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Let me adjust the gain just slightly here.
We seem to be not registering too much on the recording meters.
Oh, okay. Well, that new microphone, it's clearer but lower.
Yeah, it does have really good sound.
Oh, it has superior sound.
Yeah, so it may be that it requires more phantom power than my computer is able to put out,
but it should be putting out the full.
It does the same thing at home at the Talk is Cheap Studios.
It does the same thing, it's just the clarity, it just doesn't go as loud because of the clarity that it gives.
It's what I believe, I mean, so anyhow.
But if we put it through a preamp, that would solve that problem.
Yeah, you're right, which I don't have in the Talk is Cheap Studios,
because the Talk is Cheap Studios is exactly that.
A preamp can cost you anywhere from a hundred bucks to several tens of thousands, depending on the quality you want.
Yeah, which I'd be happy to do something like that, but I don't have any room.
I mean, it's bad enough that I infiltrated our bedroom with it.
Well, as soon as I get a couple of the spare rooms cleared out, a lot of stuff going on,
but anyhow, as soon as I get a couple of spare rooms, one of them is going to be an official studio.
We like all the goofy shit up there and all that band, stuff like that.
Maybe some old, I don't know, 90s DJ shit, stuff like that.
Yes, Cindy and I are planning on selling our house and moving.
We're planning to do it sometime this calendar year.
And then whatever house we buy, I can set up a new version of the no filter studio
and have the audio, the vocal part like this and the musical part kind of mixed together.
I'll tell you what, I can tell the clarity difference just listening.
Yeah, this definitely is a great mic.
Yeah, it is.
It's too bad they don't sponsor us.
It's too bad they don't pay us for...
I know. So right now we're just going to call them Reds.
Yeah, there we go.
Red microphones.
Until you sponsor us.
So anyhow, I had a little subject that I wanted to talk about.
Yeah.
Okay, well we all know that Aaron Rodgers wants out of Green Bay.
Green Bay, yeah.
Just like Brett Favre did.
They want to go play out their career somewhere else.
Yeah.
So and also some animosity started to be fair when they drafted Jordan Love.
Yeah.
It didn't say anything to him.
Here's your replacement.
But then again, to be fair, I'm not sure if they did that with Favre either.
Yeah, that's true.
And so okay, there seems to be number one, some sort of communication breakdown.
Yeah, definitely.
Between them and the players and not only players, but their star players.
Yeah.
And Green Bay the organization, the Green Bay Packers.
It's really odd how they can let these, I mean, sure you may not like them, but my gosh,
a huge amount of your franchise is riding on these players and it is to do a lot of money.
Why would you cut off communication?
Yeah, it doesn't make sense to me.
It's kind of like you hire a new sales rep, but then you won't tell him what you're selling.
Yeah.
Just go out there and just pitch a bunch of shit.
Well, what do you sell here?
It's kind of like that.
I mean, just coming up with something lame and like that.
But my question is this right here.
Green Bay, now they've won a fair amount of Super Bowls.
I mean, in recent memory, they did okay.
I mean, I think they've done better than probably 90% of the teams, two Super Bowls in the last, what, 20 years.
Yeah, they're perennial playoff contenders.
Yeah, and that's the other thing too is they're usually in it, except for last year, they're usually in it.
And you can always say they could get in.
Yeah.
You could never look at them and go, no, I don't think they can get in.
You can always look at them and go, Aaron Rodgers, they got a good defense.
They got a couple of playmakers.
They could get in.
A light bulb just went off in my head.
That's what we used to say about the Chiefs under Marty Schottenheimer.
Exactly. They could get in.
Yeah.
They're not the favorite.
They're not going to blow anyone away on a regular basis.
Yeah.
But yeah, that's interesting.
They're running the Packers the way that the Chiefs will run under Marty Schottenheimer.
But they shouldn't because they have the guy.
Yeah, they do.
They should be pushing every year to get that ring.
Yeah.
So the question I got is this right here, and I can back it up too with what I'm saying.
Okay.
Are the Packers a smart run?
Okay.
Are they an extremely efficient run organization?
Or are they eternally cheap and it constantly screws them out of possible Super Bowls?
That is a good question.
They're not cheap on the level of the Cincinnati Bengals.
They've been legendary for how cheap they've been.
Oh, did you see the thing about how they're trying to rip people off?
Look this up when you get a chance because I got the story just not here because I'm in the middle of it.
The Bengals owners are trying to deny workers comp to their players, and they're trying to get the law changed somehow.
Did you see that thing?
No, I haven't.
I'm going to have to come up with the whole thing to make sure I'm accurate on it.
But it's something along those levels. People are mad at them.
They're like, hey, leave that shit alone because it's not just for players.
It's for people that get injured on the job.
Someone cutting a piece of metal cuts their fucking finger off.
Leave them alone.
Anyhow, that's part of the notoriously cheap thing that you're talking about.
I'll have to look it up so I make sure that I'm correct on what I'm saying.
So right now, I'm not exactly what it was, but something I've been kind of tracking.
Well, I know when the Chiefs were running themselves that way, it was because they were trying to rebuild their image from being a perennial loser and joke.
And they were trying to build a consistent winner without spending a bunch of money to get everyone excited, get the fan base up, sell merchandise, and then make the push with bigger quality players.
Yeah, and I'll go a step further.
The reason the Chiefs done it like that was because they did not have the guy.
They tried to get the guy, and that was Joe Montana.
And then they went to Bonehead Bono, and then they went to Girl Scout Gerback.
Rich Gannon was probably the most feasible.
Joe Montana would have been more feasible by the time we got him.
He was already broken down and losing a little bit of his arm strength.
Yeah, the physical ability was starting to fade, and the mental drive was starting to fade as well, I think, Joe.
And if he didn't get sandwiched up in Buffalo and got the concussion, we would have won that game, and they would have went to the Super Bowl.
Then after you put someone like Montana in the Super Bowl, all bets are off.
Yeah, anything could have happened.
Because that guy was one of the pure playmakers, found a way to get it done.
But you know, even if that had all played out like that, the Chiefs would have been a one-and-done team.
We wouldn't have slipped the Super Bowl again for a long time.
So it would have been a, wow, out of nowhere the Chiefs jump up and get a Super Bowl and then fade into obscurity again.
An even recent memory with Alex Smith.
Good quarterback, not a great quarterback.
Good arm, not a great arm.
So they were always stuck in that perennial, yeah, we'll see them in the playoffs.
And then that's it.
Maybe the Packers are trying to play a longer game.
They're saying there's all these hot young quarterbacks out here in the league.
Let's just tread water for a while.
Let these quarterbacks get a little older, and then we'll find the hot young quarterback.
And then take on all these guys when they're, you know, seven, eight, ten years in.
Well, you know, Jordan Love did make a lot of improvements last year.
Is he there yet? I don't know.
Are you going to ruin him putting him in right now? I don't know.
But all I know is, is Aaron Rodgers is not doing him any favors by forcing their hand.
Yeah, yeah.
And another thing is, is I don't know this for sure.
I'm going to have to look it up a little bit more.
But it doesn't look like Aaron Rodgers is doing very many concessions to have a better team like Mahomes is.
No. Like Brady did.
That doesn't seem to be characteristic of Aaron Rodgers.
He's not a team player and never has been.
Well, then you know what? Maybe he doesn't deserve to have those Super Bowl teams.
He thinks he deserves everything.
Maybe Green Bay looks at it like that.
Maybe Green Bay is kind of like, well, this guy ain't doing anything to help us.
Look over there, Mahomes. He's not even in the top ten right now.
And he should be number one with a bullet. I mean, he should be number one by far.
So, no, he would rather win championships, and he's also smart enough to know that the more championships he wins,
the more money he's going to make outside of football.
Right. Right.
Aaron Rodgers, Arrogant Rodgers, is concentrating on the money he can make right now.
Yeah. I think he's being very short-sighted in what he does.
And yeah, I know it started with hard feelings.
But at some point, do you man up and just get over that?
I think you should. Yeah.
I mean, you know, I still want to win some Super Bowls, and I still love Green Bay.
Maybe I don't like the general manager. Maybe I do. Maybe I don't like some of the players. Maybe I do.
But I'm here in Green Bay, and everybody here loves me, and they want me here.
We're going to try to win this place another couple of Super Bowls before I exit the game.
It doesn't seem to be his mindset. It seems to be like, fuck you guys. I'm going to the Jets.
And that's another peculiar area that I found. It's a weird choice.
It almost makes me think that it's purely ego-driven.
Yeah, because it's New York. Large market.
And the Giants are ascending, and they just hired Daniel Jones for that obscene amount of money.
And now the Giants are putting out all this favorable press.
Look at this guy work. As soon as he signed that, he went straight to practice.
Look at him. Oh my God, this guy is... Oh gosh, look at that pass. He just threaded the needle.
You know, they're throwing out all this shit trying to glorify what they just done, which I thought was kind of foolish.
Well, you know, that same New York press and fan base will shred him the moment things go off the rails.
Yes, yes. And that's the thing right there.
I don't think he thinks that's going to happen to him.
Well, no. If he gets his All-Star set of players, and I think that's one of the reasons he wants that,
is because he wants to make sure it doesn't blow up in his face.
Do the Jets have the cap room to sign all these players?
That's the other thing. That's another reason for the peculiar pick.
I mean, I could see him maybe going to Carolina or something before then.
You know, it's on the coast. They have a good defense already.
They're seemingly a quarterback away from being good.
And then a couple of acquisitions away from being a contender.
Kind of like Tampa was. They were that 7-9 team, and then they hired Brady, and Brady said,
I want this guy, this guy, this guy, and the next thing you know they're in the Super Bowl win.
Yeah, yeah.
So.
Another, oh gosh, you got me thinking about something while you were talking, and then it went right out of my head.
Oh, damn it, I'm sorry.
You see, you're saying 7-9 bucks.
Acquired Tom Brady, and he said, I want this guy, that guy.
I was thinking the market for Rogers might be difficult because he needs a team with a lot of salary cap,
but a lot of those teams already have somebody to quarterback that they like or think could be their guy and don't need a Rogers.
So he's got to pick from the ones that are left that need him, want him, will pay him what he wants.
But then they don't have a lot of salary cap left to get all the superstars he's going to demand.
They will get some, but not all, and then he'll be pissed off, and he'll give a half-assed performance.
Oh, yeah.
Why would you want the spoiled brat in your city playing for your team? I don't know.
Oh, hey, okay, thank you, Rick. Hang on, hang on.
He just sent me a little notice here, and of course he took off because he's not going to talk.
He's microphone shy.
Yeah, he is.
Okay, it says here, oh, okay.
A lot of people have been asking about his lavender mint tea.
He has about 30 pounds of it left.
Oh, wow.
First come, first served, because that stuff is very popular.
I guess it's really good for sleeping and meditation, and I mean, it smells fantastic.
We're coming in there brewing some up. Remember how good it smelled?
Yeah, it really does.
Yeah, I almost did get coffee, and I was like, wait a minute, wait a minute, what the hell's wrong with me?
So, anyhow, all right. Rick, you want to come over and talk about it, any?
No.
Okay.
That looked like a no.
Okay.
So, anyhow, lavender mint tea is in the house.
All right.
Okay. Yeah, I almost think that some of the stuff that Green Bay is doing is retaliatory and not necessarily in their best interest.
Well, that's not a good thing.
I think it almost looks like a fuck you on top of a fuck you.
Wow.
Well, you know, I could be completely wrong, but I don't understand a lot of the stuff that's going on.
I don't understand why it's going like this.
Yeah, and that's what gets-
There's some animosity, not just Jordan Love, there's only so much Decker and Kerry.
You know, it's kind of like, okay, so they made a boneheaded move and they hired, they got this guy in a hired graphic.
Okay. But then they said, no, he's not taking your job.
But they didn't trade him either.
Yeah. Sure looks like he's there waiting to take his job.
Yeah, so you think like maybe some of the animosity is that.
He keeps looking around and going, well, there's that guy that's not taking my job again.
Yeah. You know, I've known people who are just champions at holding a grudge.
Well, I mean, look at Alex Smith.
Yeah.
Alex Smith, he was-
Embraced the change, did everything he could to help the organization.
And now we're winning Super Bowls because of what he'd done.
Yeah. And you know, people are loving on Alex Smith more than they would have if he hadn't done that.
Yeah. I mean, I always liked the guy.
Yeah, he was a great guy.
Great guy. But the thing is, is he really helped us along by going along with the script.
You know, he didn't motherfuck Andy Reid. He didn't motherfuck Mahomes.
He just said, yeah, I'm going to teach this guy everything I can and good luck to you guys.
He went on and he would have had a lot. He was headed towards the playoffs.
He took an under-achieving team or actually an under-talented team
and made them overachievers with his leadership over in Washington.
And they weren't going to the playoffs until he got hurt.
And they might have even won a game. They might have even snuck up there and bit someone in the ass too.
And I mean, that was going to show what a good leader Alex Smith really is.
And you know, he just didn't quite have the arm strength.
So anyhow, you know, it's really-
And another thing is, is I really don't like seeing this
because I love the heroes be heroes
and stick to that script instead of being-
Yeah, I'm not necessarily the, you know, tear them down because they've been on top for a while.
Yeah.
It's like you've got a leaf blower in the area.
Well, the problem is, is that part that's right here.
So Rick can't do anything about it.
Damn, it's like it's right in the building with us. Damn.
Well, I mean, I don't know if there's anything we can do about it with the acoustics
is people open up the door down there and every time they do it gets louder.
What do we got here?
Wow.
Man.
Well.
So I'm kind of like this. I think that both of them are making major mistakes and I think it's showing.
And I don't like the way this is maturing in front of everybody.
And I think that both sides have a lot to blame and I don't like it.
I think it looks bad on the Packers. It looks bad on Aaron Rodgers.
Yeah. Yeah.
I wonder what point the NFL steps in and says you're damaging the image of all of us by doing this in public.
I wonder if that's how come it hasn't went down yet is because the NFL is like, hang on, you both cool your Jets here.
Yeah.
I don't know.
It's sad when a quarterback can't leave a team without taking a dump on his fans on the way out.
Oh, yeah. And you know, let me go a step further on Aaron Rodgers, too.
I think another thing about the Jets is this, too.
He'll have to play my home. So if he beats my home, he once again gets the number one guy.
Now, I know he likes my home and he's complimentary about him and all that.
But I think somewhere in there, we'd love to beat him in the playoffs. Yeah.
Just to turn around and go, well, there you go.
Anyhow, all right. Enough of that. You had some subjects.
Yeah.
Oh, here's an interesting question to add for you.
OK.
Do you think that the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department in its current state is capable of something's going to fill in?
No, I think if anything at all, you have to fund them more.
You have to find out not only have more police on the beat at the places at these places where this shit happens there.
It's very dangerous. And one number one, you got to stick by him and you got to fucking pay him more.
Well, see, there's the there's where it fell apart and where it's going to be hard to fix is we used to have much more open community presence with police.
You know, they'd walk the beat. They'd know they get to know the people, the business owners, everything.
But at a certain point, the police departments nationwide realize that every time the police interact with the public, there is an increasing chance for a lawsuit to arise.
So the bean counter said limit the police's interaction with the public and you will limit the number of lawsuits.
So that's what they did. Yeah. And the police have been disappearing from our public lives.
And another thing is show up after the crime has been committed.
Yeah. And I'm not denying there's a lot of problems, fundamental problems with people being beaten and stuff, you know, and stuff that should never happen.
Right. And people being murdered, quite frankly. Yeah. I'm not saying that.
Now, that's wrong. But what I'm saying is you need a better selection of the people you hire, a better selection process, more money into it, more money to fund how you hire them, how you how you vet them, how you train them.
Yeah. And also more money in the communities that are impoverished that need this education.
It's not a one sided thing. No. So you can't just walk up and pull the plug on one thing and go we're going to fund one side. No.
What you need to do is you need to quit spending money on bullshit and spend it on stuff that really counts.
And that's what I alluded to a couple of podcasts ago about Kansas City's got all this stuff going on.
We got the draft. We got the chiefs. We got all this stuff. Building these parks, building these new bridges.
The underlying problem is crime. And it's not going away. It's getting worse. It's like a festering fucking boil.
And it's not going away. But they're trying to polish over it. Yeah. Pretty things to attract outsiders.
Yes. So outsiders, they're thinking probably 70, 80 percent of them are not going to look up crime statistics.
When they're like, well, I got this convention in Kansas City. You know, some people will be like, maybe I'll just skip this one.
Yeah. So but the ones that aren't, they're still coming in. They have no idea. And they're like, oh, yeah, it can't be that bad.
I don't ever see them on the world news. Yeah. And if if we're all the people who talk about defunding the police,
they never talk about what they're going to fund. That's my problem right there.
If you're going to defund them, then what are you going to do to prevent crime?
What is going to take the place of what I mean, if you want to have a different organization and call them other than the police,
have a different name for them and have a different mission statement or whatever. OK, we can talk about that. Yeah.
But if you're if you're just saying eliminate the police department and see what happens, that's stupid.
Yeah. Then we have then we have these asshole prosecuting attorneys that let people go left and right. Yeah.
A lot of these people that do these crimes have been in there 30 times.
You know, why can't why can't if someone why can't there be a cap on so many things you can do?
And then that's just it, man. Sorry. You had every chance. We gave you every chance in life.
Now you're just that's it. You're wasted. Well, there is the three strike rule, you know, three, three of certain kind of felonies.
And you get life in prison. I think they need to expand on some of that.
Yeah. The sticking point is overcrowded prisons. Yes.
And the sticking point there is prisons are being run for profit by outside companies. Yes.
I mean, the other day I told someone that and they were utterly shocked.
They thought all prisons everywhere were run by the government. No. At a very low basis.
There's an alarming amount of privately funded ones that are in business.
And it's more expensive to house a prisoner there than it is to put someone up in a nice hotel.
It really is. And the prosecution rates on those are astronomical, too.
And the reason the prosecution rates are astronomical is because my feelings is they don't care.
They want people in those fucking cells. Yeah.
It's the financial gain for housing a very dangerous inmate is huge.
The financial gain for housing somebody who had like five moving violations and one DUI,
they can't make much money off of a guy holding a guy like that in a prison.
So the prisons tell the justice system, we don't want those prisoners. Yeah.
And the justice system turns around and says, OK, nonviolent offender,
we're just going to get probation and kick you out of this treaty camp.
Because there's no money to be made by imprisoning him. Yeah.
And there's no other prison to take him.
So the court system is like, why would we send him somewhere where he has nowhere to go?
We can't. We've been told, don't send them to these prisons.
So got to turn them loose. And they do. Yeah.
And then you have the prosecutors that won't even prosecute a case unless they have a 99 percent chance of winning.
They don't want to take their percentages. Yes. Yeah.
It is such a 30-fold problem. Yeah.
And another thing is, is we can't also can't skip over the fact that we're about 20 generations deep and just complete not given a fuck.
Yeah, it seems any more if it's not smacking you in the face on a daily basis, people don't care.
No, they don't. They really just don't care.
Of course, that leaves the door wide open for the manipulators and the users who do care because they can use it to their end.
And I'll put it like this on privately funded prisons.
OK, they don't care where, who's paying for it or whatever. All they care is it's paid for.
It's kind of like, let me think, like food stamps. OK.
The government doesn't care that there might be a lot of fraud in it because you and I are paying for it.
All they care about is those people are going out buying stuff with it and it boosts the economy.
But they don't care that we're paying for it and people are like basically stealing.
This isn't all of them, but there's a lot of them because I see it a lot.
To the people running that system, it's an acceptable amount of fraud and waste.
If they asked us, we'd say, uh-uh, that's not acceptable. It's too much.
No, but they don't care because they're getting their end result.
The economy is getting bumped up numbers because of that.
And the right people are getting political gain from it and getting voted back into office.
Yeah, they come in and it's all the circle of green.
Yeah. Well, it was just like when I was in D.C. doing a job quite a few years ago, like maybe 07 or something like that.
And it was a high rise. You could actually see the White House from this high rise.
Oh, wow. Okay. And it was like mentally disabled elderly in this.
And so this congressman there, I want to say maybe it's Ron Davis or something like that because it was something real easy name to remember like that.
So I'm taking there in D.C. it's so crowded in that area. A FedEx truck can only be stopped.
There is no place to pull over on the side. It's only going to be stopped on the road for like 10 minutes.
And then it's like a certain amount of money every minute.
So I'm unloading all this shit as fast as I can and just throwing it on the side of the road and coming back and getting it later.
So unload everything. And then I'm starting to pick everything up and take it in the building, which is about a block away.
And all of a sudden, all these people start come running at me with shopping carts.
And I'm like, oh, my God, are they trying to help? They want money. That's what it is. They want to come help me.
Well, no, no. As a matter of fact, they like what I'm hit a couple of my products sitting on the ground.
What I'm almost hit me. Where the fuck are they going?
And I look and this congressman, I think Ron Davis, Ed Davis, I don't know, something like that.
Big fucking truck. Big, big semi vehicle parked in a very small alley at the back door open.
And they're giving away free food for basically signing up, registering to vote.
And they had this lady there that kept getting in my way.
And I'm trying to take stuff in there and she's like, OK, what's your name here?
We're going to register your and I'm going to come by and I'm going to get your vote.
And I'm like, what? How fucking evil. And this bitch was such a such she was such a bitch to me.
I kept going, ma'am, could you please get out of my way? She wouldn't even fucking talk to me.
She would not get out of my way. That little bitch and a person like that has absolutely no interest in helping these people to get out of their situation.
No, they were just harvesting. She's making votes.
Yeah, she's getting everything she wants from maintaining this level of desperation.
Oh yeah, and she didn't need anything from me. She knew I wasn't vote for a stupid ass fucking person.
So she didn't even talk to me.
Yeah, they claim to be helping, but they want you right where you are.
Exactly. And that's a big problem with politics in America is the I'm here for you. No, I'm here for me.
Yeah, I'm here to make sure you don't change. I'm here to make sure you stay right where you are and keep voting for me.
Yep. Yeah. And that was that was one of the reasons that Hillary lost to Trump in 2016 is she just presumed the black vote was hers.
She didn't campaign in black areas. She didn't go and make public appearances. She didn't aim any marketing or advertising.
She took for granted that the minorities and African Americans were going to vote for her.
She took him for granted. She x'd him off, never even campaigned to them at all.
Yeah, her mind went to, well, they're not going to vote for Trump, so they're going to vote for me.
But what happened was they didn't vote because they didn't care about either candidate.
And I heard two or three radio interviews from prominent leaders of black community, black political organizations, black voting groups.
What is it? There's an organization for all the black members of the House of Representatives.
I think he was one of the speakers and he's saying, yeah, Hillary Clinton ignored the black community.
She took us for granted and just figured that she had our votes in her pocket.
Yeah. And he said, when I would go home to my constituents, I'd go to the barbershop.
And when Bill Clinton was running, there were posters and flyers and everyone was talking about Hillary Clinton was running.
Nothing. Nobody cared. And it wasn't because they were voting for Trump.
It's just they didn't feel like voting for her because she didn't give them anything.
As a matter of fact, I remember the rumors floated around and I believe they were by the Clinton camp too with Bill Clinton.
He was a quarter black. Oh, I remember that. Yeah.
Yeah, his mom had an affair with a black man years ago. And that's how come he's got kind of wavy hair and all that stuff.
The best of political pandering. He was a master at it, wasn't he?
Yeah, he was. He'd come back and go, yeah, you got me, I'm part black. Actually, he probably didn't have any in him at all.
Well, when we're talking about...
No, Hillary probably couldn't claim to that.
We were talking about having the best... do you want the best paid? Do you want the best?
Uh-huh. Ooh, look at that toast. Look at that fucking French toast.
That looks good. Oh, man.
Imagine... no, we were talking about, you know, prosecutors not taking on a case that they can't win.
I was going to compare it to surgeons.
Oh, that's a good... yeah, I know what you're going to say.
In a country like ours where health care is run for profit, surgeons are based on their success rates.
So the higher the success rate, the more they can charge.
So at a certain point, they quit taking risky cases. Yeah.
They're the best qualified surgeon. They've done like, you know, a thousand of these procedures.
But you have a less than 80% success chance, and their current success rate is up in the high 90s.
They're like, no, I'm not touching you because you might damage my percentages and I wouldn't make as much next year.
There's a lot of that going on. And then you get a surgeon that isn't as good because they're willing to give it a try because they got nothing to lose.
Yeah. And maybe you wind up with someone who's trying to make a name for themselves and willing to take chances.
There's no way you can get the best surgeon.
It's really kind of sickening when you see the angles that they take and why they take it.
Yeah. So even though you have the money and the health care and the best surgeon still may look at your chances and say, no, I'm not touching you.
I'm just going to let you die because you would decrease my earning percentage next year.
That happens a lot. It's not going to be very widely distributed.
And this is something that...
And they'll just go, well, I have too many on the docket right now. There's no way I can possibly get to it.
But I'm going to return you to this guy. Yeah.
Now, people know this and people put up with it. So when prosecutors start doing this, why are we surprised?
You know, when the DA says, no, I'm not taking this case, I'm just going to let this scumbag walk because I might lose the case.
And then, you know, that would look bad for me.
So, yep. Yeah, that's true. Yep.
Two thimble dicks and a crash cart will be right back.
Oh, shit. What's that over there? Oh, no. It's an island of horrible jokes.
It's easy to convince ladies not to eat Tide Pods. It's harder to deter gents.
Our constant pursuit for a real knee slapper. It's strange insults from an alien. Real hilarity.
You are just like a cloud. It's a beautiful day when you disappear.
If a 10 pound bag of shit could talk, this is what it would sound like.
Well, I was saying as they peek into the mind of the millennials, but maybe this is what people think millennials are thinking.
That could be. Could be. Yeah.
Well, I'm not sure where they get them at either. I mean, you know, I cross-reference a lot of this.
I look at three different types of to make sure they're correct.
But on some of this speak here, you can't really find that much information on it because only so many people want to really put them down for whatever reason.
You know, they don't really have a reason to do that.
So the first one is a stand. Don't be a stand. Stand. OK.
The combination of a stalker and a fan. Oh, OK. I was thinking of the person's name, like short for Stanley.
Yeah, but it kind of is. I mean, you know, it's like giving a name to a type of a person that does a certain thing.
Yeah, I like that. I thought that was good. Yeah.
A stalker fan is a stand. A stand. That's better than a Fokker. Yeah, Fokker.
That's better than Gaylord Fokker. Yeah. Yeah.
What? Meet the parents. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Meet the parents. Meet the Fokkers. Meet the Fokkers. Little Fokkers. Yeah.
They need to do another one, don't they? Yeah. Maybe with the Fokker Wolf aircraft. Yeah, that'd be great.
That was what the Red Baron flew was the Fokker Wolf Triplane. Yeah.
OK, we're far afield. OK. W. W stands for? Well, for me, it's George W. Bush. He's W.
Nope. Not for Millennials. They don't even know who he is, probably. Probably not.
Short for when? Oh, short for oh yeah, getting W. Yeah, so it's like hey, how'd everything go? W.
All right, good. All right. OK. L. What's L for? Loss. Yep. Yeah. OK.
Dank. Now, this is taken from an earlier word that didn't quite mean the same thing.
Yeah, when I think of Dank, I think of a combination of dark and damp and musty.
Dingy. Yeah. And then the word Dank Pock came from is because it was like kind of musty and like, but really good.
Yeah. So you go, hey, how's your dope? Dank, man. Yeah, so.
Excellent or very high quality is what it means now. Oh, OK. Or at least to Millennials. OK.
We covered this one before, but I'm going to go over again. Chugy. Chugy.
I don't remember it. Something that's not all trendy, kind of, I don't know, kind of quirky, weird, odd.
Like the chick off Napoleon Dynamite with her hair to the side. Yeah. She'd probably be a chugy.
Yeah. Weird. I wonder where that came from. I don't know.
That's one of the ones that I can't figure out. Everything else. Dank, I think Dank just kind of sounds like it could be.
Yeah. So camp. Camp.
Now, I am familiar with the meaning where something that's campy is kind of retro in a funny, cute way.
Yeah, that's what I would think, too. But no, a word used to describe something as ironically trendy.
That's kind of the same thing. Yeah. It's like it's trendy not because it's cool. It's in a little different area.
But yeah. It's trendy because it's cute and funny and weird. I'll put it like this. I can get where they came from doing that.
But yeah. Yeah. TFW. I like this one. TFW.
The first wave. That's a good one. It's a good guess. But that feeling when.
For example, TFW, you get off work early. That feeling when you get off work early.
Bop. Bop.
Let's see. First thing I thought of was a song by the Kinks called Shake Bop.
Or Unskinny Bop by Poison. No, Unskinny Bop. Yeah. Bebop Deluxe. Bebop Deluxe, yeah. Yeah. Cowboy Bebop.
What is that one? Bop and Bop and all that. Oh, shit. I'm not going to remember.
Rock and Robin. That was it. Yeah. That's it. Rock and Robin. Rocking and a bopping. Hopping and a bopping.
Oh, well. An exceptionally good song. Oh, OK. That's sort of.
It's similar to a previous me. So yeah, that's a good bop. Yep. Sheesh.
Well, for me, that's always been an intentional mispronunciation of Jesus.
So you don't take the worst demon thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
So instead of saying sheesh. Sheesh. You say sheesh.
It's like someone come by and they stink really bad. You go sheesh. My God, did you get a whiff of that shit?
Yeah, it's the same as heck instead of hell or darn instead of damn or shoot instead of shit. Yeah. Yep.
Fudge instead of fuck. Sam Hain. Yeah. Yeah. Same thing.
So what is what is what? Hell and Tarnation. Yeah.
It's an explanation used to hype up something if they're looking good or doing good.
So like someone comes in dressed in nines, which I don't know what dressed in nines means.
And I'll look it up. Hey, sheesh.
Hello. No. OK. So it's supposed to specifically mean something like you're on par there. Surprise. Yes. OK.
Weird. This one's interesting. But if you think about it long enough, you'll probably get it. OK.
It's different. OK. I'm familiar with that. When you talk about smoking weed, you know, if you smoke this kind of weed, it hits different than this other kind of weed.
Yeah. So the effect the effect it has on you comes on differently than you expect or than you're used to.
That's right. That's what I'm accustomed to that meaning. Something that is unique or better than usual.
So, yeah, it's it's really. Yeah, it's it's long. Same. Yeah. Yeah.
That guy's guitar part hits different than their previous guitar part. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That kind of thing. I got it. I like it.
Yeah. Bet. B E T. I remember that meaning OK or it's a deal or as a form of agreement.
Hey, can you pick me up the club tomorrow night? Yep. Bet. Pretty close. Like short for you bet.
Another way of saying yes to confirm something. Yeah. OK. Pretty much the same thing.
But, you know, I remember that from the 80s. I do, too. So that's that's what I'm saying.
Some of these are recycled. Yeah, that's just don't know. Yeah.
Just like we did. We recycle words. We had no idea was around like one was luck out.
Yeah. Luck out was from like the 60s. Yeah. And then it started focusing around in the 80s again.
They came back in the 90s. That that thing has a life cycle. Then it goes away and then it comes back.
Yeah. And every every time it comes back, people think it's new for them. Yeah. Yeah.
I'm like, man, when did that come from? They're like, what? Yeah.
So at least as far back as 40 years ago, people were saying bet. Yeah.
For the exact same reason. Yeah. The exact same reason. Yeah.
Vibe check. Vibe. V I B E. OK. So I would guess that would be like you enter a room to see how things are.
Do a vibe check to see how the people are feeling or what the situation is.
Assessing someone or something's energy slash mood. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah.
Yeah. I stopped by his house. I did a vibe check and it's like, yeah, I didn't want to hang out there.
So this is another recycled one. Period. T. Period. T. Don't know.
OK. And I think the T stands for total. Like that's it. Check, please.
So period. T. News to end statement. Add an emphasis on the point being made.
Well, I remember the part of people saying period. Yeah. And that's the end of the discussion. Period.
They added the T and I think I thought someone said the T stood for total.
Like that's it. Check, please. No other. No further discussion. Period. T.
All right. Well. So anyhow. All right. I'm weak.
I don't know that one. A phrase to describe something hilarious, similar or I'm dead.
I'm weak. I'm weak. I'm weak. Oh, OK. Sorry. I thought. Oh, OK. Yeah.
Yeah. A phrase to describe something hilarious, similar to I'm dead.
So I've heard that before. Like, oh, my God, I'm dead. Did you see that? I'm dead.
OK. Yeah, I can see people using that. It sounds really odd.
Oh, yeah. I'm weak. I'm laying on the floor. That was so weird. I don't know.
I've said I'm hyperventilating because sometimes I'm laughing so hard I can't draw breath.
OK. That's I mean, it's similar to I mean, it's so similar to other things that it doesn't really seem like it be its own thing.
But if they want it, whatever. Yeah. Makes them makes people happy.
Main character. OK. I would guess that's like you're referring to somebody,
maybe yourself as the most important person. Like, you know, well, he's the main character on that team.
Someone who is well liked and charismatic. Yeah. Pretty much. Yeah. Pretty much what you said.
Yeah. That was pretty easy to figure out. Slaps. Slaps. Done all that that one.
To describe something that's exceptionally good. Interesting that they pick a term for physical violence.
That is that's true. They're millennials. Yeah. They're not supposed to stay away from that. Right.
Yeah. I mean, they might as well say, well, that's so rapingly funny.
You know, what's what's the point of, you know, working in terms of violence and hate into your clever speak?
I don't get it either. Yeah. I think maybe like knee slapper.
Still a violent act. Yeah, that's true. You're slapping somebody else's knee and they didn't want to be touched.
Well, it's better than toe tapping. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
You know, at the New KCI, you cannot toe tap. Yeah, they're all unisex bathrooms. OK.
Yeah. Well, you can toe tap to anybody and everybody. Well, yeah, I guess you can. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Along those lines. Yes. Let me put it like this. I said it wrong. It's a mystery toe tap. Yes.
It's like, hey, who's next to me? I don't know. They're tapping back.
So I did not. I would not incorporated toe tapping in probably 20 podcasts.
So it had to come had to come out again. Yeah. Look it up, kids. You know, I think that the most fun thing about millennials is that Rickard that look at.
The fun thing about millennials is in one or two generations, everyone's going to be pointing at them and saying how stupid and archaic and weird they are and blame shit on them the way they are blaming boomers.
They're going to start crying. Yeah, I can't take this. We didn't do it.
Every every generation that comes along things. OK, we're cool. We're great. We're making fun of everybody.
But they're going to sue. They're going to sue. You're going to be the generations for thinking that they're going to sue them for hurting their feelings.
Yes. We need to take the millennials and the ones before the wires.
We're taking a gem. Why? And Gen X is we're taking them all to court. Why? Well, they hurt our feelings.
So if you're Gen X, Gen Y or millennial, please please be at the above mentioned address at Monday at seven.
Here's a little funny ironic thing that I read the other day that you'll get a laugh on. OK.
Mark Zuckerberg, who is who is championing this whole metaverse.
Yeah, that fucking idiot. You put a headset on and you stay right where you are, but you interact digitally and electronically with people and everything.
Yeah. He came out and said the other day that people who actually physically show up to work instead of working remotely get way more done.
So he has just said publicly that his own idea of meta and working through virtual reality, you'll get less done.
Talk about jamming your own foot way into your own mouth.
Someone needs to work with him about what he should say and what he shouldn't say.
He's just so his damn lips shut. What a fucking moron.
Everybody should sign up and do this virtual thing. But oh, yeah, nobody gets anything done.
No wonder his metaverse sucks so bad. Nobody's doing anything.
I'm going to start crossing things off that we've already talked about. I'm going to be like an old man and start talking about him again.
Do we talk about this? I don't know. You dirty kids. Get off my lawn.
I have some did you knows. I love did you know. All right.
Now, as far as I know, these things are true. I cross reference to anything that I could get an affirmative on.
I put down and a couple that I thought I heard before. I put down too.
So anyhow, did you know that Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors? No, I didn't know that out of necessity.
He really needed to cut some paper. Yes, he really needed to cut some paper.
Did you know that recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to operate a TV for three hours?
I can believe that. I can totally believe that. Yeah, especially since TVs really don't take a lot of energy.
Well, I mean, people they still have people that do this and I wouldn't mind doing this in like in like a workout room or something.
A TV that is solely powered by your steps. Yep. Yep.
I've seen like an extra cycle is that they're peddled the bike and it runs the TV.
Yeah, I think that's a great idea. It's like, well, I'm watching TV, but you know what? I also want to get a little exercise in.
Yeah, do both. Yep. Did you know that an average of 10 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year?
Wow, ballpoint pens. Yeah, I believe it. Everybody sucks on their pen. That's true. Everyone sticks them in their mouth when they need to do something else.
Waitress Helga. What do you need there? You want that meatloaf sandwich is special today.
Did you know an Arca is the only continent without reptiles or snakes? And that's pretty easy. Oh, yes. It's pretty damn cold there.
Yeah. Yeah. Since they're cold blooded and now it's extremely cold up there. Yeah. Probably not a good idea.
Yeah, there are some parts of Antarktica that get above freezing during certain parts of the year, but pretty rare.
Yeah. So any kind of reptile would be a popsicle. Did you know that the cruise liner Queen Elizabeth moves only six inches per gallon of fuel?
Oh, six inches. I read that actually a long time ago, and I believe that is true. It's so inefficient. They don't run it.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, that was built in a time when fuel reserves were much greater and costs were much lower. Yeah.
So now it doesn't go anywhere. It sits there. They got a hotel on it and everything. I was just over there a couple of months ago.
It's right on Long Beach there. So anyhow, that's why it makes sense to make so many of these huge vessels nuclear powered.
Yeah. Self-sufficient nuclear pile to generate steam and steam runs the generators. Yeah. The generators turn the screw.
Yeah. There you go. Did you know that San Fran cable cars are the only national monument that can move?
I actually didn't know this one. Okay. Cable cars are national monuments. It's kind of weird. I've written on one. Oh, cool. Yeah, I have too.
It was kind of underwhelming. Yeah. I don't know what I expected, but I didn't expect that. No, it was a rough bumpy ride.
You go up. I mean, it seems to go kind of fast. I was worried about falling off. Yeah. It was very peculiar. I don't know.
I thought it was going to be more majestic. I don't know. Yeah. Well, I can say I had the experience. Yeah. Same here. Same here.
February 1865 is the only recorded month without a full moon. Oh, wow. Yeah. I guess that would be kind of rare.
I wonder how weird that was. If like people were acting strange because of it or. Well, yeah, I guess astrologers would because the appearance of the full moon makes a big deal.
And so they would have noticed, you know, hey, full month without a full moon. If it had been a leap year, I wonder if it had would have had a full moon. I don't know.
But since the orbits are changing over time and the Earth's day is getting longer over time, I wonder how that's going to change that.
I remember reading that when the moon first formed, it was orbiting about, I don't know, 10 to 15 miles away from the Earth.
It was just like right there. And it's been getting a little farther away over time and slowing down the Earth's rotation a little bit over time.
These things change. So we'll probably have another one. Yeah. At some point. I'm sure sometime. Who knows when.
But if we're still using the same calendar that, you know, counts days and calls it February. Yeah.
Or the aliens that come in and invade us, they'll pick the calendar.
According to the Mayan calendar, you know, there is no February. So, yeah, it's just kind of a Western thing to say February.
The Mayans were pretty bizarre, too. They knew a lot of stuff.
Did you know that nutmeg is extremely poisonous when injected intravenously?
Wow. Didn't know that. Yeah. I mean, how could you know that? I mean, unless you did it, then you're dead.
You know, there's something else that's that way. Rattlesnake venom.
If they bite you and gets into your system and your bloodstream that way, it's really toxic.
But you could eat a spoonful of rattlesnake venom. It's not going to bother you one ounce. No, you just digest it. It passes right through.
In fact, isn't that part of the anti-venom? If you're going to be working around a place that has a lot of poisonous snakes,
you take the snake venom of the snakeshead aurean, you drink it for about a month.
I don't know if taking it orally really does anything. I think...
Or they inject smaller amounts of it. Yeah. Every time I've seen anti-venom, it's been intravenous.
Okay. Okay. But that was an old sideshow trick.
You know, the snake wranglers in the carnival, they grab a rattlesnake and then they milk the rattlesnake by having it squeeze and spin them out into a cup.
And then they drink it and people go, ah! Yeah. But, you know, he's perfectly safe because you absorb it differently.
And it's like you can eat nutmeg, but not inject it. That makes sense. It's funny.
Did you know that a rainbow can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon?
It can only occur between when the sun is 40 degrees above or less on the horizon.
Oh, okay. So if it's too sharp in the angle, then you wouldn't see it. Yeah.
Because the angle has to be right, too. Funny. Yeah. Physics. Yeah. Yep.
Did you know that Indiana University Library sinks about one inch per year when designed?
They failed to account the weight of all the books. Oh my God. I know. Whoops.
And it's still there. There's nothing they can really do about it. They're eventually going to have to replace it.
But right now they're like, let's let it keep sinking a little at a time.
Yeah. I wonder if it's worth more to put piers under it to hold it up or just wait until it's not usable and rebuild the library somewhere else.
It didn't go into that. So I don't know. They'd want to put piers and just leave it like it is. But I don't know. Who knows?
I bet that guy... find out where that architect went to school and don't go there. Yeah. Maybe it was Indiana.
Oh, that would hurt. Yeah. We use our local guy and he did that? So, OK.
A category three hurricane releases more energy in 10 minutes than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
I guess I can believe that because I don't recall ever seeing that many nuclear weapons being launched.
I remember hearing over the years that that weather isn't just insanely powerful, that the amount of energy in weather is just mind boggling.
Oh, it is. It's just like a couple of bolts of lightning could power all of Kansas City for like a few weeks.
Yeah. They could harness that. Yeah. And that's why getting your energy from the weather, like wave action or wind or whatever, seems to be the best choice because there is so much to spare.
Yeah. Yeah. True. There's enough fuel in a jumbo jet to drive a car around the world three times. Wow. I can believe that actually. That's a lot.
Yeah. Look at a jumbo jet and how much fuel they could carry. I mean, they really could.
Because I would say half that plane is sectioned off and then in the sections it's like just for luggage and equipment. Yeah. The wings are full of fuel.
Yeah. Yeah. They put wing tanks in all aircraft pretty much. I do remember reading the other day that one engine on a Boeing 777 produces more power than all of the Titanic's engines combined.
Oh, wow. Yeah. Geez. That's crazy. Did you know that lightning strikes the earth 100 times every second?
Wow. That's a lot. It is. Yeah. Isn't that something? Gosh. Just the exchange of electricity. That's kind of what it is. Yeah.
Did you know there are 87,000 people waiting on organ transplant lists? 87,000? Yeah. Damn. That's a lot of people. Yeah. Give or take a couple. That's pretty much what you have right now. Gosh.
I'm glad I signed my organ donor card then. Yeah. Yeah. And that is all of my did you know questions. I've had them for a while and just thought I'd go ahead and just wipe them out and get them out of the way.
Yeah. All right. Well, I've got some how come. Oh, okay. I want to know how come there's so many reality shows about white people fixing houses.
I don't know. I mean, it's a separate question. There's a ton of reality shows about people fixing houses.
But then specifically, why is it always white people fixing houses? White couples fixing houses. It is. Yeah. Isn't that weird?
And the funny thing is, is even if they break up or not, they're still fixing houses. Yep. And they still act like they love each other even though they had a nasty bitter breakup all over the news.
And then of course we have the gay white couple fixing houses. Yeah. So, I mean, aren't there any shows where people of color fix houses?
Or do they just don't think people want to watch those shows because they apparently they're nowhere to be found on TV. I don't have the answer to that. I don't know.
You would think that they would at least try one of them out. Yeah. See how well it happens.
Say try the African American couple. See how they do or the Latina or whatever. Latina or whatever. You know, whatever.
Why don't we have a Native American couple that fixes houses? Yeah. Yeah. Why they got to be white. Yeah, that's true.
And we also have like a million reality shows about cooking food. Yeah. Oh, God. Yeah. Yeah.
Summer competition. Most are competition. But then a lot of the number of them are just, you know, sit down and watch somebody cook food.
What's I don't I don't understand. I can see their appeal, you know, to a number of people. But why are there entire channels devoted to watching people cook food?
Maybe in a competition or maybe just not in a competition. You know, I don't know. What's the fascination?
I'm really curious about this. Oh, I have three hours to kill. I'm going to watch somebody cook food that I can't smell and I'll never eat.
I don't get it. Oh, well, yeah, I don't know. You know, I don't know.
Now, there also seem to be an enormous number of reality shows about wilderness survival. Yeah.
Life below zero, naked and afraid, survivor, the real bush pilots of Alaska or all this kind of stuff. Yeah.
I don't really get the appeal of watching people struggle to survive. No, me neither.
I don't know. I don't know.
I think people like don't like to be in that situation, but they like other people be in that situation.
Does that make sense? Yeah, they can look at them and say, wow, I'm glad that's not me. Yeah, yeah, that type of thing.
But, you know, I would think that would get old really fast. Yeah.
Now, there's another category of digging up gold or some kind of get rich quick endeavor. Yeah.
I understand why that's so popular because people want to watch that and think, wow, I could do that.
I could get rich quick. I could just find a bunch of money and be set for life.
You know, it's a happy fantasy and you get to watch people do it.
I guess I get it. Well, there why there's a lot of shows like that. Yeah.
And then another category is relationship shows.
Married at first sight, the real housewives of wherever. The bachelor and bachelorette and all that.
Anything on the Jersey Shore, marriage boot camp, all this stuff.
I think those are popular because a lot of people find it fun to watch other people really, really seriously misbehave.
I agree. And just be totally shitty to each other.
But again, for me, that wears out in about 10 minutes. Yeah, same here.
I don't care anything about it. It's people with ugly souls doing ugly things.
And I can watch that for a few minutes. But after that, I just start feeling dirty.
I want to shut it off and go take a shower and see something happy.
I'm the same way. I'm disgusted if I watch more than 10 minutes.
I'm like, what the hell am I doing? Yeah, I don't have enough time.
No, but those seem to be the big categories for reality shows.
I don't know. Could it just be that when they started these shows, those are the ones that got ratings and the rest are copycats?
Yeah. Yeah. Or there could be a lot of research involved saying you hire a bunch of psychologists and you say,
what are people going to find creepy and eww and gross, but they'll keep coming back to watch?
That's right.
For a while, a show like Fear Factor was just enormous because you tune in and watch people eating worms or shitting in someone's mouth
or whatever kind of stupid stuff they did on that dumbass show.
Oh, yeah. I mean, even Jackass came out with a new movie.
Yeah, true. True. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah.
But it's interesting. It used to be these people will have to go out and like rubberneck at car crashes to get their reality show thrill.
Now you can sit at home and watch people doing basically the same thing and rubberneck from your couch.
Oh, wow. These are real people really doing this and I'm watching it.
Of course, the reality is these are actors who are being told by directors what to do
in situations that have been scripted in advance.
Yeah, the reality show craze started when there was a writer's strike and nobody was writing TV shows and dialogue.
So they had to come up with something. They went to reality shows. Yeah.
And then they just kept getting more and more popular.
And now, ironically, these reality shows are heavily scripted and rehearsed and managed and there's nothing real about any of them.
Yep.
But you know what? I'm really trying to change my attitude about the crap that's on TV and the commercials that go along with it.
I'm thinking, you know, I'm kind of starting to feel glad it's there because it's collecting all the idiots, all the people who are going to fall for...
Oh, thank you. Appreciate it.
...for the scammers and the suckers. I mean, it's collecting them all in one place and I can avoid them because I know where they are.
It's like, OK, they're all watching TV and watching their ads.
Here's where the suckers are gathering. So I'm going elsewhere.
If it wasn't there, then I would be more of a target.
The more morons and idiots and suckers there are out there, the better my chances are.
Yeah. Yeah.
So it's not in my interest to educate these people or help them not to be victims because you know what?
If they're getting hit, I'm not.
Yeah.
That's a pretty callous way of thinking about it, but it's reality.
Yeah. Yep.
I got a little story here.
Sure. All right.
You know, there's a new report out that revealed that the man who edited Rolling Stone's initial story on the FBI raid of producer James Gordon Meek,
who was later revealed to have been charged with possessing child pornography, removed all references to change the report.
Huh.
Yeah. Anyhow, he removed all references to change the report completely.
And he said he was an associate of the accused producer, the Meeks guy that was charged with the federal crimes of child pornography.
So the editor of the Rolling Stones edited out his name and everything specifically. So he's in a little bit of shit right now.
On October 18th, Rolling Stone journalist Tatiana Siegel broke the news that the FBI had raided Meeks' home in April
and that the Emmy Award winning producer had disappeared from the public eye.
According to a report from NPR Rolling Stone editor in chief, Noah Snatchman had removed from her piece the key information that Siegel sources
that Meek had been raided by the FBI as part of a child pornography federal investigation.
So Snatchman or Snatch-sh-n-n or whatever his name is, claimed that Meek was just a work acquaintance and nothing more.
Meek was regularly responding to Snatchman on Twitter about his comments. So they obviously were some type of friends.
So, Siegel, okay, so at a staff meeting in September, Siegel reminded Snatchman that she was working on the piece.
Snatchman, Satchman, I think it's Satchman, but it's spelled weird. Satchman then took the piece and edited it,
which is a very peculiar move according to Rolling Stone staffers. They'll just like take a piece and go, hey, I'm going to go work on this.
So just like last week's report on Jared Fogle and his creep buddies, in my opinion, check Satchman's hard drives.
Looks awful familiar to me. Why would he take such a deep interest in scrubbing this guy that's just an acquaintance?
A work acquaintance? Yeah. First thought is he's in it too, and he's trying to scrub his own history there.
Well, going by recent history and recent events, I mean, that'd be my guess. Why would he give a shit?
Or he's being coerced somehow to do this for him. Maybe it's just money. Maybe it's money. I don't know.
Or maybe he's just an idiot. I don't know. But anyhow, he's in quite a bit of shit because, you know, number one,
to omit that type of information and change the whole article is completely fucked. Yeah, that's self-serving.
Yeah. Yeah. So why it's self-serving is the question. Gosh. Why? What would provoke him to make such a difference in the whole thing? Yeah.
Yeah. So I thought that was pretty interesting and I wanted to tell that story. You got something?
The other day there was a Revlon commercial. Okay. And it seemed to be showing a woman skydiving.
You know, generally, it's a makeup commercial. Generally, they show people doing active things.
The model they had modeling their makeup had vitiligo, which is a pigment condition where skin loses its pigment.
It can look either splotchy or lighter or pale. Michael Jackson apparently had vitiligo.
I remember when models who had vitiligo were automatically rejected, especially from makeup. It's just like, nope, not good enough.
They would vaguely refer to people with vitiligo as people with blotchy or uneven skin tones.
And they would show how their makeup could cover it over. They would focus in on that because that was the selling point is we can make us look okay.
Yeah. Cosmetics basically is about hiding. Hiding what's really there and giving a false image.
Maybe not so much nowadays, but there's a time in the 80s where you would look at their skin on their arm and their skin on their face and they would be so far off.
Totally different color. Different texture. That's because you put so much base on, you completely hid your identity, your authenticity.
Even even as recently as 10 years ago, makeup and cosmetic companies were all about hide it, conceal it, look like the rest of us.
And at a certain point, a decision was made to change that.
And now it seems like just in the last few months, it's become an arms race to find the person with the most extreme case of vitiligo and use that person in your ad.
Yeah, you're right. It went from hide this shit to put it full frontal right in everybody's face.
Yeah, there was a brief period where it was just your average person with vitiligo and you could see them on the makeup commercials or in the print ads or whatever.
But now they're going for such extreme examples. This isn't acceptance anymore. This is exploitation.
There's like, let's go find the person with the most extreme wild crazy case we can find and shove it in people's faces.
The problem is, it's been billed as acceptance when actually as exploitation.
Because guess what? Revlon is making loads of money off of this. That's their motivation.
But what they're doing is they're going to that community and going, we love you guys, we accept you. That's why we're showing you guys everywhere.
And they're trying to take credit for no longer telling people to hide that.
Look how progressive we are. We've stopped telling you to hide your face.
And then that's supposed to make them a good guy.
Yeah, I know. It's like, no.
And then you can also see it in like when commercials go out of their way to show as much diversity as possible in the cast of the commercial.
Yeah, like every commercial now used to be like a foundation. Maybe if they wanted to be a little bit diverse, be a couple of African American couple.
Or maybe you'd even get the occasional gay couple or something.
It started with the RBG, Random Black Guy.
Yes.
Yeah, every commercial was just like white, white, white, white.
And then the random black guy just also.
And then say, look how diverse we are.
He might just be walking by, but he's in there.
So yeah, yes, it started out with that.
But now it's like, take the Chinese woman and put her with the African American man.
And they'll have a child who's white and in a wheelchair.
Yes.
And then their mother-in-law will be trans.
Yes.
Yeah, this is like they're trying to pack every possible example of diversity into the commercial.
Yeah, when it used to be like, they're in the random black guy, like you said, or even maybe an Asian person.
You'd see the random Asian person every now and then too.
All of a sudden, he'd be just walking by looking at his phone or something.
And you see what's wrong with just showing what everyday life is like.
You know, when I walk down the street.
Come down here to the Filthy Bean and you'll see a great example of like a little bit of everybody just walking along the city market in Kansas City when we're there.
It's the same thing.
Like the example that they'll show you on TV or in an ad or a show of a diverse family.
Have you ever seen one like that in real life?
No, because on TV it's a caricature.
It's just over the top.
I've never seen that in real life because you don't get that.
And again, that's not acceptance. That's exploitation.
It is. You don't get that roll of the dice.
Yeah.
I mean, it's too hard to come up with a Chinese woman, African American man married with a trans grandmother with the little white kid in the wheelchair in thick glasses.
You don't get that in real life because it's too far off.
It's like this had to happen to this happened to this happened to this happened.
Yeah.
So when you see it in social media, advertising, movies and TV plot lines, they're showing you a fantasy.
It's exploitation under the under the guides of we're trying to show people that like everybody here we're all inclusive when actually what they're doing is they're pandering to the lowest.
Because what they're doing is they're trying to get a name by doing this like they care when actually they don't give a shit. They're just going out and just picking that guy, that guy, that guy or that girl.
You know what I mean?
Right.
It's kind of a disservice in my opinion, by the way they do it.
They're more than happy to take credit.
Exactly.
Look how diverse we are.
But the basic reason behind it is, hey, if we show a member of this protected group, then we'll attract more viewers from that protected group.
Exactly.
It's self-serving under the guides that we're doing for you.
And that's what I have a problem with.
Yeah.
If they weren't making money on it, they wouldn't be doing it.
But since they're making money on it, that's the best way of putting it.
Then they spin it into something that puts them in a good light.
They do this for you instead of like, yeah, you know what, we're making more money because we're being all-inclusive and everybody watches it now.
Yeah.
It's kind of like, I mean, another reason Patrick Mahomes is so popular is because he's both.
Yeah.
Let's face it, I'm sorry, but that's the way a lot of people are geared.
He appeals to a broad range.
And you know, what's wrong with that?
It's a good thing to accept people of mixed ethnicity.
There's nothing wrong with it.
Yeah.
I remember growing up, Derek Thomas was my hero.
I didn't give a fuck if he was like all black or not.
No, no.
But evidently there's enough people that think like that to where it really does help the numbers when you have someone that's both.
Yeah, yeah.
And it's not uncommon for a person to be considered, you know, the black community will say, well, you're not black enough and the white community say you're not white enough.
That's still a real thing.
And then someone like Patrick Mahomes can supersede that because there are so many other reasons to like him that that becomes really unimportant.
And then both sides want to identify with him.
True.
That's another thing too.
Hey, he's one of us.
He's one of all of you.
Yeah.
So anyhow, but let's face it, doesn't matter what his colors are going into it.
What matters is his parenting.
Yeah.
And raised OK.
What happened to Jackson?
Nobody fucking knows.
But yeah, so much in the divorce happened in between that and really got him.
I don't know.
It could be.
But anyhow, so much of what we're we're seeing in popular entertainment is it's forced diversity.
I mean, it's not what's naturally occurring in the world around us.
It's Hollywood's version of what diversity should look like filtered through what the audience will accept and like.
Look, look, look, look, look, the double decker bus is waving at us.
I think they're waving at us, aren't they?
Are we on the tourist stop now?
Well, the tourist stop is over there at the park.
But I mean, we're right next to it.
So, yeah.
Yeah.
So.
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