Episode 277: Catholic Bling Wars, Driverless Big Rigs & World Cup’s Most Fun Fan Bases

[00:00:09] [SPEAKER_03] 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.

[00:00:24] [SPEAKER_04] Termites are welcome! Welcome to Episode 277. Stevie is joined by a new Barbie doll of Cher. Look at that, that was sent from a termite, Wanda I believe, yes, Virginia Germite, Winchester, Virginia. Look at how, look, when did they do that? It's fabulous. It's her Bob Mackie outfit, her leather jacket. Yeah.

[00:00:51] [SPEAKER_04] I would have probably liked Barbies if there were famous people. Why did they all just have to be, you know, I don't know who this lady is. Why do you want me to play with that right? Make it people I already know and like. Yeah, wonderful. Cool. Still tired from the weekend, in a great way. And it's raining here. It's never going to stop raining.

[00:01:12] [SPEAKER_02] How was your weekend?

[00:01:13] [SPEAKER_04] Well, I'm going to get into that. But first of all, I'm drinking a wonderful beer. It's the St. Louis Zoo beer. St. Louis Zoo and San Diego, I say tied for the number one zoos in the United States of America. And we had Marlon Perkins as our head, what are you calling it? Zookeeper. Zookeeper for a good 25 years. Really? And it's free. Still? Yeah. There's a train takes you everywhere. That's awesome. And then if you want to go to a baby zoo, it's even more fun.

[00:01:41] [SPEAKER_04] There's, well, it's not more fun, but for the little, little, little kids, there's a Grant's Farm. Okay. They have like sheep and just farm animals, but you can feed them and they have all the bottles ready. And then for the parents, because Grant's Farm was built by Anheuser-Busch, there's a German beer garden.

[00:01:57] [SPEAKER_02] Oh.

[00:01:57] [SPEAKER_04] And his original home is on there. Cool. And so is a cabin that Ulysses S. Grant lived in. Wow. So there's just so much going on. So much history. But that's St. Louis Zoo beer, Hoppy Light Lager from Urban Chestnut Brewing Company in St. Louis. Nice. Portion of every case sold goes to the zoo. That's great. Yes. Because they rely on all that public donations and help and all that. What are we eating?

[00:02:23] [SPEAKER_04] Well, limited edition U.S. soccer baked Cheez-Its from Fort Lauderdale's Spanish termite. Maria.

[00:02:31] [SPEAKER_02] Look at this.

[00:02:32] [SPEAKER_04] They have little, they have stars, all the American flags on some of them. They're so patriotic. I'm so excited. It starts Thursday. Great. Mm-hmm.

[00:02:44] [SPEAKER_02] Regular Cheez-Its. Yeah. Just more fun. They're baked. Oh, good. Aren't Cheez-Its, are they baked?

[00:02:51] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah.

[00:02:51] [SPEAKER_02] Usually?

[00:02:52] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah. What else do you think?

[00:02:54] [SPEAKER_02] I don't know.

[00:02:55] [SPEAKER_04] Think if they're fried? I don't know. I don't know. They're wonderful. Very celebratory if you're having people over. Cool. To watch the U.S. game, which I believe is on Friday night. Dill pickle Slim Jims from Lawrence, Kansas. I've been there. Termite Darlene. Look at these. They're tiny. Dill pickle. Dill pickle's the rage. It's all the rage. Mm-hmm.

[00:03:24] [SPEAKER_04] Pretty good, but...

[00:03:25] [SPEAKER_02] Dill pickle meat stick?

[00:03:27] [SPEAKER_04] I'd stick with a real Slim Jim.

[00:03:29] [SPEAKER_02] Okay.

[00:03:31] [SPEAKER_04] Which... I'm not afraid to eat. I know people say they're terrible for you. And then, Hearst Ranch pepper... Okay, so we already had Hurst Ranch... Teriyaki. Right. Is this by the castle?

[00:03:44] Yeah.

[00:03:45] [SPEAKER_04] Oh. This is peppered. Jerky is so expensive.

[00:03:49] [SPEAKER_02] Yeah.

[00:03:49] [SPEAKER_04] And if the screw worm thing goes crazy...

[00:03:52] [SPEAKER_02] Oh, boy.

[00:03:53] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah. This will be the last bag of jerky I'm gonna have for a while. Yeah. Because if the screw worm kills all the cows...

[00:03:58] [SPEAKER_02] Yeah. Can't afford that. No.

[00:04:01] [SPEAKER_04] Well, there's nothing wrong with chicken anyway, but...

[00:04:03] [SPEAKER_02] Chicken jerky would be weird.

[00:04:05] [SPEAKER_04] Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

[00:04:10] [SPEAKER_01] Chicken.

[00:04:10] [SPEAKER_04] Oh, wow. It's great. 100% grass-fed and finished beef. No hormones or antibiotics. Good and free. I'm gonna send it up the road. My sister. I'm keeping it, though. Looks good. Yeah. I'm gonna wait and see if this screw worm thing really takes off. And then I'm gonna... I'm not gonna eat this now. I'm gonna save it. Slide in. No.

[00:04:33] [SPEAKER_02] I'll take it.

[00:04:34] [SPEAKER_04] You want?

[00:04:34] [SPEAKER_02] Yep.

[00:04:37] [SPEAKER_04] Well, close enough.

[00:04:39] [SPEAKER_02] Later. Later.

[00:04:41] [SPEAKER_04] Well, I am back from... Oh, by the way. We travel. This made me laugh so hard. This is from Rancho Cucamonga, which I always just endured saying that word. Where do you live? Rancho Cucamonga. Totally. But I bet I wouldn't like spelling it my whole life to idiots on the other end of the camp. I'm gonna have a lot of fun. This lady, Doris, sent me a spirit airplane model. I... That is so funny. I'm gonna have a graveyard of all the airlines that have died while I've been alive.

[00:05:10] [SPEAKER_04] Here's our most recent addition. It's really nice, too. It's like a heavy little... It's cool. It's not a piece of junk. No? Um... So, shout out for that. Thank you. That's fun. Made me laugh. Yep. And then I have a little cat vacuum that came from Fayetteville, Arizona, to turn right Shannon the baby cat is fascinated with.

[00:05:30] [SPEAKER_02] Arkansas.

[00:05:31] [SPEAKER_04] Oh, Arkansas. Yeah. Um... I wound it up. Tended flying across the kitchen.

[00:05:36] [SPEAKER_02] It's like a... It's like a cat on a Roomba.

[00:05:38] [SPEAKER_04] She ran over and bit its head. She loved that. She loved it.

[00:05:43] [SPEAKER_02] She didn't want you to get a baby. No.

[00:05:46] [SPEAKER_04] So, I went to my cousin's wedding. Well, my second cousin. My first cousin... The picture was great. I posted a picture of me and my cousin Mike were born on the same day. Um... I was when we were, um, flower girl, ring boy, and I posted us now. So, from here's from six...

[00:06:02] [SPEAKER_00] Yep.

[00:06:02] [SPEAKER_04] ...to 60. Boom. It was his son who got married. Very fun. Um, we had one fist fight. That's normal.

[00:06:10] [SPEAKER_02] You and Mike?

[00:06:11] [SPEAKER_04] No. I don't fist fight anybody. No.

[00:06:14] [SPEAKER_02] I was gonna say.

[00:06:15] [SPEAKER_04] I'm not gonna say the part is involved. But I will say the reason was funny because someone accused someone of stealing their dentures. And the other one said, you're full of shit. And there'd been some drinking involved.

[00:06:26] Hmm.

[00:06:27] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah.

[00:06:27] [SPEAKER_00] It's more a fight over your teeth.

[00:06:29] [SPEAKER_04] Um, yeah. Um, it was, um, it was great. It wasn't too hot. I thought it was gonna be hot. It was indoor, outdoor, outdoor for the wedding part, and then inside. And, um, I don't know. I just look at how much work it takes and I think I... I couldn't... I couldn't do it. Um, but before I go into that, upcoming shows tonight. June 26th and 27th. Knoxville, July 18th. Selbyville, July 25th. Uh, Niagara Falls. August 8th. Portland, 21... August 21 and 22.

[00:06:59] [SPEAKER_04] The Borgata. Uh, September 11th. San Antonio, September 12th. Austin, September 18th. Tarrytown, September 19th. Hershey, 25th. Madison, 26th. Prior Lake, Minnesota. Fine. And that's not everything. That's just the ones I'm giving you now because I don't want to swamp you. Um...

[00:07:18] [SPEAKER_02] What's the tour name?

[00:07:20] [SPEAKER_04] Uh, um, a marching... I forgot.

[00:07:24] [SPEAKER_02] Something's marching.

[00:07:24] [SPEAKER_04] The Marching Armadillos and...

[00:07:26] [SPEAKER_02] Tiny Cats.

[00:07:27] [SPEAKER_04] Not in tiny cats.

[00:07:28] [SPEAKER_02] Flying Cats.

[00:07:29] [SPEAKER_04] Flying Cats.

[00:07:32] [SPEAKER_02] We should do some merch. Yeah.

[00:07:34] [SPEAKER_04] The march... The armadillos are marching north. Watch out, Minnesota. It's not far from you. And then I feel bad because they're roadkill everywhere and they're not bad little animals. No. They're nice little guys. I don't know if they do anything bad. I really don't know enough about them because, hello, they didn't exist in my state when I grew up. Right. Um... It was great to see all my cousins. My mom lasted till 915. Nice! Yeah, and we've been there since 430. Well done. So that was a big deal. That's great.

[00:08:03] [SPEAKER_04] Uh, Vicky's, you know, bringing it home. Cool. No complaining.

[00:08:07] [SPEAKER_02] Did she dance?

[00:08:08] [SPEAKER_04] She did.

[00:08:09] [SPEAKER_02] Nice!

[00:08:09] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah, I did not. Um, I don't dance anyway, but I didn't know... It's for the children. I don't know 90% of the songs that are being played. I haven't... And I can't dance anyway, but I really can't dance if I don't know the song.

[00:08:22] [SPEAKER_02] Well, you just have to bounce.

[00:08:23] [SPEAKER_04] I don't bounce.

[00:08:25] [SPEAKER_02] A little stick. Put your hand in the air.

[00:08:27] No, no.

[00:08:27] [SPEAKER_04] I'll be outside with the weed people. I'm not... I'm not even a weed... I'm not even a weed person, but I'm fascinated by their vape pens. And I'm just like, all of a sudden I'm in a cloud of strawberry weed. It's legal in Missouri, isn't it? Uh, I don't know if it's legal or not.

[00:08:42] [SPEAKER_02] It's legal in Missouri.

[00:08:43] [SPEAKER_04] All right. Well, there you go. Um, mail. Go check the mailbox. Do some Queen News. Then we're gonna speak to Holly Bobby. Next time... Well, next week there will not be a pub cast. Cause I don't... I won't be around Monday, Tuesday. Um, but when we get Holly Bobby back again, we're gonna try to... Bluetooth him through the system in case that sounds better. Cause I know it's hard. Sometimes he goes in and out. Um, we're doing the best we can here for a free operation. Yeah.

[00:09:13] [SPEAKER_04] We're accepting donations. No, I'm not.

[00:09:15] I'm not accepting donations.

[00:09:16] [SPEAKER_02] There's no GoFundMe.

[00:09:17] [SPEAKER_04] Um, uh, this is from Rick. Data centers are large cause they're basically one giant computer serving a thousand different organizations. They are primarily cloud hosting sites, either run by Amazon web or Oracle cloud. Hundreds upon hundreds rack of rack style servers. I've seen it. Um, running nonstop consuming an inordinate amount of electricity and water hosting vital services for companies like eBay. Well, I do like eBay. Netflix. I've been on Netflix.

[00:09:47] [SPEAKER_04] Hulu. Haven't been on there yet. Disney. The issue is there are no... This is my, one of my problems with it. I agree with Rick. The issue is there's almost no jobs to be had. The data centers only need a small crew to, to man them. On top of that, moving a cloud computing model, companies no longer need dedicated IT staff. So those people are also out of a job as they keep only a small contingent in a house, in house for day to day needs. Mike Rowe is starting to make a lot of sense to this 26 year old IT professional.

[00:10:17] [SPEAKER_02] Who's Mike? Mike Rowe is the guy that did dirty jobs.

[00:10:21] [SPEAKER_04] Oh, dirty jobs. Yeah.

[00:10:22] [SPEAKER_02] He did it. I think he ran for office somewhere.

[00:10:23] [SPEAKER_04] Oh, okay.

[00:10:24] [SPEAKER_02] Yeah.

[00:10:25] [SPEAKER_04] Well, I don't really know what his positions were, but, um, I'm glad it makes sense to this guy. This is the problem. It's not enough jobs for what we're getting back. Is it the future and it's already left the station? Probably. But I don't, I don't know.

[00:10:39] [SPEAKER_02] He was an opera singer.

[00:10:40] [SPEAKER_04] Mike Rowe. Mike Rowe was an opera singer.

[00:10:43] [SPEAKER_02] Former opera singer.

[00:10:44] Yeah.

[00:10:45] [SPEAKER_04] The dirty jobs guy?

[00:10:46] [SPEAKER_02] Yeah. Jesus. Yeah. Best known for his work on the discovery channel. Huh? Dirty jobs host. Well, how about that? I guess opera singing didn't work out.

[00:10:55] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah. Would it be weird to be like that you could sing opera, but you for some reason didn't get it. Right. Yeah. Well, my sister-in-law, Amy.

[00:11:04] [SPEAKER_02] Sings opera?

[00:11:05] [SPEAKER_04] Pretty much. Busted it out at Christmas one year. And I'm like, what the fuck was that? That's funny. It was hilarious, but it was really good. And I'm like, Amy, why did you become an accountant? What does it matter with you? I, yeah. It is a weird talent. People have secret talents just when you think they don't. Wow. Queen Stevie. We're doing a little queen news before we speak to Holly Bobby. Mm-hmm.

[00:11:30] [SPEAKER_04] Queen Stevie has donated $3 million to USC in honor of her lifelong doctor who will help keep her voice healthy during years of touring. That's great. Late night on the road, years of touring, hours in recording studios. I always knew I could count on Dr. Sugarman. Who bringing a sugar? Who bringing a sugar? Who bringing a sugar? Um, 3 million bucks. That's great. Yeah. Go for you. Nice.

[00:11:53] [SPEAKER_03] Go for you.

[00:11:54] [SPEAKER_04] She completed the institution's $3 million fundraising goal for its endowed chair, the highest honor bestowed upon a faculty member, often funded through philanthropy, which will support the school's medical need, further work, blah, blah. So going to the medical school.

[00:12:09] [SPEAKER_00] Great.

[00:12:09] [SPEAKER_04] Um, wow. She was thrilled to have the opportunity to acknowledge his talent and insights and mark his many years of outstanding practice.

[00:12:20] [SPEAKER_02] Fantastic.

[00:12:21] [SPEAKER_04] Congratulations, Dr. Sugarman.

[00:12:23] [SPEAKER_02] Dr. Sugarman.

[00:12:24] [SPEAKER_04] He's got a good name. Here's Queen news. Mm-hmm. This is going to take me a hot minute because it really pissed me off.

[00:12:29] [SPEAKER_02] Okay.

[00:12:30] [SPEAKER_04] Um, and this is not about politics. This is just about people not getting the big picture.

[00:12:36] [SPEAKER_00] Okay.

[00:12:37] [SPEAKER_04] So Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. Mm-hmm. Everybody that listens to this already knows about it and will not go in, but kids get free books. Dolly pays for the books, the staffing, and the storage. Mm-hmm. Then they are sent to the state. Okay. It's the state's job to pay for that part. All right. So we're working in tandem, but really Dolly's covering more of the cost. More of the cost. Because I saw some asshole right on there when this story came out. Some jackass wrote, you know, she's a billionaire.

[00:13:07] [SPEAKER_04] Why can't she blah, blah, blah? Well, first of all, she's not a billionaire because she gives so much money away. She's a multimillionaire. She could be a billionaire, but she's a nice person. And second of all, she's funding more than half of it.

[00:13:18] [SPEAKER_00] Right.

[00:13:18] [SPEAKER_04] All she's saying is, can you guys mail this out? Yeah. To the right kids once I get it to you. Well, the Missouri Republicans have cut $4 million in funding for Dolly's program. That sucks. Yeah. Nobody under, no more children will be able to sign up for free books.

[00:13:37] [SPEAKER_02] What?

[00:13:38] [SPEAKER_04] Let's stay.

[00:13:39] [SPEAKER_02] That's horrible.

[00:13:39] [SPEAKER_04] Right. Let's stay dumb, America. Don't, don't. Yeah. Cause somebody, it's not just for.

[00:13:46] [SPEAKER_02] You texted me that your cousin signed up.

[00:13:48] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah. Yeah.

[00:13:49] [SPEAKER_02] That's cool.

[00:13:51] [SPEAKER_04] This is just a few things Dolly's done.

[00:13:54] [SPEAKER_02] Boots on the ground.

[00:13:55] [SPEAKER_04] Um, the Dollywood foundation was founded in 1998 to inspire children in her home county to achieve educational success and decrease high school dropout rates. In 1995, um, they launched the flagship program, the imagination library. So it's been around since 1995. Um, it's a 501c non profit organization. Dolly's not making any money. No. All she's doing is giving money. Uh, this was because her father couldn't read. It's so great.

[00:14:25] [SPEAKER_04] Um, she also provides $15,000 in Dolly Parton scholarships funds to five high school students in severe County. Uh, that's over, you know, out in the woods, East Tennessee, out in the woods where she grew up in the mountains, and she built a roller coaster. It's just been a wonderful life. Just wonderful. She gives a $30,000 special merit scholarship, uh, in 2016 to a young girl in, in, uh, Arkansas.

[00:14:54] [SPEAKER_04] Once that girl reaches 18 of age in 2032, the scholarship will be 60,000. These are just things she's done. Yeah. And I mean, I won't go through all of them, but you get the idea.

[00:15:06] [SPEAKER_02] Um, kind.

[00:15:07] [SPEAKER_04] Well, there's so much to why can't, why are we the only state this Missouri sometimes just is embarrassing. I mean, there are other countries around the world participating in this. It's not even just the United States. Um, free books, every kids, the foundation covers overhead costs, negotiates wholesale pricing for the books while local community partners fundraise to cover the cost of mailing. Uh, um, five countries, United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, and Republic of Ireland.

[00:15:37] [SPEAKER_04] You get 60 books by the time you graduate.

[00:15:40] Wow.

[00:15:40] [SPEAKER_04] Mm hmm. It just, and books are expensive. Like, can't we undo that? Can somebody go back and say, sorry? Well, I'm sorry. We were drunk and we didn't mean to vote against that. We were so drunk. We went to Grant's farm. We went to Grant's farm. We drank all the beer and then we came back and voted and we were just, you know, out of our fucking mind. Anyway, we'll have a lot more fun stories than that. I promise. Um, let's call Holly Bobby because I promised this to be our check in time.

[00:16:08] [SPEAKER_04] Holly Bobby is, has two things to be in charge of this week. Mm hmm. Madonna's antics. She's been active. She's been quite active. Oh, Times Square has been so busy.

[00:16:20] [SPEAKER_01] Between the game last night. Yep.

[00:16:22] [SPEAKER_04] Yep. I called that one. Mm hmm. I did. The vibe was off. Yep. Um, and he's also in charge of the Tony Awards because I, I, I, you don't know what, I mean, I like pink, but like she, it's like some, she did a wonderful job. I just don't know any of those songs. So I don't know if she's doing, it seemed like a great job. Yeah. I don't know. I don't, here's a number from Chicago. Okay. Bobby likes it though.

[00:16:52] [SPEAKER_04] Let's see. Um,

[00:16:55] [SPEAKER_02] It's a number from Chicago.

[00:16:57] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah. I just, are we still, I think that's the thing with musicals too. We're still doing the same ones from like thousand years ago. Cats. Cats. Unless it's the sound of music. I don't care.

[00:17:09] [SPEAKER_05] Cappy.

[00:17:10] [SPEAKER_04] Bobby.

[00:17:11] [SPEAKER_05] I just want to say, bitch, I'm Madonna.

[00:17:16] [SPEAKER_04] How do you say that in Spanish? We're learning Spanish, Bob. Uh oh. Soy, soy Madonna. Okay. Um, I just, I informed the termites that you're going to be covering make Madonna's antics and the Tony Awards. So, um, did you get right into Madonna?

[00:17:38] [SPEAKER_05] Okay. Right. Okay. Uh, okay. Before we talk about Times Square. Okay. Madonna recently came out and said that JFK Jr. was the best sex of her life.

[00:17:52] [SPEAKER_04] Oh, well that's too bad. Cause he's gone.

[00:17:56] Yeah.

[00:17:57] [SPEAKER_04] Horrible. Sorry. You know, I will never forget. I was working at the Tropicana in Las Vegas. There were no cell phones and my phone in my room rare rang and it was my sister. And she goes, Kathleen, JFK Jr. is missing. I'm like, well, I'm at the Tropicana in Las Vegas and I don't have a car. So I don't know how I can help. Why are you telling me this at six in the morning? Well, he was cute. JFK Jr. Was cute.

[00:18:26] [SPEAKER_04] He was very cute. Yeah. I think I'd need somebody else to confirm that though. You can't just trust one person.

[00:18:33] [SPEAKER_05] Well, we can't ask Carolyn Bessette. No, no.

[00:18:36] [SPEAKER_04] Oh, dark, dark.

[00:18:41] [SPEAKER_05] Sorry. Sorry. Anyway. So did you see that Times Square concert?

[00:18:46] [SPEAKER_04] I've seen, I've seen clips of her climbing over a railing in an outfit and she looks like Sabrina Carpenter.

[00:18:53] [SPEAKER_05] That was totally, oh man. She looks like, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're going to talk about that. But anyway, so yeah, she had 50,000 fans show up. There, there was no warning. There was no announcement, you know, in advance. 20 minutes before she popped up in Times Square, up in one of the buildings on this big stage,

[00:19:14] [SPEAKER_05] an email went out, an email blast went out to social media sites and everything that Madonna was going to pop up in a pop-up concert and sing songs from her new album and some old songs. Oh, so that's how they did it? Yeah.

[00:19:28] [SPEAKER_04] Jesus.

[00:19:29] [SPEAKER_05] She was hopeful on a moment's notice converged on Times Square. That's awesome. To hear her sing.

[00:19:34] [SPEAKER_04] It's amazing. It is amazing. But do you think that would translate into actual hard ticket sales? Because didn't you and Clark go and it wasn't that crowded?

[00:19:45] [SPEAKER_05] Oh, her concert.

[00:19:46] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah.

[00:19:46] [SPEAKER_05] And the Capitol here in Palm Springs. It was not sold out. It was not sold out.

[00:19:50] [SPEAKER_04] Okay. So maybe those 50,000 people are looking for a free thing.

[00:19:54] [SPEAKER_05] I think, I think she's back. I mean, I really think she's having her resurgence, you know?

[00:20:02] [SPEAKER_04] I'm going to say that's your gay delusional side. I don't think so.

[00:20:07] [SPEAKER_05] Well, this is what I want you and Katie to do, your publicist, okay?

[00:20:11] [SPEAKER_04] What do you want me and Katie to do?

[00:20:13] [SPEAKER_05] For your next, no, no, for your next special. Special. I think we're going to do a pop-up stand-up show outside the old town in Times Square. And you can do stand-up for 10 minutes and promote the special.

[00:20:25] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah, they never let stand-ups do pop-ups. And we also don't ever get to do halftime shows.

[00:20:29] [SPEAKER_02] Nope. Oh, no. You don't, do you?

[00:20:32] [SPEAKER_04] No. Why can't they pick somebody that, you know, who, I don't know, I guess you'd have to be clean or just beep us out. Why can't you?

[00:20:40] [SPEAKER_05] Well, you do get to throw out the first pitch at baseball games.

[00:20:45] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah, but why not get like me and Frank Caliendo and like comedians that people know of, and then we just do like two football jokes each?

[00:20:57] Okay.

[00:20:58] [SPEAKER_04] Right? All right. What's wrong with that?

[00:21:00] I'm all in.

[00:21:01] [SPEAKER_04] I don't really want to do it anyway. I just, I just am like, why did we never even concluded or thought of? Like they just, comedy just doesn't, we don't get the big numbers like that. All right.

[00:21:12] [SPEAKER_05] So like open for like the halftime show, the Superbowl halftime show. Well, it depends on.

[00:21:18] [SPEAKER_04] Like do two minutes before JLo comes out.

[00:21:21] [SPEAKER_05] Well, right. JLo. JLo.

[00:21:24] [SPEAKER_04] So what is Madonna promoting her new album? Is that the point of all this, these antics?

[00:21:30] [SPEAKER_05] Well, she was there actually for the Tribeca Film Festival, which is a New York City film festival, annual film festival. And she has a 13 minute short film. It just dropped on YouTube. I think it has 8.3 million views already. Oh my God. I watched it this morning. Cause I told you I was going to watch it. And it's kind of like a promo with different songs from her upcoming new album. And she's got Sabrina Carpenter in it. And she's got Julia Warner from Ozark. You know her. Oh, I love her. Yeah. I love her.

[00:21:59] [SPEAKER_05] She was in the weapons movie that Amy Madigan won the Oscar for last year.

[00:22:03] [SPEAKER_04] Oh, isn't she going to play her in a biopic? Isn't Julia? Yes. She was Ruthie. She was Ruthie on Ozark.

[00:22:10] [SPEAKER_01] Yeah. Yeah.

[00:22:11] [SPEAKER_04] So she's going to play the dog. I'm going to fucking kill you.

[00:22:16] [SPEAKER_01] Oh my God.

[00:22:17] [SPEAKER_04] I went to high school in the Ozarks with these people. They would say that shit every day near my locker. I'm going to fucking kill you.

[00:22:27] And Benedict Cumberbatch is in it.

[00:22:29] [SPEAKER_05] He went to the Marvel movie Doctor Strange. Oh God. And Lourdes is in it. Oh. So you get to see Lourdes all grown up. Oh, wonderful. You know who Lourdes used to date? Like in high school?

[00:22:40] [SPEAKER_04] No.

[00:22:41] [SPEAKER_05] Timothy Salomon. Oh.

[00:22:44] [SPEAKER_04] Who I now only refer to as Timothy Chardonnay.

[00:22:50] [SPEAKER_05] I heard that on the podcast last week. Oh, by the way Paddles. Yes. You made a mistake again. God. It's not Angela Bassett. Like it's Angela Bassett. Bassett.

[00:23:02] [SPEAKER_02] Like the dog. Oh, like the dog. Bassett. Like Bassett.

[00:23:06] [SPEAKER_05] Bassett Hunter Bass Pro Shop. I got it. Take your pick.

[00:23:08] [SPEAKER_02] Oh wow. Oh, okay. That's.

[00:23:10] [SPEAKER_05] Hey, you know what though? In this 13 minute short film, which is like a montage of, it's really stylistic. And it's like set in a nightclub and it just kind of like reminds me of like partying in the 2000s.

[00:23:23] [SPEAKER_01] Like nightclub and stuff.

[00:23:25] [SPEAKER_05] Partying. It's updated. It's, you gotta watch it. If you have 13 minutes, watch it. But Sabrina Carpenter's in it. And you know what? I think Madonna is on repeat mode. Like she like always hooked up with like the younger star. Right. Like remember like with Brittany and Christina Aguilera and like she would do stuff with them. I don't know what that is.

[00:23:47] [SPEAKER_04] I, yeah, I think she's old and fading as they would say in American horror story, the coven, the Supreme is dying and there's a new Supreme rising and the new Supreme rising. Apparently according to the children is Sabrina Carpenter. So then Madonna needs to literally like a vampire steal some of her powers. Oh, okay. Yeah.

[00:24:14] [SPEAKER_05] I think she's on repeat mode when she does that. I think she needs to just like go solo and not rely on the children to reinvent herself.

[00:24:23] [SPEAKER_04] Well, here's the problem for Madonna. I think compared to say Stevie or Cher, cause they're all getting old. Um, Madonna was not known for her singing per se. Madonna was known for her. The songs were fun and poppy. And she was always doing something outrageous. Like if, if that's what you did, your outfits, her sex book, all that stuff that will run its time. Yeah.

[00:24:49] [SPEAKER_04] That will, you know, if your voice can't take you to the end, I don't know what can. And she's still trying to do now what she, I think it's smart. Just keep doing dance songs and let be the club lady. Yeah. That's fine.

[00:25:05] Yeah.

[00:25:06] [SPEAKER_04] There's a whole market for that. I mean, you can bounce. All right. Tell me about the Tony awards.

[00:25:12] [SPEAKER_05] Well, did you watch pink? Did you see her opening number?

[00:25:15] [SPEAKER_04] I, I did, but I, I don't understand it. Cause I don't even know what she's copying.

[00:25:22] [SPEAKER_05] Like, I don't know. She's floating around like Peter Pan. And then she goes and does the lady Marmalade, Marmalade song.

[00:25:31] [SPEAKER_04] I have never seen either one of those. Are they, are they separate movies?

[00:25:35] [SPEAKER_05] Moulin Rouge. No, Lady Marmalade is like a song that she did like 15 years ago with Christina Aguilera.

[00:25:42] [SPEAKER_04] I don't, I don't know that. And I, I've never seen Peter Pan. I'm not a cartoon person. We'll watch it.

[00:25:48] [SPEAKER_05] Peter Pan was a Broadway musical back in the fifties with Mary Martin.

[00:25:54] [SPEAKER_02] Okay. She wasn't in a cartoon. Oh, it was a real show. It was a Broadway musical. It was a Disney movie. Jesus.

[00:26:03] [SPEAKER_04] I would rather watch harness horse racing and bet on old man in a chariot than watch Peter Pan on Broadway. I'll find a dive sports bar that has harness race betting satellite too. I don't even need them there. I'll just sit in a lawn chair. Oh my God. Oh my God. Okay. So I do think that pink was very good at what she was doing. I just don't know it.

[00:26:27] [SPEAKER_05] Well, it was a mashup of all the Broadway musicals that are nominated and on Broadway this season. And they mashed it up to her very famous and very popular Lady Marmalade song.

[00:26:40] [SPEAKER_04] Okay. It seemed like she put a shit ton of work into it.

[00:26:43] [SPEAKER_05] Oh yeah. It showed. It showed.

[00:26:46] [SPEAKER_04] And were there any Tony Award winners that I would know or are they all theater people? John Lithgow won. I love him. I love him. Yeah.

[00:26:54] [SPEAKER_05] And he's the oldest Tony Award winner now at 80 years old. So it's his third Tony.

[00:27:00] [SPEAKER_04] Well, good for him. Wonderful.

[00:27:02] [SPEAKER_05] Yeah. And you like Laurie Metcalfe from Roseanne. Yeah. He's a lady bird.

[00:27:06] [SPEAKER_04] She won. Okay. That's good.

[00:27:08] [SPEAKER_05] You know, some of our favorites didn't win like Nathan Lane. I really liked him. I was hoping he was going to win.

[00:27:13] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah. He's going to win. Yeah, but he's kind of, he's already won everything and he's oversaturated in a good way. I mean, well, I'm just saying let the man sit down for a hot minute. I mean, he'll win next year and the next year. He's in something all the time.

[00:27:30] [SPEAKER_05] He's always in something. And he's always great in it too.

[00:27:33] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah. He was in the, he played the rich old Southern man. Was it not in Truman Capote? It might've been, oh, the Gilded Age. Yeah. Oh, the Gilded Age. He plays.

[00:27:45] [SPEAKER_02] Lithgow did?

[00:27:46] [SPEAKER_04] No. Nathan Lane.

[00:27:47] [SPEAKER_02] Nathan Lane. Oh yeah. Yeah.

[00:27:48] [SPEAKER_04] John Lithgow played that serial killer in that one movie and it was terrifying. It was so good. And I, I never thought of him as like, could he be evil? He was so good in it. Yeah.

[00:27:57] [SPEAKER_05] Well, he's evil in this play. He plays a racist. It's called giant. And he plays that famous author. I can't think of it right now. His name.

[00:28:07] [SPEAKER_04] I can't think of. Edward Albee is the only person I know because I went to a play to see that. I've spent a three plays in my life and it was Sally field was in this. I couldn't believe I could see her in a seat of 500. Albert, Edward Albee wrote who's a for Jade, who's afraid of Virginia Wolf, which I thought was the best movie I've ever seen. Like writing wise, it was Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton and they were both actually drunk and film scenes. It's crazy. He, he wrote since he wrote who's afraid of Virginia Wolf.

[00:28:36] [SPEAKER_04] I thought, Oh, he wrote this play and it's called the goat and they're redoing it. I went and I'm like, are you kidding me? There was Sally field. Great. I don't remember who played the husband, but the whole premise is that the man falls in love with a goat and has sex with the goat and wants to marry the goat and has to tell Sally field. I'm like, okay, I'm out on the premise. I know. I know there's farmers that have slept with their goats, but you don't fall in love with the goat.

[00:29:06] [SPEAKER_02] No, you don't do a play about it either.

[00:29:07] [SPEAKER_04] And a whole play of a non ridiculous premise. You know what? And if you did do all that, just go in and tell her.

[00:29:16] [SPEAKER_02] A goat.

[00:29:16] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah. This, you know what that deserves? That deserves a goat scream, Bob. Did you, did anybody else that normal people would know when or was it all? I just told you the normal people. Well, I was asking if there are any extras.

[00:29:31] [SPEAKER_05] No, no. If I said the names, you would go, who? Who? Okay. How about this? Shoshana being one for the lost boys.

[00:29:41] [SPEAKER_04] I don't know.

[00:29:42] [SPEAKER_02] No idea.

[00:29:43] [SPEAKER_04] I don't even know. What is, how do you pronounce? How do you pronounce the show that won? Shemigadun?

[00:29:50] [SPEAKER_05] Shemigadoon.

[00:29:52] [SPEAKER_04] Shemigadoon. Shemigadoon? Shemigadoon?

[00:29:53] [SPEAKER_05] Yeah. Oh, you know, here's somebody that won from that. That's famous. Lorne Michaels, the creator of SNL. Oh, E-E-P. I-E-E-P. Shemigadoon. All right, here's, okay. Today, before I go, we're taping with Emily Blunt and Josh O'Connor today on the show. I love Emily Blunt. And they're promoting, you know, you liked The Crown, right?

[00:30:14] [SPEAKER_04] I love The Crown, the show.

[00:30:17] [SPEAKER_05] He won the Emmy. Yeah, he won the Emmy for playing Prince Charles.

[00:30:20] [SPEAKER_04] Oh, great. Okay. That's what I love about the British actors. There's like 30 of them who play everything.

[00:30:29] Yeah.

[00:30:29] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah. And they're always good. And the one guy, he always plays Prince Charles, but then it can be reversed in the next one and he'll play like the advisor to Prince Charles. The guy who played Tony, the guy who played Tony Blair in one of them in The Crown are, I don't know what, he's also been Prince Charles. Like it's very, they're very interchangeable, but they all do a great job. So no one complains.

[00:30:52] No, no.

[00:30:53] [SPEAKER_05] Yes. But you are right. They're interchangeable. But he and Emily Blunt are the leads in Disclosure Day, which is Steven Spielberg's new movie that comes out this Friday. And everybody is saying this is like an Oscar movie.

[00:31:05] [SPEAKER_04] What's it about? What's it about?

[00:31:08] [SPEAKER_05] You're maybe you and Todd. Reynolds and I should all go to the movies and see it together. Yay. It's about UFOs and aliens. Oh. They're beating us and they're, they're amongst us.

[00:31:20] [SPEAKER_04] I believe that. I believe that. I already think Elon Musk is. I think Zuckerberg definitely is. Mm-hmm. Um, they're part robot things. Yes. They're not fully human.

[00:31:31] [SPEAKER_03] No.

[00:31:31] Agreed.

[00:31:32] [SPEAKER_04] All right, Bobby. Well.

[00:31:33] [SPEAKER_03] So let's go see that this weekend. Okay.

[00:31:35] [SPEAKER_04] Oh, you mean, I don't go to the movies ever since. Just get on an airplane. Nah, I don't like going to the movies. I'd rather wait till it's home.

[00:31:42] [SPEAKER_05] And this? No, this you gotta see on the big screen if you wanna see aliens and Steven Spielberg.

[00:31:47] [SPEAKER_04] Well, that's true. It is. I should, I do owe it to Steven Spielberg for creating my favorite movie ever, Jaws. I do owe him a hard ticket sale.

[00:31:55] [SPEAKER_02] You do.

[00:31:56] [SPEAKER_04] I actually will do it. I'll wait for rain. Yeah. When it's raining, I'll go.

[00:32:00] [SPEAKER_02] It's raining right now. All right, good.

[00:32:01] [SPEAKER_05] All right. We'll compare notes. Okay. All right.

[00:32:04] [SPEAKER_04] I'll.

[00:32:05] [SPEAKER_05] I will. Okay.

[00:32:09] [SPEAKER_04] I'll go watch it. All right. Goodbye. Bye. Bye, Holly Bobby. I love Bobby.

[00:32:16] [SPEAKER_02] Holly Bobby's in the know.

[00:32:18] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah, he's very in the know. He has to book all these people. And like, Kelly likes Broadway stuff. I know. So he needs to, like, I wouldn't even know. No. If I had to book it, I would be like, what? Somebody just give me their number. Because I don't, I'd never seen this show. I don't understand. I don't know who these people are. I don't know who their publicists are. I don't know. I would fail at Bobby's job. Right. Moving on. Update.

[00:32:47] [SPEAKER_04] This is great. Okay. Punch the monkey. Oh, great. Who dragged his little orange monkey around everywhere.

[00:32:53] [SPEAKER_02] Yep.

[00:32:54] [SPEAKER_04] Well, Punch and other monkeys are gonna, they're gonna get air conditioning and a much larger yard at the Japanese zoo.

[00:33:01] [SPEAKER_00] How about security?

[00:33:02] [SPEAKER_04] Well, no shit. He's shot. You let some American in some sort of emoji outfit jump into his thing. It scared the shit out of him. The city of Ikakawa has allocated 70 million yens. I don't know how much that would be. And it's 20 to 26 supplementary budget to upgrade the monkeys facilities. Their habitat.

[00:33:24] [SPEAKER_02] Nice.

[00:33:25] [SPEAKER_04] So great. He's getting an upgrade. I love it. I love it. I love it.

[00:33:29] [SPEAKER_02] Nice. Um, it's a $437,000 US. That's a lot.

[00:33:38] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah. Yeah. 400 grand to upgrade a monkey habitat. Mm-hmm. Yeah. That'd be great. Update. One of my favorite things to follow because it represents continuity in the world is the biggest grizzly, um, who lives in, uh, in Banff, Canada in the national park. I love him. His name is the boss. He's responsible. He has fathered 75% of the bears that live within the park. He's been hit by trains.

[00:34:06] [SPEAKER_04] He's been, he's just, he's huge. He's massive. Well, he, I, I said on this podcast, he has come out of hibernation, but they do worry. Um, and the forestry people up there are very serious and good at what they do. Like they're, they're always like one step ahead. Well, they're afraid because all the tourists know about him that if they're going to get too close with cameras and then he reacts, then we got to, you know, they're going to put down the boss, not, not the tour on, they're going to make him.

[00:34:34] [SPEAKER_04] So they wanted to get a GPS tracker on him. Well, they did. Um, and the boss has ripped the whole thing off and threw it in a ditch. He wandered off completely untethered. So there you go. You think you can control the boss? No, you can't. You cannot. That's why he is the boss. I have, um, Everest update because climbing season is sadly over.

[00:35:04] [SPEAKER_04] Although my one brother and his daughter-in-law are going to go climb count Mount Kilimanjaro. Apparently, apparently I'm saying Kilimanjaro, not correctly. I don't know. I haven't seen the latest pronunciation. And I, I texted him, Hey, just remember to keep, uh, cookies or candy in your pockets in case shit goes weird. This, this man, uh, I think everybody's probably heard about it by now. And I like to do outside the box stories, but it's, I'm obsessed with Everest.

[00:35:33] [SPEAKER_04] This guy was missing. He had been missing for four days. They already were having his funeral rites. All the whole thing was being put together while they found him. He was crawling down the mountain. Uh, he was, uh, he, he, he had told BBC he survived by chewing ice and eating a few chocolates he had found in his pocket. I also read that those were biscuits and I also read those were cookies. So I don't know what everyone's definition of just something with sugar in your pocket.

[00:36:00] [SPEAKER_04] Um, he was forced to stay behind after his oxygen rank ran out, but they were way up there. But I don't know why would his, um, everybody thought he was dead. Uh, then they saw him, uh, he was spotted by a, uh, team climbing, uh, cleanup. Uh, cleanup. Oh, a cleanup team sliding down the mountain towards base camp. Um, wow. It's not crazy. Yeah, it was crazy.

[00:36:27] [SPEAKER_04] Climber Chris Thrall was the last known person to have seen Dawa Sherpa. That's a, it's either Hillary Dawa Sherpa or Dawa before he was rescued, rescued near the Kumba icefall on Thursday. The British soldier said he, the 57 was year old was sitting on his backpack just above camp three as he had done hundreds of times to take a short rest. And then everybody went down. Um, uh, another member of the group, a Polish climber with no oxygen battling, uh, fairly severe frost bait.

[00:36:57] [SPEAKER_04] So immediately my attention went to the weakest one. So then he quit looking at him. Then he got trapped in a, do we call it a crevasse? We're going to crevasse. Crevasse. Crevasse. Crevasse. Crevasse. Um, as the oxygen couldn't ran out, I couldn't walk. I didn't eat anything for the first two days. Then I began chewing ice. It hurt my teeth. I chewed the ice hard. Then he discovered chocolates in his pocket and managed to melt some to drink.

[00:37:23] [SPEAKER_01] Huh.

[00:37:23] [SPEAKER_04] How do you? I don't know. He made his way down very slowly only to fall into the crevasse. Now here's the crazy thing. He got lucky and an avalanche fell into the crevasse, but not his part of the crevasse. Oh. So then he climbed up like a mountain out of the crevasse.

[00:37:43] [SPEAKER_02] Crevasse sounds dumb.

[00:37:45] [SPEAKER_04] Crevasse.

[00:37:46] [SPEAKER_02] What would you say?

[00:37:47] [SPEAKER_04] Ditch. Ditch. Ditch. Ditch. Ditch. Hole.

[00:37:52] [SPEAKER_02] Mountain hole. Felt in a hole.

[00:37:54] [SPEAKER_04] Fucking goat hole.

[00:37:55] [SPEAKER_02] A mountain hole.

[00:37:57] [SPEAKER_04] After two and a half days, he was trapped, they said, unable to find out. Find a way out. Then an avalanche sent snow tumbling down and it gave him the first hope he had in days. Stepping on the snow, I stood up and looked up and I felt I could get out. Once he scrambled out, he found ropes nearby, which helped him maneuver further down the world's tallest mountain.

[00:38:16] [SPEAKER_02] That's crazy.

[00:38:17] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah. I got through snow and moved downwards and I walked through the night. Then I came close to base camp. It was the first people he'd seen in almost a week. Boys were going up to collect the waste. I met them. They carried me down. It's a miracle. That's crazy. I mean, it's a thousand percent a miracle. If you don't believe miracles, explain Donald Sherpa to me. Yeah. It's one of the better stories.

[00:38:39] [SPEAKER_02] I think that's why it's good to have some shit left on the mountain. He found ropes.

[00:38:47] [SPEAKER_04] Well, that's true.

[00:38:48] [SPEAKER_02] He found... Yeah.

[00:38:49] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah. Well, I don't mind if the cleaning stuff is left behind.

[00:38:53] [SPEAKER_02] Right.

[00:38:53] [SPEAKER_04] I mean, the climbing stuff, but it's the water bottles and the actual human shit.

[00:38:59] What?

[00:38:59] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah. There's a lot of feces up there and stuff.

[00:39:02] [SPEAKER_02] I never thought of that.

[00:39:03] [SPEAKER_04] Yep. Gross. Nobody does. They will. Yeah.

[00:39:06] [SPEAKER_02] I think it's our new drinking game. Every time you say crevasse. Crevasse.

[00:39:11] [SPEAKER_04] Crevasse.

[00:39:12] [SPEAKER_02] You get a fireball shot.

[00:39:13] [SPEAKER_04] Let's start saying it at golf with Piquiti. There's another Everest update. Russian climber Nikol Kovalichuk has become the first Russian woman to summit without oxygen. Supplemental. Supplemental. Making a rare achievement in high altitude mountaineering.

[00:39:32] [SPEAKER_02] That's great.

[00:39:33] [SPEAKER_04] Go for her.

[00:39:34] [SPEAKER_02] Nice.

[00:39:35] [SPEAKER_04] As Rocky would say, go for you, Nikol. She looks like a model, like a Russian model. Very pretty. Yeah. Go for you. Go for you. Here's a feel good little update. World Cup update.

[00:39:49] [SPEAKER_02] I've got... Poop on the mountain.

[00:39:51] [SPEAKER_04] Google it. Human feces on Mount Everest. It's a problem. It's a big problem.

[00:39:57] [SPEAKER_02] We gotta figure this stuff out.

[00:39:58] [SPEAKER_04] Oh, this is so funny. Cause my brother told me this and I thought he meant bikers as in motorcycle bikers. Okay. No, he meant on bicycles. Three Argentinian cyclists biked 10,000 miles for over 10 months from Argentina to Kansas City to watch their country play in the... And they did not have tickets. What? Well, the city of Kansas City got them tickets. Nice. Oh my God. And then all the people on bikes went out to ride with them.

[00:40:27] [SPEAKER_04] I don't know what hotel they're at, but that's determination. Get them some barbecue. And that's really... That is the if-come bet. What if we get there and nobody gives us a ticket? What if they do give us a ticket?

[00:40:37] [SPEAKER_02] I think Kansas City's got some of the best fan bases staying there.

[00:40:42] [SPEAKER_04] It's very exciting. It's gonna be fun. Yeah. And they've got good countries planted there. Here's a list of things you can and cannot bring into the World Cup game. I love these kind of lists. They just make me laugh. You have to have a clear plastic bag. Vinyl or PVC? What is PVC?

[00:41:03] [SPEAKER_02] PVC?

[00:41:04] [SPEAKER_04] Plastic? Yeah. Something. Okay. And then there's the sizing. Blah, blah. You can't have regular backpack or purses. You can't have musical instruments.

[00:41:17] [SPEAKER_00] Hmm.

[00:41:18] [SPEAKER_04] They... Oh, no. I'm sorry. What's your definition? No. Well, here's the thing. Uh, there are... Whatever musical instrument they're going to allow have to be 12 by 12 by 12 centimeters. Okay, you've already lost the Americans because we don't even know what that means.

[00:41:34] [SPEAKER_01] Teeny.

[00:41:34] [SPEAKER_04] Um, Vuvuzelas. I have never heard of that. I'm like, what is that? Well, Vuvuzelas, air horns and whistles are completely banned. The Vuvuzela, it looks like a long plastic white horn. I Googled it and I think it's the things that go...

[00:41:52] [SPEAKER_02] Oh, God.

[00:41:54] Mm.

[00:41:54] [SPEAKER_02] So bad.

[00:41:55] [SPEAKER_04] They should ban whistles. But how are you going to find a guy with a whistle? Right. They'll sneak vapes constantly with their mouth over their, hand over their mouth. They just want... Mm-hmm. Of course, if I have... But the... I've always thought the whistles were bad, but small bells and drums are allowed if they fit the side limit. So no... Size limit.

[00:42:14] [SPEAKER_02] No cowbells.

[00:42:15] [SPEAKER_04] No flags. Um, larger than two... No, no cowbells. Well, they don't vape.

[00:42:20] [SPEAKER_02] Sleigh bells would be fun.

[00:42:21] [SPEAKER_04] Sleigh bells are...

[00:42:22] [SPEAKER_02] The sense of Christmas.

[00:42:24] [SPEAKER_04] Too cutesy.

[00:42:25] [SPEAKER_02] I know.

[00:42:26] [SPEAKER_04] You can't have any rigid poles.

[00:42:30] [SPEAKER_02] Okay.

[00:42:31] [SPEAKER_04] I guess they don't want flag poles like people with giant... You know why also? Why?

[00:42:35] [SPEAKER_02] Because people get drunk.

[00:42:37] [SPEAKER_04] And then they hit you with their pole?

[00:42:38] [SPEAKER_02] And then they have a spear.

[00:42:41] [SPEAKER_04] You gotta... You're gonna have to shave that down and make it a spear. We're thinking of the British.

[00:42:47] [SPEAKER_02] Oh, God.

[00:42:47] [SPEAKER_04] Well, I've got... Speaking of the Brits, this is 2,300 football, quote, thugs banned from World Cup by UK as part of a crackdown on violent behavior.

[00:43:02] [SPEAKER_00] What? Yeah.

[00:43:03] [SPEAKER_04] The Home Office said it was enforcing restrictions on known risk fans to stop them from traveling to the US, Canada, and Mexico.

[00:43:10] [SPEAKER_02] Uh-huh.

[00:43:11] [SPEAKER_04] 2,300 of them.

[00:43:12] [SPEAKER_02] That's crazy.

[00:43:12] [SPEAKER_04] They've identified as, quote, thugs.

[00:43:15] [SPEAKER_02] Thugs.

[00:43:15] [SPEAKER_04] Known risk fans. So I guess if you've been arrested, I would say...

[00:43:20] [SPEAKER_02] You're not going narrow, then.

[00:43:21] [SPEAKER_04] This is the UK doing it to their own people.

[00:43:24] [SPEAKER_02] Oh.

[00:43:25] [SPEAKER_04] Your own country's decided you're a drunk nuisance. You understand that? Not someone else. Your country. The new measures mean that 1,984 people with a football banning order in England and Wales who hold a UK passport will have to surrender their document by June 2nd. They are not letting them out.

[00:43:46] [SPEAKER_02] That's crazy.

[00:43:46] [SPEAKER_04] What if I don't do that? Banning orders which are imposed by the... Oh. You could get 10 years in prison if you don't turn in your passport. Whoa. For being a bad, bad, bad child.

[00:43:58] Wow.

[00:43:59] [SPEAKER_04] Oh. Unlimited fines, too. That's funny. Oh, my God. Can you imagine? You've made it on a list that you're so bad, we cannot trust you to not sneak off. Right. I mean, we can't even trust you.

[00:44:13] [SPEAKER_02] What have you done?

[00:44:14] [SPEAKER_04] Well, I think they're part of these mob things that go on when it gets out of hand at a World Cup game, which does seem to happen. Gotcha.

[00:44:25] [SPEAKER_02] That's funny.

[00:44:25] [SPEAKER_04] Then I just had this one, and I'll stop with the World Cup. I know not everybody cares about it.

[00:44:30] [SPEAKER_02] It's human interest stuff, too. It's hilarious.

[00:44:32] [SPEAKER_04] This is the most expensive teams to see in the World Cup, which I found this would be very interesting. The most expensive? Mexico. $1,848 is the average ticket price.

[00:44:44] [SPEAKER_02] Oh, my God.

[00:44:44] [SPEAKER_04] Second, Portugal. Wow. $1,391. Third, Colombia. $1,298. I'm saying 12 as in $1,298. Yep. Then Brazil. Then Scotland. Scotland's $9.58. That's a bargain. Argentina, why... Yeah, why not? $9.53. They're always good. South Africa. I don't know if they're good or bad. $9.38. Then South Korea, $9.21. Spain. They should be way up the ladder, I would think. $8.84. USA.

[00:45:14] [SPEAKER_04] Last place, $8.57. I mean, out of this group. Out of that group.

[00:45:19] Wow.

[00:45:19] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah.

[00:45:21] [SPEAKER_02] I think it's going to be fun to watch. Just the people watching.

[00:45:25] [SPEAKER_04] It starts on Thursday. I'm so excited.

[00:45:27] [SPEAKER_02] Update.

[00:45:31] [SPEAKER_04] So, this is... Waymo. We have a Waymo update. Okay. They issued a formal apology to the city of Charlotte after dozens of its driverless vehicles beached themselves on the Lynx Blue Line light rail. They parked on the train tracks.

[00:45:51] [SPEAKER_00] Jesus.

[00:45:51] [SPEAKER_04] According to the press release, the problem stems from the vehicle's advanced neutral network, which was designed to observe local traffic patterns and blend in seamlessly with human behavior. Good. So, do you think humans are doing this? No. No. No. 48 hours is all it took. Yep. And they've got all these things. And I wish... I kind of just wish, since it's driverless, one of the trains would have just smoked one. Just one. Done. Just teach them a lesson.

[00:46:19] [SPEAKER_04] Get your shit off of my train track.

[00:46:22] [SPEAKER_01] Mm-hmm.

[00:46:23] [SPEAKER_04] And now, Oklahoma... Oh, no. Be prepared. All I see is Highway 70 in Missouri, and this sounds horribly dangerous. Self-driving autonomous semi trucks are coming to Oklahoma.

[00:46:36] [SPEAKER_00] Oh, boy.

[00:46:37] [SPEAKER_04] Semis. Oh, no. Do they have a speed limit? It doesn't say.

[00:46:44] [SPEAKER_02] Okay.

[00:46:47] Um...

[00:46:47] [SPEAKER_02] That's crazy.

[00:46:51] [SPEAKER_04] I don't know. They're on the way. I mean, I think... I understand truck driving is a very difficult job. I don't think they make enough money, and they have to drive too many hours. I can defend the truckers all day long.

[00:47:01] [SPEAKER_02] Okay.

[00:47:01] [SPEAKER_04] It's not their fault. But when they're pushed to those limits, and they have to get somewhere to make their paychecks, it becomes very dangerous. Yeah. And Highway 70 from Kansas City to St. Louis, good luck. Good luck to everyone about... They are widening it to three lanes, but it's one of the most stressful... It's gotta be stressful for them, but they're probably more used to it. I don't know.

[00:47:24] [SPEAKER_03] Update!

[00:47:27] [SPEAKER_04] So, thank God for little Brad Paisley. Do we know who Brad is? He's a country singer.

[00:47:32] [SPEAKER_02] He's wonderful.

[00:47:32] [SPEAKER_04] He's very sweet. He's at the Comedy Club. He likes comedy. He's always at the Comedy Club all the time. But he has done something public. I signed the petition. They now want to put a data center right next to the zoo. It will raise... In Nashville? In Nashville. It will raise the temperature nearby, 10 degrees, so all the animals are gonna be 10 degrees hotter than the ones that hang out outside.

[00:47:53] [SPEAKER_00] Uh-huh.

[00:47:53] [SPEAKER_04] And the noise, the animals then, you know, all your peace and quiet's gone. That's horrible. There's two proposals to build new data centers in Nashville. One's near the zoo, and the other is near the very famous Fisk University. Mm-hmm. Traditional old school school. And I, you know, here we go again though. Who's gonna stop it? I don't know. Right. I signed the petition, but what good does that do?

[00:48:14] [SPEAKER_02] Well, yeah. I mean... I don't know.

[00:48:15] [SPEAKER_04] I don't think they care here.

[00:48:19] [SPEAKER_02] I don't think they care.

[00:48:20] [SPEAKER_04] I don't think they care. Well, I think people are starting to catch on. I do. As far as the data centers go, yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Um... This is my thing. This is an update. Data center. Tiny, tiny update.

[00:48:35] [SPEAKER_02] Tiny update. Tiny update. Squeeze it in.

[00:48:37] [SPEAKER_04] Does anyone actually stop to ask what all these data centers are actually for? Here's my thing. Okay. I've been saying this since the beginning where this all has been coming to light. Why so many? And why in such a hurry? Exactly. And it's a frantic thing that is going on in the middle of the goddamn night, behind closed doors, people are taking payoffs. Why the rush? I feel like someone or something is planning something and they have a deadline.

[00:49:06] [SPEAKER_04] I don't feel like this is just casual. Like, hey, we could open a data center there in 2030. No.

[00:49:13] [SPEAKER_02] Let's get some more data.

[00:49:14] [SPEAKER_04] Hundreds and hundreds in nations across the world, all popping up at exactly the same time. And folks seem apathetic towards the real reason. Well, I don't know the real reason. Amazon's building an $11 billion AI data center in Indiana. It'll use as much electricity as roughly 1 million homes and about 300 million gallons of water. That's crazy. That's, I think the weirdest thing about this, that it's sudden, it's in secrecy.

[00:49:41] [SPEAKER_04] And yet the city people seem to be going along with it. Yeah. So why, what is, what are we preparing? What are we preparing for? Or, or is someone else preparing for? Right. I don't know. But here's who's going to help. Yes. The real life Erin Brockovich. Oh. She's swooping in. Cool. She's turning her attention. She's launched a project called Brockovich Data Center Reporting designed to track the rapid spread. That's it too. Rapid, rapid. It's all in a hurry.

[00:50:11] [SPEAKER_04] Fast. Yeah. The rapid spread of AI centers and hyperscale data centers across units. The site maps that she's creating, data centers that are already operating under construction or proposed. It also lets local communities report concerns, water use, electricity damage, noise. Well, I think it, I think it was in Delaware though. The whole thing flooded and then floods everybody's, the town and their homes. Good luck arguing with an insurance company over that. They'll say it was wind.

[00:50:40] [SPEAKER_04] They always like to blame wind. Wind. Wind.

[00:50:43] [SPEAKER_02] We don't cover wind.

[00:50:44] [SPEAKER_04] The campaign is not just about where they're being built. It's about what they could cost to the people living around them. She's now asking communities to document what they were seeing. She's become famous for taking on polluted water and polluted water. Now she's watching the infrastructure behind the artificial intelligence. Good. I think it's great. Good. We need somebody to do that. Update. Right. The two CEOs I would fire if I could. Starbucks, Brian Nichols. You hate Brian.

[00:51:14] [SPEAKER_04] I don't like Brian. I don't, I can't say hates too strong of a word. I don't know Brian well enough to hate him, but I.

[00:51:20] [SPEAKER_02] You hate everything Brian stands for.

[00:51:22] [SPEAKER_04] I don't like Brian, can't get his shit together and he's getting paid $20 bazillion and on a private jet because he's too good to get go to John Wayne airport in Orange County and fly to Seattle. But anyway, Target. I don't, I don't even know the person's name in the new CEO of Target, but okay, so they're going to, and I used to love Target. We've talked about this ad nauseum, so I won't go into it, but I loved Target back in the day. I feel like it's gone to shit. I don't know. Mine feels looted.

[00:51:52] [SPEAKER_04] I don't like it. It's not happy. We'll target. They're going to test elevated shopping experiences, revamp in 130 stores across 10 city. I'm going to tell you what they think is going to get us back in.

[00:52:06] [SPEAKER_02] Okay.

[00:52:06] [SPEAKER_04] Okay. Here's the, we're not even addressing the fact you've made the poor employees be strange weirdos and do weird greetings and then keep a distance. I, well, here's what, this is what they think seems to have gone away. Yeah. That part. Yeah. It was so, so stupid. Nobody, it's awkward. Like I just want to shop. If you, if I have a question, I'll find you in the red shirt guy, whatever.

[00:52:32] [SPEAKER_04] This is what he thinks is going to updated decor fixtures and led lighting will create a cleaner, more welcoming store, which improves with improved signage to help our customers get around more easily. I don't need it. I don't need it. More signs.

[00:52:50] [SPEAKER_02] It's not that big.

[00:52:52] [SPEAKER_04] First of all, you need to order some shit. All your shelves are empty here or it should be picture frames or whatever, or the school supply area looks completely looted. It does get somebody in a red shirt to come over here and just straighten shit up. Well, that's one, that's one thing he's got going on. Um, new product displays in apparel accessories, beauty and home will highlight key items and refresh style. No, they're going to improve services for order pickup drive up and returns along with

[00:53:20] [SPEAKER_04] faster and more efficient checkout options. I don't think we need to focus on order pickup if we're trying to trick people to come back in to target. Right. What do you're fighting yourself?

[00:53:31] [SPEAKER_02] Exactly.

[00:53:32] [SPEAKER_04] And I think their return department was always great. Yeah. I returned ink and I really thought the lady wouldn't believe me. I said, I swear to God. Yeah. And she was like, I wish she was very young. And I was like, I don't want to, do you think I'm like bullshit here, but those ink cartridges didn't have any ink in them. And they're like 60 bucks a piece. And it's what I do for the podcast is doing the work of the Lord. And I go through this whole story cause I think it's unbelievable. Nobody would believe me.

[00:54:00] [SPEAKER_04] And the girl goes, yeah, I don't really care. Just go get some more ink. And I'm like, awesome. And I ran and got my ink. Um, I don't know. We used to joke, we used to joke that my aunt Peggy could return things that had been worn for a year. My aunt Peggy was so good at returns like it, but she'd go in person. Yep. But, but targets always been fine with returns. I thought, um, they need to clean that area up a little bit. Yeah.

[00:54:27] [SPEAKER_04] It looks like a tornado hit and everybody found clothes and threw them at a basket and parked it behind there. It's getting a little TJ Maxx. It's getting a little nutty. Um, guest, uh, amenities will be upgraded, including your restrooms and nursing spaces. The bathrooms are fine.

[00:54:42] Yeah.

[00:54:42] [SPEAKER_04] They're right there on the right. When you go in, you don't need a million of them. Nope. Um, we're going to have new energy efficient refrigeration. Lighting and HF. Do you think I give a shit about your HVAC? No, these are the worst idea. The only one that I, it doesn't appeal to me, but I do understand they're going to have an expanded dry grocery selection along with everyday essentials and pantry staples. Hmm. Some locations will also, uh, offer larger, fresh and frozen food.

[00:55:11] [SPEAKER_04] That might, I don't know how much people, but if I'm going to the grocery store, I go to the grocery store. Yeah. Target wasn't, I don't know. That's his plan. I'm supposed to notice the new led lighting and their HVAC. Can't wait to come back. LED lighting.

[00:55:27] Wow.

[00:55:27] [SPEAKER_02] I mean, I noticed when you go into Walmart. It's sad. It's sad and bright.

[00:55:32] [SPEAKER_04] It, but it's gray bright.

[00:55:34] [SPEAKER_02] Yeah.

[00:55:34] [SPEAKER_04] Like they took gray and illuminated it instead of white or whatever soft, whatever, something something.

[00:55:43] [SPEAKER_01] Holy shit.

[00:55:44] [SPEAKER_04] They found, this is so great. I love trail cams. Oh no. Conservationists confirmed wild jaguars are breeding for the first time in the United States for the first time in decades. Trail cam has captured a female with her cubs north of the border because for decades conservationists they've dreamed of this moment.

[00:56:05] [SPEAKER_00] I should have found one of these people.

[00:56:06] [SPEAKER_04] Now it's a breathtaking reality. Jaguars are breeding again in the United States.

[00:56:10] [SPEAKER_02] That's great.

[00:56:11] [SPEAKER_04] Yep. Very cool. And the cubs are adorable.

[00:56:14] [SPEAKER_02] That's awesome.

[00:56:15] [SPEAKER_04] Adorable. Adorable. It's an incredible comeback. This is fun for a little boy. A six year old boy. Oh, you said they found it. Found a 1300 year old sword on his school field trip.

[00:56:28] [SPEAKER_00] Shut up.

[00:56:31] [SPEAKER_04] That's fun. They always said he was a sharp student. Huh? Get it? It's always the kids in Norway because there's just Viking shit everywhere.

[00:56:40] [SPEAKER_02] Things thaw.

[00:56:41] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah. He spotted a rusty object protruding from the ground on a field trip that proved to be a 1300 year old sword predating the Viking era. First grader Henrik Raffnus Mortvet, age six.

[00:56:55] Great.

[00:56:55] [SPEAKER_04] He was in a vast expanse of untamed wilderness and jaw dropping mountain ranges. It was where they had the field trip because you have to create little Vikings. Right. When he made the unusual find. That's great. Rather than trying to yank it out of the ground, smart boy, smart boy. They called local archaeologists to come do it. Oh. Because you're going to break it, most likely. Mm-hmm.

[00:57:18] [SPEAKER_04] It was from, it's a single edged sword from Scandinavia's Mervoginigan period, roughly between 550 and 880 AD, which came immediately before the region's storied Viking age. That's awesome. Good for him. And see the Norwegians, they don't ask for money. It gets put in a museum and you're proud of it. Right. And you could say found by Henrik.

[00:57:42] [SPEAKER_02] Yep.

[00:57:43] [SPEAKER_04] Yep.

[00:57:43] [SPEAKER_02] Henrik gets free admission for life.

[00:57:46] [SPEAKER_04] As incredible as Henrik's discovery was, eight-year-old Saga Vanasek did one better when she found a 1,500-year-old pre-Viking sword while swimming in Vietstun Lake in Sweden in 2018.

[00:58:01] God.

[00:58:03] [SPEAKER_04] Vietstun. Good for you. Good for you. Good for you. Because these are major, these aren't just sports. This is your economy. This is your state pride.

[00:58:16] [SPEAKER_00] Yep.

[00:58:17] [SPEAKER_04] Oh, it looks like the Bears are moving to Indiana. Ah! This is what Chicago people feel like.

[00:58:24] [SPEAKER_00] Ah!

[00:58:24] [SPEAKER_04] You can't! That's crazy. The Bears Board of Director voted Thursday to advance the stadium development in Hammond, Indiana with the exact, with the exact to be selected. That's what it says. That makes no sense. This is the first time the Bears Board has voted on any stadium site. One source said, there's more work to do, but barring anything...

[00:58:46] [SPEAKER_02] Have you spoken with Dax?

[00:58:47] [SPEAKER_04] They're leaving.

[00:58:48] [SPEAKER_02] Or Adam Rank?

[00:58:49] [SPEAKER_04] No, I haven't spoken to any of my Chicago friends I need to get to, especially Adam. Well, yeah, Indiana. I mean, really?

[00:58:57] [SPEAKER_02] It's kind of dud-like. I mean, I like... I like Indiana.

[00:59:00] [SPEAKER_04] What are we going to do with the stadium downtown in Chicago? What are we going to do with that? Mega church?

[00:59:06] [SPEAKER_02] Probably.

[00:59:06] [SPEAKER_04] Data center. Turn it into a data center. Data center. Data center.

[00:59:10] [SPEAKER_02] You got... You can't... I mean, you know what? Maybe they voted on that because... Didn't everybody say they didn't want to have it in the suburbs? Rosemont or wherever, the original?

[00:59:21] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah, but it still would be in Chicago.

[00:59:23] [SPEAKER_02] That's what I'm saying. Maybe this is the play to... Oh, you don't want it in Indiana?

[00:59:27] [SPEAKER_04] Oh, you think this is trickery?

[00:59:28] [SPEAKER_02] Yeah.

[00:59:29] [SPEAKER_04] I don't know. I don't think those people care enough to be trickery.

[00:59:34] [SPEAKER_02] Who's up for election?

[00:59:35] [SPEAKER_04] I don't think so.

[00:59:38] [SPEAKER_02] The Rosemont Bears.

[00:59:39] [SPEAKER_04] This is another one. This is a major, major problem for Dallas. So, if you go to downtown Dallas, and trust me, I've had my fun in Dallas, but downtown, it can be hard to find fun sometimes. Sure can. Last time I went looking for fun, I found Ric Flair, the wrestler.

[00:59:57] [SPEAKER_02] That's a good find.

[00:59:59] [SPEAKER_04] So, I just wanted to get a hamburger and a beer and watch college football before the show, and boom, there he was.

[01:00:07] [SPEAKER_02] Nature boy.

[01:00:08] [SPEAKER_04] Downtown Dallas can have its moments where it doesn't seem very active. Let's put it that way, okay? Well, the American Airlines Arena, which I do like, our center, whatever you want to call it, it's where the Stars play, the hockey team, and the Mavericks. Well, guess who's leaving? Both of them. Both? Both. The Stars are going to Plano. I looked it up. It's 30 miles north of Dallas, northeast.

[01:00:36] [SPEAKER_02] Okay.

[01:00:37] [SPEAKER_04] But in Dallas traffic, that could take an hour.

[01:00:40] [SPEAKER_02] Yeah.

[01:00:40] [SPEAKER_04] And what are we doing? Why? I mean, I don't know. Maybe people don't want to keep it downtown. But I'm just reporting back, it's going to be a $1 billion arena, entertainment district, and shops at the Willow Bend in Plano. So it's by a mall?

[01:00:59] The Stars?

[01:00:59] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah, I guess. Oh. They want a modern hockey-first home where they can control surrounding real estate. Okay. This is all going to take five years, but it's happening.

[01:01:12] [SPEAKER_02] That's crazy.

[01:01:14] [SPEAKER_04] Yep. Yep. Let's move it on to news. This is so great. This is my joke about the cartels and their tunneling abilities. A cartel just lost a 1,933-foot tunnel and $45 million worth of cocaine because their fake store up top was too quiet. The tunnel itself worked 55 feet deep.

[01:01:42] [SPEAKER_04] It had an electrical rail system, ventilation, wood shoring, a hydraulic lift, multiple staircases running from Tijuana into a storage room in San Diego.

[01:01:53] [SPEAKER_02] Wow. Yeah. That's crazy.

[01:01:54] [SPEAKER_04] None of that gave them up. A retail store that sold nothing is what gave Homeland Security the clue.

[01:02:03] [SPEAKER_02] Wow.

[01:02:04] [SPEAKER_04] Homeland Security watched Buy For Less, that was the name of the store,

[01:02:07] [SPEAKER_00] from December to Buy For Less.

[01:02:09] [SPEAKER_04] The flag was-

[01:02:11] [SPEAKER_00] With a big four on it.

[01:02:12] [SPEAKER_04] The flag was never on the drugs. It was missing the customers. The warehouse store feet from the Ote Mesa crossing with almost no foot traffic while employees carried suitcases out and walked them back across the border empty.

[01:02:32] [SPEAKER_01] Oh, okay.

[01:02:33] [SPEAKER_04] You can hide a 55 feet tunnel underground. You cannot fake six months of working business that has no business.

[01:02:41] [SPEAKER_00] That's great.

[01:02:42] [SPEAKER_04] The Cardell, they built it there for all their reasons, but it got busted. You should have thought of something better. Get an Auntie Annie's pretzels and don't tell them what you're doing. Something. This is exciting. This is exciting news. I didn't even know about this. What if one of Ireland's most famous myths was about to return? According to folklore, 2026 is the year high Brazil could reappear. Oh.

[01:03:08] [SPEAKER_04] The Phantom Island was said to rise from the Atlantic mist somewhere off Ireland's west coast before disappearing again. People believed in it so strongly that it appeared on maps for centuries. Oh my God, wow. We're tracing real places connected to this legend from Connemara to Mayo to- I've been to the islands. I didn't know I was looking for a mythical one that's going to rise from the mist to 2026.

[01:03:33] [SPEAKER_03] Damn it.

[01:03:35] [SPEAKER_04] That's why I can't have nice things. I can't have nice things. No. Um, shout out to New York. They're going to be the first state that officially bans animal testing for makeup. Great. Good. I don't need to torture a beagle to find out what foundation I won't be allergic to. I'll just not wear any makeup. How about that?

[01:03:51] [SPEAKER_02] I like it.

[01:03:52] [SPEAKER_04] Um, excuse me. Um, so many, there's so many things. Um, well, this is just for tourist information cause we're in summer. I don't have any tour on this week. Thank God everyone's on good behavior. Um, a new ferry route is set to make travel easier between Ireland and France.

[01:04:13] [SPEAKER_02] I like the name. Ferry route.

[01:04:15] [SPEAKER_04] Ferry route. They should spell it F-A-R like the Irish. Yes. Hibernian line is going to launch a direct service between Cork and Boulogne-Sameur operating six days a week. That'd be fun. Yeah. I would do that instead of flying. Let's go do it. Let's go avoid the air, the airport. Right. I wonder how long it takes. It doesn't say.

[01:04:37] [SPEAKER_04] Um, oh my God, this is, this would be, uh, well, I would say Catholic wise, my idea of my idea of purgatory. Okay. Which I think we canceled and then we brought it back. I'm not really sure. I'll have to do the research on that. But I was very upset they canceled purgatory. I'm like, that's what a lot of us are banking on. Yeah. Just a little waiting room. Think about what you did.

[01:05:01] [SPEAKER_02] Put you in time out.

[01:05:02] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah. You're in time out. You're going to have, you're going to have six more meetings lined up with St. Peter. Get your facts together. Get a lawyer. Um, this sounds horrific plans released. This is happening for a 16 billion mile long ship capable of carrying, uh, 80,000 people. Oh God.

[01:05:30] [SPEAKER_04] The freedom ship would be home to about 50,000 people with space for 10,000 tourists and 20,000 crew members.

[01:05:39] [SPEAKER_03] No.

[01:05:40] [SPEAKER_04] It's envisioned as a permanently mobile city at sea designed for long-term residents rather than short-term travel. The ship would be about eight times the size of the current largest ship in the world, which is Royal Caribbean's icon of the seas. The plan includes a 15,000 seat stadium, schools, colleges, shops, clubs, a water park, a music hall, museums, parks, and more. The ship, which would run on nuclear, would be too large to dock.

[01:06:08] [SPEAKER_04] And we will, well, how are we ever getting on and off?

[01:06:10] [SPEAKER_02] Right.

[01:06:12] [SPEAKER_04] We got to be dingy'd out there.

[01:06:13] [SPEAKER_02] Ugh.

[01:06:14] [SPEAKER_04] 50,000 people.

[01:06:15] [SPEAKER_02] That sounds horrible.

[01:06:17] [SPEAKER_04] It will remain in international waters because it's too large to dock. It will go around the world every two to three years.

[01:06:24] [SPEAKER_02] Oh my God. No, thank you. No.

[01:06:26] [SPEAKER_04] It would literally be my idea of purgatory.

[01:06:32] [SPEAKER_00] Ugh.

[01:06:33] [SPEAKER_04] I have dork news. This is the news for my dork friends. I have quite a few. I like it. I have quite a few. My friend Jackie Cason, her podcast is called The Dork Forest. Dork news.

[01:06:47] [SPEAKER_00] Okay.

[01:06:48] [SPEAKER_04] Nerd, dork, whatever. Dork's more fun. This is pretty fascinating. I would never do it. I don't have the patience. But if you're into Legos, the newly released largest Lego set ever is a Catholic church. No. Boom. We got bling. La Sagrada Familia. The largest church in the world. That's what you're duplicating when you do it. And boy, is it fantastic looking. Yeah. Let's order it. It's 800 bucks.

[01:07:18] [SPEAKER_02] $800?

[01:07:19] [SPEAKER_04] Yep. That's what somebody said. Oh my God. It has soaring spires, intricate carvings, and an interior designed to capture light streaming through. It has stained glass windows.

[01:07:31] [SPEAKER_02] Is it life size? I can't tell.

[01:07:34] [SPEAKER_04] It's 12,060 pieces. It's a tribute to the largest church on earth.

[01:07:39] Wow.

[01:07:39] [SPEAKER_04] I'm surprised there's not something bigger in India or something. You know?

[01:07:43] [SPEAKER_02] Well, now that you've said it.

[01:07:46] [SPEAKER_04] Beep, beep, beep.

[01:07:48] [SPEAKER_00] The Catholics are winning.

[01:07:51] [SPEAKER_04] We're winning with bling. We never ever lose a bling war. I mean, we do not lose the bling anything. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. This is your problem here, Paddles. Okay. This is not a United States problem. So the premiere of Alberta, Canada, who people say I look like, which is fine. You resemble her. She's normal looking. I'll take it. Yep.

[01:08:18] [SPEAKER_04] A lot of the Albertans want to separate from Canada. They do. Well, she is not for that. The premiere. What?

[01:08:28] [SPEAKER_02] I don't know about all that.

[01:08:29] [SPEAKER_04] Okay. Well, I'm just saying what it said. Okay. She has previously said she does not support Alberta leaving Canada, but has argued something and I don't know what. But she's going to do a study. Okay. To see what it would take. It's going to be a report that she's commissioning. It's going to be a four, if they were to separate so far from the numbers that are coming in, it's going to be $400 billion. I don't doubt that.

[01:08:59] [SPEAKER_02] That's why Quebec is still part of Canada. That's why Texas is still part of the US. You know what?

[01:09:06] [SPEAKER_04] There's a lot of money involved. It's too late to leave wherever you're at. You had to go Viking on people's ass and kill people a long, long time ago. Everything's spoken for. You're getting to the party way too late if you want to be your own nation. We're not doing that anymore. No one's doing that anymore. No. No. Do you have money? Do you have a flag? It's about money. Do you have a song?

[01:09:26] [SPEAKER_02] I know. The West is the oil in Canada.

[01:09:31] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah. Yeah. And then the East are little tiny hogs and they take all the oil to run Toronto and the big cities, little tiny, tiny, tiny energy pigs running all around the East and not so many people in the West. I agree with Northern Southern California. I've always thought Northern California, they raise their voices every now and then say, that's different. If you want to be a different state, not a nation. Right. I mean, Christ almighty. How many times? Or you know what?

[01:09:58] [SPEAKER_04] I'd say let's do it, but we got to do it like the way it was done when it was initially done.

[01:10:04] [SPEAKER_02] With muskets.

[01:10:05] [SPEAKER_04] I want the Alamo again. Come on, motherfuckers. Get your shit. I want some sort of gun with a sword on the end so you have a double, double weapon.

[01:10:15] [SPEAKER_02] We're going to make the Calgary Stampede really interesting.

[01:10:18] [SPEAKER_04] The Calgary Stampede is going to have a whole new meeting because we're doing it for real. We're actually stampeding people.

[01:10:24] [SPEAKER_02] Winners to seeds. Yeah.

[01:10:25] [SPEAKER_04] You can use any kind of war trick that was available in the year that you became a province.

[01:10:31] [SPEAKER_02] I feel like by sanctioning this, I just feel like if you, you know, we're going to do a study and we're going to, you're just putting fuel on this and then you say you're not for it. Well, your actions are kind of saying that you're.

[01:10:45] [SPEAKER_04] Well, maybe though, the point of the study is to prove to people you can't afford it. Right. Because I think people sometimes when they get riled up about stuff, just go fuck it. Just leave. Right. Okay. That you don't understand the complications of that. Not to be an overly anal person, but you know, proud Canadian. Let's stick with that.

[01:11:05] Okay.

[01:11:06] [SPEAKER_02] That's what world cups for.

[01:11:07] [SPEAKER_04] That's right. Following the NHL. Yes, I am by the Jersey. The Vegas Carolina series is wonderful. I still, I said, it's really fun. I said Vegas a long time ago, not because I'm not rooting for Carolina. Well, I'm not really rooting for you. The team. I just think Vegas is better.

[01:11:27] [SPEAKER_02] You're rooting for the blues.

[01:11:28] [SPEAKER_04] You're right. The blues are out. The Preds are my fallback team. They're terrible. Jackson Pollock played by who? Ed Harris, one of my favorite actors in the movie. So cute. His painting, which to me looks like a Rorschach test. I would have zero interest in this being in my home. Matter of fact, I'd rather it not. Okay. I find it mentally disturbing. It sold for $181 million at auction. Wow. It's big though.

[01:11:55] [SPEAKER_04] At least whoever bought this got his money worth rather than some little tiny thing in a tiny gold frame. It came from a private collection of media magnet, S.I. Newhouse. Oh.

[01:12:05] [SPEAKER_00] Right. I like it.

[01:12:06] [SPEAKER_04] Who also is now the fourth most expensive artwork ever sold at auction. $181 million.

[01:12:12] [SPEAKER_02] Crazy.

[01:12:13] [SPEAKER_04] What are we going to do with this? What are we going to do with it? I don't know. I was going to tell you about the border bar, but I'm going to tell you the states where you're most likely to get killed by lightning since it's summertime.

[01:12:29] [SPEAKER_00] Okay, great.

[01:12:29] [SPEAKER_04] And you need to pay attention. You got to pay attention. Yeah, because some are shocking. Now the two you're not going to get killed, Alaska everyone would figure. Right. It's not hot enough.

[01:12:42] [SPEAKER_02] And Washington.

[01:12:44] [SPEAKER_04] No.

[01:12:44] [SPEAKER_02] No?

[01:12:45] [SPEAKER_04] No.

[01:12:46] Okay.

[01:12:47] [SPEAKER_02] Rain's there a lot.

[01:12:48] [SPEAKER_04] Florida is the lightning capital of the world. I would have guessed that. Absolutely. Hold on. I got to get to my thing. Ninety seven lightning deaths were confirmed in Florida. That's probably more than alligators. Yeah. You should get off the beach. Totally. Well, but tourists get excited and you get all your shit to the beach and you see a black cloud way over there and you think, it's not here yet.

[01:13:10] Right. Yeah. Yeah.

[01:13:12] [SPEAKER_04] In the last nine years alone, ba-ba-ba. Oh, poor guy was killed by lightning on his honeymoon. Hold on. I'm getting to the list. Wow. The runner up. The runner up to Florida? Mm-hmm. Texas. Really? I can totally believe that. From 2006 to 2025, 42 deaths.

[01:13:32] Wow.

[01:13:32] [SPEAKER_04] Mm-hmm. The combination of open plains, a robust agricultural workforce and the collision of moist Gulf air and dry Western air produces powerful thunderstorms and increases the risk of lightning. Colorado takes third place. Really? Yeah. That surprised me. I would think San Diego or something.

[01:13:50] [SPEAKER_01] Mm-hmm.

[01:13:50] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah. 27 deaths over the past two decades. Colorado. I don't think of lightning and mountains. Alabama. Alabama. You're in fourth place. North Carolina. Fifth place. Uh, Wyoming has, um, the highest point. Oh, when they adjust fatalities for population size, the number one is Wyoming. Really?

[01:14:20] [SPEAKER_04] But that's saying per people. Right. Yeah. Yeah. You can't really call that. And, um, the, the, the states where you're probably not going to get killed. No fatalities since 2006. Alaska. Okay. Delaware.

[01:14:34] Mm-hmm.

[01:14:34] [SPEAKER_04] Well, Delaware is only, it's so tiny. Mm-hmm. Hawaii surprises me. I would think there'd be all kinds of tour-ons out frolicking around Hawaiian islands getting hit by lightning. Yeah. Yeah. New Hampshire. You're pretty safe. In Washington, bolstered by cooler climates and urban geography, they have no recorded fatalities since 2006. In clouds. Mm-hmm. The odds of being killed by lightning are 1.5 million. Woo! 90% of lightning strike victims survive strikes.

[01:15:04] [SPEAKER_04] There is a golfer named Retief Goosen from South Africa who has been hit twice in his life by lightning. He was blown out of his shoes and they have his one outfit that he was wearing that day in some museum, a golf museum. I think it's in the Golf Hall of Fame. And I mean, phew! His clothes were like cut in half. Really? Yeah. The man, the fact that the man survived twice. That's terrible. Well, golf is where you're gonna, things are gonna happen that aren't necessarily great

[01:15:32] [SPEAKER_04] if you're stuck with lightning and you also have an eight iron in your hand.

[01:15:37] Yeah.

[01:15:38] [SPEAKER_04] And you're in a golf cart. You hope you're in a golf cart, but if you're a professional golfer, you're walking.

[01:15:43] [SPEAKER_01] That's horrible.

[01:15:44] [SPEAKER_04] I am watching Dutton Ranch. I forgot to do what I'm watching because of Bobby. And I do like it. I gotta say the first episode was very kind of VH1 video-esque. Like, come on, let's get a story going. Yep. It's going. Everything's blowing up. It's going. I love Ed Harris. I love Annette Benning. I love the lady who plays and the couple. I don't even know their names. The redhead. Yeah.

[01:16:06] [SPEAKER_02] Kelly somebody.

[01:16:08] [SPEAKER_04] All right. We're not staying dumb here. No. Before we do feel goods and stuff. We're not staying dumb. Good. So my question this week. Oh no, I didn't lose it. Hold on. I know where it's at. Spanish. Let's learn a little Spanish. Okay. Is there a tour guide? I think I would. I might want to ask the people at the front desk. I unguia touristico. I like it.

[01:16:33] Yeah.

[01:16:33] [SPEAKER_04] Touristico. And there's touristica. There's the feminine too. Una. Una touristica.

[01:16:39] Una touristica.

[01:16:40] [SPEAKER_04] That's the feminine.

[01:16:41] [SPEAKER_02] Got it.

[01:16:41] [SPEAKER_04] Like French. Yeah. Gotcha. So we've learned that, but we've also learned, so let's not forget, this is how we learn to be stand-ups. We have to repeat what we have done. Tienes alcohol? Do you have alcohol? Where is the bar? Donde esta la barra? Does the bar have food? El bar sirve comida? What time does the kitchen close? ¿Qué hora será la quichan hora? What time is checkin'? ¿Qué hora es el check? How late is breakfast sir?

[01:17:11] [SPEAKER_04] I brutalize this every time. Hasta qué hora se sirve el desinuno.

[01:17:17] [SPEAKER_02] Desinuno.

[01:17:18] [SPEAKER_04] Yep.

[01:17:18] [SPEAKER_02] Okay.

[01:17:19] [SPEAKER_04] So you're caught up. That's right. We're not staying dumb. No, we're not. We're going to learn things whether people fucking like it or not. Grammar rules. Grammar rules. Okay.

[01:17:28] [SPEAKER_02] Oh yeah.

[01:17:32] [SPEAKER_04] Farther versus further. Did we do this one? I can't remember. No. Okay. Okay. I got to start marking these off better. But you know what they forgot?

[01:17:43] [SPEAKER_02] I could be wrong.

[01:17:43] [SPEAKER_04] They have farther versus further. Farther is a physical distance. Okay. Further is figurative.

[01:17:50] [SPEAKER_02] Yes.

[01:17:51] [SPEAKER_04] But they forgot my golf friend Pinky Tito, a.k.a. Mark, threw out the other day fother. And I suppose that is spelled F-O-T-H-E-R. He goes, he hit a ball, then he hit another ball, and God knows what's going on. He goes, that one went farther than the other one. I go, fother. Fother. Fother. There's no definition for that. That's why I'm so sad the Southern accent's going to disappear over time because too many

[01:18:19] [SPEAKER_04] of us Yankees are moving down here and just wiping that shit off. And I love it. Fother. Fother. Fother. I'm like, I can't believe you just said it. Hold on. There's one thing I want to grab out of here. That's our grammar lesson. So farther means physical distance. So does fother. The way my friend Mark used fother. Mm-hmm. What do they mean figurative? Further. I mean, I know what figurative means, but use that in a sentence. Fother.

[01:18:49] [SPEAKER_04] Fother. Fother. That's so stupid. We did lay versus lie, right?

[01:18:56] [SPEAKER_02] Yes.

[01:18:57] [SPEAKER_04] Okay. This one drives me crazy. And I know it's being particular. Just do one more. Could have. Not could've. Could've. Could've. Could've. Could of. I could. I could.

[01:19:11] [SPEAKER_02] I've probably said.

[01:19:12] [SPEAKER_04] I probably do too because I'm lazy, but I could've gone. Could've. I could've gone.

[01:19:16] [SPEAKER_02] Could've.

[01:19:17] [SPEAKER_04] Well, could've, but in the Midwest it would be could've.

[01:19:20] [SPEAKER_02] Could've.

[01:19:21] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah. Not right either.

[01:19:22] [SPEAKER_02] All right.

[01:19:23] [SPEAKER_04] In enough. Oh, we did. I forgot. We also had. Further. Where's the beach? Donde esta la playa? And I love this hotel. Me encanta este hotel.

[01:19:32] I like it. I like it. Yeah.

[01:19:34] [SPEAKER_04] And in our effort, cause I read somewhere, I don't know, they're taking black history out of some schools. So you know what? We're gonna put it back in. Okay. And I'm gonna tell you, famous black people did cool shit that I don't think they get enough attention. Great. Great. This is very important to me. George Franklin Grant, handsome guy, born in 1840. Oh, he's born in Oswego where my friends Mary and Tommy live. Oh. 1846. Died in Chester, New Hampshire. He went to Harvard Dental School.

[01:20:03] [SPEAKER_02] Oh my God. Yep. Wow.

[01:20:04] [SPEAKER_04] He had a wife, Georgina. But more importantly, he invented the golf tee. He was a Boston dentist, but he's an inventor of the early composite golf tee made from wood and natural rubber, rubber, specifically gutta perching tubing. He was born to escape slaves. Okay. And then they went up north and he gained, he got into Harvard Dental School, blah, blah, blah.

[01:20:31] [SPEAKER_04] He was a first American, African American professor at Harvard.

[01:20:36] [SPEAKER_00] Cool. Cool.

[01:20:36] [SPEAKER_04] This guy got some shit done.

[01:20:37] [SPEAKER_00] That's awesome.

[01:20:38] [SPEAKER_04] He opened a successful dental practice and then he loved golf. Uh huh. And he was tired because he used to play in a meadow in his home in Arlington. Um, because he didn't like, back then you just had to get a little pile of sand and make that your tee, but like make your own tee.

[01:20:55] [SPEAKER_02] That seems involved.

[01:20:57] [SPEAKER_04] Well, you could do it if there's enough grass. I love golf, but I just don't want to make a mud mound every time I want to hit a ball. Like, and, um, if you're wearing white shorts and steady, uh, even though his patent, even though the patent for his tee issued on December 12th, 1889, I was the first in the country. He never capitalized on the invention. Instead he had prototypes made for his own personal use and handed them out. This is the case of an example of a creative solution, creative solution golfers proposed

[01:21:27] [SPEAKER_04] to everyday problems while they face teeing off. Yes. Nice. Just remember that. Google him. He's very cute. George Franklin Grant. Every time you tee up a ball, if you golf or you see a golf tee in your dad's golf bag, just, you can thank George for that. Take a George. George Grant. Nobody ever taught me that in school. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.

[01:21:48] [SPEAKER_02] Nyant. Nyant.

[01:21:49] [SPEAKER_04] Nyant. Okay. We got some thank yous and I'm going to do, oh, my feel good. Let's do my feel good first.

[01:21:56] [SPEAKER_02] Okay.

[01:21:57] [SPEAKER_04] Soup again. Thank God for, I should have been a conservationist or something, but it seems like.

[01:22:04] [SPEAKER_02] Do you have a trail cam?

[01:22:06] [SPEAKER_04] I do, but I haven't hung it up yet. It seems hard.

[01:22:09] [SPEAKER_02] Huh. I'll help you. I need. Let's see what's going on in this property.

[01:22:13] [SPEAKER_04] I need a friend who's a critter.

[01:22:16] [SPEAKER_02] I've met some of your friends.

[01:22:18] [SPEAKER_04] Well, I do have two.

[01:22:19] [SPEAKER_02] I think you have a few. Yeah. Yeah.

[01:22:22] [SPEAKER_04] The one guy who put the shingles on the house, he purposely eats roadkill and told me all about it.

[01:22:28] [SPEAKER_00] And I'm like. That's what I was going to say. Yeah.

[01:22:30] [SPEAKER_04] I'm like, okay. Yeah. But he seems more of a nature naturalist, not like a hunter or fisher person where I could say a hunter would know how to hang that camera. And all it. Well, our trail cams are at it again all over the world. People, you could call it one of the world's longest games of hide and go seek. Okay. This could be one of the cutest animals I've ever seen. And I've never heard of it. And I've never seen it. I'm going to put it in the schnotes for more than 20 years. He's the Illypika.

[01:23:01] [SPEAKER_04] I-L-L-I-P-I-K-A. Okay. Pika. I'm going to call him the Illypika. Illypika. He's a type of mountain dwelling mammal with a teddy bear face. And he is a looted scientist in the mountains of northwestern China. People had seen the furry critter only a handful of times in the first few years in its discovery in 1983.

[01:23:21] [SPEAKER_02] That's cool.

[01:23:22] [SPEAKER_04] That's when people say, oh, there can't be a Bigfoot out there. I realize that's a lot larger. Well. But we didn't even know about little Pika man until 1983. But then the trail went cold. But in the summer of 2014, they rediscovered the Pika. But then he went 20 years missing. He's totally playing hide and go seek. They live at high elevations. It's basically a rabbit. It looks like a rabbit if a rabbit had a teddy bear face.

[01:23:51] [SPEAKER_02] That's cool. It's adorable. That sounds really cute.

[01:23:54] [SPEAKER_04] In the 1990s, the estimate put its population at about 2,000. But that number is thought to be decreasing. Even so, there are no strong efforts underway to help the Ily Pika. This guy wants to change it. And he's caught him on a trail cam to show, look, they're here. I mean, look at that thing.

[01:24:12] [SPEAKER_02] Oh. Adorable.

[01:24:14] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah. Like as cute as a bunny rabbit, except even cuter because its eyes are... I don't know. It's just... Wow. That's adorable. Well, we found him. He's cool. Let's get some conservation going on the Ily Pikas. So they can have... They live in the mountains. Who gives a shit? Help them. They're not going to come into town and bother you. That's great. UPS. I got a few thank yous. The Book of Feminist Saints. I haven't read it yet, but that's from Lawrence, Kansas. Oh, Lawrence, Kansas. Termite Darlene.

[01:24:44] [SPEAKER_04] Three Redneck Tenors. It's a cookbook. It's very funny. From Matt, Blake, and Sean. The Three Redneck Tenors. My little cat nativity scene. Early for Christmas, but I'll take it. Nice. From Shoreline, Washington. Termite. Lauren, on my Bitcoin ornament. Very cute. California Termite Maria. And Drinking with the Saints book. I now have two copies. I'm going to give one to my mom. That's from Wisconsin. Termite. You're going to give one to your mom. Princess Pail. She'll like it. Nice. She'll love it.

[01:25:14] [SPEAKER_04] Let's do our saint and then our quotes.

[01:25:16] [SPEAKER_02] Okay.

[01:25:16] [SPEAKER_04] And then again, there will be no pubcast next week. Termites.

[01:25:22] [SPEAKER_02] You need a vacation every now and then.

[01:25:24] [SPEAKER_04] Yeah. I'm just going to go golf. Wait a second. I did do this. Oh shit. Where did it go? Oh. No. Give me one second. Oh, here. Yeah. This is a great story. Okay. This is a feast of St. Arnulf of Soissons. Nice. Arnulf. A-R-N-U-L-F.

[01:25:53] [SPEAKER_04] L-F. Arnulf. He was a reluctant bishop in the year 1087.

[01:26:00] [SPEAKER_00] Okay.

[01:26:00] [SPEAKER_04] This is why I did it. In honor of my cousins and me drinking all the beers in St. Louis. In the county. In the county. Patron saint of bakers and brewers. Cool. Arnulf of Soissons was a French soldier turned clergyman. He was unwillingly accepted. He unwillingly accepted the position of abbot of his monastery and even more reluctantly became the bishop of Soissons.

[01:26:25] [SPEAKER_04] Driven from his espicopit by, driven from his, I don't know, by invaders he moved to Flanders. Oh, Flanders Field, everyone knows.

[01:26:37] [SPEAKER_02] Where the puppies grow.

[01:26:38] [SPEAKER_04] In France, where the puppies grow. When a plague broke out, he noticed the water drinkers were dropping like flies. But the beer drinkers were thriving. He hastened to brew up a big batch of beer and save the town. In Arnulf, he is always depicted holding what appears to be a long-handled fork, possibly a utensil for adding hops to his brew. But it was interpreted as a baker's shovel, which accounts for Arnulf's tradition of bakers as well. That's great.

[01:27:07] [SPEAKER_04] So they don't know what's in his hand. Yep. We're just going to say, we know he did the beer and maybe we'll throw bakers in. Yeah. Because he only has one chore. And as we know, a lot of these saints have like a hundred. Cool. Okay. How about a David Bowie quote? Yes. Sure. They're always fun. Hold on. I did this. Here we go. But this is a bold thing to say. And I don't think he's wrong. And I think we blame Lenny Riefenstahl. Oh.

[01:27:37] [SPEAKER_04] This is where my World War II knowledge goes a little too far. Here we go. Here we go. This is what David said when he was being interviewed by some magazine I've never heard of. And me, I don't know what that is. Adolf Hitler was one of the first rock stars. He was no politician. He was a media artist himself. He used politics and theatrics and created this thing that governed and controlled the show for those 12 years.

[01:28:07] [SPEAKER_04] He staged a country. Yes. Yeah. I mean, I think there's obviously a lot more involved. I do think he was a politician. I disagree with David on that. But, and who helped him? Who was the main contributor to your movies, your commercials, your, all your propaganda bullshit? Lenny Riefenstahl. And then we got AI. And then she says she was just the artist. Well, then why are you at every, every party picture I see you're in it. Exactly. You're having a blast.

[01:28:34] [SPEAKER_02] Yeah.

[01:28:34] [SPEAKER_04] You're a VIP.

[01:28:36] [SPEAKER_02] You're a VIP.

[01:28:36] [SPEAKER_04] Now the other opposite end of the spectrum is Elvis. When asked about Vietnam war protesters in 19, two, 1972, he said, honey, I just want to keep my own personal views about that to myself. Cause I'm just an entertainer and I'd rather not say, but I liked that. He started out with honey, honey.

[01:28:54] [SPEAKER_00] Nice. Yeah.

[01:28:56] [SPEAKER_04] Anymore. No, we're not doing that. X O X. But he was cute enough. I'd let him call me honey any day. All right. Termites. Enjoy. Um, the opening week of world cup. If you're into it, the NBA, boom, it's happening. Nice. NHL. Boom. It's happening. And tennis for all you tennis freaks. Um, you know, my friend Lorene's keeps me, keeps me updated. I'm, I'm kind of in the loop. Kind of not. Um, well, some of the matches just take too long.

[01:29:25] [SPEAKER_01] Yeah.

[01:29:26] [SPEAKER_04] But that's what my friends like about it. I, I, well, I mean, I should talk golf a less all goddamn day, but you also don't really have to pay attention. No true. You can go drift in and out on golf. Yes. Um, all right. That's it. Are we ready?

[01:29:40] I'm back to it once.