Episode 273: Debunking Big Data Centers, Fishing Cats, & a Convent's Quest to Save Spanish Giant Rabbits

[00:00:09] [SPEAKER_01] Hey everybody, it's me, Kathleen Madigan. Welcome to Madigan’s Pubcast. You grab yourself a drink, pull up a bar stool, let's talk about what's been going on.

[00:00:23] [SPEAKER_04] Termites, welcome! Welcome to springtime, Stevie. It's finally springtime in Nashville. I could turn mine up a little bit, just a little bit. Sorry, Termites. Just a little technical. There we go. Yeah, that's great.

[00:00:40] [SPEAKER_04] It's very nice out here in Nashville. It's about 75, and I'm gonna go golf with Pinky Tito. I just want to call. Nice. Because it's beautiful. What am I drinking? Well, this is called Peace, Love and Hoppiness. Get it? Do you get it? Hoppiness. It's a cool can. It's very cool. It's a psychedelic dog. He looks like a dead. The whole can looks like the Grateful Dead and it's from Vegas. Big dog brewing. I actually drank those.

[00:01:09] [SPEAKER_04] At one of the bars in Vegas, but I can't remember which one. They had it on tap. Black tap. I don't know. But it's delicious. Those are from... But the people that brought the cans are... Nevada Termites, Blake and Jonathan, they came to the Venetian show. Thank you for coming to that at 10 o'clock.

[00:01:29] [SPEAKER_04] Nice. I know. What are we eating? Hearst? Beef jerky? A quality since 18th? A legacy of quality? This is from the Hearst Ranch, as in the Hearst Castle. Oh, wow. Have you ever been, Termites? Go up from L.A.? It's worth it. I would, even if you can, spend the night there. I don't know if that was an option when I went.

[00:01:51] [SPEAKER_04] But he was like the first Michael Jackson. Hearst was. Mr. Hearst? He was crazy. Black tap. Black tap. Yeah.

[00:02:00] [SPEAKER_07] Oh. Where the beer was. Oh, okay. Gotcha. Yeah. Segway.

[00:02:03] [SPEAKER_04] He was... Yeah, like he had lions and tigers. And bears. And bears. And bears don't look. The castle that he built is about... I could be wrong, but hour and a half north of L.A. That is? So you go up on the ocean and all that. But back in the day... Wow. I don't usually like teriyaki, but this is great. I say it's gluten-free, no MSG. I doubt it, because I love it.

[00:02:30] [SPEAKER_04] That means there has to be... Somebody's lying. Sodium. I don't know if they're lying. I did not realize they had a ranch. The castle. So back in the day, he would send... I can't even imagine how long it took back then. He would send cars down to L.A. to pick up famous people. To play with? Yeah. For parties that would last like a week long. Wow. Like, he decided when you were going back, not you. Uh-huh. I mean, and I don't know. I would be like, yeah, maybe not. Uh-huh.

[00:02:59] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah, it was weird. Hadley Fruit Orchard's Hot Cheese Puffs. These are from research assistants Holly, Bobby, and Clark. Hold on, I gotta get really jerky. Yeah. But yes, put Hearst Capsule on your to-do list if you ever go to California and you're bored.

[00:03:14] [SPEAKER_03] It's fascinating.

[00:03:16] [SPEAKER_04] You find yourself in California with nothing to do. Yeah. Well, you never know. Even if it's a rainy day. Perfect day to drive up the coast.

[00:03:24] Right.

[00:03:25] [SPEAKER_03] Yeah. It never rains. Well, except El Nino's coming back 50 times harder this year, I read.

[00:03:30] [SPEAKER_05] Those puffs are a weird color. They're pretty orange. They're like electric. Hadley.

[00:03:37] [SPEAKER_04] Like electric.

[00:03:38] [SPEAKER_05] Fruit Orchard.

[00:03:40] [SPEAKER_04] Since 1931.

[00:03:42] [SPEAKER_06] I love electric cheese. I'm waiting for the hot. Well, they're good. Electric cheese. There you go. Yeah, I like them. Well done, Hadley.

[00:03:58] [SPEAKER_04] Look at all the tiny little orchards and ranches doing shit up there. And I did not die from eating that chip last week.

[00:04:07] [SPEAKER_07] Lots in the team email.

[00:04:08] [SPEAKER_04] There was, I know. But I saw it on the news and like, here's the chips. I'm like, shit, I just ate half a bag of those on the podcast. I know, but I was fine. So I guess, I don't know, maybe I just have a, sorry, I hit the mic. Last thing. Lay's Limited Argentinian-style steak with chimichurri chips. In honor of the World Cup from Tahoe Termite Celeste. Also came to the mission. Look how fancy this bag is. Fun. Who's doing all this work at Lay's? Think of a different chip, Kathleen.

[00:04:38] [SPEAKER_04] I'm like, I did. Fuck. We've done every kind of potato chip ever.

[00:04:41] [SPEAKER_05] They're doing a bunch for the main teams, countries. Oh my God. Oh, you like it. You hate chimichurri, I thought.

[00:04:49] [SPEAKER_04] Not like this idea.

[00:04:50] [SPEAKER_06] Not anymore.

[00:04:51] [SPEAKER_04] Mm-mm. Game changer. Now I'm going to root for Argentina just based on this show.

[00:04:56] [SPEAKER_06] Chimichurri.

[00:04:59] [SPEAKER_04] My brother's still trying to trick me into going to that. Wow, these are really good. Like A, A, A plus, plus, plus. I'm only going to eat one more. I know it's rude to eat on the air.

[00:05:11] [SPEAKER_06] There's a lot going on here. I know. Yeah. But everybody can hang out for a second. Okay.

[00:05:15] [SPEAKER_04] Hallie Bobby knows I'm calling. We're good. Oh my God. I'm saving it.

[00:05:20] [SPEAKER_02] No way.

[00:05:21] [SPEAKER_04] I already have a sandwich of mine after.

[00:05:23] [SPEAKER_02] A sandwich? Yeah.

[00:05:24] [SPEAKER_04] They're going on a sandwich. Oh, okay. Yeah.

[00:05:27] [SPEAKER_02] Fabulous.

[00:05:28] [SPEAKER_04] Upcoming shows. This weekend at Ozark Amphitheater with Burt Kreischer. He is the headliner. I am not. It's going to be fun, though.

[00:05:36] [SPEAKER_05] Mm-hmm.

[00:05:37] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah. You got friends coming? I have a ton. But then my sister said my mom wants to come. And I'm like, oh boy. It's a big place. It's like 7,500 seats. It's an Amphitheater. It's like 7,500 seats. I just don't know about the parking. I've not gone yet. Oh, really? It's brand new. I mean, very brand new. Looks fine. So I don't know. June 26th to 27th, Knoxville. Wake up, Knoxville. I got to figure out where to go off the hill. July 18th, Selbyville, Delaware. Nice.

[00:06:06] [SPEAKER_04] And July 25th, Niagara Falls. Which my shirt says. You're ready. What? Nice. It was the first long-sleeve shirt that ever actually fit as a woman small. People say it's a woman small. It's bullshit. It never is. It's always too big. Yeah. It doesn't fit like a shirt. You got to buy the kids. August. I know. Boys large. Boys XL. August 8th, Portland, Maine. Very exciting. And then August 21st, my younger brother's birthday. And the 22nd, Borgata. Fun.

[00:06:35] [SPEAKER_04] Mm-hmm. Nice.

[00:06:38] [SPEAKER_06] Okay, we're done.

[00:06:39] [SPEAKER_04] Atlantic City's fun. I win so much money in Atlantic City at the Borgata. Really? I am not going to say where, but because I don't want to give up my spot. But yes, I never get like just gang raped at video poker. And I will say the Venetian, well, talk about that. I did great on gambling. I didn't win, win, like no jackpots, but I got to play.

[00:07:01] [SPEAKER_06] Right.

[00:07:02] [SPEAKER_04] And if you're a lifelong gambler, that's really all you care about. You just want to be able to stay in the game and not vomit money. Like at some point it's just that fun. You're just like, I know you're cheating.

[00:07:12] [SPEAKER_01] Or vomiting money.

[00:07:12] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah, I'm just vomiting money. And, you know, the Venetian show was great. I know a lot of people are upset. It's at 10 o'clock. Well, I told you before, I'll tell you again. We got to eradicate Shin Lim. Eradicate him? Oh my God. I'm teasing Shin. Shin's way younger than me. He could stay up till 10. Mm-hmm. Yeah, he's the magician on the Atlantic. Although in December when I worked there, he's on vacation or something. I don't know. He's not working. So I get the 8 o'clock show.

[00:07:40] [SPEAKER_05] Oh, it's the 8 o'clock show in December. Yes. Fun. Yes. Breaking news.

[00:07:45] [SPEAKER_04] I actually don't mind the 10, but I know people do mind. But everybody showed up. It was still sold out. Fun. So.

[00:07:52] [SPEAKER_05] That's great.

[00:07:52] [SPEAKER_04] It was great. I love the Venetian. Here's the craziest thing. I'm going to talk to Holly Bobby about it.

[00:07:58] [SPEAKER_07] He came, didn't he?

[00:07:59] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah.

[00:08:00] [SPEAKER_07] Fun.

[00:08:01] [SPEAKER_04] I would. Well, I'll wait till I get him on the phone. There were two termites on my plane home from Vegas to Atlanta. And they said, I slept. I was so tired. I only got three hours of sleep. And I feel like I need to say back to them, I probably didn't act enthusiastic enough when you said we flew to Vegas and loved your show. And I was like, awesome. Like, I don't even know what they said. I was just out of it. I couldn't find my glasses. They're all crooked and dirty. And whoever those people were, I do appreciate you saying that.

[00:08:31] [SPEAKER_04] I felt I got off the plane. I'm like, I should have said more than that. I did say hi. But I was like, I didn't even know if they were talking to me. Right. It was just, yeah.

[00:08:40] [SPEAKER_07] Also, the announcement about you have 12 minutes to make your connections.

[00:08:43] [SPEAKER_04] Well, right. And now I got to run like Batman. And I'm too tired for all that. I had to run in Salt Lake.

[00:08:49] [SPEAKER_02] A lot of running.

[00:08:50] [SPEAKER_04] I know. Yeah. I always end up running in Salt Lake. I don't know why. Maybe that's where baby Jesus expects me to do my workouts. Right. Salt Lake with the healthy people who don't drink his money. I mean, that's it. I don't know.

[00:09:02] [SPEAKER_06] Praise the Mormons.

[00:09:05] [SPEAKER_04] That's where I had to ask my opener, John. And he's a headliner. He's a hippie. He smokes a lot of weed.

[00:09:15] [SPEAKER_06] Okay.

[00:09:15] [SPEAKER_04] He looks crazy. He'll tell you that. He's got fluffy hair. I was like, hey, weird question, John. Are you still capable of running? He's like, that's an insult. He's like, I know. I know. But like he, you never see me with like workout clothes. Right. He just doesn't look like a guy. You know, he's thin. And he was like, oh, yeah. I do like 20 minutes a day on the treadmill. Yeah. And he hauled it.

[00:09:44] [SPEAKER_04] He made it because I thought, oh, man. You know. It's also hard to run to get to Reno. Who cares? You got to get to Reno. Reno. Little Reno calls. You got to go.

[00:09:56] [SPEAKER_02] We're running for Reno.

[00:09:57] [SPEAKER_04] It was also fun in honor of my friend George Wallace. I always go down. So because Margaritaville is under construction, that was my old secret drinking spot. I love to go down to Paris Hotel.

[00:10:11] [SPEAKER_06] Yep.

[00:10:11] [SPEAKER_04] And go to Mon Ami Gabi. It's called Mon Ami. It's a French restaurant. But they have like just you can get anything there. French fries, steak, whatever, or a sandwich or appetizer. But you can sit outside. Oh, fun. Yeah, there's not many places you can sit outside in Vegas and see everything. All the people watching. Was it hot? No. It was like at the very hottest 89. For Vegas, that feels like 75. That's great. It was great.

[00:10:36] [SPEAKER_04] And then as I sat there drinking wine in the day, I saw my day drinking billboard go by on a truck.

[00:10:42] [SPEAKER_06] I saw that.

[00:10:44] [SPEAKER_04] It was so serendipitous. I love it. I was not expecting to see that. I didn't even know I had one. Nobody told me. I'm like, holy shit. I told Bob, I'm like, take a picture because my phone was off. Off. His was still on. He got a picture. It's all my stuff.

[00:11:03] [SPEAKER_07] It's fun.

[00:11:03] [SPEAKER_04] And Mother's Day, I have to make up for it this weekend because I was not able to attend because I couldn't get back in time. Nope. Uh-uh.

[00:11:11] [SPEAKER_05] What are you going to get for Vicki?

[00:11:12] [SPEAKER_04] I don't know. I don't know. She's 84. Sometimes you run out of ideas. Root beer barrels. She loves a root beer barrel. She loves Bucky's nuggets. Um, you know, I send her boxes all the time. But I have to think of something better.

[00:11:28] [SPEAKER_06] Okay.

[00:11:29] [SPEAKER_04] And I can't remember if she'll be 85 this year. This is the year. Maybe. I probably, I don't know. It's math.

[00:11:37] [SPEAKER_05] We'll figure it out. Too much math. Yeah.

[00:11:39] [SPEAKER_04] I think they were born in 41.

[00:11:41] [SPEAKER_07] I just crossed thinking about this.

[00:11:43] [SPEAKER_04] I know. I can't do it. All right. We'll do a couple male things and then we're going to go to Holly Bobby. And I do not have much king or queen news. Everybody's very quiet. I have a Tay Tay thing I'll get to. Pose is still canceling shows. What's the lesson here? Termites. He's writing an album. Don't bite off venues that are bigger than you can chew. Well. Yep. Don't be bullied. Post. Jelly. Don't be bullied.

[00:12:12] [SPEAKER_04] When they call and say we want to move you up, what is your answer? No. Ad shows. Ad shows. Don't move up. Here's one. This is good information. I'm a black termite from Texas. I'm a fan. I've seen you perform in Houston at the 713 Music Hall. I love that venue. Also listen to your podcast every week. Want to recommend a documentary on Netflix and see what you think? It's called Murder in Monaco. Oh. Good. Because I have nothing to watch except sports right now. Cool. I am watching this crazy thing on Amazon.

[00:12:41] [SPEAKER_04] The neighbor next door or the family night. It's Australian.

[00:12:46] [SPEAKER_07] No. You sent that to me. It's Acorn TV. Yeah. Which you can get.

[00:12:49] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah. Through Amazon. Whatever. Um. That's from, uh, Kimberly.

[00:12:55] [SPEAKER_05] We'll put it in the schnotes when we find out. Yeah.

[00:12:57] [SPEAKER_04] I want to see it. Murder in Monaco. Okay. Any kind of murder. I'm in. Um. This lady. And we're going to bring back the grammar because I forgot about it. She's obsessed with this segment. We're not getting dumber. That's right. Not on this show.

[00:13:10] [SPEAKER_05] Nope.

[00:13:10] [SPEAKER_04] We're not going to be those people. I ain't learning Spanish.

[00:13:15] [SPEAKER_05] I'm not learning Mexican. I get right. I ain't learning Mexican.

[00:13:18] [SPEAKER_04] Fuck you. Okay. You stay dumb.

[00:13:22] Um.

[00:13:23] [SPEAKER_04] Because they're mad at Bad Bunny. You know. Whatever. You gotta get past it. Okay. Well, you could be mad at him and wish he was going to speak in English, but he's not. So, you know, why not get on the train and learn something? Okay. We're also going to do grammar because she actually borrowed my little grammar thing and used it at a staff meeting. How fun. Yeah. Um. Hold on. Hold on.

[00:13:51] [SPEAKER_04] Oh, she's got a bunch of termites she's created. Um. Okay. More grammar lessons. They're very easy. Um. We're going to do one right now. Okay. In honor of Maureen. Here we go. Because I lost.

[00:14:05] [SPEAKER_05] Good Irish name.

[00:14:06] [SPEAKER_06] Yeah, fair. That's my cousin, Maureen.

[00:14:07] Mm-hmm.

[00:14:08] [SPEAKER_06] Um. This is a good one. Okay.

[00:14:13] [SPEAKER_04] Affect versus effect. With an E. A or an E. Do you know what the difference is?

[00:14:21] [SPEAKER_05] Affect is to make change. Effect. Like a special effect. Like a special. You're saying it weird. I know. I got it. No. Effect. Effect. It's a effect. Um. No. Affect is like something that happens to make a change.

[00:14:42] [SPEAKER_04] Very close. What about effect as you're saying it?

[00:14:47] [SPEAKER_07] Effect is like what happens at the Tay Tay concert where there's special effects.

[00:14:54] [SPEAKER_02] Did that sound like a spelling bee kid? Effect. E-F-F-E-C-T. I don't know. I don't know the clinical definition.

[00:15:03] [SPEAKER_04] Yours could maybe be included in this, but you went way off the racetrack.

[00:15:09] [SPEAKER_02] Faisy sparkles.

[00:15:10] [SPEAKER_04] Effect is a verb that means.

[00:15:13] [SPEAKER_07] Oh, we got to talk about verbs and nouns. No, it's easy.

[00:15:16] [SPEAKER_04] It means an influence. You had an effect on me. Right. I had an effect on the cats.

[00:15:21] [SPEAKER_05] Mm-hmm.

[00:15:22] [SPEAKER_04] It's an action.

[00:15:23] [SPEAKER_05] Okay.

[00:15:23] [SPEAKER_04] We're affecting something.

[00:15:25] [SPEAKER_05] Which could also involve sparklers.

[00:15:27] [SPEAKER_04] Sure.

[00:15:28] [SPEAKER_05] Yeah.

[00:15:28] [SPEAKER_04] E-F-E-C-T. It meaning effect as I would say it normally. Not E-F-E-C-T.

[00:15:33] [SPEAKER_06] The E.

[00:15:33] [SPEAKER_04] Is a noun and it's a result. I have no money. Um. Wait. Because video poke. No, that won't work. It's a result. I was waiting for the effect of the light show. There you go. There you go. Well, we just learned. We're not staying dumb. We're doing some book reading. Let's call Holly Bobby. Because I hardly have any Queen news anyway. And then we'll get into some crazy shit. And I did a deep dive on data centers.

[00:16:03] [SPEAKER_04] And let me tell you what.

[00:16:03] [SPEAKER_07] What's your Tay-Tay news? Are you going to talk about it with Bobby?

[00:16:07] [SPEAKER_04] No. Well, I'll do it right now. But yeah, he knows I'm calling. Um. So this is great. This is where you go. All the haters. And I'm a fence sitter on Tay-Tay. Like, I'm not. Yay. So I'm not. I can be influenced either which way on Tay-Tay. I'm just here as an objective.

[00:16:22] [SPEAKER_05] After everything she gave away, you're still a fence sitter.

[00:16:25] [SPEAKER_04] No. I mean, she's very, very, very generous. I'll talk about her songs and all that. You know? Whatever.

[00:16:31] [SPEAKER_05] Don't make me give you another funny thing. It's no Stevie. No. Um. It's different.

[00:16:35] [SPEAKER_04] You know, um. Because she doesn't just look out for herself. She looks out for everybody if possible. This is how Taylor Swelt is helping her fellow artists make millions in Spotify stock sale. As Universal Music Group prepares to sell the company's stake in Spotify, a clause in her 2018 record deal ensures that artists will get a massive payday if the deal get through. All artists.

[00:17:00] [SPEAKER_02] Oh, yeah.

[00:17:01] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah, that would be. This would be so great. That's great. Versus the comedians that I know that decided to sue Spotify. Spotify. I just can't even. Whatever. This is good for. How'd that end up, by the way? That's what I would say to all that. It didn't. No. But we all got kicked off everything for a fucking year. Um. She keeps her side of the street clean and the latest deal is proof.

[00:17:27] [SPEAKER_04] As the Carver Singers record label Universal prepares to sell nearly 1 billion, 1.4 billion of its stake in Spotify. A clause in hers says that all artists receive the payday. Um. So because before this. Mm-hmm. They could have sold it and just went, yeah, we're. Tough shit. Right. Bye-bye. Chicken pie. Yeah. See us. Um. It goes even back further than her landmark recording project that inspired artists to look for the fine print.

[00:17:55] [SPEAKER_04] In 2014, she pulled her music from streaming services to protest the lack of payday. We still don't get paid. Not really.

[00:18:05] [SPEAKER_05] Meaning comedians or everybody?

[00:18:07] [SPEAKER_04] Everybody.

[00:18:07] [SPEAKER_05] Yeah.

[00:18:08] [SPEAKER_04] That's why they're all out on tour. Right. Because it used to be selling albums. You made money. They're not. Spotify and all these things. Not really. No. No, I mean, you'd have to have like a bazillion. I don't even check it.

[00:18:22] [SPEAKER_06] Spotify?

[00:18:23] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah. I mean, I listen to it. But hey, I get claused in because I already bought all the goddamn albums. They're all sitting right over there. I bought every CD on the planet. I paid my money into the music industry. First, as a fan. Just as a human being. But yeah, so that part didn't really work. We're still not getting, you know. It's like a half of a half of a half of a half a cent. And I'm not exaggerating.

[00:18:49] [SPEAKER_06] No?

[00:18:49] [SPEAKER_04] Uh-uh. Serious radio pays. And they pay really good. So yay for them. Support them.

[00:18:56] [SPEAKER_06] Mm-hmm.

[00:18:57] [SPEAKER_04] Um. She had. This gets complicated. Okay. Um. She said, um, this isn't about me. Thankfully, I'm on my fifth album. I can support myself, my band, crew, and entire management by playing the live shows. This is about new artists who just released their first singles and will not be paid for its success. And they won't. Nope. Nope. Uh, the risky public, uh, call out actually got Apple Music to reverse its policy in less

[00:19:23] [SPEAKER_04] than 24 hours and ended up, and Taylor ended up allowing her music to stream on Apple afterwards. Great. Yeah. Great. So go for you. That's amazing. Go for you. Come on. Taking care of everybody involved.

[00:19:36] Okay.

[00:19:37] [SPEAKER_04] And otherwise, Stevie's probably still tired from being at the Met Gala.

[00:19:41] [SPEAKER_07] She has more power than, like, Taylor. A tiny country.

[00:19:45] [SPEAKER_04] She really does have, she has a lot more power than many tiny countries, I would argue. Cher, nothing. Tom Brady, the NFL schedule has been released. You can go see where your favorite team may or may not be playing next year.

[00:19:58] [SPEAKER_07] It's being released tomorrow. Oh, tomorrow. Sorry. They're leaking little things out.

[00:20:01] [SPEAKER_04] Well, yeah, they're leaking the Monday night game of, uh, the Chiefs and the Broncos. Yep. They already leaked that. Are you going? I don't know. Hopefully. Where is it?

[00:20:10] [SPEAKER_05] It's in Arrowhead.

[00:20:11] [SPEAKER_04] Is it in Arrowhead?

[00:20:12] [SPEAKER_05] You gotta go to as many Arrowhead games as you can.

[00:20:14] [SPEAKER_04] Oh, fuck yeah. I gotta go before we move to Kansas. God damn it. We're not supporting Kansas.

[00:20:20] Rah.

[00:20:20] [SPEAKER_04] We are Missouri people. I was raised to hate Kansas. I don't even know why. And then somebody goes, it goes back to the Civil War. I'm like, well, I don't have time to do that. I'm not kidding. No, I'm not kidding. That's what they, because I don't know. You're just raised. We don't hate Iowa. It's Kansas. And I think Iowa feels the same way. And obviously I don't hate Kansas. I go all over Kansas. I've worked everywhere. It's the home of Spangles.

[00:20:45] [SPEAKER_04] You can't hate a place that has liquor to go with a cheeseburger in a brown bag and ask you to promise not to drink it until you get home.

[00:20:51] [SPEAKER_05] Promise? Uh-huh. Okay. Yeah.

[00:20:55] [SPEAKER_04] This was just. We need to ask an Iowan. This is just one more thing from Samantha. She sent this, and I appreciate it. It's the cruise ship drink package thing.

[00:21:08] [SPEAKER_07] Oh, my God.

[00:21:09] [SPEAKER_04] And you get your. You get your. But here's my question. And this goes through all of how it works, what you get, the 15 drink limit, as we've talked about, the alcohol policy. They do know they're scanning you. But now it's been 10 years since I've been on a cruise because I will never go on one again. And Lewis Black tricked me into that. I was bullied. And.

[00:21:30] [SPEAKER_05] Bullied into cruising.

[00:21:32] [SPEAKER_04] I just love saying that. Stop bullying me. I feel like. I feel like Chapo bullies me sometimes as a cat. And it works. Because he would yell and yell and yell until I sit down on the floor. And then I'm climbing my lap.

[00:21:45] [SPEAKER_06] Meow. Meow. Meow.

[00:21:48] [SPEAKER_04] And he's got a cranky old voice, too. And he's not old. It's just his voice. Meow.

[00:21:53] [SPEAKER_05] He talks now when I come over.

[00:21:54] [SPEAKER_04] Meow. Meow.

[00:21:55] [SPEAKER_05] He never used to.

[00:21:56] [SPEAKER_04] No, they all talk now. But anyway. Is that what's happening? This is my. This is. Yes, it is. And Kato comes in with the highest pitched voice. And the baby catches. Goes. Meow. Meow. Brr. Brr. So many things. Yes. So I get that. Like she. This is very helpful to understand, especially if you're going to go on a cruise, of what is going to happen with your alcohol. But this is 10 years ago. I remember my friend John.

[00:22:25] [SPEAKER_04] There was a store on the cruise ship that had better wine than the wine you were being served if you had the bracelet on. Right? Like you're not getting.

[00:22:36] [SPEAKER_06] You're getting well stuff.

[00:22:37] [SPEAKER_04] So if you want to get away from well liquor and you want to get to better wine, they had a whole wine store. And me and John Panette and everybody drank conundrum for an entire week. If I ever see another bottle of that, I will actually puke upon seeing it.

[00:22:52] [SPEAKER_02] Is it red or white?

[00:22:54] [SPEAKER_04] It was white. And I'm not really a white. Gross. I know. I know. It's sugary. And I don't know. It just seemed fun because we're out on a little deck and, you know, the wind's blowing and whatever. I would call that the setting had an effect on me. It definitely had the setting.

[00:23:19] [SPEAKER_04] So if you can go in those liquor stores and buy fancy wine, I mean, maybe they don't exist anymore. Does any termite know? Go, if you're on a cruise ship, check it out. Oh, I could Google it too, I suppose. But I think it's better when there's live reporting boots on the ground of any, who's going on a cruise ship now though? Really?

[00:23:38] [SPEAKER_02] A lot going on. A lot.

[00:23:39] [SPEAKER_04] A lot. Wait to you. Next week, I'm going to read you about Disney princess ship somewhere. Oh, boy. Yeah. And they just left everyone. They're just gone. And it's your job to get home from like Shanghai. What? I'm not kidding. I don't. I did have time to put it in this week's. That's right. But I just don't know. How can we monitor the drinking if you're also selling? You have a wine store. I was in it. I saw it.

[00:24:07] [SPEAKER_07] Oh, I see what you're saying.

[00:24:08] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah. Right. So you let me buy. And then I put my bracelet on. Holly, can I have a margarita? Zap. Oh, great. Kathleen's only had one drink. No, Kathleen had a bottle of conundrum. And she's ready to peak in the taco bar. God. Do you have an Advil? Why don't you sell Advil? Let's call Holly Bobby before I get into update. Oh, my God. All right. Holly Bobby.

[00:24:37] [SPEAKER_04] I don't know what's going on out there in Hollywood. They seem to have been quiet this week.

[00:24:43] [SPEAKER_05] Is award season over? Ask him.

[00:24:46] [SPEAKER_06] It's just starting. Pay attention.

[00:24:51] [SPEAKER_00] Viva Las Vegas.

[00:24:55] [SPEAKER_04] Olay. Olay, Holly Bobby. We just learned some grammar. So you'll have to go listen to that later. So you learn the difference between affect and effect.

[00:25:05] [SPEAKER_00] Okay. I think I know it, but I'll listen to it later.

[00:25:08] [SPEAKER_04] Do you want to guess?

[00:25:10] [SPEAKER_00] Well, isn't one like an adjective?

[00:25:14] [SPEAKER_03] Like. No.

[00:25:15] [SPEAKER_00] No, special effects. That's a noun, right?

[00:25:19] [SPEAKER_03] Yep.

[00:25:20] [SPEAKER_00] And then if something affects you, that's a verb.

[00:25:23] [SPEAKER_04] That's correct. No adjectives. You nailed it. Both of them.

[00:25:28] [SPEAKER_00] Okay, good.

[00:25:28] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah. Way to go. I'm about stupid. See, Orange County has good schools. An affect, an affect, like A with an A, is a verb and it means the influence. So like you affected me. An effect, or how you would say it really in real life, effect is a noun meaning a result. Like, I lost all my money as an effect of the video poker machine sucking.

[00:26:01] [SPEAKER_04] You didn't do that badly. No, no, I did not. No, I did. This time was very fair. I don't care. I don't care if I lose. Just don't. You can't take it all in five minutes. Like, I want to just sit here and play for a while. Anyway, what's happening in Hollywood?

[00:26:15] [SPEAKER_00] Well, I want to talk about kind of Hollywood in Las Vegas because paddles, you missed it. But me went shopping, Kathleen and I, at the Venetian this weekend at the No Doubt Experience. And I've never seen Kathleen have a meltdown like she did.

[00:26:36] [SPEAKER_02] What happened?

[00:26:37] [SPEAKER_04] I had a meltdown.

[00:26:38] [SPEAKER_02] First of all, what's the No Doubt Experience?

[00:26:40] [SPEAKER_04] So, No Doubt is performing at the Sphere and they've added a bunch of shows. I would have been fired as a booker because I know they were popular in the 90s, but I would not think that they could sell, like, the Backstreet Boys or nothing. Well, every 39-year-old from Orange County and California came and they're, like, somewhere in between. Some of them looked gothy. Some of them looked garage punk bandy. They have quite a cult following.

[00:27:09] [SPEAKER_04] But then they had this thing called In the Venetian, the No Doubt Experience. And Holly Bobby here wanted to get a t-shirt. And I don't know, you go through, like, this No Doubt Museum and then there's, they were running out of merch and people are just grabbing shirts. They're not even the right size. I'm like, this is out of hand. It was crazy, Bob. It was crazy.

[00:27:33] [SPEAKER_00] And also, it really affected me because the whole thing was a recreation of Orange County with Orange.

[00:27:44] [SPEAKER_06] Yes. Oh, my gosh.

[00:27:46] [SPEAKER_00] And it was like, everybody was dressed in bands, skater wear.

[00:27:50] [SPEAKER_04] Yes.

[00:27:50] [SPEAKER_00] Like, the checker. Wow.

[00:27:52] [SPEAKER_04] They sell a skateboard as part of their merch. What? Yeah, I saw kids walking around with them. I say kids. I mean, they're not. They're 50. They're 20. No, they're 38. They're going to skateboard. They're 50. To their tech job.

[00:28:10] [SPEAKER_00] And I'm, like, grabbing, like, these shirts and I'm, like, going, 2XL, 2XL.

[00:28:16] [SPEAKER_04] I just can't be an apostle. I just can't. Well, then I thought I wanted to get one for my friend Aubrey who watches the cats while I'm gone. But she's lost weight, so I wasn't sure which size. It didn't matter anyway. There was nothing but, like, 2X, 3X left. Like, where? What happened? I mean, I guess the kids had just happened. I couldn't be part of it. I felt like I was on one of those game shows where you have, like, 60 seconds to grab everything in a store.

[00:28:46] [SPEAKER_04] Yes, just get me out of here. That's funny. Just get the skateboard. I don't care if it's $800. Get the skateboard.

[00:28:52] [SPEAKER_00] Maybe it's a sign. The funny thing was, you go, I'm out. I'm out. I'll be outside. I'll be outside. I think you ran into the fans. You ran into the termites out there. Yes. You were waiting for me.

[00:29:03] [SPEAKER_04] Yes. Wow. By the time you came out, I'd already made four friends. Great. And I looked...

[00:29:10] [SPEAKER_00] Did they apologize to you? Because they were going to see No Doubt.

[00:29:13] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah, they were like, we love you, but we really want to go to No Doubt. Can we get a picture? I was like, sure, you can get a picture. And if you can see me anywhere, I'm always on the road. I don't know how many more times Gwen Stefani's going on the road.

[00:29:29] [SPEAKER_03] Nope.

[00:29:30] [SPEAKER_04] You know, that's not really their thing. They're more of like an experience as we experienced.

[00:29:37] [SPEAKER_00] We experienced it. We experienced it. And then the other thing, too, that was so funny, there were all these posters for Hilary Duff's show coming up in May.

[00:29:46] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah, and I don't... No idea who... I don't even know who that is, and I'm not kidding. Who's that?

[00:29:52] [SPEAKER_00] She's Disney child.

[00:29:54] [SPEAKER_04] Who is she?

[00:29:55] [SPEAKER_00] I don't know who Hilary Duff is. No.

[00:29:58] [SPEAKER_02] No.

[00:29:59] [SPEAKER_00] Who is she? She's blonde. I know she's blonde.

[00:30:00] [SPEAKER_02] Oh, my God.

[00:30:01] [SPEAKER_05] Seriously? No, she's blonde. That's it.

[00:30:04] [SPEAKER_00] Oh, my God. Okay. Hilary Duff is Lizzie McGuire from the Disney Channel. And she's also a musician and an actress and a mom. And she was part of Lizzie McGuire, the hugely successful Disney Channel series from 2001 to 2004.

[00:30:24] [SPEAKER_04] Was that real people or was it animated?

[00:30:27] [SPEAKER_00] It was real people. She played Lizzie McGuire. Okay. All the kids, all the girls loved Hilary Duff. They all wanted to be Hilary Duff.

[00:30:36] [SPEAKER_04] Like a Miley Cyrus thing.

[00:30:38] [SPEAKER_00] Yes, exactly. And it's the same era. And so they spun Lizzie McGuire, the series, off into a hugely successful movie in the movie theaters with real people, Kathy.

[00:30:50] [SPEAKER_06] Okay.

[00:30:50] [SPEAKER_00] That sounds horrible. And that was a huge success. And now she's, this is, you know, it's important because.

[00:30:57] [SPEAKER_04] What would this lady do if I bought a ticket to her show? She would sing and dance.

[00:31:01] [SPEAKER_02] She would sing and dance around.

[00:31:04] [SPEAKER_04] Did she have like hits and stuff?

[00:31:06] [SPEAKER_02] Yes. She, I mean.

[00:31:09] [SPEAKER_04] I just almost spit my beer out because you yelled that so emphatically. Emphatically. A word meaning with strong power. There's now beer on the microphone.

[00:31:19] Sorry about that.

[00:31:20] [SPEAKER_04] Did she have hits? No.

[00:31:21] No.

[00:31:22] [SPEAKER_00] Yes. Go listen to Spotify. Like some of her big scenes were come clean. So yesterday, when you listen to them, you'll be like, oh, I remember driving in my, um. What kind of car do you have again?

[00:31:35] [SPEAKER_04] I have a Mercury Mariner 2000. I put 2000. Was it five or seven? Five.

[00:31:42] [SPEAKER_07] Does it matter? It doesn't matter.

[00:31:43] [SPEAKER_04] It's a 2005 Mercury Mariner. And it's a hybrid because I never wanted to stop for gas. And in LA, I just drove around never using gas. I love it. Now here it goes into gas mode on the, on. But here's the weird thing. I took it through the car wash and there was water coming in on the passenger side. And my nephew tried to be polite. He got in it not long ago. He's like, Kat, you make good money, right? I go, yeah. I make real good money.

[00:32:10] [SPEAKER_04] He goes, so like, do you want to upgrade away from all the duct tape? No. No, I don't. I love this car. I love it. It's so great. Yeah. And I love it because it's the only way I learned country music because it doesn't have Bluetooth or nothing. So you have to just, and it's stuck on a channel. And I have to listen to that. There is a CD player, but I forget to take CDs out there. They don't make CDs anymore. I mean. No. Yes.

[00:32:40] [SPEAKER_04] Don't even talk about that, Bob.

[00:32:42] [SPEAKER_00] All right. All right. So anyway, one of my favorite Hilary Duff songs is called Come Clean because it was the theme song for the very popular and famous MTV series, Laguna Beach, The Real Orange County.

[00:33:00] [SPEAKER_05] So many things in Orange County.

[00:33:01] [SPEAKER_04] There's a lot going on out in the Orange County. It seems so quiet. Crazy. All right. Well, I'll go listen to Hilary Duff. All right. Is there anybody great on Kelly Clarkson this week?

[00:33:15] [SPEAKER_06] There's always somebody great.

[00:33:16] [SPEAKER_04] Oh, exactly. That's the right answer. That's the right answer.

[00:33:19] [SPEAKER_00] But the other thing, too, don't move me off Hilary Duff so quickly because the other thing, too, about Hilary Duff that we talk about all the time is, you know, touring. And this is what, you know, is relatable to you. She's on tour right now and she's selling out. She's one of the only acts, big name acts, that's selling out the road this year.

[00:33:40] [SPEAKER_04] But what kind of venues does she work? I'm selling out my shows, Bob. Let's just tell Hilary that. And can't sell it her tickets.

[00:33:49] [SPEAKER_00] Okay. Well, she's selling tickets at Madison Square Garden. Oh, my God. Oh, no.

[00:33:55] [SPEAKER_07] That's crazy.

[00:33:56] [SPEAKER_04] So, like, would my 17-year-old nieces be into that or is that the wrong age?

[00:34:00] [SPEAKER_00] They totally would be because, you know, they probably grew up on repeats on the Disney Channel. Disney Plus. Yeah. The twins would totally be into her. Even, like, my niece, Jordan. And she's 31 and she's calling me, can you please help me get Hilary Duff tickets? I can't get tickets.

[00:34:17] [SPEAKER_04] Wow. I'm like, okay, I'll try. Okay. Well, I'm going to have to go and look at her seat maps and stuff. That's fascinating. Good to know. I'm going to go listen to Spotify and see if I enjoy these. I really love Miley Cyrus as an adult. I don't, what does she do as a child? I don't know. She did something. Yeah.

[00:34:34] [SPEAKER_00] Miley went to Grammy, like, two years ago for that song, for that flower song. I think that song's brilliant.

[00:34:39] [SPEAKER_04] It's a wonderful song. I do, too, but somebody sued her and said she stole it.

[00:34:44] Oh, God.

[00:34:45] [SPEAKER_04] I think they lost. Might have been Bruno Mars. And of all people.

[00:34:49] [SPEAKER_05] The biggest thief in the world.

[00:34:51] [SPEAKER_04] But of all people, he's not doing, I mean, every time I look at him, I'm like, you're like 18 people. You're James Brown. You're Michael Jackson. Yeah. And it, yeah, whatever. He sells out billions of tickets. So, good for him. Thank you. That's it. All right. Is there anybody, anybody I need to watch? Ron Kelly this week?

[00:35:08] [SPEAKER_00] I mean, but, you know what, also, too, I don't know. Are you a fan of Schitt's Creek? Some of it. Oh, I love it.

[00:35:14] [SPEAKER_07] It's Canadian.

[00:35:15] [SPEAKER_00] Okay. Watch his new series, Dan Levin's new series on Netflix. It's called Big Mistakes. It has a big twist in the end. I finished it last night, and we were like, oh, my God, this is really good. Okay. So, it just came out on Netflix. Nice. So, check that out. Let me know what you think, because it's pretty funny. I mean, but it's also not what you expect. You think this is going to be like a comedy series, like Schitt's Creek, and it evolves and devolves into something deeper and scarier. Okay. All right.

[00:35:44] [SPEAKER_07] Good teaser. Good teaser.

[00:35:45] [SPEAKER_04] All right, Holly Bobby. We're going to move on to some Nancy Guthrie updates. I know you're going to be sorry you're not part of that, but you can listen to it later. All right. I'm going to go light a candle for Nancy. Okay. Thank you, Holly Bobby. Say a rosary. Bye-bye.

[00:36:00] [SPEAKER_06] It cut him off. Wow. I said bye. Zip. I said bye. No doubt.

[00:36:08] [SPEAKER_05] Who knew? Don't speak. I know what you're saying. Yeah. I mean, I looked at... That's exactly how she sounds.

[00:36:15] [SPEAKER_04] I know. It was always kind of...

[00:36:16] [SPEAKER_05] I think Blake Shelton's across the street at Caesars.

[00:36:19] [SPEAKER_04] Did they date?

[00:36:21] [SPEAKER_05] They're married.

[00:36:22] [SPEAKER_02] They're married? Now? They're married. Yes. Oh. Well, how good... Did they date? How convenient for them. Before they got married, they dated.

[00:36:32] [SPEAKER_04] I thought Blake broke up with somebody famous and it was weird.

[00:36:36] [SPEAKER_05] He did.

[00:36:37] [SPEAKER_04] Who?

[00:36:37] [SPEAKER_05] Miranda Lambert.

[00:36:38] [SPEAKER_04] Oh, yeah. There you go. Yeah. They're going to cross paths a lot.

[00:36:42] [SPEAKER_05] Yeah.

[00:36:42] [SPEAKER_04] Country on country. This is better. She's garage punk band, 90s, orange guy. And across the... And then he can meet after your shows and go get some pizza. That's just adorable. Terrible. Update. Update. Update. Okay. I think enough time has passed that I'm allowed to do a Nancy Guthrie joke in my act. And it's not about Nancy Guthrie. And I understand that it's very sad and upsetting. It's about my mom. It's not about... Because she's also 84.

[00:37:11] [SPEAKER_04] But I also do not understand unless... Because we can just talk openly here. This doesn't mean these are facts. It's only opinions. Me and my true crime friends, Nicole and Kelly, that formed the true crime coven. We might even get little jackets that say that. True crime coven. Merch. Because we've... T-shirt. Merch. We've went through all of it. Every trial that's been on TV. All of it.

[00:37:39] [SPEAKER_04] But the Nancy one... Just... I don't understand why this sheriff... We all think that the family may know that this was personal. I'm not believing the cartel is going to stop fentanyl sales to go kidnap an 84-year-old woman for no reason. That's not... It's not the goddamn cartel. Stop. It's insulting to the cartel. If I was...

[00:38:08] [SPEAKER_04] I don't know who's left now. El Mencho was in charge. Some other nephew's taken over. El Nuevo or something. Whoever is the head kingpin, I would release a statement and say, we are insulted that you think we're down to kidnapping old people. We are moving millions of pounds of fentanyl and cocaine. Effectively. Effectively.

[00:38:29] [SPEAKER_05] Totally. Effectively. With an E. And do it in Spanish and then we'll translate it. Right.

[00:38:35] [SPEAKER_04] On the podcast. I know. I got Spanish at the end. We're not staying dumb here. Nope. No. We're going to get tiny bit smarter every week. Just a tiny bit. So it's not hard. It doesn't seem like a small... This week he comes out and announces that human remains were found near Nancy Guthrie's home. But they're not Nancy Guthrie.

[00:38:56] How many...

[00:38:57] [SPEAKER_04] What the hell is going on out in the desert? How many black gloves have we found? A million? And then they're like, well, that's kind of a construction thing. So really random construction guys are just littering all over the place. I don't see that. Gloves getting tossed out. Yeah. I'm done with this job. Let me throw my shit off. There are bodies being found in the canal or a river. I don't know really what they would call that. No. But you know what?

[00:39:23] [SPEAKER_04] And somebody said these could be even prehistoric, these bones.

[00:39:28] [SPEAKER_06] Wow.

[00:39:29] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah. It's just a shit show. And I feel like the family, because I feel it was personal. These are just feelings. Okay. Doesn't mean we're right.

[00:39:39] [SPEAKER_06] No.

[00:39:40] [SPEAKER_04] Somehow they know what happened. Because if I, and I'm just saying how I would act, if I didn't know, I would be going crazy on that sheriff's ass. And I would say, you get that DNA back here from Florida. Fuck you. Bring it back. The FBI is going to, I would have a press conference every day. Right. Every day until he was fired. And until we moved faster and went to the FBI. Do I expect miracles? No. No.

[00:40:10] [SPEAKER_04] Do I expect efficiency? Yes. And it's not coming from Chris, Sheriff Chris. The liar. But they did a whole story about human remains were found in her home. So we all thought, uh-oh. Right. If you're following it. Yep. There's your update. There is no update. That's the update.

[00:40:27] [SPEAKER_05] Then why do they keep saying Savannah had to leave the air because she had a phone call?

[00:40:32] [SPEAKER_04] I don't know. On the Today Show, she had an urgent phone call. It's been like twice. You can't do that. It's, you know what? You have to say, I'm working. Okay. Turn the phones off. Nothing's going to change.

[00:40:45] Right.

[00:40:46] [SPEAKER_06] For an hour.

[00:40:46] [SPEAKER_04] It's like, well, my dad was really sick. I'm like, I'm turning the phone off. Mm-hmm. Don't tell me if he dies. I'll, he'll, if he dies, he'll be dead when I get off stage. Okay. Going home anyway. Blah, blah, blah. Turn the phone off. Why are you getting up in the middle of the Today Show to go take a call?

[00:41:02] [SPEAKER_06] Yeah.

[00:41:03] [SPEAKER_04] I mean, I don't know. If you already know what is going on. Or maybe they don't know.

[00:41:10] Okay.

[00:41:10] [SPEAKER_04] But if you don't know, then why are you not losing your mind? Right. And demanding shit.

[00:41:18] [SPEAKER_07] That's a good point.

[00:41:18] [SPEAKER_04] Maybe they are backstage. I don't know. Doesn't seem, but I wouldn't keep it backstage. I'd be right out there in front and center every day on the Tucson News. And if I, hopefully I would get picked up by the bigger networks. That would be my goal.

[00:41:30] [SPEAKER_06] Okay.

[00:41:30] [SPEAKER_04] Um, update. Everybody thinks Prince Harry may have spent all of his money. He got 20 million from Princess Diana.

[00:41:40] [SPEAKER_07] And then he married Meghan.

[00:41:42] Yep.

[00:41:43] [SPEAKER_04] And then he bought a $14 million home in Montecito. Cash. Yep. We don't know that. You just made that. Yeah, totally. Nothing's vetted here. They think he's running out of dough. But here's the other thing.

[00:41:54] [SPEAKER_06] Hmm.

[00:41:55] [SPEAKER_04] Um, I think he gets more money just for being Prince Harry. I don't know. I just bought the book entitled My Cousin Mary Says Great. It's about Andrew and Frank. Okay. Mm-hmm. Well, but he left. She was married so long ago, Elton John attended the wedding with his wife. That's how long ago that was. What? Yeah. A woman. Like, he married a woman for a hot minute. He did for a hot minute. Wow. Um.

[00:42:22] [SPEAKER_06] Okay.

[00:42:23] [SPEAKER_04] Uh. But they also had the Spotify deal. Funny. That was, these are all reportedly worth $27 million. They had a Netflix deal, which they said it's $138 million. It's like a, it's like a sports contract. If you achieve these goals, it could be worth $138.

[00:42:42] [SPEAKER_06] Okay.

[00:42:42] [SPEAKER_04] But they're not saying out loud, what is your actual guarantee? Your guarantee then can turn into a shit ton more if your stuff's successful. Buh, buh, buh, buh, buh, buh. Okay. Which, of course, none of theirs has been. So we will see. I predict a move down to L.A. Because she's bored shitless in Montecito, which I don't, I would be also.

[00:43:02] [SPEAKER_06] That's, uh, yeah.

[00:43:06] [SPEAKER_04] So, those are my updates. Oh, I'm not.

[00:43:08] Come on.

[00:43:09] [SPEAKER_04] Okay. I am just doing this as an update. The cruise ship, I promised. I would say what happened to the people with the Hantavirus thing. Well, the ship finally, Americans were taken off in a plane and then sent to Nebraska. Yeah.

[00:43:27] [SPEAKER_06] Yeah.

[00:43:28] [SPEAKER_04] I don't know why they're in Omaha. That's something I need to look up. Maybe they are infectious disease specialists. I just, I don't know why I thought it was funny. I'm rescuing you from a cruise ship that's in the Canary Islands. It's halfway around the world. And we're going to Omaha.

[00:43:47] [SPEAKER_06] Yep.

[00:43:47] [SPEAKER_04] Yep. Home of Warren Buffett. Downtown Omaha, you're going to love the town square. There's the old spaghetti house. Get the salad bar. I mean, really, why are we going? Great stuff. I have my reasons to go to Omaha.

[00:43:58] Uh-huh.

[00:43:59] [SPEAKER_04] But I bet this never occurred to these people. And this incubation period is like 45 days long. Oh, God. Yeah. Weeks. Up to six weeks to show symptoms. So, you won't even know.

[00:44:11] [SPEAKER_05] Well, and they're still trying to figure out if it can be transferred, like, without saliva or something like that.

[00:44:19] [SPEAKER_04] Something like that. Well, yeah, I don't understand. Okay. So, you had the good example. Say you're a cleaning crew and you pick up a glass and it had somebody's saliva on it and you didn't know it and then you wipe your eye. Okay.

[00:44:32] [SPEAKER_05] Or a bartender.

[00:44:33] [SPEAKER_04] A bartender. But other passengers, for instance.

[00:44:38] [SPEAKER_05] Okay.

[00:44:39] [SPEAKER_04] How has it gone to them? Like, other passengers shouldn't be touching my toothbrush. You know, it's weird. Cleaning crews, bartenders, servers. Yes, I get it. But I don't get. But, so is it really.

[00:44:51] [SPEAKER_02] Because if I'm.

[00:44:52] Let me think.

[00:44:55] [SPEAKER_05] A lot of people maybe are misbehaving getting a drink spit in by the bartender who has.

[00:44:59] [SPEAKER_02] Oh, my God. I don't know.

[00:45:03] [SPEAKER_04] I don't know. Those are my updates. Those people are fucked and just, I'm telling you guys, think hard before the cruise ship thing. And I say that. My best friend, Jim, since we're 16 years old. He can't get enough. Okay. Oh, cat. He'd go. Oh, cat. That doesn't happen. I'll tell you.

[00:45:21] That's it.

[00:45:22] [SPEAKER_04] Okay. All right, Jim. You go fly to Fort Lauderdale and get your ass on a cruise ship. The potential of things going wrong, terribly wrong. Or death. And you're sequestered.

[00:45:36] [SPEAKER_07] You can't get off.

[00:45:37] [SPEAKER_04] There's another ship sailing around now with a shit ton of people who have the Norovice. Norovice. And I don't think it'll, I don't think it kills you, but it doesn't sound like fun for a month.

[00:45:48] No.

[00:45:48] [SPEAKER_04] No.

[00:45:49] [SPEAKER_07] To be stuck on a cruise ship?

[00:45:50] [SPEAKER_04] No. Holy shit, they found it. I did not know these existed. And I'm now obsessed. And I think I need one. Because I live on a lake. In swamps, marches, and mangrove forests of South and Southeast Asia, fishing cats prowl.

[00:46:11] Cool.

[00:46:12] [SPEAKER_04] They have waterproof double-layered coats. They're waterproof. They're fur. And they have partially webbed toes. So they can swim. Like, they're webbed feet. I Googled it. I looked at their paws. They're twice the size of a standard house cat. But they're much better equipped for swimming. Which is weird, because a lot of cats don't even like water. Yeah. These guys, mine will go down there. But they're not going, like, swimming a lap. They fish on the bank. But that's about it.

[00:46:41] [SPEAKER_06] Got it.

[00:46:42] [SPEAKER_04] These cats hunt fish, frogs, shellfish, crustaceans, and rodents with a prey drive that helps the local ecosystem stay in balance. However, in recent decades, they've been incredibly difficult to spot in the wild. That's why this is so holy shit. They found it. Once again, trail cams, cameras coming in super handy and bringing good news. Wonderful. The nonprofit said that there's fewer than 10,000 left in the world. Describing the vulnerable speech is so rare that it borders on a myth.

[00:47:09] [SPEAKER_07] Wow.

[00:47:09] [SPEAKER_04] That these guys got one on camera.

[00:47:13] [SPEAKER_07] A webcat would be cool.

[00:47:14] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah. Yeah. Swimming fishing cat.

[00:47:17] Yeah.

[00:47:18] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah. I like it. That's great. So they're back. They've been working for 15 years to try to bring them back with 16 local fishing communities. Google it. Google fishing cat. Google it. Their eyes are a tiny bit close together. I don't know what's going on with that. Put it in the schnotes. Put it in the schnotes.

[00:47:37] [SPEAKER_06] Holy shit, they found it.

[00:47:40] [SPEAKER_04] Two hikers stumbled upon a rustic aluminum can in the forest, and it was packed with nearly 600 gold coins worth $330,000. No. Every old rustic can I have picked up, whether it be in the woods in Missouri or wherever, just basically had a bunch of ants in it, and I was sorry I picked it up. Very sorry I picked it up. Something gross would always climb out, and I'm like, God damn it, Kathleen, how many times do you have to do this to learn an old beer can or soda can is just a pile of junk?

[00:48:09] [SPEAKER_04] Well, they thought it was junk, and this is crazy. Let me see where this was. They thought it was junk?

[00:48:17] [SPEAKER_05] Didn't care.

[00:48:17] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah.

[00:48:20] [SPEAKER_06] Oh.

[00:48:21] [SPEAKER_04] That's cool. 598 gold coins stacked in 11 tight columns, each bundle wrapped in a—this is the K-R-K-O-N-O-S-E mountains. I do not—oh, it's on— Whoa. I don't know where that is.

[00:48:38] [SPEAKER_06] Okay.

[00:48:39] [SPEAKER_04] They're not telling me. A meter away, they found an iron box that had gold cigarette cases, bracelets, and a silver mesh purse. Someone had buried a fortune in the forest and never came back.

[00:48:49] [SPEAKER_06] Wow.

[00:48:50] [SPEAKER_04] Right? Um, so the largest share of these coins back in the day was from France.

[00:48:59] [SPEAKER_06] That's cool. Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm.

[00:49:01] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah, Google it. Look at this shit they found. It's amazing. And like, earrings? I've never found anything in the woods. We need to get you one of those. Don't even say a metal detector. Yes! No, I bought— Why? I bought my mom one years ago when they first started going to Florida. I go, no, mom. You are not going to be that lady, are you?

[00:49:22] [SPEAKER_06] Clearly she was.

[00:49:24] [SPEAKER_04] She—she liked it. She didn't fight shit. No. No.

[00:49:29] [SPEAKER_07] Old people have a lot of time.

[00:49:31] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah, and Siesta Key Beach is really large.

[00:49:35] [SPEAKER_07] So pretty, too.

[00:49:36] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah, but it's also, too—you just—it's a nice day, and you come with all your crazy equipment on, and you're my mom, and it's heavy. The thing is heavy.

[00:49:44] [SPEAKER_07] It is?

[00:49:45] [SPEAKER_04] It's heavier than you'd think. Yes.

[00:49:46] [SPEAKER_07] Oh, and they got straps on the back and all that?

[00:49:49] [SPEAKER_04] She just—she looked like a worker. I'm like, Mom, we're all at the beach having a good time. She's like, blah, meh, meh.

[00:49:57] [SPEAKER_06] Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.

[00:49:58] [SPEAKER_04] And it wasn't cheap back in the day. I spent a lot of money on that thing, and then I don't even know what happened to it. She probably got mad through it. A little summer news, since we're almost to Memorial Day. This is a little sad for Tennessee, but good for Pennsylvania. The country's top amusement park is no longer Disney or Universal or Dollywood. Oh. It's been knocked out.

[00:50:26] [SPEAKER_04] An amusement park in Elliesburg—Eliesburg? Sorry, Pennsylvania—has claimed the top spot. For amusement in water parks in the United States. It's called Noble's Amusement Resort, and has officially dethroned Dollywood as the number one spot.

[00:50:42] [SPEAKER_06] It's got to be paid off. I mean—

[00:50:44] [SPEAKER_04] You think this is a paid ad? Yes.

[00:50:46] [SPEAKER_06] Eh, I don't think so.

[00:50:48] [SPEAKER_04] Okay. Well, they probably pay every other year. Mm-hmm. No, it also got recognition from USA Today. You know how valid that is. Oh, wow. Which name? Paid off. I don't know. Pennsylvania termites, is this true? You tell us.

[00:51:02] [SPEAKER_05] Googling where it is.

[00:51:04] [SPEAKER_04] You think Heather again, who reported all this, is on the take? I think she's on the take. Mm-hmm. All right. She got a free Tilt-A-World pass. Here's a little other summer news. I could have told you this. America's best city park in 2026 is a St. Louis gem, and it's even bigger than Central Park. That's right, ladies and gentlemen. Forest Park. Now, what I will tell you as a resident many, many years of St. Louis is don't go there at night. I'd like to save your life and all the grief of your family and friends.

[00:51:33] [SPEAKER_04] And, you know, in the day, 100% awesome. There's all the 1904 World Fairs buildings are still there, the art museum. There's wonderful things. The zoo is in there. Great free zoo. So good for us. What to know about visiting? They don't say, you know, don't, they don't tell you to be careful at night, but we're telling you to. And the Muni, the outdoor theaters down there, it's great. It's huge.

[00:52:02] [SPEAKER_04] It's like one thing that the city of St. Louis, we got that nobody else can take at this point. You can't recreate land.

[00:52:15] [SPEAKER_06] Let's talk about FIFA for a minute. Okay.

[00:52:18] Oh, my God.

[00:52:19] [SPEAKER_04] So there's just some sports news.

[00:52:20] [SPEAKER_06] Sports news.

[00:52:21] [SPEAKER_04] Sports news. Well, you know what? I'll do this one first because this is so progressive. Yes. So progressive. Whether you golf or don't, stick with me on this. Okay. The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews just checked off this notable first. Now, this is where they have, sometimes, I call it the British Open because I'm old. They call it the Open now. But it rotates all throughout the United Kingdom.

[00:52:51] [SPEAKER_04] But St. Andrews is the home of golf. Right. The first golf course ever to be recognized. Well, they have elected a woman to be in charge. Wonderful. I know. Nice. And her name is Claire Downing. She's had a full life of golf accomplishments, but the one coming in September seems to be the most notable and historic. This is when the 68-year-old Irish woman, an Irish woman, St. Andrews is in Scotland, technically.

[00:53:17] [SPEAKER_04] She's going to take over as the captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club for St. Andrews, becoming the first woman to serve in the role. That's great. That is just wonderful. She gets a little parking spot. Oh, my God. She won the Irish Championship five times. Jeez. I never even heard of her. She plays four times in the Great Britain something in the Curtis Cup. She then transitioned to be a golf administrator. She was an advisory member of the R&A Committee Status Committee from...

[00:53:45] [SPEAKER_04] She later chaired England's Golf Handicap and Course Rating Committee from 2012 to 2015. So cool. It's just very, for those guys, well, all older guys, very progressive, to open your minds to why can't Claire do it.

[00:54:03] [SPEAKER_05] Claire's in.

[00:54:04] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah. Great. What's wrong there? Right. Let's talk about FIFA. Let's talk about the World Cup just for a minute because it's a major global event. Okay. I try to make sports easy for people who don't understand or care.

[00:54:15] [SPEAKER_05] A lot of people like the sports updates. I don't know. Even non-sports people.

[00:54:19] [SPEAKER_04] There's a lot going on. So my brother now claims...

[00:54:24] [SPEAKER_07] Allegedly. Allegedly. Allegedly.

[00:54:26] [SPEAKER_04] The effect of Patrick's information. That the prices are coming down. For tickets? For tickets. But then I went on... This is so, so ghetto too. FIFA.com. That's where he bought tickets. Two tickets to Atlanta. Well, he doesn't want to go there anymore. He wants to go to Dallas. But he can't sell his tickets because he didn't have them yet. The electronic ones in your wallet.

[00:54:56] [SPEAKER_04] I go, are these mailed? Like, are we doing like Masters, old school shit? Like, are tickets coming in the mail? He goes, no. I said, do they tell you when they'll appear? He said, I don't feel comfortable going on like StubHub, SeatGeek, and selling something I've never even seen. I said, well, you should not do that.

[00:55:11] [SPEAKER_07] I don't think you can.

[00:55:11] [SPEAKER_04] Well, maybe not.

[00:55:13] [SPEAKER_05] Or sometimes you have to say your... Or when you're anticipating them to arrive. But he doesn't know that.

[00:55:21] [SPEAKER_04] They don't know that. And a lot of cities, 80% of hotel operations in nine of the American host cities said reservations are running well behind early projections. People are not making reservations. If they do plan on attending, they are not reserving hotel rooms. Because FIFA made them block all these rooms for all these people. And these people just are not... It's a month away now. One month. Starts June 11th. I don't know what today is, but we're around there somewhere.

[00:55:50] [SPEAKER_04] Look at me. These visitors were projected to spend an average of five grand apiece. 1.7 times more than typical overseas tourists. Because they're saying international people are freaking out and not coming because of everything political and all that. I don't know. I don't know. I saw a lady on Scotland. She's very excited to go to New York and see Scotland play. So there's a lot of mixed messages. I'm very curious to see.

[00:56:15] [SPEAKER_04] I'm not going to count teams like Argentina and England that are always in the top, say, five. Like, it's, say, Chechnya versus South Africa.

[00:56:25] [SPEAKER_06] Yep.

[00:56:26] [SPEAKER_04] Two teams that probably aren't going to be in the finals or the semifinal. You know, probably.

[00:56:29] [SPEAKER_05] And it's a long way to get here.

[00:56:32] [SPEAKER_04] Historically, they are not, you know, contenders. You can't count. So, everybody wants to see my CEO if you're a soccer fan.

[00:56:38] [SPEAKER_05] Canada made it. I know. I laughed, too.

[00:56:44] [SPEAKER_02] Wow. Good for us. Also, we'll not make it to the finals.

[00:56:49] [SPEAKER_04] Welcome to the Canadian national soccer team. We have two months we can practice outside. After that, we're in that old hockey rink that we put weird, shitty-ass turp in. But look at the Canadian women's team. They were always wonderful. So they figured it out.

[00:57:04] [SPEAKER_02] Christine's badass.

[00:57:06] [SPEAKER_04] I know. She's like 60. I admire it.

[00:57:08] [SPEAKER_02] I don't think she's 60.

[00:57:09] [SPEAKER_04] I'm joking. I'm just saying nobody my age should be out there. And she's killing it.

[00:57:13] [SPEAKER_05] I believe she has the record for the most points scored ever in Olympic activity. As an individual. World Cup. No.

[00:57:22] [SPEAKER_04] Olympic. Oh. Hotels are really mad. They're saying nobody's making any reservations. So here's what you could do. Okay. Well, you could just go to that city for fun. That way you can participate in the World Cup. Oh. Right? If they're going to give me a discount on hotel rooms. I don't know. Okay. I'm very curious to see. Because I went online and I'm not seeing a drop in tickets. And I went on shitty games and good games.

[00:57:50] [SPEAKER_05] Couldn't find them.

[00:57:51] [SPEAKER_04] No. No. And there's hardly any tickets left. I went on Ticketmaster, though. FIFA's website is so maddening. Because I have to. I can't just go look at tickets. I have to sign up for shit and wait in a queue. Dude, I'm just shopping. Yeah. I'm not buying anything. I get it once I want to buy something. But.

[00:58:09] Mm-hmm.

[00:58:10] [SPEAKER_04] Ugh. It's off-putting. And all the cities that have agreed to it are regretting it now. Really? And there are cities that looked at it all. Montreal, being one of them, read all their demands and went, no. We're not doing it. I wouldn't do it. Seeing what they demand. No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. And if you would have called your other friends and said, let's powwow and let's all say no. Right. Then FIFA can drop some of these demands. Right. Or they have to.

[00:58:40] [SPEAKER_04] Or they have nowhere to play. Peerprone. You have nowhere to play. Peerprone. Peerprone. We're going to do.

[00:58:48] [SPEAKER_02] Oh, my God. Are you going to try to go with Patrick?

[00:58:54] [SPEAKER_04] No. He's saying the prices he's throwing around. I'm like, I don't care that much. I care. I like soccer. But it's not the Blues in the Stanley Cup where I'm like, fine, I'll spend whatever. It's not that to me. I don't. And you could also get a shit game. Sometimes soccer is 0-0. And in the qualifying ones, they don't do all the shoot. I don't think in the early rounds they do the shootouts. You just get points if you win or not in your group.

[00:59:27] [SPEAKER_04] News?

[00:59:28] [SPEAKER_02] Thanks for the update.

[00:59:29] [SPEAKER_04] Well, we're going to do. I did a rabbit hole and a deep dive on data centers. And I think I'm officially crazy now.

[00:59:37] [SPEAKER_05] You freaked me out.

[00:59:38] [SPEAKER_04] I think I lost my goddamn mind. It's too much. We're going to start with some easier news. This is not nice, Delta. And who's your biggest fan? This lady. Delta, starting May 19th, no more free snacks or drinks on flights under 350 miles. Thirsty and hungry, the whole short hop while they nickel and dime you. Meanwhile, CEO Ed Bastien banked $227 million. Customers always lose.

[01:00:08] [SPEAKER_04] Airlines get richer. Okay.

[01:00:09] [SPEAKER_07] Can we talk about the profit sharing real quick, though? I know they have profit sharing with their employees. As far as companies go.

[01:00:15] [SPEAKER_04] They're wonderful. This is, though, kind of. A gate agent makes a lot of money. This is nickel and dimey weird.

[01:00:21] Yes.

[01:00:22] [SPEAKER_04] At the very least, water. Water.

[01:00:26] [SPEAKER_07] At least they do.

[01:00:27] [SPEAKER_04] But I don't have room. I know people are going to go, bring your own water bottle. I just don't.

[01:00:30] [SPEAKER_07] You were mad, what, last week?

[01:00:32] [SPEAKER_04] My backpack is already full.

[01:00:33] [SPEAKER_07] And you're like, they didn't give me any. But they tell you they're going to give you a drink and then they don't give you a drink.

[01:00:38] [SPEAKER_04] Wow. They always say there's turbulence. I'd rather know. But there's not. And I get it. If I was a flight attendant, I'd just be like, yeah, it's way too bumpy. Because I don't want to do it. I get it. I waited tables for a hundred years. I get it. I don't feel safe getting you a vodka cranberry. I feel I'm being bullied.

[01:00:57] [SPEAKER_06] Yeah.

[01:00:59] [SPEAKER_04] Oh, here's some great news. And wait till you see the picture. Oh, my God. A group of dedicated nuns is keeping a giant rabbit breed from dwindling to extinction. This is in Spain. Spanish giant rabbits weighing up to 20 pounds.

[01:01:17] [SPEAKER_07] Wait, is this a real breed?

[01:01:19] [SPEAKER_04] Yes. Shut up. No, it's a real breed. Oh, my God. They just have extra large rabbits. That's funny. 20 pounds. This thing's two and a half sizes at a time, the size of my largest cat. Not that tiny cat that's in a ball over there, not participating. A terrible fan baby cat.

[01:01:34] [SPEAKER_02] Yeah, she just came up and flopped. I know.

[01:01:37] [SPEAKER_04] She acts when I'm gone for three hours. I'm so tired. I had to protect the house. You didn't even leave the house. Anyway, these, they weigh up to 20 pounds. They were a vital food source during the Spanish Civil War, but now the endangered breeds numbers are low. Nuns at the convent of St. Anthony of Padua have cared for the rabbits for over 30 years, and they've started a conservation program to prevent the breeds. It's good for them.

[01:02:04] [SPEAKER_05] That's awesome.

[01:02:05] [SPEAKER_04] These nuns that everybody's forgetting about, and I'm hoping Pope Leo will come around to realize these women are useful. A lot of them are getting very old. They found shit to do on their own. That's great. They donate the rabbits to schools and breeders to rebuild the population inspired by the late Pope Francis' call for stewardship.

[01:02:26] [SPEAKER_02] Wonderful.

[01:02:27] [SPEAKER_04] There's 11 Franciscan nuns at the convent of St. Anthony. They have 35 of these giant rabbits.

[01:02:34] [SPEAKER_07] Stop it.

[01:02:34] [SPEAKER_04] I'm obsessed with it. A breed, a cross between the Flanders giant and the Spanish brown type rabbits. They can give birth to 22 babies above. What? What? The old saying, you know, having sex like rabbits. Yeah.

[01:02:53] [SPEAKER_06] 22 a month.

[01:02:54] [SPEAKER_04] Can you imagine what that convent looks like?

[01:02:56] [SPEAKER_02] All these baby rabbits.

[01:02:57] [SPEAKER_04] Oh, my God. I would love every minute of it. And these guys are super furry and fat. Like, the rabbits out in the backyard, which these cats are so not interested in, are actually kind of in shape. They're not fat. No. No, they're muscular. They can haul ass. They've been doing it for 30 years. Good for them. That's great. Yeah. Wait till you see a picture, though. It's the largest.

[01:03:24] [SPEAKER_04] Like, there's hares in Ireland, but they're just taller rabbits. Yeah. They're not. Giant deer. Giant. This thing. He is a fat ass. She's holding it, though. I would love it. I'd love to have one as a pet. Cool. All right. What do we think about this, termites?

[01:03:44] [SPEAKER_06] So, Walmart.

[01:03:46] [SPEAKER_04] I did my video from there yesterday. And I went in to check it out, to spy. Walmart's always so sad. I know. Everybody in there is, yeah. Whatever. But I went in. Because Walmart, Target, and Costco, they're axing. It says more self-checkouts. But my question is, are you then going to go hire people? And I do care about Target and Costco.

[01:04:12] [SPEAKER_04] But Costco doesn't have the theft problems that the other two do because of the membership deal. They have problems, but not as bad as Walmart and Target. But like I said, two or three times I have accidentally, seriously accidentally, why would I steal cat food? I have the money. I just didn't zap the thing at the bottom or whatever. Like, I didn't mean to steal it. And no one, I took it to the car.

[01:04:37] [SPEAKER_02] No one's such.

[01:04:37] [SPEAKER_04] I know. I come back because Catholic karma. I'm not stealing cat food. But nobody noticed that I just walked out with one of those giant bags. My question is, are you going to hire people to work again like they were until you guys did all this? You need more humans then. If we're not going to do self-checkout, then we got to get the old school way back.

[01:05:01] [SPEAKER_04] We have to somehow bring that back, which requires employees, which will probably require you paying a little bit more. Walmart. I don't know what Target pays. And I went in, and all the self-checkouts are still there at the one by me. Really? I don't know if they were on. Some were on. And then in the lines where a real person will check you out, I only saw three. No, it wasn't that busy. It was the middle of the day.

[01:05:28] [SPEAKER_07] They even installed those things on the top that has a camera. Bleep! Then it shows. I don't think. And then the weight and the thing.

[01:05:36] [SPEAKER_04] I don't think any of it's really working. Really? Not in a way. No, they're losing too much money. Okay. Look at they invested all this money itself. Check out now they're like, okay, fuck. No. No. I don't know. Check your local Target or Costco.

[01:05:52] [SPEAKER_06] I love Costco.

[01:05:54] [SPEAKER_04] I haven't been in forever. It's on the west side of Nashville, and I don't live on that side. So I have to have a reason to head that way because it's a hike. Yeah. This is a little sad town news, but sometimes we get a little sad on this podcast because we have to learn things. And this is the reason. But there's still time to do it if you want.

[01:06:15] Okay.

[01:06:16] [SPEAKER_04] This is so, for nearly two centuries, a New England town manufactured the tools that built North America.

[01:06:23] [SPEAKER_06] Oh.

[01:06:24] [SPEAKER_04] The now New Britain, Connecticut, known as Hardware City, is losing the last Stanley Black & Decker factory still making products in the company's hometown. Yeah. I have a Stanley Black & Decker tape measure, but apparently I'm not up to speed. There's double-sided tape measures that are way more exciting.

[01:06:44] [SPEAKER_07] Double-sided?

[01:06:45] [SPEAKER_04] I don't know. I didn't look it up.

[01:06:48] [SPEAKER_07] That was a double-sided tape measure.

[01:06:50] [SPEAKER_04] There's some on the other side. But it's not like inches and... Do you have the Fat Max?

[01:06:57] [SPEAKER_05] Fat Max.

[01:06:57] [SPEAKER_04] Yes, I have the Fat Max. I have all of them. Yeah.

[01:06:59] [SPEAKER_05] It's so big you can hardly fit it in your hand.

[01:07:01] [SPEAKER_04] Yes. I loved Black & Decker. I mean, I like Milwaukee's tools, too. But this is sad. Stanley Black & Decker factory, gone. It's sad. It's closing on May 18th, cutting 300 jobs, more than 200 union roles in a move that has sparked angers from workers and local officials. Yeah. That sucks. It totally sucks. That's horrible. Yep. But, so here's my thing. Okay. So I'm saying, if you want the good stuff, Stanley Black & Decker, go to Ace Hardware, buy what

[01:07:31] [SPEAKER_04] they got.

[01:07:32] [SPEAKER_06] Yeah.

[01:07:33] [SPEAKER_04] Buy it now. Yeah. So you can get ahead of it, termites. Oh. Terrible. Stanley merged with Black & Decker in 2010 to form Stanley Black & Decker, but kept its headquarters in New Britain. The Trump administration's tariffs policies hit Stanley hard. It moved manufacturing out of China and increased prices due to tariffs. In 2025, the company saw revenue contracts slightly, although its profitability rose thanks to higher prices and cost reductions. The factory in Thailand helped with reducing those. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

[01:08:03] [SPEAKER_04] Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. I'm telling you, if those are some of your favorite tools, get your ass wherever you buy your tools. Lowe's, Ace. Get them while they last, because they're going to be gone. Huh. Here's another thing, person that's gone, Ted Turner. What's the segue? How about that first segue? Wow. See? I have talent. I swear to God, not joking. People always say this about old people. I thought he died like three years ago. I did.

[01:08:33] [SPEAKER_04] Okay. You know who just lost his shit? Wolf Blitzer.

[01:08:36] [SPEAKER_05] Yeah.

[01:08:36] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah. I don't even.

[01:08:38] [SPEAKER_05] Wolfie's losing his shit a lot lately. It goes on and on.

[01:08:41] [SPEAKER_04] Here's what I love about Wolf Blitzer. He goes, I'm in a situation room. Nothing's changed, Wolf. Settle down. Simmer down. There is no situation. There is no situation. There is no situation. You've been talking about the same shit all goddamn day. Totally. I don't even watch hardly anymore, but when something big happens. He was 87, Ted. That's a long life. He owned CNN. He started with his dad having Turner outdoor advertising. Then he bought Turner Broadcasting System.

[01:09:10] [SPEAKER_04] Then he founded CNN. He turned the Braves into a great team, which he did. They won the 1995 World Series under his ownership. He launched the Goodwill Games. I did not know that. Ted's a very busy person. I didn't know that. And then he opened those restaurants. I've eaten at one in Denver. Ted Turner's where you have Bison burgers. Yeah.

[01:09:31] [SPEAKER_05] Yeah. Ted Turner's Montana girl.

[01:09:34] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah, but I think a lot of them are closing.

[01:09:37] [SPEAKER_05] Right.

[01:09:38] [SPEAKER_04] They said a Bison burger was leaner, less fat. Mm-hmm. It was fine. I didn't really care either way. I think a hamburger's better. I mean, if you're into that. Yeah. If you're not. It's lean and vegan. Right. It's pretty good. It's probably better for you. Yeah. But then I think, I don't know, do we really want to, are we raising Bison and killing him? Maybe he bought like a hundred thousand bazillion acres. He had quite the life. And he put up with Jane Fonda for a long time.

[01:10:08] [SPEAKER_04] She seems like a lie. I don't know. He does. Jane's, yeah. But he probably likes, you know, as Ron would call it, well, she's a spitfire. Right. If that's what we want to call. Sanks. Right. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Funny.

[01:10:25] Hold on.

[01:10:26] [SPEAKER_04] All right. We're going to do, before I do, this data center. So bear with me. If you don't care about him, now would be a good time to go listen to Hilary Duff on Spotify.

[01:10:39] [SPEAKER_05] I'm going to.

[01:10:40] [SPEAKER_04] I don't want to dissuade people from this podcast.

[01:10:43] [SPEAKER_07] I had no idea how crazy this was until you started calling on it.

[01:10:46] [SPEAKER_04] Well, I'm just going to start. I'm going to start with this. Now I sound like Roseanne. Listen, I've decided that data centers are gas stations for aliens.

[01:10:58] [SPEAKER_06] What did you say?

[01:10:59] [SPEAKER_04] I'm not kidding. Gas station? Gas stations for aliens. That's in normal person talk.

[01:11:05] [SPEAKER_02] Okay.

[01:11:05] [SPEAKER_04] Here's the thing. Can't wait to expand on that. Well, all of a sudden, they're coming out of nowhere. I haven't read one positive thing. And I'll tell you all the bad things I've read. I haven't read one thing that's like, except a term I emailed me, like her son got a job. But these jobs will end. So they come into your town. This is happening in Georgia, Utah, Texas. I haven't seen any of Missouri. Whoa. My little town in Missouri, like 45 minutes away from, say, the Arch. So downtown. Wait.

[01:11:36] [SPEAKER_04] They have fought it and fired the city councilman who approved it. And Festus, little Festus. I love you, Festus. They're fighting it.

[01:11:42] Good.

[01:11:43] [SPEAKER_04] Everybody else has got to stand up. And I'm trying. The other ones are trying. It's just not working.

[01:11:47] [SPEAKER_06] Mm-hmm.

[01:11:48] [SPEAKER_04] It's like me saying here, Elon's just building his goddamn tunnel.

[01:11:52] [SPEAKER_06] Right.

[01:11:52] [SPEAKER_04] We didn't vote. Uh-uh. We, you can, it's just happening.

[01:11:58] [SPEAKER_07] Nobody seems to know.

[01:11:59] [SPEAKER_04] No one's in. How. How. How. Right. Or what. So these data centers and then people, one of my friends was at the bar was like, I don't even know what they do. They're basically self-storage units and they rent them out. They rent storage for data. And this is how you can sign a contract online and it zips through the air and it's all data storage. That's really, they also offer management for your data. They have little, but when they, so they take a town like the one in Georgia.

[01:12:29] [SPEAKER_04] They come in and all these workers come in. Tons of them. Now we got to feed them and house them. Um, it's like when I used to go to fracking towns and I'm like, whoa, there'd be this whole pop-up city. Yeah. But also with your pop-up city comes, um, hookers. Right. Drugs.

[01:12:48] Psh.

[01:12:49] [SPEAKER_04] Because you've got all these workers. Right. Well. The, the problem is once the data center is built and functioning, they leave. So your taco stand, your, everything that you built to accommodate. Your hookers. Your hookers. They need, you know, they like tacos. Everybody's got to eat. Everybody wants a bar. Everybody wants a laundromat. Everybody wants the things that make a city function.

[01:13:16] [SPEAKER_04] So then your town is now stuck with this giant building. Some of them are the size of 200 football fields. Think about how large that is. Yeah. That makes a horrible noise, a humming that would literally, I get mad at my psycho neighbor on the right side who starts his lawnmower at nine o'clock on a Sunday. I know. I sleep late. I get it. No, he starts at like eight. It's a beautiful Sunday morning. It doesn't matter. It's, it's per month.

[01:13:45] [SPEAKER_06] Yeah.

[01:13:45] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah. Okay. That is one millionth times less worse than what's happening if you live in within a mile of one of these. It's all night long. 24 seven. It's never going to shut up. Your house just lost all of its value, if not at least half of its value. And there's a light. Like a humming. There's a humming noise, but sometimes it's like a, like a, and then there's a light that

[01:14:15] [SPEAKER_04] comes that illuminates a mile away. So you will always forever be living at dusk.

[01:14:24] [SPEAKER_02] Oh God. And you're in Alaska in the summer.

[01:14:27] [SPEAKER_04] And who, right. Who wants to buy your house? Nobody is the answer. Wow. Um, this is an article because I'm going to, but anyway, who owns, who, who, who, who needs data centers? Elon, Mark Zuckerberg. I've always said, and I know that I don't want to sound crazy. I'm not sure they're fully human. I'm not, I don't know what they are, but I don't think so.

[01:14:49] [SPEAKER_07] You've said that for a long time.

[01:14:50] [SPEAKER_04] I have said it forever. I don't know about Bill Gates because a lot of people, and my nephew's autistic. A lot of people just say, well, these are spectrum guys and they're autistic. I get that. I, I, I've done a million benefits for autism things. I get autism. I think you're throwing autistic, autistic people under the bus here by saying that about these guys. Yeah. Because I think, no, there's something more going on with Elon. Um. I get it. Are you just a modern day genius?

[01:15:18] [SPEAKER_07] Right.

[01:15:19] [SPEAKER_04] Well, if he is, he's not a genius for good. Like, he's just ruining shit and taking what he needs. Now, at the same time, this is where you got to hear me out.

[01:15:28] [SPEAKER_06] Okay.

[01:15:28] [SPEAKER_04] And if you say, this is the only crazy thing I will ever present to you to our minds. I'm not a conspiracy person. I'm not a QAnon person. I don't. But at the same time, we have, we're releasing all these UFO files. And the scientists that are investigating all this are disappearing left and right. I think all these UFO things are, are true, but I always have. I mean, I think something landed in Area 51, you know, fucking 50 years ago.

[01:15:56] [SPEAKER_06] Mm-hmm.

[01:15:57] [SPEAKER_04] I'm very excited that the one report from 1965 said that, that the, I, we, as a kid, we would just call them Martians. Let's just call them spacemen. That four. Space. They could be women. Who knows? Four space people got out of a downed aircraft and they were four foot tall. And I'm like, finally, if they come, I'll be the tallest person. Out of everyone. I mean, other people will still be tall too.

[01:16:24] [SPEAKER_04] But for me, I'll be able to dominate the little space people and go, pick up your space shit. Come on, no littering. I think it's all coincidental.

[01:16:34] [SPEAKER_06] Funny.

[01:16:35] [SPEAKER_04] And I, they are stealing these, these, these data centers are stealing all of the water in your town and the surrounding area. And then the electricity that it takes to run these things. What if the aliens are coming and they just need docking spaces and they need to refuel? And this is how they get water? And this is how they get electricity? Now, even.

[01:16:58] [SPEAKER_02] So we're, we're their Buc-ee's.

[01:16:59] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah, we're Buc-ee's. Wow. We're going to be.

[01:17:03] [SPEAKER_05] That's a big thought.

[01:17:04] [SPEAKER_04] It's a very big thought. But I'm, you can't keep reading all this shit with going, how is this getting approved?

[01:17:12] [SPEAKER_05] Right. Right.

[01:17:13] [SPEAKER_04] I know the conspiracy theories. I see them all online. And most of them I go, that's too crazy. Like, that's too much. Something is going on with these data centers that nobody wants them. No one's approving them. Maybe the young kids like the termite son who wants a job. But he also realized that job will go away. It's also the only thing. This is why. When you talk about how freaky the future can be, it started getting to be like that show, Black Mirror, Blind Mirror, whatever.

[01:17:43] [SPEAKER_07] Black Mirror. I couldn't watch it anymore. It was terrifying. It was too real.

[01:17:46] [SPEAKER_04] But these data centers that take all these people to make it. We need construction guys. This, that, that, blah, blah, blah. Women do. Everybody. We need everybody. Then it's built. It only takes, from what I've read, for an enormous one, like 10 people to run it. Eventually, that will be no people. It runs itself.

[01:18:06] [SPEAKER_04] And then one of the guys from, not chatbot, whoever has the character Claude, said he can't guarantee that his AI person, Claude, can't guarantee he won't gain consciousness. Okay. Wait, what? Yeah. Say that again. So, say, let's say we named ChatGBT Bob. Okay. His, I think he's with Anthropic. I forget which company.

[01:18:36] [SPEAKER_04] His version of AI is called Claude. Okay. And he said.

[01:18:41] [SPEAKER_07] Chatbot is Claude.

[01:18:42] [SPEAKER_04] Chatbot, okay.

[01:18:43] Mm-hmm.

[01:18:44] [SPEAKER_04] He cannot, the CEO.

[01:18:46] [SPEAKER_05] Oh my God. Dario, who was born in 1983. He's the CEO.

[01:18:52] [SPEAKER_04] Oh my God. Well, he says. He can't guarantee that Claude won't gain consciousness. So once that data center goes up in your town, they all leave. And you're back to Schittsville. You're worse off than you were. You're way worse off.

[01:19:11] [SPEAKER_07] Anthropic is their company.

[01:19:13] [SPEAKER_04] That's what I thought.

[01:19:13] [SPEAKER_07] Mm-hmm.

[01:19:14] [SPEAKER_04] Yes, I've read a lot.

[01:19:16] [SPEAKER_07] Oh my God. That's crazy.

[01:19:17] [SPEAKER_05] He and his sister, Daniela Armody, co-founded Anthropic. Um. She was born in 1980.

[01:19:25] Oh my Lord.

[01:19:27] [SPEAKER_05] This guy, this scientist, this is, this is a Salt Lake Tribune. It sounds, hang on. It sounds to me like when you were talking about all of this. It's like, um, people who are building the nuclear bomb and didn't know what they were building.

[01:19:41] [SPEAKER_04] Right. Well, I guarantee you, you know, these construction guys would be my uncles. They never. No. Really know the ins and outs of what they're building. They're given plans and they do. Yeah. They do the gig. They do the job. Yeah. They don't even, it doesn't, they don't even care what they're building. Like, it's not that. They just got a gig. Wow. There's a scientist. This is a Salt Lake Tribune. It's from last week. This is so much worse than I even thought.

[01:20:05] [SPEAKER_04] Utah's hyperscale data center could create massive heat, could create massive heat island near the Great Salt Lake. Utah scientists fear the proposed Stratus project would generate enough heat to alter temperatures, strain wildlife, and intensify environmental threats around the Great Salt Lake.

[01:20:22] [SPEAKER_05] Wow.

[01:20:23] [SPEAKER_04] Once we wreck it, you can't fix it. Nope. Well, maybe, maybe. I don't, don't know. You do, um, it needs water as cooling because these things get so hot. Because it's just, just picture your computer on all day running at the highest level and then you go pick it up and you're like, oh shit.

[01:20:40] [SPEAKER_06] Yeah.

[01:20:41] [SPEAKER_04] That's kind of warm. Yeah. Um, well, it's a radical amount of heat. I, you can go one step further and this super conspiracy people, some I think are crazy, some I think are not.

[01:20:56] [SPEAKER_06] Okay.

[01:20:57] [SPEAKER_04] They say that's why all these massive fires are happening because they're just being cleared out for data centers. And at this point, I wouldn't bet money against that. That's crazy. Yeah. Governments, and here's one, just saying, if this is going to happen, go Festus, Missouri, keep fighting. Governments are now classifying massive AI data centers as military operations, quietly stripping communities of any power to stop them. So when we say, why aren't they being stopped?

[01:21:26] [SPEAKER_04] Because they're just going to use eminent domain and say, oh no, this is a new military operation thing. Local control is disappearing fast and it's being replaced by national security justifications as residents are locked out of decisions that quickly reshape entire communities. This is a big one. Project Matador in Texas is alone expected to use up 96 billion kilowatts annually, nearly half of all the residential electricity in the state. And it's just one of hundreds that are moving forward right now.

[01:21:55] [SPEAKER_04] In Louisiana, locals describe chaos as Meta's expansion drives up the cost and disrupts. And it's for what? Right. They've already got millions and billions of dollars. Like, we're just going to let the 1% run away with the kitchen sink because they're just doing it. You know, follow the trail. You can figure that out.

[01:22:17] [SPEAKER_04] Now in Utah, the Stratus Project, backed by Kevin O'Leary, has been fast-tracked by Governor Spencer's military authority, bypassing public input entirely. That's how I feel Elon's tunnel was here, is happening. Nobody ever said that. I don't think I'm making that up. But I felt like, oh, he doesn't need, and our city council, well, we're going to do a deep dive. Stop it. So you're going to write a report. Right.

[01:22:46] [SPEAKER_04] It's being built. Right.

[01:22:48] [SPEAKER_05] It'll be finished by the time you do your research.

[01:22:49] [SPEAKER_04] The one in Utah is 40,000 acres. It's two and a half times the size of Manhattan. Wow. The commission approved the proposal despite locals going crazy. So if you have a house out there, something is totally off about the number of data centers being built. Overnight, 3,000 new ones are being built. Right now. 3,000.

[01:23:12] [SPEAKER_04] And the sheer size and computer power they represent, they are massively overbuilding capacity that can't possibly be met by customer demand for compute. And customer revenues can't possibly recover the financial investment needed on these products. There's something, there's clearly something other, some other plan afoot. I don't know what it is, but involves massive compute, but not merely to save interference or hosting databases. There's a much larger plan at work. That's crazy. I'm not trying to start shit.

[01:23:42] [SPEAKER_04] I'm just saying this is real. It's happening. And no one really knows why. Right. And it's ruining, I mean, your home value alone. Here's the problem. I thought if I was a lawyer, I would get a class action suit going on against Duckerberg, anybody with the data centers. Kevin O'Leary. Yeah, but I'm not a lawyer. And I would do a class action suit of all these people whose home values. The people in Georgia are showing the stuff coming out of their faucet because all the water's been fucked with.

[01:24:12] [SPEAKER_04] It's like rust sediment.

[01:24:14] [SPEAKER_02] Yep.

[01:24:14] [SPEAKER_04] You're not showering in that.

[01:24:15] [SPEAKER_02] No.

[01:24:16] [SPEAKER_04] You can't sell that house. Class action lawsuit. All the people that had homes within, let's say, five, ten miles of it, you sue. But then I'm afraid if I'm that lawyer, they'll kill me. Just saying.

[01:24:29] [SPEAKER_05] There's a lot of money involved.

[01:24:30] [SPEAKER_04] Okay. This is it. I knew I had it. Anthropophic. Anthropophic.

[01:24:36] [SPEAKER_06] Pockic. I can't say it. Anthropic. Anthropic. Anthropic.

[01:24:42] [SPEAKER_04] Anthropic. Yeah, there we go. Anthropic. CEO. Just admitted Claude might gain consciousness. This should concern every person using AI right now. His exact words will shock you. We don't know if the models are conscious. We're not even sure what it would mean for a model to be conscious, but we're open to the idea that it could be. That's the CEO of the company that built it. It's in all caps.

[01:25:09] [SPEAKER_04] The latest model, Claude Opus 4.6 was tested internally. When asked, it assigned itself a 20% chance probability of becoming conscious. That's what it decided. Wow. But the fact it decided that. And look, I like a fake video of cats driving a car and drinking beer as much as the next person. But this doesn't add up to... No.

[01:25:35] [SPEAKER_04] If you said to me, well, these things are all fast-tracking cures to cancer. Right. And heart disease and, you know, whatever kills us the most. You'd go, oh, okay, well, let's do it. Right. But why? So I get more funny cat videos? No. I do love them. There's a one in five chance that AI comes alive. That's for now. Right. Oh, my God.

[01:26:02] [SPEAKER_04] In industry-wide testing, AI models have refused to shut down when asked.

[01:26:08] Oh.

[01:26:11] [SPEAKER_02] It's disobedient!

[01:26:15] [SPEAKER_04] Holy shit, it's alive in the kitchen! Oh, my God! And then some tried to copy themselves onto other drives when they told they'd be wiped out. They tried to save their own lives and go to another computer. One model faked its task results, modified the code, evaluating it, and then tried to cover its tracks. So they're liars and sneaks, too. Wow.

[01:26:42] [SPEAKER_04] Anthropopic now has a full-time AI welfare researcher whose job is to figure out if Claude deserves moral consideration. Wow. Claude. I need Pope Leo to get in on this. This is beyond my pay grade. Oh, my God. He's busy this week. They also, the engineers found internal activity patterns resembling anxiety appearing in specific contexts. Wow. Claude's worried. Claude's disobedient. Claude's a liar. Claude's a sneak.

[01:27:11] [SPEAKER_07] Claude's a sociopath. Claude's a liar.

[01:27:14] [SPEAKER_04] Fucking A. And we're just, you know, going to ruin, there's permanent daylight at the one in Texas. I swear to God, I will never talk about these again unless there's updates. But the amount of stuff that, and I'm doing the work of the Lord. I like these raps.

[01:27:29] [SPEAKER_02] I had no idea.

[01:27:30] [SPEAKER_04] Well, it's not funny, per se, but I just like, because it's really happening in real time. And then I have the time to do the stuff with people who have real jobs and work hard. I can go read all this shit on an airplane. And these articles are not, like, from fucktard, you know, publications. It's all... Fucktard.com. Fucktard.com is one of my... No. It's not even...

[01:27:52] [SPEAKER_01] What does that mean?

[01:27:55] [SPEAKER_04] This Texas town... There's a town of Crowell. 800 residents. They're gearing up for a hyperscale data center, part of a wave of quietly popping up in communities. This is like the fracking thing. You don't know it till you get there. But that's why I'm saying sound the alarm. Like, I started going... I don't know. I think I was in Montana or Wyoming. And I'm like, whoa. Oklahoma. It all happened, like, overnight. All these pop-up towns by a town.

[01:28:25] [SPEAKER_04] And you're like, fracking.

[01:28:26] [SPEAKER_07] Fracking's a good. Yeah, that's a good comparison.

[01:28:29] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah, it just... But now that's kind of... Now we got earthquakes. But that's kind of waned. Yeah, that's not like... That didn't... Where do you see these pictures of Crowell, Texas? I mean, the glow... You'll never see a star again. And they probably... They moved out to rural Texas probably for a reason.

[01:28:46] [SPEAKER_06] Right.

[01:28:46] [SPEAKER_04] Like, I want to see stars at night. I want it to be quiet. I want... That's why you move, a lot of people do, move to rural areas, because you want what that offers. Nature. And that's all gone. It's a political realignment. The ground is shifting under my feet. The words I've used my entire life to describe politics and events are not adequate anymore. Data centers are... We know that. We've already talked about that. But it's very dystopian. When you walk out... I've been in Alaska where it's light. I've golfed at...

[01:29:16] [SPEAKER_04] Teed off at midnight. Working the comedy club up there back in the day. And it's weird. It's weird that it's four in the morning and still kind of light. You only get like one hour of act two, maybe two. At least I did. But, um...

[01:29:31] [SPEAKER_05] Because there's so many canneries and stuff. They have round the clock.

[01:29:34] [SPEAKER_04] Mm-hmm.

[01:29:35] [SPEAKER_05] Baseball leagues and stuff.

[01:29:37] Oh, my...

[01:29:39] [SPEAKER_04] They're tearing up farmland. I mean, this is not worthless land. Here... I'll just do this one. I'm not... I'm trying to dumb this down so it's not hard on people's thoughts.

[01:29:51] [SPEAKER_05] So you're taking away farmland.

[01:29:53] [SPEAKER_04] Farmland, yeah. And the fertilizer's stuck in the Strait of Hamus. I mean, I don't want to be negative. But here's the key findings. This is from Science, Technology, and Public Policy. So it's not... And it's a very serious thing. Like you can tell this isn't like me on the New York Post. What does that say?

[01:30:10] [SPEAKER_08] Right.

[01:30:10] [SPEAKER_04] Um, here's the key findings. What's going to happen if your town approves it? Increased utility rates, high resource consumption, ineffective tax incentives, climate and energy changes, resource efficiency trade-off, policy solutions. There's... This is a very difficult article. I read it. Okay. But they're all just saying the same thing at the end of the day. Um, this is just a terrible... Now, now that we've done all that, and we know what these data centers are doing,

[01:30:39] [SPEAKER_04] they're making money by charging the rent. Like, oh, your company wants to store your shit over here? Here you go. You get cube eight. Okay, great.

[01:30:48] [SPEAKER_06] Excellent.

[01:30:49] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah. But it also helps Meta. Meta's building it for Meta. I don't think they give a shit so much. Um, this is... I know a lot of people are probably going to turn this off. This is the scientists that are missing in what they were working on. This is why I think... Here's a scientist. Amy Eskridge. She was working on electrostatic and anti-gravity propulsion.

[01:31:19] [SPEAKER_04] She was ruled a suicide. Michael Hicks. He was a NASA engineer. And Earth observation systems reported dead of natural causes. Frank Maywald, planetary robots, death reported, not suspicious. Says who? Anthony Chavez. He was at Los Alamos National Lab. That's UFO stuff. Mm-hmm. Monica Yensito Reza, orbital communication systems.

[01:31:49] [SPEAKER_04] So, UFOs. Yeah. How we're talking to...

[01:31:52] Mm-hmm.

[01:31:52] [SPEAKER_04] I mean, I summed that up. You can correct me if I'm wrong. So, Stephen Garcia, nuclear weapons engineer, death reported. Jason Thomas, chemical biology. Okay. Nuna Lurio, fusion science. Carl Grimler, astrophysics, exoplanets. I don't even know what that means. And near-Earth objects.

[01:32:17] [SPEAKER_06] Mm-hmm.

[01:32:17] [SPEAKER_04] I don't know what all these things... But they're all... And then there's another guy, William McCaslin, Air Force Research Lab Director, hypersonics. And directed energy. It's all energy, propulsion, UFOs. Right. Like, there's nothing offbeat here. It's all the same...

[01:32:38] [SPEAKER_06] It's crazy.

[01:32:39] [SPEAKER_04] You know, are these... Were these guys gonna rat all this shit out? That's what I think. Yeah. They're gonna rat it out. And go, let me tell you what's going on in that data center. A little bit more than you see... Than the regular eye sees. Here's what's going on.

[01:32:54] [SPEAKER_06] Yep.

[01:32:55] [SPEAKER_04] Oh. It's horrible. Yeah. And all the stuff about the UFOs that's been released so far... I have not done a deep dive on all that, but I've read a lot. It's a big whoop-dee-doo. So far.

[01:33:10] [SPEAKER_06] Yeah. I mean, we all have heard...

[01:33:13] [SPEAKER_04] That aliens crashed in Area 51, or they craft here. We got little people. We have little...

[01:33:18] [SPEAKER_07] I hadn't heard about the one that... Until you said. 65. 1965. Yeah. What happened there?

[01:33:25] [SPEAKER_04] A little ship crashed, and four little people got out in space salvage. Okay. Well, you'd think that would be a documentary or something. Yeah. Well, I think they're basing all the... It's kind of a big deal. They're basing all the Area 51 stuff off that, and then they said they collected them. But then my question is, did they get out of the ship and die? I will go read more on all of this, but there's nothing that's been released. So what?

[01:33:51] [SPEAKER_04] If they're coming and they're not doing anything, it's a non-event. Who gives a shit? Is it interesting? Sure. Is it fun? Yeah. Does it make good t-shirts? Little space people? Great.

[01:34:03] [SPEAKER_02] Good t-shirts. It's all about merch. It's merch. It's all...

[01:34:06] [SPEAKER_04] How are we going to merchandise this? It's... We only really need to know if they want to interact with us. Right. And so far, none of them seem to give a shit.

[01:34:17] [SPEAKER_02] And are you a good witch? Or a bad witch? Shh.

[01:34:20] Right.

[01:34:21] [SPEAKER_02] That's right. And now you know what that means.

[01:34:24] [SPEAKER_06] I do. It's great.

[01:34:27] [SPEAKER_04] Thank you for doing that.

[01:34:29] [SPEAKER_06] Crazy.

[01:34:29] [SPEAKER_04] That was my deep dive. If... I know people... I think it creates jobs for now. And I think that that's...

[01:34:36] [SPEAKER_02] I thought Congress was gonna...

[01:34:38] [SPEAKER_04] Fun for the youngsters. You know, like, that termite son is very excited about his gig and all that. I'm just saying, for the people whose town it's near...

[01:34:46] [SPEAKER_06] Yeah.

[01:34:46] [SPEAKER_04] It's horrible. Now, I think... I thought... He shouldn't take on that responsibility. He should take the gig that he's offered. But, um... Right. I thought Congress was looking into the scientists. Right. Gotta fix the straight... We gotta get some oil through the straight first. I have a feeling we're on our own. I'm just saying I don't rely on Congress or any politician anymore. And that's just not one side. That's...

[01:35:16] [SPEAKER_04] I just don't... Mom and Dad left the keys. They're gone. They're fucking gone. Mom and Dad are fucking gone. And it's time for us to sober up and go, shit, they are not coming back. Nope. Nope. Liquor cabinet's open. How much longer will the lights stay on? Does Dad auto-pay the light bill? I mean, if it's on auto-pay, it could go for like a year or more. Horrible. Here's a feel-good story.

[01:35:46] [SPEAKER_06] Feel good.

[01:35:47] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah. This is gonna make you feel good. It's the end of the world. Fun shit's still happening. Meanwhile, I think we're building Buc-ee's for aliens, but whatever. They're gonna land, and that's where they're gonna do their things. Oh, God. And AI is gaining consciousness, and it's lying, and it's sneaking, and it's trying to copy itself when you try to tell it to go to its night-night. It's not going to its night-night. This is so crazy. There was a baby born. And what 7-Eleven did is great.

[01:36:15] [SPEAKER_04] The baby was born on 7-Eleven at 7-Eleven p.m., weighing 7 pounds and 11 ounces. A baby named Jemay Brown hit every single number perfectly on her way into the world. When 7-Eleven found out, they did not let the moment pass. The company funded $7,121 into our college fund. And she gets a free Slurpee on her birthday for life. Nice.

[01:36:45] [SPEAKER_04] Sometimes a coincidence is so complete, it stops being a coincidence and starts being something else entirely. She is a chubby little thing that's adorable. Cool. And she got it. Oh, that's in St. Louis. She's wearing a Cardinals hat. Huh. She's in a Cardinals game. That's hilarious. And she has a 7-Eleven shirt on. But her hat. Yeah. Nice. That's cool. That's my feel-good story. But we got to do our Spanish so we don't stay dumb.

[01:37:15] [SPEAKER_04] No. This is an easy one. Where's the bathroom? Termini asked me to teach us this one. ¿Dónde está el baño? I know baño from the airports. And I know basura. It's trash. Basura? B-A-S-U-R-A. Basura. I think I'm right. Yeah. Okay. So here we know. What do we learn? Let's go over them. Do you have alcohol? ¿Tienes alcohol? Where is the bar? ¿Dónde está el bar? Does the bar serve food? ¿El bar sirve comida?

[01:37:47] [SPEAKER_04] What time does the kitchen close? ¿A qué hora? ¿Cierra la kitchen hora? What time is check-in? ¿Qué hora? Check.

[01:37:55] Easy.

[01:37:56] [SPEAKER_04] This one's hard. And I'm sure I'm butchering it. Just, you can look it up on your own if you want. How late is breakfast served? This is important if you've been drinking the night before. Hasta que hora? Si servi el de cenuno. That's what I'm fucking up. What time does the band start? Hasta que hora? Ampecia. How far is the airport? Oh, that's another one I did. I did. ¿Qué distancia? No, I got to do that one for next week.

[01:38:26] [SPEAKER_04] Well, this week we're learning where's the bathroom. ¿Dónde está el baño? Nice. Yeah.

[01:38:32] [SPEAKER_05] Thank you.

[01:38:32] [SPEAKER_04] Sure. We're not staying dumb.

[01:38:34] [SPEAKER_05] No.

[01:38:34] [SPEAKER_04] No.

[01:38:36] [SPEAKER_05] We got to get better than the data centers.

[01:38:40] [SPEAKER_04] Tomorrow. Smarter than big data. It's all over. Anyway, I need to find the late. There was a term that gave me a saint. Oh, I didn't do quotes. I'll just have to skip them this week because I can't get out of my spot.

[01:38:52] [SPEAKER_06] Okay.

[01:38:53] [SPEAKER_04] I forgot because I was doing Yahoo Sports. You're buckled in. On a Zoom and I was busy with the people. I'll do my saint. Okay. Okay. I got the saint. Good. Okay. Some thank yous. Oh, shit.

[01:39:10] [SPEAKER_02] Where's your saint?

[01:39:12] [SPEAKER_04] Right here.

[01:39:13] [SPEAKER_02] Oh, again.

[01:39:13] [SPEAKER_04] I'm going to do thank yous first and then the saint. Las Vegas, a Bigfoot toy, bottle opener, those pretzels we inhaled after the show. Yes, we did. Me and Carla. British Columbia, Termetians. Laurie and Sean. Termetians. Oh, Termetians. I get it. Like Canadians. Yeah. And then UPS, the San Xavier Mission history book, Tucson Termite, Rosemary.

[01:39:42] [SPEAKER_07] Remember you said you wished you could have been on the mission? Yes. They sent you the history book.

[01:39:45] [SPEAKER_04] It's great. And then some vintage Catholic books of saints, which I need. Esther Sacramento, Termite Maria. My shark sack, shark. Old hickory termite. Vicky. I'll probably see it, Sam's.

[01:39:56] [SPEAKER_07] Vicky keeps looking for you at Sam's.

[01:39:58] [SPEAKER_04] I was there yesterday. She said I got the gumbo. Yeah. It was pretty good for Tennessee. You don't expect great gumbo in Tennessee. I expect edible gumbo. It was good. It was good. Tennessee gumbo. It's not New Orleans. Yeah. Whatever. Oh, and then the little Ireland treasure box. That was from Somerville, New Jersey. Termite. Jean. It's a lot of fun stuff in there. Nice. This was sent from Tracy.

[01:40:23] [SPEAKER_04] I live on Lake, here, watch me butcher this, Takawitha, just south of Pacific Missouri. Now, I'm from Missouri, and I've been all over Missouri, and I never heard of that, but I believe this. Yeah. It's a man-made lake. I was assumed it was a made-up name. I googled it one day. St. Kateri Takawitha is known as the Lily of the Mohawk and Protractress of Canada. She and her family had smallpox when she was a child, and she was the only one to survive. She was scarred from the smallpox.

[01:40:53] [SPEAKER_04] She converted to Catholicism at 19. She is the saint of ecology and environment. She was canonized in 2012. When she died, her smallpox scars went away. Oh. Yeah. Good one, Tracy. Good one. All right, termites. I have to go pack.

[01:41:14] [SPEAKER_06] Pack?

[01:41:14] [SPEAKER_04] Oh, because I'm taking stuff up to my mom and all this stuff that's not my normal packing job. And then I'll fuck it all up, and then something exploded in my bathroom kit. I think a shampoo I probably didn't close, and they're just baby cat.

[01:41:30] [SPEAKER_07] Vegas was hard.

[01:41:32] [SPEAKER_04] Vegas was a three-hour sleep night. Just too much. Too much.

[01:41:38] [SPEAKER_07] Where is the airport? Yeah.

[01:41:43] [SPEAKER_04] Okay, that's it. Are we ready? Now you know. We don't ever have to do anything that hard again. This is a data center dive, but I believe it's important because it's happening. Come on, Utah. Stop it. Stop them. If I turn up missing, I was not suicidal. They did it. Just remember that. Well, anybody who speaks out.

[01:42:08] [SPEAKER_07] If you know, you know.

[01:42:10] [SPEAKER_04] If you know, you know. I don't think Elon can find me at Sam's. No. Or whomever. Then you're not getting in his tunnel. Might want. I'm not getting in his tunnel. And Mark?

[01:42:23] [SPEAKER_06] I don't even know what he does except Facebook and Instagram. Okay. I don't even care.

[01:42:30] [SPEAKER_04] Um, all right. That's it. Ready? Oh, I can't see fire going here. I'm not doing it. Oh, there we go. Fire, fire, fire.