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Hello everybody, Two Boosh Bags and Microphone. I'm Mark.
And I'm Rob.
Alright, welcome to the program. The first thing is, is Rob has something he wants to take the floor on.
So, I have no idea what it's about, but anyhow Rob, go ahead, the floor is yours.
Okay, well, those of you that listen regularly know that we record these and you hear them two or three days later.
Even though we say they're live.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, they're live, uh...
They're live when we do them.
Yeah, yeah.
Uh, well, today is September 2nd, 2023.
It is, I second that on the second day of September.
Well, I woke up a little early this morning and I grabbed my phone.
Did you have a boner?
Laying here and...
Did you have a boner?
No, not this morning.
Okay, alright, go ahead, sorry.
I grabbed my phone to do a little work for the podcast before my son woke up.
Because that's called dedication, folks. That's called dedication.
Yeah, yeah.
Anyhow, go ahead.
Well, unfortunately, the first thing I read...
Oh, I know.
Friday, January... Yeah, you know what I'm getting ready to say.
Yes, go ahead.
Friday, January 1st.
This world lost one of the greatest musicians ever in my book, my opinion.
This man started his own genre of music.
I would agree with that.
With followers like Kenny Chesney and people like that.
He started to beat cowboys then.
Yes, and let's face it, nobody parties a real party like an adult party.
Not like a young one with all the rap or whatever.
Right, and one of the masters of this was Mr. Jimmy Buffett.
And whenever Jimmy Buffett comes on, it's one of the few artists where everybody is like,
Hey, yeah!
There's a lot of artists that do that that just gets a young person, old person, middle person,
female, male, trans, whatever.
Everybody loves Jimmy Buffett to a certain degree.
Now, I'm a fan.
I love his music in certain elements.
But I've never been the hugest fan, but I get it, man.
He invented his own genre of music.
And you know what? God bless him, man.
Well, we have our own Margarita Joe right here, right to the Ozarks now.
Yeah, I saw that. How was it? Have you been there or not?
Yeah, I was there two years ago.
Actually, yeah, I was more at Landshark Bar.
Oh, Landshark, yeah. I got a question.
Do they land?
Right here on the lake. It's a big deal, man.
It's the old Tantera Resort.
Oh, it's Tantera. Okay.
Yeah, yeah.
That is now Margarita Joe.
The beach there, the beach looks phenomenal.
There used to be some cottages down on the point,
uh-huh.
down on the, right there by the lake.
Yes.
They doze those, and that's where they put Landshark Bar in real.
Yeah, that is right on the lake.
Landshark is always making the news.
Yes, they are.
Yeah, and a lot of times it's not for a good thing.
Landshark got called out a couple of years very famously
for having like 300 people in the swimming pool during COVID.
Do you remember that?
Yeah, yeah.
It was nationwide news.
Yeah.
People were like, oh my God, look at this.
There's 300 people in here, and they're all just going,
hey, we're outside. What's the big fucking deal?
So anyhow, yeah.
Oh, that's the way it was down here.
I've got a question, Rob.
A friend of mine said that they have real palm trees there.
Is this true?
Here?
At the resort.
They might. I don't know for a fact.
Okay, well maybe they do. I don't know.
I'll have to do it.
Like I said, it was a couple years ago.
Okay.
So, yeah.
No, someone said that they take them in, they dig them out,
and take them in during the winter or something,
and that they actually do really well.
So anyhow, it doesn't matter.
They very well could. I don't know.
Yeah, okay. I just wondered if you witnessed that yourself.
Okay, it doesn't matter. It was just my own thing.
So anyhow, yeah, we lost one.
Jimmy Buffett making music in the great beyond now.
Yes, he will.
Is there any word on what he passed away of?
No, the report I heard, they were not releasing anything yet.
And that was this morning, first thing this morning.
So I have it.
Okay.
It'll be two or three days. You know how that works.
Oh yeah, yeah, that's true.
Okay. I've got a little report I'd like to do.
These are a list of, it's a, this is a website called Lawn Starter,
and they do statistics on cities.
And this is a rank of the dirtiest cities in America.
And what they mean by that is pollution, litter, garbage disposal,
housing, how houses are kept up or not, potholes, sidewalks, everything.
And this is the worst cities, the dirtiest cities.
And this is all by those statistics and probably a couple more I don't know about.
So are you ready to hear some of them?
Yeah.
Okay. Number one is Houston.
Houston got the number one for dirtiest city.
Pollution rank is three, living conditions rank is four,
infrastructure rank is 12, and consumer satisfaction rank is 34.
Number two is Newark, New Jersey.
It's got a pollution rank of 14, living conditions rank of five,
infrastructure rank of 97, and satisfaction rank of three.
San Bernardino, California is number three on the dirtiest city.
It's got a pollution rank of number one.
San Bernardino is number one in pollution. Isn't that fucked?
Yeah.
Living conditions is 56, infrastructure is 131,
and consumer satisfaction rank is number one.
So it sounds to me like anyone in San Bernardino is not happy.
Number four is Detroit.
Detroit, Michigan ranks number four in dirtiest cities.
It has a pollution rank of ninth, living conditions rank of 35,
infrastructure rank 89, consumer satisfaction rank of four.
Next one is Jersey City, which is right next to Newark.
And that is number five for dirtiest cities.
And the pollution rank is 50.
Interesting.
Newark right next door, pollution rank is 14.
How did they go from 14 to way down the line to 50?
That's odd, don't you think?
They're right next door.
You think they have the same pollution rank, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Living conditions are 35, infrastructure 89,
and consumer satisfaction rank of four.
All right.
Bakersfield, California, pollution rank 27.
Bakersfield is number six on dirtiest cities,
according to this website.
Pollution rank is 27, living conditions rank is 69,
and infrastructure rank is 122, consumer satisfaction rank is seven.
And I'm not going to tell the consumer satisfaction ranks
anymore, who cares who likes it and doesn't, right?
You think?
Yep.
OK.
Texas, that kind of surprised me.
Number seven on dirtiest cities.
San Antonio used to be well picked up and nice.
I don't know what happened.
Pollution rank is 34, living conditions is 12, infrastructure is 29.
Number eight is Fresno, California, on the dirtiest cities list.
31 is pollution rank, living conditions 81, infrastructure rank is 121.
Number nine, and this surprises me.
I've been there many times on jobs and just down there passing through going to Texas.
Oklahoma City is number nine on dirtiest cities.
Isn't that surprising?
Have you been to Oklahoma City, Rob?
Yeah, yeah.
It seems clean and well kept, doesn't it?
Yeah, to me it does.
I wonder what happened to get it number nine.
I feel a lot worse.
That's what I'm saying.
It hit number nine?
That kind of, I found that odd.
I don't see that.
I don't know.
This is this one website, who knows?
Right.
Maybe they haven't, maybe like one of the writers has an X in Oklahoma City.
Fuck that city, 30.
I don't know, who knows?
Doesn't everybody?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true.
Pollution rank five, living conditions 25 and infrastructure eight.
Number 10 is Yonkers, New York, which I've been through and this does not surprise me.
I've never been there.
Pollution rank 46.
You don't miss much.
It's on the outskirts of New York City proper.
Yeah, I've seen it on TV many a times.
Okay.
Living conditions is eight and infrastructure rank is 128.
Number 11 is Shreveport, Louisiana.
I've been through there driving and it does kind of look like a pit.
Pollution rank 26, living conditions 86, infrastructure 46.
And the people that say if you want to go to New Orleans without all the hassle, go to Shreveport.
No, I do not agree.
No.
No, it's not the same.
Just driving through there, you can tell.
A lot of the pollution down in Louisiana is all the oil refineries.
Yes, yes, and that's how come.
I don't ever go to Galveston, Texas to go to the ocean.
That's why I don't go to Shreveport or anywhere or Mississippi to go to the ocean.
The ocean there is brown from all the refinery work.
Yeah, I agree with you 100%.
Well, when I was in the time I spent in Louisiana, people would tell you,
when you go outside first thing in the morning, have a hat on your head.
Why is that?
Because of all the chemicals in the air that soak into your hair and your head.
No shit.
Yeah, yeah.
A lot of people will wear hats down there in the mornings because of that.
Because of them with the dew and everything.
Do you think that that's where the phrase came from, keep your hat on?
That could be.
Could be, I'll look into that.
All right, number 12 of America's dirty cities is New York, New York.
And I really thought they'd be higher because New York to me, downtown proper,
although they have a lot of nice areas, you know, like the square and Grand Central Station and everything,
the thing is their garbage situation is horrible.
They have to pick up the garbage at night.
So people throw it all out there during the day at the corner and it's just stinking to high hell.
And it's just there's too many people in too small of an area.
It doesn't work out.
It's 102 in pollution rank, one in living conditions, and 62 in infrastructure.
So it's number one in living conditions, which means it's horrible the higher up the number.
Yeah, right.
Overall rank, Birmingham, Alabama, number 13, dirtiest cities, pollution rank 94, living conditions number three, infrastructure 79.
Next one is Los Angeles.
I thought they would be higher of dirtiest cities.
Number 15, it's pollution rank 30, living conditions 29 and infrastructure 79.
And I'm going to go to 20 and stop.
There's a lot more of them.
Modesto, California is number 16 in America's dirtiest cities, 60 pollution rank 33, living condition rank, and 112 infrastructure rank.
Number 17 is Palmaid, California.
Are you getting a pattern here?
Yeah, I am.
Yeah, California.
Pollution rank 28, living conditions 45, infrastructure 84.
Next one is Hollywood, but not California.
Hollywood, Florida, which is right next to Fort Lauderdale, just to the north.
Been there many times.
Pollution rank 23, living conditions nine, infrastructure rank 51.
Now, Hollywood, Florida, the big secret there is this right here.
If you can't afford Fort Lauderdale, you go to Hollywood and the places are much cheaper.
It's an older beach.
It's an older part of town.
It's kind of dumpy in a lot of areas.
But if you want a cheaper vacation, you can go to Hollywood and get it half price or less than Fort Lauderdale.
And how many refineries are down around there?
I don't know.
I know Marathon was a Marathon oil was originated from Marathon, one of the Florida Keys Islands.
Well, I reason why I was asking is because once again, I was going to leave that with being on the coast and the pollution.
I'm sure it has something to do with it.
How much?
I don't know.
But I would say that that would be a really good educated guess right there.
Yeah.
OK.
Then 19 is Las Vegas, which surprises me.
Oh, wow.
Is there that much industry there?
Yeah, I know.
There's quite a bit of industry.
OK.
And then the air doesn't move there, so it stagnates.
So I could see that.
Pollution rate gets number 15, which is horrible.
And then living conditions is 99.
Infrastructure, it's 2.
So the infrastructure there sucks.
Yeah.
It all does.
Do they have any like built freeways around the around the Metroplex or something?
Is it something like that?
Or is it they have a lot of old antiquated buildings or something?
Oh, well, anyhow, number 20 is Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Pollution rank 29, living conditions 10, infrastructure rank 42.
And that being said, I think you're right, Rob, about the oil industry and all that.
There are factories.
Yeah.
Because that would make sense why it be consistent with Hollywood, Florida and Fort Lauderdale.
Yeah.
Along the coastline.
Yeah.
So you're probably right.
Just like down around Shreveport, New Orleans.
Yep.
Yeah.
Yep.
So OK.
And that is a combination of everything that I just said.
Pollution, living conditions, infrastructure, everything from litter to trash.
Not being picked up on time to horrible sidewalks.
All of this.
So that is like a combination score of all of that together.
So anyhow, that's your top 20.
And let's take a little break and come right back.
I got some lawsuits of some fast food places.
Want to hear them?
Sure.
OK.
All right.
We'll be right back.
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And now, deep thoughts with Mark.
Man, I sure wish I was the garbage man.
You know what I could do if I was the garbage man?
I could go to the wrong parts of town on the wrong days periodically in the morning
and then watch everybody run out of their house in their underwear
with two bags of trash screaming, stop, halt.
Yeah, that's what I'd love to do.
Our constant pursuit for a real knee slapper.
It's strange insults from an alien.
Real hilarity.
I will arrest you.
But my mom told me to not burn trash.
Mark?
Hey, I'm Rob.
Alrighty.
I was talking earlier about a BK lawsuit and then do you have some stuff you want to go into, Rob?
Yeah, I got a little story to do.
Okay.
Is your funk list ready?
It's ready, buddy.
Alright.
What about the Harry Ass Olympics?
We will do that on our next podcast.
Which will be what, tomorrow night?
Tomorrow night, yes.
Okay.
I will have the Harry Ass hole tomorrow night.
Okay, sounds good.
I'm finished putting my battles together.
And like I said, you tested me your list because I didn't write them down.
Uh huh.
Because we went over them so fast.
And we only had one match.
Yeah, that's what you said in your text.
And we are pretty even on the amount of people.
That was pretty good.
I'm impressed with that.
Okay.
Yeah, I am too.
I was surprised there was only one match.
Yeah, just one match.
Like I said, I have another one that was unpaired.
I can easily fit in that spot.
So don't worry about it, buddy.
Alright, cool.
Alright.
This is going to be fun.
Yeah, it is.
You got good strong ones going up against...
I got some good ones going.
Good, good, good.
Alright, as I mentioned before, BK has a lawsuit.
And this is from USA Today.
A judge has ruled that Burger King must face a class action lawsuit accusing the chain of false advertising,
joining the likes of other fast food giants like McDonald's, Taco Bell.
Now Burger King has its own lawsuit.
The latest in a line of similar legal actions, the lawsuit was originally filed in March 2020
and accused the burger chain of falsely inflating the size of its signature Whopper sandwich and promotional materials.
Is that really anything?
That's been going on for years.
Yeah, and who didn't know that?
It seems kind of petty to me because everybody within an ounce of intelligence
knows that what you see on TV is not what you get in that fucking little wrapper.
Everybody knows this.
It's common knowledge.
A three-year-old could tell you this.
And I mean, look, I mean, I get people being angry because they're paying for something, but they know.
They knew what they were buying when they did.
If they didn't, why didn't they just take the burger back and get their money back?
You can get your money back and go, you know what?
This is not what I saw on TV.
I want my money back.
They're not going to argue with you.
They'll give you your money back.
And then the people that are a part of this class action lawsuit, what are you going to sue for?
Fucking seven bucks?
This is a lawyer scam just fucking capitalizing on this, right?
I mean, they're going to go, Rob, do you have your receipt from January of 2019?
Yeah, I do right here.
How much is it?
Eight bucks?
OK, you get your eight bucks back, Rob, or maybe six.
Lawyers take two of it.
Whatever.
I mean, that just sounds like a bunch of shit to me.
The suit claims that BK made Whoppers appear twice as large as they actually are in advertisements
while the burgers compared to competitors and containing oversized meat patties and the ingredients that overflow the buns, said the filing.
The suit was brought by Florida attorney Anthony Russo representing people from numerous states.
The plaintiffs say they were disappointed with the actual sandwich and they feel they've been misled.
Disappointed with the actual sandwich?
Who the fuck is it?
You get that little bitty thing on a fucking bun, right?
And half of the ingredients is on the side.
It's not even on the patty.
You'll be lucky if you got pickles.
You'll be lucky if you got the standard dressing of whatever it is in there.
I mean, this, I mean, it's called fast food.
It's called fast food for a reason.
The chef wasn't sitting back there laboring over it and making sure it looked perfect on a plate before it went out.
These are like kids and adults with no drive pretty much.
I mean, there are cases where people have had misfortune and stuff like that and they have to work there.
I'm not saying that, but I'm saying a lot of people there are, don't care.
They're just like, you know what?
I get fired here.
I'll go next door to Taco Bell.
I'll go over to McDonald's.
I'll get a job.
I come in there.
Hey, I got experience.
Oh, when can you start?
Right now?
So, you know, okay, Rob, I'll ask you this.
When you go to Burger King or Taco Bell, what do you expect?
Not much these days.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Everybody knows that if you buy from this fast food, you're not going to get a whole lot in return.
No.
Yeah.
And it's probably going to be wrong.
You're probably going to get someone else's order.
You're definitely going to get the wrong soda.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't know.
I have a problem with these lawsuits.
What do you think, Rob?
I do too.
Do you think it's just a lawyer getting rich?
Yeah, I do.
I do too.
Because this has been going on for 30 years, 30, 40 years.
Like I said, you can pick someone out of the East Coast.
You can pick someone in the Midwest.
You can pick someone on the West Coast.
Put them all in the same room and ask them, hey, what do you think of fast food?
And they're all going to go, it's okay if you have to.
But if you don't have to, go somewhere good.
Quick and easy.
Yeah.
So that's the way it is.
I mean, if you're really that concerned about it, you'll go down to Quick Trip or Rally or whatever, checkers, whatever's around your area.
Come and go, which is my favorite.
That's so funny.
People wear those hats and shirts all over the place.
Yeah.
So anyhow, you know there's...
There's a lot of those gas stations down here.
Yeah, there is.
Got around Springfield and all that.
Springfield's getting ready to get a Buc-ee's.
Oh, cool.
Yeah, I read that.
I read that.
Yeah, I was so impressed with Buc-ee's the first time I went.
It's like a Costco or Sam's Club of gas stations where it's just like a whole bunch of just gas station stuff and little knickknacks.
Plus, just an oray of everything in there.
It's crazy.
I mean, you can get an antelope head to a real sugar frozen Pepsi.
Very interesting place.
Yeah, it was very cool.
So...
Hey, that's why after your Rally you like the real sugar.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I really cannot have the corn syrup anymore.
It doesn't taste right to me.
And it was all because I remember sodas when I was a kid tasting much better.
And I was on kind of a search and I was like, well, what could be the main problem?
So I got to look at it and this high sucrose corn syrup is a different type of sugar when you look it up.
So it would have a different taste.
So it isn't pure cane sugar that they used to use on it.
Or granulated sugar even.
It's not the same thing.
So when it's mass produced like that, the reason they use it is, number one, the government put a law into effect where we have to use that on certain things
because we have so much corn surplus.
Number two, it's easier to mix because it's a liquid.
So anyhow, you can go and you can buy real sugar about anything anymore because there's much of a demand for it.
And to me, it just tastes so much sweeter and better.
And it tastes more like what I remember soda pop tasting when I was growing up.
And I'll tell you a real treat.
Sometimes buy Simply Heinz.
Simply Heinz ketchup.
That is the shit, Rob.
I have tried that. I love it.
Isn't it awesome?
Man, that real sugar is so good in ketchup.
Yeah.
That tastes like real ketchup.
Yeah, that stuff is fucking awesome.
So Heinz Bravo. Great job on that.
It used to be I had to get it through Canada through my relatives.
And the same way with real sugar pops because they still use sugar up there, cane sugar.
So anyhow, let's go into another lawsuit really quick and then maybe we can go into some other stuff.
Okay. Panda Express has a lawsuit too.
Panda Express may owe you more than a cookie, a fortune cookie that is.
Or the cookies that are free with any meal.
Customers who placed a delivery order may be entitled to compensation.
Either money or free food after the American Chinese fast food chain agreed to settle a class action lawsuit
that claimed hundreds of thousands of customers paid hidden delivery fees with false and misleading disclosures.
Customers who placed a delivery order through the Panda Express app between July 17, 2020 and February 16, 2022
with a service fee charge may be entitled to relief and can submit a claim online.
The lawsuit alleges the company misrepresented the cost of delivery by advertising low delivery for $2.95
but then tacking on a 10% service charge for delivery customers.
I agree with this lawsuit because I've seen that before and it's a fucking lie.
It's bullshit. They go, free delivery. And then you see a service fee on there.
You're like, what's the service fee for?
Oh, that's just for people, you know, that we deliver to.
So well, isn't that a delivery fee? Oh, no, no, no. It's a service fee. Bullshit.
It's a delivery fee. And they they really are, in my opinion, trying to mislead the American public.
And they deserve to get sued on this. The other lawsuit I think is frivolous.
This I think is good because you know why I like it, Rob? Is this right here?
It's going to stop other companies from doing it. You know? Yeah. Yeah. So.
Well, we hope. Well, I mean, it should.
One good lawsuit, if they win, they're going to be like, you know what?
I don't know if we should tack on this service fee because. Yeah, you get people, other people thinking.
And here's another thing. It's bullshit.
Ever since COVID, everybody thinks they get a fucking tip.
You buy carry out and you're going to go get it and no one's serving you.
The next thing it goes, how much tip are you going to leave?
Fuck you. How about a how about a big fucking case of nothing?
You know, it pisses me off.
Like suddenly because COVID change rules a little bit and they were risking their life at the time or whatever, making your food.
Yeah, maybe they deserve a little bit more.
But now it's like, how much did you say you're going to work for 15 an hour?
OK, that's what you get. Don't fucking look at me.
It's it's a complete bullshit.
And it's it's something that they're just trying to hang on to.
And and I don't I think it's wrong.
So anyhow, then I have one more food item and then we can get to some other stuff like your funk list.
All right. OK.
After this next story, we can go to your funk list.
OK. All right. Sounds good.
OK. Business Insider is the source.
High income Americans really mix with poor people.
Restaurants like Applebee's Olive Gardens are the exception.
New research has indicated that chain restaurants, the exception places such as Chili's, Applebee's and Olive Garden.
Places such as these are located in areas that all income levels frequent, such as malls, airports and off the interstates.
The restaurants have reasonably priced food that is usually quick with bars attached.
And this is the one place it's interesting if you think about it, Rob,
it's the one place where every type of income would be there eating lower income, middle income and high income.
There's not very many places that can boast every income of person being there for something that you know that's extra.
You don't have to go out to eat.
And that's pretty unique, the study that they did.
I found it pretty fascinating that those types of restaurants actually hold that many different types of people there.
So, anyhow, that was pretty much your food news for this program.
So we'll be right back with Rob Radd's top funk list.
Isn't that right, Rob?
Invisible ass paddlings, new douche flavors and horrible pranks?
The fuck is wrong with these guys?
Oh shit, what's that over there?
Oh no, it's the island of horrible jokes.
I asked my date to meet me at the gym.
She didn't show up.
I guess we're not going to work out.
Hiss, hiss, hiss, hiss, hiss, hiss, hiss, hiss, hiss, hiss.
A constant pursuit for a real knee slapper.
It's strange insults from an alien.
Real hilarity.
Mary, your grandmother always intruded your thoughts at the last minute while you are masturbating.
If someone intimidates you, just imagine them on a table being wiped like a baby.
If a 10 pound bag of shit could talk, this is what it would sound like.
Alright, this is Two Dish Bags and Microphone and I am Mark.
And I am Rob.
Alrighty, as promised, a little bit ago, Rob's funk list.
Okay, now this for me by far was the hardest one because this was reaching out of my genre.
Okay, now don't get me wrong.
Don't get me wrong.
I know some funk.
Yeah, but I know what you mean.
This is not what you generally listen to.
I listen to every day.
Sorry, Rob, it had to be done.
It's alright, buddy, because I come up with 18.
Oh shit.
You might wipe my ass on this, dude.
Oh, and by the way.
Yeah?
Before we get into this, I have a bass amendment.
Oh, go ahead.
I did not look at my list to see where I want to place them, but they're on it.
Okay.
I like to rock April 1.
Ooh, that's a good choice.
That's just a good song, music-wise.
Yeah, it is.
Everything fits in there.
April Wine is one of the most underrated bands ever.
They are.
They are just fantastical.
A lot of people love this band.
Signing the Gypsy Queen all around town.
I like to rock.
High Roller.
That one album contained all of these hits.
It was just so solid.
Yes, it was.
They still tour every now and then.
I missed them.
I was out of town for work.
They came by Kansas City.
I was out of town, so I couldn't see them.
They were opening up for somebody.
There were a few bands there, like maybe five bands.
They were like maybe the second or third band.
I was like, man, I'm going to go to that next thing I know.
I'm somewhere else, and I couldn't go to it.
On Facebook, I get a lot of stuff about rock and stuff like that.
I see them in concerts around the country.
Quite often.
Yeah, I would love to see them.
That would be a good one.
It would be.
Who knows?
I'm sure they'll come back by and I'll get a chance.
They take mostly festivals.
Five or six bands, and then they come in.
They'll be in there somewhere.
Not at the bottom, but not at the top.
I'd like to see them at the amphitheater down here.
I think that would be a good one.
That would be a good one.
And there are kind of a southern band, too.
Yeah, a little bit, yeah.
They have that vibe.
They're cool.
That's a good one.
All right, so let's go ahead and go to your funk list.
Okay.
Number 18.
Shaky ground, the Temptations.
Woohoo!
Bravo!
Ha ha ha!
Oh, Rob, jeez, what did you do?
Did you look at Billboard top 100 back from...
No, I did not.
Okay.
I just went thinking about the ones that I knew,
and I had just yesterday off, so I had all day.
Man, good job, dude.
Good job.
So I started YouTube and watching different videos,
and I actually put in a lot of work on this yesterday.
Man, that was great, dude.
Great.
But my top two were my top two all along.
Okay, cool.
Okay, so my DJ...
See, I used DJ also.
You forget that.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
Yep.
And I'm sure we had some funk sprinkled in there.
My top two, I think, is going to stay the same too on funk,
because I have two songs that I think in my head are unbeatable.
So anyhow, go ahead, Rob.
All right.
Okay, number 17.
Word Up, Cameo.
Oh.
Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun.
Word Up.
That's a great song.
For an 80s, that was a good one.
That was a get off your ass and fucking party song.
That was great.
For Billboard Top 40, that was pretty decent.
Mom, Word Up.
That's a great song.
All right, man, fantastic choice.
Number 16.
Jungle Boogie.
Oh, fantastic.
Jungle Boogie.
Man, that's great.
And honestly, doing the research on this list,
it was kind of refreshing,
because I'm not listening to the same stuff.
I love a lot of funk.
Normally, I listen to the same stuff over and over.
Now, you want to talk where Glenn Hughes could come in?
Glenn Hughes is more of a funk guy than anything,
but he's in rock and metal.
But his origin originates in funk.
And his funk bass is crazy good.
So anyhow, go ahead.
Okay, number 15.
Love Roller Coaster, Ohio Players.
Ooh, cool one.
Good one.
I like Ohio Players.
I do.
They were a very good band, yes.
I agree.
They had a really good groove.
Number 13.
Give It To Me Baby, Rick James.
Oh, excellent.
Number 13.
Shining Star, Earth, Wind & Fire.
Oh, another good one.
Number 12.
Cold Sweat, James Brown.
Oh, nice.
Like I said, I went into the classics.
You did.
You dug deep.
There's others by these artists I could have easily picked.
Well, I know what you did.
You're taking funk.
What you're doing is you're taking that funky sound.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, number 11.
Car Wash, Rose Royce.
I don't know what the hell I'm going to do now.
I think you're taking all the good ones.
I am because I'm getting better, dude.
Yes.
Oh, I knew this point would come.
I knew there was going to be a point where you were going to quarter me and kick my nuts in.
And I think it's the funk list, so anyhow.
I had fun with this one.
I listened to some very good music.
Like I said, I had all day yesterday on top of whatever he had.
Cool.
Okay, number 10.
You did your research, that's for sure.
Yes, I did.
Number 10.
Get Down On It, Tool and a Grip.
Oh, man.
Dude, I've got to listen to some of these songs after we get done.
You're just like refreshing me on those great songs.
Oh, dude, that's the first thing I thought when you mentioned funk, 80s.
That was 70s and 80s.
So that's what I did.
Yeah, yeah, that's when all that funk was out there, man.
Motown, all that.
Yeah, that was the good stuff there.
That Motown stuff.
Number 9.
Okay.
You Sexy Thing, Hot Chocolate.
Oh, that is a very good funk song.
And it's a song that's extremely popular in movies and TV shows and commercials.
I would have to agree.
Wow.
Number 8.
Superstition, Stevie Wonder.
Solid, solid.
Talking about Stevie Wonder who can supposedly see for real.
Supposedly.
Who knows?
I don't know.
It could have been the Stevie Wonder camp just gathering interest in him again.
I've read those reports too, and I'm like, well, if he did, it was the best gag ever.
It's the hooks ever, yeah.
It would be like Elvis still being alive.
Either way, kudos to him for playing it off all these years.
I agree.
Either way, Stevie Wonder will always be Stevie Wonder.
Yep.
I would agree.
Okay, number 7.
Also goes to Ohio Players, For Fire.
And those of you that do not know that song, that is the theme song to Hell's Kitchen.
Oh, yeah, I forgot about that.
Good point.
Fire.
Yeah.
That's a great song.
Great song.
I just flipped through channels and ran across that one.
Very good.
Number 6.
Give Up the Funk, Paul Lamet.
Oh.
That's to George Clinton.
Yeah.
Good one.
Yeah, Paul Lamet.
Remember all the costumes they used to dress up in and the platform shoes?
Oh, my God.
It was crazy.
They were almost like an African American kiss without the pre-anthrox stuff.
They were.
Yeah.
It was about the show, man.
It was about the show.
And it was some of the greatest music ever, honestly.
Oh, I would agree.
Paul Lamet was just fantastic.
And George Funk.
I'm not George Clinton.
He can out-funk anybody is what I was trying to say.
Anyhow.
Yes, he can.
Yep.
Even on his own.
Even his solo stuff kicks ass.
Yes, it does.
The P-Funk All-Stars, I believe, is his band.
George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars.
Okay.
Yeah, I think so.
I'm pretty sure it is.
Anyhow.
Yeah, I watched a few of his videos yesterday.
Oh, yep.
Supposedly, he doesn't believe in deodorant, and that bothers a lot of people.
Like, supposedly.
I don't know.
I have no way of knowing.
I never met the guy and probably never will.
But supposedly, his body odor will knock a fucking vulture off his shit wagon.
Supposedly.
But who knows?
Anyhow, go ahead.
Okay, I'll tell you what.
The closer you get to the top, the harder this gets.
Oh, of course.
Yeah, well, yeah, it's like any of our lists.
Yeah.
The top one's always got me because I kind of agonize, Quinn.
I don't know, man.
This one's got me.
Yeah, because they're all so good.
The worst thing you do is overthink it, Rob.
Because then you're going to start moving shit around, and then you're going to be talking about it,
going, oh shit, I shouldn't have moved this here.
Now, whatever you first come up with, go with it.
I wrote it down, and I went through them all, put them in an order, and that's the way I'm staying.
Good for you, because on something like this, there's no right or wrong.
I mean, it's just how you feel.
Right, right, right.
Yep.
Anyhow.
Okay.
Number five.
War.
Edwin Star.
Oh, that's a good one.
And that's one that's used a lot.
Russia.
Oh, yeah.
Yep.
Very good.
Very, very good.
Number four is another one that's used quite a bit.
Okay.
It's sure thing, Isley Brothers.
Ooh, you're going way back on that one.
Wow, you went around the corner.
Yeah, I'm going way back.
Yeah.
All right.
Good job.
Number three, I imagine this one will be on your list.
It's on everybody's funk list.
Okay.
Same dish shaft.
Isaac Hayes.
Oh, yeah, that could be on there, because I haven't even started it yet, because I haven't had a chance.
Oh, okay.
So, I don't know, man.
I don't know what I'm going to do.
You took all the good ones that I could think of.
I'm not in my two-in-one yet.
Okay.
Yeah, I'm toast on this one.
Okay, my number two and my number one go back to my DJ days.
Okay.
Because even though I was DJing karaoke, we still had to take breaks and play dance music.
Oh, yeah.
And then there was other gigs I did where I just DJed, no karaoke.
And these two songs were very popular.
Okay.
As dance songs and party songs.
And I had a really hard time ranking these, but...
Okay.
After I listened to them each about ten times back to back, I finally did it.
Okay.
Number two goes to the Gap Band, where you dropped a bomb on me.
Oh, that was a party song.
Dude, I heard that song in my sleep.
Yeah, that was one of those songs you had to play to get tips, wasn't it?
No, no, they just asked and we played.
Oh, no, what I mean is people went on a dance floor, started feeling good.
There are ladies dancing with them, they combined, throw you a fiver.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yep.
Excellent.
All right, number one.
Number one goes to the Bunker Duck himself, Mr. George Clinton.
I knew he'd be on there.
For a second time.
Uh-huh, but not reporting it.
This song, yeah, this is single.
Okay.
This song actually has a story that goes with it.
Okay.
Atomic Dog.
Oh, yeah, yes, yes, yes, yes.
What's the story that goes with it?
It's about a dog.
It is?
It's about a dog, yeah.
Okay.
It's pretty cool.
I mean, I think you probably had to be on Marshallings or something, but you know.
Yeah, that's probably where it originated, I would say.
Rob, great fucking job, dude.
All right, dude.
Like I said, I was scared of this one at first until I really started getting into it, man.
You know, I think this.
I'm liking this, I'm liking this, and they kept popping up, like yeah.
It's amazing how much funk is out there, but you don't view it as funk.
Oh, my God.
You view it as a good song, you don't view it as funk, right?
You're like, yeah, this is a great song, yeah.
That's like blurred out by cameo.
I would not thought that was a funk song until I was listening to it.
But it really kind of is.
I'm like, you know what?
This has quite a bit of funk in it, you know?
It's actually pretty damn good.
I've got some secrets that I'm going to come up with.
I bet you do.
For funk.
And let me just say this.
Did you know there's a lot of funk incorporated in hard rock and heavy metal?
Yes, I do.
I've been hearing some lately.
Admittedly.
Well, working on the funk list, I'm listening to songs like, hey, that's got a little funk in it.
I was walking through the grocery store today and heard a song like, hey, that's got a little funk to it right there, you know?
Look at Xtreme.
Xtreme has a lot of funk sounds besides Get the Funk Out.
They have a lot of funk songs.
But let me tell you this.
You may not know this.
OK, Deep Purple, they're lined up with Glenn Hughes and David Coverdell.
And they did the Burn album and a couple other albums, Stormbringer and then something else.
I think Come Taste the Band or something like that.
OK.
So one of the reasons that they broke up from Deep Purple is David Coverdell and Glenn Hughes called themselves the Funk Brothers because they like to play funk and they like to incorporate it in this hard rock, progressive rock, fusion or whatever it is.
Richie Blackmore did not want that.
So he started Rainbow because he wanted to do almost like poppy hits.
He wanted to be like on the top 10 charts in America.
So at first he was with Dio, but then later on he went ahead and he started, you know, getting people like Jolin Turner.
And he did make it on the radio over here and did very well over here.
But one of the things is funk music drove that lineup of the band away from each other, supposedly, except for Glenn Hughes and David Coverdell, which they've never as far as I know, they never did an album together outside of Deep Purple, which I found odd.
But they're still like best friends and everything.
But funk was a reason that supposedly that band was one of the reasons why Richie Blackmore left.
And then they had a shit, I forgot his name, Boland, Mark Boland replaced him.
And then I think he died in a car wreck.
And then they and then Richie Blackmore came back for the reunion of MK2, which should be Ian Gillan and and Roger Glover and then the rest of me and Pace Blackmore and John Lord.
So, yeah, anyhow, very good, Rob.
Real quick, I got to do an honorable mention here, an American woman has grown a mullet that's longer than she is tall, setting a Guinness World Record for women's longest mullet.
Tammy Mannes from Tennessee hasn't cut the back of her hair since 1990.
In 33 years since, it's grown 172.72 inches or five foot eight inches.
Good job, Tammy Mannes.
Right. Wow.
Keep the faith. Keep the face.
Raw. Raw.
All right.
Rob, do you have something you want to get to or you want me just keep rolling here with some regular bullshit?
Oh, you can keep rolling for a minute.
All right.
I got all different kinds of odds and ends and this and that and what have you.
So, let's see.
Okay, Gen Zers are not having a good time in the workforce.
They lack people skills, according to hires, and they're lazy or apathetic, supposedly, to hires.
And this is what I'm seeing this.
Yeah, this is what the employees or potential employees or employers do.
I mean, have said about them.
As more people enter the workforce, some managers aren't convinced they're prepared to succeed.
Gen Zers, roughly those born from the mid 1990s to early 2010s, are increasingly graduating college and high school and taking on their first jobs.
Frustrated bosses blasted the young professionals as lazy on the job in a report from the Wall Street Journal.
And a millennial manager accused them of being too emotional at work.
And I have seen this.
I have seen this.
They, you know, first thing they do when someone gets after them a little bit is a quiet room or a quiet space.
I mean, all they need then is like a line of security blanket, right?
Yeah.
So anyhow, in a public call out, insider asked this is an insider online, asked managers to share their experiences overseeing Gen Z workers.
More than 20 people ranging from millennials to baby boomers sent emails describing their experiences managing Gen Z.
Excuse me.
Two people said they didn't feel young workers were lazy while the rest criticized the generation's work ethic.
So out of 20 people, two said they didn't think they were lazy.
Everybody else did.
Insider verified employment of the supervisor cited in this story.
So it was vetted.
They made sure that this was true.
All right.
One manager said Gen Zers struggle to focus on work, which I can totally believe that Rob.
Can't you believe that?
Yeah.
OK.
Jeff Elkins, the director of security from a Florida casino, accused Gen Z hires of frequently searching for gray areas on issues that he believed were very black and white.
So let's say this is why I take this and correct me if you think I'm wrong.
But let's say someone was stealing.
They were they were counting cards or something.
What casinos consider stealing, right?
Yeah.
Instead of throwing them out, Gen Z would probably be like, you know what, man, you know, we don't know if they counted cards.
Oh, no, no. Look right here.
Well, we don't know what their intentions are or something.
So they're trying to find a gray area when it's like cut and dry.
So right.
Right.
And I see that.
I see that.
I can do.
He said the industry.
Oh, go ahead.
What?
Like I said, I have an 18 year old son.
OK.
Yeah.
He said his industry is highly regulated with strict controls and his young employers have called their standard operating procedures antiquated.
Z these employers have also called their standard conduct outdated and that they feel they don't apply to them, Elkin said.
Amber Forest, let me tell you something.
If someone's paying you, whatever they tell you applies to you, applies to you.
Right, Rob?
Right.
Amber Forest, a 28 year old pizza shop manager told Insider that many of her Gen Z employees spend work hours eating free food, pocketing tips and hanging out with their friends.
I wish I quit coughing.
It's a hard day.
I've been I've been trying to stop my cold for over a week myself.
Mine's this damn ragweed.
The blasted ragweed is in full bloom and it's killing me.
That might be what it is.
That might be what it probably is.
All I know is yeah, I've been feeling it all week.
Ragweed came from the asshole of Satan.
Yes.
Yeah.
Along with Kale.
Oh, well, yeah, Kale was the number one asshole of Satan.
And then number two is ragweed.
Oh, yeah.
What?
Okay.
After you get done with this story.
Okay.
I got a funny for you.
Okay, cool.
Okay, it's a hit or miss, she said of her young hire.
She said, I would say 70% don't work out because they lack motivation and initiative.
It's irritating because most of the time I end up doing all the work despite my efforts of delegating.
The whole ordeal is beyond frustrating said forest, a young millennial who recalled when it was her generation being labeled as lazy.
How the tides have changed is jarring.
She said.
That's true.
And everyone these generations coming up, including us, the Xers have been labeled lazy, haven't we?
Yes.
Sounds like this one coming up is Sean Cusack, a 41 year old director of biotech startup, defended Gen Z's work style and said he's found some ways that they work best.
For example, he said, summarizing data is a trackable digital format has helped younger employees excel more than the face to face meetings Gen X and older tend to prefer.
Younger employees can sometimes shut down, but it isn't due to laziness, he said.
Personally, I would say that I noticed Gen Z's as a tendency to turn inwards out of fear of being wrong.
Okay.
Well, and this would go with a quiet room, right? Oh my God, I'm wrong.
I need a quiet room.
Experts have said that recent graduates who spent most of their time in school taking online classes and work remote internships lack soft skills.
This means they may struggle to write emails or find professional settings challenging.
That's surprising.
Managers could help them develop these skills and talk to their younger employees about what motivates them at work, experts said.
India-based career coach, whatever the fuck his name is, told Insider that many Gen Z employees are looking for more meaningful work over high pay, so they don't care about the pay.
They want work that they care about.
So that's different.
They are more likely to trade off salary for better quality of work, although salary is an important factor.
It is.
I can see their logic in that.
I can too, because...
You cannot keep the same job for years if you do not enjoy what you do.
Exactly.
You know what?
And that is something that...
When I went to trade school, it was what I wanted to do, but by the time I...
That old piece of shit placed by the Blue River that's like full of livers and assholes.
Okay.
That place right there, when it evolved to that type of an atmosphere, to where they're basically taking advantage of you, you're doing arm work, but you're getting bullshit pay or whatever, I can see how someone would be like...
This is not what I want to do in my life, because I've done that many times when I was hung out to dry by that place. Is this what I want to do in my life, really?
And a guy I used to work with always said, I wonder what I'm going to do when I grow up.
That's exactly how I felt.
So I kind of get that, yes.
Not to parlay that piece of shit place with anything else, because they eat their own.
They are pieces of crap.
So anyhow, in January C-level, Human Resources Executive, Gianna Driver, said that company leaders will need to cultivate a culture of psychological safety with work-life balance and diverse hiring if they want to keep Gen Z workers engaged.
A lot of Gen Zers feel more drawn by the mission of a company and what their goal is, opposed to things like salary.
So, okay, I get that.
Some Gen Zers said they're also struggling with confusion and feeling left out at work.
Nearly half of Gen Zs and Millennials responded to a LinkedIn survey from June and they didn't understand the jargon used around the office.
To combat this confusion, the Gen Zers are turning to TikTok for answers.
That sounds about right.
We already did a story on they're going to TikTok to find out what work dress and tire is and what your etiquette is and all that in an office, because they've never had that so far.
So that's pretty much the end of that one.
Well, I'll tell you what.
One thing I'm noticing.
Yeah?
Gen Zers are having a hard time throwing out paperwork also.
Really?
Well, my son, well, a lot of these kids are.
I'm watching them throw out job applications and they don't know how to do it.
Because they have been raised in schools on computers.
Wow.
I could lead this into Rob's rant, but I won't.
Go ahead. Ran away.
No, no, no, no, it's all right.
It's all right.
Okay. Do you feel like doing a more of a podcast or you want to shut it down?
Well, yeah, I got to tell you that story.
Okay.
I was at a local grocery store yesterday.
Okay.
One of the bigger name ones, not my usual hole in the wall.
Okay.
And I was in line and I seen this younger bearded guy in front of me.
Okay.
Look like a bigger Jesus.
And he even wore flip flops.
It was weird.
I didn't pay no attention to what he had on the conveyor belt.
Okay.
And I'm looking around while I was waiting my turn, you know.
And I heard the register says, is this kale?
Oh.
I looked up on that conveyor belt.
There was a big, big old bag of kale.
Oh.
He turned to me and smiled.
He must listen.
Dude, I got worried.
I got hurried out of there.
The kale mafia is after you.
Watch out.
They're going to beat you to death with their handbags.
That's all right.
My cousins are already here.
They're watching me.
They're going to wave their little tiny fists in the air until you stop it.
Stop it, Rob.
Stop it.
I don't want to be the next Topher.
Yeah, you don't need Kidnap like him.
No, like I said, my cousins are already here today.
I got them here today.
I called them last night.
Cool.
They're camped outside.
I'm being watched all the time.
So we're good.
Okay, good.
Good.
All right.
Okay.
Well, we're shutting this bitch down.
So everybody have a good night.
Thanks for listening.
Good night, everybody.
Hey, where did they go?
Where are the douchebags?
Oh, my God.
Someone took a dump in the corner.
Oh, geez.
Glad they're gone.
Let's just hope they don't come back.
Man, that smells.