in Silicon Valley. Is it a fever pitch? Um, he even goes to the office pretty much every day. Okay.

[01:00:40] Hey, Sergei, let's cut out pretty much. Right. Right. He's the ninth person, richest person in the world. He also expects employees to put, I'm not kidding. All joking aside, you are not going to get people under 40 to agree to 60 hours a week unless you find the biggest nerd with absolutely no life, but even nerds have their lives. Things they want to be doing. Um, even if it's not social, you're 60 hours a week. Fuck you. I mean, what are you paying me then?

[01:01:09] Are you going to pay me crazy money? Then maybe. Because I might want to stock up on some cash. Maybe. Um, we have all the ingredients to win this race, the AI race. But we're going to have to turbocharge our efforts. Oh, I hate words like that. Yeah. I hate, let's take it to another level. No. Sit down. Have you ever taken it to another level? I've never taken anything to another level. No. No. No. Anything in my life is a happy accident, like the Joy of Painting guy used to say. I walked into a comedy club and I was like, yeah, maybe I'll try that.

[01:01:39] I sat down at this desk. Maybe I'll do this. Everybody worries too much. It's hyper-down. 60 hours a week. Life is more important. I'm telling you youngsters, the youngsters don't need a pep talk on saying no to this shit. That's the great part. No. They'll just say no. See, if I would have got offered this job out of college, which I would never have been offered this job because I don't know anything about a computer. But let's say I had. Even I would have went back then. Wait, what? 60? That's 20 extra hours.

[01:02:09] When am I supposed to add 20 on? Five a day? Gen Z doesn't need a pep talk. No, Gen Z does not need a pep talk. They need a little let's come to Jesus talk occasionally where like, okay, right. I do like the way they speak to adults though because it's so ballsy. My brother-in-law, when my dad was really sick, my sister-in-law was helping me help my mom help my dad. So Matt, my brother-in-law who I love more than my sister, Matt was in charge of the girls

[01:02:37] and she's like, they need clothes. You need to take them to the Lululemon store in Columbia. They were 15 at the time. Okay. And so they go to, and Matt is like rural country guy, man of few words, but he is their father. And they go in there and the girls pick out their stuff and go and try them on. And he's like, well, I need to see it before I buy it. So because he judges everything harshly and they walked out in their Lululemon tights.

[01:03:07] And he was like, no, flat. No, no, we're not doing that. That is a hard. No, those are too tight. And one of the Gen Zers that worked there just, just decided to insert herself to a 50 something year old man and go, right. That's why they're called tights because they're tight. And I was like, wow, you shit the balls. I would have never spoken to somebody who was clearly 50 and I'm 20. I would have just let it go. She's like, so like, if you don't want that look, then you're going to have to get like

[01:03:37] the waterfall pat or some weird day break. And that's the girls. It's like he's faucets just turn on. No. And they're texting my sister. We're never shopping with him again. He doesn't know. And my sister's like, Matt, you have to let him get him. I'm going to make him wear a sweatshirt that's longer. They're not wearing like, they're not going to be going in the airport and crop tops and Lululemon. This is all a mistake. I can't believe I'm spending my money on this. Things are my money, my money, whatever. Speaking of Willy Wonka. Speaking of tights.

[01:04:06] Speaking of tights. That's why they're called tights. He's an investment banker. You don't talk to him like that. He's 52 years old, whatever he is. Yeah, whatever. Grandpa's in here saying the girls can't have coupons. Okay. That's enough on Gen Z. There's a lot of them out there. But I did say to my brother, like my publicist.

[01:04:36] Well, Katie's a little bit older than that. And then there's so many youngsters. There's a tailor, like hems clothes and stuff. Yeah. These people that are working their ass. If you are super duper self-starter in Gen Z, you can dominate. Yeah. Yeah. And you don't have to work the whole 60 hours. And for somebody else. I like the ones that are in business for themselves. Like they've figured out what they're going to do. Yep. And they don't work for other people. Go make your own money. Think of what you want to do.

[01:05:05] Speaking of Willy Wonka, though. Guess what? Somebody's getting a $230 million chocolate factory. Shut up. Not even kidding. Who's making chocolate? I'm going to tell you who. Who's getting it? Frederick County, Virginia. Oh. Yep. I was kind of there. They may not have. It actually says this. They may not have won the golden ticket to Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, but it may have snagged even something better. A chocolate facility of its own. You can read the content. That's cool.

[01:05:32] Governor Glenn Youngkin announced Friday that the Wisconsin chocolate manufacturer Clayson Quality Chocolate will invest $230 million in a new production facility in Frederick County and create 250 Willy Wonka jobs. Awesome. It's a Madison, Wisconsin headquartered company. That's awesome. That's really cool. It began as a family-owned bakery in 1959, but it's grown to one of the largest suppliers of chocolate and confectionery coatings in the country. Cool. Good for you.

[01:06:02] That's awesome. We never hear, I always say about shit closing. Yeah. So there's some positive news. Something's actually opening. That's great. Yeah. Hang on. Hang tight. Let's see what I'm doing next. Oh, there's my little feel good story. Yeah. Okay. This, no. This is where you just go, look, I'm not like, Lewis is like an old socialist hippie.

[01:06:32] Like when I watch this Charles Manson stuff and I'm like, Lou probably would have joined a commune. He'd have thought about it. Yeah. Yeah. People my age would be like, sorry, I'm playing Nintendo. I don't have time for that. All good. Thanks. I'm not to that end. And I like, I like, I like controlled capitalism. Okay. But this is the kind of shit where you're like, really? The Netflix co-founder, Reed Hastings is his name. Uh-huh.

[01:07:00] He's buying a Utah mountain and reveals his ultra elitist plan for it. What? I mean, for skiing. Oh. Yeah. He hopes to enlist hundreds of homeowners to join him in living on Powder Mountain, about 60 miles north of Salt Lake City, which I also believe is very near Park City, Utah. It is. Right. Yep. With property owners getting exclusive access to the ski area. So you're going to privatize the whole mountain.

[01:07:32] The billionaire bought a controlling interest in the mountain. It has 8,000 acres of skiable land. Holy shit. See, this is where I think we should go. No. A thousand of it can be for your super richies. Uh-huh. But are some number that's fair. Right. Or whatever. But to buy this all up. So that means whatever resorts are left for normal people. And I say this with the passion of a snow skier, of which I am not. I don't even know. I see shit on the news. I mean, my sister-in-law loves it.

[01:08:02] Even my younger siblings like it and whatever. But I was working. I didn't have time for that. I didn't know how to do that. He took on $100 million in debt in the deal. And he wants to reserve it for homeowners. Now, he says he's only going to reserve a third. You know that's bullshit. No. Right. Exactly. Even a third. Right. That. Oh, shit. Yeah.

[01:08:30] That's going to be about 8,000. It's about 2,500. Yeah. Yeah. 2,500 acres. 2,666. 2,666. See? Yeah. Yeah. So lots of it's a private community called Powder Haven. The lots start at 2 million. Wow. The lot. You haven't built a house yet. No.

[01:08:59] Oh, and there's a $25,000 initiation fee. Shut up. Oh, my God. You know who would find this disgusting is Bernie Sanders. Lou and Bernie are basically interchangeable. Do you or do you not? Do you? Do you not support the onesie? Please answer the question. Bernie's gaining a lot of steam, though. He's had some rallies lately, little Bernie. And they're overflowing and there's shit tons of people. Cool. Yeah. Yeah. It'd be a weird time to get popular when you're 84. Yeah. Yeah. He might live forever.

[01:09:28] He could be like Lou's mom and dad. I don't know. I just don't know. I don't know about letting. I don't know. I don't know how you control it. I don't know. I don't ski. It's not affecting me. But I know a bunch of people that like to do it. And it's just not very nice. I like it. We have to do it in Canada. Yours are public, though. Yeah. Right. Everybody can go. Yeah. Right. Everybody can. Yeah. Yeah. All right.

[01:09:56] I think it's time for my feel good story. Okay. I'm just seeing if there's anything else that I want to do this week or save for next week. It's been a big week. It has been a big week. And I'm like, oh, my sister's coming tomorrow. So I'm going to go. Yeah. And Matt, Kate and Matt are coming. It's going to be great. Are you going for dinner? I'm going to have him over here. And then me and Kate are going to golf because Matt has to go attend some conference. Oh. Yeah. Fancy. Fancy. Fancy.

[01:10:26] They're staying over at Gaylord Springs, so I don't think they have a grip on how big that place is. I'm like, well, plan on your check and be in a hot minute. Yeah. Wow. This is great. Does your feel good? This might feel good for. How did you come up with some sort of a. Feel good. Oh, wow. No, that's like a. That's a Lewis Black interpretation. Like if he had to act that out. I feel good. Yeah. Yeah. This is great.

[01:10:56] The Earth's tiniest wild cat species captured on camera for the first time ever. Rare and sensitive. The rusted spot cat, the tiniest and lightest cat on Earth, has covered new ground. A few weeks ago, it was spotted in West Bengal, a northeastern Indian state bordering Bangladesh. According to the Times of India, they are only found in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka and are rarely spotted by humans. You should see how cute this thing is.

[01:11:24] They're a nearly threatened species. In the past, they were hunted by humans, mistaking it as a baby leopard because of its similar coat. Its new appearance spells out good things for the local ecosystem. Such a rare and sensitive lesser cat will only survive in a forest where it gets a favorable ecosystem. The recent movement by tigers, presence of leopards, and now this lesser cat also shows that the wild food chain is being maintained in the forest. How great is that? Cool. Yeah. You got to see the picture of this little guy, though. Now I want one of those.

[01:11:55] Maybe I'll manifest Cedric into becoming a rusty spotted cat, the tiniest cat in all the Earth. His eyes. Yeah. I got to fix a lot of things on Cedric. All right, termites. Let's do some thank yous and then some quotes. And we're going to learn about Saint. I've already picked out my Saint. Nice. Yeah. Thank yous. Morgantown. The pizza rolls from Abby, Cindy, Donna, and Kim. Lori, Nancy, Samantha, Sherry, and Tanya and Wendy.

[01:12:24] Wow, that's a lot of people. The local, the mixed nut thing, Leslie. Local beers. There were so many local beers brought back. The Morgantown guys were freaking out. That's Mandy, the mom, and Mason, the son. Local beers. The tiny couches. The tiny couch, they came from Germites, Addie, Daniel, Debbie, Sarah, and Nathan. And DC. My baby cat, Brewery Tee. I love it. Yeah. Germites, Beth, and Marla. I absolutely love it. The Mothman stickers.

[01:12:54] The Mothman is a West Virginia monster. I think we've covered that on this show. Termites, Suzanne and Jill. Cat toys. Local beer. Termites, Sarah. Cool. Local beer. Greenies. Greenies, always welcome. Chris and John. Old Elbit Grill. The Christmas ornament for the Old Elbit Grill. I love it. Oh, that's cool. I know. That was Termites, Summer and Mike. I didn't even know they had one. Nice. Pickleball bag. Guinness Blonde, which I don't usually drink and I can't wait to taste it.

[01:13:21] And a pint glass, which is right here from the American Guinness Brewery. Lisa and Kyra. And two more. Oh, my Stevie T-shirt. Thank you. Yeah. Stevie Nicks is my fairy godmother. Ruth and Karen. And they gave some Bucky Sue. And then the kettle corn. Caroline, one of the children and her mom, and some local beer. So shout out. Thank you for all that stuff backstage. Everyone enjoys all of it. I need that for later. Okay. Let me move this.

[01:13:49] Let me get my pizza roll out of the way. There's a lot of pepperoni in there. This is, today we're going to learn about, since measles seems to be going around. I had to Google, is your measles vaccination good for life? They say it is. Because we've never had to figure that out. Well, we haven't had to figure it out because people were being vaccinated for measles. But now, I don't know. They just said somebody came into Dulles with it.

[01:14:18] Washington Dulles, that airport. LAX, somebody. And I'm like, whew, I flew out of Reagan, the other airport. Right. I don't know. They say they're good for life. Oh, that's my mom. She'll know. She knows. Yeah, and she's lived a lot longer. So, you know, see it. I guess it worked.

[01:14:36] But since there's contagious diseases flying around, St. Rock, he lived from 1348 to 1376. He's the patron saint of dogs and contagious diseases. Now, if you're Rock, and you're like, what am I being assigned? Puppies and measles? What the fuck? No. One or the other.

[01:15:04] And then I can concentrate and focus, but I can't. Well, here's his story. He was born to a wealthy French family. After the death of his parents when he was 20, he gave all his wealth away and sat on a pilgrimage to Rome. A plague was affecting northern Italy, and Rock stayed there to nurse its victims. He eventually contracted the disease himself. He went out into the forest so he would not have affected anyone. A dog befended him, bringing him bread and licking his wounds, thereby healing him. Right. Yep. Isn't that great?

[01:15:31] When he died, he was recognized by a heart-shaped birthmark on his chest. According to golden legends, as an angel laid upon his head, saying, whoever humbly called upon St. Rock would not be harmed by any pestilence. St. Rock, you got dogs? Got a problem? How's Rock? R-O-C? R-O-C-H. Nice. Let's do a quote from the Queen. Yay.

[01:16:00] This is about, these are quotes about herself. Okay. It's unfair. If a man looks solemn, it's automatically assumed he's a serious person, not a miserable one. Oh. So I guess she thought they thought she was miserable if she didn't have her happy face on. And since Cher knocked it out of the park. So good. This is a great quote. Because sometimes people ask, you know, are you ever nervous to go on stage? No, I'm not.

[01:16:28] But there's no difference between me standing there talking to you before I go on stage, and then I talk out there, and then I come back and talk over here. But it's not necessarily confidence. So Cher said, the one and only Cher, I don't have confidence. I don't do things out of confidence. I just do them for lack of any other road. Right. Yeah. This is what I got to do. She's confident. Yeah. It's a confidence, but it's only a confidence because there's no other choices. Right.

[01:16:56] So it's really, you know, a gun to your head type situation. A little Russian roulette. All right. It's all right. I got to go. I got to go. Happy on sale week. Do what? This is great. It's going to be a great, go get your tickets, pre-sale today, day drinking is the code. And then pre-sale doesn't mean anything different for the record than just you want to get the tickets quicker. Right. There's no charge. No. Because my mom was, I was trying to explain it all. It's hard to explain. It's like, it's free, mom.

[01:17:23] It's just tell your friends if they want to get the better seats, go on Wednesday. We're good. And then if you, regular ones, well, all the seats open up on Friday. But the pre-sale ones are, you know, mapped out and shit. I don't really know how to do it. Yes, I'm excited. These are great cities. It's a lot of fun. And it's a little less insane than lately. Yeah, there's like a weekend off every now and again. What are you going to do in Charleston? Macon. I don't know about Macon.

[01:17:53] I haven't got to spend enough time there. I'll find something. I always do. And Charleston, I just love everything about it. I could walk up and down King Street for days and just stop in and get oyster after oyster after oyster after oyster. Hot sauce. So good. Hot sauce. The seafood. It's just my favorite. Crab claws. All of that. And then I have two shows, so I really don't have a big day. No. No, I do not.

[01:18:17] And then I have to get back to Nashville so I can go see the blues, my St. Louis blues, play the Nashville Predators. And because they are both not very good, tickets are almost free. Let's go on stuff. Oh, if we can find any, see if there's any tickets. Oh, whole arena is empty. Boom. All right. That's all. Cut.