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Fun Fact Number One.
According to the FBI, at any given time there are 25 serial killers active in the US.
As they get caught, more crop up.
So at any given time, there's 25 serial killers out there.
That's a lot.
That's more than I thought.
It's believable but unbelievable.
How sad.
Here's another fun fact, 60% of people with bipolar disorder are unemployed.
60-60% that have been diagnosed with bipolar are unemployed.
That's just diagnosed?
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah.
It's that powerful.
We've got to do more about mental health in this country unless we want to support a bunch
of unemployed people.
Oh no, no, no.
Why do anything about it?
Because we're just going to throw money at it.
That's what the government does.
Oh no, no, no.
We're not going to throw money at it the right way.
We're just going to give these people money to just go be bipolar.
You know, it makes no sense to deny them employment and then have to take care of them through
unemployment, social services, etc.
I know a lot of these people want to work and there's things they can do.
What's interesting is...
But employers just need to make more accommodations, I think.
They do go out of their way to hire people with Asperger's and also...
What's the other one?
Autism?
Autism.
Yeah.
Employers do because I've worked with both types of people.
They put them in situations to where they can succeed.
Yeah, that's the important part.
Yeah.
So I don't know why we couldn't figure out a system for bipolar.
You know, like if things get really tough, they need a system and exit strategy.
Like, hey, I'm having a really bad day and I think I'm going to snap.
So have a quiet room.
I don't know.
There's all different types of things that they can do, therapies, whatever.
You know, I don't know why they're not taking initiative with this type of statistic.
It doesn't make sense.
Part of it, I don't know how much of a problem this is, but part of it is being bipolar is
not a visible disability.
No, it is a lot of it and then a lot of people probably don't talk about it until the hindsight.
Well, the biggest problem they have is it's on bipolar or people could be using it as
a crutch and an excuse.
Well think of it this way.
If a customer walks into a store and sees a person running the cash register who has
one arm or is blind, they're likely to think, oh, this is nice of this store to make sure
this person is able to have a job and work and blah blah.
But you'll walk right past a person who's bipolar and not even know it because it's
not visible.
That's true.
So the store doesn't get PR credit for hiring that person.
Yeah, that's true.
That's not the only reason, but I'm sure that's part of it.
Oh, we could hire this guy in a wheelchair or we could hire this guy who's bipolar.
Let's hire the guy in the wheelchair because people will go, aww.
I can definitely see an HR department doing that.
I can too.
Yeah.
I can too.
Alright.
The first responders to 9-11 and the survivors of 9-11.
Yes.
More of them have died since 9-11 than all the people who died in the attacks.
I can believe it with all the health issues.
Yeah.
But I'm hearing from the toxic smoke and fumes from the crash site, which Congress voted
down aid for over and over and over again.
Thank you, Congress.
Fucking assholes.
So what was it like?
I expect nothing else from Congress, actually.
They're that type of fucking assholes.
It was right around 2,000 people who died, I think.
But since then, more than that have died from the effects of the fumes.
If we had half a brain in this country, we'd throw everyone those fucking pieces of shit
out.
I know.
It just stuns me how these politicians stay in office and get reelected.
There can't be anything honest about the election system.
These creeps get reelected over and over again.
Oh, I agree.
Yeah.
Alright.
The U.S. military kill to death ratio.
How many enemy soldiers get killed before one American soldier gets killed?
I would hope it'd be 50 to 1.
1,500 to 1.
Wow.
Yeah.
That is good.
You have 1,500...
We'll need that against the Chinese.
Yeah, that's true.
You're 1,500 times more likely to survive if you're an American armed forces than any
other country going against the Americans.
But you know, the thing that America did that a lot of countries didn't do is figure out
ways to fight and kill the enemy without risking soldiers.
Yeah, they've done that.
You use machines and technology that can be built and replaced.
Drones are awesome, man.
Drones go in there.
They have facial recognition.
They have heat seeking.
So let's say someone's way up in a cave somewhere.
Also...
Hey, what's that?
Done.
Gone.
And then the drone leaves and comes back.
Shows footage of him blowing the piss out of him.
It's kind of like a pet dog that went and got the squirrel out of your backyard and
brought it back to you.
See?
This is a drone.
The drone's like...
When I was growing up learning history, I was told that the lack of airplanes was crucial
in defeating the German Air Force.
The Americans and the British were shooting them down faster than Germans could make them.
But that wasn't really the truth.
That was the sanitized truth that they taught to the grade schoolers.
The real truth was the pilots were being killed faster than they could be replaced.
For every German airplane shot down, a German pilot died.
And you can build a new plane in a few days.
You can't train a pilot in a few days.
No, that's the problem.
So when the war ended, there were hundreds of German fighters sitting on the ground with
no pilot to fly them.
Because we killed them all.
Yeah.
I thought it was funny, Southwest sent out an email to all of its valued customers the
other day saying about how they're enhancing their technology and stuff.
I kept thinking, all this is great, but if you don't have people to operate it, where
the fuck are you?
Yeah.
I wanted to send an email back.
I was like, no, they'll get my answer when I run my points out.
Yeah.
Oh, we're doing this, we're doing this technology and that.
It's like, no, no, no, no, no.
The problem is you guys don't have people.
Yeah.
They don't have the pilots, they don't have the co-pilots, the engineers, all the other
flight crew.
They don't have enough flight attendants, the ground personnel, air traffic control,
which is run by the government, doesn't have enough people.
No, I know they have a loaf of shit there.
Yeah.
And they threw a whole bunch of sugar on it and said, here's your cake.
Yeah.
So anyhow.
And they're telling the flying public, everyone dive in.
Yeah.
And it's kind of like, I don't know, man.
Yeah.
I mean, right now it's just, it's like the wild west again.
Southwest is responsible for itself.
Yeah, definitely.
But there are a lot of other problems that are beyond them also.
So.
All right.
Here's my next fun fact.
All right.
25% of California's air pollution blows in from China.
I've read that.
Yeah.
So you look at California and think, oh, those smog breathing assholes.
Actually, they've done so much to eliminate smog control.
And a lot of it is, it's beyond them.
There's nothing they can do.
But what a nice wake up call for everybody.
Oh, the stuff we do here does affect other people.
And the stuff they do over there does affect us after all.
And they don't care over there.
Yeah.
If they had a way they could do it, they'd blow more over here.
China could sit over there and crank out the most noxious cancer causing, birth defect
causing fumes ever to coat this country and they'd thumb their noses at us and say, make
us stop.
Yeah.
And we're not going to.
Yeah.
We can't make them stop.
The US owes them way too much money.
Yeah.
Yep.
Man.
All the money we owe them.
Imagine you're in grade school and the bully is not only picking on you, but you owe them
a grand.
And the interest keeps going up every week.
Yep.
That's China.
Is the bully that we owe a lot of money to.
They're just over there laughing.
They're just biding their time.
Oh yeah.
They're like, you guys are imploding and we're sitting here smoking cigars.
You know, it used to be the mutually assured destruction of, you know, Soviet Union and
the US.
If someone launched their missiles, the other would and they ever get wiped out.
Now it's the economic mutually assured destruction.
China could call in their loans on the US and bankrupt us, but then we'd bank, we would
cause a global.
That's the only reason they're doing it right now is because they can.
The only reason they fund us is because it's the only way to really keep this little squirrel
cage going.
As soon as China figures out how to survive that, they'll do it.
As soon as they figure out how to bankrupt us and come out clean on the other side, they'll
do it.
I think it's already been done to an extent.
Oh, there've been little tests.
There have been little tests.
Some could look at COVID as a test.
Yes.
Can't handle a pandemic, a tragedy, a change to our lifestyle.
Look at the way it was handled already.
Okay.
You got Dr. Fucky over there.
That stupid son of a bitch in my opinion.
Can't handle a candy and fucking handles fucking ball sack.
That guy fucking flubbed everything up so much and fucked everything up.
He should be in prison.
Number one, they take this fucking research, gain of function research, and they take something
that's in an animal and jump it into a human.
Then when it was outlawed over here, they take that shit and they take it over to China
because it was outlawed over here.
Then they say, you have China going, it's your virus.
Then we have one, oh, it's your virus.
It came from you.
Both of them are right.
We invented the motherfucker.
We shipped it over there to perfect it and then they let it go.
That's another good example of how a global government and global laws could be a pretty
good idea because then this wouldn't have happened.
They couldn't have moved it to somewhere where it was legal to do.
I see what you're saying.
I think it would have still happened.
Yeah.
Well, it would prevent some of this stuff.
Maybe the timing might be a little bit different, but we have enough fucking idiots that do
this shit for profit.
They will find a place to do it.
But anyhow, let's move on.
The Los Angeles water system leaks and it leaks like crazy.
They could solve a lot of their water shortages by not having the leaking.
It leaks 228 billion gallons of water a year.
So yeah, they could solve a lot of their problems.
They could solve all of it because that's how much Los Angeles needs every year.
They have to pump twice as much through their system because they lose half.
Then why don't they do it?
They don't have the money.
They don't have the money to fix... You know what?
Weed taxes, California.
Weed taxes.
Upgrade your water system.
You can't tell me California doesn't have billions in weed taxes on hand.
I don't have enough faith in those idiots running that place over there.
That's true.
They get the weed taxes and they would blow it on something stupid.
They'd say, hey, let's buy all the fucking bums tuxedos.
Yeah, that's a great idea.
Doesn't that figure they leak as much as they need every year?
Let's give everybody a gold ring.
Yeah, that sounds great.
Yeah, that'll solve everybody's problems.
Wee, everything's helpful.
Look, everybody's happy.
They got their new gold ring.
They're spending too much money polishing the turd instead of scooping the turd out
of the litter box and throwing it away.
Yes.
Yep.
All righty.
Let's see, in American women, 63.2% of white women are obese.
77.2% Hispanic.
82% black women are obese.
Wow.
So there's a big racial difference in the obesity rates in this country.
Okay, there's different parts of this too.
Yeah.
And I got to figure out how to say it right.
I'm friends with a lot of African Americans.
Their body structure is different.
They have more muscle.
It appears to me like they have more muscle.
This muscle, according to their height, does not parlay as muscle according to the diagram
because this particular guy that I used to work with didn't have one ounce of fat on
him, but because of his height and his weight was considered obese.
Not just obese, but morbidly, and there wasn't hardly an ounce of fat on the guy.
Yeah, the estimations, I mean like for my height-
I would take it African American women are probably about the same too.
Well, for my height, I'm supposed to weigh 173 pounds, but I would be really skinny.
If I put on decent muscle mass, that's around the 10 pounds, but I would show up on the
stat as being overweight, most like Tyree Kill.
His body fat is probably minuscule.
There's almost none.
Yeah, but he would probably be considered obese.
Because he's got so much muscle and muscle-based more than fat that his muscle mass, just if
you weighed him and measured his height, you'd say, oh yeah, he's obese, but he's not.
That's exactly what I'm saying.
Because my friend that I worked with for many years, he was in the morbidly obese, and he
was the only guy in that whole fucking place that didn't have an inch to pinch.
Take these facts and statistics with a grain of salt.
There's probably a lot of truth to a lot of it.
There's probably a certain amount, but the amount isn't 72%.
You wouldn't think.
If you want to look at it from the point of view of the anthropologist, they study humans
and human civilizations and stuff.
You take a look at historically white areas of the globe, where colder climates.
And historically, the parts of the globe where blacks and Hispanics were living, the Native
Americans, there was a lot of hotter countries.
You can see in various common animals that they grow and develop differently in hot climates
than they do in cold climates.
It makes sense that humans did too.
I think we've probably got a little holdover from that, because anymore it doesn't really
matter how your body is designed.
You live wherever you want to live.
Cold climate, hot climate, whatever.
But generally speaking, shorter and more compact means able to handle the heat better.
Bigger and able to put on more weight means you can handle the cold better.
But I think that all gets thrown out the door when food becomes really plentiful for everybody
everywhere.
So people can eat as much as they want, anytime they want, if they have the money for it.
The realistic dietitians and doctors stuffing up to this, a lot of great food cheap is the
problem.
We live in a society where even the fucking skids are overweight.
What I wanted to say is these obesity rates, you don't look at it as specifically, more
black women are obese, so that means they get obese faster.
It could be that they are marketed to more efficiently.
I would say probably, yes.
People are selling crap food to that group more effectively.
They're eating food that makes them put on weight faster than if they were eating them
healthier.
So you can't look at them and say, here's the reason, it's just this.
But no, it could be maybe fast food really hammers the message home to a certain group
and they wind up being more obese because of it.
Or having higher risks of heart failure, heart disease, diabetes, etc.
I would agree.
I think that all of everything that we just mentioned would take that number of 72 down
considerably.
But anyhow, I do think there's underlying problem there, but there's a problem with
all of American obesity anyhow.
And then also you look across the country, the places where there are food deserts, where
there's no food to be bought, there are no grocery stores.
Predominantly those are not white areas.
No, they're not.
Those are areas where people of color live.
So they are given fewer choices of good food, healthy food.
Well, let me put it like this.
You can find this right here in Camp City.
Let's say you're going to Paseo Boulevard.
Alright, and you're like 33rd.
No grocery stores, but there's a couple of quickie marts.
Go inside those quickie marts.
What's in there?
Hot dogs, pizzas, snacks, candy bars.
You're spending twice as much on paid food.
So yeah, that plays a part into it.
So you can't say, well, it's because their ethnic group is this that they're gaining
weight.
No, it's because they're in this situation more than this other group.
Being a part of what we mentioned is true, but I think that the answer is everything
altogether.
So they're not going to go into a high V and pick out a salad because there is not a high
V over there.
And think about it, if you're living in a desperate situation and you're uncertain as
to whether you're going to be able to feed yourself next week, do you eat lean, healthy
foods or do you pack on some calories in case you're going hungry next week?
You're not going to go get shank lamb.
No, no, no.
I mean, so there is a difference too.
If you're not sure if you're going to be able to afford food next week, you're going to
buy the rich calorie packed food just in case you're going hungry next week.
And then you start doing that as an automatic thing.
You start grocery shopping as if it's feast or famine.
And that gets people into a cycle of, you know, if food is here, I better eat it because
who knows when it's going to be here again.
Any type of processed food is not real food.
No, it's ground up and chemical altered and all this.
Like the subway tuna sandwich.
Yes.
That's processed food for you.
So a lot of people with lower income are forced to buy the pizza rolls because they're cheap.
The reason they're cheap is because it's just whatever they could find on the fucking floor
ground together with glue.
They take unappetizing, bad tasting stuff and process it until it's appealing.
Yes.
So that also leads to other things, diabetes, other types of health issues too.
And that's how come you see all these other health issues in minorities also.
So it's a very complex problem.
And again, I go back to the government and their handling of everything.
Somebody is making money keeping this the way it is.
Exactly.
Or there's no money to correct it.
Yeah, that's the other part.
It's both.
Someone is making money and there's no money to correct it so they leave it like it is.
It's just like lead and water in inner cities.
Yeah.
They don't care.
They're like, you know what, we don't care.
These people are already violent.
We don't care.
That's the way it's viewed.
Yeah, I think so.
It may not be the truth of it, but that's the way it's viewed.
Yeah, I think that's a lot.
People are looked at as disposable.
It becomes easier to call people disposable if you don't have the money to fix their problem
anyway and you go, eh, I don't want to feel bad about it.
I'll just pretend I don't care about it.
Yes.
Yeah, just ignore it.
It's not there.
Not my issue.
Not on my plate.
That's why we can't let politicians stay in office very long.
No.
Turnover.
Who was it that said, you know, was it Mark Twain that said that politicians need to be
changed often like a baby and for the same reason?
Yes.
I think it was Mark Twain.
Yeah.
All right.
Since the year 2007, Texas has created almost all of the job growth.
I believe that 100% because I'm into statistics like this.
Yeah, Ross Perot Jr. down there is just having that place fucking boom right now.
You get this.
The city of Houston has created more jobs since 2007 than the entire state of California.
Yes.
Amazing.
It is.
Yeah.
But do we hear about the fact that Texas is leading us in job growth?
I haven't heard that before.
No.
It's a narrative going on right now.
Yeah.
Here's a fun one.
50% of all the people in prisons worldwide are in the U.S.
I believe that too.
You take the world's prison population, we got half of it.
I actually, I think I knew that.
Yes.
We have so many people in prison here.
I know.
It's just nuts.
The thing is, is I would like to get the records of every one of them and see what they're
in there for and why and what their makeup is, their racial makeup.
Yeah.
I'd like to see a comparison of U.S. incarceration rates compared to any other country that has
prisons for pay the way we do.
Yeah.
Yes.
And I don't know that there are too many other countries in the world that have.
They have prisons for pay.
We talked about El Salvador, their answer.
Yeah.
That was, it's a bold move.
Oh, I love it.
Yeah.
Someone with fucking guts and young actually in there making a difference.
But you know.
Not someone part of the system.
Like that fucking idiot we have in George.
When you can build a prison.
In every place.
Sorry.
Do you wait for me to start talking before.
Sorry.
Go ahead.
When you can build a prison and fill it full of people and get paid for every single one
of them.
Yeah.
It's, it makes sense to imprison as many people as possible.
Yeah, it does.
So we, if people are making money at it, then it's not going away.
So imprisoning people in this country is never going to go away as long as people are making
billions of dollars a year.
It's never going to.
No, that's true.
It's a fair for profit.
Everything is for profit.
The jail and prison system for profit.
It's, everything's getting monetized.
Let me put it like this.
If it's not, that's the thing about capitalism.
Yeah.
If it's not for profit, it's not going to happen.
Yep.
So, yeah, it sucks.
It does.
But it's the way it is.
Let's see.
There are 3.5 million homeless in the US, but we have 18.5 million empty homes.
So each individual homeless person could be given five empty houses and we'd still have
houses left over.
Yeah.
The devil's advocate on that is this right here.
You could put them in a home.
Number one, a majority of them are not going to stay in there.
Yeah.
Number two, a good amount of them will tear it up.
There are some of the homeless that are homeless for reasons and you need to fix those reasons.
You can't fix a homeless person's homelessness just by giving them a home.
No.
And this goes back to the mental health issue we talked about before.
And I have a great example.
You know the famous Crazy Mary, they call her, that's around Red Bridge and homes?
Uh huh.
Okay.
Walks around yelling at walls and stuff.
They bought her an apartment.
She refused to go in there because she is schizophrenic.
Yeah.
Oh speaking of such.
But you know the image that they want us all to see is the homeless people are like the
Disney animals, big eyes and sad faces and they're just cuddly and cute and aw.
Well I mean it sounds great to give everybody a home but in reality unless you fix the mental
health issue, it's not a reality.
And seriously if you give somebody a house then you're obligating them for real estate
taxes, insurance, utilities, they have to maintain the yard.
I mean you're dumping a ton of responsibility on them that costs a lot of money.
And also you're encouraging people to go, oh I got something wrong with me.
Give me a house.
Yeah.
You gave this guy a house.
Yeah you always have to.
It's not feasible.
You always have to get that safe guard for fraud in there.
But people are very good at manipulating the system.
I know a lot of them.
So anyhow, yeah it sounds great but it's uh.
Yeah.
Oh let's see, next one.
18% of American presidents have died in office, half of those by assassination.
18%?
Being an American president is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world.
Wow.
Yeah.
We've had less than 50 presidents so 18%, that means 9 of them have died in office.
Wow.
You know 4 or 5 of them by assassination.
That's a dangerous job.
But people wanted it.
Wow.
Okay.
I was looking up how many people, how many presidents were assassinated.
You know what, just keep going.
Okay.
I'll look it up later.
Black children make up 15 to 17% of the US population.
President make up 60% of drowning victims.
That's insane.
No access to swimming pools and swimming lessons.
Oh okay.
Yeah.
That makes sense.
Yeah.
But you know how you, I've heard this used as a comedy bit on TV is you know so it's
so called black people can't swim or don't swim or whatever.
It's killing people.
Not learning how to swim at a young age.
And then.
You think with YMCAs and schools that have swimming pools now that maybe that number
is going to start changing?
Yeah.
I don't know.
But that, I was stunned by that.
So am I.
That's just nuts.
And you know teaching a kid to swim is easy and it's simple.
Well I'd like a bigger breakdown of where this happens.
I know me too.
Is it the ocean?
Is it a lake?
Is it swimming pools?
Probably a lot of it is lakes.
That's what I would think.
Were there unfamiliar with their surroundings?
Yeah.
And it's easier to lose track of your kids.
Yes.
Access to floaties could have something to do with it too.
That could be too.
There's so many different variances.
Putting life preservers and floaties on your kids or whether it's just yeah there are a
lot of varials.
Even as it stands not knowing anymore it's pretty scary statistic.
It is.
Very much so.
Alright.
Next up unemployment rate among the disabled.
10.5%.
That's pretty high.
Well what is disabled?
They didn't say.
But there again there's a whole segment that society is having to support because they're
not able to get jobs and support themselves.
Okay.
I know of several programs where disabled people do work.
One of them is like you know what I before mentioned my job before.
There's certain abrasives that are made by blind people.
Not that far away from Kansas City out in the country kind of.
And what these abrasives are is they go in wheels and these wheels are used on metal
railings to put finishes in them.
So when they make up these big abrasive wheels blind people staple them together because
they have a system to give them a job.
Now they don't pay them a whole lot of money.
The state pays them quite a bit of money to do it too.
Yeah.
Those people do it.
Subsidized employment.
Subsidized yes.
So my guess is not enough of it is subsidized.
Yeah.
And we go back to there's no money in it.
Yeah.
And how much of it is the social worker who goes to a person and says you don't really
want to work anyway do you?
We'll just put you on this disability.
Oh I bet there's a good amount that does that.
You can just stay at home and rest.
There are probably some that are discouraged from even trying.
Yeah.
Who knows.
Yeah.
You're ready.
The United States is only 4 percent of the world's population.
That's pretty small.
I thought it would be bigger than that.
I thought we'd be about 8 percent actually.
8 or 9.
But only being 4 percent of the world population we consume 80 percent of the opioid drugs.
Wow.
We're a bunch of pill heads over here aren't we?
The society that we created for ourselves isn't very good to us.
Feel good now no matter what.
I mean that's kind of it.
Oh well that's the number one thing is I mean it goes to mental health too.
Don't do something about the core problem.
Just numb them down.
Yeah.
Numb them down to where they don't feel anything.
The idea that people should always feel good all the time about everything and never have
to feel bad is stupid.
It is.
It really is.
I agree 100 percent.
Oh well they'll figure it out.
But 80 percent of the world's opioid drugs we gobbled down right here in the good old
U.S.
God.
Wow.
Here's a scary one.
It doesn't affect me anymore because I've had a vasectomy.
The sperm count of the average man worldwide is down 58 percent since 1973.
They blame it on chemicals and they also blame it on governments putting chemicals in things
to do this.
And it's dropping by one percent every year.
Or it could be just Mother Nature going no more.
We're packed guys we're packed.
This could be a natural reaction to overpopulation.
That's what I was saying.
Because this has happened in animal species where the population gets huge and the males
become in full.
And they stop having males.
And also we have diseases and famines.
COVID.
Leprosy.
You know whatever.
You know we've got about 8 billion people on the planet so a decrease in sperm count
I don't think is anything that's going to wipe us out.
But it's something we better look into.
But then again our generation probably doesn't necessarily give a shit.
And our generation is the one with all the doctors.
This one won't surprise you at all.
Forty percent of Americans don't know what the First Amendment is and what it guarantees.
No clue.
Yeah I believe that.
Yeah I believe that too.
There's so many people who don't know what our rights are.
And as my union rep always told me if you don't know what your rights are you don't
have any rights.
You don't that's right.
You really don't.
That's a good way of putting it because you don't know where to start you don't know
where to put it.
Yeah.
The First Amendment is freedom of speech, freedom of expression, all that kind of stuff.
But how easy is it to take away something that you don't even know you have.
If you don't know what your rights are they can be taken away from you.
Very easily.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well that's what's going on obviously.
Fifteen million Americans lack high speed internet.
It's rural areas.
Yeah it is.
And twenty years ago this wasn't a big deal.
But now we have changed our American way of living to where if you don't have high speed
internet you are at a big disadvantage.
Well like right now you know we can get high speed internet from the street cars.
Yeah.
And also along here I think the city market generates its own.
I mean virtually downtown Kansas City has its own.
Yeah.
Where you can just sit on a park bench and receive high speed internet access.
Yeah.
Rural areas they can't do that.
And there is a lack of investment.
How you doing?
You want to talk?
You got anything you want to say?
No, no, no.
I'm just going to see what y'all have going on man.
Alright man.
Well yeah there's a serious lack of investment in these rural areas that don't have high
speed internet.
There is somebody who is preventing it, some group or some faction or whatever.
Apparently it's to somebody's advantage to not let these people have high speed internet.
So it's an intentional thing we could fix right away but it's being kept from happening.
And I've seen some responses in social media where people are downplaying the seriousness.
Oh high speed internet, who cares?
They can go to an internet cafe, no big deal.
But really I mean imagine if you had to drive 20 miles to get clean drinking water.
Yeah I know.
It would be a big deal.
And imagine if you could never compete for the better things in life because you were
always stuck behind slow internet.
I posed to you a little different way to look at it.
Sure.
Because I do know a lot of people out in the sticks.
I lived out in the sticks for a while.
You know Cass County is pretty much the sticks.
Yeah.
It was a small community, a town, a little city but sticks essentially.
Yeah.
Okay.
A lot of the people that I knew were out there because they did not want any part of that.
True.
Yeah big sections of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming are people who want to get away.
I heard that all the time.
Why are you going in the city?
I don't know, stuff to do.
Why are you going there?
There's not much trouble there.
What if my walks start walking down this way?
But it isn't all of them but I would say at least 20-25% is like that.
The other ones are ones that grew up there and had no way of getting out.
I mean kind of almost a mirror image of the inner city.
Yeah I can see some people wanting to keep the small town a small town and not wanting
it to grow.
I know several small towns if that's it.
They would not pass like a new store coming in or a freeway bypass.
That was one of the things.
They don't want to change the way the town is.
There was a small town in Cass County, I'm not going to say names but you can look it
up.
They wanted to build 69 highway in Kansas to I-49 now was 71 at the time, a bypass.
Went right through central Cass County.
All of the little cities that were in question were going to have like the exits and entrance
ramps so they wanted nothing to do with it.
They said well truck stops are going to come in and then this is going to come in.
Oh no no no we want to keep our just like it is.
It's like you're talking about a lot of jobs.
People around here can get jobs.
No that's alright we don't need them.
Anyhow.
Alright next fun fact, one in eight people in the US has worked for McDonald's.
Wow that's a lot.
That's a lot of people.
That's a lot of turnover and you know in the not too distant future we're going to be able
to say that about Amazon.
Yes.
Because Amazon is burning through employees just like McDonald's.
Even though they plan on not having any employees.
Now McDonald's has been around for a whole lot longer.
They've been around for what 60, 70 years.
So they've had time to go through a lot of employees.
Amazon is just burning through them because it's a horrible place to work.
Alright if you have a $10 bill and no debt you're better off than 15% of Americans.
Yes.
Wow.
I find that very believable.
It's sad but I could see that real easily.
Yeah.
For 15% of America if you cashed out right now you'd be in the hole.
You got more debt and you got money.
You sell everything you have and you still can't pay it.
I mean we both have been in that situation.
Yep.
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So we have Rob Radd, Robbie Radd from Calling In Again and we love the guy and how, where
are you calling from?
I'm actually at Jason C. McCool's.
Outside of Versailles.
Oh okay.
Okay I know where you're at.
Basically.
Okay cool.
Yeah we have a big swap and shop here every year.
The Caffees didn't pay the work today.
It's all we did.
And I'm getting paid to come up and help them throw stuff back and clear them and get out
of here.
How you doing man?
How are you?
I guess you're doing real good man.
Real good.
Yeah?
Yeah doing our podcast.
Oh.
Yeah.
No no no that's fine man.
Haven't seen you in a while so everything going good?
Yeah.
Okay good.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
God yeah.
Yeah.
Just thought I'd say hi to you.
Haven't seen you in a while.
Alright.
Take care man.
Cool.
Alright.
Yeah we need to put up a sign that says podcast in progress.
Please make lots of noise.
Because we don't want you to be quiet.
I mean that's the reason we're down here.
We don't want quiet.
We want people to make some noises.
Anyhow alright go ahead.
Guy used to work with us.
He just ran into us real quick.
Thought I'd say hi for a minute.
Anyhow.
Okay okay Robbie.
Back to Robbie.
Sorry.
Everything all of a sudden happened at once.
There's an interesting sound.
Yeah.
Alright so we were doing interesting facts so I'm going to go ahead and have Topher go
ahead with one and you can chime in and I'll chime in.
Alright here's my next.
Did you know 25% of Americans don't know who we fought in the Revolutionary War.
Yeah I believe that.
25% that seems high.
25% that's kind of sad actually.
Every year Americans waste almost as much food as we actually eat.
Yes.
So we're producing twice as much as we need because we're going to waste half of it.
Yep.
Nuts.
Because a lot of us don't know how to cook in small quantities.
Or don't know how to bag it up properly.
They throw it in the fridge, put a cover over it and then two weeks later it's like what
the hell is that.
Oh my god.
Oh that was a mac and cheese from whatever.
Or they'll throw away half the fruit because it doesn't look right.
Got a bump or a stain or something.
It's too ugly to sell so they throw it away.
Or people only want this one tiny bit of this food item so we'll cut it out and throw all
the rest away even though you can eat the rest of it.
People only want to buy this one little part.
Alrighty.
33% of Americans, American adults believe we've been visited by aliens.
That's up quite a bit.
It used to be like 5%, 6%, now it's 33%.
I think we're kind of being groomed eventually that someone's going to just go ahead and
tell us yeah, they're here.
And everyone's going to go like eh, I don't care.
There's more starting to come out through the media also about that nowadays.
It used to be covered up.
Now we're more lax about different ideas.
Yeah and as they float out a little bit people go oh who cares and they're like okay let's
float out some more.
So eventually we're going to get the whole story because we're showing as a society that
it's not freaking us out.
Yeah.
Sorry, I'm having to order a Jack stack for the family because we have a family come over
so I'm being kind of quiet.
So I'm letting you two go ahead and float this thing here and I'll be with you guys
occasionally chuckling like I know what's going on.
Hey Mark, grab me a bottle of salt will you?
Yeah sure.
A bottle of salt.
Yep.
We're going to have to do the guess where it's at though.
Hey that's alright.
I'll go to Walmart down here in Kansas and get a bottle.
Oh damn it you took all the fun out of it Rob.
Okay anyhow go ahead you two.
I've got to order this ship before I get in trouble.
In more than 50% of US states the highest paid public employee is a college football
coach.
Wow.
I didn't know they were public employees but like state colleges, universities they're
run by the state.
Never thought about that.
So they're spending state money on those football coaches.
We pay into those state money funds.
That's fucked isn't it?
That is fucked.
Yeah.
We're making.
We're coaches we don't even like.
Yeah.
A college football coach is a millionaire public employee.
How nuts is that?
Wow.
Yeah it is.
Yep.
Well here's two that go together.
63% of inmates cannot read.
And that goes with 100% of American public schools will graduate students who can't read.
Sad.
Wow.
Yeah.
But true.
Yeah.
Yep.
So knowing that not being able to read.
Completely believe that.
Is like a shortcut to prison.
American schools do it anyway.
Wow.
And this is what we tolerate.
But you know I think a lot of reason this is tolerated is because people can still move
out of the bad school districts and into good ones and then for them the problem doesn't
exist anymore.
But the thing is we still have all those inmates who can't read.
All those homeless who can't read.
All those people searching for jobs who can't read.
I mean it's still a problem that we're all going to wind up paying for.
Yes.
Yep.
Believe it completely.
Unfortunately.
Aren't these facts fun?
Well they are.
They really make you think.
Which I love.
Alright here's one that's interesting.
Given the current birth rates by the year 2045 there will be no ethnic majority in the
U.S.
Nobody will be a majority.
Everyone will be a minority.
Isn't that fun?
Where's my car there?
Hang on one second Robby.
Hang on we got a call.
Hang on.
Hello?
Hello Mark.
This is a reminder of your upcoming appointment on 3rd of April at 8.45 a.m. at St. Joseph's
Family Hospital.
I thought it was going to be phone sex.
I'm so disappointed.
I thought it was someone calling different podcasts.
You know what okay.
Also please bring your photo ID and insurance card.
Okay.
To complete your appointment please call the number you want to make available.
Okay.
And then you can call the number you want to make available.
Okay.
And then you can call the number you want to make available.
Okay.
And then you can call the number you want to make available.
Okay.
And then you can call the number you want to make available.
Okay.
Robby you there?
Yes I'm still here brother.
You know what you'll hear what happened when you listen to this podcast.
Oh I will.
Okay.
Oh shit I still got to order Jack stack.
I keep getting it around.
Go ahead.
Here's another fun fact.
The United States during the slavery era when Africans were being exported as livestock
the US was one of the very few people places that didn't immediately castrate the incoming
slaves.
Pretty much everywhere else in the world when the African slaves were brought into the country
the men were castrated because they didn't want them reproducing.
Wow.
The US didn't do that which is why we have such a large population of slave descendants
of former slaves.
How evil though.
But a lot of other countries don't because they castrated all their slaves.
Wow.
Yeah.
And they somehow look like the good guys like England and a lot of European countries.
Wow.
Makes you think about mankind a little bit different.
Yep.
I'm thinking they were thinking about expanding the country.
Yeah I think Americans were thinking.
No they wanted more slaves.
It's evil is what it was.
For population growth.
Yeah.
We love you guys so much we want more of you.
Alright.
In Thailand the plus size stores have some really brutal names.
Plus size stores for women's clothing.
What is it?
Here are some of the names in Thailand for stores.
BB Fat.
Oh my god.
Oh wow.
Here's the next one.
Fatty Fat Girl.
That's a clothing store.
Oh my god.
And here's one that just simply said Fat Girls.
They were showing the sign and here it is with a Hello Kitty logo on it or whatever
and it's all pink and it's like that's supposed to draw you into the store to shop.
Oh my god I should be laughing but my god I cannot believe these.
And these were in English.
I'm holding it in.
I mean Thailand has its own language, its own alphabet but these were printed in English.
Look I'm a fatty so I think I can laugh at this a little bit.
I'm fat too.
I'm a fat old man.
Here's the next one.
I'm not.
That's why I'm not laughing.
Well here's one.
It said Love Calories.
That was the name of the store.
If people shop there here no one would shop there.
No one would shop there.
I'm not going into Fatty Fatter.
But these are successful stores in Thailand.
It's like hey where are you at right now?
Oh I went into Fatty Fatter to get a shirt.
No way.
And the one called Moo Moo.
Moo Moo.
Oh my god.
And then the last two there was one called Thai Fat and Fat Cat.
Fat Cat.
Pretty much all the two had the word fat in the name.
That is insane.
Isn't that nuts?
They must view it differently over here.
Apparently so.
It must be like a just common thing.
It's like okay we know so say what you want or whatever.
Yeah.
Yeah wow.
That is so interesting.
Isn't it?
In America they hide the name behind something else and then they shift the numbering size
scale down so if you're wearing a size 30 they call it a size 17 so you feel better about
yourself.
Where we're in Thailand they're saying fat everybody's fat.
Bring your fat belly in here and buy clothes.
And it's working for them but you know difference in culture.
Yeah.
Hey Rob are you pantsless right now?
No Mark I'm in trouble.
What the fuck?
Alright okay.
Hey I'm not 18 no more man.
Oh come on I don't want to hear any excuses like that.
You drop those drawers right now mister and you walk around.
Sorry go ahead.
Sorry I slammed this program into a wall again.
Thank you thank you.
Anytime anytime.
The next one Walmart charges less for spices if you buy those spices in the ethnic food
section.
Really?
Yes.
You don't get the same brands but you do find it cheaper.
So all the ones that contain lead.
But like you go to the generic spice section and you know garlic is like this much.
You go to the Hispanic food section the garlic is cheaper.
You'd be funny like they had a little caricature of everyone.
Like they have the old Italian guy with a big nose there looking at the garlic and then
they go on to the Indian one.
That would be funny.
But why would they decide to lower the prices in the ethnic food section?
That's usually where they bump the prices up.
Okay I think that it's something to look good.
It's like look if you go to the ethnic section where we have your type of food we're going
to lower the price for you a little bit because Walmart cares.
But you know they don't make it all that obvious.
You have to kind of do the math.
It's like over in the generic section it's like 26 ounces for this amount and then you
go to the ethnic it's like 14 ounces for this amount so you double it and yeah okay that's
still cheaper.
So they don't make it like real obvious or apparent.
Well Robbie is Croatian and Filipino where do you go to get your food?
Oh come on man.
Born and raised in Kansas City.
Get off me.
You've got to expect this.
Oh I do I do.
It's just that I'm sober today so I'm on to it.
Oh damn it.
Alright well.
Now Sunday night that was a different story.
Well I mean and that's why you're not pantsless either is because you know.
Exactly.
Hey how do you like all my little comments on the last podcast?
I just started rolling.
I'm glad to see I'm starting to become a celebrity on this show.
You're the guy that wants nude pictures of young men.
Not too young.
They don't have to be men.
We set a limit of 25 year olds.
Yeah.
Because we care.
We don't want you we want someone crashing in your hard drive.
Hey I do live down here in the state.
Yeah that's true.
Anyhow go ahead.
Alright children living separately from their parents having their own house etc.
That way of living is only about a hundred years old in this country.
It used to be that extended families all lived together in the house.
They built on.
And they built on when the house filled up they split the family in half.
And they'd buy another big house.
But after World War II the suburbs started getting being built.
And realtor associations wanted to fill them up.
So they started this whole ad campaign of when you when you reach you know 18 20 years old.
Move out buy your own house.
And the extended family started withering away.
Extended family is way healthier way better way cheaper.
But realtors weren't making enough money.
So they convinced us all that we all have to have our own separate houses.
And think about how many houses they want us to buy in our life.
First house is you know you first move out you get your first place.
It's your starter home.
And then you buy another house when you get married.
And maybe have a couple kids.
And then you buy a third house when you have more kids and you want a better school district.
And then you buy a fourth house when the kids all move out and your empty nesters now.
And then you buy a fifth house when you retire and now you're living out your golden years.
You could live your entire life in one single house.
But the realtor association and the home builders they want you to buy houses over and over every five to ten years.
So they convince you that this is the way that the American dream is supposed to be.
In reality if you lived in the same house with your kids and your parents and your grandparents.
Everyone could take care of each other.
Everyone could look out for each other.
You'd never need a babysitter.
There would always be somebody home for a package or a service call.
Way cheaper.
Everybody's mental health is better.
But people weren't making enough money on that.
So that's why our culture got changed to everyone buys their own house.
Everyone owns three or more cars.
It's because people want to make money off of us.
And also I have an opinion on this too.
And this is why the government is so good on doing this urban blight and moving stuff around us.
Because they don't want you to stay in their house.
They want everything to change.
Make you uncomfortable or whatever it is.
Or your property values start declining.
And all this.
That way you do seek to move.
And they've got an invested interest in it because every time money changes hands.
Every government agency gets a cut.
State, local, federal, county.
Everybody gets a sales tax.
So they want money to change hands as much as possible.
So we're being pushed around by people who want to make money off of us.
And we're being told what we're supposed to want in life.
I'm trying not to listen.
The same here too.
The same here. It's hard not to sometimes.
Because there are so many different factors too.
Crime is a big factor and I know probably in your area too.
And that's why I want to get out of where I'm at.
I love it where I'm at and I know you love it where you're at.
But crime has grown around the area so much to where you're compelled to be like, you know what?
No. I don't wish this.
Did you hear about that bank robbery at the UMB?
85th and Warnold?
I walk my dog right past that sometimes.
That's how close that is to my house.
And somebody went in and robbed the bank.
You can try to get away from crime but it's going to follow everywhere.
Oh yeah, the big quadruple, no, seven person murder in Woodbridge.
Less than a mile from my house.
Crazy.
We've got our crime down here too.
Well I mean that and you've got a horrible meth problem too, don't you?
Meth? Meth down there is really bad still?
Yeah, I mean it's, I mean we're not as bad as the show Ozark sits on.
Yeah.
Or Bad Bars.
We have the drug. We got meth. It's a mixture down there.
They have the stuff they call the 417, which is your area code.
No, yeah, we're 573.
Okay, well just down there to the south, Springfield, they call it the 417
and there's like one of the meanest forms of meth around and it's sought all over the country and the world.
Yikes. Yeah.
Real Heisenberg stuff.
Yes, yeah, very much so.
Yeah, it's pretty rough down there.
Well I know people that own farms out in rural or wherever as early as Bates County or even southern Cass County.
If you come across a tent on the back side of your property like you got a wooded area, you don't touch it.
Yeah, I used to teach hunter safety courses for the conservation department, Missouri Conservation Department,
and that was something I would bring up in every class is if you're out hunting or scouting a hunting area or whatever
and you come across like a still or any kind of encampment or a bunch of weed plants growing or something,
I say don't take pictures, turn around and get out.
I mean just turn around and leave.
That's great advice.
Yeah, because somebody is watching that area and that somebody has a gun and they will kill you to protect their secret.
They're blasted out on drugs anyhow. Yeah.
Yeah, they might wake up the next day and go oh my god I killed that guy.
And there was one guy in one of my classes who came up to me after a session and he said I did walk up on a still once
and I took pictures because I thought it was cool and funny.
I stood around there for a while taking pictures and looking everything over and he said I realize now how incredibly lucky I was
because the guy who ran the still was obviously somewhere else, but if he'd come back he would have killed that guy.
Yes, he would have.
There are plenty of places to hide the body and yeah.
And the guy, he was showing me the pictures like I thought this was so fun and cool and I was going to show my friends
but he's like yeah I'm not doing this anymore.
Wow, that's insane.
It's insane for one to think that actually really goes on.
Yeah.
For two, for you to actually lose your life over.
Yeah.
You know?
You know I would get complaints from a lot of people.
I go out for scouting and I set up trail cams and the trail cams get stolen.
And they're like it sucks that other hunters are stealing my trail cams.
It's like no it's not other hunters.
It's somebody in the woods going to do something illegal and they don't want your trail cam catching them.
So they look for trail cams and knock them out and then they set up their stuff.
So, eh, anyway.
Yeah, well, you know.
Let's go on to one that's more fun.
Yeah, yeah, let's move on.
For those of you with Amazon Prime, you probably know that not everything really gets shipped to you in one or two days.
They're falling apart from that.
Matter of fact, anymore you can count on it being three or four days minimum.
And they don't really advertise that like they used to.
And suddenly they start pulling back on that.
Oh, it's Prime. It'll be there tomorrow.
Well, here's the secret.
Anytime your thing doesn't get there in one or two days, if you call and complain and say,
hey, I'm paying for Prime, I expected Prime delivery and I'm not getting it.
The more often you complain, the more free stuff they will send your way.
Really?
Yeah, yeah.
Free discounts, coupons, free certificates for downloads of something.
Just call up and keep complaining every time they'll throw free stuff at you.
Okay.
So, heck, I'm going to complain every stinking time.
I am too.
And get free stuff.
I had no idea.
And you know Amazon has built that into their budget.
Instead of fixing the problem to get faster, they've put in a budget to pay people off who are complaining.
They know what the hell they're doing. They know.
They're like, no, no, no, we're not going to fix it. We're just going to pay people off.
So I've decided I'm going to be one of those people complaining.
Me too.
I had no idea. So that's what I'm going to start doing.
Yeah.
All right, two more.
Just like Amazon...
You got some good ones this time around.
Thank you.
Yeah, it's been real good ones.
Just like Amazon, you can get pretty much anything you want out of the United States Postal Service
by complaining often enough and going over people's heads.
I think that's the main thing with post office.
It's going, oh, you're not going to do anything? Well, okay.
Yeah, that's the kryptonite is going over someone's head.
Telling them you're going to do it and then actually doing it.
Yeah.
As a 32-year veteran of the Postal Service, I've seen that work countless times.
If you keep going over the person's head and keep being angry,
as long as you're not cussing or being threatening because they'll just hang up on you.
But if you can be angry and make your point and keep going over people's heads,
you will eventually find somebody whose career is hanging by a thread
and they can't have one more angry complaining customer on their record
and they will do whatever you want.
So they will make sure that...
Yeah, they will do whatever it takes to make you happy and make you go away.
And all you have to do is keep going over people's heads and you will find that person
at the Postal Service who will give you whatever you want to make you go away and leave them alone.
Okay.
So keep hammering.
I mean, if you want the mailman to quit walking across your yard,
keep hammering them over and over. You'll get it.
I love that.
You'll get it.
Absolutely love that.
They will cave, guaranteed.
Yeah.
And here's another fun one with election time coming up again not too long.
The Postal Service is super paranoid about being accused of election tampering.
Oh, yeah. Yep.
And they are so, so rabid about getting vote by mail started
that they are afraid to delay anything that has to do with election.
So any kind of official election mail or mail-in ballots or anything like that,
none of that is delayed for any reason.
So you don't even have to put a stamp on it.
Wow.
And they will deliver it.
And the way you can make sure is put your return address on it
and send it off without a stamp to your election board or your mail-in ballot or whatever.
It will either come back to you for postage
or they will attempt to deliver it and collect postage,
but of course nobody at the election board is going to pay for that piece of mail.
So if they don't send it back to you, they'll deliver it.
And that's what I was told for the last few election cycles before I retired
is that if it's any kind of election mail, don't even bother with the postage.
Deliver it no matter what because we can't be accused of delaying anything.
Wow.
So there you go. Any election mail, don't worry about a stamp.
It'll get delivered anyway because the post office is too scared to do anything else.
Oh, that's fantastic.
Isn't it?
I love sharing little tips like that.
All right. That's good to know.
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Dear Abby, not quite.
You have questions, we have answers.
They're not very good answers, but we have them.
All right. As promised earlier, we have a new Dear Douchebags letter.
Dear Douchebags is like Dear Abby only.
We give you horrible advice and hopefully you don't follow it,
and if you do, it's not our fault.
And the fun part, this is the only time anyone calls me dear.
Oh, yeah, same here.
I get called a douchebag all the time, but it's fun to be called dear once in a while.
Yeah, yeah, and I'm not even sure if they even call us that because they want to,
or they think they have to.
Yeah, they probably feel obligated.
It's okay, I'll take a pity one.
Yeah, it's a form letter that says Dear Douchebags,
so they don't actually really write it themselves.
Yeah, okay, I'll take it anyway.
It's on our website, twodouchebagsandmicrophone.net.
Okay, so Dear Douchebags, I have a unique problem with an odd coworker.
It seems that every opportunity he has to accidentally graze my nipple, he does.
Oh, one of those.
Yeah, nipple grazer.
I can't prove he does it on purpose, but he sure isn't being very careful not to.
Yeah, doing a drive-by.
Yep, yep, doing a drive-by.
We work on a box goods conveyor belt.
He is directly to my right, so when I hand the box off to him,
band, the good old accidental nipple grudge, signed Nippy in Mississippi.
We had another great name.
Another great name, man, these are so awesome.
You guys are awesome.
So, here it is.
All right, can't wait to hear our response.
Okay, here's our response.
And Robbie, if you have anything to add to it, that's cool, and Topher, you know the drill.
I'll chime in.
You go right in.
Well, okay then, Nippy.
I have a few ideas that might help, so let's go for it.
Number one, have an mp3 recording of loud chicken sounds.
Every time you accidentally graze your female bits, hit the mp3 and let the loud chicken clucks begin.
During the two-minute chicken party, you can look at him and say,
You did that, uh-huh, you did, you did, you did.
Now, if that doesn't back the purg way, we got number two.
If the nip flips still continue, then you might consider one of those old-fashioned Johnson and Smith catalog pinup flowers
that squirts liquid every time the connecting hand piece is pushed.
So, he comes over there, he grabs a box from you, flips your nipple, nipple, I almost said nickel, flips your nipple,
and then you press him with the little flower that gets him right in the face.
Put like ammonia in it or hydrogen peroxide.
Yeah, or Lysol.
And, uh, gasoline, urine, chocolate syrup.
Garbage bag juice.
Garbage bag juice, probably be the best.
Garbage bag juice is pretty good, yeah.
So, anyhow, then the final one that they have here is, you know, you get him right in the face of the app,
but finally, eat Brussels sprouts and broccoli and train yourself to gas it up every time he slaps the nipple.
Hopefully they're real yard rumblers.
So, a guy comes up, accidentally brushes your nip, and you're, pfft.
Well, good luck, Miss Nippy in Mississippi.
Ride us back and let us know how bad we screwed up your life.
Oh, awesome.
There we go.
You know, I had a similar situation at a job I had once.
A nip flip?
Well, I was training a guy, but he really didn't like taking orders from anybody.
So, I would say, you know, I would say, okay, prep these and get them all cleaned up. When they're ready, I'll come back and inspect them.
And then, so he'd do his part, and I'd come back and inspect, and I'd say, okay, these are all fine, but these three, you know, need to be cleaned again.
And any time I would find fault with his work, he would say, took my day.
And he wasn't being mean or angry. He was just, he was trying to, he was teasing, and he didn't like authority, so he just couldn't bring himself to say, okay, I'll do it.
He would just say, took my day.
He was passive aggressive on you. Is that what we're saying?
Pretty much, yeah.
So, when you come back, you go, I was just kidding.
Yeah. And then he'd laugh like his big joke, and I should just like that.
And you're like, okay, Curtis, next time, you know, you need to get these five unboxed, and took my day.
And just over and over and over and over.
So finally, the owner, who was the main boss, he was also the owner of the factory, he was there, and Curtis gave me another one of his, you know, flip, hey, suck my dick, comments.
So I stood there in a loud voice, and I wasn't mad, I was in a very loud voice saying, no, Curtis, I don't want to have sex with you.
I'm not gay. I don't care if you are, but please stop asking me to suck your dick, because I'm not going to.
It makes me uncomfortable for you to keep hitting on me at work.
And he stood there with his eyes real big and his mouth open, because the whole plant was listening.
And I was telling everybody that he kept asking me over and over to have sex.
Oh, that's great.
Yeah. And I just said, you know, it's okay if you're gay, I don't care, but just quit asking me.
You were being angry, you said, I'm just not going to have sex.
So could you please back it down a notch and leave me alone, because I don't do that.
And nobody, even the boss, nobody said a word to me about it, and Curtis never told me to suck his dick again.
I love that.
And the fun part is, one of the guys that were on the quality control line was gay.
So when I made that big statement, Jay was over the look, and Curtis was like, huh?
Sizing him up.
Well.
Of course, he found out very quickly that, you know, Curtis wasn't gay, he was just being a jerk about it.
And Jay and I got along just fine, you know.
Yeah.
There's no problem.
Jay probably had a lot of fun with that one.
He probably did.
Oh, I have some gay stories of me and Mark.
Oh, yeah, yeah, my ass still hurts.
We'll make that for another show.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, not real gay stories, but you know.
No, no, we were pretending to be gay.
And we freaked people out.
Back then, it was like so taboo that we always took advantage of it.
We would make anybody uncomfortable anyplace.
I'm going to have to start wrapping up.
Okay.
All right, Rob.
We will talk to you coming up on a podcast.
All right.
Hey, thanks for having me again, guys.
Enjoyed it.
I'm having a great time with this.
Oh, good.
And like always, when you can't defend yourself, I would make many comments about you.
I know.
I'll get there.
I'm trying to be nice right now.
Look for Robbie on Facebook there.
Send him nudes if you're a young man, 25 or over.
Thank you, Mark.
No problem.
Make him good ones, too.
He wants to see you in the river through your asshole.
All right.
Bye.
All right.
We'll talk to you later.
Okay.
Take care, man.
Good talking to you, Robbie.
All right.
Bye.
All right.
Okay.
Switch our microphone back to the other mode.
Okay.
That went reasonably well.
That's like he's like the first guy to fall asleep at the party.
Yeah.
As soon as he's gone, he's going to get ripped.
Oh, he's going to get ripped.
Yeah.
It's just going to happen.
Robbie Radford.
Yeah.
Yep.
Remember.
All right.
I have a...
Do you remember RC Cola?
I do.
I like RC Cola.
I do, too.
It's a good alternative.
I like Pepsi and Coke.
I think I like Pepsi better than Coke.
Yeah.
I prefer Pepsi and I'll take a Pepsi and then an RC before I'll take a Coke.
I will, too.
Because I'm not so much a Coca-Cola guy.
Now, if they still had cocaine in it, maybe I would like Coke better.
Yeah.
They originally put cocaine or something else.
Morphine.
Yeah.
And wine.
Oh, it was wine, too.
So it was alcohol, cocaine, and morphine was in the original Coke and it was sold to the
Health Time.
Yeah.
And Coca-Cola denied it for decades.
Swore up and down that it wasn't the truth.
And then they found an old bottle of Coke, opened it, tested the contents.
By God, there was cocaine in the original Coke.
And then the Coca-Cola company said, oh, yeah, we did that.
Yeah.
And nothing was done about it, so it didn't matter.
It's like, okay, well, we'll stop.
So interesting that Coca-Cola lied to the American public for decades.
And then when they were forced to admit it, they did.
And everyone said, okay, we still love you.
And they bought their product anyway.
Yeah.
And people didn't care.
They're just like, oh, you know what?
They said they're sorry.
So that shows that no matter how much you abuse and screw over the American public,
they'll still come back.
They'll still come back for more.
They come running back for more.
Yep.
Oh, well.
It's true, though.
It's probably not just America, but it's still in the country.
It's a great demonstration, actually, to show them how Americans don't really give a shit.
Yeah.
Very short memories.
Yep.
Okay.
Well, I've always been a big three soda fan, right?
Yeah.
Good.
It's safe to say you too.
Yeah.
And we sound like we're very much on par.
You know, you and I's favorites, Pepsi and then RC, a second, a little ways back there,
but manageable second.
Yeah.
And then Pepsi.
And then Coke.
Yeah.
And I like Coke out of a fountain at McDonald's really well, but out of a can or a bottle,
not so much.
Yeah.
So anyhow, I love Pepsi, Coke, and RC.
I believe Pepsi is a front runner with Coke and RC.
And the only reason Coke is the second now is because it's so hard to get RC.
It is.
The distribution is horrible.
Yeah.
And so many years go by, I still love all the colas, but RC Cola has become very hard
to find.
And this has been for like 20 years.
It's been going on for probably about 20 years.
RC's distribution just can't keep up with Coke and Pepsi.
Yeah.
RC could be found in Walmart and local grocery chains, but not all the time.
So for instance, the other day I was in Walmart picking up some stuff and they have one 12
pack of RC Cola.
Nice.
And there's tons of everything else.
Yeah.
But you go to the section where RC should be in one, one 12 pack.
It wasn't because they sold all that.
It's because it's probably put...
That's all the shelf space they had for it.
Yeah.
So I just really kind of forgotten about RC altogether.
One day I was in Walmart when suddenly I see an old friend.
This would be the Powder Blue RC artwork.
Powder Blue?
Yeah, it's the old one.
I don't remember that.
It was Powder Blue and it had an old fashioned RC circle and then RC in the middle of it.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
I know what you're talking about now.
Yeah.
And they also had two liters with the same...
Armor.
Yeah.
So I bought the 12 pack, completely forgotten about RC Cola because it's not been distributed
very well out of pure nostalgia.
Yeah.
I was like, oh my God.
I remember that from when I was younger.
I grabbed it and then I was like, I'm just thrilled this gem from my sweet childhood
had just re-emerged.
I'm like, oh my God, look at this.
Yeah.
Okay.
So I suddenly go back to being a 3 Cola guy again because, only because they have the
retro cans.
It was originally marketed as retro cans, get them while they're here, not going to
last forever.
They stopped that.
Now all the cans and two liters are retro.
Nice.
And the only new logo you can get is the plastic bottles and you can't really find them at
all.
I mean, you can find the retro cans, you can find the retro two liters, but they've seemed
to phase out the 20 ounce or 16 ounce bottles.
That makes sense.
Kind of streamline the products so they don't have to spend as much on sizes they don't
sell.
Yeah.
So I started noticing a little bit more every now and then RC creep them back into mainstream
society in the retro can.
Nice.
Okay.
So you didn't see that new logo that's kind of a darker blue.
It kind of looks like a brushed on RC.
Looks like someone took a paint brush.
It's kind of dry and drew the R and the C, just regular letters, you know.
Yeah.
It seems to be that if a brand is making even an attempt to reinvent themselves, whether
it's successful or not, that's all that matters is they tried and people are like, oh, okay,
yeah.
And all of a sudden it's like there's that original surge.
Yeah.
Well, it sounds to me like, you know, RC was floundering so bad, then they do this new
design and suddenly it's like, hey, wait a minute.
Someone said, did you see the sales?
As soon as we brought back that retro can, our sales have like-
Suddenly a lot more appealing.
Wadrupled.
It reminds you of the Pat's Blue Ribbon without the Gorilla marketing.
Yeah.
Where all of a sudden someone suggests that this was your grandfather's beer and maybe
you should try it.
Yeah.
Well, this seems to me like they suggested like, hey, Mark, you remember this from your
childhood?
And I remember very well because there's a little town called Westline down from Cleveland,
Missouri.
And when I was down there visiting friends, they had a little convenience store there.
The hours are like really just like, they close at like 4 p.m. and they're open up at
9, like 9 to 4.
Weird.
Oh, so they had an RC machine out front.
And all you get is RC cans and a couple other like maybe a Squirt or a Nehi Orange and that
was it.
Yeah.
And I used to get those RC Cola cans out of there because I'd be there at like four or
five when they closed and I was wanting a soda, so I'd be forced to go to the machine
and grab one.
And I remember those cans so well because of that.
They probably tasted damn good too.
Yeah, they were very good.
So fast forward to 2023, Penn State just left Pepsi in favor of RC Cola.
A 10 year deal.
Amazing.
So they are on the rebound and they're going to start emerging again.
Okay, I blame all this on the new, old, nostalgic logo can and bottle.
RC will be available in football, basketball, softball, and baseball games and food halls,
cafeterias everywhere on campus exclusively.
I find this fascinating.
Yeah.
Because it all started with a let's bring out, let's bring back the, all of them were
doing that.
Pepsi did it for a while, Coke couldn't really do it because they've always had the same
can.
Yeah.
But other, there's been other products that have done it, you know.
Yeah.
I think Bisquick done it with big success.
People kind of forgot about Bisquick.
Then they brought back the 60s writing and all of a sudden everyone sees Bisquick again.
Yeah.
But RC saw that initial rush and they decided to keep it.
They didn't go back to the old logo.
And now all of a sudden you see them every, not everywhere, but I would say if you've
seen them-
They're resurfacing.
Yes.
Four out of 100, you see them 17 out of 100.
Yeah.
Yeah, they're resurfacing is a good way to put it.
Yeah.
So I really took exception to this and I wanted to talk about it because I find this guerrilla
marketing and retro marketing fascinating because it works.
You know, sometimes a brand will do this to put themselves in a position to where someone
will buy them.
That could be what's going on.
Yeah.
Because I know that 7up and RC used to be part of the same Schweppes International.
Then RC bought 7up and now there's 7up, Dr. Pepper's 7up company.
And Schweppes is on its own and I think Schweppes still owns RC.
So I could see like maybe 7up, Dr. Pepper, if they get RC selling good enough up there
to where that could be their third, that could be their soda for standalone machines.
Because everybody needs that anchor for their standalone machines and Dr. Pepper is simply
not strong enough up here or to the north to support not having a cola in their machines.
Yeah.
So anyhow, yeah.
I remember a couple of brands that I used to really enjoy, Shasta came out with a lot
of good flavors and they were generally cheaper than everyone else.
So I always enjoyed the Shasta sodas.
Shasta is good.
And what was the other one I was thinking of?
Fanta.
Yeah.
Fanta is really good and Fanta is part of Coca-Cola now.
Yeah.
Fanta was a German company.
It was actually during World War, yeah, yeah, go ahead.
Yeah, during World War II, Germans loved orange soda, but American companies wouldn't sell
them the ingredients or sell them the soda.
So a German company came up with their own orange soda and that's the birth of Fanta
orange.
So birthed by Nazi Germany.
Yep.
That's the origin I'm sure that they're more than happy to try.
Hey, where do 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.
All right, so it's time for another one of these
We really wish you good moments.
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